During an evangelistic bike tour Kenneth stopped to patch up his tire when, all of a sudden, a whole gang of gibbons came hooting down through the trees and began to crash along beside him, shouting, "Whoo whoo whoowhoowhoowhoo!" They were leaping…
Kenneth was very much interested in young people. He mentions his work with the youth at the Columbus, New Jersey, church. In Bangkok, this carried over. He organized many young people and played several sports with them before he began his bicyle…
Kenneth speaks of all the traveling he did. His parish extended from the Malay border up to Chumphon, and he really toured his parish. That meant he traveled by train, by dugout canoe, by elephant, by bullock cart, by foot, and by any other way he…
Kenneth and Margaret attended a wedding dinner that was scheduled for 7:00. Naturally they arrived there early, but everything was very quiet. They found a few people and sat there eating watermelon and chatting, just to kill time. At some point…
On the railroad, on the east coast of the Thai peninsula, there was a town, Chumphon, where Kenneth arrived with Ngiap Seng on one of his evangelistic tours. They got off the train, and there was a very handsome Chinese man who persuaded them to stay…
Kenneth remembers he and Margaret riding bikes hom from a church service. Margaret was ahead, the two of them pedaling along, and as she looked ahead, she suddenly said, "Look at that funny star that's jiggling around up there!" Kenneth suddenly…
The Lord Lieutenant, the province governor, was named Phya Si Thammarat. "Lord Lieutenant" was a very high rank. He was over three provinces, with three governors under him, and he controlled the country from the Songkhla area north all the way to…
Kenneth's parish extended from the Malay border all the way up to Chumphon, a couple hundred miles. The peninsula was about ninety miles wide. And he covered every part of it. "I went by every means of transportation that's ever been invented. I…
Kenneth took Margaret to Bangkok for the birth of their third child, Carol. The busy pace of life in the capital city quickly wore him down. One night there was a dinner party with the Horsts, the Proctors, and the Seigles. Kenneth was sitting next…
Kenneth tells of his appendicitis that he discovered while on a tour. He tested himself and came to a conclusion on his own diagnosis before rushing back to Bangkok for medical attention. He was operated on there and the appendicitis was removed.…
Margaret cared for the children during the day, but Kenneth was always the one who put them to bed at night. They counted on this, and they always wanted him to tell them stories. He made the stories up as he went, continuing stories that went on and…
The officials in southern Thailand were mostly Chinese, so Kenneth began to learn the Chinese language from them. He used cards on which he had the Chinese phonetic word on one side and the English meaning on the other. He later got the Chinese…
In his parish, there were at least two million people, and a substantial portion were Chinese working on rubber gardens and tin mines. They had no Chinese schools for their children. Kenneth had the bright idea that perhaps he could interest them in…
Kenneth learned that a Chinese Christian community was divided over the issue of baptism: sprinkling, one-time immersion, three-time immersion. He gather the group and asked them to sit silently and think about the matter for about five minutes. Then…
Graham Fuller was the designated missionary to the Chinese, and he became very angry at Kenneth's ability in the Chinese language. He resented Kenneth's success with both Thai and Chinese, although he was an otherwise gentle person. Many years later…
Kenneth explains how he and Margaret decided to resign from mission work. One trouble they had related to a monthly letter to their fellow missionaries that caused some resentment among them. The second was Kenneth's involvement in collecting…
Kenneth sums up his work in Thailand. During his years there, he started five or six Chinese schools and churches. He preached and evangelized in all the major population centers of his parish, and many small villages. He published a monthly journal…
When the Landons went on furlough in 1931, Kenneth traveled around the world one way, on his own, while Margaret traveled around the other way with the children. She went east, and he went west so as to travel to the Holy Land. One memorable…
On his trip, he came first to Egypt, hoping to tour around Cairo and see something of Egypt. He was walking along the street when a very tall Arab in a long gown, with a fez on his head, came up to Kenneth, spoke to him in English, "Good Morning,…
The guide and Kenneth toured around Cairo, sometimes by taxi, usually by tram cars, and Kenneth paid for everything. The man seemed to be enjoying himself, though he was bemused. Then he took Kenneth out to ride on a camel to visit the pyramids and…
From Egypt, Kenneth went over to Jerusalem and stayed with a resident American community there. There were riots between the Jews and the Arabs, and the Armenians were caught in the middle. Kenneth fell in with a young Armenian who was driving an…
While visiting in Palestine, Kenneth eased himself down into the Sea of Galilee, and swam out a quarter of a mile from shore in the moonlight. There he lay over on his back and floated in the water. He became aware of a typewriter going, looked…
John, Kenneth's guide in Beirut, had some friends there, and he learned that they were fresh out of a hotel manager. They made Kenneth a proposition, that he become the manager of the hotel. John would run the taxi business, and the other fellow…
The ship Kenneth boarded passed through Greece. He still remembers sliding through a narrow channel in Greece. It was eerie because there were sheer walls of granite in those straits. "You could reach out off the side of the ship and touch the walls,…