A Half Century Among, the Siamese and the Lao an Autobiography (Classic Reprint), by Daniel McGilvary
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Excerpt from A Half Century Among, the Siamese and the Lao an AutobiographyMissionary biography is one of the most interesting and instructive of studies. It is, however, a department of missionary literature to which Americans have not made proportionate contribution. The foreign missionary Societies of the United States now represent more missionaries and a larger expenditure than the European Societies, but most of the great missionary biographies are of British and Continental missionaries, so that many Americans do not realize that there are men connected with their own Societies whose lives have been characterized by eminent devotion and large achievement.Because I regarded Dr. McGilvary as one of the great missionaries of the Church Universal, I urged him several years ago to write his autobiography. He was then over seventy-five years of age, and I told him that he could not spend his remaining strength to any better advantage to the cause he loved than in preparing such a volume. His life was not only one of unusual length (he lived to the ripe age of eighty-three), but his missionary service of fifty-three years covered an interesting part of the history of missionary work in Siam, and the entire history, thus far, of the mission to the Lao people of northern Siam.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. 100 years old historical reprinted memories about 50 yeaars life in the Northern Thailand By Gert Bo Thorgersen To me the books title (and also the text) would have been more helpful for us who now are living in the 21th century, if we for example instead were reading: “A Half Century in Thailand, Most of the Time in the Northern Thailand”. Because as the Siamese people I always am thinking about all of the people living in Siam, now a day respectively called the Thais living in Thailand, and concerning the Lao people I’m thinking on those living in the Country of Laos. But at the time of McGilvarys living, Siamese and Lao was used on the two groups of Thais, which only had a small difference in the dialects, and in the letters. And who now nearly 800 years ago, then started the many local kingdoms all over Thailand, after they during some hundreds of years had emigrated from the Southern of China.But actual McGilvary lived in the Chiang Mai City, around 630 km (387 sq. mi) North from Bangkok, and most of the time travelled around in the Chiang Mai and the Chiang Rai Provinces. And actual the Chiang Mai Province covers 20,107 km² (7,763 sq. mi), and is having its northern border to Burma, and between the Chiang Mai Province and Laos we are having the Chiang Rai Province, covering 11,678 km² (4,509 sq. mi), and the central City, Chiang Rai, which McGilvary many times was visiting. And actual it was the King Mengrai, who came from the Chiang Rai City, and then in 1296 founded the Chiang Mai City, and from here made the Kingdom of Lanna, which lasted during the years 1296 – 1768.In the book we nearly in each of the 35 chapters are having a single side showing a copy of an old picture, mostly personal pictures, and in one chapter, a single card of the Northern Thailand, with the names then used. But these pictures and the card, are not good, but they helps by giving us some ideas of what they want to show; and personally I was delighted when seeing the picture of the house which they after some years had built, as it clearly was showing it to be a big and very beautiful Thailand Teak house. We read about the building of the house and also learn about the White Ants.As a side note; the book is written by a Missionary, but personally I have no religion, that is not even being Christian, even though I was born in a Christian Country - my wife is Buddhist - but since I was a child I always have liked to read Historical books, and especially concerning the Land and the place where I might be. And actual I now am living in Chiang Mai, and besides, before I bought this book, I in other books had seen remarks about McGilvary. And then just before buying this book, I first bought the small book by Karl Dahlfred: “Daniel McGilvary”, which tells much on the few sides, and then made me more interested in learning more about him.The writings by McGilvary is of historical importance, as it actual is detailed memories of how the cultures and the livings was in the Northern Thailand when he lived there back 160 to 100 years ago, and thereby also telling how it had been during hundreds of years earlier. And then while he was living in Chiang Mai the living slowly started to change as the result of the Thai people meeting the Western cultures and knowledge. And as McGilvary writes, that before he and his wife came to Chiang Mai, it only was known that one single Western person had been in this city, actual the English Counsel.And as we read in the book, actual it was nearly caused by an “accident” that he and his wife at all came to Chiang Mai, because on their boat from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, they on the river crossed the Chiang Mai Prince, the local King, who was on his yearly visit to the Siamese King in Bangkok. But by an “accident” the two boats didn’t discover each other, and it later showed up, that the Prince didn’t want Foreigners to come to Chiang Mai, and especially not with other Religions. But McGilvary had papers from Bangkok which allowed him to go to Chiang Mai, and which helped him when he came to Chiang Mai, and officials didn’t know what to do, now when the Prince not was home.But again, the book is a historical book about Thailand, and McGilvarys (born in 1828), and his wife’s life in Thailand started by their reaching Bangkok a Friday in 1858, and the ship had to wait at the Mosquito Point, outside Bangkok, until Monday; and that turned out to be awful with all the Mosquitoes.Before they in 1864 reached Chiang Mai, they were living in Bangkok especially among other Missionaries and Doctors. But they also passed some years by a Governor longer on South from Bangkok, and there got a school, and were allowed to missionaries, after promising teaching teach English to the Governors son.The journey from Bangkok to Chiang Mai took 31 days, while first by boat going by the river. While using shorter time when going the other way, and then not going against the water flow. But on the way to Chiang Mai the last 12 days being on elephants, as the river then made it harder for boats to go against the river. As previous written now a day we normally say that the distance from Bangkok to Chiang Mai is around 630 km (387 sq. mi), but by the Mae Ping River and the bad paths it actual was longer for McGilvary and his wife.In the book we are getting many interesting writings both about happy and unhappy cases that they run into during their life in Thailand. For example one of the first persons who in Chiang Mai contacted McGilvary was a high positioned Buddhist monk. He by himself was speculating much about the Earth and the Universe, and many things which he had learned when studying the Buddhism didn’t fit together in his mind. Among other he had been told that the Eclipse is the Devils work! Then McGilvary told him quite different explanations, and concerning the Eclipse, gave him the date and time on the next Eclipse. And after this Eclipse had been there, just on the date and time as it was written down, the monks speculation problems was solved, and McGilvary were having a friend for the rest of the life, but the monk continuing in being a chef Buddhist monk.On the side 102 starts the chapter “Martyrdom”, and here we read that in the year 1869, while McGilvary was out of the Chiang Mai City, 2 of the 18 Thais, who had changed to Christianity, were executed. These assassinations were the results of an order from the Prince, the local King, who had told, in Chiang Mai, to execute all of the Christian Thais. The other, of the 18 persons, disappeared, before they were found. The reason was that the failure of the rice crop that year, and that the Prince, and the local Tai Buddhists believed that the Christians were connected to the Devils, and that they had stopped the water to the rice. It was an awful way in which these 2 persons were executed during 12 hours. But later, McGlvary, as the first persons ever, stood up in front of the Prince, and demanded to get an apology for these murders. Everybody were scared of this Price, even in Bangkok they were afraid of what he possibly might do. The next year the Prince died a few miles before reaching Chiang Mai, on his way back from Bangkok, and with his follower, the last local Prince in Chiang Mai, much was changed.And concerning Witchcraft we especially read about two cases by which we learn that throughout History it had been so that if a Disease came to a city, or just if persons wanted to throw out another family, then there was told about Devils, Witches, and so on, being in the actual family in the city. And then the family had to escape from the city, and often, even their house, the trees and other things on the ground totally were burned down, so that there thereby no longer were any rooms for the Devils. In the first case, caused by Disease in Chiang Mai City, the Prince asked McGilvary to help and the big Thailand family then lived by him during long time. The other Thais from the city were waiting outside McGilvarys house, wanting to throw out the family. And to McGilvarys questioning why there are no sickness in his house where this family that was delivering the sickness now was living, they answer that the Devils was waiting in the trees around his ground, afraid of entering his Christian house!In the second case, in another city, the family’s house was not burned, and here it ended by McGilvary, together with the family, rebuild it. He did this by first Christian the ground and all of the parts on the ground, and after this then even many of the other citizens came and helped, because now they believed, even though being Buddhists that on the Christian ground there would be no Devils. And it ended with a rebuild house, many happy days, and afternoons with many of the citizens in the actual house, sitting there singing and listening to McGilvary.McGilvary by himself also worked as a helping Doctor, until they from USA are getting some educated Doctors to Chiang May, and are building a Hospital. The Karen people, one of the peopled which belong to the mountains, run to the mountains when Sicknesses starts in the city, but then when McGilvary started using Quinine, and thereby cured what newer before was cured, then they come back from the mountains when they heard he now aging was giving Quinine to people. And on the side 196 we read that a little girl, who he was looking on, had a Hemorrhage. But when he discovered that she was bleeding from the gums, he got a clue, that it was Scurvy! And it showed up that the Lao doctors during 3 month only had put her on boiled rice and dried fish (totally wrong by so missing the B3 vitamin (by using polished white rice))! And he found 30 other children having the same problem with Scurvy. And this was the normal habit by the Thai doctors, only allowing this food to the sick persons!But when the American Doctors started to receive to Chiang Mai, the first one being the Dr. Cheek, whom McGilvary met when he was back in USA, then it really started with the real curing in Chiang Mai. For example the Princes mother was sick, and the Lao doctor only could tell that she now would die, but she was cured, and lived many years.In the last, around 1/3 sides of the book, McGilvary mostly are traveling around in the Northern Thailand, and crossing the borders to Burma, China, and Laos, and thereby also is meeting the English and Frenchmen who have occupied two of these countries. And for example he in Muang Sing, in Laos, met the Praya Singhanat, a prominent positioned person in the government, who during years have suffered from Vesical Calculus (Bladder Stone). McGilvary advise him to go to the hospital in Chiang Mai, in straight line nearly 200 miles to the West. Everybody tells the person not to do this, even his wife, but he sells everything, and starts on the journey. After 12 month (½ mile/day), because of the pain, he reaches Chiang Mai, and is wholly relieved by an operation; and getting greatly interested in the Christianity.On one of his travelling he visit a place where he earlier have been, and where they now are having persons preaching the Christianity. But while he is here a person comes and tells him that in a place outside they have built a church, and now wants him to visit them. McGilvary had not heard anything about this place or the church, but he travels to the place. He sees that there by bamboo have been build a small building, and after he has made at praying for the place, it shows up, that people thought that if they build a Church, then as a reward each person then would get money. As they besides were connecting foreigners being the same as money!To me it was a very interesting book to read. It was original printed in 1910, and McGilvary died the following year in Chiang Mai. And as Karl Dahlfred writes in the thin book, when McGilvary came to Bangkok there then in this city was around 60 Christian Thais, and in Northern Thailand 0. But when he died, then in North Thailand there were around 6.000 Christian Thais, but in Bangkok the number of Christian Thais nearly was unchanged! But again a good historical book written by a person who was a part of what was going on.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. 50 years of missionary service among the Lao in northern Thailand By Jan van der Vegt A challenging book about a man who faihfully served an unreached people group for over 50 years. His humble, honest and practical service in primitive circumstances is a thrill to read. It is a great story about Gods love and a mans willingnes to be an instrument of His divine love for every human being in this world.
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