. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. jT3 , pS US* 32 UNDER THE CRESCENT which make for the uplift of the blacks. Wisegovernments are looking to their aside from these, Bishop Hartzell declares,and taking the vast area as a whole, the heathenmasses are yet without the PRIMITIVE PAGANISM Mohammedanism may be defined and de-scribed because it is a religious system, with aGod and a Book. Paganism has neither a Godnor a Book. In every known tribe there issaid to be a belief which crudely approachesa hazy conception of some great and su
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. jT3 , pS US* 32 UNDER THE CRESCENT which make for the uplift of the blacks. Wisegovernments are looking to their aside from these, Bishop Hartzell declares,and taking the vast area as a whole, the heathenmasses are yet without the PRIMITIVE PAGANISM Mohammedanism may be defined and de-scribed because it is a religious system, with aGod and a Book. Paganism has neither a Godnor a Book. In every known tribe there issaid to be a belief which crudely approachesa hazy conception of some great and supremeBeing. This God is not a deity with the attributeof love, but some power who created the worldlong, long ago and then went away MacAllister found evidences of such abelief in Liberia, where the native name forGod was Niswa. Doubtless, however, thereare as many names for him as there are lan-guages. Briefly, the religion of pagan Africa is com-prehended in one thing — the fear of evilspirits. Clinging desperately for dear lifein a world which he fancies is full of enemies,corporeal and spiritual, he is daily torturedwith suspicion and superstitious fear. It would seem that every visible object har-bors for him a malignant spirit, waiting achance to destroy. Worship consists of placat-
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