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tact. He spoke as he thought and that’s that. When he was firstintroduced to a certain miss he could not affect a courteous replynor use an honorific in speech. He simply said, “You.” Afterwardsit was reported by the friend who accompanied him, “No wondertheir marriage contract was so easily successful. For when theysaw each other it was love at first sight.” He had no gift ofargument in self-defence. So whether it be a case ofdissatisfaction with man, or fowl, or dog, for wrong done to him,he would remain quite speechless and rather silently protest, allpent up within. Meanwhile there would rise from within him asilent curse, his mind heaped up with wild thoughts for thepleasurable punishment of others, in retribution. It is a pity that hehails from the South. Were he born in Peking he verily could havebecome a favourite disciple of Ah Q.Wonderful it is that God has had pleasure in choosing such astammering fellow. As He chose Moses before so He chose thisboy. It is God’s good pleasure “to choose the foolish things of theworld to confound the wise” (I Cor.1:27).After graduating from primary school, he was deprived offurther schooling for a short while. This made a very badimpression upon him in regard to the church officers. Some timebefore graduation the school had picked four scholarship studentsto enter the Examinations in Canton with a view to theirpromotion to the middle school and thereafter to theologicalcollege or university. The results of the four were successful, buton graduation day the pastor said to the candidates, “Sorry, thechoice has been given to those from another parish earlier. Youare too late for the selection.” So these miserable children werelightly brushed aside by that irresponsible Western missionary. Asto the good-for-nothing? The missionary’s conscience forbadehim “to eat his words”, i.e., to break a promise he had made to theboy after his father’s death to give him an education. So, he said16
to the boy, “You just come with me. I’ll find you an opening.” Sothe boy went with the missionary to Canton.The missionary was well versed in the teachings of Chinesesages and in the will of Heaven. He knew that “before Heavencommissioned a man to some great work, He must lash his willpower and try his sinews and bones . . .” Everyday he made thislad of ten-odd years to cut grass under a burning sun.To a poor lad like him, such bitter hardships were digestible,and little to bother. But something happened after this that sent theboy scurrying home without a word of good-bye. One of the fourwho sat for the Examinations with him got a church scholarship tothe middle school. He was fortunate to get this award, but that wasdue to his village pastor and elder’s effort in approaching theAmerican missionary through an interview, wherein ideas wereexchanged. He had the help of church leaders who argued andfought, so the victory. But pity this boy without a sponsor – hewas to cut grass. When the news broke upon him, all the pent-upfeelings got off his chest without a word, but sent him scurryinghome an angry man. He said, “I am a human being. I don’t eatgrass. I should not keep myself alive upon this grass-field.”As the boy grew up, his eyes began to open to the reality ofthe world. Especially, his thoughts were provoked by theanomalies inside the Church. His young and tender soul wasdeeply hurt by the darkness and dirt of the Church, the hypocrisyand decay of Christians, the ignorance and sluggishness of theMission, the superiority and autocracy of Western missionaries,the slender emoluments to Chinese preachers. This generatedwithin him a strong wave of anti-church cogitations.Soon after returning home from Canton he received a letterfrom that Western missionary inquiring if he would accept ahospitable job. After consulting his mother, it was felt that Motherwas incapable of supporting him to study nor was it good to17
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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 37 and 38: One day while writhing in the throe
Page 41 and 42: Although he utterly detested those
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Page 49 and 50: period, we expressed our regrets to
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Page 55 and 56: But the peculiar condition surround
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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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