. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. wn-eyed, weary-looking women gathered aroundme, and one after the other these poor ignorantsouls sought to recall the lessons learned —but hymns, texts, stories, all — all began andfinished in the same way! * God loves us, hesent the Lord Jesus (Sidna Aisa) to give hislife for us — we must follow not with our lipsbut with our hearts and he will take us to him-self at the last. Useless to remind them ofstories told from the Old Testament, of miraclesor parables. Their lives have been lived closedin by high walls, and in
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. wn-eyed, weary-looking women gathered aroundme, and one after the other these poor ignorantsouls sought to recall the lessons learned —but hymns, texts, stories, all — all began andfinished in the same way! * God loves us, hesent the Lord Jesus (Sidna Aisa) to give hislife for us — we must follow not with our lipsbut with our hearts and he will take us to him-self at the last. Useless to remind them ofstories told from the Old Testament, of miraclesor parables. Their lives have been lived closedin by high walls, and in windowless know no other school; their minds areall but blanks, but — and it makes it all worthwhile — the Holy Spirit of God has penetratedthe darkness and they know in whom they havebelieved. God loves us, Jesus died, this wasthe culmination of all the teaching, and theblood of Jesus Christ shall cleanse even thesepoor, ignorant Moslem women. A CRY FOR HELP Does not all this carry with it some appeal —some conviction of vast responsibility to us. 104 UNDER THE CRESCENT ft 01 ; American women? The most favored, as weare under God, of all the women in the world— does not the call of the Moslem woman inNorth Africa for whose salvation, 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 ope
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