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The longer he studied in the Seminary the more he becameinvolved in the problems of the Church. He would often discussthese problems with one or two of his bosom friends. He felt theChinese Church of his day needed a violent revolution. Anoverturning should come not only to all Western practices andsystems but also to many of the Western theologies. lf the Churchwould not quickly and voluntarily seek to remedy herself fromsuch crisis, God would surely use a certain power to make her doit. The Chinese Church had undergone various waves of people’spersecutions and should rethink herself. Should there be added tothese a political pressure before she woke up? All the more hewas dissatisfied with the salary system. He felt the problem of thepreacher’s livelihood needed a good solution on the principle of“a steady income, a steady heart.”China, an agricultural country, was heading towards the roadof industrialisation in her nation-building. The problem of thepreacher’s livelihood should therefore be solved, primarily,through a merging with agricultural and industrial production.After he left school, he actively kept up promoting this ideal whileone of his intimate schoolmates had bought land in Kwangsi as abase for operations. He himself had also begun to plan theopening up of Hainan Island. Unfortunately these plans became anempty dream and a washout in the welter of political changes. Itall vanished like cloud and wind with the firing of the first shots atLukaochiao (Lukao Bridge, scene of the Manchurian Incident,1931).Strange it was that in his younger days he was quieter than agirl, devoid of zest for action or laughter, so that he could remainspeechless in the midst of a chattering company. He loved to bealone, immersed in deep thought. But now what a changeover! Hewas one of the most active of students, eager for any job, with ahigh sense of responsibility. Unless he had not promised, he wastrue to his word to pursue everything to a successful conclusion.28
For the company of schoolmates who lazed around or performedtheir work haphazardly and perfunctorily, he felt an unspeakablemiserableness within. He pondered, “How could theologicalstudents of this type be future church administrators? TheStudents Preaching Band was the sphere of students’ activities.Herein was the testing ground for every student. Every Lord’sDay afternoon when the open-air preaching band set out, some ofthe appointed students would take refuge in the lavatories. What amonstrosity! The theological Seminary is representative of theChurch to come, a reflection of the reality of the future Church.As goes the Seminary so goes the Church. So he became a masterof worry whenever confronted with such darkness from thestudents.After he officially became the president of the StudentsPreaching Band he took slashing, revolutionary measures to cleanup this state of affairs. He knew clearly this was a difficult jobincurring the wrath of the masses. But he was bold beyondmeasure. At that time there was only one schoolmate who saw eyeto eye with him and became his assistant. All other officers werepassivists. Although a minority would cash in to create disruptionand disorder, he being just to all and unfair to none, with all themight of righteousness, he was able to achieve all he desired. Atthat time he amended the Constitution and changed the PreachingBand theme song from one of elegant gentleness to that of such arobust march as “Columbia.” As for words he had asked thefaculty and student body to supply, but to no satisfaction.Consequently he was obliged to compose them himself. In orderto meet the dateline of the 13th Anniversary he hurriedly pennedthe following verses:–Hearts o’ergrown with thistlesAre waiting for the scytheTo root out and cut a swathe.The darkness broods o’er society,‘Tis time for a bright torch29
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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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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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