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seemed the baby boy had no desire from nor demand upon theworld which allowed his ever-toiling mother to lay him up in awooden dish. Unless his mother remembered his needs, he couldnot even cry for his food.This silent, speechless boy grew up to be what he was.Whether he got sick or met with other troubles, he would not somuch as make a whine, but slept or sat through the day, neithereating nor drinking. Though dad and mum would make everyenquiry of his ills, he chose to remain dumb. This exasperated hisparents not a little.From an early age the boy was very blunt in word. He had nouse for flattery or fawning. He could less practise fraud ortrickery. Of such a nature as he was, he could not perpetrate awicked plot. Should he try to work a little mischief, he would but“wrap burning charcoal in thin paper.” Often he would end up thebutt of this joke, “There are not three hundred dollars buried here,Nor has Second Uncle next door stolen them.”The boy’s stupidity earned him loss of parental affection. Thiswas accentuated by the intelligence and smartness of his elderbrother. Under such contrast the parents became the moreestranged from the child. They had little hope of his making goodwhen he grew up. So they bent all their energies to bring up thebig son. They saw as wasted effort any struggle to nurture onewho gave them such little promise. Such a conclusion by hisfather was not without reason. He had seen how his youngerbrother (i.e. the boy’s uncle) weep over his text book for a wholeday under their father’s tutoring, which made their father so madthat he threw away the book up an idol-house, and how he had tostop schooling thereafter. To this day an illiterate he has remained,but remorse was of no avail. The boy, being a chip of his uncle’sblock, could not have incited any feeling in his father than despair.But the Lord says, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens8
are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,and my thoughts your thoughts” (Isa. 55:8,9). God’s grace is moreperfectly manifested upon the weak and the foolish.After this an event struck our family that made the boy’sfather more despairing – the death of the boy’s big brother, hisfather’s fond hope. One day the boy, his mother and the elderbrother got sick together. The boy’s sickness was the gravest ofall, but somehow this good-for-nothing recovered. On thecontrary, his big brother died. The suddenness of his death brokehis father’s heart. He became a depressed, hapless, empty soul.After this the boy’s father was transferred to another parish.There he found a private girls school run by the Church. Theprincipal, seeing the boy now nine years old, without anyschooling, entreated his father to let him enrol. She said, “Let himtry. No harm whether he could study or not.” Under suchcircumstances the father reluctantly sent his son – this was theboy’s first chance at school.The boy belonged to the smallest family, both in standing andnumbers, in the village. Being so miserably few, the boy’s familyoften lost out to a bullying world. The boy’s great grandfather wasliterally bullied and threatened to death. In such direcircumstances he joined the Christian Church. This explains whyour family had come to believe in Jesus. From a spiritualstandpoint, this family consisted not of spiritual children becausethey were not born of the Spirit, but by blood and the will of man.But, thanks be to God, this wild olive has now been grafted in thetrue olive tree! After they were soundly converted, they haveyielded not a little fruit. The boy’s grandfather at first was aChinese physician. After he became attached to an itinerantpastor, preaching and healing as they went, he gave his eldest sonto God. He sent him to a theological school to prepare for fulltimeservice. From thence this village has yielded over one hundred9
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Page 25 and 26: corrupt petty officer. But he had n
Page 27 and 28: He loved China like his own country
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Page 49 and 50: period, we expressed our regrets to
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Chapter 4“A New Thing”“And he
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entreated him to find them pastors
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With Dr Jaffray on eve of sailing f
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- the Chinese Foreign Missionary Un
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The Chinese Foreign Missionary Unio
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aptised. Moreover there are one tho
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espond to this type of work. In add
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Chapter 5Strange Quarry from a Wild
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A Chinese Templeinstitution where o
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The durian tree is very tall. Its f
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e their home. Were it not for two b
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A few days after our arrival in Mak
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Fifteenth Night are equally boister
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hear some hawker in the silent stre
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He will surely answer.” We prayed
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Our jungle headquartersnomadic life
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However, though many old Dyaks clai
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A longhousedwelling. Ordinarily, yo
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The first Dyak village we visitedso
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the art of eking out an existence.
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Dyak one-piece coffins!becomes thei
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Although the things their hands hav
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An ox totem, part of the ox-spearin
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“. . . further augmented by fierc
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for Thee . . . The things that are
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White khaki and topeethe virtue of
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you come to their village, you need
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title given made him “Temenggung
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We spent a total of three weeks on
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eligion, it is your great mistake o
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Like am army’s expenditionary for
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Our jungle hotelthat time I was the
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Paul Lenn among the bravehardly wal
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Second, the “disciples of a heter
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A Dyak Christian Chieftain’s fune
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eport, proving the method we’ve a
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who was with me showed His mighty w
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eader of the Indonesian edition of
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we left for another village. Sudden
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swamped with a hundred items of bus
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“going south,” and my original
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without anymore relying on the evan
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Those who first heard the Word and
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They are in unceasing pursuit of im
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weak. Yet the conference required m
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just one hour gathering the produce
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