Lords of the Earth

What a great, epic missionary story! Don Richardson, also the author of Peace Child, wrote Lords of the Earth about a fellow missionary's work in the stone-age jungles of Irian Jaya. Stanley Dale was a unique personality, and it turned out, the perfect one to start a missionary work in the forgotten places of the Snow Mountains in Irian Jaya. I don't want to spoil anything, but I will blog a few quotes that were powerful to me from the book.



' "Bruno," Stan mused. "This peace treaty was initiated in a day." And then he added meaningfully: "It could have taken years!" 

 Bruno weighed Stan's point: some problems diminish in proportion to the gumption, not necessarily the superior skills or knowledge, of those who tackle them. Or increase in proportion to the timidity of those who lack daring. Some problems, Bruno reflected, but perhaps not all." '



'Hovering in helpless anguish, Bruno saw Stan raise his head and look up at the cold stars, just now beginning to emerge above the Heluk Valley's black mountain walls. And in his expression Bruno could almost read what Stan was thinking.

It's a lonely enough place in which to live; but it's an even lonelier place in which to die!'



'At the entrance to the Kibi village, Kusaho stood, his arms outstretched in welcome. I realized when I saw him that what I had imagined was true- weighed in the light of cultural differences, Kusaho must be regarded as one of the most unique human beings on earth. His untaught compassion toward strangers, his clear-sighted anticipation of unknown truth, and his willingness to differ from the majority, Kusaho towered above his peers higher, perhaps, than many great men in our culture have towered above us.'

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