. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. let loose, the stranger peoplein their filthy kraals, the fresh tracks of slavers,\t the mighty rivers and superlative scenery —and at last safely out of it all and at Angolasfront door in time to take ship for the furloughhome! AND AMONG THE KRAALS In a reference to the territory covered by theSpringers Bishop Hartzell says: This region for centuries was raided byslave traders, but now the tide is turned, andthe descendants of former slaves are returningfrom the east and west. Among them areChristians, young men ready
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. let loose, the stranger peoplein their filthy kraals, the fresh tracks of slavers,\t the mighty rivers and superlative scenery —and at last safely out of it all and at Angolasfront door in time to take ship for the furloughhome! AND AMONG THE KRAALS In a reference to the territory covered by theSpringers Bishop Hartzell says: This region for centuries was raided byslave traders, but now the tide is turned, andthe descendants of former slaves are returningfrom the east and west. Among them areChristians, young men ready to begin therebuilding of the country of their fathers onChristian principles. Mr. and Mrs. Springerestablished favorable relations with the govern-ment and native chiefs, and finally, in the nameof our Methodism, they claimed for futureoccupancy territory four hundred miles points are now occupied; buildings areerected; a Biblical training school, a missionpress and a book store are already Gospel by Luke has been put into the CHAPTER III Come the Methodists WITH the divine fitness of things whichis often recognized by the devout anddiscerning mind in the orderings ofProvidence, it was a negro, ten days outboundfrom New York to Africa on the more or lessgood ship Elizabeth, in the year 1820, whoorganized according to the approved rules ofthe American Church, the first MethodistEpiscopal congregation for Africa, our firstforeign mission. The mans name was DanielCoker, and his after history proves that he sosuccessfully met the tests for endurance andgodly character in the new field, full of fearsand fevers, that none who came after him couldmore appropriately have borne the title ofFather of Methodism in Liberia.
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