—which Stern is making such an annoyance to me—proof of my sincere good wishes for the welfare of our fatherland, proof of how I would sacrifice everything to that? And when I have to labour so hard, I who was baptized—in the Amstel-street Church—may one not then exact from the Javanese that he, who still has to win his salvation, shall put his hand to the plough?
If that Association—I mean for 5 e—is formed, I’ll join. And I shall also try to persuade the Rosemeyers, as the sugar-refiners are also interested, although I don’t think they are too “all right” in their ideas—I mean the Rosemeyers—for they have a Roman Catholic servant.
Anyhow, I’ll do my duty. This I promised myself when I went home from the prayer-meeting with Frits. In my house the Lord shall be served, I shall see to that. And this with all the more zeal, as I see more and more how wisely everything is arranged, how loving are the ways by which we are led at God’s hand, and how He wishes to save us both for the eternal and the temporal life; for the soil at Lebak can perfectly well be made suitable for coffee-culture.
