. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. <gffi&z 46 UNDER THE CRESCENT. explained to him, enthusiastically exclaimed,White man he know everything for true. Heall the same as God. Not very God-likewere those who for generations rifled Africascoasts. They carried away her children, herivory and her gold, but they demonstratedthat the genius of the white man could razeto the ground even such colossal defenses aswere hers. Liberia is Methodisms oldest African mis-sion. The establishment of the colony wasan American experiment. Something of itsearly history has
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. <gffi&z 46 UNDER THE CRESCENT. explained to him, enthusiastically exclaimed,White man he know everything for true. Heall the same as God. Not very God-likewere those who for generations rifled Africascoasts. They carried away her children, herivory and her gold, but they demonstratedthat the genius of the white man could razeto the ground even such colossal defenses aswere hers. Liberia is Methodisms oldest African mis-sion. The establishment of the colony wasan American experiment. Something of itsearly history has been suggested elsewhere inthis volume, showing that Methodism and thenew Free State on the West Coast were con-temporaneous. Real Liberians are descendedfrom the first colonists and speak the Englishlanguage, which is the national language of theBlack Republic. The aborigines of the countryare heathen with the customs and ways ofliving which are more or less universal through-out Africa. The early missionaries sent out by ourchurch to Liberia were fired with the desire to break through the fixed lines
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