. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. scene. Dr. Zwemer says: Thereligious primers published for the use of boysand girls even in Egypt contain matters con-cerning which every boy and girl should be inignorance, and generally speaking, all Moslemreligious literature is unfit for the mind of achild. A childs primer on religion, written bya notable Islamic theologian, and having anenormous circulation throughout Egypt andNorth Africa, clearly sets forth what, to themind of the author, the Moslem child shouldbe taught. It teaches preposterous doctrinesas to G
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. scene. Dr. Zwemer says: Thereligious primers published for the use of boysand girls even in Egypt contain matters con-cerning which every boy and girl should be inignorance, and generally speaking, all Moslemreligious literature is unfit for the mind of achild. A childs primer on religion, written bya notable Islamic theologian, and having anenormous circulation throughout Egypt andNorth Africa, clearly sets forth what, to themind of the author, the Moslem child shouldbe taught. It teaches preposterous doctrinesas to God; the utter scorn and contempt ofChristianity; matters opening the young eyesas to marriage, divorce and kindred topics,beside such a vile stream of obscenity and in-decency as to make certain portions of it unfitfor publication in English. Add to the effect of moral impurity upon the life of the Moslem child, that of absolute belief in unthinkably absurd superstitions, and you furnish him with a life load under which he can scarcely stagger. The child of Islam, every-. AND AMONG THE KRAALS 143 where and in all circumstances is born into aworld of superstition. It is the first and all-important task of his mother to protect herchild from a legion of jinn, and the multi-tude of their close relations — devils and badangels. Poor little youngster, hung about withall sorts of amulets, doubtless much in his way,and provided with iwo recording angels, oneperched upon each of his infant shoulders! The Occidental child may laugh, as he does,at tales from the Arabian Nights in which thegenii figure, and in which sometimes oneof those evil Afrites whom the lord Solomon(upon whom be peace) did imprison in bottlesof brass and cast into the sea, is pulled forthby a luckless fisherman! To the Moslem childall this is no fabrication of fancy. The goblinswhich are likely to git him are real goblins— as real as Haroun Al-Raschid himself. At the beginning they are intellectuallynimble enoug
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