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WORLD WIDE GLEANINGS By OUR STUDENTS in the FIELD
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lope, folia, congonix, zebra, giant giraffe, gazelle and many of the deer family. There are also rhino and buffalo in the valley. I shot a pig and all of us feasted on pork for a couple of days. There are usually, twelve or fifteen mis sionaries here. I have the native school. The Industrial school is in charge of Mr. Alexander. I am living alone in Mr. Hurl- burt’s house. When Mr. Wallace is here he lives with me, but he is gone much with Mr. Hurlburt. Kijabe and the other stations are in the Kikuyeo tribe, though we work among several other tribes. We have alto gether about twenty stations scattered over an area equal' to a quarter of the United States, and requiring six months to visit them all. For all this we have about one hundred missionaries. We could place a- least a thousand. “The people are degraded by sin and are held bound by Satan. You have seen what changes are wrought in men converted at the rescue missions at home—you ought to see the change in the African. The raw na tive lives in filth, and has only a blanket to wear. His hut is low and dark with an open .fire in the center, filling the room with smoke most of the time. Goats and people live together. The natives count wealth in goats. Wives and goats are sold together. “I am happy in this service. I thank God every day that He called me, and that I list ened to His call As the Lord leads, re member me at the Throne of Grace.” ' THEIR FIRST SORROW. Dr. and Mrs. ■Kenneth Allen and baby Billy left Los Angeles for Kijabe early in the year and arrived on the field but two weeks preceding the decease of Mr. Wal lace. We can all readily appreciate the depth of their grief and the terribleness of the shock that formed their welcome to this :
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i'- stitute, than the things writ ten by graduates of our Training School who are now in the foreign mission fields. Their pleasant chat, in an intimate way tell ing of their every-day life and surroundings, and of the progress and prospects of the work, cannot but prove: fascinating. These letters came to the‘leaders of the several “bands” in the Bible Institute class of 1915—the Asiatic Band and the Africa Band. The former has- two of its members en route to India and prospects of sending one to Japan and five to China during the summer. The Africa Band has sent twelve members to the Dark Continent during the past three years, and twelve others are earn estly praying that the way may be opened for them also. Within a year death has twice invaded the ranks of the workers in Africa, taking two splendid Christian boys of Los Angeles—Thomas Hannay, jr., and Hugh Wallace—of which sorrowful events full accounts have been given in this maga zine. REAL LIFE IN AFRICA. A touch of real life in Africa is given by our Harry Herdman, writing from Kijabe, before the death of our beloved Hugh Wal lace. Among other things he says: “Our buildings form a sort of semi-circle on the face of a wooded hill, and back of the buildings the hill rises to quite an ele vation, on the top of which are native gar dens, as the top is level. Some miles away, fourteen perhaps, is Longonott, an extinct volcano. There are many lions in the gorges of this mountain, but too far away to give us any trouble. “I was down m the valley a couple days ago hunting wild pigs.: I saw many ante
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