Bridge Across the Century II - Paperback

Excerpt from Chapter 1: It was the year 1926. A teenage boy sat hunched forward, totally absorbed, frowning with concentration as he tried to make sense out of the words from the man in the pulpit. Potaru had left his mountain home to come to the distant city of Taihoku to attend high school. It was a privilege practically unknown to boys of his Ami tribe, one of the notorious head-hunter clans inhabiting the formidable ranges along the east coast of the island of Formosa. Out of curiosity he had from time to time dropped into a church recently started by the Rev Abe (ah-beh), a Japanese. It was there that he had encountered two itinerant missionaries. One was Juji Nakada, bishop of the Japan Holiness Church. his companion, a foreigner, was Ernest A Kilbourne, who with Nakada and Charles Cowman were founders of the Oriental Missionary Society in Tokyo, Japan.

By Edwin W. Kilbourne, grandson of OMS cofounders