. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 1G UNDER THE CRESCENT of Kabylia there are those who are hand-some and gay, who enjoy at least a measureof regard from their men, who wear brightdresses of yellow and red, clasped with greatbrooches of silver and coral, and who maylook out upon their own lovely mountainswith unveiled THE ARAB By no means is the original habitat ofthe second race to which Methodist mis-sionaries in North Africa are giving particularattention — the Arabs — to be found in TheThousand And One Nights, though asencountered there you a
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 1G UNDER THE CRESCENT of Kabylia there are those who are hand-some and gay, who enjoy at least a measureof regard from their men, who wear brightdresses of yellow and red, clasped with greatbrooches of silver and coral, and who maylook out upon their own lovely mountainswith unveiled THE ARAB By no means is the original habitat ofthe second race to which Methodist mis-sionaries in North Africa are giving particularattention — the Arabs — to be found in TheThousand And One Nights, though asencountered there you are more than likelyto fall victim to their unique name Arab began to be known in Solo-mons day, but long before the towers andturrets of his great temple arose, the Arabswandered over the mountains and desertsof Arabia, and traced their lineage (those ofthe northern tribes especially) through theirfather Ishmael, back to Abraham himself. JliJl, Arabia, like Palestine, and second to it in,| this respect, is rich in sacred memories of iHijl Gods dealings with his children, accounts\ of which go to make up impressive and im-portant chapters of the Old Testament.! Here lived and suffered the holy patriarch, ||1( Job; here Moses when a stranger and a shep- AND AMONG THE KRAALS 17 herd, saw the burning, unconsuming bush;here Elijah found shelt
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