. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. for you, there isnothing whatever to do but go! Be it to thefeast, or to war, or for the woman palavers —for there is a drumbeat for women — you mustmove promptly and in time with that call ofthe drum. So right here we will give the drumbeat forthe children of black Africa, if you please. Andto your imagination there will surely come again,though far away from classic Hamelin Town, A rustling that seems like a bustlingOf merry crowds jostling at pitching and hustling— and over fourteen millions of little Africans,livin
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. for you, there isnothing whatever to do but go! Be it to thefeast, or to war, or for the woman palavers —for there is a drumbeat for women — you mustmove promptly and in time with that call ofthe drum. So right here we will give the drumbeat forthe children of black Africa, if you please. Andto your imagination there will surely come again,though far away from classic Hamelin Town, A rustling that seems like a bustlingOf merry crowds jostling at pitching and hustling— and over fourteen millions of little Africans,living from the twentieth parallel and southall over the continent, are responding to thedrum which beats for them! Over one million and a half of these live southof the equator, the biggest part of the numberbeing little pagan people who, Topsy-like, havejust growed. It is among these, in Angolaand Rhodesia, that the missionaries of theWomans Foreign Missionary Society are atwork — fine young women they are, some ofthem with university degrees affixed to AND AMONG THE KRAALS THE LITTLE BLACK BABY As lives one child in Africa who survives thevicissitudes of entrance into his black world,and the years allotted to childhood, so for themost part live they all. Poor little black baby — his mother, thoughshe loves him, has very queer ideas about hisupbringing. As likely as not she laughs in avastly superior way when the missionary triesto teach her how to feed the little mite way is to hold him in her lap, his back toher, her motherly hand full of exactly the samesort of sadza the grown-ups eat, held con-veniently under his chin. Then she proceedsliterally to stuff that baby, using in the processinstead of a spoon the forefinger of her free the poor little stomach is distended toactual hardness and he is probably howlingwith stomach ache his mother is sure that, forthe time being, he has had enough! In Liberia the ceremony of feeding is
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