. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. THE PIONEER SUCCESSION No attempt can here be made to give entirelyand in logical order the history of MethodismsAfrican work. Rather it is the purpose to focusonce more the eye of the church upon the heroicpersonalities who stood for God and humanityin the midst of gross darkness and made suchhistory possible. Before Cox set sail for Liberia, two otheryoung ministers, Rufus Spaulding and SamuelWright, had been appointed as his had expected them to go with him, but itwas not until after he had fallen that
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. THE PIONEER SUCCESSION No attempt can here be made to give entirelyand in logical order the history of MethodismsAfrican work. Rather it is the purpose to focusonce more the eye of the church upon the heroicpersonalities who stood for God and humanityin the midst of gross darkness and made suchhistory possible. Before Cox set sail for Liberia, two otheryoung ministers, Rufus Spaulding and SamuelWright, had been appointed as his had expected them to go with him, but itwas not until after he had fallen that thesetwo men, Mr. Wright accompanied by hisyoung wife, embarked upon the same ship,the Jupiter, which had carried Cox, andturned their faces toward Ethiopias out-stretched hands. Tucked away among them somewhere wasa little body, known as Saphronia Farrington,the first woman to be sent out by the Method-ist Episcopal church as a missionary to aforeign AND AMONG THE KRAALS 67 Before the little company sailed the stagger-ing news of Coxs death had reached them,but undaunted in the face of the tragedy, andfull of the hope of youth that such a fate couldnot overtake them, they started. After a voyage of fifty-six days they arrivedat Monrovia on the first day of the new year,1834. So again, after being six months withouta guiding hand, the new mission was equippedwith a staff. Once more the gaunt arm of the white mansfoe — the fever — was raised to descend withfatal blow, and in two short months, RufusSpaulding and Saphronia Farrington, theirown veins throbbing with fever, were alone atthe station, and there were three graves insteadof one in the little cemetery. In May, Spaulding, unable longer to combatthe fever, decided to return to the that Miss Farringtons remaining inLiberia would cost her her life, he repeatedlyurged her to return also — once, almost withsuccess. But again in the history of the worlda woman s
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