. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. e chief wife stood up: What isthat to us? We are only women! Why do younot go to the men with this religion, this teach-ing, this book? There is no Paradise for are like cattle; when we die we are have no souls. Dr. Kumm adds: Thevery idea that they are human beings has beendriven out of them. And these are our sisters! Can anything be done against such odds? Ourworkers are proving, even with the inadequatemeans at hand, that some things — somethings — can be done. The idle fingers arebeing taught to ply
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. e chief wife stood up: What isthat to us? We are only women! Why do younot go to the men with this religion, this teach-ing, this book? There is no Paradise for are like cattle; when we die we are have no souls. Dr. Kumm adds: Thevery idea that they are human beings has beendriven out of them. And these are our sisters! Can anything be done against such odds? Ourworkers are proving, even with the inadequatemeans at hand, that some things — somethings — can be done. The idle fingers arebeing taught to ply the needle in the making ofuseful garments. The native lace-making islikewise learned. They are taught to sing thesongs about Jesus and his love. It is pitifulsinging — the kind that makes you want tocreep off somewhere and cry your eyes out —but they sing it in their homes after the mis-sionary has gone, and their little children hear it. Possibly the sluggish minds do fall short ofcomprehension of many things which thepatient missionary tries to teach them, but. AND AMONG THE KRAALS 103 some truths even they grasp, thank God! Listen:I went to our womens class a few days sat on the cushion among them with myaccordion lying idly across my knees. I askedthem to repeat the hymns, texts and lessonsthey had been taught. Forty pathetic, brown-eyed, weary-looking women gathered aroundme, and one after the other these poor ignorantsouls sought to recall the lessons learned —but hymns, texts, stories, all — all began andfinished in the same way! * God loves us, hesent the Lord Jesus (Sidna Aisa) to give hislife for us — we must follow not with our lipsbut with our hearts and he will take us to him-self at the last. Useless to remind them ofstories told from the Old Testament, of miraclesor parables. Their lives have been lived closedin by high walls, and in windowless know no other school; their minds areall but blanks, but — and it makes it all worthwh
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