Under the Crescent And Among the Kraals a Study of Methodism in Africa
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Two girls from the crocodile country came back with me to the school. " Polygamy is universally practiced. Indeed a man's social status so far as his earthly goods are concerned is measured by the number of his wives. Miss Edith Bell, for four years one of our church missionaries in Africa, visited in the village of one chief who had thirty-three wives, while another only two days' journey away had eighty-four. A few of these surplus wives are usually kept at the chief's headquar- ters in huts ...of their own, and the rest distrib- uted in other villages over which he rules. Into such conditions as these goes the little new African wife, probably already besmirched by paganism's foul touch. A CONTRAST IN BRIDES Contrast with such a picture the account of the wedding of one of our Christian girls at Old Umtali as reported by Miss Coffin : "One of the best of the older girls, Nyonza, was recently married to Simbi, a former mission boy. Her wedding was quite the prettiest I have seen among the natives.
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