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*Condition Note: Book is good condition and clean with minor dust jacket wear. *
"Land of Uncertainty" is the author's name for Borneo. And the reader soon learns why.
Bad-luck days, when certain kinds of work are taboo, are announced by the witch doctor about seven times a month. For example, on Gogur it is unwise to build houses because builders get malaria and the shakes. On Rampagas one must not plant, for crops will not thrive. If a foreigner does not learn patience while trying to build up a mission under these circumstances, he never will.
Then there is the touching story of two orphaned children who became Christians and built their own house and earned their living by raising produce. The boy even paid his own tuition at the mission school.
Do missions pay? One has only to see the contrast in the lives of these people, so long slaves to the spirits, to answer that question. Contrast the filthy heathen longhouses with those of a Christian village. "I feel as if I have just crossed a river safely, and now I want to get all my people across, too," said one young convert.
1. The Spirit of Adventure
2. Our Initiation
3. Itinerating
4. Casting Out the Bangau
5. Land of Uncertainty
6. Snakes
7. Grave Problems
8. Render Unto Caesar
9. Living Pictures
10. Spirit Legends and Strange Customs
11. Demons in the Jungle
12. Demons in Retreat
13. Wealth of the Gentiles
14. Brunei
15. Chinese Medicine
16. A Stale Argument
17. Goshen
18. Crocodiles and Flying Foxes
19. Land of the White Rajahs
20. Among the Dyaks
21. Wild Man's Hobby
22. To Build a Church
23. Doctoring the Dusuns
24. Doctoring the Rungus
25. A Word to the Wise
The Hills of Borneo
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Details
Binding: |
Hardback |
Copyright: |
1967 |
Printed: |
1967 |
Pages: |
304 |
Publisher: |
Southern Publishing Association |
Condition: |
B+ |
