THE KOREA MISSION FIELD — Vol. IX, No. 3 (1913년 3월) 완역본 [작업본]

출처: The Korea Mission Field 1913..pdf, PDF p.050–077 (인쇄면 51–76)
컬렉션: KMF Vol.9 No.3, 1913년 3월 / 편집인: L. H. Underwood, 부편집인: H. H. Underwood
표지: 북장로회 선교부원 일동 (MEMBERS OF N. PRESBYTERIAN MISSION)
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[표지] COVER (PDF p.050 / 인쇄면 49)

[목차] CONTENTS (PDF p.051 / 인쇄면 50)

번역

인물 동정 ... 51
『그리스도 신문』 공지 — 위원회 ... 54
본지 공지 — 본윅 씨 ... 54
어학반 일정 및 공지 — 베어드 부인 ... 55
성서공회에 관한 단신 — 휴 밀러 씨 ... 56
교육원로원 보고 — 빌링스 씨 ... 56
대구 사역 보고 — 밀스 박사 ... 56
길가의 시내(The Brook by the Way) — 코윈 테일러 목사 ... 59
"우로 봐(Eyes Right)" — H. H. U. ... 61
강계에서 온 편지 — C. S. 호프먼 부인 ... 61
홀스턴 학원의 성탄 축하 — 송도 통신원 ... 63
"한국의 소리(Korean Sounds)" — 안동 스미스 부인 ... 64
평양 어학반 — L. H. U. ... 67
평양 감리교인들에 관한 몇 가지 단신 — B. W. 빌링스 목사 ... 70
선천 성서학원 ... 71
선천 종합 단신 — 지부 통신원 ... 73
한 여성의 겨울 여행과 그 보상 — 매큔 양 ... 75

원문 · Original

CONTENTS. Notes and Personals — 51. Notice from Christian News — Committee — 54. Notice from Field — Mr. Bonwick — 54. Schedule and Notice of Language Class — Mrs. Baird — 55. Note Concerning Bible Society — Mr. Hugh Miller — 56. Report of Educational Senate — Mr. Billings — 56. Report of Taiku Work — Rev. Dr. Mills — 56. The Brook by the Way — Rev. Corwin Taylor — 59. "Eyes Right" — H. H. U. — 61. Letter from Kangkei — Mrs. C. S. Hoffman — 61. Christmas Celebration at Holston Institute — Song Ju Correspondent — 63. "Korean Sounds" — Mrs. Smith of Andong — 64. Language Class in Pyeng Yang — L. H. U. — 67. A few Notes Concerning Pyeng Yang Methodists — Rev. B. W. Billings — 70. Syen Chun Bible Institute — 71. General Notes from Syen Chun — Station Correspondent — 73. A Woman's Winter Trip and its Reward — Miss McCune — 75.

[판권란] (printed p.51)

편집인 릴리어스 H. 언더우드 / 부편집인 H. H. 언더우드 / 영업부장 제럴드 본윅(트랙트 하우스, 서울). 연 구독료 1엔(금화 50센트/영화 2실링 1펜스). 낱권 10센, 같은 호 3부 25센. 인쇄: 후쿠인 인쇄소, 고베.

[인물 동정] NOTES AND PERSONALS (printed pp.51–53)

성탄절 저녁 평양 중앙(장대현)교회 예배에서 백 명이 넘는 새 신자가 일어나 주 예수를 따르기로 결심했음을 표시했다. 그 주간의 집회 동안 약 백 명이 더해졌고, 북(산정현)교회에서도 여든 명이 더해졌다. 집회에 참석한 한 불신자는 그토록 믿기 어려운 운동에 큰 흥미를 느껴, 교회 목사인 길 목사(Kil Moksa, 길선주)를 찾아가 어째서 그리 많은 이들이 기꺼이 새 (신앙을) 받아들이는지 물었다.

서울 세브란스병원의 허스트(Hirst) 박사가 심한 요통 발작으로 고생 중임을 유감으로 전한다. 평양 왕진에서 돌아오는 길에 갑자기 병이 나 들것에 실려 기차에서 내려야 했다. 허스트 박사 본인만 아니라 어린 아들도 폐렴을 앓았다. 일본의 피터스(Pieters) 양이 허스트 박사 부부를 방문 중인데, 신경쇠약의 완전한 회복을 위해 처음엔 미국행이 필요하다 여겨졌으나 한국의 상쾌한 기후가 그것을 불필요하게 해 주기를 바라서다. 다음 호에 세 환자 모두의 완쾌를 알릴 수 있기를 바란다.

전주의 대니얼스(Daniels) 박사가 최근 서울을 방문했다. 늘 그렇듯 반가우나, 남대문역에서 250엔을 잃어버려 방문의 즐거움이 모두 상했을까 걱정이다. 이 유난히 큰 손실에 모두가 박사를 동정할 것이다.

평양 외국인 자녀 학교가 모즐리(Moseley) 양을 임시 사감으로 확보한 것을 서둘러 축하한다. 이미 직무를 시작했고 그 일에 깊은 만족의 표현이 널리 들린다.

아직 소식을 못 들은 이들에게, 전주 북장로회 지부의 케긴(Kagin) 목사와 송도 남감리회 사역자 존스턴(Johnstone) 양의 약혼이라는 기쁜 소식을 전하게 되어 행복하다. 남감리회의 다가올 손실에는 동정을 표하나, 케긴 씨만 아니라 그토록 값진 인력을 얻는 장로회에도 축하를 보낸다.

새해 둘째 날 서울에서 장로회 여자성경학원이 시작되었다. 첫 학기는 6주 과정만 계획되었으나 사역이 발전하고 경험이 길을 보여 주면 더 완전한 조직이 기대된다.

1월 25일 토요일 로이드(Loyd) 부부에게 아들이 태어났다.

지부 통신원 명단에 선천의 매큔 부인, 대구의 밀스 박사, 평양(북감리회)의 빌링스 씨, 강계의 호프먼 부인, 해주의 P. L. 그로브 부인을 더한다.

프레드릭 비시(Vesey) 목사 내외가 몇 달의 영국 체류 후 지난 12월 말 한국에 돌아와 지금은 서울 남감리회와 함께 일한다. 본국 방문 중 비시 부인은 9월 29일 부친 버넘(Burnham) 씨를 잃는 슬픔을 겪었는데, 한국 선교도 따뜻한 벗을 잃은 것이다. 이곳 사역이 그의 마음 가까이 있었고 끝까지 그 기도에 기억되었다. 우리 선교사 여럿이 그를 개인적으로 알았고 그 집에서 대접받았다. 비시 부인의 벗들은 이 손실을 진심으로 위로하는 한편, 이런 두 일꾼이 우리 곤핍한 선교의 절박한 필요로 돌아온 것을 기뻐하지 않을 수 없다.

최근 대구에 도착한 밀스(Mills) 박사는 한국어는 못 하지만 한국 사역의 구경꾼으로 머물지 않고 매우 실효성 있게 손을 보태고 있다. 북장로회 집행위원회의 요청으로 그는 본지의 매우 매력적인 특집이 되리라 기대되는 일을 맡기로 했다: 두 달에 한 번, 장로회 각 지부를 차례로 돌며, 그 지부의 각 사역 부문 단신으로 특별히 흥미로운 모든 소식을 담은 1~2면의 특별 지부 서신을 보내는 것이다. 해당 지부원들이 밀스 박사에게 미국 친지들의 이름을 주면, 본지는 재정이 허락하는 한 아직 구독하지 않는 이들에게 보낼 추가 부수의 비용을 대겠다. 집행위원회와 밀스 박사의 착상과 그 실현에 감사하며, 다른 선교회들에도 같은 조치를 권한다 — 다만 각 지부당 한 해 한 번뿐이고 그때도 많아야 몇 면을 차지할 뿐이며, 『필드』는 우리 사역에 관한 모든 흥미로운 것에 늘 열려 있음을 모두 기억해 주기 바란다.

[공지] 『그리스도 신문』 공지 (NOTICE FROM CHRISTIAN NEWS) — 위원회 (printed p.54)

『그리스도 신문』(예수교회보, Yesu Kyo Bio-bo) 경영진에서 선교사들에게 보낸 다음 공지가 왔다. — 친애하는 벗들에게: 『그리스도 신문』의 지속 발행을 가능케 하기 위해 담당 위원회는 다음을 제안합니다: 모든 권서(매서인), 또는 선교사의 승인을 받아 구독료를 수금하는 사람에게 수금액의 10%를 지급하며, 나머지 90%는 기부자의 이름·주소와 함께 『그리스도 신문』 사무소(서울 연동, 게일 목사 앞)로 보내 주십시오. 어느 한국인 대표가 이 일을 맡아 구독을 얻고자 힘쓰도록 살펴 주시기 바랍니다. 현 시기는 그 제약들로 인해 간행을 이어가기 특별히 어려운 때입니다. 새해 문안과 축원을 담아. — H. G. 언더우드, 김종상(Kim Chong Sang), J. S. 게일, 위원회.

[공지] 본지 공지 (NOTICE FROM FIELD) — Mr. Bonwick (printed p.54)

본지의 이익을 위해 다음 공지를 싣는다: 앞으로 몇 달간 상당수의 잠재 구독자에게 『코리아 미션 필드』 무료 견본을 발송할 목적의 작은 기금이 우리에게 맡겨졌다. 그러므로 독자들이, 우리 계획을 설명하는 회람 편지와 함께 이를테면 석 달간 무료 부수를 보내면 영구 구독자가 될 만큼 관심을 가질 본국 친지들의 이름과 주소를 알려 주면 대단히 감사하겠다. 우리는 『K.M.F.』의 발행 부수를 늘리기를 간절히 바란다 — 마땅히 두 배가 되어야 하며, 친절한 협력이 있다면 (가능하다).

[공지] 어학반 일정 및 공지 (SCHEDULE AND NOTICE OF LANGUAGE CLASS) — Annie L. A. Baird, 서기 (printed p.55)

여름 어학교 일정표가 막 도착했기에, 본지 독자들에게 제공하니 큰 관심으로 읽으리라 안다. 지난 호에 밝혔듯 평양 연합어학교의 일정은 6월 14일 등록, 7월 10일 종료다. 위원회는 더 이른 날짜를 원했으나 필요한 건물들을 더 일찍 쓸 수 없었다. 다음 일과표가 예비 학생들에게 무엇을 기대할지 알려 줄 것이다. 여름철을 고려해 채플 30분과 발음 훈련 시간 외에 하루 두 교시만 편성했다. 특별위원회가 잦은 친교 기도회를 마련할 것이니, 모두 도움과 영감을 받을 뿐 아니라 줄 준비를 하고 오기 바란다.

일과표(안): 9:15–9:30 (월~~금) 발음 훈련 — 크램(Cram) 씨. 9:30~~ 1교시: 1반 교수법(월화수, 베커 씨)/이야기(목금, 스토크스 씨) · 2반 논설(월화수, 크램 씨)/문자(목금, 번하이젤 씨) · 3반 이야기(월화수, 베어드 부인)/문법·작문(목금, 레이놀즈 박사) · 4반 회의법 실습(월화수, 번하이젤 씨)/논설(목금, 크램 씨). (2교시 이하 표 계속 — 영문 전문 참조.)

[공지] 성서공회에 관한 단신 (NOTE CONCERNING BIBLE SOCIETY) — Hugh Miller (printed p.56)

영국성서공회에서 다음 공지를 보내왔다. — 한국 선교사 제위께 드리는 회람: 한국에 2년 있었던 토머스 홉스(Thomas Hobbs) 씨를 성서공회 사역자로 확보했음을 기쁘게 알립니다. 그의 특별한 임무는 선교사들의 감독 아래 일하는 권서들의 훈련을 돕는 것입니다. 이 매우 중요한 사역에 여러분의 친절한 협력을 청합니다. 우리의 연합된 노력으로 권서 사역이 더 효과적이 되어, 우리가 수고하는 백성의 손에 성경을 들리고 그들을 하나님을 아는 지식으로 이끌게 되기를 믿고 기도합니다. — 사역 안에서, 휴 밀러, 총무. (이토록 값진 조력자를 얻은 성서공회에 축하를 보낸다.)

[보고] 교육원로원 (THE EDUCATIONAL SENATE) — Rev. B. W. Billings, 서기 (printed p.56)

원로원 최근 회의가 1912년 12월 20~21일 서울에서 열렸다. 대구의 제임스 E. 애덤스(Adams) 목사가 이제 원로원 총무 겸 집행임원이 되었고, 시간의 최소 절반을 이 일에 쓰기로 했다. 미국 선교부 이사회 연합위원회에 제출할 교육 수요 예산안 작성에 많은 시간을 들였다. 원로원은 앞선 회의에서 한국에 하나의 연합기독교대학을 두는 것에 찬성을 표명한 바 있다. 이번 회의에서 입지를 표결했는데 서울 5표, 평양 5표였다. 총무에게 부재 위원 3인의 표를 받아 그 결과를 연합위원회에 보내도록 지시했다.

[보고] 대구 사역 보고 (REPORT OF TAIKU WORK) — Rev. Dr. Mills (printed pp.56–59)

(연말 대구 지부의 손님들) 9월에 도착해 브루언(Bruen) 부인과 한 해를 보낼 펜실베이니아 화이트헤이븐의 제롬 스콧(Jerome Scott) 양. 그리고 밀스 양이 성탄 일주일 전 몇 달의 미국 체류에서 돌아오며 뉴욕 스키넥터디에서 부친을 모셔 왔다. 밀스 박사는 선교부와 이사회의 요청으로 최소 몇 달간 나와, 영어만 하는 사람이 할 수 있는 방식으로 쓰이기를 바라며, 그럴 만한 일을 찾으면 영구히 남을 수도 있다. 세 번째로 온 아버지는 만주의 T. C. 윈(Winn) 목사(D.D.)로, 딸 월터 어드만 부인과 부산의 아들 조지 윈과 두 주를 보내고 다롄 자택으로 돌아갔다. 연휴의 다른 손님들: 부산의 조지 윈 목사 내외(어드만 부인 댁), 평양의 베어드 박사 내외(애덤스 박사 댁), 청주의 그레이스 데이비스 양(젊은 여성들 방문). 동양을 여행 중인 앨버트 보웬(Bowen) 박사가 플레처 박사와 열흘을 보냈다. 청주의 W. T. 쿡 부인과 재령의 캐서린 매큔 양은 새해 첫날 밀양·안동에서 열리는 사경회를 도우러 가는 길에 며칠만 머물렀다.

남부 한국의 안수받은 선교사·목사·장로들이 12월 19일부터 이틀간 대구에서 유익한 회의를 가졌다. 한겨울 혹한에도 애덤스·브루언·그린필드 씨는 줄곧 시골에 나가 여러 사경회에서 일하며 교회 사역을 위해 남녀를 훈련했다. 브루언 씨는 평양 겨울 사경회를 도우러 갔다.

흉작과 그로 인한 불경기에도 학교(아카데미)는 만원이라 배움에 열심인 지원자들을 계속 돌려보내야 한다. 그 쓰라린 가난 속에서도 그들은 아카데미 수업료로 월 50센을, 하급 학교에서는 그보다 적은 액수를 낸다. 대부분 이는 감당하지만, 학기 중 먹고 입는 문제는 한국의 수백 소년에게 풀 수 없는 숙제다. 라이너(Reiner) 씨가 선교사 집과 뜰, 새 건물 터파기, 운동장 정지 작업 등에서 여럿에게 일자리를 찾아 주지만, 훨씬 많은 이들이 아깝게도 갈망하던 교육 기회를 거절당해야 한다. 일하는 학생에게는 버클리·팰로앨토의 캘리포니아 대학들에서 시행되는 규칙이 여기도 적용되어, 하루 네 시간 일하면 식비와 필수 비용을 낼 수 있다.

병원의 병동·진료소 한 달 사역은 959건을 돌보았고 그중 각종 외과 수술 34건(대수술 24건). 터코마·윌크스배리 교회들에서 물품이, 네브래스카 콜리지 주일학교에서 자선 병상 후원금이 왔다. 그달 병원에서 열두 명이 회심했다. 전형적인 사례: 팔이 부러졌던 한 소년이 퇴원 바로 다음 주일 늙은 이교도 어머니를 교회에 데려왔고, 이제 어머니도 믿게 되어 모자가 함께 이교도 아버지를 위해 기도하며 간청하고 있다. 병원의 당면한 필요: 현관 $200, 진료소 건물 완공 $2,000, 새 난방 설비 $1,000, 간호사 숙소 $250.

(지부의 한 가냘픈 부인이 몇 달 전 겪은 일화도 막 전해졌다 — 남편이 집을 비운 밤 위층에 오르다 낡고 (수상한 것을) 보고 놀랐다는 이야기.)

(어드만 씨의 남자 성경학원) 참으로 만족스러운 사역이었다. 몇 사람은 부실한 음식과 비위생적 숙소, 익숙지 않은 정신노동의 긴장으로 병이 났고, 두 사람은 필기를 따라갈 만큼 빨리 쓰지 못해 어드만 씨가 돌려보내, 회기 말에는 32명이 남았다. 그는 말한다: "이곳에서 한 달을 보내는 것은 그들에게 적잖은 자기부인과 고생을 뜻했다. 대부분 형편이 안 되어 하루 두 끼로 지냈고, 적어도 일곱은 냄비에 밥과 콩을 직접 지어 그날그날 살았다. 두 사람은 아카데미 건물 근처 빈방을 얻었는데, 혹한에 불도 없이(그 방은 난방이 안 됐다) 차가운 흙바닥에서 자고 있음을 알았다. 다른 이들과 함께 지내는 편이 낫다고 설득하는 데 이틀이 걸렸다 — 모두가 묵는 그 한 방은 따뜻했으나 몹시 붐볐다. 우리가 공부하러 모이고 사람들이 묵은 건물은 낡아 무너져 가는 흙집으로 좋은 마구간도 못 될 정도였다! 그러나 이 두 사람은 한 달 공부를 위해 어떤 고생도 견디겠다고 주께 서원했으니, 따뜻한 방에 가면 서원을 어기는 것이라 했다. 주께서 자기들의 말이 진심인지 시험하신다 여겨, 추위와 궁핍을 이겨 진심임을 증명하고자 했던 것이다! 결국 나는, 몸이 따뜻해야 주를 위해 최선의 공부를 할 수 있으니 그것이 주를 더 기쁘시게 하며, 다른 이들과 한 방이면 충분히 고생스럽다고 설득했다! 한 사람은 사경회 기간에 짚신을 삼아 생계를 이으려 했는데, 이틀을 일하자 동료가 그 작업물을 다 태워 버리며 신 삼기가 (공부를) 방해한다고 했다."

[간증기] 길가의 시내 (THE BROOK BY THE WAY) — Rev. Corwin Taylor (printed pp.59–61)

최근 공주(Kongju) 순회구 한 곳에서 열린 사경회에서, 주일 예배는 참석한 모두에게 특별히 유익했다. 형제 사랑과 신뢰의 정신이 모임에 가득한 듯했고, 저녁 예배 끝에 그리스도께서 각자의 삶에 이루신 일을 말할 기회가 주어졌을 때 절정에 달했다. 저마다 타락한 삶에서 어떻게 일으킴을 받았는지, 영혼에서 부르는 새 노래와 하나님을 섬기며 찾은 기쁨을 말할 때, 내 마음도 크게 기뻐하며 이 일을 이루신 그분께 입술로 감사했다.

그 간증들은 불완전했다 — 많은 이들이 통과해 온 무서운 박해를 말하지 않았기 때문이다. 이 마을에서 처음 그리스도인이 된 청년은 격노한 아버지에게 자주, 그것도 신앙을 붙들었다는 이유로 몹시 심하게 매를 맞았다. 그는 다른 이들처럼 강한 지도자로 자라진 못했으나 변함없이 굳게 서 있고, 아내와 함께 아름다운 신앙의 삶을 산다. 두 번째로 그리스도인이 된 사람은 당시 매우 무지했으나 배우기를 원해, (세상에서 가진 전부이던) 소를 팔아 그 충직한 짐승의 값으로 한 달 사경회에 참석했다. 그의 지식은 의심하는 이가 있을지 몰라도 그 열심은 오해할 수 없었다. 여성들의 지도자인 아내와 함께 그들은 쓸모 있는 신자 공동체를 세워 가고 있다. 그는 이제 국한문(國漢文) 성경을 읽을 수 있고 부지런히 일하는 권서다. 이 마을의 거의 모든 그리스도인이 박해의 불을 통과했기에 교회의 성장은 빠르진 않아도 꾸준하고 항구적이다.

이 순회구를 다니는 조사의 간증이 가장 인상 깊었는데, 그의 삶을 더 잘 알기 때문이기도 하고 (그가 큰 병을 넘겼기 때문이기도 하다). 그러나 주께서 그의 목숨을 살려 두시기를 기뻐하셨으니, 여러 해 유용한 섬김을 기대한다. 이 간증들은 아마 어느 면에서도 예외적이지 않다 — 한국 전역 수백 곳에서 똑같이 찾을 수 있다. 그러나 바로 그때에, 내가 개인적으로 아는 사람들에게서 나왔기에 내게 영감과 큰 도움이 되었다.

[예화] "우로 봐(EYES RIGHT)" — 한국인 지도자의 예화 / H. H. U. (printed p.61)

토착 기도회 지도자가 겨울 여행 이야기를 하는데, 듣던 이들 중 적어도 한 사람은 이야기가 어디로 가는지 궁금해지기 시작했다. 화자와 청중은 떠다니는 얼음이 가득하고 강풍에 사나운 물결이 이는 강가에 도착했다. 사공들은 배 띄우기를 거부하다가 결국 강권에 못 이겨, 뱃전까지 사람을 실어 승객이 움직일 수도 없이 빽빽한 배를 밀어냈다. 반쯤 건넜을 때 갑자기 얼음덩이와 돌풍이 한꺼번에 닥쳤다. 배가 기울며 물이 뱃전으로 쏟아져 들어오기 시작했다. 모두 너무 빽빽이 끼어 배를 바로잡으러 반대쪽으로 움직일 수 없었다. 그때 혼란 위로 사공의 외침이 솟았다 — "우로 봐! 모두 오른쪽을 봐!" 그 명령의 뜻을 알지 못한 채, 본능적으로 일제히 모든 눈이 오른쪽으로 향했다. 배는 서서히 바로 섰고 남은 항해는 무사히 끝났다. 지도자는 말했다: "지도자의 음성에 순종한 일치된 행동이 우리 모두의 목숨을 구했듯, 하나님을 향한 연합된 바라봄과 일치된 기도와 그 음성에 대한 순종은 하나님의 구원 약속의 성취를 우리에게 보증해 줄 것입니다."

[서신] 강계에서 온 편지 (LETTER FROM KANGKEI) — Mrs. C. S. Hoffman (printed pp.61–63)

(호프먼 씨 등은) 자성(Chasung)에서 사경회를 열러 갔다가 성탄 전야에야 집에 돌아왔다. 남녀가 함께하는 읍내 사경회가 다음 주일 시작되어 좋은 출석과 큰 관심을 위해 기도하고 있다. 바로 오늘 아침 우리 모두는 휘트모어(Whittemore) 씨의 전보로 큰 실망을 맛보았다 — 그는 이곳 사경회에서 가르치고 이어 시골 사경회 한 곳을 도울 예정이었다. 휘트모어 부부와 네디는 지난 금요일 선천을 떠났으나 며칠 만에 되돌아가야 했으니, 부인이 과로한 데다 추위로 고생했기 때문이다. 모두 몹시 안타까웠으나 사실 놀라지는 않았다 — 추위가 혹심해 영하 20도(화씨) 아래 어디쯤인데, 그보다 낮게 재는 온도계가 이곳엔 없다. 게다가 추수감사절 전부터 눈이 꽤 깊이 쌓여 고개들이 여행하기 매우 나쁜 상태일 것이다. 믿고 있던 한국인 목사 두 분도 오지 못해 교사진이 다소 부족해졌으나, 반을 재편성해 다시 모두 순조롭다.

지난 주일 읍내 교회에서 26명이 세례를 받아 수세 교인이 200명을 넘었다. 교회 빚은 다 갚았다. 새해 첫날 큰 공동의회를 열어 임원을 뽑고 새해 계획을 의논했다. 가을에 로즈(Rhodes) 부인과 나는 전도부인과 함께 여러 가정을 심방했는데 우리에게, 또 믿기로 그 여성들에게도 큰 유익이었다. 근래 온 읍내에 유행성감기·디프테리아 등 병이 많고 미친개들까지 있어 당분간 (심방을) 쉬는 편이 낫다고 보았다. 지금은 (사경회를 위해) 열심히 공부 중이다.

(병원 소식) 맞는 약을 쓰니 그 여인은 거의 나아 며칠 안에 귀가할 수 있겠다. 다른 환자인 한 남자는 흉한 흉터로 비뚤어졌던 얼굴을 바로잡았는데, 수술 결과가 어찌나 마음에 들었던지 늘 거울을 곁에 둔다. 비거(Bigger) 부인은 언어와 첫 씨름 중이며, 병원 일로 의사에게 큰 도움이 되어 왔다. 지부는 추수감사절·성탄·새해를 성대히 지켜 날마다 공동 만찬을 가졌다. 사교를 겸해 화요일 저녁마다 (다과를 곁들인) 어학반을 세 집에서 번갈아 연다. 고참들은 모임 참석자가 여섯이나 되니 올겨울 강계가 꽤 붐빈다고들 한다. 『코리아 필드』의 번창하는 한 해를 비는 강계 지부의 축원과 함께. (덧붙은 경구: 빻은 가루만 생각하는 사람에게 삶은 언제나 지루한 맷돌질일 뿐이다.)

[기록] 홀스턴 학원의 성탄 축하 (CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION AT HOLSTON INSTITUTE) — Miss Ella Sue Wagner (printed pp.63–64)

우리 구주의 생신이 다시 지나갔다. 1912년 성탄일이 왔다 갔고, 이곳의 많은 삶이 사랑에 마음을 열어 — 자기 것을 구하지 않으며 받기보다 주는 것이 더 복되다는, 하나님께로부터 온 이 사랑이 땅 위 기쁨과 평화의 비밀임을 배워 가기에 — 더 사랑이 풍성하고 기쁨이 가득하다고 믿는다.

막 지난 성탄은 홀스턴 학원 소녀들이 8년 만에 처음으로 선물을 받지 않은 성탄이었다. (소녀들 스스로 결의했는데) 한 학생은 말했다: "해마다 우리 얼굴을 본 적도 없는 미국의 벗들이 성탄 선물을 보내 왔습니다. 왜입니까? 예수의 이름으로, 또 주는 것이 받는 것보다 복되기 때문입니다. 그러니 올해는 우리가 선물 없이 지내고, 우리보다 훨씬 형편이 어려운 시골 학교 아이들에게 보냅시다." 모두 큰 열심으로 찬성했고 각 학교에 보낼 편지를 쓸 위원들이 정해졌다. 모임이 끝나자 그들은 「기쁘다 구주 오셨네」를 불렀는데, 그 목소리의 기쁨이 이미 — 삶이 황량하고 쓸쓸한 가까운 이들에게 주는 복됨을 맛보고 있음을 보여 주었다.

성탄나무 팀 체조(드릴)가 매우 예뻤다. 소녀 열다섯이 반짝이 장식과 색초로 꾸민 상록수 가지를 들고, 열 명이 긴 반짝이 줄을, 그 뒤로 열 명이 촛불을 들고 행진했다. 이들의 대열과 행진이 매우 아름답고 인상적이었으며, 마지막에 가운데 소녀가 덮개 씌운 상자에 올라서고 나머지가 둘레에 모여 하나의 큰 나무를 이루었을 때는 절묘했다. 소녀들은 이 성탄나무에서 선물을 받지 않았지만, 이후 한국 아이들이 좋아하는 것들 — 곶감, 일본 사탕, 과자, 귤 — 을 담은 알록달록한 주머니가 수북한 큰 광주리들이 들어와 나눠졌다. 축도 후 약 350명의 학부모·손님들이 큰 초등 교실로 초대되어, 학생들이 한 해 동안 만든 바느질·뜨개·코바늘 작품 — 주머니, 털모자, 숄, 장갑, '주머니(chumonies)' 지갑 등 매우 훌륭한 작품들 — 의 전시·판매를 보았다.

[수필] "한국의 소리(KOREAN SOUNDS)" — Mrs. Smith of Andong (printed pp.64–67)

(무엇을 쓸까 궁리하던 차에) 어제 두 가지 일이 '소리' — "내가 한국에서 들은 소리들" — 라는 착상을 주었다. 나는 진료소 여성 대기실에서 연례 성경학교의 언문(Eunmoon)반을 가르치고 있었다. 여인들이 성경 구절을 제창으로 읽으려 애쓰는데, 그 웅성거림이 듣기 싫지 않았다 — 한둘을 빼면 목소리가 잘 고르게 다듬어져 있었고, 거의 처음으로 제 나라 글을 읽는 데 쓰이는 눈으로 구절의 뜻을 캐내려는 그 진지함이, 애타는 교사에게는 가장 감미로운 음악처럼 들렸다.

그런데 갑자기 아무 예고 없이 — 내 생각엔 — 기러기 떼가 통째로 진료소 마당에 내려앉았다. 1월에 기러기가 날다니 꽤 놀라, 그 날카로운 울음에 날갯짓 소리까지 들리는 듯했다. 수업이 끝나 여인들에게서 예의껏 빠져나올 수 있게 되자마자 마당을 가로질러 내 기러기들을 보러 서둘러 나갔다 — 울음소리는 어느 때보다 날카로웠는데, 내가 본 것은 조면기(면화 씨아)였다! 면화 뭉치들을 보고 병원 침구용으로 손질하는 줄은 알았으나 그 면화와 소음을 연결 짓지 못했던 것이다. 한 여인이 기계를 돌리고 있었다 — 씨가 빠져나가지 못하도록 롤러를 바싹 붙인 거친 나무 짜개인데, 오! 그 오랜 보호막이던 솜털 품에서 씨들이 뜯겨 나올 때의 신음과 비명이라니. 집에 돌아와 아마(유모)에게 기러기 소리 내는 기계 이야기를 하니 그녀도 대번에 그 비유를 알아들었다.

그리고 어젯밤엔 학교 소녀들이 사경회에 온 시골 여인들을 위한 발표회를 열었다. 한국인은 타고난 웅변가라, 서울에서 졸업 시즌을 겪고 난 나는 무엇에도 놀라지 않으리라 여겼는데, 목사님이 복음의 진리를 심어 주며 새 울음과 짐승 소리를 쓰는 데는 놀랐다. 그러니 이 사람들은 — 누추한 환경에 만족해 살고 자연 경관을 무자비하게 훼손하면서도 — 아름다움을 보는 눈이 있기를 내가 바라거니와, 자연의 소리를 듣는 귀도 가졌다.

그들의 음악은 우리 귀에 즐겁지 않을지 모른다 — 훈련 안 된 목소리들이 우리 성가 한 곡을 학살하는 그 비명과 통곡만큼 괴로운 것도 드물다 — 그러나 동양인의 귀에는, 넋을 잃은 서양 청중 앞에서 연주된 가장 훌륭한 고전 명곡보다 그것이 훨씬 낫다. 단조의 가락과 길게 뽑는 음에는 매혹적인 신비로움이 있으나, 지금으로선 토착 음악에 대한 내 가장 생생한 인상은 이가 시린 것이다.

…"즐거운 소리를 아는 백성은 복이 있나니"가 무엇인지 알려면, 그 "아멘" 합창을 — 성탄일 남산(Nam San) 신당에서 들었던 공포의 소리, 고용된 곡꾼들의 울부짖음과 견주어 보기만 하면 된다. ("천사의 찬양인들 이보다 나으랴" — 큰 회중이 목사의 축도를 마무리하던 그 "아멘"은 사랑하는 마음들의 가장 깊은 감동으로 떨렸다.)

처음의 소리 인상 하나로 돌아가면 — 한국의 특색이 잘 담긴 소리다. 서울의 첫 며칠 밤, 아래 흙집들에서 들려오는 다듬이 방망이의 한결같은 율동적 두드림 때문에 평안한 잠을 이루지 못했다. 충실한 아내들은 남편이 이튿날 아침 공단처럼 윤나는 모시옷을 입고 나설 수 있도록 밤을 반이나 새워 일한다. 두드림의 수와 빠르기로 그 집에 여인이 하나인지 둘인지 알 수 있다. 빨래방망이는 또 다른 소리를 낸다 — 우물가나 개울가 바위 위에서 더러운 물을 옷에서 두들겨 빼는 소리. 여럿이 함께 일하면 쉬는 틈마다, 일하는 모습을 지켜보는 '미국 부인(Mikuk Puin)' 이야기 같은 재잘거림이 채워질 것이다.

소리가 그 백성의 산업 형편을 알려 준다고 생각하면, 이곳 여성의 노동이 남성보다 고되고 쉼이 없다는 것은 의미심장한 사실이다. 이곳 맷돌 소리를 들으면 '두 여자가 매를 갈고 있으매'라는 성경의 그림이 떠오른다. 맷돌 한 종류는 둥근 평평한 돌 둘로 되어 위짝에 (손잡이가) 달렸다….

(노동요) 여러 사람이 어깨에 다루기 힘든 짐을 멜 때 율동의 인도가 필요함은 안다 — 한 발만 삐끗해도 큰일이니. 그러나 노래에 시간과 힘을 어찌나 쓰는지, 일꾼들이 무거운 곡괭이를 허공에 든 채 알맞은 소절이 올 때까지 기다리는 것을 보면, 성미 급한 아일랜드인을 데려다 노동이 정말 무엇인지 보여 주고 싶어진다.

그리고 종소리의 전언이 있다. 서울의 큰 종(보신각)은 한국 전제정의 낡은 미신 시대를 표한다. 몇 번을 부어도 종은 번번이 실패했는데, 한 술사가 쇳물에 생명 하나를 바치기 전엔 귀신들이 달래지지 않으리라 알렸고 — 그 아이의 울음소리가 지금도 큰 종의 울림 속에 들린다 한다. 종은 도성 문의 여닫음과 나라의 큰일을 알리며 울렸으나, 이제 새 시대는 밤낮으로 그 문들을 지나다니는 전차의 딸랑거리는 종소리, 기관차의 쨍그랑거림, 일본 대포의 우렛소리로 표시된다.

내가 한국에서 들은 다른 세 종소리도 들려주고 싶다. 우리 집터 언덕에 서서 장려한 낙조를 바라볼 때, 논들 너머로 유교 사당(향교) 종의 감미로운 울림이 부드럽게 건너왔다. 그 사당은 천 년이 넘었고, 아마 그 모든 세월 동안 그 종은 조상 숭배의 제례로 사람들을 불렀으리라. 더 음악적이고 더 값진 전언을 담은 것은 골짜기를 사이에 두고 서로 화답하던 서울 천주교 대성당의 종들이었다 — 유물과 죽은 이의 뼈의 효험을 여전히 믿는 백성을 부르는 또 하나의 기도 소리. (그리고 셋째 종 — 개신교 예배당의 종.)

[논설] 평양 어학반 (LANGUAGE CLASS IN PYENG YANG) — L. H. U. (printed pp.67–70)

(어학반의 유익은 아무리 말해도 지나치지 않다 — 지난 세월 한국인 교사(?)의 빈약한 도움만으로 사실상 홀로 터벅터벅 걸어온 이들의 마음에는 특히 그렇다.) 그러나 이 세상에 상쇄되는 해악 없는 좋은 일은 드물다. 이 반에 심각한 짐이 되는 것들을 우리는 평양 주민들과 어학 학생들에게서, 또 위원회가 발표한 준비 사항에 뚜렷이 보이는 바에서 들어 알게 되었다. 온 선교 공동체에 이토록 큰 유익을 주는 일에 비평을 가하는 것이 무례해 보이나, 흠잡기가 아니라 바로잡아야 할 어려움에 주의를 환기하려는 바람에서일 뿐이다. 중요한 일을 처음부터 완벽히 준비하기는 어렵고, 경험과 시간이 도우면 다 바로잡히리라 믿는다.

가르침의 유익은 아무리 말해도 지나치지 않으나, 불가피해 보이는 조건 아래 그 많은 방문객이 모여듦으로써 생기는 — 대접하는 이와 받는 이를 함께 괴롭히는 — 불편과 어려움, 나아가 위험은 참으로 심각하다. 그 조건이란 한 해 중 가장 견디기 힘든 계절의 과밀*이며, 여기에 물과 음식의 변화(아무리 좋은 것이라도)가 특히 그 시기에 건강에 주는 위협이 더해진다. 많은 이가 평소의 안락 없이 기숙사에 몰려 지내는데, 유능하고 세심한 살림꾼이 시중·식탁·위생을 철저히 감독하기도 어렵다.

평양 지부의 한 회원에게서 들으니, 어학반 유치 문제가 그곳 부인들에게 맡겨졌을 때 그들은 방문객 전원을 학교·대학 기숙사에 수용한다는 조건으로만 동의했다 한다 — 후대가 모자라서가 아니라(많은 방문객이 이 선교사들의 넓고 지칠 줄 모르는 후대를 거듭 증언했다), 두세 해 겪어 보니 한 해 내내 그토록 격무에 시달리고 나서 또 여섯 주간 집을 손님으로 채우는 것은 몸이 감당 못 함을 알았기 때문이다. 그 결의에 진심으로 공감한다.

학생들에게도 형편은 똑같이 고되다. 그 값진 도움의 필요와 어학위원회의 거듭된 권고로 참석을 종용받지만, 대접하는 이들에게 짐이 될 줄 알면서, 또 병날 위험을 무릅쓰면서 — 병이 나도, 상당한 희생을 치르고 공부하러 온 어느 불운한 의사나 간호사에게서 그 공부를 빼앗지 않고서는 약도 진료도 청할 수 없음을 알면서 — 가는 것은 유쾌한 일이 아니다. 이 반들에서 생긴 그만한 병은 평양이 건강에 나빠서라기보다 주로 시기와 과밀 탓이라 믿지만, 그곳에 묵었던 이들 중에는 적어도 여름철 방문객에게는 건강에 해롭다고 단언하는 이가 꽤 있다. 무수한 파리와 덥고 습한 철의 거리 상태가 그 믿음에 얼마간 근거를 준다.

그러나 병의 원인이 무엇이든 시정이 필요함은 분명하다. (서울은) 위생 규정이 좋고 꽤 잘 지켜지며, (어학반 반원이 아닌) 선임 의사들이 있는 인력·설비를 갖춘 병원이 최소 하나, 수많은 진료소·약방·훈련된 간호사들이 있다. 이는 (화이트 기숙사가 이곳 아닌 평양에 있다 해도) 그 지부에서는 앞으로 몇 해간 바라기 어렵다. 외국인 교사로 말하면 우리 선교회들에는 유능한 이가 넉넉하여, 반을 나눈다면 두 곳 모두에 온전한 교사진을 둘 수 있다. 이것이 유일한 해법이라 주장하는 것은 아니나, 현재의 어려움을 크게 덜어 줄 방안으로 여겨진다. 어쨌든 선교회들이 이 문제를 신중히 검토하기 바라며, 다음 연합공의회 전에 제안들을 청한다. — L. H. U.

("산 위에 사는 이는 골짜기에 사는 이보다 하루가 길다. 때로 우리의 하루를 밝히는 데 필요한 것은 조금 더 높이 오르는 것뿐이다.")

[보고] 평양 감리교인들에 관한 몇 가지 단신 (A FEW NOTES CONCERNING PYENG YANG METHODISTS) — Rev. B. W. Billings (printed pp.70–71)

올해 우리 사역의 특색은 평양·영변(Yeng Byen) 두 지부 관할 전 지역의 지도자들을 불러 모으는 다섯 개 사경회 시리즈다. 사경회를 여러 교회 가까이 가져감으로써 더 많은 사람의 참석이 가능해진다. 이미 셋이 열렸고 넷째가 진행 중이다. 폐회 전 특별 간증 집회가 두 시간 동안 이어져 40명이 공부 중 받은 특별한 복을 증언했다. 그들은 차례로 자기를 특별히 도운 과목이나 예배를 말했다. 기독교 남학교를 지키려 애쓰는 한 사람은 무거운 마음으로 왔다가 첫 새벽기도회에서 그것을 잃었다 했다. 다른 이는 신자들과의 교제가 천국의 맛보기 같았다 했다. 평양 학교의 한 신입생은 세상 목표를 다 버리고 자신을 온전히 예수께 드렸다고 눈물로 증언했다. 이 간증들은 특히 하루 일과를 새벽기도회로 시작하는 것의 지혜를 보여 주었다. 폐회 전, 이 반에서 공부한 이들이 2월에 열 스물네 개의 작은 사경회가 마련되었다 — 이런 모임의 잠재적 영향력은 그것을 떠받치는 기도의 분량에만 제한된다.

평양 시내 사역은 순조롭다. 최근 주일 아침 집계에 따르면 성 안 우리 네 교회·예배처에 도합 1,246명이 출석했다. 각 교회가 잘 운영되는 별도의 어린이 주일학교를 두며, 장래 교인 증가는 크게 여기에 기댄다. 우리 모든 학교가 새 단계별 공과를 쓴다. 평양 기독교 교육에서 감리교의 몫은 숫자가 가장 잘 보여 준다 — 보통·고등보통 남학교 등록 190명, 거듭 조사해 보면 평균 일일 출석이 놀라운 수치에 이른다….

[보고] 선천 성서학원 (SYEN CHUN BIBLE INSTITUTE) (printed pp.71–73)

(학생들은 평안도 각지에서 왔다.) 이 반 학생의 평균 나이는 27.5세, 최연소 18세, 최고령 46세다. 한국 일반이 그렇듯 농부·상인·학자가 고루 있다. 20명의 상급(2년차)반에는 임원 중 장로 한 사람과 권서 한 사람이 있다. 그 장로는 우리 교인 중 영적으로 가장 훌륭한 사람의 하나로, 교회에서 크게 인정받는 임원이지만 그리스도인이 된 뒤에야 성경 읽기를 배웠다. 그는 사도행전 4장 13절의 베드로와 요한처럼 "예수와 함께 있던" 것으로 한문 학식의 부족을 넘치게 메운다.

과정은 간추리면 대략 같은 시간을 받는 세 부분으로 된다: (1) 구약 공부(선별 부분), (2) 신약 권별 공부, (3) 이 하나님의 말씀에 기초한 주제 연구. 예컨대 1년차 반은 과정의 4분의 1로 누가복음 3주와 사도행전 1~12장 1주를 공부했고, 2년차 반은 시편 선편·요한1서·성령론을 각 1주씩 하고 며칠은 성경 지리를 했다 — 이 또한 한 달 과정의 4분의 3일 뿐이다. 매일 한 시간짜리 여섯 교시가 열렸다. 경건회(채플)가 매우 유익했다 — 인도자의 기도 전 권설은 여러 사람이 기도할 시간이 남을 만큼 짧았고, 학생들은 즉각적이고 뜨겁게 참여했다. 하루 일과는 오전 성경 암송 두 시간(그 사이 채플), 오후 세 번째 암송, 저녁은 정규 예배 등으로 보냈다. 아브라함을 복 주사 복의 근원이 되게 하신 하나님께서, 기도와 '임재의 연습'의 이 사람들을 풍성히 갖추어 성령의 열매를 전하게 하시기를.

[보고] 선천의 좋은 소식 (GOOD WORDS FROM SYEN CHUN / 선천 종합 단신) — 지부 통신원 (printed pp.73–75)

1월 선천은 성경학원의 계절이었다. 여자성경학원이 올해 처음 문을 열었다. 평양 학원의 교과과정을 채택하고 1년차를 시작할 준비가 된 여성들을 불러 모았다. 우리 여성 여럿이 평양에서 공부해 왔는데, 그들은 거기서 계속하거나 이곳 새 반이 따라잡기를 기다리게 된다. 이 반은 17명이다. 분반이 하나뿐이라 새뮤얼(Samuel) 양과 헬스트롬(Helstrom) 양이 교수를 나누어 다른 사역도 병행할 수 있었다 — 새뮤얼 양이 먼저 가르치는 동안 헬스트롬 양은 장티푸스를 앓는 스티븐스(Stevens) 양을 간호했고, 지금은 헬스트롬 양이 학원을 맡고 새뮤얼 양은 연속 시골 사경회로 떠났다. 우리 지역 여성들은 오래 갈망하던 성경학원이 마침내 정말 자기들 것이 되어 기뻐한다.

1월 지부 회의에는 유난히 흥미로운 안건이 있었다. 내년에는 오래 바라던 의료 시설 증축이 이뤄지길 바란다. 샌프란시스코에 본부를 둔 옥시덴탈 이사회(Occidental Board)의 노력으로 요청한 병원 자금이 나올 전망이 보인다. 샤록스(Sharrocks) 박사가 건물 설계도를 제출했고, 지부·선교부의 승인을 받으면 새 시설의 작업 기반이 된다. (현 병원 통계) 전신마취 수술 137건. 환자 수입은 주일 제외 하루 평균 13엔(환자가 낸 식대 제외). 환자와 동행 가족을 합한 '총 연인원'은 셈하지 않았으나 연간 약 25,000명으로 봐도 무방하다. 시설 확장의 필요를 느끼는 것이 이상한가?

1월 마지막 주는 각 학교의 한겨울 방학 종업이었다. 휴 오닐 남학교(Hugh O'Neill Academy)는 등록이 120명에 이르렀다. 장티푸스가 찾아와 소년 둘을 죽음으로 잃었고, 중증 몇에 경증은 더 많아 여럿을 요양차 귀가시켰다. 성탄 직후의 학기 시험은 훌륭한 성적을 보였다. 여학교는 등록 28명. 올해 한 학년을 더 늘려 지난 졸업생 여럿이 공부하러 돌아와 있다. 기숙사는 넘치도록 찼다 — 여학교 학생만 아니라 하급 학교에 다니는 시골 소녀들도 있기 때문인데, 학교에 예비반이 없어 고향 학교가 입학 수준까지 못 가르치는 시골 소녀들에게는 이런 배려가 필요하다. 젊은 기혼여성반도 올해 번창해 등록이 32명에 이르렀다 — 대부분 과부들로….

[서신] 한 여성의 겨울 여행과 그 보상 (A WOMAN'S WINTER TRIP, AND ITS REWARD) — Miss McCune 사신에서 (printed pp.75–76)

이곳 안퉁(Antung) 지역 사역은 대단히 흥미롭다. 이토록 굶주린 여성들을 만나 본 적이 없다. 남애(Namae)에서의 첫 시골 사경회에 백 명이 왔다 — 25명은 잘 읽고, 열 명쯤은 낱자를 알고, 나머지 65명은 반절(음절표)을 시작하는 이들이었다. 상급반(25명)은 내가 가르쳐 본 최고의 반 중 하나였다. 결석은 단 두 명 — 하나는 아픈 아기 때문에, 하나는 마지막 날 모친상으로 불려 갔다. 하급반 기록도 그만큼 좋다. 일주일 과정이었다. 상급반은 대답을 잘했고, 우리 황해(Whang Ha) 상급 여성들이 물은 것 못지않게 지적인 질문을 할 수 있었다. 어미 새가 줄 먹이를 간절히 기다리며 입을 한껏 벌린 굶주린 새 둥지 같았다. 말씨는 더 북쪽과 다르지만, 본국의 산골 백인들과 학문 중심지 가까이 사는 이들의 차이와 사실상 같은 정도다.

남애로 오르는 산길 이야기를 할 시간이 있다면 아마 숨이 막힐 것이다. 마지막 십 리를 남기고 밤이 내렸다. 묵을 곳이 없어 계속 갔다. 짐을 진 찬모와 전도부인은 앞서 갔다. 술을 마신 가마꾼들이 길을 잃었고, 마침내 바른 길에 들었을 땐 밤이 깊었다. …(젊은 여성들은) 나이 든 여성들보다 먼 길을 (더 잘 걷는다). 하나님 감사합니다, 오기를 잘했습니다. 이곳 사역엔 여성 사역자 둘이 필요하다 — 지금 당장. 한국 여성은 아무리 훌륭해도 이 시골 사경회들과 다른 반들을 조직하고 지혜롭게 계획할 수 없는데, 이는 안퉁 여자성경학원의 반석일 뿐 아니라, 이 여성들의 아들들을 장래 하나님의 지도자로 만들 품성의 기초다.

낙툴(Naktul), 1월 15일. 남애에서 편지를 부칠 기회가 없어 둘째 사경회가 열리는 이곳에서 마저 쓴다. 이 반은 벌써 95명쯤 된다. 한 여인은 여기 오려고 그 험한 길 130리를 이틀에 걸었고, 40리·50리에서 온 이들도 있다. 이 교회는 사탄과 싸움을 겪어 지금은 다소 패한 형편이다 — 교인 쉰 명쯤이 탈퇴해 따로 모임을 만들었다. 오늘 아침 그 분파에서 여인 셋이 사경회 공부에 왔다. 저런! 멋쩍어하면서도 참 간절해 보였다. 하나님이 이곳 말씀 공부를 쓰셔서 재연합을 이루시리라 — 그것을 위해 기도하고 있으니 함께 기도해 달라. 문제의 전부는 얼마간 세상 권세를 가진 한 사람에게 집중되어 있는데, 그가 교인 쉰 명을 끌고 나갔다.

★ 1913년 3월호(Vol. IX, No. 3) 전사·번역 완결 (인쇄면 49–76, 17개 기사)

■ 영문 원문 전문 (English Original — Full Text, by printed page)

※ 본 호 전 지면 영문 원문(로컬 tesseract OCR→정제). 한글 번역과 대조용. OCR 특성상 고유명사·숫자 미세 오자 가능 → 최종 정밀교정 대상. 한글 번역은 300dpi 육안 검증.

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CONTENTS. | Page. INODGS Gd POUR OMINE cscess cxccvsccssscsnccsvccsisinesscacdacasetsanetecsseneeseeeeces «= GL Notice from Christian News ...........ccc-ccccsseecessereeeeseseeseee ee Commitee, 54 Notice from Field ..........0..cccescceseceeeceeceeeeeeeseereressseseene Mr, Bonwick. 54 Schedule and Notice of Language Class ................00..-...Mrs. Baird. 55 Note Concerning Bible Society ............c:ccccsecseeeee Mr. Hugh Miller. 56 oe Report of Educational Senate ...........:scseccsecsrseeteeeeessee Mr, Billings. 56 Report of Taiku Work .........cccccccsececsereesceeeereecceeeeee ete Dr. Mills. 56 The Brook by the Way. .......ccscccssscsessereeseeeeeee Ret. Corwin Taylor. 59 Letter from Kangkei.............:ccceceesecseereeeeeeereeeees Mrs. C. S. Hoffman. 61 Christmas Celebration at Holston Institute ......Song Ju Correstondent. 63 “Korean Sounds” .......ccccccecceeceeceesseeeeesecseeeeeeeDrs. Smith of Andong. 64 A few Notes Concerning Pyeng Yang Methodists...Rev. B. W. Billings. 70 Syen Chun Bible Institute..............:scesssccecsnssresecstertsssenseesesesennscers ZT General Notes from Syen Chun .........s:sse-ss+s+¢++Station Guvepedaal. 73 8 A Woman’s Winter Trip and its Reward ..................Miss McCune. 75

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VoL. IX . MARCH, 1913 No. 3 2 aan PUBLISHED MONTHLY at Seoul in the interest of all the Evangelical Missions in Korea. EDITOR.—LILLIAs H. UNDERWOOD. : ASSOCIATE EDITOR.—H. H. UnpERwoop. BUSINESS MANAGER.—Mr. GzRALp Bonwick, the Tract House, Seoul. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, including postage to any part of the world, one yer, or 50 cents gold, or 2/1 English Currency. Business matters and Subscriptions should be addressed to Mr. Bonwick as above. Remittances from countries other than Korea and Japan should always be sent by Forzicn Money Order or ordinary Bank cheque. Please do not send stamps or Inland Money Orders. If preferred Subscriptions may also be sent to any of the following :— In AMERICA. Dr. A. B. LEONARD, 150 Fifth Ave., New York. Rev. J. E. MCCuLtocu, 422 Park Ave. Nashville, Tenn. Mr. D. H. Day, 156 Fifth Ave., New York. Mr. Joserit PINCKNEY DURHAM, 1155 W. goth St., Indianapolis, Ind. . Rev. ERNEST HALL, 920 Sacramento St., San Francisco, Cal. j In GREAT BRITAIN. Mrs. Bonwick, 28 Weston Park, Crouch End, London, England. SINGLE COPIES, 10 sex, three of same issue for 25 set. . PRINTED by Fuxuin Printinc Co., Kobe, Japan. NOTES AND PERSONALS. On Christmas evening, at a-service at the Central Churci: at Pyeng Yang, a hundred or more new believers stood up to signify that thes id determined to follow the Lord Jesus. During the meetings of the week about a hundred more were added to the number, and eighty more at the North Church. A unbeliever who attended the meetings was so much interested in what seemed to him so unbelievable a movement, that he called on Kil Moksa, the pastor of the Church, and asked him why it was that so many were willing to adopt the new religion, when so many of the leaders were in trouble. It has been reported that in Syen Chun, the attendance at services had fallen off from 1,200 or 1,500 to 300. The fact is that the attendance is almost as large as before; perhaps two hundred or more feel it necessary to stay home to care for the houses, as it is felt that it is hardly safe to leave them empty and alone while the whole family attend Church. Taking this into consideration it may be safely said that the Church attendance shows no shrinkage that indicates any loss of interest at all. The Second Church at Taiku received a fine group of a score or so of Catechumens and several Catechumens were admitted to full membership and were baptized, at the Sacramental Service on January 26th.

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; ‘We regret to have to say that Dr. Hirst of the Severance Hospital in Seoul has been siiffering with a-very severe attack of lumbago. He was taken ill very suddenly on his way‘back from attending a case in Pyeng Yang and had to be carried from the train on a stretcher. Not only was Dr. Hirst himself sick but his little son has been suffering from pneumonia. Miss Pieters of Japan has been visiting Dr. and Mrs. Hirst, in the hope that the bracing climate of Korea may make unnecessary a trip to America, which it was at first thought she would have to take in order to effect a complete recovery from nervous breakdown. We hope to be able to announce in our next number the complete recovery ofall three of the patients. Dr. Daniels of Chunju has been visiting in Seoul recently and as always, we are glad to see Dr. Daniels among us, but we fear that his enjoyment of the visit has been entirely spoiled by his loss-in the South Gate station of the sum of 250 yen. All will sympathize with the Doctor in this unusually severe loss. We hasten ¢: congratulate the Pyeng Yang School for foreign children on having secured the very effective services of Miss Moseley, as temporary matron of the school. She has already taken up her duties and we have heard widespread expressions of the deepest satisfaction in her work. We feel ourselves happy to be able to announce to those who may not have already heard the good news, the engagement of the Rev. Mr. Kagin of the Northern Presbyterian station in Chunju and Miss Johnstone of the Southern Methodist workers in Songdo. While we sympathize with the Southern Methodists in their coming loss we congratulate not only Mr. Kagin but the Presbyterians who are receiving so valuable an addition to their force. The second day of the new year saw the beginning in Seoul of the Presbyterian Bible Institute for Women. For this its first term a session of only six weeks is planned but as the work develops and experience shows the way, a fuller organization is expected. . : ; On Saturday, Jan. 25th a little son was born to the Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Snyder. We congratulate the YMCA. on its promising new member.

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————Ee—=mmqmoeEqaeEeE>a=>>~{=XxXX>{—l~—_——LEkzZ—AL~-Z~—~~i—CCr~~rr SS E—T—T—*=«zqQa eee We have to add to our list of Station associates the names of Mrs. McCune of Syen Chun, Dr. Mills of Taigu, Mr. Billings of Pyeng Yang (M. E. Mission) Mrs. Hoffman of Kangai, Mrs. P. L. Grove of Hai Ju. The Rev. Fredrick and Mrs Vesey returned to Korea late in December. last after an absence of some months in England, and are now associated, with the S. Methodist Mission, in-Seoul. During their visit in the homeland Mrs. Vesey was called upon to suffer the sad loss on Sept. 29th of her father, Mr. Burnham in whom Korean Missions have been also bereaved of a warm friend. The work here lay very near his heart and was remembered in his prayers till the end. Not a few of our missionaries knew him personally, and have been entertained at hishome. The friends of Mrs. Vesey sympathize most sincerely: with her in this loss, while at the same time they cannot but rejoice to see two such workers return to the crying needs of our hard pressed missions. The Rev. Dr. Mills who has lately arrived in Taiku although he cannot speak Korean, is not to be a mere spectator of Korean work, but is lending a hand in a very effectual way. At the request of the Northern Presbyterian Mission Executive Committee he is arranging to take charge of what we hope will be a very attractive featute of the Field. Once every two months, he plans to send a special station letter of one or two pages, giving in short notes from each branch of the work, all the news of special interest concerning the particular station of which he writes, taking by turns each station in the Presbyterian Mission. The members of said station having given Dr. Mills the names of their friends in America, the Field will so far as its funds will permit, pay for extra copies to send to such of them as do not already subscribe. We have to thank the Executive Committee and Dr. Mills for the thot’ and its materjalization, and would urge upon our other missions, a similar action, only we would remind all, that this will be only once a year for each station; and we hope very much, all will remember, that it will occupy even then only a few pages at most, and that “The Field” is not only always open to everything interesting about our work from all stations, but wide open, in the same sense as are the mouths of very hungry young birds, Although a friend nas some funds, by which the cost of these extra copies will be met, and perhaps also part of the postage, for a time at least, members of | interested stations, will probably be called upon to pay a part, if not all of the necessary extra postage in sending the extra copies to their friends. We beg our readers to peruse this notice with care, and not to think that this extra page or so, inserted six times a year, can by any possibility, take the place of the regular contributions from all over our missions, which we need just as much as ever, from every Station in Korea. Dr. Mills is only undertaking to give a special inducement to the friends of the various stations in the home Jand to read the Field.

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NOTICE FROM CHRISTIAN NEWS. The following notice to missionaries comes to us from the managers of the “ Christian News.”’ Dear Friends :-— "In order to make the carrying on of the “ Christian News” (Yesu Kyo Bio-bo) a possibility, the Committee in charge makes the following offer :-— . To every Colporteur, or person authorised by a missionary to collect subscriptions, 10% of the receipts will be given, the remaining 9096 with the names and addresses of the donors to be sent to the ‘“ Christian News ”’ office (Keui-ik Mok-sa, Yon-dong, Seoul). Will you kindly see that some Korean representative has this matter in hand, and is seeking to get subscriptions. The present period, with its limitations, is a specially difficulf one through which to carry on the publication. With best regards and good wishes for the New Year, Sincerely yours, ye H. G, UNDERWoop, Kim Cuonc SAnc. } Committee. . J. S. GALE. } . ; NOTICE FROM FIELD. In the interest of the Field the following notice is inserted : A small fund has been placed at our disposal for the purpose of sending out Free Sample copies of the “ Korea Mission Field’’ to a considerable number of possible subscribers during the next few months. ‘I shall be much obliged, therefore, if readers will favor me with the Names and Addresses of a number of friends at home who might be sufficiently interested to become permanent subscribers, were we to send them free copies for, say, three months, with a circular letter setting forth our scheme. We are exceedingly anxious to increase the circulation of the “K.M.F.”; it ought to be doubled, and with kind co-operation in this way we hope to add largely to our list of subscribers. ANNUAL VOLUME OF THE “ K.M.F.” We are ina position to supply a small number ‘of Bound Volumes of the “ Korea Mission Field” for 1912, handsomely bound in half-leather with gold lettering, price 2.00 yen* inclusive., Friends desiring their own monthly parts bound in the same style can do so at a charge of ¥1.10 per yearly volume. GERALD Bonwick, Business Manager. * x yer equals so cts gold.

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‘THE KOREA MISSION FIELD. 55 SCHEDULE AND NOTICE OF LANGUAGE CLASS. The summer language school schedule has just come to hand, and we know will be read with keen interest, as herewith offered the readers’ of the Field. " 2 As stated in the last issue of the Field, the dates set for the Union Language School at Pyeng Yang, are June 14 for matriculation and July 10 for closing. The committee would like to have set these dates earlier, but it is not possible to secure the use of the necessary buildiags any sooner. The following daily schedule will give prospective students an idea of what they may expect. Out of consideration of the summer season, but two daily periods have been arranged for, in addition to the Chapel half hour, and the period for Phonetic Drill. A special committee will arrange for frequent social prayer-meetings, and it is hoped that all will come prepared to give as well as get help and inspiration. ; Annie L. A. BAIRD, Secretary. PROPOSED DAILY SCHEDULE. | — SECTION | SECTION | SECTION . SECTION 8.4691 I. IL. IIL. WV. 9-15-9.30 M.T.W.T.F. Phonetic Drill.........-.....Mr. Cram. M.T. W. Practice 93° | M.T. W. Methods | M.T.W, Editorials | M.T. W. Stories | in Parliamentary ° Mr. Becker Mr, Cram Mrs. Baird Forms = Mr. Bernheisel T. F. Stories T.F.Moonchas | T.F. Grammar & | T. F. Editorials Mr. Stokes Mr. Bernheisel Composition Mr, Cram Dr. Reynolds 10,30 . 103° | M.T. Textbook | M. T. W. Church | M.T.W. Moonchas | M. T. W. Stories Dr, Reynolds News Mr. Bernheisel Mrs. Baird | =“ Mr. Stokes W. T, F. Mark or | T. F. Methods T. F. Church News | T. F: Composition | a AF, Mr. Becker Mr. Stokes & Translation Dr. Van Busk’k Dr. Reynolds | ‘to For those who wish to take it { Eine — wer. HHecae Chal ; N.B,.—Initials indicate days of week.

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NOTE CONCERNING BIBLE SOCIETY. The British and Foreign Bible Society send the following notice. , CIRCULAR TO MISSIONARIES IN KOREA. It gives me pleasure to announce that we have secured the services of Mr. Thomas Hobbs, who has been in Korea for two years, for the work of the Bible Society. His special work will be to assist the Missionaries in the training of the colporteurs working under their supervision. I bespeak for him, your kind co-operation in this very important work. I trust and pray that through our united efforts colportage will be made more effective in putting the Scriptures into the hands of the people amongst whom we labour and in bringing them to a knowledge of God. si; Yours in thé work, Hucy Miirer, Agent. The Bible Society are to be congratulated on so valuable an assistant in their work. ; THE EDUCATIONAL SENATE. By Rev. B. W. BILLINGS, Sec’ry or EDUCATIONAL SENATE. The last meeting of the Senate was held in Seoul, December 20th and 21st, 1912. Rev. Jas. E. Adams of Taiku has now become General Secretary and executive officer of the Senate, the understanding being that he will-give at least one‘half-of his time to this work. Much time was spent working on a budget of our educational needs to present to the Joint Committee of the Mission Boards in America. The Senate at a previous meeting had declared itself in favor of one Union Christian College for Korea. At this meeting the question of location was voted on. The vote was five for Seoul and five for Pyeng Yang. The General Secretary was instructed to secure votes of the three absent members and forward the result of the vote to the Joint Committee in New. York’as well as the result of votes taken on this subject by the various missions. It was also decided ‘that we shall . consider the decision reached by the Joint Committee as final.” REPORT OF TAIKU WORK. By Dr. THORNTON MILLS, Christmas was a unique day at Taiku. Three of the ladies had their fathers with them for the holiday season. The first to come was Mr.

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—eolooNoNoaaaaaaeaeooooooooeeeeeeeeeeaananmaeaasaq=aouonannquuuqqouoonuqnnqnqnunnm8Sseeeeeeeeoomom Jerome Scott, of White Haven, ePennsylvania who arrived in September to spend a year with Mrs. Bruen. ; Then Miss Mills returned a week before Christmas from a stay ofa few months in the United States, bringing her father with her from Schennectady, New York. Dr. Mills has come out at the request of the mission and the Board fora few months at least, hoping to be used in such ways as may be possible for a man who speaks English only. He may remain permanently if he finds work that will justify it. , The third father to come was the Rev. T. C. Winn, D.D. of Manchuria who spent a fortnight here with his daughter, Mrs. Walter Erdman and with his son George Winn at Fusan. He has now returned to his home at Dairen. : Other visitors during the holidays were Rev. and Mrs. George Winn of Fusan who stopped with Mrs. Erdman, Dr. and Mrs. Baird of Pyeng Yang who were with Dr. and Mrs. Adams, and Miss Grace Davis of Chongju who was visiting the young ladies. Dr. Albert Bowen who is touring in the Orient spent ten days with Dr. Fletcher. Mrs. W. T. Cook of Chongju and Miss Katherine McCune of Chairyung stopped here a few days only on their way to help in classes opening on New Year's day in Milyang and Andong. The ordained missionaries and the pastors and the elders of Southern Korea met in Taiku for a two days profitable: session beginning the nineteenth of December. Notwithstanding the extreme weather of midwinter Messrs. Adams Bruen and Greenfield have been out in the country continuously at work with various Bible classes and training men and women for work in the churches. Mr. Bruen went to help in the winter class at Pyeng Yang in January and Mr. Erdman went ona similar errand to Andong at the same time. ; Almost up to Christmas day itself Miss Switzer has been out in the country, and soon after the holidays‘Miss Mills went out to her first class: since her return from”America. Both are planning to go out again in February. The station is rejoicing with Mr. Reiner over the good news that Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McPherson of Detroit have given the needed funds for the erection of what is to be known as the McPherson Scientific Building of the Taiku Academy. Part of the building will be used asa Manual Training Department until an adequate building is secured. The site has been chosen and contractors are submitting proposals and the building should be started early in-the spring. The Koreans have raised among themselves 1,000.00 yen for the endowment of the primary schools in connection with the city churches, and the missionaries have promised to add 500,00 yer, more to the fund. It is proposed to construct a basement under the large city church to be used for school work and the station has asked the mission to ask the Board for permission to sell the present old and: unfit building and use the proceeds for this purpose.

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58 . THE KOREA MISSION ‘FIELD, In spite of the crop failure and thetard times resulting from it, the Academy is overcrowded and ardent prospective students must continually be refused. Out of their bitter poverty they pay: fifty sex* a month for tuition at the Academy and lesser sums in the lower schools. Most of them can manage this, but how to feed and clothe themselves during the term is an insolvable problem for hundreds of boys in Korea.’ Mr. Reiner finds work for many of them in the missionaries’ homes and gardens and excavating for the new building and grading the athletic field, etc., but many more’ alas! must be denied the coveted educational Opportunity. For those who work, the rule in operation at the great California Universities at Berkeley and Palo Alto applies here, and four hours of daily work will enable a boy to pay his board and other necessary expenses. , A month’s work in the wards and dispensary of the hospital cared for 959 cases, for whom there were 34 surgical operations of various sorts, 24 of them being major operations. Supplies have come from the churches of Tacoma and Wilkes-Barre, and funds from, the Sabbath School at Coleridge Neb., for the support ofa charity bed. The month saw twelve conversions in the hospital. A typical case is that of a boy with a broken arm, who, the very next Sabbath after leaving the hospital, brought his old"heathen mother to the church with him and together the boy and‘ mother are praying for and pleading with the heathen father, for the mother too believes now. The present urgent needs of the hospital are $200.00 for a porch, $2,000.00 to complete the dispensary: building, $1,000.00 for a new heating plant and $250.00 to erect nurses quarters. ° ___ A Story-has just-come out of an experience a few months ago of one of the dainty little Iadies of the station. Her husband was away from home. As she went upstairs one night she was startled to see an old and big gray rat coming down. He seemed entirely unperturbed by the unexpected encounter and came boldly on. Not to be outdone by Mr. Rat -the little lady too continued ‘valiantly upward. to meet him. Just before they passed she slipped off her shoe and in a twinkling Mr. Rat had gone where the good rats (?) go! Next day she met a friend of the corpse who had probably come to the funeral and clapping the ironing board over him caught him between it and the-wall and sent him to his own funeral, In the next few days she met five more of these visitors and quietly killed them all. They none of them.visited the traps, nor were molested by-the faithful (?)-cat! And the plague was unknown in the other houses ‘and disappeared in this one after this experience. How happened it? Were these the reincarnations of chilvalrous old Yangbans of former days come back to protect the solitary Pouine? Ifso, how must they have enjoyed théir reception! ; . + Mr, Erdman: reports that:there’ were 39 men enrolled’ in the class which he carried on for a month beginning the middle of November. By next year it is hoped that this class will have developed into.a full grown Bible. Institute.. The .men’studied the Bible for four hours daily and did "* One sents 4 cent gold. OSS

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—————— nae very satisfactory work indeed. A few of the mét-dell sick from. the poor food and unsanitary quarters and wnaccustomed.strain of mental work and two Mr. Erdman sent. home because they: could ‘not write fast enough to take clear. notes, so at the.end of the’ session: there were 32 men left. He says: L. “Tt has meant not a little-self-denial and--hardship to: them to'sperid the month hére, most of them living on two: meals a day because. they could not.afford more, and seven, at least.cooking their own rice and beans in a skillet and living from hand to’ mouth.’ Two had secured an empty room near the “Academy Building and I found that they were sleeping ona cold dirt floor without fire (the room could not be heated). in freezing weather. It took two days to persuade them that it would be better for them .to go in with the other men, the one room where they. were all staying being warm and also very crowded. The building where we met for study and wheré the mien stayed was an old mud building, delapitated and about to fall to pieces and would not make a good stable! But these twa said.they had made a vow to the Lord that they would endure any amount of hardship in order to study the month and they considered that if they went to the warm room they would be going back on their vow. . They thought the Lord was testing them to see whether they really meant what they. had said and so they, wished to prove themselves superior to the cold and privation to demonstrate that they were in earnest! But finally I, persuaded them that it would please the Lord better to have them warm and so they could do the best study for Him and that it would be quite bad enough in the room with the other men! One of the men was going to make straw shoes during the class to support himself but when he had worked for two days the companion burned up all his work saying the shoemaking was keeping his. mind from the study and that thro the remainder of the month he (the companion) would share his own meager rations with the shoemaker rather than have him do anything other than study during the month! It seemed upon investigation that the companion had provided the money to buy the straw for the other so he had some right to a say in the matter, You can see that the men were interested |... The spirit of all the men was excellent and they will all be back’ again: as soon as another session is announced.” THE BROOK BY THE WAY. _ By Rey, CORWIN TAYLOR or Konoyju.Every missionary expects on taking up work in a foreign field, to give out continually of his very best to all around him, and few are disappointed because of lack of opportunity to do so. On the other hand how. refreshing after toil, struggle, and meager results to become suddenly aware that the Holy Spirit is' doing. his work in the hearts of our Korean brothers and sisters and that in a degree that is truly marvelous.

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During a class held. recently on one..of.the Kongju circuits, the sabbath services were especially helpful to all who were present, a spirit of brotherly love and trust seemed to pervade the meeting and when at the close of the evening service, opportunity was given to tell what Christ had wrought in individual lives the climax was reached. As different.ones told how they had been raised up from lives of depravity, and of the new song they were singing in their souls, and of the joy. they found in serving God, my own heart greatly rejoiced, and with my lips I thanked him who had wrought this. . -The testimonies were incomplete for they did not tell of the terrible persecution thru which many of them had come. The first young man who became a Christian in this village was frequently beaten by his infuriated father and that most severely because he clung to the faith. He has not developed into a strong leader like some others but he has remained steadfast and he and his wife live beautiful Christian lives. The second man to become a Christian was very ignorant at tlie time but he wanted to learn, so selling his cow, (about all he had in the world) he _ attended Bible class for a month on the money he received for his faithful animal. His knowledge might be questioned by some, but his zeal was not to be mistaken. Together with his wife who is the leader among the women, they are building up a useful body of Christians, He can now read the mixed script Bible and is a diligent working colporteur. Practically every Christian in the village has gone thru the fire of persecution hence the growth of the church has not been rapid but steady and lasting. . . _ The testimony of the helper who travels this circuit impressed me . most, partly because I knew more of his life and partly because he had gone farther on the way than some of the others.. He used to be a fortune teller and as such made easily from four to five ye per day following the markets. All of this gain was spent however in gay clothing and riotous living. He was the son in his family who received the education and he bade fair to destroy his usefulness, without making the world any better, but the prayers and exhortation of an uncle whom he loved and who ‘loved him at last drew him to Christ and he forsook sin and took up the cross, Since that time he has been falsely accused by the heathen, misrepresented by his own kin folks, and gone thru firey trials, but in it all, though sore pressed he has held the faith. At the death of his father who was nominally a believer he wished to have a Christian funeral, but having.an older brother he was overruled and had to endure all the heathen orgies so repulsive to his soul. Last summer he was taken with a very severe attack of typhus and for a time his life was despaired of. He called together his family and friends, gave them his farewell message, disposed of his little property and made his will. This done he thot what it would mean to live and preach, and bea help to others for life was as precious to him as to any man of five _ and twenty, but he said I was not afraid to die for I was ready, my peace was made with God, and if it is his will I will gladly and willingly go.

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e6a“qeo>>s—8weOOo—sasoaoOq@oa——>——yl The Lord saw fit to’ spare his life however and we trust for many years of useful service. _ . : These testimonies are not exceptional perhaps in any: respect for they can be-duplicated in: hundreds of places all over Korea, but coming .at the time they did.and from men whom I knew personally they were a means of inspiration and great help to me. “EYES RIGHT.” A KOREAN LEADERS ILLUSTRATION. The leader of the native prayer-meeting was telling of a winter trip and one at least of the listeners began to wonder where we were, being led. Speaker and audience arrived at the bank of a river full of floating ice and chopped into menacing waves by a strong wind. The ferry men refuse to put out but at last under strong. pressure they push off with a boat loaded to the gunwales and so tightly packed that the passengers are unable to move. Half the journey is accomplished when suddenly there comes a cake of ice and a gust of wind together. The boat keels over and water begins to pour in over the side. Everyone is so tightly packed that it is impossible to move to the other side to right the boat. Suddenly above the confusion rises the .boatman’s voice “ Eyes right everybody look to the right” not realizing what was the purpose of the order but instinctively with one accord all eyes turned to the right. Slowly the boat righted itself and the ‘rest of the trip was accomplished safely. “Thus” said “the leader as concerted action in obediencé to the voice of a leader saved all our lives so united looking toward God and concerted prayer and obedience to his voice will be able to secure for us the fulfillment of God's saving promises.” . H, H.-U. He who is false to present duty, breaks one thread in Life's loom. LETTER FROM KANGKEI. Mrs. C. S. HOFFMAN. Since I have been appointed official correspondent for this station, . it is high time that I wrote you of some of our happenings. . It does indeed seem “out of the world” up here, but we are all busy, happy and contended. Our two itinerant missionaries, Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Hoffman have each made three long trips since the return from Annual Meeting, two each to cover their territories, and the third toge-

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, ther to hold a Bible class at Chasung, getting home from the latter on Christmas Eve.* . Our town. class:for both men and women begins next Sunday and we-are praying for good attendance and great interest. -Just this morning we all received a keen disappointment in the shape of a telegram from Mr. Whittemore, who was to teach in’ the class here’ and afterwards assist in one of the country classes. He and Mrs. Whittemore and Neddy started from Syen Chun last Friday, but after a few days were forced to turn back, Mrs. Whittemore being over-fatigued and suffering from the cold. We all felt exceedingly sorry, but really not surprised, for the cold has been intense, somewhere below 20° below zero, no one here has a thermometer registering lower than that. Moreover, quite deep snow has been on the ground since before Thanksgiving, and the passes must be in very bad condition for traveling. It makes the teaching force rather short,. since two Korean pastors who had been counted upon, have also not been able to come, however, the classes have been rearranged, and all is harmonious again. ~ Twenty-six believers were baptized in the town church last Sunday, making over two hundred baptized members. The church debt is all paid off. A large congregational meeting was held on New Year’s Day to elect officers and talk over plans for the coming year. ; In the fall, Mrs. Rhodes and I, with the Bible woman, called in many of the homes, and found it of great profit to us, and we believe, to the women. Lately there has been so much sickness throughout the town, grip, diphtheria, etc. not to méntion mad dogs, that we thought it better ‘to suspend operations for awhile. Now, we are’ busy studying for the class. We are so glad for the sake of our Sunday School that the New Year with new quarterlies has come. ‘There are now three kinds of quarterlies—for the baptized folk, the catechumens and the: children. They are something that has been needed for a long time, and they promise to be fine. It means three separate training classes for the teachers; Mrs. Rhodes, the ‘Bible-woman and I each take one among the women, and the men are divided up among the mocksas and the chosa. Our Bible Institute building is so nearly done that we expect to hold our Bible classes there. It is a pretty, storey-and-a-half building of grey brick, convenient and well-lighted. All we need now is a single woman to run it. . . The hospital is doing its share’of wark as usual. I was over just yesterday and saw two of its interesting cases, one, a little boy whose limbs were so twisted that he will never be able to walk, the other, a girl who had had a common every-day fever, but because her’ relatives thought her possessed with a demon, they worried her'and stuck her . through the palms-of her hands; so that finally her spinal cord became affected and it ended’in paralysis. When she-was brought to the hospital she -was not able to speak,:but given ‘gentle, sympathetic treatment and «© Three months In the country ‘travelling, and living In native huts.—Ev.

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-THE KOREA MISSION FIELD. 63 —aeaeaea—Oooooo—————————eoEE the right medicine she is almost well and will be able to return home in a few days. Another patient, a man, had. had his face straightened from an ugly scar, and was so. pleased with the result of the operation that he constantly keeps a looking-glass near him. . : mo "Mrs. Biggeris busy making her first impressions on the language: She has proved of great assistance to the doctor in his hospital ‘work. ° _ _ The station celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas and New’ Year's right royally, having a community dinner on each day*. For furthet social diversion we have a language class every Tuesday evening, (with refreshments). We meet alternately at the three houses. The older members declare that Kangkei is quite populous this winter, with six members to attend meetings. ; . With best wishes from Kangkei station for a prosperous -year for the “‘ Korea Field.” ." Life is always a dull grind to the man who thinks only of the grist. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION AT HOLSTON INSTITUTE. Miss ELLA SUE ‘WAGNER. The Birthday of our Savior has again passed. Christmas Day, 1912 has come and gone and we believe that many lives here are richer in love and fuller of joy because:they have opened their hearts.to Love and are learning that this thing which .seeketh not its own, which is more blessed in giving than receiving, this love which is from God is the secret of joy and peace on earth. ° . The Christmas which is just passed is the first in eight years that the girls of Holston Institute did not receive presents, having a real tree with gifts and a bag of goodies for every girl in the school; and yet looking into their bright happy faces, one could not but know that they were tasting of the real joy of Christmas. These precious girls, many of them poor in earth’s goods but not in love, chose to give their presents to girls less fortunate than they. , , ’ There are five little country day schools for girls in our territory that have just been started this year. In these five schools there are altogether about eighty little girls, most of whom have never even seen a Christmas tree or received a gift from one. . ; Nearly a month before Christmas the students held a mass meeting to discuss this proposition. ©“ What can we do for the children in these country schools?’ These Korean Christians are always doing something to delight one’s heart but I have seen few things that have given me the the joy that mass meeting brought to me. ‘How I wished that the friends and loved ones in America who have given so liberally could: have * Community consists of 3 families, leagues away from civilization.—En,

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ee ——e——e——eeeOeOaeaeoo>000S000OOS0—Oooe—o_em™™ heard them too. One said “Year after year friends in America who have never seen our faces have sent us presents at Christmas, why ? In Jesus name and because it is more blessed to give than to receive. Now, jet us do without our gifts this year and send them to those in the country schools who are so much less fortunate than we.” All agreed to this with great enthusiasm and committees were appointed to write letters to the different schools. When the meeting adjourned they sang ““Joy to the World” with so much joy in their voices that it showed they were already tasting the blessedness of giving to these near them whose lives are desolate and dreary. . A very pretty drill was the Christmas tree drill. Fifteen girls carried branches of evergreen gayly decorated with tinsel and colored candles, ten others’ carried long strings of tinsel, and after them came ten candle bearers. The drilling and marching with these was very beautiful and effective, and at the last when the girl in the center stepped on a covered box and the others grouped about it forming one big tree, it was exquisite. Although the girls had no gifts on this Christmas tree, afterwards big baskets piled high with bright colored bags of goodies, such as Korean children like, dried persimmons, Japanese candy, cakes, and oranges, were brought in and distributed. After the benediction the parents and visitors of whom there were about three hundred and fifty, were invited to the big primary class room to the sale'and exhibition of needle work, knitting and crochetting done by the students during the year. The girls do some very creditable work, such as bags, wool caps, shawls, gloves, ‘chumonies” purses, wristlets, and jabots of many different kinds. KOREAN SOUNDS. Mrs. SMITH, Annonc. For weeks I have been wondering what would be of most interest to you. Several attempts have not satisfied me, perhaps the present one will not satisfy you. Yesterday two things suggested the idea of sounds— ‘*Sounds I have heard in Korea.” I was in the woman’s waiting room of the dispensary teaching the Eunmoon class of the Annual Bible school. The women were attempting to read some Bible verses in concert but the bable they made was not unmusical as with one or two exceptions their voices were well modulated and they were so'in earnest in their efforts to glean the meaning of the verses through eyes used for almost the first time. for the purpose of reading their native language, that it seemed the sweetest of music‘to their anxious teacher, ; ._.*But suddenly without warning a whole flock ‘of wild geese, as I thought, settled down in the dispensary compound. -..It rather’ surprised me that geese should be on, the wing in January but I seemed to hear

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even the flapping of their wings as an accompaniment to their shrill cries. ‘As soon as class‘was over and I could in all courtesy get away from the women I hurried out through the court to see my geese for the cries were shriller than ever but I saw instead a cotton gin! I had seen the cotton, balls and knew it was to be prepared for hospital bedding but had not connected the cotton and noise. “A woman was turning the machine, a rough wooden cloths wringer with rollers set so close as to prevent the seeds from going through—but Oh! the groans and shrieks as they were torn from the downy bosoms which had been their protection so long. I came home and told my amah of the machine which made the wild goose noise and she saw the comparison at once. . Then last night the school girls gave a program for the benefit of the country women who had come in for the class. Koreans are born orators and aiter living through a commencement season in Seoul I thought nothing could surprise me, but the pastor’s use of the calls of birds and animal sounds, in pressing home Gospel truths did. So these people, who, I hope, have an eye for the beautiful even though they are content ‘to live in squalid surroundings and ruthlessly destroy nature’s landscape, also have an ear for the voices of nature. Their music may not please our ears—and there is scarcely anything so excruciating as the shrieks and wails of one of our sacred tunes being murdered by. untrained voices—but to an Oriental ear it is far superior to the finest classical selection ever rendered before rapt Occidental. audiences. There is a wierdnesg in the minor strains and long drawn out notes that is fascinating but at present the keenest impressions I have of native music set my teeth on edge. The beauty of many a glorious sunset and clear moonlight night was shivered into fragments by the shrill discords of a species of horn with drum accompaniment used as a theater advertisement in Seoul. One sound impression of Korea which will be lasting because almost the very first is that made.by a native band hired as a tribute of love to welcome a pastor back to his labors and we got full measure, for every speech and prayer was punctuated by a burst of melody. (?) American style. But let me hasten to add that the playing of a well trained Korean band at the garden party given last year by Governor General Count Terauchi, earned our hearty praise. I have never been so deeply stirred by any sounds as by those of the first church service I attended in Korea. The speaker had given an inspiring, soul stirring address to those Pyeng Yang Central Church Christians, 1,700 strong. It was in Korean but we needed no interpreter to feel its spirit. ‘Then pastor Kil said each could pray aloud as his heart dictated. The restrained volume at first was as the rush of a mighty wind. vibrating thru a forest. ‘When thou hearest the sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees then is.God gone before thee.” And we truly felt that God. was there before us healing the bruised hearts and rejoicing with the glad ones for each ceased as he. felt his prayer answered and the sound died ‘away to a mere whisper. as here and there some one was wrestling with-God in prayer like Jacob of old “I will not let Thee

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&6 THE KOREA. MISSION FIELD. . ——— oOo Soe go except Thoir bless me.” But at last-each waiting heart was stilled and no volume of angel’s praise on harp or cymbat could be more acceptable than the “Amen” with which the great company--clased the pastor’s benediction for it vibrated:with the deepest emotions of loving hearts. To realize how’ “blessed is the people that know the joyful sound ” one has’ only-to compare the “Amen” chorus with sounds of terror and wailings of hired mourners which we heard on Christmas day at the.spirit shrine on Nam San... ‘But to go back to one of our first sound impressions and one quite characteristic -of Korea. ‘Our first few nights in Seoul were not nights of peaceful slumber because of the steady rhythmic beats of the ironing sticks from the mud huts.below. Faithful wives will work half the night . that their husbands may appear-the next morning in linen of satiny lustre. It is easy to tell by the number and rapidity of the strokes whether the house shelters one, or two women.. The washing paddle makes a different noise as. the dirty water is pounded from the cloths on a rock by well or stream and if several-are working together the intervals’ of resting will be filled with prattle, perhaps, of the ‘‘Mikuk Puin” who is watching the work. . . When you think of sounds.as indicating the industrial condition of the peoples it is a significant ‘fact that women’s labor here is harder and more incessant ‘than man’s. The Biblical picture of two women grinding at the mill comes before meas I hear. the sound of grinding here. One kind of mill consists’ of two flat circularsstones, the upper being fitted with a handle for hand use or-a.pole if the mill is a very large one run by donkey:-power.But the dull thud most frequently heard is from a foot power mill. A heavy log is fitted with a pestle on the end and two prongs on the other. “It rests on a fulcrum and the operator forces the pestle high iri the air and then lets it drop into a depression in rock or earth which js filled with grain. Usually the mill is under a roof and the rope suspended’ over head serves as.a support; If in the open air the operator uses a long: pole to steady herself. Either way is sufficiently jarring as to make conversation difficult when a ‘companion shares the abor. The Jazy mai’s way to prepare his grain is to hollow out one end of a log so as to receive the water of some stream. The log is so arranged with pestle end ‘over the grain that when the trough alternately fills and empties itself the-pestle-rises and falls onthe grain and, as the process is repeated at regular intervals thruout the entire twenty-four hours the grain is finally prepared.-The trickling of the water, the creak of the timber, the dull thud as the pestle falls makes a not unpleasing sound. _, Korean -men, especially if working in union, need some song: accompaniment for their labor. . These are of various kinds, one foreigner was flattered by hearing himself, made the subject of one of them, “ Here comes the man with the big nose.” My first: labor. song was heard on the wharf at Fusan as a-heavy iron safe was being moved but,the novelty » was ‘soon worn off-in Seoul: where so much building:and grading was

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being done around us. I can see the necessity for the rhythmic guide in carrying unwieldy loads on the shoulders of several men where a single misstep would be disastrous but where the singing takes so much fime and energy as to leave the workmen holding a.heavy pick high in the air until the proper phrase is reached I long for a quick tempered Irishman to show them what labor really is... «; : eet. There is yet the message of the: bells. The great: bell in Seoul marks the old superstitous regime of Korean despotism. Time after time the bell was cast but never successfully until.a sorcerer announced that the spirits would not be appeased until a life was sacrificed in the molten metal and the cries of the child are still heard in the tones of the great bell. It was rung to announce the daily opening and closing of the city gates and any important event which might befall the country, but now the new era is marked by the jangling bells of street cars as they pass thru those gates day and night; the clanging of the locomotives and the booming of Japanese cannon. . I would have you listen to three other bells I have heard in Korea. Standing on our house site hill watching a glorious sunset softly there came to me across the paddy fields the sweet peals of a Confucian temple bell. The temple is over a thousand years old and perhaps thru all these years that bell has called to rites of ancestral worship. More musical and bearing a message of greater worth were the Catholic Cathedral.bells of Seoul answering each other across the valley ; another call to prayer toa people who still believe in the efficacy of relics and dead men’s bones. But jangling thru one’s meditations comes the memory of an other bell rung for five minutes in our very. ears as only a youngster intent on making a noise could ring it. It was the hospital bell which called nurses and doctors from their work to pray that God would use their skill in the healing of sick minds and bodies. It also served to call the girl’s primary school and medical college students to renew their search’after truth. So we could forget the nervous shock in the thought that the bell did its share in carrying the saving Gospel of light and healing to a people who sat in darkness and as that bell gave forth uncertain sound so we desire to learn this difficult language that we may utter sounds easy to be understood and preach the Gospel of thé saving Christ. Has this people not heard? Yes, many have and “ their sound.is gone out to all the earth.” Our doubts’ are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win. ; THE LANGUAGE CLASS IN PYENG YANG. The Schedule of the Korean Language Class to be held in Pyeng Yang in June and July next, is certainly a most tempting one both as to teachers and subjects taught. The advantages of these classes have already been proved by experience; and fill with regret, if not’envy the

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———————————————————————Ooeaqaqezeoeaeq~oaeaoaeaoaeleoaOa=~q=q$q$q$S$S$q$Sqaaoewrw minds of those who in past years, plodded on practically alone with the scant aid of a Korean teacher (?) But there are few good things in this world without some counter balancing evils. Of those, which place a serious handicap on this class, we ‘have learned both. from residents of Pyeng Yang and language students, as well as from the plain indications seen in the statement of arrangements published by the Committee. _ It seems an ungracious act to make any criticism of what is so great a benefit to the whole missionary community, but it certainly is -done in no spirit of fault finding, but only with a desire to call attention to a difficulty: which needs correction. We recognize the fact that it is hard to arrange anything important, perfectly, at the first, but with experience, and time, to help, we believe all will come right. , No one can say too much of the benefit conferred by the teaching, but the inconveniences, and difficulties, not to say dangers, arising from the gathering of so many visitors, under the conditions which seem necessary, and afflicting entertainers as well as entertained, are really very serious. ‘These conditions are overcrowding in the most trying season of the year to which is added the menace to health resulting from change of food and water—even the best—especially at that time. Many are thus crowded together in dormitories without their usual comforts, with the improbahility of thorough supervision of service, and table, and sanitation, by a c<impetent and careful housekeeper. The housekeepers, on the other hand, who have been engaged in exhaustive missionary effort during the year, are worked to the limit, with overcrowded houses, full of guests who are sometimes ill, adding worry to labor, at a time when the system is relaxed with heat and overwork, and when they should be resting and gaining strength for next year’s battle. . Dormitories and homes together were hardly sufhcient for last year’s influx of guests. Again, the physicians and nurses who go to Pyeng Yang to study, are, we are told, obliged to spend too much of their time, in attending the sick. This fact in itself, speaks volumes of the dangers incurred. We are credibly informed, that some of the doctors who came to class last year, stated their unwillingness to take the time, so hard ‘to secure in leaving their stations, to practice medicine, which they could have done without coming to Pyeng Yang,—this we have on authority of one of the doctors—and the one who willingly attended all calls was scarcely able to get any time for study. The statement that there was so much illness, needs no comment. That there were quite a number who were ill, at that time and among them two deaths, one of which cost the mission the loss of one of its most efficient and beloved workers, demands the serious attention of our missions, and an earnest effort to prevent similar catastrophies-in the future. __ © Other work for natives occupies the cooler months, and the dormitories needed are in use by the schools except in the summer. .

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We have learned from one of the members of Pyeng Yang station, that when the question of having the language class held there was left to the ladies of that place, they decided to consent to it, only on condition, that the visitors should be all accommodated in the school and college dormitories; not because of lack of hospitality, for many visitors have repeatedly proved the wide and untiring hospitality of these missionaries,,. but because after two or three years’ experience, they have learned, that they are physically incapable of working as strenuously as they do thro’ the rest of the year, and then filling their homes with guests for six weeks. We sympathize heartily with them in the resolution taken. For students the conditions are equally trying. Tho’ ‘urged to attend by the need of such valuable assistance, as well as by the reiterated advice of the language committee, it is not pleasant to do so, with the knowledge, that they may overburden entertainers, and that while risking illness, they can neither ask for medicine, or medical treatment, without depriving some unlucky doctor or nurse of the study they came to attend at considerable sacrifice. We believe that such an amount of illness, as has occurred during these classes, is due mainly to the time of year, and overcrowding, rather than to the unhealthfulness of Pyeng Yang; but there are quite a number of those who have stayed there, who assert that it is unhealthful, at least for visitors in the summer months. The myriads of flies, and the condition of the streets in the hot and wet season, would give some foundation for this belief. . But whatever the causes of sickness, it is evident that correction is needed somewhere, somehow. Our most thoughtful missionaries could hardly do ‘better than to take up the matter and give it their gravest attention. ‘To leave it to the decision of the women in Pyeng Yang, is to put them in a very trying dilemma, for on the one hand it forces them to close their homes to guests, on the other they are placed under unjust and extreme physical strain. As we look about for possible solutions to the problem, we wonder if it would not be feasible to divide the class,t having part in Pyeng Yang and part in Seoul, since the houses in Seoul, tho’ many more in number than in Pyeng Yang" are so scattered, that it would be no more possible here than there, to arrange at present for all the students to be quartered with safety within convenient distance from the class rooms. ° On: the other hand, were Dr. White’s proposition to give us a large dormitory here in Seoul, accepted, that, with the homes in that neighbourhood, would we believe, comfortably house not only half, but all the guests. . Again, even in case of overcrowding, the advantages of Seoul, along health lines are incomparably greater. Beautiful, wide, well paved streets are being cut in all directions; fine sewers are being laid, mud ditches, are gradually disappearing, scavengers carry away nearly all refuse, police See ee eee ee Ee . " . * Counting all denominations. + We mean dividing, not along denominational lines but according to subjects studied,

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——— eo ooeaeaeae*“*=$=$~$$$000OOOOO0—SSewaeaeammms sanitary regulations are good and fairly well cartied out, and there is at least one well manned and equipped hospital,.with senior doctors, (who are ‘not members of language-class) numerous dispensaries, and drug stores, and trained nurses.-:’ This (even tho’ the-White dormitories, were located in Pyeng. Yang, instead of here) can hardly be hoped for in that station for some ‘years to come. As for foreign teachers our, missions have enough efficient.ones, to divide and have a full complement for both places, were the classes divided. Dos ’ We do not pretend that this is the only solution of the problem, but it appeals to us as one which would greatly relieve present difficulties. At any rate we hope: that the. missions will take the matter into careful consideration and-we beg for suggestions, before the next meeting of the ’ Federal Council. on ; LEU. “Those who live on the mountain have a longer:day than. those who live in the valley: . Sometimes all we need to brighten our day is to rise a little higher.” A FEW NOTES CONCERNING PYENG YANG METHODISTS. , By Rev. B. W. BILLINGS. . . The special featire of our work this year has been a series of five classes which gather in the leaders from all the territory tributary to the Pyeng Yang and Yeng Byen stations and by bringing the class closer to the several churches makes possible the attendance of a larger number of men. ‘Three of these classes have already been held and a fourth is now in progress. Inall of these-the spirit has been fine and the diligence in study most marked. a The most largely attended class was the one at Kang Saw Eup in the centre of our work along the west coast. There were 132 enrolled and these-represented nearly every church in that-section of our work. There were from 80 to100 present at “daybreak” prayer-meetings which were held long before sunrise and the spirit of prayer was upon the men attending. After another short prayer service at 9 a.m. three hours were given to study in classes and after dinner they met for two hours more. The evenings were left free for preparation. . Fron one little church some three miles away 8 men and boys who could not afford the expense of boarding arose early and starting out while it was yet dark were usually in the church ready for study before the others arrived. ~ Another little group where 20-to 30 people meet for worship on Sundays sent in 9 men to study. The local church entertained all guests at a very low rate but nevertheless attendance at a class lasting a week , and a half meant considerable sacrifice to.some of the men. On the night

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before we adjourned a special testimony service was held which lasted for two hours and in which 40 men testified-to the special blessings which they had received during. the study. Orie after another they spoke of the lessons or services which ‘had especially helped them. One man who is working hard to keep a Christian Boys’ School going said that he came with a ‘heavy heart but lostit in the first early prayer-meeting. Another said the communion with beliévers had been like a foretaste of Heaven. A freshman from the Pyeng Yang School testified with tears that he had given up all worldly aims and had given himself all to Jesus. Especially did these testimonies show the wisdom of having the day’s work begin with the early prayer-meetings. Before the close of the class twenty-four smaller classes were arranged to be held in February by the men who had studied in this class. Thus the potential influence of such a gathering is limited only by the amount of prayer with which it is upheld. The city work in Pyeng Yang progresses nicely. A recent count on Sunday morning showed that there was.a total of 1,246 persons present in our four churches and chapels inside the city walls. Each of these churches has a separate children’s Sunday-school which is well conducted and upon these we depend largely for future growth in church membership. All our schools use the new graded lessons. The Methodist share in Christian Educational work in Pyeng Yang can best be shown ‘by figures. -There are 190 boys enrolled in our Common and Higher Common Boys’ School and repeated investigation shows that the average daily attendance reaches the remarkable figure of 183 or more. The new building for this school will be completed in May. The Common Girls’ School has 158 girls enrolled with a daily attendance of about 130. The Higher School for Girls is a union institution with the Presbyterians. -Out of 158 girls enrolled during the Fall term 53 were Methodists. The: Academy and College work for Boys is also union work. During the Fall term the Academy enrolled 217 of whom 77 were Methodists and the College 47 of whom 15 were Methodists. SYEN CHUN BIBLE INSTITUTE. DEC. 26~JAN. 24, 1913. This is a school for training Christian workers. Tho’ not a schoot for the preparation of assistant pastors in the technical sense, it is a schooh for the training of laymen to ‘become pastors’ assistants. The school holds one month a year and the course extends over five years, the time isthe-month immediately. following Christmas. Messrs: Roberts, Lampe -and Ross havé been the..regular‘teachers. Forty-three students were; enrolled this year in two classes: In the beginners or first class ‘of. 23° students, 5 came from -beyond station territory, from south Pyeng An

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SS eee—5OoOESSaSaSESESESS—eeaaeoo Province. The average age of members of this class is 2744. The youngest student is 18, the oldest 46. . Farmers, merchants and scholars seems to be represented here as in general in Korea. In the advanced or second class of 20 students, among other officers are found an elder and a colporteur. The elder who is one of the best spiritual men in our constituency tho’ a highly accéptable officer in the church, learned to read the Bible after becoming a Christian. He more than makes up for a lack of Chinese scholarship by having ‘been with Jesus’’ like Peter and John as referred to in Acts 4: 13. The schedule, in brief, consists of three parts which receive about equal attention or time viz.: (1) Old Testament study, selected portions, (2) New Testament study by books and‘ (3) Topical studies:founded on this Word of God. For‘example, the rst class studied 3 weeks in Luke and one wéek in Acts 1-12 as 4 of their course; the second class spend a week each in the study of selected Psalms, rst John, and the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and then a few days in the Geography of the Bible. This too only 34 of month’s work. Six classes of an hour each were in session daily. The devotional or-chapel services were very helpful. ’ Remarks by the leaders introductory to prayer were brief enough to allow time for several prayers. The students participated promptly and fevently in these exercises. The daily plan of work consisted of two hours of Bible recitations in the morning, the chapel services coming in between these hours. A third recitation was held in the afternoon and the evenings witen not otherwise spent in part.by a regular service of the church were with few exceptions free for preparation of the morrow’s work. There was drill in singing once or twice a week. Saturday afternoons were times of practical personal work. Local church members and officers introduced the students to people in the homes of the town. In this way a number of conversions were reported by the converts witnessing publicly on the Lords Day in church service. Some calls were also made upon people who have become discouraged during the past year.’ The theory of personal work in addition to this practice was taught ‘by addresses on the one hand, and by remarks and comments onthe reports of the students as afterwards rendered. This used to be a method of work in the Bible Institute in Chicago, ze. to say, the suggestion comes from that quarter. The tho’t that was emphasized constantly by the teachers and responded to and often expressed by the student body in prayer was that the work and aim of this Bible Institute was not study for study’s sake or ‘merely to know the Bible as an end in itself but as a means of knowing, loving aud living out the Father's will as therein revealed. Daily oral and final written examinations were held, the climax of the month's prayer and meditation on the Word was reached the farewell evening. The students of their own initiative pledged themselves to endeavor to carry the Bible Institute idea into their home churches. They will hand on the instruction received and strive to create the atmosphere of the occasion in their home communities.

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; May the God who blessed Abraham to make him in turn a blessing, richly equip these men of prayer and “ practice of the-Presence”’ to pass on the fruit of the Spirit. GOOD WORDS FROM SYEN CHUN. Bible Institutes have been the order of the day in Syen Chun during January. The Women’s Institute was opened this year for the first time. The curriculum of the Pyeng Yang Institute was adopted and women were called in who were ready to begin the first year of the course. Quite a number of our women have been studying in Pyeng Yang and ‘they are left to continue study there or to wait until the new class here overtakes them. This class numbers seventeen. Having but the one division Miss Samuel and Miss Helstrom have divided the teaching so that they have been able. to keep other work going at the same time. Miss Samuel taught first while Miss Helstrom guided Miss Stevens through a seige of typhoid fever. Now Miss Helstrom is in charge of the Institute and Miss Samuels has left for a series of country classes. The women of our district are delighted that at last a long coveted, much desired Bible Institute is really their own. Our January station meeting had a matter of unusual interest. We are hoping that another year will find us with the long hoped for addition to our Medical Plant. There seems prospect that through the efforts of the Occidental Board, having its headquarters in San Francisco, the money for the asked-for Hospital may be.forth coming. Dr. Sharrocks presented plans for the building which when approved by station and mission will give a working basis for the new plant. The present building will serve as dispensary and the new building will be connected with it, at present Dr. Sharrocks’ operations are performed behind a screen in his general office. The new building will afford a real operating room, an additional consulting room, kitchens and rooms to accommodate 24 inpatients. The work our hospital may do seems limitless and we certainly need all the facilities possible for caring for the sick. In presenting the probable plans Dr. Sharrocks gave some interesting statistics dating from Jan. 1912 to Jan. 1913. Tt will be seen that with the limited facilities and small wards, the medical work done has been by no means small but shows one of the | largest records from our Mission Hospitals. ) The total number of patients for the year is 18,258 including 1,066 visits into homes. | This gives an average of 1,520 per month or 60 per day straight : thro’ the year if Sundays are excluded. | In-patients average 60 per month with an average stay of 5 days each or a general average of 10 in-patients in the wards all thro’ the year.

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THE KOREA: MISSION ‘FIELD. ————————— aa Operations under general anaesthesia were 137.“: The receipts for the year from patients average 13 yén per day exclusive of Sundays and not . including the board bills paid by the patients: . . _ No account has been kept of the “gross attendance,” that is the patients and the friends who accompany tliem. A safe estimate of such a “gross attendance” for the year would probably be about 25,000. Is it any wonder we feel the need of enlarging: our plant? _ The closing week of January being the closing of the various schools for the midwinter vacation. The Hugh O'Neill Academy for Boys has had an enrollment running to 120, © Typhoid fever has visited us and two boys have been taken from us by death. There have been several other serious cases and many more lighter cases. As a result several have been sent home to recuperate. The term examinations held just after Christmas showed excellent work. The Academy for Girls has had an enrollment of 28. This year a further’ year of study has been offered and several of our graduates of past years aré back with‘us for study. Our dormitory is full to over flowing for we have not only’the Academy girls, but girls from the country who are attending the lower schools. Having no preparatory classes in our Academy necessitates some.such an arrangement for country girls whose home schools will not carry them high enough to enter the Academy. The or Young Married Women has prospered this year, The enrollment has run to 32. The women are largely widows with an occasional wife of a Hugh O'Neill Student. So many being widows it has been necessary to help the most of the women to support them. selves: We havea flourishing embroidery department which has added, grey hairs to the heads of one or two of our Mission ladies but has been : the means of livelihood to the young women.” Over 400 yew has been paid out for material.and work in our Self-Help Department_and the young women have greatly appreciated the opportunity afforded them for study and self-support. Mrs. Lampe or Mrs. McCune will be glad to furnish any articles of the girls’ work that-any one cares to buy. Our lower schools are the same problem as in other stations. How to help Koreans run schools, keep them zp to the mark educationally and down to the mark financially is work for a combination educationalist and financier. We have found that the expenses of teaching forces can be greatly reduced by using students of our higher institutions as teachers in the primary schools. As a rule they make excellent teachers and with one or two.older teachers to give full time to teaching the younger teachers do very satisfactory work. All the schools will close with a grand flourish and we hope reopen in Feb. with a further increase in attendance.

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——————————————————————————————————————“—OS|| A WOMAN'S WINTER TRIP, AND ITS REWARD, From A Private Letrer sy Miss McCUNE. The work down here in Antung territory is an extremely interesting one. Inever before came in contact with such a hungry set of women. There were one hundred at my first Country class at Namae.* -Twentyfive were good readers, about ten know the syllables the other sixty-five are beginning the syllabary. The advanced class was one of the best I have ever taught (25 in number). Only two women migsed a.day, one. on account of a sick baby the other. on the last day, was called away by death of her mother. The lower class record is just as good. It was of a week’s duration. The advanced class answered well and could ask as intelligent questions as have ever, been asked by any of our advanced Whang Ha women. They reminded me of a nest of hungry birds with mouths opened wide eagerly desirous for the food they expected the mother bird would give them. The language differs from the talk farther North but we find practically the same difference between. the shut in mountain whites at home and those near centres of learning. If I had time to tell you of our trip up the mountain to Namae, I am sure you would almost gasp. Night had settled down before the last ten if was covered. No place to stay for the night, we kept on. The cook with load and Bible woman had gone on before. The chair coolies, who had been drinking lost the way, and when we finally got to the right path.it was late. That right path led up‘a very ‘steep mountain with a growling, running river below and up above nothing but earth and rocks, almost a straight bank. The path was covered with ice. I got to the top and down on the other side on hands and knees, like a faithful pilgrim going to a sacred shrine. When I got below, that angry river was in front and the chair coolies were “howling” that their feet were frozen. Just then a light appeared, then another and another and the chair coolies cried out “Here's a dead person” ! We were met by the Christians, who were crying because they thought I had fallen down the mountain and been killed. They found a decidedly lively corpse, and heard said corpse rebuke coolies for the lies they were telling. The church officers took _ off part of their clothes, and with me in the chair forded the river. We were greeted on the other side by about a hundred and fifty waiting Christians. Those dear old grandmothers with wrinkled faces and white hair, fell on my neck and wept over my encountering such perils for their sakes. I was comforted, and it was one of the happiest nights of my life. Old women of seventy years and over had walled, some, 80 Zi, others, 70 4é with little rice bags on their heads and the Bible tied in its bag to their backs to study God’s Word. Others had walked or. crawled over almost impassable mountains of ice and snow greater dis.* Alittle country town, + Three /i make an English mlie. ;

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tances than the older women. Thank God I came.t{ The work here needs two ladies and needs them zozv.* A Korean woman no matter how good she is cannot organize and wisely plan these country classes and the other classes which are the rock basis not only of Antung Bible Institute for women, but the basis of character which will make these women’s sons future leaders for God. Naktul, Jan. 15th. , Did not have opportunity to send letter from Namae and will finish this now at this place where the second class is held. There are about ninety-five in this class already. One woman walked 130 / in two days, and over such awful roads, to get here, others have come from 40 and 50 #. This church has had its conflict with Satan and at present seems rather defeated as. about fifty members have withdrawn and formed a separate body. This morning three of the women from the division came to study in the class. My! but they did look sheepish but very wistful. God. will use the study of his Word heré to bring about a reunion for that we are praying. . Please join us. ‘The whole trouble was or is centered in one man who has wordly power ina degree and lead off the fifty church members. —————)o1 ; She wiseshe : eh se ek ok rently ae a few weeks,

부록: 지명 좌표(위도·경도) — 지도 표시용

※ 내장 가제티어(외부 API 미사용). 현대 행정중심 근사값. 카카오맵·구글맵 "위도, 경도" 검색 가능.

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