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1879 – 1880
But his works are awesome and “my ways are not your ways, and your thoughts are not my thoughts”, is what God’s word says.
A Missionary Hoyer, an eccentrical man from America, saw this herd of horses after 1880 and saw how father sold a horse now and then and did not understand anything about all of
this, but called father the “biggest horse dealer” of South Africa. What a huge injustice! Because father was entirely a missionary, from morning until night when he went to sleep,
he did not “seek” earthly goods and only accepted what God’s blessing gave him! He did not buy any horses, but, when the opportunity arose, he sold what had accrued to him without any effort. And even a missionary may receive and use God’s blessing with gratefulness.
In order to pre-empt matters, I would like to mention that with the income from the horses that had accrued to father, he could buy a property which led to “hundredfold” materialising. There was no income from the property Losperfontein bought for
the mission. Bethanie is and will forever be a so-called “dry station”.
1867 – 68 My brother Hermann died, my two sisters travelled to my parents in Transvaal. I was confirmed and did the journey with Müller and Rösler on horseback through Zululand and in 1869 I could travel