Resli, the goods boy
Resli, the Güterbub, is the story of the poor Swiss contract child Andreas Balli, known as "Resli", from the Bern area. Franz Eugen Schlachter retold the story based on the information from Resli. Schlachter first published the story in his newspaper " Brosamen von des Herr Tisch " as a sequel . After the end of the same, the story was published in 1891 by Schlachters Verlag der Brosamen, Biel , as a booklet. The 2nd edition in 1893 was published by Wyss in Bern. In 1936 (2nd edition 1949) the little book was published again by St. Johannis Verlag in Lahr-Dinglingen . In 2004 a new edition was published by the Free Brethren in Albstadt .
First, the sad fate of Resli is told, how the mother has to give him away as a contract child for financial reasons or because of the malice of the stepfather , together with his sisters. First he finds a good, believing Lord. After that, however, he experiences bad times and has to suffer from bad masters. Because of an untreated wound, he even comes to the edge of the grave. The children were then considered worthless and were z. B. never called by their first name , but the boys were generally only called "Bueb".
Through the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern , Resli came into contact with the awakening of the time around Karl Stettler-von Rodt in 1831 and found faith. Here you get to know a young man who, despite hardship and misery, faithfully follows his path of faith.
The little book ends with Resli's marriage or his ransom from the contractual obligations that made the marriage possible for him.
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- Franz Eugen Schlachter : Resli, the goods boy, story of a Bernese boy. (Reslis retold his own messages, story of a Bernese boy, Bern contract child Andreas Balli, self-published by Freie Brüdergemeinde, Albstadt 2004 (online = PDF, 1 MB, 50 pages ) / Verlag der Brosamen, Biel 1891), St. Johannis-Druckerei, Lahr 1936 ( 2nd edition 1949).