SCRIPTURE AND COCOA.
The Rev. Mark Hay ford, a coloured clergyman, claimed £100 from J- Oppon, a coloured exporter, of Salt Pond, Gold Coast Colony, r.s commission on a cocoa deal- la one letter it was stated the clergyman wrote to Oppon: It w_l •» I vt" good business indeed. God will bo w.tl. >ou. Keep to hwn, tor it is U lv by His bussing wo can do anythin- in this world, and prepare for the. ond to cohc. now is our mission at \cora?" In another letter he wrote "For this arrangement, this matter .» business for you, what commission , rou give me for my troublef *<■"*»» not of course, 'muzzle the mouth of the oxen that treadeth out the corn, wnl you?" In a third letter he said: "I have just been able, by God s get a firm to buy .your cocoa. ' Tho Judge, after referring to the correspondence,' "with its nauseating and blasphemous references," awarded Hayford £60 and costs.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14564, 15 January 1913, Page 9
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