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"In the old days boys could only be for to School by getting them for work and paying them therefor. They got some schooling, while the rest of the day was spent in farm work. At night they went to the villages, and there imbibed the evil talk of that village life. At the end of three months they were paid for the work done, and they returned to their homes, many of them 90 miles away, and never to return. Those who did not come back after three or six months holiday had forgotten all they had ever learned. This was very insatisfactory, and little headway was being made. In April 1907 the School under the old regime was disbanded, and this photo was taken on that day, a memorable one in our Mission history. ❧ For the next six months or a year, It was a hard uphill fight, boys coming, and running away again, but bit by bit discipline began to have it’s way, and in June 1910, we reached for the first time an average attendance of 100 for a week." Group portrait of school children. ❧ "This Lecture was prepared by Dr J.W. Arthur in October 1911 on his voyage to Mombasa. The set of slides is the gift to the Kikuyu Mission of the Young Peoples Meeting at the Burgh Hall, Hillhead, of which he was for many years a member." A green folder marked 'Kikuyu' and containing lecture notes and relevant photographs to accompany lantern slides.
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