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almost wonder what else there could, be— fruit—-bananas, berries find melons. It made me wish there were some one in Kijabe who could give his time to raising things to eat, especially fruit, for we do get hungry for a little California' garden we know about. O f course, we are many feet high here and some o f the things they have there would not grow here, but many things would grow if there were someone who really understood the work o f raising fruit and had time to give to it. I’d love to have mama try her hand at it! Well, we stayed to dinner and then had to hurry back, for it looked like rain. W e had only gone a short distance when it began to rain a fine, hard rain, but we both had rain coats and Billy was fixed in fine shape too, for- we had taken him along, and my, such a fine time as he had! It was a fine trip and I was surely glad o f the chance to go, but oh, nothing in this world could tempt me to change places with those people! We were talking on the way home, o f how out o f our own sphere we felt, how the con versation and the very atmosphere o f the place seemed so void o f that which warms and strengthens our lives and makes them full o f richness and joy. One who doesn't know our Lord nor the meaning o f the presence o f the Holy Spirit in their life and heart would not understand what I mean, but I know you do. They are trying to fill their lives and satisfy their souls with the abundance o f things. W e had a little talk with our hostess about spiritual things. She told us she was pleased with what she had read o f Christian Science (she had called Ken to see her little grand daughters), and wanted to know what he thought o f it. W e were glad o f the chance to do so, and at least left a testimony for the necessity o f blood atonement for sins, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Kijabe did seem a very homely, homey, sweet place when we got in that afternoon. I was just in time for my Bible class in the native school, and it seemed so good to know that we were here with something real to give these people and not just to have things ourselves.
that this time he will be able to stay in Los Angeles a good length o f time;—my, wouldn’t you all be delighted to see him! Sometimes my heart does long so for you all and I wish you might be living here. It seems to me that just Christian homes, filled with the love o f God, children being brought up to love Him and give them selves to Him and His service, are among the mightiest testimonies these people can have, for it is all so different from the homes they have seen all their lives. W e are pretty close to the war zone out here you know—close enough to see some very interesting things, but we are told On every side to leave all „such things out of our letters—so I just say this much so that if at any, time letters stop or anything unusual should happen, you may guess the reason at once, and not be alarmed as to our personal safety, for there is. every rea son to believe that, we should under any circumstances be treated most kindly. Ken’s services, as doctor, might be wanted and in that case we might possibly not be in Kijabe for a while. Ifen was called to a settler’s home a while ago and I went with him. They live some miles out on a great plain that stretches below us. I imagined that a set tler’s home way out here would be sort of an unattractive place. Imagine my imagin ation taking a back seat when I saw this place. The house was spacious and very well built o f stone, great sun-proof veran das stretched on both sides o f the house. The rooms were beautifully finished in hard wood and panels, and furnished luxuri ously. Everywhere lion skins and tiger rugs, and trophies o f all kinds. There had been sixteen or seventeen guests in the house for a few weeks. There was a tutor for the three children, and native servants galore. Stretching out on every side o f the house were thousands o f rich acres belonging to this one settler. There was the coffee plantation; the great pasture well stocked with cattle; there were pens o f choice fowls. There was a water-power mill, and electric lights in the house. There were good things to eat until you would
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