. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 100 UNDER THE CRESCENT and of God — much after the fashion of ourown life? But for God, the African womanworships a devil. In the matters of God and of home and ofcommunity must that woman minister, whogoes to Africa to give the upward lift to someother womans life. The records will provethat in all of these things our workers havebeen faithful, and where they toiled, even inyears agone, there have arisen black-skinnedwomen to call them blessed. But the workerswere then, and are now, all too A HUMBLE BEGINNING Tr
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 100 UNDER THE CRESCENT and of God — much after the fashion of ourown life? But for God, the African womanworships a devil. In the matters of God and of home and ofcommunity must that woman minister, whogoes to Africa to give the upward lift to someother womans life. The records will provethat in all of these things our workers havebeen faithful, and where they toiled, even inyears agone, there have arisen black-skinnedwomen to call them blessed. But the workerswere then, and are now, all too A HUMBLE BEGINNING True, as long ago as 1877 the WomansForeign Missionary Society was doing some-thing for Africa, but it was a small and feebleeffort, the maintaining of that one little dayschool in Liberia. Even then the new organiza-tion, barely beginning to feel that it would growup some day, was receiving appeals from Li-beria to secure a piece of land, and establisha home for the education of females. TheChristian boys were much too prone to goback to their own tribes and marry heathenwives. With the appeal came three gold ringsworn to thinness, the pathetic offering of aLiberian woman that help might be given thedaughters of her race. It was at the eighth session of the General AND AMONG THE KRAALS 107 Executive Committee, in 1877, that this callwas received, and the hope expressed thatwhat Africa had missed by the apparent neglectof her by the church might in the near futurebe made up, our Society having a part in suchservice. Then followed during the years other sessionsof th
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