—23.- So should we not miss it; but with unknown and unpriined people, we could not enter into it. When it became known, so many young people, from our area as colonists, emerged, that we could send sixty. So, that was the plan, to send colonists, altogether, without us doing any harm. We only took at what we were given. And we wanted to frighten: how should it grow? The company is becoming too vast-reaching? So was always the answer: the lord has given you this work and speaks: fear not, believe only! Let it continue. The sailors came one after another, and were the times in the mission house, where just now was being built, and we had many hands needed. The times, too, were that we could distribute them to the farmers in the fields, the times, when they worked. The times, when they understood a craft, at craftspeople. But what happened? Most of them ran away, some had their trial period too long, others the work too boring. That is so fascinating: how long is such a trial period and strenuous work? You learn to distinguish between fire and the true fire, that the holy spirit ignites. The fire fades, and the other burns brighter. Only a few remain truly of these people from the German fleet. Isn’t that God's finger? Without these sailors, the plan would not have been born; we honest, somewhat foolish people would have thought none of it that others could be sent as true missionaries. So we had to teach the wiser, more experienced sailors, those who were already in Africa, and had seen for themselves the misery of slavery. When this burning ignited, and so many of our loyal men of the German fleet, one light was thrown into the world, then the love of God banished the shadow and the faithful remained, still more loyal.

—23.- We should not miss it; but with unknown and unpriined people, we could not enter into it. When it became known, so many young people, from our area as colonists, emerged, that we could send sixty. So, that was the plan, to send colonists, altogether, without us doing any harm. We only took at what we were given. And we wanted to frighten: how should it grow? The company is becoming too vast-reaching? So was always the answer: the lord has given you this work and speaks: fear not, believe only! Let it continue. The sailors came one after another, and were the times in the mission house, where just now was being built, and we had many hands needed. The times, too, were that we could distribute them to the farmers in the fields, the times, when they worked. The times, when they understood a craft, at craftspeople. But what happened? Most of them ran away, some had their trial period too long, others the work too boring. That is so fascinating: how long is such a trial period and strenuous work? You learn to distinguish between fire and the true fire, that the holy spirit ignites. The fire fades, and the other burns brighter. Only a few remain truly of these people from the German fleet. Isn’t that God's finger? Without these sailors, the plan would not have been born; we honest, somewhat foolish people would have thought none of it that others could be sent as true missionaries. So we had to teach the wiser, more experienced sailors, those who were already in Africa, and had seen for themselves the misery of slavery. When this burning ignited, and so many of our loyal men of the German fleet, one light was thrown into the world, then the love of God banished the shadow and the faithful remained, still more loyal.