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1913
To my great joy, Lissy got engaged to Johannes Grotherr. He worked in South-West. My wife and Lissy visited him there in 1913 and from there undertook a journey to Germany. Willy had finished in Potchefstroom and found work in Tzaneen. Theodor worked for the government in Pretoria and the Cape.
I looked for and found loose ties to the Berlin Mission. Superintendent Schloemann accepted, in case Pastor Haccius would not achieve anything. Pastor Haccius came to Africa and also to Bethanie and wrote to Captain Johannes – not to me – that he would be coming to Bethanie in order to visit Meyer and that he would like to talk to the congregation on that occasion and that the captain should convene an assembly of the congregation! The captain answered that he had the right to call together the people, but not the congregation and that he would have to talk to Moruti Behrens in this regard!! He then wrote to me that he would like to talk to the congregation for an hour on that afternoon. I answered, not just an hour but the whole day!! I would make this known so that the congregation would be well represented. (The congregation requested that he would talk to us together and not separated.) He came from Berseba. His interpreter was E. Penzhorn. I said from the
onset that I did not want to speak but only wanted to answer questions that I would be asked. I kept the minutes.