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Chapter 3A Laborious CoupleI have said above that our family is a family of labourers. Myfather was a poor preacher and was deceased when I was twelve.As to inheritance, we had a small house in the village, what wasonce upon a time a barn when our family was rich. It was in thishouse that I was born. Since my birth I had not lived in this housefor more than two to three years. In my childhood I used to staywith my preacher father. When I went to school I said good-bye tothe house, and it has since decayed. As for my portion ofinheritance, I have not got any apart from a Cantonese poemcomposed by my father now stored inside my brain. Neither haveI inherited from my father the excellence of his gentle character.Indeed, all that I have endowed by my ancestors is this nakedbody from my mother’s womb. Praise to be God, though fromman I received nothing, from Him who is the Father of orphans, Ihave obtained a treasure, a life-long partner.Many a young person has passed through a period in whichthey decide never to marry, and I am one of these. The reason forholding such a philosophy is that, largely, they are afraid of beingburdened with a family. In Seminary we had two schools ofthought, the so-called Peter’s party and Paul’s party, and thePauline party had more adherents. But theory is one thing andpractice another. From my knowledge there was on1y one whocould really practise what he believed. From the very first to the42
last, he was determined to a celibate life for the Lord. If for thesake of the Lord’s work one could do like this, well and good. Butthe odds are many, and not a few the weaknesses of such aposition. Paul knew human nature and so did not over-constrainthe believers. To live a single life one is faced with the problem ofa life-long consistency that runs counter to nature. Physiologicallyand psychologically it is a condition hard to maintain. Besides,there are many related problems such as convenience in theministry, the molding of character, the checking up on one’sactions, the discussion of one’s work, the sympathy of thoughts,the cure of body and soul, etc. A minister cannot go without awife. Indeed, the Word of God is true. He said, “It is not good thatthe man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”(Gen. 2:18).According to regulations, after a student had spent two yearsin school he must be sent to serve a year in a Church as part of histraining. Then he returned for another year to qualify forgraduation. However, I had only one-and-a-half years study whenI was sent out. During this period of practical work I completelyoverturned all those ideals I entertained in school as a result of allthese experiences. I felt now that a minister could not go without awife, though knowing full well that a “home” becomes a “yoke.”But such a burden is a necessity. I began to pay attention to thismatter after return from the practical work because I believed “theLord will perfect that which concerneth me” (Ps. 138:8; 37:5).Having dedicated myself to rural evangelism, my conditions for alife-partner were very simple. I needed one sturdy in soul,character and body, able to stand the strain and hardship.Although some classmates had an eye on me and some even madeadvances, I had no desire to any choice. This is not to say therewere none compatible in school. It was due rather to my queertemperament. In view of the fact that a boy seeking the hand of agirl was stopped by the authorities of the Girls Dorm withinelegant remarks, I regarded this matter an insult to the male43
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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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