Pioneering in - Far Eastern Bible College

Chapter 1A Half-Century of Fleeting Shadows“Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declarewhat he hath done for my soul.” (Psalm 66:16)It was a sultry summer day, fifty years ago. In an easilyaccessible to traffic suburban village not far from Canton, a babyboy was born. Were it not for someone announcing the happyevent, not even the next-door neighbour could have known it. For,when this infant in swaddling clothes was born, he came wrappedin peaceful slumber. Not a sound did he make. How strange, sucha landing with neither cry nor sob. Was it that the world had givenhim a VIP welcome, and he felt it so good? Or was he so dull asnot to feel the pains of a world of woes? He only was theexception to the way of all flesh, to the rule of “three cries onlanding.” So, peacefully he slumbered on, day after day, without awhimper. The fact was he was a tiny tot of a dullard. What in theworld could he have sought for himself?When the baby boy was born, his father was a theologicalstudent who had little to bring home. The three-dollar pocketmoney his dad got from school was saved up and remitted to thefamily. This sum was handled by his wife in tontine with the viewof financing the younger brother’s coming marriage. Now, thebaby boy had an elder brother, so his mother had three mouths tofeed. For their livelihood she wove bamboo sun-hats. (There werea few scores of families weaving sun-hats in the village). It7