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Girls’ school year came to a close, and Bryan wrote medical reports. He noted that the mining companies employed their own doctors for the Europeans. Bryan was critical of Rufus Jones’s report on missions in the Orient which was made without actual experience in the field. Notes mMany faith and church missions in Africa.

Scope and Contents After Christmas, the Micheners took a hiking trip to Mount Elgon on the boarder between Kenya and Uganda. Bryan was critical of Arthur Chilson (1870-1939), Quaker evangelist who had come to Kenya in 1902 He started a new mission in Burundi in 1933, part of the African Inland Mission. There are indications of increasing tensions - with strict fundamentalist missionaries as well as the Kenyans wanting more control over their institutions. Quarrels among the missions, and the Prayer...

Scope and Contents Edith described increasing tensions at the mission as some of the staff become more fervent in their pentacostal beliefs. Edith and Bryan enjoyed a weekend at the Church of God Mission in nearby Kima. Reports to the Friends East Africa Mission Board from the African about unhappiness with some of the whites, especially Hoyt. A daughter, Alice Kasande, was born October 16, and they spent their vacation at the Pentecostal Assembly of Canada Mission, hiking and climbing, December into...

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They were hoping that Edith’s sister Alice would visit. More problems with Hoyt and other staffers who have been undercutting the more moderate Dr. Bond and antagonizing the locals. The Micheners attended a local feast in March, and they enjoyed a visit by English Friends, the Wyatts.