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addressed “tuan”. “Tuan” means not only “Sir” but also “Master”.We overseas Chinese seem not worthy of this term either. Sonormally we are called “towkay” or “proprietor” by theaborigines. But during the Japanese occupation, they were afraidof unhappy entanglement. They felt that becoming “tuan” was ahard job, and so withdrew from the faith. This was due to the non-Christians scaring them, “When the Japanese come, they’ll lookout for Americans to kill them.”I’ve discovered that an evangelist tastes a whole gamut offlavours – from salt, sour, sweet, bitter to pungent, fragrant,stringent, rank, yes, none of these escaping him. This is especiallytrue living among the Dyaks. Here life is kaleidoscopic, and fullof surprises. Sometimes he is exalted like a god, at other timesdespised like dung. Our antagonists treat us like dirt and garbagebut amongst believers we are addressed as grandpas or fathers, soattached by them as paint and glue.Whenever we came to a village they would receive us wayahead of the approaches, calling and crowding around. Wheneverwe said good-bye they would send us off en masse men andwomen, old and young, singing at every stage. This was no lessthan showing courtesy to their Sultan. They did not know what anevangelist was nor could they differentiate between a minister anda missionary. Nor did they know our names and surnames. Theysimply called us according to their needs and expectations in us.So they called us “Tuan Selamat,” (Mr. Salvation) or “Tuan Salib”(Mr. Cross).Living in Dyakland was a laborious life. We travelled eitheron foot or by canoe. This often took us over hills and throughrivers and fords. Mountaineering brought slippery hazards, whileon the rivers, dangers of capsizing lurked. Sometimes we spent anight in the jungle, sometimes we halted at a sand bank. Sweat,sweat, sweat was the order of the day. When we arrived at avillage, no sooner was our luggage unloaded than we were136
swamped with a hundred items of business. Whether in asking forprayer or medicine, in private counselling or solving someproblem, I was became a Dr. Everything. I was not only preacherpastor,but also doctor, nurse, teacher, judge, cook, attendant, eventheir parent, a hundred offices rolled into one. To meet their needsI was obliged to study many medical books to fortify myself withthe common medical knowledge and to prepare some commonrecipes. Owing to lack of funds we had no means to buy the moreexpensive drugs. So, we got them from the forests after the arts ofShen Nung (Chinese progenitor of medicine). We learnt theeffective use of many herbs and from the mountains wediscovered a full range of them. Someone has said, “Man is notafraid of poverty. Poverty adapts and adaptation resolves.” This isa true statement. Praise the Lord! What we must more praise theLord about is that the believing heart of the Christian is betterthan many medicines. Though they get quite sick, they can behealed by prayer with anointing if they have faith.When I first arrived in their midst what made me squirmwithin was their non-understanding of common physiologicalknowledge. For instance there was a woman in labour. Now theydid not know if the time of delivery was come. In her agonising,they would summon a few old women who came with calloushands and briskly squeezed and pinched. Such artificialinducement of birth with a view to reducing labour pains was adangerous process. But they had not believed the Lord, so I keptclear, lest through a slip by a ten-thousand-to-one chance, thismight become Satan’s handle of attack. When they believed theLord and were counted our people, naturally and psychologicallythey should conclude I would not harm them. I told them that theone and only to be trusted was the Lord Jesus, while I helpedalongside as best as I could. Thanks be to God, I got a secretmidwifery formula, and with God’s unseen help I have not onlyhad an expeditious record, but also an attainment of seeing all mydeliveries each one grow in health and loveliness. For this cause137
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Translator’s Preface to this Abri
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Chapter 1A Half-Century of Fleeting
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are higher than the earth, so are m
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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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“A laborious couple”45
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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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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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