"Confirmation class at the mission station Friedrichsthal in Greenland." (caption in picture) "Konfirmandenklasse auf der Missionsstation Friedrichsthal in Grönland."
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Annotation translation: [Text on the rear]: It was in the year 1733 that the first Moravian missionaries trod the icy coasts of Greenland, built themselves a settlement near the Danish factory of Godthaab and called it New Herrnhut. The Eskimo were hostile, and sought originally to kill the missionaries, but the story of Jesus' agony in Gethsemane so impressed the magician Kajarnak that he had himself baptised, with his whole family, in 1739. Other non-christians soon followed his example, and the number of mission stations went up to 6. After 150 ears of missionary work the christian congregations could be received into the Danish Evangelical Church a few years ago. Greenland is now wholly christianised. This picture of the confirmation class in the mission station Friedrichsthal speaks of the true pastoral care given by the missionaries to the youth of Greenland, and the rich blessing their work has brought to the congregations." Annotation: "[Auf der Rückseite der Karte steht gedruckt:] Im Jahre 1733 betraten die ersten Missionare der Brüdergemeinde die eisumstarrte Küste Grönlands, bauten sich in der Nähe der dänischen Faktorei Godthaab an und nannten ihre Niederlassung Neu-Herrnhut. Die feindseligen Eskimo trachteten den Missionaren anfänglich nach dem Leben aber die Geschichte von dem Seelenkampf Jesu in Gethsemane ging dem Zauberer Kajarnak so zu Herzen, dass er sich 1739 mit seiner ganzen Familie taufen liess andere Heiden folgten seinem Beispiel, und die Zahl der Missionsstationen stieg auf sechs. Nach 160jähriger Missionsarbeit konnten vor etlichen Jahren die Christengemeinden der dänischen evangelischen Kirche einverleibt werden, weil das Land nun ganz christianisiert ist. Von der treuen Seelsorge der Missionare auch an der grönländischen Jugend und ihrem reichen Segen für die Gemeinde gibt unser Bild der Konfirmandenklasse auf der Station Friederichsthal einen erfreulichen Beweis." Note translation: Belongs to a series of coloured postcards with very orthodox mission texts on the rear side which were almost certainly produced in Germany in the years before 1914. (PJ 07.2002).
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image
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print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD) postcard, 9.2 x 12.3 cm.
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