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ubbed in. So, I requested them to let me take the vanguard toalleviate somewhat their bleeding pains. But, to no avail. I wasinexperienced. I did not know jungle lore. What appeared to beopenings ended up in blind alleys. I was obliged to step down andfollow in rearguard, under their lead again. When I sang “JesusSaves the Lost Sheep” how they thrilled with joy (to the tune).As we pushed through this sunless jungle we bumped into thestench that rose from the mountain vapours and miasma. Big andsmall streams kept criss-crossing our path, soaking us wet whilefording. We had spent three days cutting through untrodden paths.“Sleeping on the dew and dining in the wind” through theunbeaten track of a jungle wilderness we each made for the nighthalta temporary arbour of a hotel. Of the two palm sheets we eachbrought we improvised one for roof and the other for a bedcovering. We cushioned our beds with branches laid side by side.We made smoky-fire out of dead wood around the four quarters ofour encampment to keep poisonous snakes from attack.At dead of night, there orchestrated a chorus of voices frominsects, birds and wild beasts to the soughing of the wind and thegurgling of mountain brooks. They formed themselves into anatural band striking up a melodious note with such perfectprecision, that you must say it was a hilarious performance! Whosays travel is lonesome? At midnight the mountain rains pattereddown. One was obliged to behold the heavens weep till daybreakwhile embracing a bed of sleepless night.During our journey we met with a rain pouring for two tothree days. The road became muddy and slippery. Fortunatelyeach one was clad with the peace of God. There was only one caseof a slippery fall causing a sprained foot. This was the lot of thewife of that zealous witness. She had brought two children along,the older a girl of three and the younger a year-old boy. With onein front and the other on the back plus baggage on her hand, shetrod on drenching wet. Over-fatigued, unawares, she tripped! At120
Our jungle hotelthat time I was the only one lightly laden. The rest were weigheddown. So I shared her burden of responsibility. I carried the threeyear old girl on my back. In one stretch we went over hill anddale, through thick spear-like undergrowth over a once-beatentrack, in the slashing rain. We were all reduced to drenched fowls,head to foot, while the raindrops on the eye-brow made us appearall tears. Most unbearable was that little girl on my back whosobbed all the way. This experience stirred up a hundred feelingsin my heart. It made me recall that famous rhyme of a psalm,“Tearful sowing, happy reaping.”We had run our course. We had reached our destination. Hadwe in vain gone through all those bitter hazards? Our blood andtears shed for nothing? No, no! “Labouring for Christ is not invain”. If we know our Bible verse, we know the Lord’s promisesare true and solid: “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearingprecious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringinghis sheaves with him.” A few hours after our arrival at the village121
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Translator’s Preface to this Abri
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Chapter 1A Half-Century of Fleeting
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children, her great hope, and looki
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he would have to go from home to sc
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to the boy, “You just come with m
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with the nursing superintendent and
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inflammatory disease of the small i
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corrupt petty officer. But he had n
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He loved China like his own country
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such an extraordinary institution p
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For the company of schoolmates who
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them published in the newspapers’
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misunderstood or falsely accused, t
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One day while writhing in the throe
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Although he utterly detested those
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inside the living quarters he becam
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last, he was determined to a celiba
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period, we expressed our regrets to
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esulted in our coming together agai
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was no help to me. But when she pou
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But the peculiar condition surround
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saw it declared it was the work of
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her same-mindedness in this matter.
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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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