to meet at Br. Teichelmann's house every Sunday at 9 a.m. for the service from now on.

May blessings be abundant, O Lord! follow this decision and help us so that we can gratefully recognize and highly value the means of grace that have been offered to us.

Many of the natives had left this morning, although last night they had promised to do this and that next Monday.

October 28th, 1839.
Today I enjoyed the most beautiful moments I have ever experienced in Bertha's company. Sitting on my lap on the rose bench, she chatted with me about past things, namely my behavior when we began our love and the Schlinke affair. At first I had seemed very sedate to her, that is, not ardent enough, but she clearly recognized that the news of her relationship with Schlinke could not remain without influence on my love. She expressed her great regret at me because of Schlinke and went on to say that she couldn't understand how she could have even given Schlinke a friendly look. She assured me that she ( 158 ) had never given Schlinke her hand, that she wanted to become and remain his. She is afraid of the examination that she will have to undergo next Thursday, on the feast of the Reformation, because she is firmly convinced that God will not abandon innocence; no matter how unpleasant it otherwise is. My news that I intended to ask the government to convey our tent and a few other things to Encounter Bay and then go there shocked her, but she did not oppose my plan in any way. The idea that Schlinke should apologize if he could not carry out his complaint displeased her modesty; But how little she otherwise fears and how pure her conscience is can be seen from the fact that she said to Schlinke yesterday that she would have liked Schlinke to come to her so that she could have an opportunity to talk to him. The dear soul was suffering from great pain in two fingers in which she had nail ulcers. In the evening she had put something on to drink, which tormented her so much that she involuntarily broke out into loud complaints. --

I was with the pastor and spoke to him first about Krummnow, and then about the upcoming investigation; I said that if the defendant was subject to church penance(158) in the case of the transfer [application/file that was handed over to another person/office for processing], the same would have to apply to the plaintiff if he could not prove his claim, with which he agreed with ( 159 ). He said that the matter was very unpleasant to him and that he wanted nothing more than to be fair, that he was on such terms with Mr. Godfather Fiedler that he was very reluctant to assign any blame to him. Incidentally, he seemed to believe that Schlinke would have to admit that he had no certainty and therefore had no reason to complain. Mr. Fiedler said that it went without saying that Schlinke had to apologize because without that no reconciliation could take place. I really liked Mr. Fiedler's plan to let the Schlinkes speak first, then Bertha and then ask them both to step down,