. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. in the course of years. And it was thisdeadly malady, the scourge of Africas WestCoast, which like an enemy unseen, silent butcertain, came creeping up from the low andsickly soil, ruthlessly to slay. The wretchedlittle colony was fever-swept, and soon desertedby the survivors — those who had crossedleagues of sea for freedom and home. It was in these days, these frightful days offever and terror and death, that Daniel Coker,the negro preacher, won his spurs. Sometimehe was governor of the little colony. Therewas no do
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. in the course of years. And it was thisdeadly malady, the scourge of Africas WestCoast, which like an enemy unseen, silent butcertain, came creeping up from the low andsickly soil, ruthlessly to slay. The wretchedlittle colony was fever-swept, and soon desertedby the survivors — those who had crossedleagues of sea for freedom and home. It was in these days, these frightful days offever and terror and death, that Daniel Coker,the negro preacher, won his spurs. Sometimehe was governor of the little colony. Therewas no doctor among them, except as this manassumed that role. Then Daniel Coker, thegovernor, the doctor, when the moaning dis-tress of the fever-smitten souls was heard,became Daniel Coker, the governor, doctor,and nurse. When death, before smiting, hungpoised on his fevered wings above lowly dwell-ings, this man as pastor spoke words of peaceand comfort to souls in their passing, andreverently committed their bodies to lonelygraves. Though in later years noble service was a. AND AMONG THE KRAALS rendered for God and the church in Africa byDaniel Coker, nothing stands out with moreChristlike radiance than his devotion to theill-fated colony at Sherbro. The surviving mem-bers of that first Methodist Episcopal Churchin Africa, fleeing for their lives to Sierra Leone,at once raised crude buildings for churches, andamong them Christian worship was for manyyears maintained. So ended, not the first African adventureof the Methodist Episcopal Church as such,for the church neither stood sponsor for norfinancially backed it. It was, however, thefirst planting of Methodism in African soil byMethodises, and while the harvest was notabundant who shall say that the seed-sowingwas not worthy? Methodism has had an honorable record inthe doing of first things in her church andmissionary activities. But she was not firstof the denominational bodies of the UnitedStates to send a missionary to Liberia
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