. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. jre* CHAPTER IV Woman Under the Crescent. TWO forces in Africa contend for thesouls of its womankind. One is theblighting, withering power of Moham-med; the other is the demon-rife faith of herpagan fathers. With both of these forces theworkers of the Womans Foreign MissionarySociety are coming in constant contact. Intothe struggle they are infusing another element,the gospel of Jesus Christ, in whose schemeof salvation there is a place for woman; by hispower, strong, pure and sweet she may rise tothis place. Taking Bi
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. jre* CHAPTER IV Woman Under the Crescent. TWO forces in Africa contend for thesouls of its womankind. One is theblighting, withering power of Moham-med; the other is the demon-rife faith of herpagan fathers. With both of these forces theworkers of the Womans Foreign MissionarySociety are coming in constant contact. Intothe struggle they are infusing another element,the gospel of Jesus Christ, in whose schemeof salvation there is a place for woman; by hispower, strong, pure and sweet she may rise tothis place. Taking Bishop Hartzells estimate of thirtymillions as the population of Methodist ter-ritory in Africa, there are probably not less thanten millions of women above the age of sixteenyears, the very tragedy of whose existence,whether under the crescent of the Prophet,or enslaved by the crude fetishes of paganism,makes to the women of Methodism its muteappeal. As yet the efforts of the Womans ForeignMissionary Society in their behalf are so slightas to be almost negligible. As the first palestreak of dawn to a glorious sun
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