OURS IN THE FIELD
A /TRS. RUTH ALLEN, wife o f Dr. Ken- neth Allen, both o f whom went out as missionaries from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, writing from Kijabe, British East Africa, to her parents, Mr. and Mrs; William Schneider, o f this city, makes her letter interesting in many ways. She not orily expresses the joy o f her own conse crated life and craves the prayers o f her
between 200,000 or 250,000, or more, natives in the Kikuyu tribe. They have a language o f their own, and it is this language which we are studying, and which Githinji, the native boy who works for us, talks all the time. Other tribes live on all sides o f the Kikuyus. They each have their own lan guage, and each is very different from every other language;
LIFE AT KIJABE W e had Grandma Meyers for supper the other evening. She is the mother o f Mrs. Probst who, with her husband, came out when we did, having been home on a fur lough. Mr. and Mrs. Probst and their three children are no longer here, having gone to another station where' there was more need. Grandma Meyers, therefore, is naturally very lonesome, so she is much
A TOUCH OF friends for the success o f the work, but she talks o f cpmmon-place things that give a fair idea o f her surroundings in the Dark Continent. W e have been permitted to make the following excerpts from her letters: W e live in what they call "Kikuyu Land.” Kijabe, Matara, Kinyona and Githumu are the Mission stations. There are probably
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