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In those days the Chinese Foreign Missionery Unionprescribed for a preacher a salary of 48 Dutch guilders, 16 for hiswife and 12 for each child. During the first two years it was ableto pay us fully. Later, as funds dwindled while the work expanded,our salaries were cut. The most we got was 80 per cent and theleast sometimes as low as 20 to 30 per cent. Most of the time itwas 50 per cent. At that time, while I had four mouths to feed, wewere divided into three places of abode. My son who was inschool could hardly subsist from my meagre pay. If not for goodbudgeting, our livelihood would become a heavy burden. Butthanks be to God who is rich, apart from keeping myself, I couldstill remit money back to China to support a nephew. This is not tosay we had other income. We had practised frugality, and that wasit.Economical management is the way of fiscal administration.But a preacher’s income is limited to his salary, so there is no suchthing as “an open source” to talk about. On the other hand,economy can be achieved in a negative arrangement.Paul says, “And we know that all things work together forgood to them that love God.” When God wants to use a man Heoften puts him through trials, even as perishable wood can bemade into instruments. For example, through our small income,we had to resort to physical labour. This imperceptibly improvedour wit and health, knowledge and skill. It is said that “povertybegets adaptation, and adaptation understanding.” During thetimes when our salaries were low, we reared fowls and ducks,planted melons and vegetables, and increased production duringour leisure. Sometimes, with book in one hand and fishing rod inthe other, we would take after Chiang Tzu Yah to the riverside.After food we would take advantage of the resting time to go intothe forest to pick firewood. For over twenty years my wife hadbeen my barber. We would make furniture for ourselves. Once Ispent one week to make a Western-style wooden bed. Those who54
saw it declared it was the work of an experienced craftsman andwould not believe I was not even a novice. Later on, I used thisskill to teach the Dyaks in house construction and buildingChurches.A first son was born to us about one year after going to theSouth Seas. Since we could not afford hospitalisation or calling amidwife, we had to do it ourselves. Quite successfully, the boyborn in this manner weighed over eight pounds. Regretfully, wedid not do well the next year. The new-born child caught cold anddied in three days. But from this experience we became expertmidwives, and helped many during our ministry with themountain tribes.Economy succeeds through “income first before expenditure,”and through maximal saving and minimal spending. Articles noturgently needed should not be bought. In former days, apart fromfood, medicine was my greatest item of expenditure. Ill healthaffects not only one’s work but also one’s economy. In buyingthings, I not only consider the should and should-not, but also theurgent and non-urgent. Since my marriage to this day, for twentyfiveyears, I have not ceased to keep accounts. The first few yearsI used the home account book published by the Hong KongYMCA. It is a well-arranged and classified diary with a monthlyand yearly balance sheet, so clearly set that at a glance one couldtell what was necessarily or unnecessarily spent. Unfortunately,this publication was later discontinued, so we had to use ordinaryaccount books.Our income being small, we learned the habit of thrift. Wewere especially careful in buying and spending. We utilised everyused article and considered valuable even “every bamboo stub andwood shaving.” Thanks to be God He specially blessed us so thatour household utensils lasted longer than others’, some of whichbought since our wedding have remained to this day. This is like55
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Page 25 and 26: corrupt petty officer. But he had n
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Page 49 and 50: period, we expressed our regrets to
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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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