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 B y north AFRICA we mean those romantic countries—Algeria, 
 Morocco, Tunisia and Tripoli—along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. 
 
 The Methodist Church—the only organized mission working in these lands 
 —has joined North Africa to Southern Europe for Episcopal supervision. It 
 belongs there rather than to pagan Africa. 
 
 Why? 
 
 Because all these countries are under European rule. A million Europeans 
 live there. Their railways, telegraphs and modern buildings are all over the 
 country, jumbled up with the Mohammedan mosques and Moorish quarters 
 of the 20,000,000 natives. These latter belong to the white race, although 
 they are Moslems. 
 
 North Africa has nothing in common with the rest of the “black” con¬ 
 tinent, from which it is separated by the Sahara desert. 
 
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 The population of North Africa 
 is a puzzling mixture—a conglom¬ 
 eration of races in which has been 
 imbedded for over twelve centuries 
 the fiery zeal of Mohammedanism. 
 
 The people of North Africa were 
 originally a branch of the Cauca¬ 
 sian, or white race. 
 
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 St. Paul wrote of them as Bar¬ 
 barians from “Barbary States.” 
 Today they are known as “Ber¬ 
 bers.” 
 
 Phoenicians, Romans, Greeks, 
 Jews and Arabs added each their 
 own strain, but generally under 
 the dirt and sunburn the Berber 
 is still “white.” 
 
 The religion, dress and customs 
 of the Berbers are like those of 
 the Arabs. Mohammed was 
 an Arab, and the Berbers 
 —being Moslems — are in¬ 
 clined to regard the race of 
 their Prophet as superior 
 to themselves, though in 
 fact they are the finer peo¬ 
 ple. Half of them speak 
 only Arabic and call them¬ 
 selves Arabs. 
 
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 North Africa of old was a land which 
 seemed destined to lead in the march of 
 Christian freedom and progress. In 202 
 A. D., Tertullian said that the number of 
 Christians in the cities about equalled the 
 number of pagans. In the days of the great 
 Berber Bishop, Augustine (354-430), Chris¬ 
 tianity dominated throughout the land. 
 
 But the Church there neglected practical 
 Christianity and went in for theological 
 speculations. From hair-splitting the Berbers 
 got to Church-splitting. The factions fought. 
 
 Many people were slain. The whole Church 
 weakened. 
 
 Ruins of Amphitheater in Carthage where Christians were 
 thrown to wild beasts 
 
Then in 696 A. D., North Africa was thrown back, by the Mohammedan con¬ 
 quest, into the fatalism and stagnation of the East. An army of the finest warriors 
 known—rallied by the assurance of plunder and religious favors—poured into 
 North Africa. 
 
 Alexandria, Carthage—all the great cities of North Africa—crumbled under the 
 feet of the plundering Moslems. The crescent of Mohammed supplanted the 
 cross of Christ. Forty thousand 
 Churches became a memory. 
 
 rj-«i • ri 11 1 Baptistry in the floor of the Cathedral 
 
 1 he mosaic floors and shattered 
 
There are three types of Berbers: the Moors of the Coast; the 
 Bedouins of the Sahara desert; Kabyles of the mountains. The 
 latter are the most important — 75% of the population. 
 
 The Kabyles are independent, virile and brave. The French in 
 
 1857 were the first 
 to ever conquer their 
 mountain fastnesses. 
 Their villages are 
 perched on the tops 
 of the peaks. Their 
 stone houses, with 
 red tiled roofs, hud¬ 
 dle thickly together 
 on the steep heights. 
 From Fort National, 
 the Methodist sta¬ 
 tion in these moun¬ 
 tains, three hundred 
 villages can be seen. 
 
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 On the lower slopes are 
 olive trees. The people export 
 a great deal of oil. In higher 
 altitudes the trees are ash, 
 figs and acorns. The latter 
 is one of their food cereals. 
 The ash trees provide cattle 
 fodder. The people also raise 
 barley. The rich buy wheat 
 from other districts. 
 
 Most of the livelihood of 
 the villages comes from 
 abroad. The Berbers are 
 very versatile and love 
 travel. They learn the ways 
 and languages of foreign 
 countries quickly. 
 
Mohammed prom¬ 
 ised that all who were 
 slain in his battles 
 should be immedi¬ 
 ately admitted to a 
 paradise of exquisite 
 and eternal bliss—a 
 land of verdure, cool 
 springs and fair wo¬ 
 men. 
 
 Nearly all Arabia, 
 ignorant, religion¬ 
 less, and greedy for 
 plunder, enlisted in 
 his cause. 
 
D^ofiammedanism 
 
 Shining Moslem swords, thirsty for the blood of Christians, penetrated as far 
 west as Spain, and south to Central Africa. North Africa’s Christianity and 
 Christian civilization were crushed. Over the ruins, the faith and civilization of 
 Islam have been thickly veneered. “There is no God but God: Mohammed is the 
 prophet of God” echoes daily from Pacific to Atlantic. 
 
 Five times a day, whether the appointed hours find him in the desert or the 
 market place, the Mohammedan bows towards Mecca, the Holy City, automatically 
 going through numerous prostrations and inclinations of the head and knees, 
 mouthing meaningless prayers in a strange tongue. 
 
 While man prays, woman, having no soul or hope of heaven, goes on with 
 her work. 
 
 Islam tolerates—nay, fosters—concubinage and polygamy. 
 
 Thousands of North African soldiers, who served in the great war in Europe, 
 are returning to their homes. Contact with Christian standards of living has 
 opened their eyes to the evils of Islam. 
 
 Their present attitude is a God-given opportunity. 
 
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 They haven’t found out yet, those bigoted Mohammedans, that 
 Columbus settled that famed argument in 1492. For they still 
 teach their students that the world is flat! 
 
 In the bottom of the sea is a big hole, through which the water 
 is ever falling on a great iron slab heated by the fires of hell 
 beneath. Thus the water evaporates and disappears! 
 
 The rest of Mohammedan education is equally useful. It con¬ 
 sists of learning the Koran, the book of Mohammed, by heart. 
 There is no training for future progress. No inspiration of hope. 
 
 But instead, the mind of the student is chained to the past. 
 
Moslem education is hopelessly entangled with their narrow 
 theology. The school room is either in a mosque or out-of-doors. 
 Pictured below is the biggest Moslem university in the world. 
 Its students number ten thousand. It is in Cairo, Egypt. 
 
 Mohammedanism encourages intellectual 
 isolation from modern thought, modern modes 
 of life and modern political drift. The fatalism 
 of the faith bred indifference to world progress 
 until the war hurled North Africa into for¬ 
 ward trend of civilization. 
 
ive out of every 
 
 And what do we do about 
 it? Next to nothing! 
 
 The need of medical aid 
 is so enormous that the work 
 of our missionaries, efficient 
 as it is, is hardly a drop in 
 the bucket. 
 
 Dirty, stuffy, one-room 
 houses without windows or 
 chimneys breed diseases of all 
 kinds. Eyes are weakened by 
 the unventilated, smoky at¬ 
 mosphere, the inner lining of 
 the eyelids contract, and the 
 result is ingrowing eyelashes. 
 
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 A large proportion of the population is affected by this strange 
 malady. Our missionaries perform successful operations on the 
 eyes. But they need suitable buildings and equipment. 
 
 Consumption is rife, fostered by lack of sanitation and hygiene. 
 
 Worms debilitate ninety per cent of the 
 people, while venereal diseases are common 
 among eighty-five per cent. 
 
 The French Government demands that a 
 doctor be a Frenchman, with a French medical 
 degree. We must get young Christian French¬ 
 men, willing to serve the 
 good cause, and train 
 them for our work. But 
 even now we can and must 
 increase the resources of 
 our missionaries, making 
 their beneficent work and 
 their Christian influence 
 more widely felt. 
 
Throughout lands under Moslem domination, a con¬ 
 spicuous fact is the superior mental ability of the 
 Christian over the Moslem. 
 
 The moral issues of this era are the gravest in 
 the history of the world. If it turn out that we are 
 morally unprepared as we are physically unprepared, 
 I tremble for the future of the world. 
 
 —Henry Morgenthau, 
 
We belittle Christianity and break the force of the 
 message to the world at home and abroad, if we scale 
 down our plans at a time like th\s.—John R. Mott 
 
 If God has made us the largest Protestant denomina¬ 
 tion in America under His grace, then He has called us to 
 assume a mighty leadership when it comes to the American 
 impression, that is to be made after this war, upon the 
 nations of the great wide earth .—Bishop E. H. Hughes 
 
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 in tfie Smelter 
 
 The peoples of North Africa have taken a great 
 part in the World War. They can never sink back 
 again into the lethargy of Islam and the East. They 
 have identified themselves with the Forward Move¬ 
 ment of the world. 
 
 All their social, economic and political standards 
 are molten—may run and reset in any mould. 
 
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 A mission school, as such, does not exist in North Africa. The 
 French Government holds all secular education in its hands, and 
 forbids schools controlled by churches. 
 
 BUT— 
 
 “We cannot make children honest by teaching them the 
 multiplication table, nor virtuous by teaching them grammar, 
 nor benevolent by teaching them geography.” 
 
 And so we have established Homes for boys and girls. The 
 children go to the Government schools for their education. But 
 we also conduct classes in the Homes. Not readin’, ’ritin’ and 
 ’rithmetic classes, but classes in morals, and religion, in healthy 
 sports, hygiene, and sanitation. 
 
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 Our educational program does not pretend to compete with 
 the public schools. Its object is to supplement them. To teach 
 New Testament standards of living to the rising generation in 
 North Africa. 
 
A Mohammedan adult, narrow minded and self sufficient as 
 only a Mohammedan can be, is an almost impossible person to 
 influence or convert. Mohammedans can best be reached through 
 their children. The children can best be reached through our 
 Homes. 
 
 The Homes are Methodism’s best investment in North Africa. 
 We have six—four for boys and two for girls. Four of these are 
 in rented premises. Pictured here are groups of our boys and 
 girls. Smiling from out of the frame—eager, hopeful—the “raw 
 materials” that crowd our doors. 
 
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 The French are beginning to 
 look upon the missionary and 
 the converts as a force for social 
 uplift. They begin to see that 
 the best solution of their difficulty 
 in finding natives who are ed¬ 
 ucated and honest to represent 
 and not misrepresent their 
 Government, is to employ those 
 who have had moral as well as 
 secular education. Lads 
 from our Homes will be 
 the educational, commer¬ 
 cial, moral and religious 
 leaders of North Africa. 
 
 
The truths of Christianity, 
 rooted among the Berbers of 
 North Africa—though crushed 
 to earth during the centuries 
 of Mohammedan domination— 
 shall rise again. 
 
 The Berber character is of 
 too practical a turn to make a 
 good Moslem. He is not like 
 the Asiatic dreamers. Toother 
 Moslems he has always been 
 heterodox. Even Popery is irk¬ 
 some to him. He is ever asking 
 the why of things. He recog¬ 
 nizes the fallacies of Islam with¬ 
 out being told. 
 
 The Berber is the weakest 
 spot in the whole front of Islam. 
 He will soon abandon it openly. 
 
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 Kabyle 
 
 Preacher 
 
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 Once refired with the zeal of Christian¬ 
 ity, he will become the ideal missionary 
 to other Moslem sections of the world. 
 His sturdy enthusiasm promises rapid 
 triumph. 
 
 Methodism has made more progress 
 in its first eight years in North Africa 
 than in its initial work in any other field 
 for the same period of time. From the 
 Atlantic Ocean to Egypt, the Methodist 
 Church is the only organized Protestant 
 Church doing missionary work. 
 
 “If North Africa is to be Christianized, 
 American Methodism must do it.” 
 
 The fi'^st Native Methodist Church in North Africa 
 
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 CENTENARY ASKINGS 
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 15 Missionaries ...... 
 
 19 European Pastors and Assistants 
 64 Native Preachers and Assistants 
 250 Children’s and Student’s Scholarships . 
 
 42 Building Sites ...... 
 
 40 Residences ...... 
 
 25 Churches and Chapels .... 
 
 6 Dispensaries and Bihle Depots . 
 
 6 Homes and Training Schools 
 68 Native Preachers’ Quarters 
 
 These plans open ten new centers and carry the 
 work to 1922. 
 
 The above plans do not include the work among women, 
 as they were not completed on going to press. 
 
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 America financed her share in the Big Scrap so 
 successfully that her war debts are comparatively 
 insignificant. 
 
 But her debts of peace are tremendous. And they 
 are debts of honor. 
 
 The published notes exchanged between the Allies, 
 the speeches of America’s great men—all made clear to 
 the world that we were engaged in a righteous war. One 
 in which greed and national aggrandizement never 
 figured. 
 
 The conquest o-f the foe was not the ultimate end, but 
 a means to the realization of a great World Emancipation 
 Plan. Subconsciously the Allies had been fighting for 
 such an ideal from the start. The entrance of America 
 into the war transformed the idea of World Democ¬ 
 racy from a vague concept to a concrete promise. 
 
 The men of America and of America’s Allies were 
 inspired with an indomitable Crusader’s spirit by the 
 thought that they were fighting for a holy thing—Lib¬ 
 erty. The peoples from the far corners of the globe 
 thrilled at the shoulder-to-shoulder contact with 
 America. Were they not fighting—these far peoples— 
 
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 to obtain for themselves the blessings of true democracy 
 as enjoyed by Americans? And were not Americans 
 fighting to help others to obtain those same blessings? 
 
 Well, the Allies won! 
 
 But the mere signing of the armistice has not estab¬ 
 lished democratic institutions throughout the world. 
 The Peace Table won’t either. 
 
 And yet the far peoples—of North x4frica, for instance 
 —look to America for the realization of that World 
 Betterment Ideal. 
 
 The big Fellow Feeling that helped win the war was 
 but another expression of the Spirit of Christ. 
 
 It is the Spirit of Christ that will bring freedom— 
 political, economic and religious freedom—^to all the 
 peoples of the world. 
 
 It is the Spirit of Christ that will fill the Methodist 
 Centenary coffers to overflowing that brotherly love and 
 peace and helpfulness and true democracy may be 
 spread broadcast throughout the world. 
 
 That America may pay to the far peoples her debts 
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