. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. A LONE WOMAN Agnes MacAllister of Liberia preceded theScotch missionary, Mary Slessor of Calabar,to Africa, by twelve years. She answered in1889 a call made for volunteers by WilliamTaylor. Tracing the almost unbelievable careersof Agnes MacAllister and Mary Slessor,both of whom pioneered in most strenuousand effective fashion among the lowest paganpopulation ever spread upon this fair world,one can but be struck with the similaritybetween them in character and experience. Agnes MacAllister, even in girlhood serious-mi
. Under the crescent, and among the kraals; a study of Methodism in Africa. A LONE WOMAN Agnes MacAllister of Liberia preceded theScotch missionary, Mary Slessor of Calabar,to Africa, by twelve years. She answered in1889 a call made for volunteers by WilliamTaylor. Tracing the almost unbelievable careersof Agnes MacAllister and Mary Slessor,both of whom pioneered in most strenuousand effective fashion among the lowest paganpopulation ever spread upon this fair world,one can but be struck with the similaritybetween them in character and experience. Agnes MacAllister, even in girlhood serious-minded and reflective, was called queerby her gayer friends. When she announcedher intention of being a missionary to Africa,. AND AMONG THE KRAALS 78 they said they always knew she would do some-thing impossible like that. Her family wasnot enthusiastic over the project, for permittingher to go to Africa, even so late as 1888, seemedlike burying her alive. At least so they said. But Agnes, deep in her own heart, knew thatshe must go to Africa. So she went. It may be true that France has more goodharbors on Africas shores than all the otherproprietors of the country put together. Veryfew of them now, and less of them in 89, werelocated on the West Coast, bordered by reefsand pounded by a ceaseless, merciless getting into Africa from the steamerby becoming a passenger in a dancing surf-boat is evidently not an experience to becoveted; at any rate it made sufficient impres-sion upon the new missionary to be referred toin her own autobiography. The first station to which Miss MacAllisterwas assigned — Garraway — was a good twentymiles up the beach. This again necessitatedthe requisition of the
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