. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. her sessionsof the General Executive Committee, whenneeds of the Dark Continent were pictured bythose who had seen them and knew whereofthey spoke. To such appeals sympathy wasevidently not lacking, for from time to timeappropriations of varying sums for work therewere made. The treasury was never drawnupon for some of these amounts, as womanswork in that day in the mission established byour church was little more than prospective. Later, occasional efforts were made withsome definiteness to begin work under theWomans
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. her sessionsof the General Executive Committee, whenneeds of the Dark Continent were pictured bythose who had seen them and knew whereofthey spoke. To such appeals sympathy wasevidently not lacking, for from time to timeappropriations of varying sums for work therewere made. The treasury was never drawnupon for some of these amounts, as womanswork in that day in the mission established byour church was little more than prospective. Later, occasional efforts were made withsome definiteness to begin work under theWomans Foreign Missionary Society in thisfield. Two missionaries were supported atdifferent times. Little success, however, wasattained, and no permanent results followed. The plain fact is, distasteful though it be,that after all the lavish outpouring of lives inLiberia, up to 1883 Africa had been too muchfor Methodism. In that year it was officiallyannounced: The Parent Society has no whitemissionary at present in Africa, and its workhas been greatly lessened in that 108 UNDER THE CRESCENT
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