Preface: The Fruits of the Spirit and Will

Chapter 1: Man Goes Low
The Priest’s Child
The Lion Trapped in the Cage
China, the most fascinating place
Confucius’s “Cliff of Lemma”
How wonderful it is to be in the same class
The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River
On the Silk Road in the Southwest

Chapter Two: How Saints Are Made
The Footprints of the Pioneers
The Day I Arrived in Zhaotong
The Name of Death
The Last Communion
Walking around Kunming
The Devil in Beautiful Clothes
A Difficult Fall
Woe to Thomas? Martyrdom of Thomas Thorne
Perseverance is Good37 Only the LORD Toughens the Heart

Chapter 3 My Good Man, My Good Golem
A Bright Star
Sowing Love
A True Friend
Only plowing, not reaping
By the Lord, constant holiness
Ten years of hard work and harvest
All I can tell you is to love China
Pioneering a new style of education in China
Heavenly Footsteps and Women’s Emancipation
God is our refuge
Temptation from Liangshan

Chapter Four: Crossing the Jinsha River
The Indomitable Yi Mothers
The Jinsha Water Beat
The Conspirator Encounters a Dilemma
We Are One Family
An Ocean of Joy
That’s how we solve the crisis
Learn from Jesus, not the king of the world
Once again, we escaped from the tiger’s clutches

Chapter 5: The Shining of 1904
The storm clouds have arisen.
Four guests from afar
Can you teach us to read?
Starburst
The Trick to Evangelism: Developing Co-Workers
Going to the Most Dangerous Places
Straight to Vining
Walking in Love

Chapter 6: Shimenkan
The Star That Comes First Begins to Shine
Splitting the Stone Gate
We have no money.
Building a church
The first school in the history of Hanamiao
War on Sin
Five Pound Cottage
Is Emma cold?
No one knew that day or that hour.
The Day That Will Never Be Forgotten
The Fountain of Tears
Our Father Is Really Coming

Chapter 7 The Most Beautiful Flower in China
Chi You Jun
An Alternative History of China’s Five Emperors
Sunset in Jingchu
Wuling and the Five Streams
The Great Flowering Sapling of Wumeng
The Bride and the Wolf
Creating the Miao Script
Happiness in Yunnan and Guizhou

Chapter Eight: The Poisonous Beatings
Hit, Hit, Hit Again
Being Poisonously Beaten
Death or Life
Allow me to run into the arms of the Lord
Back to Shimenkan
I love China. Why should I stay in my homeland?

Chapter 9: The Sunshine Cleanses the Earth
Rooted Downward, Fruitful Upward
Live like Christ
China is your homeland
Schools Open Like Flowers
Leper’s Home
Ten Years of Amazing Grace
Gable and Structure
Nightmare and the Dream of Heaven
The Great Escape of Victory

Chapter 10 To a More Beautiful Home
The Hmong Bible
No Rest on Earth
The Duties of a Veteran
Typhoid Fever
Meeting Again

Afterword: Why I Wrote This Book
Appendix
Biographies of Some Foreign Missionaries Lying in the Wumeng Mountain Area
Tablet of Traceability for the Hmong of Shimenkan Church
Epitaph of Mr. Gregory Berger
References

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