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l and the adjacent Islands of the

DUTCH EAST INDIES

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- M A R C H 1930 - No. 2

A Missionary Newsletter concerning the work of the

Alliance Mission in

BORNEO

Missionary Staff: Rev. J. W. and Mrs. Brill, Ampenan, Lombok, D. E. I. Rev. G. E. and Mrs. Fisk, Boelongan, Borneo, D. E. I . Rev. C. D. Clench, Balik-papan. Borneo, D E. I. Rev. R. A. Jaffray, Supe$-intendsnt, Wuchow. South Chine

Published by THE ALLIANCE PRESS, WUCHOW. SOUTH CHINA

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"Contipue in ~ R Z ~ E V , and watch. i n the same w i t h thanksgiving, nrithal praving ale0 for us."--Col. 4:2,3

We want to thank the readers of "The Pioneer" fo r their prayers on behalf of the work in the Dutch East Indies. Andrew Murray said, "There is nothing that can so help us to prove the power and the faithfulness of God to His Word, a s when we reach out in inter- cession to the multitudes either in the Church of Christ o r in the darkness of heathenism." We would ask you to continue with us in prayer f o r this needy and vast field.

PRAISE the Lord for ,opening up the way f o r ME. ana Mrs. Fisk to go up the. Kajan river^ a s f a r as Boelongan,and for the ministry which they have already had among the Dyaks. Pray that the Lord will hiare them a blessing as they work among. the Dyaks, and tha t they may get the Dyak language speedily.

PRAISE the Lord that per- mission has been granted by. the Dutch Government for our miss- ionaries to labor in Borneo, and Lombpk.

.PRAISEthe Ford for,supply- ing through "The World Wide Christian Couriers" and "The Defenders" the funds needed to purchase a motor boat f o r misa- ionajr wonk in Borneo.

advance work in the Dutch East Indies.

PRAY f o r the opening of a Bible School a$ Makassar.. PRAY for The Chinese Foreign

..Missionary Society and i t s work in the Dutch East Indies:

'PRAY f o r the publicsbion of Gospektracts in Malay, snd also forthe"tr,anslation of The Bible Magazine into Malay.

PRpIY f o r Mr. and Mrs. Brill i n fhe i r work ,in the Island of h m b o k , and f o r Mr. Clench in Dntch Borneo. .

PRAY f o r funds needed f o r advance work , into the interior 2

". 1 of Dutch Borneo. PRAY tha t Mr. Jaffrag's~ v.isit~:

t o , the Dutch Eas t Indies may bear much f ru i t and tha t he map ' haveDivine %uidance as to bhe

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- PRAY for eleven^ new miss- obening'up of other centres xi

ionaries needed to ' c'arry on tha t field fo r missionary work. ,~ *i!, . ' ~ . . . , .

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!.in the daywe visited $his temple. '~W,e.. found the . ,men qziting 'Ahbonia., 'This'will be th@"fi?st 'ijutside,I,the; -temple; whilc the .6;tstationrwe will want' t o :oeen $.omen went in:and nrepared:the as it.is',an,important center, arid ?<cast. rThe mhole.gf:t,beir ,fea'st *:the&oldiers .that 'are' th'ei-8, wil l

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form a nucleus f o r a church I expect to go to Praja again soon and sell New Testaments to the soldiers there. I wish you would pray f o r these soldiers, that the Word of God will work in their hearts to bring about the will of God in their lives. I have al- ready been given permizsion to have a service with them, but of course i t would be quite in- formal consisting of reading the Word and a.short explanation of it. Pray that God will ra ise UP a native,worker fo r Praja in the near future; we could use one now if we had one. We ought t o have about six native workers soon, and i t is not top early to

other servant. we ,have is a Balinese man, who works well and shows an interest in the Bible and the Lord Jesus. He has asked ' to take a Malay Testament to his village f o r his friends to read. Two of his friends a r e coming to our home to have us explain the New Testament t o them. Thank God for this inteFest. Pray for him and f o r his friends.

Last Sunday we gathered some of the children of the neighbor- hood in f o r a Sunday School. We taught them a hymn and our servant girl told them a short Bible story, and had prayer and dismissed '5 them. There were

s t a r t praying to thabend. about thirty in all, and about ter. Our "servant problem" seems outside the fence who were

to be solved, fo r which we t b n k God. Tbefirs t servant that we, brought f rom Makas-r proved to be a failure. She had a terr i - ble temper. We prayed with her. and f o r her, but it seemed of no avail, so we had to dismiss her, and pray that God would work in her heart. I wish you would join with us in prayer fo r her. The same day that we dismissed her, another girl from Menado, a Christian, came asking fo r work, and we hired her. She has proved herself to be a very valuable servant, and exempli- fies a fine Christian spirit. She is also anxious to read her Bibie in her spare moments. The

*$raid t& come in. They were $1 interested and we a re expect- inp more next Sunday, We wish kou would pray f o r them and fo r OUT ser,vant (Antji is her name), whohelpsus, that she will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Among these children were Bdinese, Sassaks, Javanese, having religions-Mohammedan, Hindu, and Buddhist.

We a re rejoicing because' of what God has been doing, and; nay we long-for the time when: we' can speak this language well and can do^ more ,effectud witnessing fo r the Lord J,esuS. We ask your prayers t o this end.

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First ,Experiences in the Interior of Borneo Rev G. E . Fisk, Boelongan. Duteh Borneo

Mr. F i s k with two Dyaks The t r ip UP t o

Boelonzan was one of the most interest ing tha t I have ever taken. It was most interest ing t o me because it was the f i r s t glimpse tha t I had real ly had OP Borneo itself. We made. th i s t r ipon a Govern- ment launch. ?he pilot of the boat, a Malay boy,' would work' the launch Prom

'one side of the r iver t o the other , avoiding the sand bars , and in this way we were many times brought exceptionally close to the jungles on both sides of the r iver . Once I saw a bird of paradise covered wi th f ea the r s of many br ight co lors f ly among the small palm trees . A shor t t imea f t e r seeins t h a t bird the pilot suddenly cr ied, "Look, Toean!" I looked and there was a big crocodile making his way through the water , with

his ugly SnJ sticking ab the surface. When he saw the l a u n c h , he sank l i k e a hundred pounds of iron. No t . f a r above th i s place we made a sh@ t u r n and on t h e r igh t hand of the bend i n the r ive r was a sand bar. Lying o'n this sand ba r l ike harmless logs were t y o m o r e of these ugly fellowsl

F a r t h e r up t k r iver we saw the famous ' Borneo

long-nosed monkey.' The t rees in cer ta in places were f i l l ed with them. Some were sleeping in convenient crotches in the t rees , o thers were f r i sk ing about m e r r i l y , , and o the r s were engaged in well known monkey business,-flea hunt ing and s t ra tching.

About two-thir ty in the a f t e r - noon, the boat made a t u r n t h a t brought u s in view of Boelongan.

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It was in the distance so all we could see was little patches of red sticking out here and th,ere between the hig tropical trees along the r,iver bank. These red

,patches proved to be roofs . There is a peculiar law here saying tha t if one must paint ,his roof, it must be done in red, Therefore there a re many rod roofs in Boelongan. After much tooting our launch pulled up alongside the -what shall I say - the .municipal pier?

--We have had many and varied experiences with the Dyaks here. We feel more th,an ever before tha t we made the right move when we came to Boelongan. Almost every day something Happens t o show that it was the will of God. Cke day while I was doing some personal work with a’Dutch t rader , two Dyaks came to the door and asked i f I W O L : ~ ~ bup one of their coats. The Dyak coat is maae-fro_m the bark of a sof t wood tree. We began to talk together in Malay. While we were talking several (Ither Dyaks came into the house and sat down, making themselves very much at home. I t was not very long before their sharp eyes caught sight of our l i t t le folding organ, and there was not any- th inglef t fo r me t o do but t o play it. I discovered a f t e r play- ing several types of hymns, tha t they were especially fond of

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march tunes, such as “Onward Christian Soldiers.” After such a piece there would be ,g run t s and whoops of approval. The music attracted other Dyaks, who were o u t ~ i n the street , 8nd before the evening was over there ‘were more than f i t t y Dyaks in our la rge f r o n t room. We had t o push the furn i ture back against the wall to. make room f o r them all. They sat on the ftoor, native fashion, in l i t t le semi-circles. Af te r play- i n g a few hymns f o r them on the organ, , I asked my wife to sing with me. They seemed to enjoy the singing even better than the playing, so we sang f o r them fo r some time. Then f o r a l i t t le variety, ,my wife played the organ and I tooted on my cornet, much to the joy of the “wild man.” Then one of the Dyaks asked if we had a talking machine, so tha t was the next musical instrument to be put into action. We a r e more than thankful t o the folks in the homeland, who~made i t possible f o r us to have ,these valuable helps in the Lord’s work among the Dyaks. Af te r playing two o r three records f o r them I began to tell them through a Dyak, who spoke good Malay, just why i t was tha t we came to this par t of the world. I told thQm as best I could about Jesus ‘snd His love, and tha t i t was

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this love tha t had prompted us to com,e out here. I wanted them to know about Jesus and His love.

It was all very new, yes, very new to them, and they listened with ears, eyes, . and mouths open. Not one l e f t the house while the story was being told. When I stopped speaking several said something.to the Dyak, who had been interpreting. He told m'e they were asking how soon it would be befo,re we ,intended t o come up to tlieir country. Some asked why we did not come at once. Their people back i n l t h e interior wanted to hear this

my exact feelings at t ha t par t i - cular moment. May the Lord, hasten the day when we will be able to ,be among them. They a re here in Boelongan f o r a fear" days and then they a r e gone again.

One day we had a l i t t le added exeitemeiit.ip Boelongan. I was in the back of the house when my wife called me to came t o the f ron t t o see what the Dyaks were doing in the street. I heard them yetling and thought tha t they were at some of the+ games tha t they seem b, love so much, but when I arrived at the f r o n t of the house I discovered

message too. They seemed very that i t was no game, but ,looked anxious to know something more a great deal like a wild !In'dian about this new religion. Oh, but war dance. The Dyaks had the i r I am praying so hard that funds long knives out and were dane- enough will soon be available ing rdund, swinging the i r knives t o make a t r ip UP into the over their heads, and. yelling at interior. the t o p s o f their voices. I r a n

After my little message in up the street to see jus t what Malay, I told the Dyaks that I was the matter. Af t e r pushing wanted to make the room they throueh a circle of mad Dyaks. were in a Dyak room, so one by one they began to take orna- ment? f rom their bodies to give to me to decorate the room, bra- ,celrts, anklets, etc. Two Dyaks gave me their hats. Two others passed over their bark coats, and so the DyaK implements and ornaments rolled in until we had a good offering. This scene was a veTy touching one and i t would be impossible t o put into words

- , I s a w a Dyak lying o n t h e groupd seemingly dead. Two of t h e older Dyaks. were rubbing ,$im down withco1.d water t h a t , they h-ad carried from the river. Upon. examining him I found t h a t ' he was only uncongcious. He had been given a blow beneath the heart by .a Javanese. The Dyaks were wild. ,They. were mad enough r igh t then to, kill any number of Malays and if the

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lieutenant and his soldiers had not arrived on the scene, I be- Iieve there would have been some real trouble. The Dyaks were wrought up to such a pitch tha t they were driving their knives into the ground with te r r i f ic force, at the same time making blood-curdling yells. It seems tha t the Dyaks were having a racing competition with. the Malays, and the Dyaks were winning, therefore one of the Malays hit the f i r s t Dyak tha t got in his way. The Malay was

I was very thankfu l tha t no one was killed. The road tha t night was exceptionally f r e e of Malays. Theywere all home with their doors and windows tightly closed. The next day things seemed to be back to normal again. The Dyak was well and liappy, while his .adversary was eating rice and f i sh in the prison.

I have purehased a praw(native boat: and have had a work- man f ix the back f o r my motor. '1 am praying t h a t someone will be moved to send something this way to help t o f i x up our l i t t le 'boat. With a small amount of money I would be able to make my li t t le prau ready f o r long trips. As i t is now it would be impossible f o r me t o take Mrs. Fisk with me on very long trips. But with a l i t t le work it could be made very comfortable. Scat-

YZugh t and put in prison.

tered along about six days' j ou rneyup the river there a re eight Dyak villages. I would like to make a t r i p i n m y prau to these villages in the nea r future.

The river has s ta r ted to rise since we reached here and 'our hodse is absolutely surrounded by water. ' Huge logs and all kinds of wood have been .coming down the river and 'passing in f r o n t of our house like a strag- gling naval fleet. The natives have collected a g rea t ,deal of th i s d r i f t wood f o r fuel. They dash out into the swift cur ren t with the i r l i t t le boats and grab pieces of wood tha t happen to be near the i r boat and pull them in. One day I was watching two men collect th i s wood and one of them, making an attempt to grab an ex t r a la rge piece, was almost pulled into the racing river, I held my breath when I saw this near accident, because the river is full of crocodiles and there have been some sad experiences i n our immediate neighborho,od with the boats dur ing the past days.

One day a Dyak g i r l fell into the river and was immediately attacked by a huge crocodile. Her brave brother dove into the water t o savz her, and in the struggle tha t followed both of the Dyaks were terribly torn up. Nevertheless the boy saved his sister. He died a f ew hours

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l a te r i n the hospital, and realise tha t i t is a big step- is exdeeted t o live, The Dyaks ping stone in our move t o reach a re very brave, and when a loved the Dyaks, who have ’ never one is in danger, will stop at heard of Jesus and His Love. nothing to help the one in need. P ray f o r us as we go on in

led of the Lord in coming here

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We feel definitely and clearly His Name.

SOME SKETCHES OF BORNEO By Rev C. D. Clench, Balik-papan, Dutch Borneo

“Paul”, said I to my fellow- “Alright Paul, teach him how to cook,” and I composed myself at my study table. and prepared ,,

worker during one of my early days in Borneo, “we’ve got to get a cook! There’s no use t o enjoy life in’ Borneo. .trying to live in a land like “What in the world i s the this without a cook. We’ve got mattcr with tha t fellow’s ,feet?” to get a boy and t ra in him-get Scuff, scuff, Plop, plop, plop!- a really green boy so we can “Say, tell h i m t o p ick thosefee t s ta r t from the beginning and of his UP, what in the world-?’? s t a r t him right,-see?’’ Paul Paul at once took this matter in took this weighty matter to hand, tha t i s he took Solomon some of his Chinese friends, andt r ied to make him understand and one of ‘these friends started some good Malay. Solomon’s,fri& various MaLay !‘boys” on t h e lit UP with one of his rare’gyins road that’led t o our house. We and he answered in good Mala$; finally selected our “ideal”-a scuff, scuff,-~lop,plop, plop’! very green, and unspoiled boy. Our “boy” Solomon. blankly His name was Solomon! refused to sleep by himself in

Solomon was a peculiar youth, the servant quarters. W e , ‘let s o ~ e w h e r e this side of twenty. him spend the nights at his home, On his Mohammedan head he with the kindlyreminder that iue niore a Mohammedan red velvet would appreciate his reappear- fez. On, his’ clumsy body he ance i n the morning, ‘and ‘he wore a shirt and a pair of .Certainly did, a f t e r waiting most’ shorts^ and ti aarang (native of the morning f o r him! sk i r t ) f o r dress parade. On his “Why don’t you teach him’ to face he wore a ntolid expression cook something?” ‘.He- do&n’t of-I don’t exactly know what. learn,” answered Paul. “Where

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are all the forks?-what is fork in Malay?” “Sendok”. “Hai Solomon, sendok!” There was no answer, f o r Solomon seemed to be afflicted with deafness around meal time-“SOLOMON, sendok!” ‘ A n d still no answer,- “SOLOMON, SENDOR!” Some- thing stirred, and then scuff, scuff -plop, plop, plop: in came Solomon with a dirty dishrag!

One Saturday morning ou r “boy”, .I mean our “cook”, came la te r than ever, and he found me

--hungrier than ever. T m going to teach th i s fellow- how to work.” Paul looked both interest- ed andalarmed,and followed me into.the‘ kitchen. On .th;e. f loor of, the kitchen

were’ las t night’s dishes, still unwashed, sitting in the puddle where Solomon had le f t them, and’ where he usually washed

.. them. ”We heated up some water, a n d , I proceeded to t ra in Solomon. ‘Be looked and acted blanker than ever. but it wasn’t any use. We began to clean the kitchen, UP, and handed our boy a whitewash brush. Af t e r some argument he gingerly took it and began t o splash around. But while Paul and I were busy elsewhere Solomon disappeared - and we did the whitewashing! He came back la te in the day, and we surprised him with a gentle request t ha t he whitewash t e e one ‘remaining room! Solomon

sat . down on his haunches to meditate-we stuck ‘ t o our ultimatum-our “cook” s l o i l y gathered himself together, put on his sorang, gave us a reproachful loo!c, and then departed-scuff.

And now cemes Rarang! Kar- ang was a Malay.and then some! Born somewhere in Java, and educated on board ship visiting nearly every port in Malaysia, he was a unique character. His appearance?- well, it had been his misfortune to , f a l l in love. This love affair br,ought Karang a deadly rival, and there came a fa te fu l day when his rival leapt upon him. Karang saved his’life but carried the h,istory of tha t encounter i p the f i r m of one blind eye, and .the loss of t he end of his nore, and the disfigurement of his upper lip! Once while aboardship a heavy piece of cargo fell upon his right foot, and le f t him maimed and lame.-This was the general appearance of Karang.

In those days Paul did mdst of the speaking in Malay; he was !‘chief speaker.”,

“What does he want?” I asked. “He wants t ocomeand be ou r cook,” answered Paul .~ F rom fu r the r conversation with Kar- ang, it developed .that he was a master-cook with ,a long . and i m p p i n g . line qf ref?r?nces, tha t he was also an expert

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washerman, and could i ron enough s tarch into o u r clothes so they ,would s tand u p (and make us s tand up too ) , and that he could do anything and everything under the sun, and do i t bet ter t han anyone else. We were impressed and f e l t s u r e tha t his gleaming white coat bespoke of efficiency, while the fancy Malay turban on h is head made him like a very sul tan. We capitulated, and Karang moved into our servant qua r t e r s the same night.

There was no get t ing round the fact t h a t our new cook “knew his s tuff’ when i t came t o laying out the table. A f t e r o u r s t rug - gles with Solomon i t was thr i l l - ing to s i t down t o the table and have a beautiful white cloth, and napkins, and f inge r bowls! We were “si t t ing pret ty”, and Paul and I began t o take a new in t e r - es t i n l i fe .

Karang was a rascal , and I mean rascal in the mast rasca l ly sense of t.he word. On his a rms he carried in ta t too work t h e evil desires of his hear t . He loved to spend our money, and until we came to ourselves, he spent it: He would go to marke t and buy so much more than we could eat , t ha t he would be sure of a good’share of i t .

Once when Paul was off up the Mzhak rm River f o r a month, I r a n cdmpletely out of money.

We had nothing but rice and milk in the house and so w e a t e nothing but rice and milk f o r near ly a ’ week. Karang became qui te depressed.

Karang had a sense o f humor ; he always set the table j u s t so. He would put the suga r and milk as f a r away f r o m me a s possible so t h a t I would have t o s t r e t ch clean across t h e table t o reach them. He always s e t a near ly empty bot t le 05 tomato ketchup alongside t h e sa l t and pepper. One morning I ventured, to talc$ ,+ a smell of t ha t loetchup,-whew. I threw i t out the window! He loved to have me r o a r a t him, and’ then he would s ing out , “Yeh,tuan!” and come galloping t o m e , f o r his lame foo t made him hobble when be walked and gal lop when he r an . He was proud of his i ron ing ability, and when some neighbors, who pass- ed th rough our yard, had the temeri ty t o “kid him” about it, he borrowed my hammer and nailed the back ga te shut so t h a t t he re was no more short cut th rough our yard. Then he went on with his i roning! Three times he brought us soup that ‘was composed of no th ing buf :hot wa te r and white Pepper,; : the f i r s t time we “fel l f o r i t ” , ’ the second time we politely se t It over on the extreme edge of the table , a n d the th i rd t ime we

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us almost every day jus t before the flies, and t h e an ts , and the meal time with an innocent look heat hadseasoned it. J u s t before and u t te r the word “habis” he left us he bought a noisy which means ’.finished,” thereby alarm clock, and was like a boy signifying at the eleventh hour with a new toy , f o r he had i t tha t there w a s n o more rice, o r going all hours of the day and sugar, o r no more potatoes. That night. He used it t o inform me is a bit of Malay tha t I’ll never when it was time to stop work forget--“Habis, habis, tuan!” and come to eat. I mean he

He was our “cook” f o r two tpied’to use if f o r tha t , but I put months. During t h a t time he in an objection. he had me sick regularly about ~ At the end of two months Pan1 twice a week, and I some- and I found tha t we were going times fe l t too dead to live. His bankrupt. We heroically resolv-

ed to le t Ksrang’go. F o r a f ew Dutch custom of plenty of days we helped him along until grease, and he liked to cook he got a new job, and h i t e r tha t enough at noon to warm up f o r he passed out of our horizon. supper, but when i t came to tha t , Paul and I a r e the “cooks” NOTHING DOING!-not a f t e r now-tough luck!

&Ie of, cooking was a f t e r t h e

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THE CHINESE CHURCH .AND THE ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH SEAS

By Rev. Leo T . Chao, Wuchow, South China (Translated f rom the Chinese)

In the fall of 1929, I was sent t o the Dutch possessions of the South Seas and visited the two The People of these Islands islands of Celebes and Java, with the object of looking into the That the inhabitants of these prospects of missionary work f o r islands should hear the Gospel the Chinese Church in t h i s field. and be sdved is a par t of God‘s i was absenttwo months, and a grea t plan. Theevangelization of deep impression was made upon the islands of the world ’is a n my heart by the Holy Spirit. important and urgent piece o f

give briefly some of these The Prophet Isaiah speaks of

impressions for the snke of my fellow believers in China.

are Waiting

I wish at the present time to work yet to bedone.

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the Lord Jesus’as “God’s Elect,” the One in Whom He delights, and the One upon Whom He has bestowed His Spirit, in order t ha t He may proclaim His message t o the nations. He then adds, “Tho isles shall wait f o r His law.’’ (Isa. 42:l-4) . The word “wait” indicates our reapo’nsibility to pay our debt by quickly preaching the Gospel to these people. They have already waited a long time. Who will take the Gospel to them?

The Fieldis Vast The boundaries of what in

Chinese is called “Naam Yeung Kwan To,” which being Eitenally translated is “tbe Flock df Islands in the South Seas,” stretch,from Sumatra to New Guinea, a to t a l distance greater than that f rom Ireland west to the Black Sea. The islands here are like the sands of the seas-innumerable; 70 o r 80 percent a re Dutch possessions. 1n those parts that a r e most accessible, and where western civilization has taken root, the Gospel is known, but in the interior of many of these islands, where the people a r e still in their savage state, and in many

the smaller islands tha t a r e less accessible, the Name of Christ is totally unknown.

The Chinese Resident in the Islands

The inhahitants o f - these islands a re composed of many

races, hut the Chinese a r e to be found everywhere. In the more developed islands, such as Cele- bes and Java, Chinese merchants prosper on every side and they have organized schools of their own, and even into the f a r inter- ior the Chinese merchant takes his wares and carries on a thriv- ing business.

The Chinese languages most current among these islands are Fukinese (Foochow and Amoy), Cantonese, and Hakka. Mandarin is used in the Chinese Schools and is therefore understood ~F the rising generation.

T,he Chinese Chyrch i n the

The Gospel of Christ ‘ h a s developed amons the Chinese in Java more than in any of the other islands. In the chief cities, such a s Batavia. Bandoeng, and Surabaya there are Chinese self- supporting churches, but the Chinese Christians in m-any of the smaller cities a r e lef t like,“s6eep without a shepherd.” We f i rmly believe t h a t if Spirit-filled. Chinese wor!iers, possessed 6,s patienee -Snd fai th , were’ , t o enter this field, that within , a few years many self-supporting ahurches would he established. There a re hungry hearts ’ and willing contributors to be found inmany places. This field is then B foreign missionary field - fo r Christ’s Church in China of

Islands

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unparal le led o.pportunity. 'The Needof the Go$pelamonq

the Chinese of the I s l w d s T h e r e are several poi,nts I

wish t o s e t ' f o r t h u n d e r ' t h i s heading:-

(1) T h e Chinese m i r c h a n t s in these - p a r t s sbon become pros-. perous, and t h i s , o f t e n l e a d s t o reckless and r io tous living, which i n t u r n br ings i t s s u r e r e w a r d of sorrow a d d hardship . This i s often' seen amdng t h e Chinese of t t i e ~ South seas.^ Therefore , t h e r e , iS even a i u r g e n t ' n e e d e f ~ t K G o s p e 1 of S a l v a t i o n k m o n g t h e s e o u r bre thren , who ar?, f a r f r o m home a n d exposed t o s'peciai temptat ions.

(2) T h e educational advan- tages of , t h e Chinese l iving in t h e I s lands a r e much less thG those l iving a t home, a n d ' t h e prevalence of inf idel i ty among Chinese scholars , and b t h e r ig+; r a n t heresies a m o n g ttie people i s g rea ' te r ' than t h a t in"China proper. . .~ (3) The Chinese.li,vin'g in th ,e

Ie lands seem t o xive, themselves UP eetirely t o money-making. T k e lave of gold a n d s i lver an,d:,tha love of pleasure seem to 'b lo t ont almost en t i re ly a n y thought or hope of the l i fe to come. T h e r e is no remedy for t h i s but r the Gospel of Chris t .

(4 , ) T h e Chinese who.have be& res ident .in. these I s lands f o r

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t w o genera t ions o r maye have acquired perfect ly t h e , n a t i v e languages, and therefore , when t h e y , become ,Chr is t ians may be- come missionaries of t h e Gospel t o the nat ives in . their d a r k n e s s a n d ignorance. 1s , nqt , th i s a n added reasqn f o r speedily sena- i n g t h e Gospel t o t h e Chinese i n the Dutch E a s t Indies?

(5) The sending o u t of Chin- ese missionaries by the home church in China to the I s lands o f t h e Sea , and t h e dqvelopment of the work a " i o n g ~ ~ ~ h e ; w q l l - t o - d o Chinese there , will b r ing a reflex blessing upon.the Chinese Church a t ho .me.6~ l iberal contributions. on t h e p a r t of these Chr is t ian merchants f o r t h e extension of t h e work in China. Such foreign tpiss ionary,work ,wil l , thus prove, a blessing a t home and&broad.

These f ive p o i n t s s u r e l y ,set f o r t h t h e urgency o f t h e ,Church of Chr is t in China to.,,caqry, t h e Gospel to t h e ~ Isl+ds. at, thk, S o u t h Seas., Will , i t n o t brine woe ypo,n our Church if wepe?ay, t o c a r r y out . t h i s m i n i s t r y ?

The Relation o f - the- Chinese Chzirch t a Missionary W o ~ k ; ~

One ' reason why,:ths Chinese Church is not y e t self-support inp i s becaqse she:does n o t h a v e the missionaay objeetiv.e.:Tbe reason why within the Chinese Church t h e r e are wrangl ings. a n d : jea l -

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ousies is because we a re not pressing out and spreading the Gospel Message t o others. The bdiever is the instrument of the Lord. We a r e the members of His Body. Through us, He desires t o give the Gospel to others. If we seek only our’ own blessing, the Lord must in conse- quence bestow less blessing. upon us.

The Dead Sea only m c e i a i s the waters of the Jordan and passes

.nothing on. It becomes a Sea

.without life, and i t s waters are dead. mhough i t is wide and deep, i t has no benefit, n o product, no l ife to pass on and give out t o others. If our Church only glor- ies in a n increase of membership and the erection of Church build- ings a t home, and has no vision f o r the needs of the others out- side of itself, i t will only be a Dead Sea! The Sea of Galilee not only receives, but i t also pours fortH, and is therfore a living and a beautiful lake. The Church of Christ in China has been the recipient of the Gospel because of the -foreign missionary f o r over 120 years. When will i t be- coma a missionary church itself, and preach the Gospel to another people f a r away?

Not only so, but the Chinese of the South Seas a reour own flesh and blood. Therefore, all the more do we owe to them the debt of the Gospel. If we do not car ry

the_~Gospel t o , them, to whom should they look f o r help?

Would tha t ,the Chinese Church would feel toward their brethren in the South-Seas as Paul did t o w F , his kinsmen accordi to. the flgsb, when he said, “ have great heayiness and con nual sprrow i n m y heart , I -iould\ wish that myself were a c c u r s a ? r o X Christ for my br,ethren;my kinsmen according t o the flesh.” (Rom. 9 : 2.3)

T o k y we areearnestly praying f o r a i-ayj-val in China, but i t has not come. .-Perhaps the Lord is waitinguntil we f i r s t a r i s eanddo our p a r t in preaching this grea t salvation to lost men outside of our own country. Then Hewi l l beetow upon us the blessing of a grea t revival. For the idea of a revival is not only tha t my Church and v y country may be revived and blessed, but t h a t . - filled with the love of Chris t , we may desire the salvation of all men, and spread the Gospel t o “the uttermost pa r t s of the earth.” Those who have the miss- ionary spiri t will desire most a revival at home; and those, who are praying most earnestly for a revival at home, will be most earnest in sending t h e ’ Gospel abroad. Thus the L’ord will g ran t us “exceeding abundantly above what we can ask or think.” (Eph. 3:ZO)