. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency . Photo byA BEIDGE IN MENDILAND, PROTECTED BY AN Rev. J. Photo by WEST AFEICAN IDOLS, The People of the Dark Continent 89 Possessor of all Things, The Institutorof Customs. The Balla say all theu^ tribalcustoms were ordered by Leza. He ordeired them to knock out their childrensteeth, taught men to smelt iron, to make knives, andspears and hoes. He taught the women to makepots, to grind corn, and to weave baskets, and thensaid, I am Leza; you are now as wise as I am, andso saying, He v
. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency . Photo byA BEIDGE IN MENDILAND, PROTECTED BY AN Rev. J. Photo by WEST AFEICAN IDOLS, The People of the Dark Continent 89 Possessor of all Things, The Institutorof Customs. The Balla say all theu^ tribalcustoms were ordered by Leza. He ordeired them to knock out their childrensteeth, taught men to smelt iron, to make knives, andspears and hoes. He taught the women to makepots, to grind corn, and to weave baskets, and thensaid, I am Leza; you are now as wise as I am, andso saying, He vanished.—(Chapman.) The last words of the above quotationfairly represent the prevailing thoughtabout God—He has vanished. The SupremeGod has receded in mens minds, and otherdivinities have come into the foreground ofAfrican thought. In the Yoruba country a lower order of inferior Godsgods appears, and these are represented byidols (we use the word to distinguish themfrom fetiches, , articles inhabited by dis-embodied human spirits), which may beeither figures or unshaped stones or otherthings. The spirit of the god is believedto dwell in the idol. The
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