. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. are especially glad when theyhave the opportunity to help the people thatway. Those who do not marry teachers haveChristian husbands anyway. Many of thesegirls teach sewing and help in Sunday school andin personal work among the people. IN THE SWEAT OF HER FACE The work of the non-Christian African wifeis cut out and awaiting her arrival. To catalogueher activities would be to list all of the back-breaking, heart-crushing forms of manual laborknown in the Dark Continent. So far as thesystem of family support here is co
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. are especially glad when theyhave the opportunity to help the people thatway. Those who do not marry teachers haveChristian husbands anyway. Many of thesegirls teach sewing and help in Sunday school andin personal work among the people. IN THE SWEAT OF HER FACE The work of the non-Christian African wifeis cut out and awaiting her arrival. To catalogueher activities would be to list all of the back-breaking, heart-crushing forms of manual laborknown in the Dark Continent. So far as thesystem of family support here is concerned, ascontrasted with that in vogue in Africa, theshoe is entirely upon the other foot. Therethe women perform all the labor by which thehusband and the children are supported. Be-yond contributing the minimum of assistancewhen the time of the cutting of various gardencrops is on, missionaries declare that the headof the African hut spends an existence ofidyllic do-lessness, smoking his pipe under theshade of some friendly tree. That these poor women are considered. 120 UNDER THE CRESCENT
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