. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. of can-opener to Africa. Yet through the darkness enveloping it, asfar back as four thousand long years agothere gleamed through the curtains of itsnight the bright light of Divine Providence set a Joseph in him it cradled into strength a greatrace for its future destiny. The accounts ofa patriarchal father, the guilty brothers andBenjamin the beloved could ill be sparedfrom the treasure-store of divine truth instory form which through the ages has beenwoven into the fabric of godly charac
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. of can-opener to Africa. Yet through the darkness enveloping it, asfar back as four thousand long years agothere gleamed through the curtains of itsnight the bright light of Divine Providence set a Joseph in him it cradled into strength a greatrace for its future destiny. The accounts ofa patriarchal father, the guilty brothers andBenjamin the beloved could ill be sparedfrom the treasure-store of divine truth instory form which through the ages has beenwoven into the fabric of godly finding by a real princess of a tiny,crying baby in a rush cradle hidden amongthe tall reeds which etched out the banks ofAfricas greatest historic river; the story ofthis baby boy, Moses, who later chose tothrow overboard his prospective chances forgreat wealth and political prominence for arighteous cause; who dared to brave an angryAfrican monarch with Thus saith the Lord,and out from a terror-mad, plague-strickenpeople led to liberty a bondaged race — such. AND AMONG THE KRAALS could not be omitted from the mother-storiestold at bedtime to the children of Christianlands. It is probable that Solomons servants,voyaging with those of Hiram, who hadknowledge of the sea, to Ophir for goldfor the great king, found it down in southeastAfrica — Rhodesia of today, if you please,which we consider Methodist missionaryground. The Queen of Sheba, who tried Solomonswisdom by difficult questions and went back toher people with the praises of Jehovah uponher lips, probably had her kingdom some-where in the region of the Abyssinia of today. But beyond such scriptural claims whichcan be voiced by dark Africa to the Christianworld for light, there is one other which isparamount. For upon a day in the long agowhen the jealousy of the tyrant Herod wouldhave hounded the Christ Child to the verydeath, it was the dusky arms of Africa whichwere outstretched to shelter him. Thusthrough A
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