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Annotation translation: [Printed text on the rear of the card:] Missionaries in non-christian countries take the saying "work and pray" very seriously. They are not only concerned to see that the newly converted get accustomed to regular work, they also want to make sure the young men learn a craft skill. But primitive peoples, especially in Africa, only have the primitive crafts which stand at the beginnings of development, and so the missionaries find it necessary to start up workshops where young people [sic] learn a a useful craft or handwork like carpentry, blacksmithery, etc. With the assistance of people trained in this way the missionaries can then build their houses and churches. Such workshops are especially useful for freed slaves in German East Africa, because in this way these unhappy creatures are brought up to have a profession which makes them independent. The success of these efforts has been so pronounced up to now that the missionaries are adding more crafts and types of handwork to the list of those taught. That old text has shown itself to be true again: 'Holiness can find benefit in everything'." Annotation: [Gedruckter Text auf der Rückseite der Karte]: "Nach dem Sprichwort: 'Bete und arbeite!' ist den Missionaren in den heidnischen Ländern ein ernstes Anliegen, dass die Neubekehrten nicht nur an eine geregelte Arbeit gewöhnt werden, sondern dass die jungen Männer womöglich ein nützliches Handwerk erlernen. Da aber bei den Naturvölkern besonders in Afrika das Handwerk noch in den rohesten Anfängen steht, so sind die Missionare genötigt, Werkstätten einzurichten, wo die jungen Leute ein nützliches Handwerk, wie Schreinerei, Schlosserei usw. erlernen können. Unter Beihilfe derselben bauen dann die Missionare ihre Häuser und Kirchen. Von besonderem Werte sind solche Werkstätten auch für die befreiten Sklaven in Deutsch-Ostafrika denn da können diese Unglücklichen zu einem selbständigen Beruf erzogen werden. Der Erfolg dieser Bemühungen war bis jetzt ein so segensreicher, dass immer neue Erwerbszweige den älteren zugefügt werden. Es hat sich in ihnen der Spruch bewahrheitet: 'Die Gottseligkeit ist zu allen Dingen nütze.' " Note: Datierung unsicher. Note translation: Dating uncertain, but almost certainly before 1914, and not products of the Basel Mission - Leipzig Mission perhaps? (PJ 07.2002).
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image
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print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD) postcard, 9.3 x 12.9 cm.
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