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By David Alexander
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Parturition
Following the Spanish, Dutch
and Chinese flags, another
empire arose to push its
influence in the direction of
Taiwan. In 1807 Robert
Morrison was sent by the
London Missionary Society to
begin mission work made
possible through British trade
penetration into South China.26
The British prospered
financially through trade in
opium from their colonies in
India. This resulted in wars
with China, and the
establishment of further trade James and Mary Ann Maxwell
openings and a permanent base
at Hong Kong. Early in 1864 the Scottish
The Opium wars focused the physician James Maxwell
attention of many from England volunteered for mission service.
and Scotland on China as a field He went to China intending to
for mission service and serve at Xiamen. In October of
evangelism. By 1851 the that same year he accompanied
English Presbyterian Church Rev. Douglas, Tan Chu-lo, Ng
had established a mission station Ka-ti, and Ngo Bun-chui (three
in Xiamen (Amoy) and in 1858 Fukienese Christians who
further south at Swatow.27 volunteered to become
5
Nursing
A baby draws sustenance
from her mother. The PCT was
nourished by the Holy Spirit
through a mother church from
the UK. Hugh Ritchie
In April of 1867 Maxwell, The church was firmly under
Ko and Ng began medical the control of the English
outreach in the Pi-thau (Feng Presbyterian mission of the
Shan) area. Early in July they time, yet the appointed
purchased a small house to responsible evangelists for the
serve as an evangelistic and work were Ngo Bun-chui and
preaching center. In those years Ko Tiong. By 1868 Dr.
Taiwanese people had more free Maxwell moved on to other
time than the current work and newly arrived
population, and the evangelists missionaries, Rev. & Mrs. Hugh
7
the people of Orchid Island off law. In 1924, at the age of 52,
the southeast coast). Insofar as Chi-oang was baptized.
it was possible, the Japanese In 1925, besieged by
Colonial Government hindered creditors seeking repayment of
communication between debts run up by her husband,
“savages” and the assimilated she went bankrupt. She was
tribes and ethnic Han people of accepted into the Tam-sui
the plains. In some areas barbed training school for women
wire fences surrounded the missionaries and studied there
tribal territories.77 People from eight months. The Women’s
the plains were not allowed to Missionary Society of the North
go into the mountain areas, and Synod then sent her to Hua-lien
church evangelistic work in as an evangelist. Her mission
particular was prohibited. was hindered by the Japanese
Chi-oang Yiwal was born in authorities who beat and set
1872. She grew up in a Taroko dogs upon her. She persisted.
tribe village north of Hualien. She met with people at night
When she was 18 she was and in caves when necessary to
purchased for marriage by a preach the gospel until she died
non-aboriginal Taiwanese in 1946 at the age of 75. She is
trader. They moved to a Sediq known as the mother of the
tribe village where her husband mountain churches.78
was murdered. She continued Hsu Nan-mian, a believer
his business. Within 2 years she from the one of the plains
married another non-aboriginal (“ripe”) aboriginal tribes
Taiwanese and moved again. married an Amis tribal woman.
After the Japanese occupied He became the apostle to the
Taiwan she learned Japanese. Amis.79 Kao Tien-wang became
She collaborated with the the “Paul of the Tarokos” .
colonial government to Baptized in 1940, he soon
negotiate an end to tribal revolts became an ardent evangelist. He
and inter-tribal wars. The was severely persecuted by the
grateful Japanese gave her a police. After the war he
house where she continued in continued to preach among the
business. She became rich. Taroko, the Amis, the Bunun
In 1906 she married for a and Tayal tribes.80
third time, again to a non-
aboriginal Taiwanese. This
husband wasted her resources in
riotous living. His mother was
a zealous Christian, a member
of Chang Hwa Presbyterian
Church. When her son visited,
she testified to her daughter-in-
17
Confirmation
Presbyterians do not have a
"rite of confirmation" in our
liturgy. We do, however, look
for a time when those baptized
in infancy stand before a
congregation as adults and
confess that the faith in which
their parents promised to raise
them has been taken on
personally. The PCT had
grown for 120 years, nourished
That the church, a small by the faith expressed so well in
portion of this society, had been the Westminster Confession and
so targeted for its statements on Catechisms and the three
22
“commencement”, signifying a
beginning. the Dutch, London: Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trubner & Co., 1903. P. 540
As the PCT engages the 21st 16
Ibid. p. 495
century with its challenges, she 17
Ibid. p. 540
stands upon the heritage of the 18
Ibid. p. 540
past, a gift of God Almighty 19
Ibid. p. 238.
through the Holy Spirit from
20
Ibid. p. 207.
21
Ibid. p. 306.
before the foundations of the 22
Ibid. pp. 543-44.
world were laid. The lessons 23
Ibid. Intro. vii.
and experiences that this church 24
Ibid. p. 510.
has received and appropriated 25
Ibid. p. 540.
from God’s servants in the past, 26
P. Richard Bohr, “The Legacy of
be they Taiwanese, Aboriginal, William Milne” International Bulletin
of Missionary Research. Vol 25, No. 4
Chinese, European or North (October 2001) p. 173.
American, serve as completed 27
Understand the Presbyterian
coursework leading to the award Church in Taiwan. Taipei: The
of a diploma. But this is no General Assembly, 2001. P. 3.
“well done, thou good and
28
Ibid.
faithful servant” followed by an
29
Ibid.
30
Hsieh Ta-li, Hsieh-wei and His
invitation to eternal rest and joy; Times. Tainan: Jin-kng, 2000, p. 13.
it is a commissioning to the task 31
Understand, p. 4.
ahead, a task for which this 32
Ibid.
church has been well prepared. 33
Ibid.
34
Hsu, pp.11-12.
1
John 1:3 and Genesis 1:3 35
Wang et. Al. Eds. Presbyterian
2
Proverbs 3:19 Church in Taiwan 120th Anniversary
3
Genesis 2:9 Yearbook. Taipei, General
4
Genesis 2:15-23 Assembly, 1985, p.677.
5
Genesis 2:9 36
Ibid. p. 462 AND Understand, p. 4.
6
Psalm 121:1-2 37
Phoa* Hi-ki, The Spirit of Sin-lau,
7
Genesis 1:2 Tainan: Sin Lau Christian Hospital,
8
John 3:16 1998, p. 87.
9
Taiwan Church News #2577, p.8 and 38
Ibid. p. 61.
Occasional Bulletin Vol.18, No 4, p 39
Ibid. p. 63.
12. 40
Understand, p. 5.
10
Hwang Po-ho, No Longer a 41
Ibid.
Stranger, Tainan, Chhut-Thau-Thi*, 42
Ibid.
1996, pp.66-7. 43
Ibid.
11
Psalm 139:15 44
Ibid. p. 6.
12
C. H. Hsu et.al. eds. A Centenary 45
Ibid.
History of the Presbyterian Church of 46
Band, p. 32.
Formosa, Tainan, Church Press, 1965, 47
Ibid. pp. 139-42.
p.11. 48
Wang, op.cit. pp.113-4.
13
Edward Band, Barclay of Formosa, 49
Hsu. Op.cit. p. 91.
Tokyo, Christian Literature Society, 50
Band, op.cit. p. 74.
1936, p. 20. 51
Ibid. p. 71.
14
Taiwan Catholic Directory, Tapiei, 52
Thai-pheng-keng Presbyterian
1997, p. 19. Church, 100th Anniversary Book,
15
William Campbell, Formosa Under Tainan, Church Press, 1965. P. 53.
24
53
Wang, op.cit. pp. 113-4.
54
Chang Hwa Christian Hospital, 79
Ibid. p. 178.
100th Anniversary Book, Chang-hwa, 80
Ibid. pp. 172-4.
CHCH, 1995. P. 13. 81
Understand, p. 9.
55
Band, op.cit. pp. 77-9. 82
W. E. Montgomery, “The Rip Van
56
Ibid. p. 113. Winkels Return”, Theology and the
57
Ibid. p. 116. Church, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 7.
58
Understand, p. 9. 83
Ibid. p. 13.
59
Lee Shiao-feng, “Taiwan is Not 84
Ibid. p. 14.
Part of China”, Liberty Times, 1/ 7/ 85
Lee, op.cit. p.4.
2001. 86
Occasional Bulletin of the Taiwan
60
Band, op.cit. p.87. Church News, Vol. VIII, No. 2, p.8.
61
Ibid. p. 89. 87
Occasional Bulletin of the Taiwan
62
Ibid. p. 93. Church News, Vol. IV, No. 2, p.6.
63
Ibid. pp. 88-95. 88
Taiwan Church News #1981, 18
64
Ibid. pp. 99-100. Feb 1990, p.1.
65
Ibid. p. 108. 89
Understand, p. 11.
66
Ibid. p. 109. 90
Ibid.
67
Ibid. 91
Hsu, op.cit. pp. 356-8.
68
Ibid. p. 117. 92
Ibid. pp. 339-41.
69
Ibid. 93
Ibid. p. 353.
70
Marjorie Landsborough, Dr Lan, 94
Understand, pp. 12-13.
London, PCE Publishing Committee, 95
Taiwan Church News, March 1972,
1957, p. 174. page 1.
71
Understand, p 8. 96
Public Statements. 3rd Edition,
72
Ibid. p. 6. Taipei, The General Assembly of the
73
Ibid. p. 7. PCT, 1995. Pp. 11& 17.
74
Hsu, op.cit. p. 199. 97
Taiwan Church News 1694 (August
75
Understand, p. 7. 8, 1984) p.1.
76
Band, op.cit. p. 22. 98
Phoa*, op.cit. -p.10.
77
Ralph Covell, Pentecost of the Hills 99
Hwang, op.cit. p. 48.
in Taiwan, Pasadena: Hope, 100
21st Century New Taiwan Mission
1998.p155. Movement Project, Taipei, General
78
Ibid. pp. 165-70. Assembly R&D Center, 1998. P.1.
Their two born-in-Taiwan children are Katherine (1985) and Grant (1991).