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Desperate times call for desperate measures. There was a time Kiambu District ran out of men.
This was because nearly all young and healthy men had been forcibly conscripted into the army to offer auxiliary services to fight the Germans 105 years ago.
To save the district which had about 300 men remaining after other potential recruits went into hiding, a missionary Dr John Author devised an ingenious way of ensuring the heavenly and earthly kingdoms were sufficiently supplied with diligent servants.
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