May 1925
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P ioneering in Kenya Colonÿ (AFRICA)
of converts everywhere that an en trance has been gained. In other places the awakened hearts and minds are pleading for, and even demanding
the converts are increasing in num bers, and growing mentally and spirit ually at such a pace that we are at a loss how to adequately provide for
In the class of 1914 were two sis ters, the Misses Flora and Betty Pier son, both of whom, after graduation, volunteered for service in Africa,
under the A. I. M. Miss Betty Pierson later became Mrs. F. H. McKenrick and, with her husband, has been much blessed in the work of the Lord there. The McKen- ricks are now in the Home land on furlough. We are glad to reprint the following letter from them which re cently appeared in “Inland Africa” : “After more than ten years of unbroken service in Kenya Colony we rejoice to be again in the homeland. . “As we look back over the years one thing stands out prominently. That is that Kenya and the work there are full of sharp contrasts. There, are few ‘halftones.’ Within a stone’s throw of the settler’s home or the mission station with their measure of comfort and their enlightenment, the savage wild beasts and the
more teaching,4%more light. “Along with pioneering work of the most pronounced type, there is the equally important and vastly more difficult and exacting work of building up and training those who must be the fu ture leaders of Christian thought and effort in the tribes. “Wonderful opportunities to win the people to Christ, and to establish those who have been won, are open to the Mission, but the already overburdened workers on the field cannot, humanly speaking, possibly buy them up. Reinforcements are urgently needed in Kenya, and the call to prayer and effort that the way may be opened for those prepared and called of God to go can not be over estimated. Will
SOME F R U IT S O F M ISSIONARY E F F O R T IN K EN Y A COLONY. A FR IC A
their insistent and growing needs. “In some places we are still seek ing in vain to plant chapel-schools, Where, along with very elementary teaching of the ‘three R’s’ there can be given the persistent line upon line teaching and preaching of the gospel that has been the most fruitful source
you undertake to do all God would have you to do in order that the work may be fully provided for, and every need fully supplied, of whatever kind it may be? “With kindest regards, “Sincerely yours in our Lord Jesus, “Fred H. McKenrick and Family.”
degraded savages are to be found. “In the same school room are to be' found the raw heathen and the enlight ened Christian native. In some of the districts hardly any impression has been made on age-old heathen super stition and customs. In others the progress of the gospel is rapid, and
Encouraging Comment from Our K. B. Familÿ
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