. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. companied theirjourneyings to the Promised Land, and hereJehovah manifested himself in visible gloryto his people. The geography of Arabia is not to be dis-cussed here, except as out from its desolatewastes where the wind of the desert isborn, and the mirage lifts its deceptive beautyto the sight of the famished traveler, wherestoried rivers run, and sunsets fall upon grace-fully pendant date palms; out from itslegends and ruins, and traces of lost empires,and mayhap even from where was the cradleof humankind itself, h
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. companied theirjourneyings to the Promised Land, and hereJehovah manifested himself in visible gloryto his people. The geography of Arabia is not to be dis-cussed here, except as out from its desolatewastes where the wind of the desert isborn, and the mirage lifts its deceptive beautyto the sight of the famished traveler, wherestoried rivers run, and sunsets fall upon grace-fully pendant date palms; out from itslegends and ruins, and traces of lost empires,and mayhap even from where was the cradleof humankind itself, has come the race whosedescendants our missionaries in North Africanow strive to reach and save. From the day when unhappy Hagar and herinfant son became wanderers in the wildernessof Beersheba, the descendants of Ishmael, whoaccording to divine promise and in a peculiarand definite sense have preserved themselvesa nation, have been indeed wanderers—nomads. More than any other people in theworld, perhaps, the Arab has ranged away fromhis natural geographical 18 UNDER THE CRESCENT
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