257:) on 10 November 1944. A tombstone was erected by local church members; "When our father died, a large slab of stone was cut by the people and the surface polished by the exhausting but surprisingly effective method of dragging the slab back and forth against another rock. Then the pastor chiselled out an inscription in three languages – English,
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In two collections of oral history there are interviews with Yi and Miao villagers which in passing recount various tales about
Gladstone Porteous. However Porteous' English name was not widely remembered by the villagers, and in the translation of interviews found in Jacqueline Lo's
340:(American Bible Society, 1949) p. 133 "Gladstone Porteous – Mr. Porteous had completed the translation of the Nasu New Testament before Pearl Harbor and had it accepted by the China Bible House for publication. Only the first page of the manuscript was actually in the hands."
328:(China Inland Mission, Council for North America, 1906) "Nichols has had a new worker, Mr. Gladstone Porteous, from Australia, join him in the work at the south gate during the quarter. Mr. Porteous is now studying the language there, and giving such help as he can in the work."
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Porteous are kept very busy in the work. Difficulties many, and dangers not a few, beset the path. The Miao are low in the social scale. The landlords of their miserably barren farms are
128:(王懷仁). One of the main influences was the theological school run by Porteous. Another was the location, since Sayingpan (撒营盘镇), 80 km north of the county seat of Luquan, was the original site of Salaowu (撒老乌), chief fortress of the Yi.
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Chinese, and the stone was erected by the Christians above the grave." At his death 20,000 of the Yi and Miao were Christians. Today (2011) there are 40,000 Christians and each valley is marked by white-towered churches.
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Pearson) from England, whom he married in 1908. Together they ministered to the people of Yunnan, and eventually moved three days travel to the north to work amongst the
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Australians again visited Sayingpan in the late 1990s.
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Kunming under direction of John Williams, later communications officer of the AVG and Fourteenth Air Force, and Harry Sutter."
382:(China Inland Mission, 1915) p. 386 "In Yunnan Mr. Nicholls, who lost his wife in 1903, has had as colleagues Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone Porteous, Mr. G.E. Metcalf, and more recently Mr. and Mrs. Gowman."
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356:(1996) "A call was sent out by Mr. Gladstone Porteous, from Wutingchow, Yunnan. It was addressed to 'The Presbyterian Laos Mission, Bangkok, Siam,' and in due time it came to me."
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province in August 1902 aged 30. The influence of this group of
Australian missionaries in Yunnan was profound – though one story is incorrect: they did not introduce the
140:, where their fruitful ministry continued for over twenty years. A talented linguist, Porteous set about translating parts of the Bible into at least three separate
294:(2006) the English translation of his Chinese name Zhang Erchang (张尔昌) incorrectly uses the name "John Williams." The confusion may arise from a conflation of the
112:. These had been in Yunnan since the 1850s, and may have been brought back by Chinese miners after the Australian goldrush for use as railway sleepers.
504:撒营盘镇人文地理 on Yunnan government site www.ynszxc.gov.cn/szxc/ 2007年11月29日 ... 禄劝彝族苗族自治县撒营盘镇数字乡村新农村建设信息网 ... 回国，改革开放后，张尔昌夫妇和外籍外教士的子孙陆继回到撒营盘镇的撒老坞村委会，并与镇 ...
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400:高漫| 按人物姓名检索| 人物生平| 华人基督教史人物辞典 撒普山在云南府(今昆明市)以北，接近山区的一个村寨。1907年，郭秀峯教士(Arthur G. Nicholls)和张尔昌教士夫妇(Mr. & Mrs. Gladstone Porteous)在此地建立了
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419:近代西南少数民族语言圣经翻译出版考述-原创代写论文网 2010年5月6日... Hanson)等创制了景颇文;美国浸礼会传教士永文生(Vincent Young)创制了拉祜文、佤文;英籍澳大利亚传教士张尔昌(Gladstone Porteous)等创制了彝文。
391:张尔昌简介 云南苗族基督教网 2010年8月13日 张尔昌(Gladstone Porteous 1874–1944). 英籍澳大利亚人，基督教内地会传教士。1874年生于澳大利亚，1904年10月到中国传教，先在广州，1915年左右到 ... "
517:(Centre for the Southern Chinese Diaspora, Division of Pacific and Asian History, The Australian National University, 2000) p. 39.
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