. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. very life, the lips of many amarried Moslem girl are silent, when in herheart she treasures above everything the loveof Jesus Christ. A little crippled Kabyle boyin one of the classes was asked by our teacher,Mohand, do you still love the Lord Jesus, anddo you try to follow him? Quick came theanswer: Indeed I do and every night whenthe light goes out I kneel and ask him, O Christ,give to my aunt who loves you in secret, thefaith, the courage, whatever it may cost her,to come out and be baptized. The agonizingexperience
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. very life, the lips of many amarried Moslem girl are silent, when in herheart she treasures above everything the loveof Jesus Christ. A little crippled Kabyle boyin one of the classes was asked by our teacher,Mohand, do you still love the Lord Jesus, anddo you try to follow him? Quick came theanswer: Indeed I do and every night whenthe light goes out I kneel and ask him, O Christ,give to my aunt who loves you in secret, thefaith, the courage, whatever it may cost her,to come out and be baptized. The agonizingexperiences of our missionaries among thesegirls find expression in the cry of one of them:When one remembers that only Moslemmarriages lie before our girls, one longs with agreat longing to see the men come into theKingdom. MOSLEM EDUCATION The term education in Moslem lands signi-fies strictly religious education. The universalstandard for character among millions of littleMoslems is Mohammed. The book which con-stitutes the basis of all learning is the Prophetsbook, the AND AMONG THE KRAALS 141 Except where governments have concernedthemselves with the secular education of theMoslem children under their control, literacyamong them is scarcely observable. In Egypt,where under the British regime there has beenunusually favorable and continuous contactwith the educational standards of the West,recent figures indicate that out of over a millionof Moslem children between the ages of ten andfourteen, less than sixty-eight thousand canread, and of these but three thousand are girls!Probably in our North African field a similarcount would show femininity intellectually verymuch more to the bad. Mohammedan reason-ing apropos to the education of girls has everfollowed and still follows closely the attitudetaken upon the subject by Mohammed and allstandard Islamic authors. By giving more orless specific instructions as to the education ofboys, and in the same connection absolutelyignorin
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