NOTES AND PERSONALS.

The following good news has reached us from Rev. Geo. Heber Jones, D.D. "You will be glad to know that as the result of the Laymen's Missionary Movement our Board has gotten out from under the encumbrance under which it rested, the cash and pledges covering the same being actually in hand. This clears the way for our Korea Movement. During this time of inactivity we have made large numbers of friends who have signified their intention of responding generously to our appeal. We start out on our work immediately after the adjournment of the General Missionary Committee Meeting."

The Commission engaged in the Quarto-Centennial Movement are

President: BISHOP EARL CRANSTON.

Vice-President: BISHOP MERRIMAN C. HARRIS, HON. CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS.

Secretaries: GEORGE HEBER JONES, FREDERICK H SHEETS, DILLON BRONSON.

Members: A. B. Leonard, R. F. Raymond, Hanford Crawford, C. E. Welch, T. D. Collins, Frank L. Brown, Frank A. Horne, Charles Gibson, G. W. F. Swartzell, John F. Goucher, George P. Eckman, George Clarke Peck, Albert J. Nast, J. Sumner Stone, Charles M. Stuart, Allan MacRossie, Lynn H. Hough, D. F. Pierce.

Henceforth we hope to give our readers a special correspondence and inquiry department and shall be glad to receive letters relating to Korean Mission Work from friends in America as well as from the field, but it must be remembered that this paper has only space for Mission Work, and also that matters of news published widely in home papers at the time when such letters to the FIELD are mailed will be an old story by the time it could reach our readers in these pages.

We wish to express most hearty thanks to the two ladies who so kindly edited the FIELD for the months of November and December, during the editor's illness. These good friends to the paper and us, in the midst of their own work which was already exacting much from them, found time to take up this added burden, and that with very little material on hand and short notice. May they find added blessing in their own department of work, a hundred-fold for all they have so graciously given.

Korean missionaries were delighted to learn that Rev. Dr. Pierson who had been ill in Japan was on the road to recovery, and had set a day for starting for Korea. Dr. and Mrs. Pierson and Miss Pierson and his daughter Mrs. Curtis reached Korea in December. Dr. Pierson is known and loved by all lovers of missions as the editor of the best missionary magazine ever published, as well as the author of numerous most helpful religious books. Neither he nor his books need any introduction from us, but we do especially wish to express our thanks, for the attitude and tone of the Foreign Missionary Review in these times of laxity of belief. The editorial in the October issue, of that Review, entitled "New Theology and Higher Criticism" deserves the thanks of every true lover of God's Word. We thank God for Dr. Pierson, and offer him a most cordial welcome to Korea, hoping his normal health may soon be restored, urging all missionaries to pray for this as he has a special work in the East.

Mrs. J. Livingstone Taylor of Cleveland, O., and her niece Miss Strong arrived in Korea November 22nd and after spending a short time in Tai-gu, reached Seoul November 28th, as the guests of Miss Luther. Mrs. Taylor is a warm friend of missions and has devoted half her income for many years to this work. This is, if we mistake not, her third visit to the Far East. A reception was tendered to her by the Young Men's Christian Association, on the afternoon of the 29th of November. We need not say that we rejoiced to welcome her among us that she might see with her own eyes even here and now some of the fruits of the seed her hand has helped to sow.

The Presbyterian Mission and indeed all the missions were delighted to welcome Dr. and Mrs. Moffett back to Korea, where they arrived early in December, after a six months' absence, Dr. Moffett having been one of the delegates to the Edinburgh Conference.

We are happy to announce that the North Presbyterian Mission is one lady missionary richer. Miss Brownlee who arrived in December with Dr. and Mrs. Moffett, is the welcome new-comer. Seoul hopes to claim her, having just given three daughters, most unwillingly in marriage, and having been promised the next two who should come.

There seems to be something of a misunderstanding in some quarters as to what is the name of this country, and whether it should longer be called "Korea," by foreigners, since the Japanese have decided to call it "Chosen" instead of "Tai-han." "Korea" has never been the name by which it has been known by its own people or other Eastern nations. For many years this was Chosen, which was later changed by edict to Tai-han just after the Chino-Japan war. The return to the old name by order of the new government, simply has to do, with the East, and the name Korea which we believe came at first from the Chinese "Korie," or Ko-lie, is merely the name by which it is called by the Western world, and by which it will probably continue to be called.

We regret to say that news has come, that the return of the Rev. and Mrs. Whittemore (Presbyterian Mission in Syen Chun) was postponed. Their probable date of sailing was December 13th.

The Southern Presbyterians are rejoicing, and the rest of us with them, not only in the return last fall of several of their members from furlough, but in the coming of Rev. and Mrs. J. V. N. Talmadge, and Mr. and Mrs. Emerson, Miss Bedinger, Miss Pitts, Miss Bigger, and Miss Forsythe, all new missionaries, to whom the FIELD offers a warm hand of fellowship, and hearty welcome in behalf of all the missions.

From other lands and fields, Korea was visited during November and December, besides those already noted, by Dr. and Mrs. Fulton of Osaka, Japan, Dr. J. B. Patterson of Hunan, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Walker of Leicester, England. There may be other names which have not reached us, and we again beg that the different stations will send us items of personal interest regularly, as they add much to the interest of the paper both in Korea and the home lands.

A message from Shanghai tells of the enthusiastic conference held there by leading and representative missionaries from all over China, and of resolutions approving of the establishment of Bible schools all over that country after the plan of Dr. White's school in New York. We shall rejoice with brethren in China when this is an accomplished fact.

Bible study has been the ideal and practice here, since these missions were founded, as our great Bible classes held all over the land every year testify, and we are now establishing, in our large centers, permanent Bible institutes, as fast as our churches are ready, and as we are able to man them. May the blessed Word of God, the Whole Word, unmutilated by higher critics be studied, trusted and followed by the whole people as it now is by the present church, we ask nothing better for Korea.

[역주] Geo. Heber Jones=George Heber Jones(조원시, 1867-1919), 미감리회 북감리교 선교사·한국학자. Dr. Pierson=Arthur T. Pierson, 미국 부흥운동가·〈Missionary Review of the World〉 편집인. Dr. Moffett=Samuel A. Moffett(마포삼열, 1864-1939), 평양 신학교 설립자. Chosen=조선(朝鮮), Tai-han=대한(大韓), Korea=고려(高麗)에서 유래된 서양식 표기.

THE MILLION MOVEMENT AND ITS RESULTS

백만 명 운동(白萬名運動)과 그 결과

Editorial / 편집부

THE MILLION MOVEMENT AND ITS RESULTS.

Questions are naturally coming to us from time to time about the million movement which has occupied the thoughts of Korean missionaries and Christians since October of last year. "Are the million all in?" "What has been the result?" "Was it really a movement inspired by God?"

The latter question we believe has only one answer in the minds of those who were present when the proposition was made to make the effort, and pray for such an ingathering. The Holy Spirit's presence was very manifest and many were the testimonies to the inspiration felt.

On the other hand, it is very certain that neither the million, nor any large part of them can to-day be found in our churches, or even reckoned among the adherents, in our statistics, yet nevertheless we are by no means sure that God has not them all written in His Book of Life. A million men, women and children who shall be saved, and are now practically saved in His sight, as the direct results of the work and prayers offered on the altar of His service last year.

Let us do a little looking backward. Poor and hard working Koreans were inspired to give at least 100,000 days of work in all, for 76,000 days of earnest personal work was done last winter, and this fall several hundreds of native workers gave a whole month to special service going from house to house, as well as dealing with men personally in great meetings. Many millions of tracts and 700,000 gospels of Mark were purchased by native Christians and given to unbelievers with prayer and earnest persuasions; nearly every home in Korea has been visited, and daily prayer has been offered for this by thousands of Koreans. It is morally impossible that all this should not bring tremendous results, God's promises to hear and answer prayer stand firm, and His word does not return to Him void.

We little know when and where in secret the seed is slowly maturing and making ready to spring up, we cannot, like little children hunt about impatiently digging up the seeds, to count our harvest. Only God's eyes can see, only he can know, ours the duty to sow, to pray, to water the ground with our tears, results are His, ours is to trust, work and wait, "To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin."

But God has not left us without visible results although we cannot now count a million new believers in sight, and ought hardly to have expected to be able to actually know of anything like this number within the year, we think it not too much to say that many if not most, of the churches in Korea have doubled or more than doubled in the number of attendants on services, while the number of groups in many stations have very largely increased; one reported in this issue, counting 17 new churches and 102 new congregations. Thousands of people during the late campaigns have testified their resolution to give themselves to Christ, standing in church and placing their names on the rolls of applicants.

Koreans, Chinese and Japanese have been praying and working for each other as well as those of their own race, and the Christians of all denominations have been united in combined earnest effort for souls all over the country as never before.

North and South, East and West, have exchanged workers and each has felt a brother's needs, and known his problems and difficulties and entered into his joys and triumphs, and Christians have been spurred on to an earnestness of devoted effort which has set the pace for years to come.

Again there has been a searching of hearts in the church itself, and a new awakening nearly every where, and there is a quiet resting upon God in a faith, which although it has not seen yet does believe.

Is not all this enough and far more than our weak efforts have deserved? We bow in deep gratitude and humility when we realize His goodness and how much more He has done than we might have dared to hope, and we wait in confidence the time, when He shall see fit to reveal in full the glorious fruits of last year's work and prayers for a million souls, and know we shall not be disappointed.

[역주] 백만구령운동(Million Souls for Christ Movement, 1909-1910): 한국 개신교 부흥운동. 1909년 10월 일반선교사평의회 결정으로 시작되어 1910년 한 해 동안 한국인 100만 명을 그리스도께 돌이키는 것을 목표로 함. 76,000일의 개인 사역과 700,000부의 마가복음 배포가 이뤄짐.

NOTES FROM THE STATIONS — SEOUL

지부 소식 — 서울

Editorial / 편집부

NOTES FROM THE STATIONS.

SEOUL.

The newly erected South Gate Church was dedicated Dec. 4th at two o'clock. This is the church which is in connection with the Severance Hospital and mainly under the care of Drs. Avison and Hirst, tho Dr. Underwood is officially in charge. The attendance has grown very rapidly, increasing in little over one year from 150 to about 300, and the congregation was like a fast growing boy all out at arms and elbows, before the new edifice was completed. The seating capacity of the new building is about 800, we believe. It is of purely Korean architecture in every respect, and looks most attractive and commodious.

At the morning service in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Chong Dong, Seoul, October 30th, the pastor Choi Moksa presented to Dr. John F. Goucher a gavel made of wood from the first house owned by the Methodist Episcopal Mission in Chosen. It was through Dr. Goucher's gifts the property was purchased.

[역주] South Gate Church=남대문교회(현 서울 중구 남대문로). 위도 37.5571, 경도 126.9758. Chong Dong=정동(貞洞), 서울 중구. 위도 37.5685, 경도 126.9712. Choi Moksa=최병헌(崔炳憲, 1858-1927) 목사로 추정. 한국 최초의 감리회 목사 안수자.

KONGJU

공주(公州)

Editorial / 편집부

KONGJU.

After an interesting and helpful session of six weeks, a class for preachers was closed in Kongju on October 26th. Many of our men being unable to attend the Union Theological School in Songdo, twenty-eight of them were given the regular work in the course of study followed by that school here in Kongju. Rev. W. C. Swearer, Rev. F. E. C. Williams, and Dr. J. D. Van Buskirk were the instructors; Hong Moksa had charge of personal work and morning devotions. It was a time of deepening resolves and strengthening faith. One man testified, "I came to this class and met Jesus face to face." All returned to their work on fire for the special campaign to begin in November.

[역주] Kongju=공주(公州), 충청남도. 위도 36.4467, 경도 127.1191. Songdo=송도(松都), 개성. Union Theological School=감리교 연합신학교(개성).

CHEMULPO

제물포(濟物浦, 인천)

C. S. DEMING / C. S. 데밍

CHEMULPO.

At the Quarterly Conference held in the M. E. Church in Chemulpo the Christians voted to raise their pastor's salary 10 yen a month, he is doing excellent work. The average attendance at the big church is about 800 and at the Whado Chapel 150.

Mr. and Mrs. Chew are still in Chemulpo and it is likely that their house in Haiju will be advanced rapidly enough to allow them to move before next spring. The pastor is planning to begin an evangelistic campaign in Chemulpo, about Nov. 7th, and about 12 preachers from Kangwha and the island circuits will gather to his help at that time. From Chemulpo I am hoping the campaign will be extended to Kangwha where we have a large work.

We have a fine class of men studying here in Songdo. They are men in the first and second year studies, 48 of the first and 30 of the second year. They are doing good work. The third year class will not meet until December and Dr. Hardie and Bro. Cable are the instructors at that time. Dr. Hardie, Mr. Peerman and myself are teaching now. I was at Chemulpo two weeks ago. At that time the church was giving a farewell to one brother who has been a member of the church for 13 years. He is moving to the island of Yoong Choong. He has been in business there for the past year and incidentally has established a church of 60 members which meets in his house there. His name is Kang Won Suk.

I also had a talk with another of our class leaders who has been in Haiju most of the summer helping Bro. Chew there. He reported that the people in Haiju stopped their ears to the gospel and that he had only been able to bring 4 men with their families into the church during the summer. These men had shown their earnestness by cutting their hair and abstaining from tobacco as well as attending faithfully the means of grace.

C. S. DEMING.

[역주] Chemulpo=제물포(인천, 仁川). 위도 37.4563, 경도 126.7052. Whado=화도(花島), 인천. Songdo=송도, 개성. Yoong Choong=용중도(추정), 강화 부근의 섬. Charles S. Deming=미감리회 북감리교 선교사.

CHUNJU

전주(全州)

Mr. McCUTCHEON, S. Pres. / 매커천 씨, 남장로교

CHUNJU.

Mr. McCutcheon, S. Pres., writes of the special campaign held in Oct. "We had no outside help this time but gathered some of our leaders in from the country and held meetings in both churches here in the city. Meetings continued eleven days, with three meetings a day as with you in Seoul. The spirit was with us. 289 professions of faith were made and thousands were given an opportunity to believe in the Christ. Sixteen other meetings in out-stations have been arranged for during the month. Wife and I go out to an upnai to direct one of these, leaving to-morrow, meeting to begin on 13th."

I spent Oct. in holding examinations and administering the sacraments in a number of small churches. One hundred were baptized. Mrs. McCutcheon assisted by Miss Tate, Mrs. Nislet and Mrs. Clark have just closed the 2nd session of our field's Bible School for women. The enrollment was 53. It continued in session one month and good work was done by the women.

[역주] Chunju=전주(全州), 전라북도. 위도 35.8242, 경도 127.1480. upnai=읍내(邑內). McCutcheon=Lee Talmage McCutcheon, 남장로교 선교사.

SYEN CHYUN

선천(宣川)

Editorial / 편집부

SYEN CHYUN.

The Girls' Academy, Syen Chyun, opened Nov. 1st enrolling 27 girls, in three classes. Owing to Miss Chase's absence it was thought best not to have any preparatory department, so we are necessarily limited to graduates from Syen Chyun grammar school for our 1st class. A graduate of the Presbyterian Women's Academy, Seoul, is head teacher being assisted by two of our own graduates and a Chinese teacher with the necessary age and learning to make his instruction weighty.

In connection with the Girls' Academy but not a part of it, is the School for Young Women which offers a few essentials to young women who are too old or too busy to join the girls in their education. The school has four morning sessions per week, the curriculum including reading, arithmetic, Chinese, Bible, geography and elementary physics. The enrollment at present is eighteen. We have found it an advantage in every way to separate the young women, wives or widows, from the girls as they study.

The reports of the various revival services are beginning to gladden our hearts. One new place which has been hard to reach reports believers to the number of fifty with Sunday audiences of 125 to 150. Many churches report a doubling of attendants. Weju City churches have added 430 to their rolls of new believers. Syen Chyun reports over 700 in the city and the nearby villages. Now is the time for special prayer for our church officers and older Christians, that they may be able to do the work of helping and training which such an ingathering means some one must do.

In Syen Chyun City Church it has been found necessary to divide the women's Sunday school. The women of the South Church were sent to their side of the stream for their study while the women of the North Church remain in the big church. Yesterday (Nov. 27th) the combined attendance at the three Sunday schools, the two for women and one for girls, reached almost to the one thousand mark. The total enrollment passes that mark by nearly one hundred.

Miss Helstrom and Miss Samuels have just returned from a class for women in Weju. Miss Samuels has held five classes since last Annual Meeting in September. The last was in Weju. The attendance there was smaller than usually is the case for some very interesting reasons. The country women did not come in such numbers because of the evangelistic services being held in their home churches here and there. The local women were fewer because Miss Samuels called together the leading Christian women and presented the duty of giving up the study they so much enjoy and spending the time instead in visiting and teaching the women who had taken interest in the evangelistic meetings held the week before. Three daughters-in-law in one home believed and were meeting with much opposition in the home. One had had her husband threaten her life with a knife not so much because she believed but because she dared to go contray to his mother's wishes. She said to him, "If I live I'll go to church; if I die, I'll go to Heaven, so it is all one to me." (Different ideas about church going from some Westerners.—Ed.)

The Weju women are advanced in learning and in culture beyond some of the neighboring district so that work among them is always fruitful and interesting.

Mr. Lampe reports from Pyek Tong a total of 111 newly enrolled believers after four days of evangelistic meetings.

Since the opening of the Hugh O'Neil Academy in the fall each Sabbath has found students and teachers voluntarily taking trips to the country for preaching. The "volunteer preachers" have run from twenty to sixty and they have been sent out in systematic order, two or three in a group, to some needy place. The past month's record shows an average of 42 out each Sabbath.

An interesting item comes from one of our country churches. Last June the attendance of eighty people was considered fair. A revival during the summer doubled their number and this past month a special effort has added 120 to that 160. Now no place is large enough to accommodate the numbers and they must use houses and a nearby heathen school building to assemble in. Students and teachers from Syen Chyun Academy visit them weekly, taking charge of their various services.

The schools of Syen Chyun City have been combined into one school system having its various departments, Academic, Normal, Grammar and Primary. The total enrollment exclusive of normal is about 500. The work is under foreign supervision with hearty co-operation on the part of the Korean constituency.

[역주] Syen Chyun=선천(宣川), 평안북도. 위도 39.8333, 경도 124.9667. Weju=위주/의주(義州), 평안북도. 위도 40.1330, 경도 124.5500. Pyek Tong=벽동(碧潼), 평안북도. Hugh O'Neil Academy=신성중학교(信聖中學校)의 영어 명칭. 미국 후원자 휴 오닐의 이름을 따서 1906년 명명.

A LETTER FROM TAIKU

대구로부터의 편지

Miss ANNA RAE MILLS / 안나 레이 밀스 양

A LETTER FROM TAIKU.

BY MISS ANNA RAE MILLS.

I have such a wonderful story this time! This marvellous campaign, with its aim to present Jesus Christ to every man, woman, and child, in Korea who does not know Him. First came the campaign in Seoul, where missionaries and Korean leaders from all over Korea went and helped and learned. Then practically all regular missionary work stopped for ten days in, I think, nearly every station in Korea, of every denomination, and there was a sort of shuffle board of workers, thus mutually exchanging new life and enthusiasm and plans. We sent Mr. Bruen to Myrry Yang and Mr. McFarland to Kwang Ju, a Southern Presbyterian station, south of us, and we got Kil Moksa from Pyeng Yang. I wonder how many of you read the account of his life in the KOREA MISSION FIELD a few months ago. It was intensely interesting, but I have not time to repeat it now.

For years Kil Moksa was Dr. Moffett's helper till he graduated from the Theological Seminary, and Dr. Moffett turned over to him the pastorate of the famous, big church in Pyeng Yang, the centre of the big revival there some years ago. Kil has become one of the greatest spiritual powers in all Korea. I heard of him everywhere in my travels last summer, and he is followed, quoted, adored, and trusted by Koreans all over the land. Mr. Adams gave to Kil Moksa the lead and control of our campaign in Taigu, reserving for himself the heaviest burden of the work. I was amazed and interested to see how much Kil's methods resembled some I have seen Dr. Chapman use. Prayer dominated everything. The week before we had prayer meetings from five to six a.m. every day in the church, with, I think, from three to four hundred Koreans in attendance! Two mornings at that hour did me up, but the Koreans kept it up regularly for the whole seven days, in spite of the fact that their work day is from six-thirty a.m. to five-thirty p.m. When the campaign really began they changed the hour to 6.30 a.m. because Mr. Adams knew the people would break down physically if they began at 5.00 and kept at it till 10.00 p.m. which was the closing hour of the evening meetings. The first morning I went down at six-thirty I expected to find twice as many out as there were the week before at 5.00, but to my surprise there were only a few, hardly one hundred, I think. On return I asked our cook, dear old Pokuchuri Ommani, and she said, "Why, of course! People have to be at work by 6.30, or starve, but every body can get up an hour earlier to pray anytime. You know I have to be here to get breakfast at 6.30, but last week I never missed a day at 5.00!" But people who believe in prayer like that are not satisfied with once a day. Again at 1.30 p.m., first before starting out to preach through the town, they met together to ask God to go preaching too on the streets of Taiku; and once more at 6.30 p.m. those most interested met to claim God's presence in the evening meeting.

Though most of the people had to work all day, I think there were about fifty men and fifty women who gave their whole time to the meetings. These, and others who could, went to the church at 10.00 a.m. where I think Kil Moksa preached every morning. Those were the deep searching meetings such as Dr. Chapman, I believe, always has afternoons for Christians, and it was then most of all I felt his deep spirituality, and the closeness of his relation to God. He talked so fast and so passionately, and used such a wide and brilliant vocabulary that it was impossible for me to follow his thought,* but on the tense, earnest faces of the women I could read the power of his message, and in their heart-broken sobs, as he brought home some sin that was hurting our God. Needless to say, meetings like that, personal, intimate, intense, among only a few of the most consecrated Christians, meant a purifying of lives and a devotion to God which was expressed in tangible results in the evening meetings.

[*Miss Mills is a new missionary not yet quite at home with the language.]

The afternoon work I loved. Together with one or two of the Christians, we went about the town from house to house telling the sweetest story ever told to some who had never heard, and to some who had heard but had not yet realized its beauty and its power. Never once were we met with rudeness. How I wish I could take you with me one afternoon and make you see it all. But there is no time for that even if I could, so just a few of the most striking instances. One of the things that amused me was the way most of the women started for "Fifth Avenue" and the homes of the "Four Hundred" the minute they got me in tow! As at home, here too, it is the rich who are proud and satisfied and the women found it hard to get them to listen. But no woman is rich enough not to be interested in the queerness of a foreigner, and so I could, often in the rich homes procure an audience, when the Korean women alone couldn't. I always tried a bit of preaching myself too, and quoted a few verses, and sometimes they understood, and even when they did not, the Christians would, and they would take up my line of argument and carry it out. One day I stopped to talk to a very poor and wretched group of women working in the street. At first they seemed indifferent, and one said, "Why, we do worship God." They do have a very hazy idea of a pantheistic sort of God, who sends them rain, and to whom they pray for good crops. But the slightest conception of His love, His interest in our affairs, His care in all details of life, His fatherhood, is wholly lacking. That evil in our hearts could in any way affect our intercourse with Him never dawns on them. So to this woman, I said, "Yes, you may worship God, but no one in the world knew very much about Him, or how to worship Him, and He wanted our love and our worship, so He sent His son, our Jesus, into this world; and Jesus lived just like a man and loved and helped every body and told us all about God and how to worship Him. God is holy, and wicked people cannot really worship Him, but if you will believe Jesus you can get rid of your sin and grow holy too, and then you can truly worship God. "Oh," she said, "that is good, and I should like to learn how to worship God better, so I will believe in Jesus and come to the church to learn about Him." None could read, but they said their husbands could, and I gave them copies of Mark, and left them with many a prayer. Another day I was talking with a sweet shy little woman, and just offering her a Mark, as she said her husband could read, when a loud voice exclaimed, "Oh, I am grateful, I am grateful indeed!" and a wide-awake little man in someone's delapidated old American coat and Korean trousers came rushing in. "I've just been to church for the first time yesterday and heard all about this, and I have decided to believe Jesus—Oh, it is fine, and I am so glad you have come to preach here." We urged him to bring his wife to church and help her to believe too. "Why, of course," he said, "she must believe too, and I shall start at once to teach her to read so she can read the Bible. See, I have already bought a hymn-book and will buy a Bible at once." Just then he caught sight of a man passing the house and rushed to the wall shouting, "Hello, there! You believe in Jesus! It's a good thing! Listen!" and went on to give a good sermon centering around the thought that it didn't pay to just be busy all the time looking after our body, because some day we would die, and we must think about our souls, and prepare to go on living forever. As we went to the next house to preach he followed, adding to, and confirming, all we said, and launching into sermonettes of his own at times. Yes, there was something hideous in his costume, topped by a nice felt hat, and his impetuous mannerisms were funny too, but my laugh was a happy one, and a grateful one, for was there not something sublime in a faith that from the very start must share its preciousness with all who are living alone without God?

But I think perhaps the hour of deepest joy that has ever been mine was one night after we had started home, when we stopped for one more call. She was a Magdalen—a woman who had been left a widow. I said, "Don't you want to get rid of sin, and when you leave this world go to a life of purity and joy with God?" I'll never forget the look, half eager, half hopeless, with which she said, as she caught my hand, "I want it more than anything on earth. It is what I think about and long for all the time. I saw a Bible once for a few minutes, and read it quickly, and almost hoped I could be saved—but I can't—I am too great a sinner. God couldn't save me." And then almost in a whisper she added "I am a dancing girl." Oh, how glad I was Christ had said He came for sinners, not for the righteous. And how glad I was I was here, and that I knew enough Korean to tell her so—me, myself! The women and I then talked to her a few moments more, her eyes growing bigger and brighter every moment, till, as we left, her face was shining with hope and she said, "Oh, I am so glad, so glad. I thought I could not be saved, but now since you have told me about it I know I am, and I shall leave my sin and become a good woman, and believe in Jesus, and I am so happy, so happy." Do you wonder it was my moment of deepest joy and I came home on wings.

But do not think from the personal tenor of this letter that I was the only one out preaching. A lot of Koreans were out every afternoon, all the foreign men in town, I think, all the women who were not prevented by sickness, in spite of babies, house-work, company, etc., were out as often as possible too. And not only one but all our school boys and school girls, and in one home where I called afterwards, they told me a baby of three was telling everyone who came near him, "Go to the church and believe in Jesus, and come to Heaven with us!" The absolute democracy of the spirit among all the women pleased me very much. Though they used me as a wedge in rich houses, they went without hesitation to rich and poor alike. The wife of the mayor, a clever, rich, interesting woman, is one of our best Christians, and to see her in her silks and black mits, speckled with silver beads, going into the poorest homes laying her mitted hand on the sleeve of some poor, filthy wretch, begging her to become a Christian, was a sight not easily forgotten. Another woman I remember, one night at the church was just telling me about some wealthy people she had been preaching to that day, and was rejoicing that they had come to the evening meeting, and I began to wonder if her joy was too largely due to the fact of their wealth and prominence, when I saw her dart across the church to the door and put both arms around a ragged little slave girl, whom she was trying to persuade to come inside. I ceased worrying about her undue devotion to the man of lofty degree!

And the evening meetings! 'Tis hard to give you any adequate picture of them. The dear Christians sitting back to make room for new comers at the front. The rapturous joy of our old "washer-lady" when she would rush up to tell me how many had come of those she had preached to that afternoon, and her rapture the night six of them became Christians. She was a perfect general getting the non-Christians up front, and where they could hear the preaching. Lots of the Christians came each night, many of them escorting heathen friends to whom they had preached in the afternoon, and each night there were decisions for Christ. Perhaps few who decided really understood much of just what Christianity means, but to all I think it meant a life of turning away from evil and growing toward God through belief in Jesus Christ, and also a determination to come to church and learn the rest and to try to live up to it. The preaching at night was quite different from the mornings. Kil Moksa and Mr. Adams both preached nights but there was never any emotionalism, and I never saw any weeping among the women either Christian or non-Christian. It was just a simple presentation of the Gospel with an appeal to accept it, and, as I believe is always true, in time at least when Jesus Christ is presented in His beauty and simplicity, He attracts. Over five hundred "decided to believe," as the Korean phrase puts it, in those ten days, and we believe careful visiting and teaching now will hold at least the majority of them for Christ. Stop a moment and think what it means. Imagine a city at home where fourteen years ago there was not one man who had ever heard the name of Christ, or worshipped God intelligently, during fourteen years imagine the gradual growth of a church of less than four hundred members, and then imagine that church in the midst of that wicked, ignorant, and poverty-stricken city winning five hundred converts! Is it worth while? Have you got some of your money invested in work that pays dividends like that? Have you time and love enough to pray for work like that? And which of you want to be in it?

A little incident that appealed to me occurred one night after church as we were recording the new believers. We tried to find some Christian that each one knew, and then put them in the care of that Christian to see that they attended church regularly, etc. Mr. Adams turned to one of our Sunday School teachers that I love best, and said, "You know so-and-so?" "No," said the woman. "But," persisted Mr. Adams, "this woman says she knows you, and she has just decided to be a Christian, and we want you to look after her." "But I do not know her," insisted the woman. "Here she is, look at her and see if you don't know her," said Mr. Adams. Suddenly the woman gave a shout of joy, "Why, she's my niece, whom I have been trying for years to get to come to the church!" She was so sure her niece was home, when Mr. Adams asked her if she knew her, she thought it must be some one else of the same name (or to be accurate—with a son of the same name!), and could hardly believe it was her niece there in the church and—a Christian. Her joy—almost delirious—was a revelation to me of how deep their religion goes, and what a real grief the indifference of their friends and relatives is. I wonder if we care so much, and are as eager that all we know should be friends of Christ too.

And now the campaign is over—time for reaction? No, only time for doubled work. Two special classes a week to teach our new women all the glory and the wonder this new decision may mean in their lives. Then they must all be visited—about 250 of them. We foreign povines and the Sunday School teachers, who make a regular business of visiting in the city, will try to see each one very soon and encourage them, urge them, to learn to read and to come to church, pray with them, and most vital of all, get hold of a Christian in the neighborhood and tell her to see them and make her understand she is responsible for getting them to church three times Sundays and Prayer Meetings. Thus we pray and believe this "deciding to believe" shall end not in failure but in heaven. Does it pay? But Mrs. R. is sick now, J.W.'s babe is sick, and Mrs. J. and I cannot do it alone. Why aren't you here to help us?

[역주] Taiku=대구(大邱), 경상북도. 위도 35.8714, 경도 128.6014. Anna Rae Mills=북장로교 여성 선교사. Kil Moksa=길선주(吉善宙, 1869-1935) 목사, 평양 장대현교회 담임. Mr. Adams=James E. Adams, 대구 거주 북장로교 선교사. Dr. Chapman=Wilbur Chapman, 미국 대각성운동 부흥강사. Mr. Bruen=Henry M. Bruen, 대구 선교사. Myrry Yang=밀양. Kwang Ju=광주. Pokuchuri Ommani=포구추리 어머니(요리사 이름).

DR. KIM PIL SOON

김필순(金弼淳) 박사

Mr. KIM KIU SIK / 김규식(金奎植) 씨

DR. KIM PIL SOON.

BY MR. KIM KIU SIK.

Dr. Kim Pil Soon, whose likeness appears on the cover of this number, is one of the first class of seven doctors that graduated from the Severance Hospital Medical School in 1908.

He is a young man of about 31 years of age, being just in the prime of life, full of vigor and earnestness strengthened by careful preparation and many years of thorough experience. It did one good to see those seven strong, young men with marked capability, and, above all, earnest Christian spirit take their diplomas, ready to bear the full weight of responsibility for the healing of bodies and the saving of the souls of the vast multitude of suffering and needy among their own people. In addition, these men are able to relieve the foreign physicians of a vast amount of labor. Drs. Avison and Hirst are able to double their work with the assistance of this newly equipped force.

Two years of faithful work in the Severance Hospital have proven the calibre of Dr. Kim as well as Dr. Hong Suk Hoo, who is also associated with him.

As to Dr. Kim's preparation and experience, he became a Christian in 1894 receiving baptism from Dr. H. G. Underwood the following year, while he was still in his home in Sorai, Whang Hai Province. By the advice and under the care of this missionary he then came up to Seoul and entered Pai Chai, the Methodist High School where he studied for four years. In 1899 he made his first step toward a medical profession by connecting himself with the Presbyterian Mission Hospital as interpreter and helper for Dr. A. M. Sharrocks, then in charge. By natural course of events he became translator and helper for Dr. Avison in 1900, and the following year registered himself as one of the first group of medical students in the said Hospital,—the present Severance Hospital Medical School in embryo—where he plodded faithfully on to the goal he has attained, and by means of which he is "pressing on toward the goal of the prize of the high calling of God."

During the time of study he not only served as assistant in the Hospital Wards and Dispensary and helped to translate and compile a number of text-books, but also had charge of the detail management of the Hospital for many years.

After his graduation he became assistant physician for the Wards and the Surgical Department as well as professor in the Medical School and the Nurses' Training School.

He now has charge of the Dispensary and is Director of the Medical School.

Among the text-books translated by him before and after his graduation are Anatomy, Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, Surgery, and Practice of Medicine.

But aside from his service in the medical profession, he is also an active leader in the church work, which has no little to do in making him a man of character and force in his calling. This explains the fact that he agreed to remain in the Severance Hospital instead of accepting other offers of more lucrative nature.

If the Severance Hospital Medical School can continue to produce the same type of men as their first group of seven graduates, it will continue to multiply its beneficence.

The editor would add that Dr. Kim is the man of whom the story has often been heard by American Christians, whose widowed mother, hearing he was not doing as well at school in the great wicked city as was desired, went up to the top of a mountain and spent the night alone in prayer for him, coming back in glad assurance. Behold her answered prayer in an earnest Christian doctor.

[역주] Kim Pil Soon=김필순(金弼淳, 1878-1919). 황해도 장연 소래(松川) 출생. 세브란스병원 의학교 제1회 졸업생. 후일 중국 만주로 망명하여 독립운동에 기여. Kim Kiu Sik=김규식(金奎植, 1881-1950). Hong Suk Hoo=홍석후(洪錫厚, 1881-1942). Sorai=소래(松川)=황해도 장연군 송천(松川). 위도 38.0833, 경도 124.8333. 한국 최초의 자생 교회(소래교회) 설립지(1884).

WHAT HAPPENED IN SONG CHIN IN 1910

1910년 성진(城津)에서 일어난 일

Editorial / Canadian Presbyterian Mission — 캐나다 장로교 선교부

WHAT HAPPENED IN SONG CHIN IN 1910.

Our mottoes of previous years, "Can do" and "Greater things" give place this year to our new watch-word "The Lord buildeth" (Ps. 127:1). We never expected to do the things that are now being done or to see the things that are now happening in the field that God has given to us. "It is the LORD's doing and it is wonderful in our eyes." Our new motto clears up all indefiniteness as to who is doing these things. "The LORD buildeth."

Let us see for a moment how God is building. First in order is the addition to our station staff. Although nominally belonging to the far north, Mr. MacLeod has been assisting us by his prayers and his cheerful countenance.

Again, our field has grown; not in boundaries, which remain the same, but by a constant stream of immigration, into Kando especially, the LORD is building us up in numbers.

Notice next the number of Christian communities. In the eleven months since our last Annual Meeting there is an increase of 102 congregations. How many ministers at home would thank God for the addition of 102 individuals to their communion-roll! Are we not blessed in seeing 102 communities invaded by the Gospel influence! Again the LORD has been building churches for us—17 new ones this year!

Communicants are the golden coin in which men of God count their wealth. See the addition here—161 communicants, and 539 new names on our catechumen-roll, giving plenty of raw material for building in the coming year.

If there is one thing more than another to be singled out as an occasion for gratitude from among last year's many blessings, it is the coming among us of that noble man of God, Major T. H. Yi. Serving the Lord mightily while in the Imperial Guards, he is now an unpaid volunteer ambassador of the King of kings, in this his native province; a Paul-like man strengthened by the God of Paul.

Our port too, is growing in size and importance as the distributing centre for the wide region around it. Further, the completion of our Academy Dormitory and the commencement of a new mission residence mark the year as a "building year." Surely we should reiterate with grateful hearts our cheerful cry, "THE LORD BUILDETH."

During the year missionary visits have been made to Kando, and Vladivostock in the north; Kapsan and Samsu in the interior; Yi Won in the south and many other places, holding classes and examining for catechumenate and baptism. Two classes were held in Songchin, one in February for Bible study and singing, attended by 300 men; one in the Summer for the study of such subjects beside the Bible as, "Pilgrim's Progress," Church History, Geography, Arithmetic, etc. While the February Class was in session, the Evangelization Society of the Native Churches met, and increased the number of their evangelists from two to four, and as Major Yi was willing to accept practically no salary at all, a fifth evangelist was appointed.

The zeal of our native Christians is shown by the number who voluntarily preach in Songchin and the surrounding villages. A number of our colporteurs and evangelists are working in the territory to be occupied by the Western Board, besides one evangelist employed by them. With regard to this territory we would mention briefly the increase since the apportionment was made. The groups then numbered 16, now they are 46. The extent of territory includes 8 counties in Korea proper, and all Kando, with a population increased by many thousands, now numbering 500,000. Since Mr. MacLeod's arrival the members of Songchin station have held classes, etc., in that country, in all extending over 43 days.

As the new groups form, our woman's work grows apace. The Thursday class for Bible study and recitation at Songchin grows in interest and importance as well as in numbers. Two of our women have completed the course of study of the Presbyterian Church in Canada so far as translated, and several others are studying it. Together with Wonsan and Ham Heung stations we have succeeded in sending a much needed Bible-woman to Vladivostock, supported by the women of the churches; and Mrs. Grierson was also able to spend several weeks there teaching the women. Mrs. Grierson also itinerated in the Kilju and Yong Dong districts and in the southern part of the field. Miss Robb was able to give a few weeks of her precious time, and Miss L. H. McCully assisted in the Woman's Class and itinerated in the northern part of the field.

God blesses our work by sending us good Bible-women. Esther does faithful work in the city; Kim Miriam travels in cold and heat over the whole field, and a Mrs. Pak, a new Bible-woman, proves an inspiration to all in preaching and Bible selling. All sincere thanks are due the Toronto Prayer Circle, the Sunshine Circle of the Sharon Church, Stellarton, who have promised the support of a Bible-woman, and to a friend in Halifax for a monthly gift for use in the work. To our ever watchful Father we raise our hearts in thankfulness for these and many more mercies, and believe He is preparing for us greater things for the future.

"The stone which the builders rejected the same has become the head of the corner," or in other words, the work educational for which the home church granted no estimates last year has become the most outstanding feature of our work. The Academy roll increased from 9 last year to 62 this year. This includes a number who are taking a special one year course in Scripture and some modern subjects to fit them to become leaders in their home churches. Of course the missionaries have had to shoulder the extra financial burden, except for the renewed help of Rev. J. D. MacGillivray, but we expect much from these young men and they in the homeland who help this work will reap a rich reward in spiritual dividends. The local common school has sent a number of its members to the Academy preparatory department, and still numbers 26. There are 18 country groups who are making some attempt at school work, 7 of whom are trying to teach their girls.

Our local girls' school has improved in many ways. By the kindness of a dear friend they are now in a nicely tiled house, with seats and desks instead of sitting on the floor, and we have been able to provide a good teacher, transferred from the boy's school. The welcome gift of $4.00 a month still comes from the Toronto Prayer Circle to assist us in paying this teacher.

During the past 15 months we have received from the Kapsan Mining Co., for services rendered them, the sum of $537.00 which has been applied toward the Academy building and Dormitory—the added burden being willingly borne by the missionaries in view of the shortage of educational funds from home.

Medical work has gone on last year under Mr. Kim Yong Bai's care with aid from the Medical Missionary in hard cases as his other multitudinous callings would permit. Of course it is only playing at Medical missions but the smallness of our staff renders other action impossible, and even so we have saved many lives and averted much suffering. In response to our appeal of last year a Canadian lady in Mass., U.S.A., has undertaken to educate Mr. Kim in Medicine. We thank her sincerely, and indispensable as he seems, Yong Bai must go, both for his own sake and for the future of the work.

We once again thank Rev. J. D. MacGillivary, and Mr. H. H. Marshall for continued aid in educational work and the several other friends who have aided in financing the purchase of the school campus. We sincerely thank the unknown friends who, unaware that Mr. Kim's school funds were already secured, joined together through the medium of our ever friendly Presbyterian Witness to send him to school, and we suggest that their intended gift be diverted towards our educational work. We would invite gifts for laboratory and other equipment for our Academy and school which now have but the bare walls.

We pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth labourers into His harvest.

LIST OF MISSIONARIES. Appointed.

Rev. R. Grierson, B.A., M.D. ............ 1898

Mrs. R. Grierson ............ 1898

Rev. A. R. Ross, B.A., B.D. ............ 1907

Miss M. M. Rogers ............ 1909

Rev. J. M. MacLeod. (Western Section's Missionary) ............ 1909

STATISTICAL SUMMARY.

Size of field—15 counties in Korea proper, Kando (Chientao) in Manchuria.

Estimated population of field ............ 845,000

Regular meeting-places ............ 164

Added during the year ............ 102

Church buildings ............ 35

Church buildings added during the year ............ 17

Communicants ............ 303

Communicants added during the year ............ 161

Catechumens ............ 685

Catechumens added during the year ............ 542

Total members and adherents ............ 3,433

Theological Students ............ 2

Academy Pupils ............ 62

Primary School Pupils ............ 348

Enrollment at Winter Class ............ 300

Enrollment at Summer Helpers' Class ............ 113

Workers supported by Native Church ............ 9

Contributions ............ $1,750

Treatments in Dispensary and Hospital ............ 5,000

[역주] Song Chin=성진(城津), 함경북도. 위도 40.6749, 경도 129.2089. Kando=간도(間島, Chientao), 만주(현 중국 옌볜자치주). Vladivostock=블라디보스토크(러시아 연해주). Kapsan=갑산(甲山), 함경남도. Samsu=삼수(三水), 함경남도. Yi Won=이원(利原), 함경남도. Wonsan=원산(元山). Ham Heung=함흥(咸興). Kilju=길주(吉州). Major T. H. Yi=이태훈(추정) 또는 이태황 소령으로 추정. 캐나다 장로교(Canadian Presbyterian)는 한국 동북부(함경도)와 간도에서 사역.

A PRAYER

기도

Phillips BROOKS / 필립스 브룩스

A PRAYER.

BY PHILLIPS BROOKS.

O Lord, by all Thy dealings with us, whether of joy or pain of light or darkness, let us be brought to Thee. Let us value no treatment of Thy Grace simply because it gives us or denies us what we want, but may all that Thou sendest bring us to Thee that knowing Thy perfectness we may be sure in every disappointment, that Thou art still loving us, and in every darkness that Thou art still enlightening us, and in every enforced idleness that Thou art still using us, yea in every death that Thou art giving us life, as in His death Thou didst give life to Thy Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

[역주] Phillips Brooks(1835-1893)=미국 감리교 출신 성공회 주교, 보스턴 트리니티교회 사목, 「O Little Town of Bethlehem」 찬송 작사자.

QUARTER-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION IN CHOSEN

조선 미감리회 선교부 25주년 기념

Mrs. J. D. VAN BUSKIRK / J. D. 밴버스커크 부인

QUARTER-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION IN CHOSEN.

MRS. J. D. VAN BUSKIRK.

On the afternoon of November first was held in Seoul the opening meeting of the Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Methodist Episcopal Mission in Korea. A large part of the membership of our mission was present and we were honored in having with us for the two days' session Dr. John F. Goucher through whose efforts and gifts the work of our church in Korea was begun.

Dr. Goucher was chairman of the meetings and gave at the night session an account of the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh.

It was the universal opinion that these meetings were the best ever held by our mission. The addresses and papers which made up the program were all carefully prepared and covered every phase of our work in this land, especially reviewing the past and recounting the wonderful results which God has accomplished. We were inspired and helped by the accounts of the life and works of the early missionaries and feel that they have set a worthy example for us to follow.

The results already accomplished are almost startling, a church only twenty-five years old which has about 50,000 members! As one speaker expressed it, "If results had been less we might have felt that we had done it ourselves, but as it is, we can only stand back and give God the glory. He alone could bring such things to pass."

It would be impossible to give a complete account of all that was said and done but perhaps a brief survey of the work of our mission as portrayed by the different speakers would be interesting.

The first missionaries sent out by our church were Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Scranton, Mrs. M. F. Scranton and Rev. and Mrs. H. G. Appenzeller. They reached Chosen* in May 1885. On Christmas day of that year Rev. Mr. Appenzeller preached the first Methodist sermon in this land from the text, "Thou shalt call his name Jesus for it is he that shall save his people from their sins." Much was said during the meetings of the work of Rev. Mr. Appenzeller. It was clearly to be seen that his work and the inspiration of his life have been a potent factor in all that has since been accomplished.

[*Korea.]

Dr. Scranton began his medical work in Seoul in the spring of 1886 at a little dispensary. This work, though discontinued after some years, was a great power for good in opening up the Hermit Kingdom. Medical work was begun in Pyeng Yang in 1892 by the saintly Dr. W. J. Hall who soon laid down his life for the people. His work has been carried on by others and work has since been opened up in Yeng Byen, Kongju and Haiju. The only medical work of our church in Seoul at this time is that of the W. F. M. S. During the years more than 400,000 patients have received treatment in these places.

Educational work began when Mrs. M. F. Scranton opened in Seoul the first girls' school afterwards named "Ewa Haktong" by the emperor. This school stands to-day a worthy monument to the sainted woman who was its founder.

At about the same time Mr. Appenzeller opened "Pai Chai Haktong," the boys' school, with four pupils. One of the first two pupils to enroll in this school was present at the meeting and read a short paper concerning the school. From these schools as a beginning, work has been extended to Pyeng Yang, Chemulpo and Kongju with primary schools in other places to the number of 164 so that our mission is now teaching over 6,000 boys and girls in all grades from primary to college.

All of our work is evangelistic but the direct evangelistic work though always fearfully undermanned has shown surprising results. The first convert was baptized in 1887—our present membership is about 50,000, a number overwhelmingly large when compared with the small force of foreigners available for overseeing the work. We have to-day only 16 men with their wives and 14 workers of the Woman's Board to care for the churches, schools and medical work among a population of at least 2,000,000 people all of whom are accessible to gospel preaching.

The task is too large for human skill but the One who has helped us in the past will be with us in the days to come and by His Spirit we shall conquer.

The meeting was not simply a looking backward, it was a looking about and ahead. God was truly with us and the results of His work in the past gave us confidence to face the future. The thought was expressed by Dr. Goucher that we are now "at Kadesh Barnea and it is ours to go in and possess the land." All present were inspired with new courage and zeal and with a hope that the next twenty-five years will see even greater results than the last and that this land will indeed be "possessed" for Christ.

[역주] W. B. Scranton=William B. Scranton(스크랜튼, 1856-1922), 미감리회 의료선교사. M. F. Scranton=Mary F. Scranton(스크랜튼 대부인, 1832-1909), 이화학당 설립자. H. G. Appenzeller=Henry G. Appenzeller(아펜젤러, 1858-1902), 배재학당 설립자. Ewa Haktong=이화학당(梨花學堂). Pai Chai Haktong=배재학당(培材學堂). W. J. Hall=William James Hall(홀, 1860-1894), 캐나다 출신 미감리회 평양 선교사. Dr. Goucher=John Franklin Goucher(고우처, 1845-1922), 한국선교 후원자. Kadesh Barnea=가데스바네아, 출애굽기 가나안 정탐 출발지.

THE CAMPAIGNS IN SYEN CHEN

선천 전도운동

Rev. Mr. McCUNE / 매큔 목사

THE CAMPAIGNS IN SYEN CHEN.

REV. MR. McCUNE.

The Revival in Syen Chun was a great success. You see we had such a small place to work in. One of the Koreans said, "You cannot have a revival without unbelievers," but he was wrong. Seventy men had been chosen from the different counties of this province to attend as special delegates and again their number assembled. The revival began with these lukewarm Christians who said there were no heathen to preach to. It spread. Since the town was small we decided to send out parties every afternoon to nearby towns to hold meetings at night there. In some towns there were no Christians at the beginning. Services were held in 27 places outside of Syen Chun and many believed. Not one single town lacks a representative. In one group of villages where the rich and scholarly Paks live, some school boys and other preachers were very harshly treated. Some of the people decided to give up their ancestral worship and worship the true God. Persecution arose. Some of the older men gathered with clubs and beat some of those who were gathering for worship. A few fled, denying Christ; some who had not decided, seeing this persecution, were convinced that the Jesus Doctrine was the true doctrine and decided to follow Christ. A flourishing church of over 100 members has been established. They are hungering for the Word of God and teachers are going out regularly to teach them. A group was begun in one other place and is being nurtured by the local church here in Syen Chyun. We had a special service for the unconverted on market-day. Over 1,000 crowded into the church, none of whom had ever been inside a church before. Forty some decided to believe in Christ that day all of whom asked to have their names enrolled and each of whom prayed to God before he left the church building. The total of those who decided to believe was 700, many of whom were here from other places. All the Academy boys and the Grammar grade boys spent the whole week in preaching. Such enthusiasm! Rev. Kim Ik. Too from Whang Hai Province, brought special enthusiasm and power with him and was a great blessing to the whole church.

After the special services here we scattered to several sections of the province where we held revival services in large centers. In Weju was held a memorable revival. Although it rained, over 400 new believers were enrolled and the whole church was stirred. New life was given the church and as we left they decided to continue by themselves for two days closing Sabbath. Special services were held in the afternoons. One was for old people and it was most interesting. Two were held for children, at one of these all the public school children came and there was an attendance of over 1,000 children.

One old lady who decided to believe told of how she had seen Mrs. Underwood so many years ago but would not believe. I asked a question one evening at the East Church as to the number of years they had believed. Two men had been Christians 22 years, one of whom is a pastor ordained at last Presbytery and the other a graduate of the Severance Medical College, Seoul, who has a hospital in Weju. The Weju people are strong, proud, sturdy, and remarkably intelligent. The revival begun, is going on and God is showing His approval.

[역주] Kim Ik. Too=김익두(金益斗, 1874-1950), 한국의 대표적 부흥사. 황해도 안악(安岳) 출신. Geo. S. McCune=조지 S. 매큔(尹山溫, 1872-1941), 북장로교 선천 선교사, 신성중학교장.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS

주일학교

Editorial / 편집부

SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

We are giving below an appeal from one of our missionaries for a special effort to be made to organize Sunday Schools for heathen children. It must be remembered that the Korean church has its Sunday Schools, but these are made up of adult Christians and their children. Some 30,000 or 40,000 such children are under Christian instruction in Korea, both on Sundays and week days. Nor have missionaries been unmindful of the heathen children and numerous attempts have been made to gather them into classes and teach them, but many of these efforts have not been successful for more than a very brief period for the following reasons. Heathen parents when they became aware that their children were going to our Sunday Schools, would often forbid and punish them. They had no way of telling when Sunday came round, and many of them had no means of telling time with sufficient accuracy to be in school at a particular hour; and even to gain a secular education free, many would not enter our day schools, how much less for religious teaching. Again boys who were old enough to gain much from the school were either at work, or in heathen schools, and girls over ten would be secluded, or kept employed at home; and so other Christian work, demanding and exacting so much attention, and repaying it so munificently, the Sunday school work (that is what would be called at home, the "mission school" for street children) has somewhat suffered. But we believe that now the time is ripe for a fresh effort. The ground has been prepared. The seed sown, heathen parents have mostly been made familiar with our character and our doctrines, old prejudices are much lessened, old suspicions have largely disappeared, and are constantly on the wane and the Christians with their hearts warm from the recent campaigns and eager and ready to do still more for Christ, will, we believe, go into this with enthusiasm.

The same methods used in mission schools at home would doubtless succeed here. Let certain faithful workers be asked, each to bring in to the school his or her class of boys or girls, whom he shall find and bring, and call for every Sunday. Let there be large colored pictures illustrative of a short lesson, hung on the wall and explained. Let the hymns be few, brief and lively, and taught over and over till every word is learned by heart. Let a brief and pointed text be taught every session, the children repeating it after the teacher till it has been really learned, as well as explained.

Let a very brief story be told by the superintendent, and no one allowed to harrangue the children at length, or to scold them, and let tickets for attendance be given which shall call for a reward or a feast at Christmas when a given number can be rendered. Make as many and as attractive special Sundays as possible. These are a few old well used methods, but without a live superintendent, who loves children, and is full of common-sense and inspiration, they will utterly fail. It is not so hard to call together a large crowd of children, but it is another matter to keep them in regular attendance, with the sort of obstacles there are to overcome in a heathen land. But obstacles all melt away, we know, before consecrated perseverance and determination to succeed, and with the grace of God working with us there is no such word as failure.

We insert besides the appeal referred to, Mrs. Swallen's account of her recent Sunday school working experience and would be glad to hear from others.

APPEAL FOR THE CHILDREN OF KOREA

한국 어린이를 위한 호소

Editorial / 편집부

APPEAL FOR THE CHILDREN OF KOREA.

"Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my father which is in heaven."

"Even so it is not the will of your father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish." Matthew 18: 1-14.

"And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked them that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is kingdom of God."

The importance which our Saviour gives to little children should cause us to follow his example, and receive his blessing upon this work.

One's heart is touched in Korea, at the great numbers of little children, who run at large, unkept, untaught, and apparently uncared for, until Jesus came a little child had practically no chance, no opportunity, and only through Christian sources to-day are they to be properly reached and cared for.

The importance of this work of gathering the little children into Sunday Schools and teaching them week after week the Gospel, with its great truths of salvation can not be over estimated. They are willing, yes glad to come and be taught. If only some one cares enough for them to go out and gather them in, thousands not now reached may be brought under the blessed influence of Christian training. No one can tell the possibilities locked up in a little child. Many years ago a Christian lady in Virginia used to teach a little colored boy the truths of the Gospel and that boy grew up and went to school then to the Theological Seminary, then to Africa as a missionary and there he has been used mightily of God.

Gypsy Smith, the great evangelist, is another instance of how God can use a poor boy. Many, many other instances could be given of the possibilities in these children. If each of the twenty-five hundred groups would only gather in one hundred there would be a mighty army of two hundred and fifty thousand children brought under the influence of the Gospel. These children should be gathered into Sunday Schools and taught regularly some hour on Sunday. Dr. Gale stated that in their church there was formerly such a Sunday School with eight or nine hundred in attendance. Let us aim then for at least two hundred and fifty thousand of these neglected ones to be gathered into Sunday Schools this year.

At Pyeng Yang, Mrs. Swallen enthusiastically undertook to gather the children in, and enlisted not only the grown people, but the children as well, going out and bringing in the children. For a children's service at four o'clock, the children were to go out and get other children for each of the churches. Let each Christian enter enthusiastically into this and gather in the children, and do it now, not neglecting the work for older people. Nothing perhaps is more pathetic than to see these old, feeble people still without Christ. No effort should be spared to reach them with the Gospel.

[역주] Gypsy Smith=Rodney Smith(1860-1947), 영국 출신 집시계 복음전도자. James Scarth Gale=한국학자, 한영사전 편찬자.

WORK FOR HEATHEN CHILDREN IN PYENG YANG

평양 이교 어린이를 위한 사역

SALLIE SWALLEN / 살리 스왈른

WORK FOR HEATHEN CHILDREN IN PYENG YANG.

I have been asked to write to the FIELD about our work, so I will just try to tell you a little what we have been and are still trying to do for the children. Just a few days before the evangelistic meetings began, the thought came to me, "What part are the children to have in this campaign!" Just a few days before the meetings began some friends were our guests over night, who told us what they had been trying to do for the children at Mokpo, which gave me new inspiration and enthusiasm. The next day I saw one member of the Committee to find what plans had been made with and for the children. The Evangelistic Committee had their hands full, he said, and did not feel they could take up any more work just then, however, any thing that could be arranged and planned for the children would be all right. I saw a number who were interested in the work for children and on Sunday evening on our way home from the English services we had an impromptu meeting on the corner, of those who were interested in the work for children. All were in favor of undertaking something. A meeting of all who were interested in Sabbath school work was called for Monday morning at 8.30. There was a splendid representation, nearly the whole station came, the whole subject of work for children and Sabbath school work was discussed. Plans were made to ask the school committee to close the schools at noon so the children could have the afternoon busy to keep them quiet and interested. At four o'clock there was a meeting at each church for the children. Believing children were to bring the heathen children to this meeting, we had a short scripture text printed and gave them each one to take home and learn for the next day. The student young men helped teach the boys and the academy girls taught the girls.

After singing, prayer and a short talk on the scripture text for that day, these little restless children were divided up into small classes of three, four or more in a group and caught the meaning of the text and to repeat it. At some of the churches the children began pouring in at three o'clock and it kept a number busy to keep them quiet and interested. There were in all the five Presbyterian churches over eight hundred children gathered in during the week. A small hymn book was printed and bought by the churches for free distribution. The children were taught to sing these hymns and commit the scripture text to memory and take them to their homes.

We praise and thank God for what was undertaken and accomplished for the children and it won't stop with that one week's meeting but will go on. But that early Monday morning meeting also resulted in an appointment of a Sabbath school committee who are to plan for Sabbath school work, graded work and lessons, trained teachers, etc.

Save the children and we will have Korea won for Christ.

SALLIE SWALLEN.

The following incident related by Miss Mills, indicates the spirit shown by Korean Christians in Taiku under a trying ordeal. On the Japanese Emperor's Birthday all pupils in government schools are required to bow to his picture in some public patriotic exercises. The head officials ordered private school pupils should not be required to participate if it was contrary to religious principles, but our Taiku local officials ignored that order, and commanded our boys to be present and bow with the rest. Worship of the Emperor as a god is a part of Shintoism, so of course our teachers said our boys could not do it. Then the officials began to abuse them, call them names, etc., and say they had no patriotism or loyalty. "Oh, yes, we have," said our teachers, "only we show it in a different way." "How do you show it?" scoffed the officials. "By praying to our God for the Emperor that he may be wise and good and prosperous," was the reply. "All right," they said, "come and pray at the public exercises." They consulted Mr. Adams, who said, "By all means, go ahead, only make sure they will give you a separate place on the programme, lest you get into a box standing with the others, and refusing to bow." So at the Residency in those big official exercises our boys had a place on the programme, all came forward, took off their hats reverently, while the elder stepped forward and prayed our God to bless the Emperor. Wasn't that "going some"?

[역주] Sallie Swallen=William L. Swallen(스왈른) 부인, 평양 거주 북장로교 여성 선교사. Mokpo=목포(木浦), 전라남도. 위도 34.8118, 경도 126.3922. Shintoism=신도(神道), 일본 천황 숭배 종교. Residency=거주지(통감부 또는 도지사 관저).

CORRESPONDENCE

서신

Various Authors / 다수의 저자

CORRESPONDENCE.

The following welcome letter comes from our dear fellow worker the Rev. J. Robert Moose, who was obliged to leave Korea so lately on account of the ill health of his daughter.

Las Cruces, N. M., Oct. 28, 1910.

MY DEAR EDITOR:

Since leaving Korea I have thought many times of writing you, so that you may know where to send the KOREA MISSION FIELD, and to let you know that we are interested in the work there just as much as when we were on the field. The Lord has seen fit to call us from the work there for a while but we praise Him that He has not taken the love of the work out of our hearts, nor the desire to return to it when He shall open the way.

As you will see from the above heading I am in charge of our church here while Mary is being restored to health. This is a wonderful climate and seems to be the very place for any one suffering with any sort of lung trouble. We have been in the territory about a month and have had sunshine every day and are told that we may expect it the year around. Mary is living much of the time in the open and sleeping on the veranda where she gets the full benefit of the air. Her physician says that she will be well in a few months if she continues to improve as she has since we left Korea. This makes us feel good because it means that our chance for joining you in the work in Korea again is good. We do not expect to return for a year but at the end of that time, if all goes well, we hope to turn our faces towards Chosen again.

With love to all the workers in Korea I am cordially yours.

The following comes from England.

DEAR SIR,

Through the kindness of a friend I am glad to receive monthly the KOREA MISSION FIELD. With keen and prayerful interest I follow the work of God in Korea: and only wish I were 20 years younger: the old fires blaze up anew within me, and I long to be in the midst of that wonderful work of grace. I am enclosing a few lines for the K. M. F. should you deem them worthy of a place in the Jan. issue, or Dec.

Yours in His Royal Service,

JOHN BURNHAM.

DYING-YEAR REFLECTIONS.

1 COR. III. 12-15.

The year is dying! Soon, ah! very soon

It will be number'd with the eternal past:

What record does it bear of service done?

What character of service? will it last?

"Wood, hay and stubble?" Is it thus we sought

To rear a temple in the Saviour's name?

May God forgive us! Oh, the very thought

Fills us with anguish, rends our hearts with shame!

The year is dying! Ere it pass away,

And we are left outside its fast-barr'd door,

Upon the threshold we would kneel and pray

That He who all our sins and sorrows bore,

Will from the Book of His remembrance blot

The past misdeeds, and henceforth give us grace

To build alone with Truth, that we may not

Be "scarcely saved," our building find no place!

The year is dying! With it dies our sin;

'Tis buried deep beneath the crimson flood.

The New Year dawns; and we afresh begin

To rear a temple to our Saviour God.

Stones, "living stones" we seek from earth's deep mine,

And in the structure each one finds a place:

To Him we dedicate this sacred shrine

Adorn'd with strength and beauty, truth and grace.

JOHN BURNHAM.

The following is from Mrs. Brand whom Seoul missionaries will remember having recently been obliged to return to America on account of ill health.

MY DEAR FRIENDS IN KOREA,

As most of you know, my having to leave Korea was almost the saddest disappointment of my life. I felt I would rather die and be buried in the land I loved, than to seemingly turn my back on my work.

All the way across the ocean, I could never turn my face back toward those great white fields I was leaving, without breaking down, and my children would say, "Oh, try to be happy, Mamma, and when you are well, we will all come back and be missionaries all our lives."

Tho I weighed less than 90 lbs. when I left Kobe, I weighed 126 lbs. when 3 mos. were up, quite cured.

The 9th week I left my bed and how the burden for dear Korea oppressed me! One day when crying out for God to lift it, a message came from a church, asking me to tell them of the work in Korea.

I went gladly and as I talked, the burden went from me—onto the people before me, I hope.

For two days I was comfortable, then it came upon me again until I thought I should die, if God did not soon lift it. In answer to my cry for help, another open door was set before me—another church invited me to speak, and for about six weeks this was repeated, one church a week and each time I thought it would be my last chance, as I was getting so strong, I expected every week to take up orphanage work again, that I might keep my little ones with me.

Six weeks I say, God gave me a church a week, then two, then three, then four churches a week and last week I spoke seven times in different churches.

Last Sunday I was in three different Methodist churches and spoke in S.S. and Epworth League, besides filling the pulpits at the regular services.

Last Wed. evening I addressed the S.S. workers of the 1st Presby. Ch. (Dr. McAfee's, brother of Mrs. McKuen of Berkeley) at a supper they gave; later addressing a good audience in the Lecture Room of the church, using the costumes, the Presby. girls in Seoul made my children.

Six missionaries have gone out from that church and you can all imagine the response I had there. They are almost entirely supporting both Mr. and Mrs. Reiner whom they all claim and whom they love so dearly, and eagerly listened to all I could tell them of them.

Oh that all the churches were like that church! I find loyal, faithful followers of Jesus in every church of all five denominations I have had calls to, however.

Oakland had the honor of having the 1st of the series of "Jubilee" Meetings (celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Woman's Work in Missions). They will do for women, what the Laymen's Movement are doing for men and are to be held in thirty of our largest cities. Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery, a most eloquent and magnetic speaker in behalf of the cause she so loves—foreign missions—drew such crowded audiences to every session of the two days' celebration—she gave such startling facts and figures, I doubt if any Christian woman who heard her, can ever dare shirk her responsibility again.

I represented Korea at this "Jubilee" and was happy also to speak on two different days to the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Branch of the W. F. M. S. of the Meth. Epis. Ch. It was a joy to see the workings of this great machinery—this band of strong, consecrated women, rich in faith. They appropriated $42,000 for the work of this branch (there are 14 branches in U.S.) this coming year.

All the California folks are especially interested in Mrs. Cable and Mrs. Sharracks (California girls).

Fortunately I had a copy of the Presby. Quarto-Centennial Report and some other reports, so I have reliable statistics, but would welcome any suggestions from any of you, regarding your special needs.

I have dozens of engagements ahead and am wondering if Jesus is going to let me have orphanage work at all. His will, not mine.

If I can see I am serving these precious heathen more effectively by staying here, than by being there, I am content.

My body is here, but my heart, my prayers, are with you there across the sea.

In glad Service for Him,

EVA B. BRAND.

215 Santa Clara Ave., Oakland, California.

[역주] J. Robert Moose=미감리회 남감리교 선교사. Las Cruces, N.M.=뉴멕시코주 라스 크루세스. Mrs. Brand=Eva B. Brand, 서울 고아원 운영자. Helen Barrett Montgomery(1861-1934)=미국 침례교 여성 운동가, 신약 번역가. Phillips Brooks(이미 앞에 언급). Mrs. Reiner=라이너 선교사 부인.

TO OUR READERS

독자 여러분께

Editor / 편집인

TO OUR READERS.

It is of interest to note that "The Korea Mission Field" is the only magazine in Korea that is published in English. It reaches the home of every Protestant Missionary in the country and is an excellent vehicle for conveying information to them apart altogether from advertisements. Contributions on subjects of interest from America and Great Britain will be heartily welcomed by the Editor.