. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. he growth of the work of the Womans ForeignMissionary Society, that there have recentlybeen five young women who have volunteeredfor service in this needy field. Plans wherebywork formerly carried by the Society in In-hambane in Portuguese East Africa shall bereopened are already under way, probably toresult there in a new boarding school. It is repeatedly said, and experience wouldseem to confirm the truth of the opinion, thatAfrica must be evangelized by Africans. Thisbeing true, the Society is on the line of rightpr
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. he growth of the work of the Womans ForeignMissionary Society, that there have recentlybeen five young women who have volunteeredfor service in this needy field. Plans wherebywork formerly carried by the Society in In-hambane in Portuguese East Africa shall bereopened are already under way, probably toresult there in a new boarding school. It is repeatedly said, and experience wouldseem to confirm the truth of the opinion, thatAfrica must be evangelized by Africans. Thisbeing true, the Society is on the line of rightprocedure as on the staff of its workers in thisfield it numbers two women of that race —Susan Collins and Martha Drummer at Quessua,both having gone out from the United States. Such in outline is the work of the Womans Foreign Missionary Society in pagan Africa — a mere beginning in a vast field. The entrance into it by our missionaries opens to us a door through which we, too, may see the dusky figures of women and children among whom they move. THE WOMAN OF THE BUSH. Just now it shall be the pagan woman whomwe shall follow through her days, whose routine AND AMONG THE KRAALS 113 is covered by the things of her Hut, the thingsof her Community, and the things of it is true that the pagan woman ofSouthern Africa has a thousandfold more ofphysical freedom than her Moslem sister inour North African field, her liberty, writesa missionary from the West Coast, is theliberty of the beast to its burden, and the slaveto her task. Although conditions of hersocial life vary among different tribes, every-where she is put under the ban as a thing vastlyinferior. The Rev. John M. Springer in ajourney through the Congo region came uponan incident conclusively demonstrating thisfact. He says: While we were waiting upon the bank awoman came down in a state of great excite-ment, shrieking and gesticulating in a mostalarming manner. The chief listened and atfirst assumed an expre
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