. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. rule a kraal, as was the case ofShikanga, in whose kraal in Rhodesia lived and worked for some time. Butsuch instances as these are rare. The real Woman in Black — she herself —is bowed to the earth with burdens, her eyesare upon the ground, and a legion of devilsderide her. The pathetic appeal made byAfricas women to our missionaries — Canwe learn the way of the Lord in just one day?— is freighted with despair and warning: despairat their own inability to learn so great a thingin the one brief visit of a
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. rule a kraal, as was the case ofShikanga, in whose kraal in Rhodesia lived and worked for some time. Butsuch instances as these are rare. The real Woman in Black — she herself —is bowed to the earth with burdens, her eyesare upon the ground, and a legion of devilsderide her. The pathetic appeal made byAfricas women to our missionaries — Canwe learn the way of the Lord in just one day?— is freighted with despair and warning: despairat their own inability to learn so great a thingin the one brief visit of a missionary — possiblythe sole visit in years, or in even a lifetime; awarning lest such faint murmurs for help acrosssuch vast distances of miles and civilizations,made by the very least of these his children,may not be heard by the women of Methodism. More than anything else which saddensme, writes one of our missionaries, is thelack of religious work among women. At someplaces we found a strong church and a schoolfor boys, but not a woman could be found that.
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