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my business was not a little multiplied, so that a call might comeat mid-night to get me one or two hours through some crookedwild mountain path to a paddy-field hut. Looking back, those tenodd years of work and livelihood seemed to be a craze, especiallythe first couple of years. With high spirits one could little practiseself-restraint. In the prime of life one was reckless. This broughtabout irregular hours of sleeping, rising and eating. Thisirregularity affected the harmony of every phase of living,breaking its law. In addition to this, we lacked the physicalprovisions in the mountains. Undernourished, my resistancelowered each day. The mountain country, in a word, was a sickkingdom. My energy and strength being spent, my health cameunder great wear and tear. Although this was the case, myfurlough was delayed. I asked Dr. Jaffray several times fortransfer, but my successor could not be found. By 1935 my bodilystrength sank to its nadir. My inner organs not functioningproperly, I was forced to tender resignation to Dr. Jaffray,irrespective of his granting or not. I was prepared to return toChina, on my own. It was then that Dr. Jaffray was coerced to letme go, though requiring me to promise to return, with healthrestored. After my departure, Dr. Jaffray sent Mr. Chan Wing Sunto the South. Not long after he commenced his language study,Paul Lenn also left the field – and that during my furlough – toreturn to China to marry.During my convalescence back home, I made lantern slides ofour work and life. I also edited a “South Islands Calling” specialto report to our people the condition of evangelisation in the SouthSeas. It happened that co-worker Rev. Chang Tou Hang had alsoreturned on business. So I joined him on a deputation tour ofHong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Nanking, Wuchang, Hankow,Changsha, etc. Thereafter I was invited to Swatow to holdmeetings. I planned to tour all-China to awaken the Church to herresponsibility of “overseas evangelisation”. Owing to shortness oftime, the Netherlands Indies visa running out, I had to prepare138
“going south,” and my original plan fell through. Wherever wewent, we found the Church’s interest in “overseas evangelisation”greatly stirred. Liberal offerings were given while some resolvedto offer their lives to labour thus for the Lord. At several placesprayer bands were started to support us. When I returned toShanghai, I drafted a proposal to Dr. Jaffray to reorganise theChinese Foreign Missionary Union, to revamp and strengthen itssinews, and make this missionary band an all-China team.Personnel should be pooled in order to a greater outreach, and aliason body established in Shanghai and Hong Kong. A generalsecretary should be appointed and a regular magazine published topropagate the work. In every big city a promotion council shouldbe formed through each local church council who should beresponsible for its organisation. “Overseas Evangelisation Day”should be instituted for one Sunday every year at which thesubject of overseas missions be preached from every pulpit. Atthis service an appeal should be made for workers and an offeringfor the work taken. All this was to intensify the overseas ministry,especially towards overseas Chinese, with the view ofconsolidating the Missions financial structure away from relyingon foreign funds. Maybe my ideas were too naive, for myproposa1 got no further than Dr. Jaffray’s waste-paper basket. Atthis juncture Dr. Jaffray’s attitude seemed to have taken a turn.The initial inspiration and determination seemed to havedissipated in him. What was known as the Chinese Foreign Unionto some eyes was the embodiment of an empty name.On September 30, 1941 I wrote a Report on the Dyak Churchof Borneo. This is now reproduced in synopsis. That the conditionof the Church there was an encouragement to many and athanksgiving to God may be seen as follows: –A first common phenomenon of the Church of this district isthat whether men or women, old or young, they know prayer andlove to pray. For they all find prayer not merely as a kind of139
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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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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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