. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. townin Algiers, were gathered little, pale, ailing,hungry Moslem maids. First they came trem-blingly. Then they went back to their ownpeople again, this time wide-eyed with thevery wonder of it all, to tell of more thanenough to eat, clean white nighties, and songsabout some wonderful being called Jesus whowould never leave them, and would take themafter awhile safe home to heaven. Paradise,they called our home, writes the missionary,and the garden of the Lord Jesus. More thanone little child asked when they would see
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. townin Algiers, were gathered little, pale, ailing,hungry Moslem maids. First they came trem-blingly. Then they went back to their ownpeople again, this time wide-eyed with thevery wonder of it all, to tell of more thanenough to eat, clean white nighties, and songsabout some wonderful being called Jesus whowould never leave them, and would take themafter awhile safe home to heaven. Paradise,they called our home, writes the missionary,and the garden of the Lord Jesus. More thanone little child asked when they would see theLord walking in his garden, not realizing thatthey met him often as we knelt to pray in thecool of the day. Into such a home as that described by anothermissionary in North Africa are born most ofthe children known to our own workers: Many a time in visiting among the very poorI have sat with the women in the open court,which is like a small yard in the middle of severalhouses, in which several families have one, two,or three rooms. In the court there may be a ,~VJL-. 13-1 UNDER THE CRESCENT
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