. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. therolling eyes and the prominent teeth gleamedin the firelight as the hideous-looking beastjumped around, frightening us all. The picturewas so weird, the imitation so perfect, thatquite a few moments elapsed before I could beconvinced the performer was Matiwoma, andnot a real baboon. A CONTRAST IN SCHOOLS There is the semblance of a school, to be sure,somewhere out in the bush. In one of these aboy of tender years is hideously taught to be aman. In a similar one little girls are inductedinto a knowledge of the things
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. therolling eyes and the prominent teeth gleamedin the firelight as the hideous-looking beastjumped around, frightening us all. The picturewas so weird, the imitation so perfect, thatquite a few moments elapsed before I could beconvinced the performer was Matiwoma, andnot a real baboon. A CONTRAST IN SCHOOLS There is the semblance of a school, to be sure,somewhere out in the bush. In one of these aboy of tender years is hideously taught to be aman. In a similar one little girls are inductedinto a knowledge of the things — and evilenough they are — which will some day fallwithin the sphere of womanhood. Deeplyhidden in some forest place is the bush and dark are the mysteries which arethere expounded. A great gulf of contrast lies between this so-called school in the bush, and such schools ashave been established by the Womans ForeignMissionary Society at Quessua and Old there were more such upon our list forAfrica! Christian work among these dusky daughters. UNDER THE CRESCENT nil of a degraded race has demonstrated thatvery pure white hearts may beat within veryblack bodies. To be sure when they come —back with the missionary who has been itinerat-ing, possibly — they are unclad, unkempt,unclean. They are terrified when the littlemission organ is played, and ask, What makesthe box cry? Having lived in real flatsall their lives, they are desperately afraid toeven attempt to climb the stairs. Oh, yes,they are crude enough. But wait! We hear the government inspectorsaying in his report, after he visits our schools:I saw the girls sewing, washing, ironing, was going smoothly — the girlslooked clean and neat and it was not difficultto see from their bright faces that they werehappy in their work. A feature of the educationof these girls is the elementary training givenin the care of babies. The missionary, too, knows all of this, yetshe writes: The
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