An Approaching Exploration to the Preacher Shui-Long Chen(Nern-Gee Chen)

                 and his Descendants in the Church, Family and Social life

 

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 陳水龍(陳能記)傳道師及其後裔之教會、家庭與社會生活探研 【作者】:蔡主恩

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 ( 5 Chapters, 15 Passages, 40,000words thesis, 800 words excerpt)



The thesis is based on enshrining Revd. Chen, Shui-Long in our mind, who was under the tutoring of Revd. J. L. Mackay(馬偕)《the author’s wife, Chen, Mei-Yu, 陳美瑜is preacher Chen’s great grand-child��� and on returning to thoughts of Chen’s descendants( 4 generations) among the church, family and social life, both of which are the motive of research. All that were concerned with the people, the setting, the life of church and society would constitute the purpose from the author, relating to the system of Revd. Chen, Shui-Long, his children, grand children and great grand children. There are three methods of the research adopted, that is, information collection, visiting and observation, questionnaires, among which it is effective of 99, the rate of retrieval 82.5%. By virtue of flowing motion in time and space, oral history, comparable analysis, we might make the conclusion as flollows:

  1. Most of Revd. Chen, Shui-Long’s descendants have almost kept a firm hold of Christian belief and are then abiding by it to next generation. Only three daughters from Chen, Hsin- Chang(陳信章)there may be: Chen, Chiao- Feng(陳嬌鳳); Chen, Hsueh-Yu(陳雪玉); Chen, Pi-Hsia(陳碧霞); after their Marriage, they were gradually transforming the believes to their husbands’ folk believes.

  2. Not many of descendants from Revd, Chen have thrown in pastors’ offices, except for Chen, Hsin-Chang(陳信章); Wu, I-Ching(吳憶清); Lee, Hong-peng(李宏平); Nor many in Elders or Deacons, except for Chen, Fu-Li(陳復禮); Chen, Yueh-Han(陳約翰); Chen, Kung- Pei(陳拱北); Chen, Chih-Hui(陳智慧); Chen, Hsi-Hsin(陳錫新); Chen, Ko-Cheng(陳科成); Chen, I-Chi(陳一騏); Chen, Yin-Hsueh(陳映雪)etc. Most of Chen’s descendants do not express their vehement desire in church service.

  3. For family life, major of Chen’s ramification are on good term with one another, no matter how the relationship among the family might be. But still on bad term with 4 couples and pathetic relation in 3 person between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

  4. For social life, the scions of Revd. Chen make many important contributions, e.g. Chen, Kung- Pei(陳拱北), the most international representative for the Father of Public Sanitation of Taiwan. Chen, Hsueh-Yu’s(陳雪玉) sons and daughters found business on hand as Tran-Asia Airlines; Chung-Hsin Security Corporation etc. So they offer the opportunities for getting the employments.

  5. Comparable analysis for history, the educational background is put forward to the arraying from high to low: Chen, Fu-Li’s scions(陳復禮); Chen, Yueh-Han’s(陳約翰); Chen, Hsin-Chang’s(陳信章). For the enthusiasm of church life: Chen, Yueh-Han’s scions(陳約翰); Chen, Fu-Li’s(陳復禮); Chen, Hsin-Chang’s(陳信章). For the peculiarities of Jobs: Chen, Fu-Li’s devote themselves to medicine and to leading cadres in business. Chen, Hsin-Chang’s(陳信章) are almost engaged in trading. Chen, Yueh-Han’s(陳約翰)incline toward expertise in techniques.

Two latency there may be delineating:

  1. It is a virtuous etiquette originally for the passionate love for the church, whereas it always gives rise to political conflicts as a result of humiliation. While the session in the church, which consisted of some Elders, like Chen, Yueh-Han(陳約翰), passed through the bill that did not employ the pastor for a post; Revd. Hsu, Chun-Sheng(徐春生)once took it by force through the vote in congregation of the church. If only we might have compassions on the thruth, the blot in the church would not have been left over.

  2. Today Sung- Shan church(松山教會) and Zion church(錫安教會)do not let it bygones that the family of Revd. Chen, Shui-Long had offerings to the churches in the past time. Therefore we might petition the descendants of Revd. Chen, Shui-Long for following the ancestors’ enthusiasm of mission in order to recall the passionate love for the church. “You are the salt of the earth ”(Matthew 5:13a); “You are the light of the world.”( 5:14a).
    Due to oral history, the thesis is tinged with the subjective point of view; moreover, there may be some scotoma in questionnaire, that is to say: blurred standard ( e.g. richness and comparatively good living standard) is the limited problem. In addition, it is so fastidious for statistics and oral history to acquire the first-hand information that could offer the references to the researchers who are much interested in. Apart from that, we could realise that the inheritance of faith is being transmitted from generation to generation, but “No more than three generations is the wealth and high position ” which is proved from the descendants of Revd. Chen, Shui-Long. 詳全文

 

 

 

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