. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. physical andspiritual, we alone are responsible, strike usdumb with pity, and conscious of our negligence,startle us into action? One of us there was — a child of God blessedwith gold which she loved only as she coulduse it for his glory. And one day across theseas and into her heart, swept from NorthAfrica upon the leaden wings of its own sorrow,came the cry of the Moslem women. The verysprings of her loving sympathy were touched,and the heart and the treasure of FrancescaNast Gamble were forever enlisted in the cause
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. physical andspiritual, we alone are responsible, strike usdumb with pity, and conscious of our negligence,startle us into action? One of us there was — a child of God blessedwith gold which she loved only as she coulduse it for his glory. And one day across theseas and into her heart, swept from NorthAfrica upon the leaden wings of its own sorrow,came the cry of the Moslem women. The verysprings of her loving sympathy were touched,and the heart and the treasure of FrancescaNast Gamble were forever enlisted in the causethat should make for their relief and salvation. But, having struck the chord of the musicof her life, the Master Musician knew that heneeded it for the heavenly symphony. Thegates of the city swung open one day, and thegentle spirit we loved entered, to go out no moreforever. In her death, the woman whom she ownedas her Moslem sister was not forgotten, and byher royal gift, many of them, too, please God,shall some day enter in through the same gateinto the same CHAPTER V The Woman in Black THAT most ancient triumvirate, the World,the Flesh and the Devil, is representedin the Bulu man, according to MissMackenzie in An African Trail, by thelust of Gain, the lust of Women and the yokeof Fetish. To the woman who has opened her eyes toas much of creation as can be observed by thecircumscribed, brown-smoked limits of an Afri-can hut, come also though in a different guisethose three, the World, the Flesh and the her the World is the community — thekraal of beehive habitations, if you please. TheFlesh—no figure of speech is here, under-stand — is that of her husband, her family,herself. The things which concern these arecentered under the thatched roof of her hut. Things there may be in pagan Africa whichare cornered by the man and are thereforetaboo for womankind, but of these are not thethings of fetish, which is the Devil of theaforesaid triumvirate. Of thes
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