. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 110 UNDER THE CRESCENT. clamber over to Umtali. This circumstanceleft a perfectly good little four-year-old townstanding all by itself with no one to walk onits streets or look out of its windows. CecilRhodes is even yet a name to conjure with inAfrica. It was in 1896, when he was askedwhat could ever be done with that forsaken,lonesome little Umtali, that with far vision thisgreat man said, Make a mission of it. So,as the fairy story might put it, just then alongcame our Bishop Hartzell, proper mericanbishopy-man, his
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 110 UNDER THE CRESCENT. clamber over to Umtali. This circumstanceleft a perfectly good little four-year-old townstanding all by itself with no one to walk onits streets or look out of its windows. CecilRhodes is even yet a name to conjure with inAfrica. It was in 1896, when he was askedwhat could ever be done with that forsaken,lonesome little Umtali, that with far vision thisgreat man said, Make a mission of it. So,as the fairy story might put it, just then alongcame our Bishop Hartzell, proper mericanbishopy-man, his carriers called him, and hesaid, Ill make Umtali into a mission for you,and with the help of some other folks that isjust what he did. The jail was turned into a schoolhouse; themagistrates office into one for the doctor; thecourthouse hardly knew itself as the hospital,and the barroom of the hotel, when the missionboys appropriated it for their dining room,gave up entirely and never thought of beinga barroom again. Transformations like these sprouted out allover the town, till every one of it
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