. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. e becomes a new man inChrist Jesus. The testimony of the missionaryupon this point is clear and unmistakable:They give up their heathen charms, orna-ments and rings, and they stop painting andmarking their bodies. They use soap and cleanup; they wear more clothes; they buy tablesand chairs and serve their food on plates anddishes. They show signs of affection forfamily and home. They stop attending heathendances, but instead they congregate in servicesfor worship and sing religious songs. As Christianity spreads among
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. e becomes a new man inChrist Jesus. The testimony of the missionaryupon this point is clear and unmistakable:They give up their heathen charms, orna-ments and rings, and they stop painting andmarking their bodies. They use soap and cleanup; they wear more clothes; they buy tablesand chairs and serve their food on plates anddishes. They show signs of affection forfamily and home. They stop attending heathendances, but instead they congregate in servicesfor worship and sing religious songs. As Christianity spreads among the natives,so does the desire for learning. Impelled bythe desire to learn and to read the New Testa-ment, and to write, large numbers attend theschools at the outstations. Thirty-one coupleswere recently married according to the Chris-tian ceremony. Considering the depths ofthe pit of social and religious degradation fromwhich the African Christian convert is digged,there is to be found no more striking expres-sion of the miracle of grace, than that of -*o-^* *-•. AND AMONG THE KRAALS Suffering among the people, caused by theravages of strong drink combined with disease,is widespread and pitiful in the extreme. Theresults of bad living before conversion attendeven the Christian, and are the heritage ofhis children. Diseases such as itch, chicken-pox, pneumonia, diseased eyes, and the ever-increasing tuberculosis, are common and makethe medical missionary indeed a Godsend. Amuch larger number of medical missionariesare needed, although there is some medicalwork being done at all our mission centers. ~5*. THE REGIONS BEYOND Not content with the usual round of dutiesin well-established centers, the consuming desirein the hearts of our missionaries is to pushout beyond their stations, mostly near thecoasts, into the vast regions of absolutelyunrelieved pagan darkness. The Regions Jn$K £rIj^Beyond has not only become the prime / ■.vs^«»«-.,»«*aobjective
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