| Description | He supposes that, as Lutheran ministers, the missionaries have power of confirmation and should bear this in mind. Renner and the others are wrong to squabble and Wilhelm was unjustly criticised.
The Society's instructions would have allowed them to abandon Bashia for a more favourable site in the same area. The Committee cannot be blamed for taking Canoffee's side given their problem of receiving contradictory reports.
As Renner has had to draw beyond his wife's salary in building her house in Freetown it is only fair to say that it belongs to the Society, particularly as he now says that he would not have begun the project had he known of the Society's plans to provide an asylum for its widows. He endorses the idea that Mrs. Renner will it to the Society. |