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trusting God, because he felt that his entering seminary was forthe Lord’s sake. Next, he was most attentive to the lectures given.He paid special attention to important points stressed by thelecturer. Indeed, he was conscientious in everything, and hepractically digested every lecture that it should become a part ofhimself. Thus, what he learnt was not merely recorded on paperbut upon his heart. Notes taken in class gave a mere outline andwere an aid for reference when necessary.According to seminary regulation, one year before a studentgraduated, he was given an opportunity “to do the practical.” Inhis case he went to Lungchow in the extreme west of Kwangsi.The people there were steeped in ignorance and stubbornness, andsuperstitious arts were rife. It was the anniversary of the “May 30Incident” when I arrived there. The middle school students of thewhole city went on a demonstration and turned this opportunityinto an anti-Christian showdown. This tide of opposition hadalready swept the whole province. Almost every Church had comeunder attack. Many Churches were wrecked. A missionary couple,his colleagues in Lunchow, who sensed trouble had longdisappeared into Indo-China, leaving him in the lurch. It was alsothe time when the District Conference was to meet and all thepreachers and delegates had gathered to Lungchow for themeeting. He was in charge of the big Church in Lungchow andwas responsible for the entertainment of guests. There were twoChurches in Lungchow, one inside the city and the other outside.Both of these were wrecked by the mobs at a loss of over tenthousand dollars, including private property.The trouble started at the Gospel Hall outside the city, at theback of which were his quarters where delegates were to lodge. Itbroke out while he was in the process of preparing the Conferencegrounds at the main Church. When he got wind of the trouble herushed to the Gospel Hall but the crowds were already insidesmashing away. When he saw that several delegates were hemmed40
inside the living quarters he became alarmed. Just as he rushedabout to help in the twilight, he was picked out by someone as thepreacher. Whereupon a threatening demand was made to him todeliver the “red-beard-blue-eye” Americans. He found theopportunity to speak had come, in fact, to buy time by gettingthem sidetracked to this matter. This gave the brethren hemmedinside a chance to escape. By God’s secret help he had thecomposure and wit to meet with the situation. Then, seeing thathis purpose was attained, and delay meant deterioration, hequietly let them continue their smash up. Boldly, he mingled withthe mob to see what they would do inside. When he got into hisquarters and found those delegates had escaped to safety, hegrabbed the Bible he had used for years lying on the study table.With one blow he smashed the glass of his bookshelf and savedthe money and valuables hidden behind the books. The rest he leftto the mob to loot. After saving the men and materials he rushedto the police and military to report. But all he got for a reply wasthat the police and military officers were gone to a mahjong party,and no one was available to make decision. The fact was thatthese thugs had shaken up the whole city. What reason could theygive for not knowing, those upon whose shoulders themaintenance of peace rested, the police and military officers?They purposely refused to bother. Such a blot on Chineseofficialdom! In fact not a few of the hooligans came from thepolice and military “to catch fish in the trouble waters.” It wasafter all the ransacking was over that with official decorum anddisguise they sent a few police and military to keep peace and putup a few notices.Now he had taken another step in the school of life. He sawclearly that the world was divided into two camps – good and evil.He saw he had an inescapable responsibility to mankind. When hereturned to school to finish up he officially told the principal thathe had picked a new name – Cheng Yeh (Witness for Jesus, hisChinese name).41
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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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