Pioneering in - Far Eastern Bible College

More documents

Recommendations

Info

To chase it till break of day.Fierce foes abound,Who dares wield the Sword to slay them?Let’s remove the curse and bring down heaven.0 Preaching Band,Where’s the scythe, the torch, the Sword?Lost souls are waiting for rescue,Forward march!As he shouldered this renewal work he must needs bear thebrunt with sweat and tears. However, success brought him nosmall comfort. Looking back to the day of revolutionarybeginnings with its tense and critical situation causes one totremble. That he should be so filled with courage was not asudden thing. He was sustained on one hand by sincere zeal andon the other by the faculty’s support, with the school’s facilitiesmade available to him. Although the faculty was not in favour ofhis extremes, they acquiesced as a matter of course. The principal,who was concurrently the highest authority of the Church, hadhigh regard for him. Often he would commit to his charge work ofthe Seminary and of the Provincial General Conference. Hespecially gave for his use a faculty room with all the freedom oflighting throughout the night. Taking advantage of this amenity hewould slog on day and night. The Preaching Band’s magazine forthat number was almost all edited by his hand. He used it as hisvoice to express his own opinion. He wrote an article on “WhyHave a Preaching Band?” to explain the importance thereofwhether in relation to self, school, Church or society. He followedup with another on the past, present and future of the PreachingBand, appending a comparative table of the Band’s thirteen years’achievements. Using the mirror of its history to show up oneself,he was able to stop the mouths of gainsayers, with a hope thatthey might be challenged thereby.From an early age his interest in literature was aroused. Whileworking at the hospital he liked to write short articles and get30
them published in the newspapers’ supplements. In theorganisation of drama he boldly entered into its compositions. (Healso revived the publication of the defunct Students PreachingBand magazine.) It was at this time that he got many of hisarticles published in the Church magazines. During his term ofservice in Borneo, he became correspondent to seven or eightChurches in China.His progress in literary art grew entirely out of much readingand much writing. Though he improved in rhetoric through muchreading, his ideals became profoundly affected thereby. From hisyouth he was acquainted with the classics and with thoseselections used by his teachers which were mostly of a pessimisticand negative vein. These selections included for instance: HanYu’s Sacrifice to the Twelfth Son, The Old Fisherman’s Words,Preface to Li Yuen’s Return to Pang Ku, Li Ling’s Apology to SuWu, Elegy to an Ancient Battlefield, Homeward Bound I Go, etc.He never received instruction from anyone on what to read, butjust read whatever he laid hold of. During his employment at thehospital he was on good terms with a lady doctor, who took himas a younger brother. A young lady, she became infatuated withreading gloomy novels. She borrowed from outside many booksof this nature like “My Wife” and “The Soul of a Jade Pear.”Seeing that he was a voracious reader, she supplied him as muchas she could. In literature these books perhaps had some value, butthese have so influenced this young man to pessimism andnegativism that throughout his life he has been helplesslyensnared by depression and melancholy. Of an extraordinary,sensitive and emotional make-up, he would often be moved to aprofusion of tears whenever he read them. In these books wererecounted many human tragedies. So, he became more and moreembittered against the world by reading them. He had also readWater Margin, The Story of the Stone and a number of hero andghost stories. From such literature he became obsessed with thefutility of life and was totally sick and hateful of this world.31
Page 4 and 5: Pioneering in Dyak Borneo© 1997 Re
Page 6 and 7: Translator’s Preface to this Abri
Page 9 and 10: Chapter 1A Half-Century of Fleeting
Page 11 and 12: are higher than the earth, so are m
Page 13 and 14: children, her great hope, and looki
Page 15 and 16: he would have to go from home to sc
Page 17 and 18: if he had footache, to which he cou
Page 19 and 20: to the boy, “You just come with m
Page 21 and 22: with the nursing superintendent and
Page 23 and 24: inflammatory disease of the small i
Page 25 and 26: corrupt petty officer. But he had n
Page 27 and 28: He loved China like his own country
Page 29 and 30: such an extraordinary institution p
Page 31: For the company of schoolmates who
Page 35 and 36: misunderstood or falsely accused, t
Page 37 and 38: One day while writhing in the throe
Page 41 and 42: Although he utterly detested those
Page 43 and 44: inside the living quarters he becam
Page 45 and 46: last, he was determined to a celiba
Page 47 and 48: “A laborious couple”45
Page 49 and 50: period, we expressed our regrets to
Page 51 and 52: esulted in our coming together agai
Page 53 and 54: was no help to me. But when she pou
Page 55 and 56: But the peculiar condition surround
Page 57 and 58: saw it declared it was the work of
Page 59 and 60: her same-mindedness in this matter.
Page 61 and 62: Chapter 4“A New Thing”“And he
Page 63 and 64: entreated him to find them pastors
Page 65 and 66: With Dr Jaffray on eve of sailing f
Page 67 and 68: - the Chinese Foreign Missionary Un
Page 69 and 70: The Chinese Foreign Missionary Unio
Page 71 and 72: aptised. Moreover there are one tho
Page 73 and 74: espond to this type of work. In add
Page 75 and 76: Chapter 5Strange Quarry from a Wild
Page 77 and 78: A Chinese Templeinstitution where o
Page 79 and 80: The durian tree is very tall. Its f
Page 81 and 82: e their home. Were it not for two b
Page 83 and 84:
A few days after our arrival in Mak
Page 85 and 86:
Fifteenth Night are equally boister
Page 87 and 88:
hear some hawker in the silent stre
Page 89 and 90:
He will surely answer.” We prayed
Page 91 and 92:
Our jungle headquartersnomadic life
Page 93 and 94:
However, though many old Dyaks clai
Page 95 and 96:
A longhousedwelling. Ordinarily, yo
Page 97 and 98:
The first Dyak village we visitedso
Page 99 and 100:
the art of eking out an existence.
Page 101 and 102:
Dyak one-piece coffins!becomes thei
Page 103 and 104:
Although the things their hands hav
Page 105 and 106:
An ox totem, part of the ox-spearin
Page 107 and 108:
“. . . further augmented by fierc
Page 109 and 110:
for Thee . . . The things that are
Page 111 and 112:
White khaki and topeethe virtue of
Page 113 and 114:
you come to their village, you need
Page 115 and 116:
title given made him “Temenggung
Page 117 and 118:
We spent a total of three weeks on
Page 119 and 120:
eligion, it is your great mistake o
Page 121 and 122:
Like am army’s expenditionary for
Page 123 and 124:
Our jungle hotelthat time I was the
Page 125 and 126:
Paul Lenn among the bravehardly wal
Page 127 and 128:
Second, the “disciples of a heter
Page 129 and 130:
A Dyak Christian Chieftain’s fune
Page 131 and 132:
eport, proving the method we’ve a
Page 133 and 134:
who was with me showed His mighty w
Page 135 and 136:
eader of the Indonesian edition of
Page 137 and 138:
we left for another village. Sudden
Page 139 and 140:
swamped with a hundred items of bus
Page 141 and 142:
“going south,” and my original
Page 143 and 144:
without anymore relying on the evan
Page 145 and 146:
Those who first heard the Word and
Page 147 and 148:
They are in unceasing pursuit of im
Page 149 and 150:
weak. Yet the conference required m
Page 151 and 152:
just one hour gathering the produce
Page 153 and 154:
151
show all

Pioneering in - Far Eastern Bible College

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?