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Trinitarian Bible Society – Quarterly Recordthis project is stalled at present and inmuch need of effectual fervent prayer.EkeGusii, in which there is a living projectattended by many difficulties: who willhold up the hands of the workers in Kisii?Let a final word from Mr Watkins serveas a conclusion to the whole articleand a general exhortation to prayer forKenya—‘Yes, Kenyan churches are to thisday expanding and multiplying—butthere are almost no points at which KenyanChristianity coincides with the Biblicalversion. Many poor souls are plungingunprepared into eternity with a lie in theirright hand’ (Isaiah 44.20): and no soundScriptures in either hand.Endnotes1. It was on holiday in ‘Treetops’ lodgewithin sight of Mt. Kenya that the UK’sPrincess Elizabeth learned of the death ofher father, King George VI, on 6 February1952.2. Discussion of which lakes are largestcould constitute an entire book.Considerations include fresh versus saltwater, volume, surface area, etc., and anycombination thereof. This designationregarding Lake Victoria, however, is fairlysolid.3. ‘Bovids’ for the zoologists amongst us.4. Kenya has over forty game reservesand parks, and two maritime parks in theIndian Ocean.5. Learned arguments lie behind thedefinition of this word. A general idea ofsouthward movement of people alongthe axis of the Nile and Rift valleys issimplistic, but sufficient.6. To meet a gospel enquirer recently whodeclared himself a ‘Kenyan-Indian-Sikh’doesn’t seem quite so bizarre against thisbackground.7. A mainspring of German expansionistpolicy—literally ‘room to live’, butpolitically somewhat more complex inAfrica, and, failing that, in Europe on theway to Ukraine and Russia.8. Italian for ‘lebensraum, anyone?’9. The Luo also have strong ethnic andlinguistic affinity throughout Uganda andmainland Tanzania.10. The list is abbreviated: things such asshould not even be mentioned, I darenot.11. Pierson was a vigorous advocateof missions, transformer of missionaryliterature, collaborator in the productionof the Scofield Bible, and a sometimevisiting preacher at Spurgeon’s Tabernaclein London, UK.12. As quoted by Bishop ZablonNthamburi in ‘The Beginning andDevelopment of Christianity in Kenya’Dictionary of African Christianity (dacb.org,accessed 20 October 2011).13. What is surprising is that now inWestern Protestant Christianity, thesame process of ‘indigenising’ to localculture is a growing policy and practice;this ‘baptising’ of local gods, feasts andcustoms used to be a Roman Catholicpractice!14. The Translators to the Reader (London,England: Trinitarian Bible Society, 1998),p. 10.15. Established in July 2002, a successorto the Organisation of African Unity: theAfrican Union Commission is based inAddis Ababa, Ethiopia.16. Arose out of Lutheran work inTanzania; for ‘Karl Roehl and theEntangled History of the Swahili Bible’ seea draft document at www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/media/documents/Seminarpapers.17. This from a personal email, in responseto my request for such information.30