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spoke with Mr. Mouw as interpreter. One of their gurus (teachers) followed and the service finally came to an end. When the benediction was over, we ex pected the people to retire, but they sat silently watching us. We finally asked Mr. Mouw when they would depart so we could get some sleep, and he calmly informed us that they would not go until we were in bed! So there was noth ing for it but to take off our shirts and shoes and climb under the mosquito nets on the army cots they had set up in the corridor for us! It was our first experi ence of retiring in the presence of more than one hundred people. At four o’clock in the morning, while it was still pitch dark, I heard a loud flapping which woke me with a start. I looked over to see if something was wrong with Dr. Bauman when this old rooster began to blow his horn. This was the signal for the greatest bedlam I ever heard in my life. All the other chickens, dogs, pigs and ducks joined in the chorus and kept it up for three hours. The livestock are literally thrown under the longhouses at night; some of these houses have nearly a hundred dogs which are kept for hunting the wild pigs. Evidently this stir of animal life was the alarm clock for the entire village, because in a moment all were getting ready for what proved to be a prayer meeting. At 5:30 A.M. all were gathered together at the end of the longhouse singing hymns and asking God’s bless ing upon them and their visitors. They presented their needs in detail to the Lord, including sick chickens, pigs about to litter, and all their personal problems. They receive answers, too! Dyak Christian Chinches We left Rasa Terbang Saturday morn ing. Stiff, aching all over, with blistered feet, we found it hard to hit the trail again. But we plodded on as before until we came to a typical Dyak bridge, con sisting of a log with a single rail, over which hung a sign, Selamat Datang (Peaceful Coming). This was Bethel, the first of the Dyak churches we were to visit. News of our approach had been heralded and soon the clearing was filled with hundreds of excited, chatter ing Dyaks. A Sunday School chorus of young Dyaks sang a welcome song. Then the entire group sang hymn after hymn in their native tongue. They have no songbooks, but they have committed to memory nearly three hundred of our beloved church hymns. Their singing lifted our hearts and moved us deeply. Again for at least fifteen minutes we went through the ceremony of shaking hands with everybody. But though our arms ached afterwards we could not but reflect that a quarter of a century ago these former wild men of Borneo ( Continued on Page 3b) D E C E M B E R , 1 9 4 9
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