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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE....................................................................................................................... 6
FORMATIVE INFLUENCES........................................................................................9
Hope Dale Reminiscences.......................................................................................................... 9
PIONEER MISSIONARY........................................................................................... 12
EARLY YEARS........................................................................................................... 16
IN HIS FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS AND BEYOND.................................................19
MARRIAGE.................................................................................................................. 28
THE GREAT WAR...................................................................................................... 30
O.B.E............................................................................................................................. 38
THE LONG JOURNEY TO DESTINY IN GANSU 1921...................................... 44
WHEN THE MOUNTAINS WALKED...................................................................... 51
RETURN TO CHEFOO.............................................................................................. 56
A WORLD IN TURMOIL............................................................................................ 64
FAMINE INVESTIGATION 1929.............................................................................. 67
“Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”..................................................................................67
A DIFFERENT DRUMBEAT..................................................................................... 81
FAMINE RELIEF 1930............................................................................................... 86
RESCUE EXPEDITION........................................................................................... 102
FURLOUGH THEN FLOODS 1930/31................................................................. 107
SKILLED NEGOTIATIONS.....................................................................................110
Father Sands.............................................................................................................................. 110
Captain Charles Baker.............................................................................................................113
Gustav Tornvall and Henry Ekvall........................................................................................115
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE....................................................................................................................... 6
FORMATIVE INFLUENCES........................................................................................9
Hope Dale Reminiscences.......................................................................................................... 9
PIONEER MISSIONARY........................................................................................... 12
EARLY YEARS........................................................................................................... 16
IN HIS FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS AND BEYOND.................................................19
MARRIAGE.................................................................................................................. 28
THE GREAT WAR...................................................................................................... 30
O.B.E............................................................................................................................. 38
THE LONG JOURNEY TO DESTINY IN GANSU 1921...................................... 44
WHEN THE MOUNTAINS WALKED...................................................................... 51
RETURN TO CHEFOO.............................................................................................. 56
A WORLD IN TURMOIL............................................................................................ 64
FAMINE INVESTIGATION 1929.............................................................................. 67
“Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”..................................................................................67
A DIFFERENT DRUMBEAT..................................................................................... 81
FAMINE RELIEF 1930............................................................................................... 86
RESCUE EXPEDITION........................................................................................... 102
FURLOUGH THEN FLOODS 1930/31................................................................. 107
SKILLED NEGOTIATIONS.....................................................................................110
Father Sands.............................................................................................................................. 110
Captain Charles Baker.............................................................................................................113
Gustav Tornvall and Henry Ekvall........................................................................................115
