One of our Vietnamese Bahá’ís named Minh lived on the outskirts of Saigon among many Chinese. Before he became a Bahá’í he was teaching the Faith. He was responsible for bringing in 200 Chinese believers in a small village which I visited several times. Minh was quite a person. He kept a boa constrictor under the bed where he slept at night. It was in a large cage that could be opened quickly. I didn’t realize he might have had it for his protection. When I was in combat in Italy I carried a ‘45 in a shoulder holster all the time and slept with it at night in case the enemy came to our area. I felt I would at least have something to slow them up and keep them from destroying us.
(Servants of the Glory: A Chronicle of Forty Years of Pioneering, Morgan, Adrienne and Dempsey)
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