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THE ORIGIN OF THE ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION. 
accessible. Their ancestors were Christians^ and they still have 
legends among them of the cross of Christ and its power to save. 
Christianity entered North Africa soon after Pentecost^ and 
spread rapidly among the Berbers and other natives. Within a 
hundred years of the death of Saint John, the Evangelist, with 
Carthage as the center, half of the people in the cities were Christ¬ 
ian. In the fourth century there were live hundred and eighty 
seats with their Bishops, 
In the first four centuries after the apostles, of twenty great 
names in the history of Christianity, more than half came from 
North Africa. The first foreign missionaries after the apostles 
were from Africa. One of them, Pantseus, founder of a Christian 
school, went to India to preach the Gospel, so that the first mis¬ 
sionary to India was from Africa. 
For two hundred and fifty years North Africa led Latin Christ¬ 
ianity, and in the work of evangelization translated the Scriptures, 
for the first time, into a Western tongue. That Latin Bible was 
the foundation of the Vulgate and came to be the common version 
of Western Christianity. 
The indebtedness of the Christian world to the North African 
Church is beyond estimation. One half of the Antenicene Library 
was African in origin. For fifty years it grew, and during those 
centuries several of the most important questions of doctrine were 
settled under the leadership of African scholars. After Rome had 
overwhelmed its laws from Africa. 
In the latter part of the second century Tertullian, the first 
great name in Western Christianity, flourished. ''The blood of 
martyrs is the seed of the Church,’' is a paraphrase of his sublime 
words in bidding defiance to the rulers who were persecuting Christ¬ 
ians. After him Arnobius, and later Augustine, who, though 
next to Paul, has dominated Christian thought and doctrine. Over 
the portals of Trinity Church, Boston, are carved, after the iiamesf 
of the four evangelists, those of Paul and Augustine. The third 
stone in the series remains uncut. There is no man yet who has 
wielded so wide a scepter, both intellectual and ecclesiastical, as 
Augustine, 
