WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

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minated in her gaining control of all of French Indo- China. In the seventeenth century Jesuit missionaries had introduced Romanism into Annam, and it was through their influence that the Nguyen family was established. The Emperor and many of his subjects accepted Catholicism, but subsequent rulers were not as favorable to it. The Emperor Minh-Mang broke with the French and allied himself to China. His grandson, the Emperor Tu-Duc, massacred many Annamese Catholics and some of their European priests. This gave the French a pretext to declare war. They siezed Saigon and Tourane. Hue was besieged and finally the Emperor capitulated. Cochin-China became a French colony, as did also the City of Tourane. Tu-Duc fled to the mountains, and a new Emperor was put on the throne by the French. The fighting continued for some time, particularly in the north, until Hanoi, the capital of Tonkin, was captured in 1873, and this and its sister city, Haiphong, the northern port on the Gulf of Tonkin, were ceded to France, and in 1882 the whole land became a French protectorate. The Roman Catholic Church is still strong in all three of the Annamese states. It has many schools and colleges and claims more than a million followers. Although the nation is nominally Buddhist, the Annamese are not a religious people. Their temples are not well kept, and the people have little
thought of religion, except at festivals and on special occasions when their ceremonies are more a time of feasting than worship. The one cult that is universal is ancestral worship. This is an offspring of the Confucian culture that was imported from China in ancient times. Animism is practiced in times of sickness or catastrophe. The people believe that physical disabilities are caused either by evil spirits, or by the spirits of the dead who have been displeased in some way. At such times they offer sacrifices to appease these spirits. Within the last decade a new religion has sprung up which now numbers more than a million follow¬ ers. It originated with a French trained Annamese who had served many years with the Cochin-China Government. He had strong nationalistic tenden¬ cies, and his religion is perhaps more political than spiritual. It is called "Can-Dai-ism," which means the religion of the Most High. Its symbol is an eye looking out over an altar on which are arranged images of the various deities of other religions. The leaders of the cult explain that all religions are stepping-stones leading men to the worship of the Most High God. They have images that represent Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and other Chinese religions, and also an image of the Virgin Mary, and one of Jesus Christ. They make it easy for the Annamese to join them, no matter what may have been their early religious affiliations, and they make
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Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTION 7 which includes thous
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tend the Sunday services at Faifoo,
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for the son, although the mother no
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CHAPTER X COCHIN-CHINA THE work in
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the Word, and immediately turned hi
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modate the engine. Thus he had two
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all who come within his influence.
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CHAPTER XI SAIGON AT SAIGON the wor
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to appease the spirits, hoping that
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papers to the French Provincial Gov
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village near that city. One of thes
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CHAPTER XII THE TOURANE BIBLE SCHOO
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I THE TOURANE BIBLE SCHOOL 87 | vic
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The course is a five-year one, cons
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THE TOURANE BIBLE SCHOOL 91 to be L
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CHAPTERXIII THE ANNAMESE NATIONAL C
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A native committee was elected at t
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By 1935, there were 30 ordained Ann
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CHAPTER XIV HUE AND THE PROTECTORAT
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He was allowed to go to Cochin-Chin
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from one station to another, a new
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106 WITH CHRIST IN glad to do this,
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the local official could not very w
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of France, it was still exclusively
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student evangelist helped in the An
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CHAPTER XVI BATTAMBANG THE progress
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vetted. Soon there came a steady st
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ing churches at these two places. T
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away at a conference, the Annamese
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As groups of Christians were formed
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I* ' i The course necessarily takes
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\ lage is located, objected. He pro
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political propaganda. Thus the oppo
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held just after the decree had been
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i the One who follows up the messag
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fore the missionary came. This colp
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\ LAOS 135 dom, these were of a dif
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Jesus Christ and what He desired to
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it I CHAPTER XX I EAST SIAM ACROSS
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and paid for by the Christians; thu
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precious blood, I command thee to d
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life in the jungles. They plant the
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am with you alway," even up in thq
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around inviting the missionaries to
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ages who live by hunting the wild g
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Annamese, and it was through that t
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luctantly consented, but said that
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The learned that the coffee planter
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,1 TRIBES 159 1 which inhabits the
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CHAPTER XXII THE PRESENT OUTLOOK T
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THE PRESENT OUTLOOK 163 were added
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