When Iron Gates Yield – Geoffrey T. Bull Flitsaanbieding

Beschrijving

When Iron Gates Yield

The dauntless story of the British Missionary in Tibet, captive in Chinese Communist hands for three years.

Geoffrey Bull was sent out from Scotland to serve as a missionary in Asia. He travelled to China and progressed as far as the border with Tibet. He managed to cross the border believing God would have him evangelise the unreached in Tibet. However, shortly after beginning his work, China invaded Tibet and Bull was imprisoned as a suspected foreign spy.

Bull’s main problem was that the authorities just couldn’t accept that anyone would travel that distance and enter their land purely for the purpose of religious work. Missionary work seemed to be an alien concept to them. Bull obviously failing to confess his non-existent ulterior motive, became subject to lengthy interrogations, periods of solitary confinement and the type of mental torture that could be worse than physical. I find it incredible that he could remember such a lot of detail for this book after his harrowing experiences at the hands of the Communists. They used Marxist propaganda to condition the prisoners and then brain wash them. They were only released when they could demonstrate proper “thought progress.” The practices were openly modelled on Stalin’s Russia until his death when Bull found himself in serious trouble for whilstling which was taken as a possible expression of jubilation at the news instead of the appropriate display of sorrow.

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