. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 28 UNDER THE CRESCENT. Coast line, and southward to the very heartof the continent itself, there was included aregion for whose Moslem millions no organizedwork of evangelization had ever been attempted. This door of opportunity for Methodisteffort among North African Moslems swungon its hinges in 1907, previous to the WorldsSunday School Convention. At that time,largely through the efforts of Bishop Hartzell,arrangements were made whereby delegateson their way to Rome might, by stopping atAlgiers, catch a glimpse of t
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. 28 UNDER THE CRESCENT. Coast line, and southward to the very heartof the continent itself, there was included aregion for whose Moslem millions no organizedwork of evangelization had ever been attempted. This door of opportunity for Methodisteffort among North African Moslems swungon its hinges in 1907, previous to the WorldsSunday School Convention. At that time,largely through the efforts of Bishop Hartzell,arrangements were made whereby delegateson their way to Rome might, by stopping atAlgiers, catch a glimpse of this vast and neg-lected field of North Africa, with its twentymillions of Moslems. Mrs. Hartzell afterstudying for two months the situation in Algierswas, with the bishop, convinced that thismust be in the coming years the center of agreat work. The Mission in North Africa was organizedin Algiers in 1910 — which is the story in anutshell of an epochal event in Methodisthistory. Dr. Edwin F. Frease was called from Indiato become superintendent of the new corps of workers, formerly o
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