. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. Photo by A MUHAMMADAN SCHOOL, WEST AFRICA. Rev. W. H. Photo by CHIEF AND SUB-CHIEFS. I^^^- ^^^ T- Balmer. p. 303. The Muslim Menace 303 aries coming into Sien-a Leone from the districts tothe north and north-west. There is no doubt thatthe religion is steadily gaining the ascendency there,in spite of all the other influences at work. In the Hinterland, many of the peopleare still pagan—especially of the Mencli,Limbah, Konnoh and Lokkoh tribes^—butMuhammadanism has a wide-spread holdupon
. The call of the dark continent : a study in missionary progress, opportunity and urgency. Photo by A MUHAMMADAN SCHOOL, WEST AFRICA. Rev. W. H. Photo by CHIEF AND SUB-CHIEFS. I^^^- ^^^ T- Balmer. p. 303. The Muslim Menace 303 aries coming into Sien-a Leone from the districts tothe north and north-west. There is no doubt thatthe religion is steadily gaining the ascendency there,in spite of all the other influences at work. In the Hinterland, many of the peopleare still pagan—especially of the Mencli,Limbah, Konnoh and Lokkoh tribes^—butMuhammadanism has a wide-spread holdupon them, the Mandiiigos, Susus, andFulahs being almost wholly won over toIslam. Even in the remaining heathentribes, the chiefs and ruling families are inmany cases Muslim. It is not possible tosay what proportion of the population of theSierra Leone Hinterland is Muhammadan ;but certainly that^religion is the prevailingone. The Rev. W. T. Bahner writes : Over and over again when Mr. James Walton andI have gone into out-of-the-way villages and fanciedthat ours was the thiilling joy of breaking absolutelynew ground for the seed of the Word, we have
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