The Black Bearded Barbarian : the Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa
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He placed himself at its head, with A Hoa at his side. The students came next, and then the converts in a double row. And thus they marched slowly along the pathway singing as they went. It was a stirring sight. On either side the waving fields of rice, behind them the gleam of the blue ocean, before them the great towering mountains clothed in green. Above them shone the clear daz- zling sky of a tropical evening. And on wound the long procession of Christians in a heathen land, and from them ...arose the glorious words : thou, my soul, bless God the Lord, And all that in me is Be stirred up his holy name To magnify and bless. And the heathen in the rice-fields stopped to gaze at the strange sight, and the mountains 194 BLACK BEARDED BARBARIAN gave back the echo of that Name which is above every name. And so, marching to their song, the pro- cession came to the village. Everybody in the place had come out to meet them at the first sound of the singing. And now they stood staring, the men in a group by them- selves, the women and children in the back- ground, the dogs snarling on the outskirts of the crowd.
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