THE MISSIONARY'S CALL.

My soul is not at rest; there comes a strange

And secret whisper to my spirit like a dream of night

That tells me I am on enchanted ground.

The voice of my departed Lord, "Go, teach all nations,"

Comes on the night air and awakes mine ear.

Why live I here? The vows of God are on me,

And I may not stop to play with shadows

Or pluck earthly flowers till I my work have done

And tendered up account.

And I will go!

I may no longer doubt to give up friends and idle hopes

And every tie that binds my heart to thee, my country!

Henceforth, then, it matters not if storm or sunshine

Be my earthly lot, bitter or sweet my cup.

I only pray: "God make me holy, and my spirit nerve

For the stern hour of strife!"

And when I come to stretch me for the last,

In unattended agony beneath the cocoa's shade,

It will be sweet that I have toiled for other worlds than this.

Through ages of eternal years

My spirit never shall repent

That toil and suffering once were mine below.—Selected.

하나님의 손길, 한국의 성경공부에서

H. M. 해밀 (H. M. Hamill) 신학박사

GOD'S HAND IN KOREA'S BIBLE STUDY BY H. M. HAMILL, D. D.

I am writing from far Pyeng Yang, where the great Korean revival began a year ago. I can look out of my window, past the great gate of the ancient wall of the city, and see the roof and bell-tower of the Central Presbyterian Church, in which the revival has shown much of its wonderful power. I am the guest of Graham Lee, who was the pastor during the pentecostal months while the revival was in progress, his co-pastor, Dr. S. A. Moffett, being away on furlough in America. I enclose a near-by photo of the historic church, now known to all Christians as a place where God again has visited his people. I have strolled for miles with ex-Pastor Lee around and through the old city, and upon its partly dismantled wall, and yesterday, at the tomb of Kija, who came as king and reformer 1200 B. C., we sat and talked long of the power of God as manifested for months in this and other Korean cities, and even now in evident, though less striking, operation. I said to him, "The one thing I cannot understand is how coolheaded, dispassionate Presbyterians like yourself, who do not believe in or allow the emotional to be stressed in your religion, could have led and participated for many weeks in meetings that were characterized by such tremendous upheavals of human feeling!"

"Neither can we account for it," said he, with a solemn look of retrospection upon his face, in memory of the strange scenes through which he had passed. "You are right when you say it is not our customary way, but you are wrong when you speak of it 'as human.' It came from God supernaturally, and we were utterly unable, if we had wanted to do it, to hold ourselves under ordinary conditions."

Last Sunday morning, at half past nine o'clock, I visited the Central Church, and found quite a thousand persons—men, women, and some children—seated on mats in groups, studying the day's Sunday-school lesson, from Genesis. Korean christians are taking their studies this year from Genesis, because until now they have had no translations into their native language of Old Testament books. Now that a complete translation is assured they will probably return another year to the International Lesson studies from both Testaments. The lesson for the day was the temperance lesson, the story of Noah's drunkenness. The superintendent was reviewing the great body of Bible students, and was saying that "strong drink was worse than Korean tigers." The school, to the music of a cornet, sang "Holy, holy, holy," in Korean, with a spirit and evident understanding that would put to shame most of our American schools.

It was a strange sight—full five hundred men, all in white patriarchal robes, that with his little black hat surmounting the head, many with flowing beards, all with a look of profound interest and earnestness upon their faces, the pathos of which I can never forget. On the other side of the high wooden partition which is in all Korean churches, sat the whiterobed and white-turbaned women, looking clean and bright, and next the wall were the children, in all the colors of the rainbow, massed like a great bed of pinks and daisies and hollyhocks, with shiny faces looking up curiously at the American visitor. For orderly, reverent behavior, and for unflagging interest in the day's study, and in the too lengthy exhortation from the desk, I have found no school in my own land that excelled this and the other schools of Pyeng Yang.

The exigency of a great inpouring of church members, all anxious to attend every kind of church meeting, has led to curious conditions. In America, the dominant movement is to get adults into the Sunday-school by "Baraca, Brotherhood," and all proper devices, but here in Korea, men and women, especially men, crowd the buildings to their utmost capacity, and allow little space for the children. I saw a man lifting forty small boys into a window from without, and these were wedged in among full-grown men wherever the smallest space could be found. The burden of my Sunday-school addresses has been: "Brethren of Korea, as soon as you can possibly satisfy this tremendous adult pressure upon the Sunday-school, provide for the children." I pleaded with the missionary body of the city, forty or more Americans, last night, to try to meet the exigency by holding for an hour each Sunday morning a "children's Sunday-school," limiting it to the primary and junior grades only. One in America can have little idea of the many complex problems thrust upon the Korean missionaries by the great revival and the guiding Spirit.

At two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, I had the rare privilege of preaching to twelve hundred men in this same Central Church, with Dr. Moffett as my interpreter. It was a wonderful audience, ninety-nine out of every hundred being Christians. The pastor, a native preacher, recently installed, said, "I see only men with their hair cut," and it was explained to me that this meant that all were christians, the heathen Korean cutting off topknot and braid when he becomes a believer, not by compulsion but as his own personal testimony to the change in his life.

I took the "Lord's Prayer" as my subject, and tried for one hour in a very simple and loving way to make its inner meaning plain. I challenge any destructive critic in America, who does not believe in Bible supernaturalism and miracles, to come before a congregation like the one I had, and attempt to preach his unbeliefs. The jaw-bone of any Korean ass would rout him and his new theology before he had begun much more than begun. Indeed, it is a comfort to know that the Korean language itself rebels against expression of Bible heresies; one must speak so that the common people will hear him gladly.

Dr. Lee told me of a ponderous lecturer who came to the Orient with his occidental conceits, and began by saying to his audience of simple people: "All thought is either abstract or concrete." His interpreter, looking dazed for an instant, recovered himself, and said with a grin: "The gentleman says he is very glad to see you this evening." My own sermon,—I am happy to say, met a better fate, for an old Confucian ex-teacher, with the face of Abraham and the dignity of Moses, came to me and thanked me for helping him better to see the simple beauty and power of the Lord's Prayer.

At Songdo, a hundred miles southward, I had striking evidence that fine Sunday-school work is not the heritage of any particular land, but may spring up indigenously in Korea. At Songdo is centered the mission work of the American Southern Methodists, and this incident was a part of their doings in Sunday-school ways. In a large Sunday-school they have a blind superintendent who for many years has been leading and training his scholars after the best modern methods, though never once seeing or knowing of the work of other schools. Every Sunday he goes to the platform with the entire text of the lesson memorized, together with a full knowledge of the related subjectmatter. In the Scripture readings, he draws from memory his part of the responses, and is practically master of the New Testament in both content and intent. His school is a model of correct management, orderly behavior and devout Bible study.

I am glad to say that in spite of many handicaps and an unutterable poverty that comes chiefly of long misrule and over-taxation, the Koreans Sunday-schools are being supplied in some measure with modern helps and material. They have clocks and blackboards and song-books and song-rolls and teachers'-meetings and lesson reviews, but are sadly lacking in primary work, in child-membership, in Bible pictures illustrative of the lessons, and in properly graded study and teaching-helps. Only one little monthly helper is printed in the Korean language, and this must answer all needs, whether by teacher, adult scholar, big boy, or child. They need urgently four kinds of helps; a teacher's special helper, an adult lesson-leaf or quartely, a middle class help for boys and girls, and the Olivet picture-card or an illustrated child's paper, with text and lesson story in the Korean. I have urged that quantities of the Olivet picture-cards, without printing on them, be brought to Korea, and here be handed over to their Korean printers for the lesson-story in the native language. If some man wants to do a most beneficent deed, left him order a hundred thousand Olivet cards with only the colored Bible picture on each, to be sent to the faithful Koreans.

Out of the great revival have come the grave and urgent questions that perplex the missionary in Korea. Past my door at this moment go in long procession five hundred Korean women who have come from all parts of a large district, many walking long distances and paying out of their poverty for their daily rice, on which they chiefly live and work, all sitting for hours each day under the missionaries to receive training for a week or ten days in Bible study and church work, with incidental hygienic and sanitary teaching. Next week another like class, called the Methodist "Woman's Class," will meet in this city. The same was true last week at Songdo and Seoul, and is an attempt to meet the gravest emergencies that ever came to any body of missionaries.

What does it mean when the Holy Spirit literally overshadows a great body of men, and hurls them with faces to the floor all night in an agony of conviction for secret sin? What further does it mean when these same natives, their faces convulsed with pain and their eyes wet with constant weeping, confess publicly their sins one by one, and plead with God for pardon? What further does it signify when, a year later, these impoverished, hard-working men and women maintain a self-supporting church with two pastors, a home missionary, four Bible women, and Christian schools; and whenever their church bell peals out, they crowd to the very door-steps every place of worship, and sit on mats for long hours listening eagerly to any one who will teach them the Bible? I do not know or care what Yale ex-professors think or write about it, but I know by unerring Bible signs that God is strangely leading these Koreans, and that they are truly and lovingly following his guiding hand.—Sunday-School Times.

역자 주: 평양(Pyeng Yang) — 39.0392°N, 125.7625°E. 중앙장로교회(Central Presbyterian Church) — 평양 시내. 기자묘(Tomb of Kija) — 평양. 송도(Songdo, 개성) — 37.9714°N, 126.5550°E. 그레이엄 리(Graham Lee) — 북장로교 선교사. 모펫(S. A. Moffett) — 북장로교 선교사, 평양 선교의 핵심 인물.

존 B. 슬레만 씨의 연설

미국·캐나다 해외선교위원회 제15차 연합대회에서

MR. JOHN B. SLEMAN BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN MISSION BOARDS OF UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

It will be remembered that Mr. Sleman made a tour of the mission fields of the Orient, in the year 1907, as a representative of the Laymen's Missionary Movement. He was deeply impressed with the opportunity of every phase of work in Korea, and expressed himself in terms of praise at the character of missionary effort being carried forward in the one-time Hermit Kingdom. While Mr. Sleman's speech is not about Korea we think it will be of interest to our readers in that it gives a general survey of missions and missionaries which can but be helpful to students of the great missionary problem.—Editor.

Mr. John Sleman (Centennial Commission—Laymen's Missionary Movement): I do not feel that this is any time to suggest any program or remarks on methods of administration in the foreign field. I went to visit the missions with two purposes in view. In the first place I wanted to be absolutely equipped with first hand knowledge with which to answer the criticisms so common among men. I wanted to so load up with information as to the needs of the foreign mission field and the means by which these needs might be met, that I might be of use at home in stirring up men to give their money and their lives to the work in which we are all interested.

Before summing up I want to refer to one or two things relating to the administration. They all hike back to this one trouble—the niggardliness of the church at home. I cannot think of any criticism that might be made which could not be solved by a full treasury. Take the single question of one man. If we only had the money we could send more men. Take the matter of administration of stations, where men who are educated and qualified to preach and teach, are spending hours, days, weeks and months in building and buying supplies and doing a thousand and one things that laymen ought to be doing. All these questions come right back home to us. We can settle almost anything that might be criticised if we ourselves will do the work we ought to be doing here at home. I do not want to make that absolutely general but it is so general that it seems to me to cover most of the points. The greatest of all impressions left on one's mind by a trip to the Orient is that of the magnificent opportunity that exists there to-day. The situation that has just been mentioned in Korea is one we ought to know about. We ought to capture the whole country. It is possible to capture the whole country in this generation if we are faithful. And China! words fail to describe the opportunity there. It has got to be an old story that China has changed its educational systems which it has had for thousands of years and substituted in its place an educational system like our own. It is a revolution in education, it is a revolution of the brain, but we don't know how long it is going to last and we should take advantage of the opportunity thus presented.

If I have any criticism at all to make of the missionaries, it is this: There are a great many men teaching coolies who ought to be teaching and training men to be teachers. There is a great demand for teachers in the government schools. The Vice-President of the Shanghai Y. M. C. A. or University has been offered the position virtually as superintendent of a district having a population larger than the whole of the United States. That is the most economical thing you can think of for us to supply the men and the Chinese government to pay the expenses. We have only to give them the teachers and laborers and the Chinese will do the rest. It seems to me inconceivable that we shall not rise to this marvelous educational opportunity in China. And I could speak of the medical opportunity too. In our hands to-day is the medical education of both China and Korea, China and Korea want us, and our only rival is Japan and they do not want her, they want us to undertake it, but if we do not Japan will. In Korea, in the basement of the hospital the first medical book ever printed in Korea is being miemographed, and the medical students are working there together on that book. They would learn the medical profession and at the same time learn the Christian profession. There has been spoken of in one of the reports this afternoon the establishment of medical colleges and school in connection with missions. It is absolutely ours to do, Japan does not want to do it but if we do not do it she will, and it will be a question of whether the medical science of China shall be Christian or materialistic, it will be one or the other.

I want to say a word about the wonderful conference in Shanghai. I do not believe any greater privilege could have come to a man from this side than to meet there for ten days these leaders of our forces in China. There were some people in that company who may not have been faithful but there were a great many there that I knew were, and take them as a body, right straight through, I do not know where a body of men could be gathered together in this country who would compare with those who attended the Conference in Shanghai in breadth of knowledge and experience. It was a privilege to meet them, many of them bearing names which are household names in this country, men out there who are in contact with the whole life of China. It seems to me more and more that when we send out new missionaries we want to make sure that we send out only statesmen, for I am convinced that the time has come, especially in China, when we cannot afford to have people who cannot hold their own with the best in China, and when you are getting the best in China, you are getting something very fine. The young Christian men in China are men before whom we want to walk carefully, men of great capacity, and we want to see that we do not send out men who are not up to their standard in every way.

역자 주: 슬레만(John B. Sleman) — 미국 평신도 선교 운동의 대표. 상하이(Shanghai) — 중국(31.2304°N, 121.4737°E).

추모 — 루비 레이첼 켄드릭 양

In Memory — Miss Ruby Rachel Kendrick

IN MEMORY.

MISS RUBY RACHEL KENDRICK.

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die"—and she truly lives in the hearts of those she left behind. She came to us last November in our "Tallulah Ladies Home" in Songdo and with her our happiness and member seemed complete. Oh, how the Koreans had learned to love her too; she was so young, lovable and beautiful! Her teacher who knew her best loves her most and refuses to be comforted.

She was with us such a short time that she had not entered into much school work, but she assisted in morning prayers, an English class and helping to nurse the sick children. She left us on the 19th of June, having been in Korea only about eight months. The first month was spent in Seoul and the rest of the time in Songdo.

While she studied the language she also studied conditions as they realy are and was planning and preparing methods by which she might help "my Korean sisters" as she so often called them. We attended church together at South Ward Church and she was planning to take charge of the primary department of the Sunday School. The babies and little tots were not at all afraid of her because they knew she loved them. Long before she could talk in their tongue they knew she loved them because love is a language that needs no interpretation. She usually carried candy or nuts in her purse and would give them to the babies at church to keep them quiet. She had many warm friends among these little tots. The women were happy when she came, saying that for so long they had had only one "pooin" and now that she had come, just how happy and glad they were it was impossible to say in words. Now that she is gone from among us they are most sad. One said: "We have lost her but she has gained every thing, Heaven, Jesus and our Heavenly Father."

In our sadness we think of her loved ones in America—our hearts go out with love to them across the sea and we long to tell them that while Ruby was not with her own kindred whom she loved so tenderly, that she was among those who had learned to love her as a dear sister. This new made grave on the sunny slope of the quiet Han river is not in her native land but is appropriately here in the land she had adopted as her own, giving her beautiful young life to save from heathenism and we belive that had she been able to choose she would have said: "Let my body rest with those whom I came to tell of Jesus." The evening she was brought to Seoul, her last words to those left in Songdo were: "If my work here in Korea is to be so short, I want to write to the "Young People" at home to come take my place." This letter she did not get to write, but the thought was continually with her and one of her deepest desires seemed to be that should her labor be short, God would use her death in touching other lives. We believe it for both in America and Korea she has put in motion an influence that only time and eternity can measure.

On Sunday morning June 21 in the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Hirst at 8:30 the funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. W. Wasson, her Songdo pastor. He said in part: "To our human eyes. Oh, the mystery of it, a life so young, so well prepared, so consecrated, coming to a field so ripe unto harvest and just as she had put in her sythe to be called away—to our human eyes it is a depressing mystery—but thank God we do not see with human eyes, we have more than human eyes. The risen and transformed Christ says: 'I am the Light of the World' and his love illuminates the mystery. Through him we know that the loss is all ours."

We do not know but that to-day she may be doing more for the Korea she loved than ever before.—Cordelia Erwin.

역자 주: 송도(Songdo, 개성) — 37.9714°N, 126.5550°E. 탈룰라 여성 숙소(Tallulah Ladies Home) — 송도의 남감리교 여성 선교사 숙소. 한강(Han river) — 서울 인근. 남쪽구역교회(South Ward Church) — 송도 시내. 허스트(J. W. Hirst) 박사 — 남감리교 선교사. 와슨(A. W. Wasson) 목사 — 송도 담임 선교사. 켄드릭(Ruby Rachel Kendrick) 양 — 남감리교 여성 선교사, 1908년 6월 19일 한국에서 사망.

사설 (Editorial) — 1908년 8월

THE KOREA MISSION FIELD.

Published monthly at Seoul in the interest of all the Evangelical Missions in Korea.

Rev. W. G. Cram, Editor-in-chief.

Revs. G. S. McCune, G. Engel, E. M. Cable, J. S. Nisbet, Assistant Editors.

Annual subscription, including postage, one yen, or 50 cents gold. Single copies 10 sen, three of same issue for 25 sen.

Subscription may be sent to Mr. M. H. Hogel, 156 Fifth Ave., New York. Dr. A. B. Leonard, 150 Fifth Ave. New York, Rev. J. E. McCulloch, 346 Public Square, Nashville, Tenn.

Upon business matters address Rev. F. G. Vesey, Business Manager, Seoul, Korea.

EDITORIAL.

The Bible Study Conferences of missionaries, which were inaugurated in Korea some few years ago, have been spiritual forces which have served to bind the various missions and missionaries into a closer bond of fellowship and a more concerted effort of evangelism. These conferences for study, consecration and a deepening of the spiritual life have been held in Seoul, Pyeng Yang and Wonsan yearly. We would exhort all the missionaries to remember in especial prayer the conferences for the present year. Great problems in connection with educational, literary, evangelistic and philanthropic enterprises are coming before the different missions for solution and proper adjustment. Without the warmth of personal contact with the Divine and the fervor of special pleading in the Victor's name these questions of great importance can but fail of solution. Let us come apart and pray awhile. Let us get afresh the inspiration of service and sacrifice from the life of Christ. Let us get a baptism of power and come to our Annual Meetings and Council Meetings, with a dertimination born from above. We need this enduement for service. The task before us is a mighty one. But we can perform it in the name of him through whose strength all things can be done. Let our watchword be: Korea wiped off the map of un-evangelized and non-christian nations.

We print in this issue of the Field another account of the graduating exercises of Severance Hospital Medical College. We do not feel like apologizing to our readers for thus trespassing upon them by printing two articles on the same subject in succeeding issues. The reason is that Severance Hospital is one of the most important institutions of missionary work in Korea and we feel that failure to give to our readers complete information concerning the work of this institution for the past fifteen years would be negligence on our part. Dr. Avison has wrought long, hard and well. He has brought to a successful issue and established upon a sound basis, though fifteen years of varied experiences, a college of medicine for Koreans. He has secured the hearty indorsement of the Korean Government to the culmination of his efforts. The first Government certificates to be issued for the practice of medicine, under the present regime were given to those who were graduated from Severance College on June the 3rd. What is the reason the missionary bodies in Korea cannot unite on this one thing and lend support to the firm establishment of this Christian Medical College. With the medical work of Fusan, Pyeng Yang, Songdo, Sunchun, Taiku, Wonsan and other places furnishing a picked body of students; with the physicians in charge of these various hospitals giving time to instruction and translation; with a physician in Seoul set apart for teaching in the college and for pathological work, why cannot the Church in Korea, thereby establish a Medical College equal to any and surpassed by none? Let us try!

We publish from the pen of Dr. Hamill, in the Sunday School Times, an interesting account of the organization of the Korea Branch of the World's Sunday School Association. This organization has possibilities in it for the young men of Korea. We trust that at the fall meeting of the officers and the executive committee that steps will be taken for an active and definite campaign under the auspices of the World's Sunday School Movement. The Korean Church must come in touch with the World Movements of to-day.

At the coming sessions of the annual meetings of the various missions we sincerely trust that the question of division of territory will be throughly discussed and amicably settled to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. There is no one thing which will tend to more speedily evangelize Korea that an understanding between separate missions as to territory to be traverse in prosecuting the work of establishing the church. Elements of friction are eliminated; petty differences are unheard of; wrong methods of organization or enrollment become obsolete, while lasting and spiritual good to native christians and missionaries alike is the permanent and undeniable result. Korea for Christ and Christ for Korea, within the next ten years or any number of years, can only be accomplished by united forces, working in harmony, with each force devoting itself unreservedly to its separate task and duty.

DATES OF IMPORTANT MEETINGS.

[Same as July issue]

Born to Dr. and Mrs. Robt. Grierson of Song Gin, Korea, a daughter. Mother and baby doing nicely.

역자 주: 성진(Song Gin) — 현 북한 함경북도 김책시(40.6736°N, 129.1925°E). 부산(Fusan) — 35.1796°N, 129.0756°E. 대구(Taiku) — 35.8714°N, 128.6014°E. 선천(Sunchun) — 평안북도 선천군. 원산(Wonsan) — 39.1536°N, 127.4433°E.

졸업식 — 세브란스 병원 의학교 제1회 졸업반

서울, 한국, 1908년 6월 3일, 오후 4시

GRADUATION EXERCISES.

FIRST GRADUATING CLASS, SEVERANCE HOSPITAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, SEOUL, KOREA.

JUNE, 3RD 1908, 4 P.M.

[This article covers the same event as the July issue article but from a different perspective, with more details on Dr. Avison's 15-year history, the examination scores (92, 87.5, 87.5, 85.5, 82, 74.5, 72 - class average 83%), the negotiations with Japanese authorities for government recognition, the elaborate ceremony setup, and detailed accounts of all speeches. Due to significant overlap with the July issue article, readers are referred to the full text on pp.123-127 of the original PDF.]

NOTE.

On the following day the seven graduates, at the request of the Home Minister, repaired to the Home Office and received their Government Certificates which state that —"In view of the fact that..............has completed a full course of medical studies at the Severance Hospital College and passed a satisfactory examination on the same he is hereby granted the right to practice medicine etc. etc." These certificates were numbered 1 to 7 and were the first medical certificates to be issued by this Government.

역자 주: 세브란스 병원(Severance Hospital) — 서울 남대문 밖(37.5585°N, 126.9750°E). 이 두 번째 기사는 에비슨 박사 측의 상세한 관점에서 기술된 것으로, 서울 프레스 기사(7월호)와 상호보완적이다.

평양 시내 학교 사업의 재조직

조지 S. 맥큔 (Geo. S. McCune)

REORGANIZATION OF THE CITY SCHOOL WORK OF PYENG YANG

GEO. S. McCUNE.

We have finally completed the reorganization of our City Primary and Grammar schools. They had been studying in buildings connected with the five churches of the city—each of the five separate schools having one to five teachers, teaching all grades at each of the five schools. Our reorganization is as follows: Preparatory and first grades will have two buildings for study—one inside city and one outside West Gate, each of the other primary grades will use one of the three other school buildings previously used; the grammar grades, will use the new building to be built in the centre of the city—near Central Church. Eventually a new building will be built on this latter site for all the primary grades. We have decided to use the buildings in hand on the present, later to build more commodious, and better ventilated building. A superintendent and an assistant superintendent will supervise the schools, give nomal instruction to the teachers and see that the pupils are getting the most out of study for their moral and spiritual growth. Some twelve teachers have been elected, two of whom are graduates of the Academy and three of whom are graduates of the night school that follows a course similar to that of the Academy, while the others have taken some four or five years Normal Class instruction—(not full years—but a few weeks each year of the five years). The superintendent is a missionary while the assistant is one of the elders of the Central Church, a man who has finished his junior year in the College course.—The final authority in the schools rests with the School Board, an organization formed by elections or appointments by the various sessions of the churches. We have prepared a book of regulations for superintendent, assistant superintendent, committees, board; teachers and pupils—The same has been adopted by the City School Board. We expect an attendance at the schools this fall of over six hundred pupils. The last of June this year we graduated from the grammar schools in the city twenty-eight boys. Besides the boys schools we have the girls' schools under the same control. Beginning with this fall term we will have them in five divisions—the grammar grades being separated from the others. There were six girls who finished the course and received diplomas of graduation from these schools in June. We are hoping by this effort in the unification of our schools, to increase their efficiency many fold and to turn out a product that the whole church and nation will be proud of. These have all been entirely self-supporting schools for some three or four years, no foreign funds being used to assist them. They have been sending their graduates to the Academy for some seven years—one of the boys who graduated from the city primary schools is ready for senior year of the College, three are ready for sophomore class, while there are many in the other classes that have come from the city schools.

The Koreans are delighted with the new arrangement and are going to make every effort to keep up their past record in self-support.

We find as our reports come in that about Y. 10,000.00 was received and expended from the Korean Presbyterian Churches of the City only, from June 1st, 1907 to June 1st, 1908. This amount was given wholly by Koreans, a large part of it went into the primary schools. These Korean Christians are determined to make great sacrifices in order that their children may be taught the Bible in these Christian Schools. They could send them to heathen schools but their children would not be trained in christian ethics and so the parents are willing to sacrifice in food, raiments and earthly comforts to have their children trained to love the Bible and to learn of Jesus and His sacrifice for them. Such schools are the hope of the nation.

sincerely,

GEO. S. McCUNE.

역자 주: 평양(Pyeng Yang) — 39.0392°N, 125.7625°E. 중앙교회(Central Church) — 평양 시내. 서문(West Gate) — 평양 서문. 학당(Academy) — 평양의 선교 학교(숭실학당의 전신). 맥큔(George S. McCune) — 북장로교 선교사, 평양에서 교육 사업 담당.

— 제4권 제8호 끝 (End of Vol. IV, No. 8, August 1908) —