Missionsstationen im südlichen Afrika – Fluch oder Segen für die musikalische Praxis?

Abstract

The Missionary must have a house. I would on no account allow it to be regarded as a matter of indifference, how or in what kind of dwelling a Missionary should live; nor let it be imagined for a moment, that there is any merit of making oneself miserable in one’s external position; or that untidiness or slovenliness in the dwelling, diet or person, is any thing proper to be seen at a Mission-Station. The Missionary comes among [indigenous] people; and whilst not shrinking from any amount of self-denial, which his work may re-quire, he must not sink to them; nor think that he is exercising any great Christian virtue, when he can boast that he has learnt to live as they. He must be their example in every-thing that is of good report. In his dwelling, his person, his diet, they must be taught to look to him as their superior. 23