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1904
But by the grace of God I lived another 40 years!!
In November my dear wife and I travelled to Port Shepstone and spent a month at the sea. I had taken some writing work with me in order to do something. Slowly but surely I regained my strength, but the big work was just a little too much
for me and at the beginning of 1904 I asked for assistance.
The Director and Superintendent Yordt sent me the young Missionary Siebelts as assistant. But he was so unbearable
that after the period of one year I called him one evening and told him, “You write to Yordt what you want to and I will also write that one of us must be transferred, either you or me, I am tired of working together with you, I cannot continue in this way!!” We did it and he was transferred to Jericho where he stayed until 1940 and Brümmerhoff came in his place. When
I wanted to help him he once told me, “I do not want to be looked after by a school master,” and nothing came of him. The congregation in Jericho suffered under him. He was my assistant in 1904.
At the beginning of 1904 the Education Department of the new government sent Rev. Clark, Inspector of Schools, to me to Bethanie with the promise to support our school financially if we would register it.