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Later those abettors, viz., the chieftain’s son-in-law and son, weregradually awakened. They came personally to apologise andconfess their mistake. We became friends again when the stormthat finally broke subsided. But I had gone through this ordealwith a great sweat. My health had taken a good beating.It all started with the Christmas celebrations that year.Whenever the Dyaks have any celebrations they love to slaughtera cow. The custom of slaughtering cows is by the hand of aMuslim, without which they cannot eat. Now slaughtering thecow is according to Muslim religious rite. This involves saying aprayer which I regarded as adversely affecting our Christian faith.It was better to lose friends than lose part of our faith. Involvedwith this rite there were many other rules which they alsorespectively kept. So practice became habit. But while thatlearner-student had purposely broken our church regulations, hewould not submit to censure and even incited this storm. But God,in order to keep His Church pure and its laws inviolate, gave usthe final victory. However, we can learn from this incident howSatan attacks us in every way possible, in the minutestcircumstance, getting us trapped unawares. As leaders of theChurch our lot often is to fight him face to face, a hard job byourselves indeed! At any rate, we are absolutely never to shift ourposition nor compromise and bow ninety degrees to Baal, no notfor any excuse nor for any reason.The Lord Jesus says, “The kingdom of heaven is to be enteredby violence.” Paul also says, “We must through much tribulationenter into the Kingdom of God.” These statements are true.Christian pilgrims journeying to the Celestial Kingdom cannotalways expect a smooth-sailing trip. It is in these troubles that thesaint’s mettle is tested.When we first put into practice our “First take, then teach”method we were still rather apprehensive. Wasn’t this method toohazardous? Through testings, however, we have obtained a good128
eport, proving the method we’ve adopted to be correct.Henceforth were our misgivings dispelled.During the decade past, the Dyaks had gone through not alittle testing, especially from the threats and cajoles of those of the“heterogeneous faith”. Once, there was the religious persecution,and another time, the Japanese southern invasion – these wereevidently their great tribulations. In the Kutai sector, the Church atSuwakong was the first established and most numerous, becausethe whole village became believers. But, they came through araging plague once in which some deaths occurred everyday. Atthat time my wife and I chose to risk the plague to live in theirvillage until the pestilence subsided. Praise the Lord, in the midstof tribulation, songs could still be heard inside the village.Here is a beautiful testimony related by the village headman.During the plague he became so scared by the deaths that hetempted some dangerously ill with the prospect of giving up theirfaith or of secretly exorcising the evil spirits and demons. No onewould accept such offer. Instead came their forthright reply, “Ourlives are in the Lord’s hand. Life and death are predestined. Howcould we take such unconscionable and unreasonable measuresfor the sake of our temporal bodies and sin against the Lord – todrop out half-way, to lose the everlasting bliss of our souls? Weare getting nearer heaven now. Please don’t disturb us, lest we befound wanting.” So, many of the believers died in their faith. Andthere were many who were healed through prayer without anymedicinal aid. The headman was converted through thesetestimonies. He gave up ever the thought of relinquishing hisfaith.As to Banjermasin, we had over a thousand baptisedbelievers, scattered in about ten villages. These villages originallycame under the Banjermasin administration and were within theparish of the German Basel Mission. It is said the Basel Missionhas had a hundred years history under the Banjermasin129
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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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if he had footache, to which he cou
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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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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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