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What then will there be for us?
here the Lord wanted to fulfil His promises from Matthew,
Mark and Luke for father, as described above, but my father had no idea of this. He was only delighted that eventually, after a journey from 1857 to 1864 he got fixed work and was accepted joyfully by the heathens that were thirsty for the gospel. It was here in Bethanie that the Lord intended fulfilling His promises to all sides for my father and his family and He did so. Praise be to His name!
The fulfilment started very small, as is God’s way, and ended
big in every way. It started with a few baptism candidates
and then grew from 1864 to 1900, vwhen he died, into a large congregation of about 5 000 souls with a big church with 1 100 seats and with chapels and schools in a large Christian village with outside villages. Not a foot of land and soil did the people have in 1864 and in 1900 they owned many farms.
Father and mother, relatives and friends, brothers and sisters were left behind by father in Germany and here in Bethanie and in the field of mission and at this mission station he found many brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, children that had found the faith in Jesus Christ, a large congregation of believers.