Morning Calm v.16 no.106(1905 Oct.)

The Bishop's Letters. I.

CHONG DONG, SEOUL, COREA: June 1, 1905. MY DEAR FRIENDS,

My last letter was, I think, from the friendly house of St. Andrew's Mission, in Tokyo. Many of you already know about the work our Church is doing in Japan, but not many know as much as you ought to, I am afraid. I should like to say a good deal about it, but I am afraid that the Editor might say, " This is not to the point." And yet I do not think he would, for the work in Japan will be, and already is, of great importance to us, and I am very glad that I was enabled, by the kindness of our friends there and of Bishop Corfe here, who delayed his departure to China for some days on purpose, to stay for the Synod of the Sei Ko Kwai, which will always be a happy memory in spite of my ignorance of the language, because of the kindness I received from all alike, Japanese and foreigners. I hope that you will see elsewhere an account of what was done there.

I met our old friend, Mr. Smart, there, and had a short talk with him, and soon saw that Corea will always have a warm corner in his heart, and then in passing through Kobe, I was very pleased to see Mr. Steenbuch, who is working in Awaji Island, opposite to Kobe, and had come over in soaking rain to see me. I was glad to hear that they are both of them well and happy. They have taken a little boy, whose father, an old Bluejacket, died in Chemulpó some years ago, leaving Mr. Trollope and myself as the boy's trustees. It is a great relief to think that he has so good a home, where he will be brought up in the love and fear of God.

One more friend I saw before I reached Corea, and that was Mr. Gardner, who is living at Shimonoseki, and has more than once visited our Christians in Fusan, and Corea generally, when there was no one to help them. I wish I could say more about these friends of ours whom I met everywhere on my way out. and tell you something of their difficulties and needs, for they are your friends as well as mine, and require your prayers and sympathy every bit as much as we do, and that is saying a great deal.

Corea at last, and I was glad to see it, not only because I was longing to get home, but for more prosaic reasons, which any one who has travelled second class on a Japanese steamer will realise, especially in wet weather. We always get a warm welcome from the Customs officials, and Mr. Pegorini is no exception to the rule. I arrived in the morning, and spent most of the day with our Japanese Christians. Although con-versation was not easy, as none of them know much English and I know no Japanese, yet one of them speaks Corean well, and I was able through that medium to get through some of the business I wanted to do. I am very anxious about the Japanese work in the country, as you know, and Fusan is the most important place in certain ways, for it is entirely Japanese, and our Christians there are resident people who do not move away much, whereas those in Seoul and Chernulpó are more of the official class, and are liable to move on at any time. I feel that we ought to try and do more for them than we have been able to do in the past. They are very anxious for a resident priest, or at least a catechist, and when Mr. Cartwright comes, of whom I wrote in my last letter, I hope some arrangement may be made. Then, too, we ought to help them to provide a church, for the present arrangement, by which we pay part of the rent of the house in which the reader, Mr. Hayashi (who is responsible for the services) lives, in return for which we have the use of one of the upper rooms for service-is expensive and not altogether satisfactory in other ways.

We Ought to get enough land to be able to build a small church and a Japanese house for a resident pastor, who, I think, should if possible be a Japanese. There is, I am sure, a great scope for work if we can only get the right man, for the people in Fusan away from the difficulties of their old home associa-tions are ready to receive Christian instruction in a way that makes one most hopeful. I am writing to the Society about it, and hope that they will be able to give us and them some help, but I want them to do their share, and they are quite prepared to do something towards the payment of a catechist, but they are not numerous or rich enough to do it all.

However, as Mr. Cartwright is coming over so soon I am leaving any definite settlement till he comes From Fusan I went up to Seoul by the new railway, and with books and conversation with an American missionary, who came aboard halfway, and looking at the making of the line and the scenery, the time passed quickly, till I met Bishop Corfe, who had come part of the way to meet me. After that it seemed no time before we reached Seoul, hearing all the news of the Mission, reading letters, and talking over the accounts, &c   I was glad, indeed, to have this opportunity of talking things over, for he was very anxious to go on at once to China. We got up to Seoul at 10 P.M., a fourteen hours' journey, and it was very pleasant to see a group of old friends on the plat-form, English and Corean, and to receive such a hearty welcome. Next morning I saw Bishop Corfe off to the station, for he had heard that there was a steamer on the point of departure, but luckily he was able to stay over the Sunday and take the services there once more, for Mr. Bridle had come up to Seoul to help me through the difficulties of my first Sunday. I was glad of his help, for Sunday is always a heavy day when one is alone in Seoul, and it enabled us to have full services for the Corean and English congregations.

Well, having brought myself in these letters as far as Corea, I will leave any remarks about the work and Mission affairs generally till I have been here a little longer, and can write more fully and in detail. I will only add one word. Now I am here and beginning my work, I feel more than I could before the difficulty and responsibility of what I have under-taken. I ask you again earnestly not to forget in your prayers for the Mission one who needs them more than any-one else.

I am, yours faithfully, ARTHUR B. TURNER, Bishop.

P.S.-I have heard from Bishop Corfe frequently since he left the country, from Pekin and Newchang, where he has been visiting our old friend, Mr. Sprent, and others, and in his last letter he said that he was on his way to Wei-hai-wei, where he was going to stay with the Admiral, and perhaps might be tempted to go home with him. If so he will probably be in England before this letter is in your hands.

II.

CHONG DONG, SEOUL, COREA: July 15, 1905.

MY DEAR FRIENDS, Now I must write you a letter in which I shall say something about the work in Corea itself, and what I found here when I got back actually to Seoul. I hardly know where to begin, and I am sure that I shall not know where to end, there seems to be so very much to say, and I only hope that I shall be able to make it as interesting to you as it is of the deepest interest to me. As I told you in my last letter, I was only too glad to get home and to meet my friends here, my only sorrow being that my arrival meant Bishop Corfe's departure. It was with a sad heart that I saw him off from the Seoul station on the Saturday morning, and thought as I went back alone that I was now indeed about to take up the burden he had borne so long, and I could only pray to God that He would grant to me the same whole-hearted devotion to the work of the Church of Christ as our late Bishop had always shown, and be as ready in all things to follow where God's Spirit leads even though at times the way be hard to see and the road be no easy one to travel along.

However, Bishop Corfe does not, I am sure, want me to write about him, and to you it is unnecessary, for you know him, many of you, as well as or better than I do, nor is it well to let one's mind linger too long on the difficulties that lie ahead. They will force themselves on one's attention soon enough without that, and then while I felt sadly the loss of one friend, I knew also that I had many left and that they would be ready to give me all the help that they could. So I thought the best thing I could do would be to go and see them as soon as possible. Mr. Bridle, who is stationed at Chemulpó, was with me to help me through the first Sunday in Seoul, so that I had not far to go to seek him, and he very kindly took off my hands most of the necessary preparations for the services next day, and I was able to do a little towards getting straight in the house, but I am still in rather a state of confusion and I hope for his sake no one will have to take over the place from me for a few weeks more at any rate. We had a very nice first Sunday. I celebrated for the Coreans, and Mr. Bridle for the Europeans, and at both services we had some special prayers for myself, which he read. I preached at the midday service, and left Mr. Bridle to take the Corean afternoon service, which he could do so much more efficiently than I could.

On Monday Mr. Bridle went back to look after his own establishment at Chemulpó, and I was left to get on with my Work as best I could alone. But before he went we had a good long talk, and I should like to tell you one of two of the Subjects we discussed. There were sad things and encouraging wings too. The sad things were the lapse into sin of a serious nature on the part of two of our Christians in Seoul. I will Not go into details, but I will ask you to pray for them that they may really repent and be led to use the discipline they have received as a means whereby they may be led to better things in the future. I was especially sorry about these two men, as I had hoped to be able to use them for teaching others. This is, of course, impossible at present, and even after they have been restored to communion, from which they have been excluded for some months, they will not be able to take the part they might have if they had not fallen into sin. Another sad thing was the condition of Church matters in Chemulpó. You have heard frequently of the difficulties of work in a treaty port, and of Chemulpó in particular, perhaps. There is only one communicant of our own Church in the place among the foreigners (and she has been in Japan for some weeks), and the number of attendants at the services outside our own staff is very small. Those of our brethren who have their full church services at home perhaps hardly realise how hard it is going on Sunday after Sunday with a congregation of, at the outside, some six people. Then the Corean work, too, is very hard to get at, if I may use the expression. The residents are to a large extent attracted by the high wages, and come in from the country very often without their families, and the result is a very bad condition of things morally, with temptations surrounding them on all sides. I shall probably have more to say about Chemulpó later, so will leave that subject for this letter at any rate.

In Seoul during my first few days I took naturally the opportunity of seeing Sister Nora, and I was very glad to find her better than when I went away. She and Sister Isabel are the only Sisters up here now, and, as usual, Sister Nora is busy directing things, while Sister Isabel is responsible for the work among the women. Of Sister Isabel's work I can hardly speak in detail, the difficulty is to say what she has not to do-directress of the laundry, sacristan, choir trainer, teacher, &c. And of all her duties I should think the training of the choir, so called, must be the most trying, for the boys have very little idea of what is wanted, but still I must say that what they can do now is a great improvement on what they could before I went home, so there are hopes of better things in the future. One place I visited as soon as I could, and that was the Orphanage, which is under the care of Miss Pooley during the absence of Sister Barbara on furlough. It is, as you know, very depressing work, of which I hope we may have a fuller account given us by another pen some day in the future ; but still I always find that whoever is in charge there meets one with a smile and seems to be following the traditional example of Mark Tapley, and saying that there is no credit in being cheer-ful under these circumstances, but I think there is a great deal of credit, and we owe Sister Barbara a big debt of gratitude for what she has done in the past, and now to Miss Pooley for what she is doing so heartily and well.

I must not stay to write too much about Seoul, for if I do I shall never get to Kangwha, and I know you will be as anxious to hear something of that place as I was to get there. I knew that they were very desirous of my presence for Con-firmations, but I could not go down for that purpose then, and determined to pay them a short surprise visit for a day at each station just to see how they all were, and go down later for a longer stay.

I stopped at Chemulpó for one night to see Dr. Weir and Miss Jephson, whom I had seen for a few minutes in London two days after my consecration. I found them all well and very busy, but of them and the Hospital I will say nothing, as you will, I think, find Dr. Weir's report on another page, and it would take too long to say all I should like to say now. I took a boat next morning from the bund, and it seemed very natural to be sailing up the river as we call it, though it is not a river at all, but at long arm of the sea, very narrow, and with a tremendous tide running up and down which it is impossible to go against. I found Mr. Badcock very busy with translation work and teaching work, and the general oversight of all that is going on in the city and immediate neighbourhood, with the help of the Sisters. It seemed sad and strange not to receive the old friendly greeting from Brother Pearson, and it seemed a long way to carry one's thoughts to Kelham and think of him at work there, but we do not forget him or he us, and I had many inquiries after him and Mr. Drake, and, especially from the older members of the church, after Mr. Trollope, or Cho Sinpoo, his name out here.

Sister Rosalie was in charge, as before, of the Sisters' house, and I found Sister Alma with her. Sister Margaretta was away at On Sou Tong, on a visit of com-bined duty and pleasure, for we had been having a visit from two ladies from Japan, one of whom, Miss Ballard, has been working there for the S.P.G. for many years, and they had all started that morning to see something of the south of the island. There is always so much to be seen to in all our houses which the Sister-in-Charge or the Priest-in-Charge has to see to for him or herself, that Sister Rosalie never has much time spare, and Sister Alma goes out on long walks to see the women in the outlying villages, which takes up nearly all her time and is a work of very great importance, for so only can we get to know the true condition of things in our Christian homes and how far they are living up to their profession, and also in this way alone can the necessary instruction be given to those women who find it hard to come for regular teaching. what with the care of the children and the housework and the work in the fields, a fair share of which always falls on the broad shoulders of the women of the family.

Here I am at my fourth sheet and I have hardly begun yet to say what I want to. I intended to tell you something of my next visit to Kangwha when I went down for the Con-firmations. Now I can only say a tithe of what is in my mind. Being alone up here I have to go where I want to when I can, so a fortnight later I asked Mr. Bridle to come up to Seoul and Mr. Weir to take all the services that he could at Chemulpó, and started for a week in Kangwha. I landed on Friday night at Tokjin, the port for On Sou Tong, and had a very wet walk up to the house. I found Mr. Gurney and Mr. Laws on the look out for me, but had to wait till next morning for my luggage, and was fitted out for the night by the latter. On Saturday we spent the morning receiving visitors and preparing for the afternoon, which was to be devoted to dedicating the new chapel which had been built in the village of Ankol, where Mark Kim, our catechist and first adult Christian, has been working for some time.

We got over there, about a two hours’ walk, by 2.30, and were met on the road by a large company of Christians and catechumens, being followed by a porter or jiggykoon with the books and vestments on his back. Sisters Nora and Margaretta had travelled down from the city to be present, so we had five English people, and I was only sorry that those who are to so great an extent responsible for the work there, Bishop Corfe and Mr. and Mrs. Hillary, could none of them be there too. The service went off very nicely, the Coreans, as always, behaving most reverently, and the only disturbance, which was very small, was caused by a few boys, whom one could not blame for their curiosity and for looking in through the windows. After a hasty cup of tea the others set off for On Sou Tong, to be there for the Sunday services, while I stayed at Ankol with Mark Kim, at whose house we have a priest's chamber, to take part in the preparation service for the Holy Communion and to celebrate next morning. We had six communicants, and after breakfast I started to walk back to On Sou Tong for the Confirmation in the afternoon.

Of this and the further Confirmation in the city on the Thursday I must not say more now, but I will try and tell you at some future date something of one of these services so that you may be able to realise the scene to yourselves if you have not already done so from what you have been told before. I will only close by asking you to remember those who have been lately confirmed, and never to forget the catechists who are doing their best with us to forward the work of Christ out here, and to build up those who have already joined us.

I am, yours truly, ARTHUR B. TURNER, Bishop.

Correspondence.

ON SOU TONG, KANGWHA ISLAND, COREA: Vigil of the Ascension, 1905. To the Editor of MORNING CALM.

DEAR MR. EDITOR, -

Here shall follow some account of a missionary tour among the outlying islands, recently undertaken by Mr. Laws and myself, together with a party of six zealous Corean Chris-tians; these were our three catechists on this station, the dis-pensary boy and his old mother, and the house-boy. We left here on Tuesday morning, May 23, after offering the Holy Eucharist, with the intention of asking God's blessing on our journey, and expected to return on Saturday morning.

We visited four islands, but were delayed by a tempest on the last, and obliged to remain there two days, reaching home on Rogation Sunday at I P.M. The Christians here are not, however, afraid of taking their part in the absence of priest and catechist, and I was glad to hear on my return that Saturday Evensong, Sunday Mattins, Boys' Service, and adult Catechumen's Service had taken place as usual ; they will have their Eucharist to-morrow (Ascension Day). I think God has certainly blessed our tour. We had fair wind and tide always, except just at the end, when our work was practically finished : our missioners proved earnest and capable. The outdoor lantern lectures given in each island were largely attended, and our speakers were bold and enthu-astic in the good cause ; the old lady was most diligent amongst the women, and the two lads behaved very well indeed throughout. It was not only by the lectures that we tried to teach the people, but also by the personal influence of the cate-chists, who talked about the doctrine all day in various houses and places, and even far into the night discussions were often prolonged.

Then there was Mr. Laws-his greeting of old patients, his conversation, his long pipe, and his medicine case! I am sure Mr. Hillary will be the first to tell you how largely the extensive organisation he has built up here has been made possible only by the steady, honest work of this beloved physician. Mr. Laws, whose missionary zeal is boundless-his particular business being to commend the Doctrine by his healing of the sick, as well as by his word and good example. Work had already been begun on these four islands by Mr. Hillary, and a catechist, who lives on a fifth, has been visiting them from time to time. We are only trying to keep things growing during Mr. Hillary's holiday.

Besides the five islands referred to, there are many more-perhaps hundreds-off this coast as yet quite untouched by any missionary effort. They all contain one or more fishing villages, the population of those we visited averaging about seven or eight hundred. The islands are all mountainous and small, so that in some cases the people cannot grow all their own rice and tobacco, &c., as is almost invariably the case in Kangwha. Though there is much that is encouraging in the prospect of the propagation of the Gospel among these islanders, we must not forget that they are for the most part grossly ignorant, drunken, filthy, and (in a word) without God in the world.

I need hardly tell you that, for myself, I was a mere pas-senger from beginning to end. While Mr. Laws did all the catering and made all the arrangements throughout the expedi-tion, our catechists did all the teaching and talking by day and by night. However, I hope I was not an unobservant spec-tator, and ought certainly to have learned something of Corean manners and customs from this excellent opportunity of gain-ing experience.

Everything was comfortably arranged throughout by Me Laws, and the journey was quite innocent of any real "mis-sionary hardships." We foreigners took our own food with us, but were able on several occasions to supplement this with some excellent table of native food. On one island we were feasted on rice and oysters, and invariably met with civility and hospitable entertainment.

The islands are close together, partly cultivated, and naturally beautiful. From the flowers, many and various, bees of several denominations were busily employed in gathering honey all the day--(I can't say what they do with it all the night, but I have my suspicions--the greedy little things!). Mr. Laws, a man of many parts is no mean performer on the comet. He caused much pleasure and astonishment by his exercises in this art: the resounding tone and golden colouring of the instrument being only rivalled by the yellowish persons and melodious booming of the hornets. These creatures (though of ferocious visage and with most uncharitable expression of countenance) are harmless enough if only one can summon sufficient fortitude to abide by the axiom, "let ill alone." The temptation is to “have at them” with a walking-stick as they hurtle through space or seat them-selves unpleasantly close at hand with a "now I've got you" kind of sinister look in their spiteful and poisonous faces.

The Corean boat we engaged for the tour did her duty by us nobly. We had only one boatman, who worked away merrily in the stern with his huge two-handed fixed oar, and when a breeze sprang up we hoisted sail and rippled along at a capital rate.

Please regard this good journey and (so far) successful enterprise as an answer to your prayers. I need hardly add that we intend to repeat it.

Yours sincerely, WILFRID N. GURNEY.

Association of Prayer and work for Corea.

THERE are a few changes to note in the list of Secretaries this quarter. We are very glad to welcome Miss H. M. Blagg as County Secretary for Staffordshire, and Miss M. Ashwin, who Wits kindly consented to act as County Secretary for Suffolk. She is also hoping to start a new branch of the A.P.W.C in Bury St. Edmunds. The work of the Mission is not new to many in that neighbourhood, so that it is hoped there will soon be a flourishing Branch there, in spite of the fact that most of the people are already interested in various other Missions Miss Colling will succeed Miss J. Marsh as Local Secretary at Southsea, Mrs. Sturgeis will take on Miss Chubb's work at Uxbridge, and Miss K. Morris has undertaken to be Local Secretary in place of Mr. Gurney at Guildford. Welwyn is at present without a Local Secretary, as Mrs. Cherry has resigned, but it is hoped that someone will soon be found to take on her work there. A very successful Rummage Sale was held in August on behalf of the A.P.W.C. in Watlington, the proceeds of the sale amounting to £6. 17s. 6d, also as the result of a Working Party last winter a Sale of Work was held at Flax Bourton, in July, with much success

Mr. Schofield writes from Canada that he has given some addresses on behalf of the Mission, and at one of these a collection was made for Corea. Mr. Wilson, who goes to Corea the end of September, has also been giving lectures in Leeds district The attention of Local Secretaries and members is called to the fact that collecting boxes for any fund in connection with the Mission are to be obtained from Mr. H. W. Harvey. (See page iv. of the cover of Morning Calm.) The S.P.G. has lately published an attractive little book called "The S.P.G. in Corea," price 1d containing most interesting pictures of people and places in Corea connected with the Mission. A very good set of picture post-cards has also been published by the S.P.G., "The Far East Series," price 4 1/2d, the packet of twelve. Either of the above publica-tions can be obtained from the General Secretary, or from the S.P.G. Office, 19 Delahay Street, Westminster, S.W.

Children's branch of the Association of Prayer and work for Corea.

MY DEAR CHILDREN,

This is a picture of the Kangwha schoolboys, which was taken not long ago. I am afraid I cannot tell you all their names, but the one on the right in the front row is Alick. He was an orphan, and, when quite a little mite, was picked up in the streets of Seoul and taken to the Orphanage. When he was old enough he went to the school in Kangwha, and I remember when he first went to school how kind the big boys were to him and the other little ones, and how they carried them to church on their backs, because the walk was rather long for them, and there was a steep hill to go up.   chose those before dolls or mechanical toys or anything else, so that shows you how fond Corean children are of beads. I am very glad we have five new members, whose names are given at the end of this letter, and then just below you will see the names of those who have sent money for the Children's Fund. I want the King's Messengers at Harvington, who often give their money in church for the Corean children, to know what a help those pennies are. I am very pleased, Theodore, to have that 3d. for the little Corean children who are ill, and you will like to know, Mary, that I was able to sell the little black and white bag for one shilling and sixpence, so that you did splendidly altogether by your sale. Good-bye, dear children

I am, Always your affectionate Friend, MAUD I FALWASSER Ashurst, Winchester : September 1905.

NEW MEMBERS

Theodore Baxter, Gerti Goodenough. Now Kathos Cadey Hill Stockwell Mewart Mercy Man

CHILDREN'S FUND.

Theodore Baster, 4. Partache, College L M For, Mary Geloof Sale of Work), Cilat Harrington , Mary Wicht, Total,

St. Peter's foreign Missionary Association.

THE issue of Morning Calm in October instead of November, as formerly, makes it possible to give-members and friends of the Mission a longer notice of the two events peculiarly associated with the S.P.F.M.A.-i.e., first the Corean stall at the Bazaar to be held at Kensington Town Hall on November 29 and 30, for which contributions will be welcome and should be sent to the Secretary, St. Peter's Home, by November 15, plainly marked "For Corean Stall."

The Misses Trollope have kindly undertaken the manage-ment of the stall and the sale of curios, as in former years, with the help of Mrs. Robertson-Macdonald, and it is hoped that all members will come to the Bazaar and bring friends.

The second date to be remembered is that of the Day of Intercession and Thanksgiving for Foreign Missions, which will be held at St. Peter's Home on Tuesday, December 5. Preachers and speakers will be announced later, but the Rev.   F. R. Hillary promises to be present, and the prospect of hear-ing details of the work at Kangwha, On Sou Tong, and in two new centres ought to ensure a large attendance.

The Secretary gratefully acknowledges several kind gifts to the Mission, and a large consignment of garments, bed linen, and other needlework sent by Miss Newman, also from the Guild of St. Catherine, all of which will be sent out with Lay Sister Barbara, whose passage is taken on s.s. Prins Heinrich, to start on October 17. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE, Secretary, S.P.F.M.A. ST. PETER'S COMMUNITY FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION. JUNE, JULY, AUGUST RECEIPTS, Me, Her Gaskinen family . Hodi 6 M M .G Ron, Mis Ray (the lareli Bow Miss B, Neville Mia Hey the one castle 1; Geely, tit. Total, --Mr. Demakow. o. st. 4. Niss Turner, or Pusles: Mr. Yidd for T . Total, 2 . Total for three s , L .

St. Luke's hospital, Chemulpo.

EVER since the first arrival of the English Church Mission in Corea an especial effort has been made to meet the needs of the Coreans, in the matter of physical healing, in the hope that such work would bring its own reward in leading the people of the country to a knowledge of their need of a greater Physician, and in breaking down somewhat the barrier of prejudice which must exist between people of the East and West.

At first the work was begun in Seoul by Dr. Wiles, who gave his services to the Mission for two years. Then Dr. Baldock followed him, and for over ten years devoted himself to the work in Seoul, while first Miss Cooke, and then Miss Allen, who later married Dr. Baldock, took charge of a hospital for the women in the same place.

At the same time Dr. Landis began work in Chemulpó, and he was followed by Dr. Carden and Dr. Peake. At the end of 1903 it was felt that it was necessary, owing to lack of funds to carry on all the work, to make some rearrangement, and seeing that there was more need for the hospital in Chemulpó than in Seoul, especially after the erection of the new Severance Hospital, with its excellent accommodation and experienced staff, it was decided to put the buildings at Chemulpó into as good order as possible and throw all the available power into the work there. It has been possible to do this through the generosity of some friends of the Mission in Corea, among whom the late Bishop was the chief subscriber, and also to a still larger extent through the continued support given by Bishop Corfe's old friends in the Navy, who have from the beginning helped the hospital work with yearly subscriptions amounting to between 3,000 and 4,000 yen.

The following account of the opening ceremony has been sent us by a friend who was present :- Monday, the 12th inst., witnessed the formal opening of the English Church Mission Hospital in Chemulpó. The wards were opened for patients some little time ago, and work has been going on steadily since Dr. and Mrs. Weir came, but the whole building has only lately been completed. A very representative gathering assembled to witness the opening. Hospital work—perhaps because in it the Divine and Human most closely meet—is always near the heart of all people of whatsoever race or creed. But, be that as it may, one could not fail to admire the generosity of appreciation display the many friends who met on Monday last to give their good wishes for the success of the work.

The guests first assembled in the biggest ward (at present empty) and a service was held. Dr. Weir read a short passage from Ecclesiasticus, Mr. Bridle said a few prayers, a hymn wassung, and then the Right Rev. Bishop Turner, D.D., gave an address, taking for his subject a part of the former reading, "Let us now praise famous men . . . there be of them, that have left a name behind them," and referred principally to the two men who had begun this work in Chemulpó. Dr. Landis, who died at his post, after some years of good work, and of such sympathy with the Coreans that even now his name among them is a "house-hold word,” and Bishop Corfe, who has lately resigned his diocese, leaving it for a younger man to carry on his work, but who, with Dr. Landis, did the pioneering work--that work of self-abnegation which consists in making the stepping-stones which pave the way to the ultimate success of an undertaking. In memory of these two men "that have left a name behind them” the big wards in the hospital are named respectively "Landis" and "Corfe." Bishop Turner modestly refrained from making any remark about the future, but we need not be so reticent. The present Medical Staff consists of Dr. Weir, formerly House Physician of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London ; Mrs.   Weir, trained as Nurse at St. Bartholomew's, and a winner of the coveted gold medal, fully equipped to fulfil the duties of lady superintendent in actual fact as well as name : Miss Jephson as the Dispenser, and in the autumn a fully trained nurse is expected. With this staff one may feel confident that the good work now being done may receive additional impetus, and that the hospital will continue to be a blessing to Coreans and foreigners alike as in the past. Besides the two large wards for Corean men there are two small rooms for private patients (foreigners), a laboratory, a drug-room, a dispensary, in which Dr. Weir sees his many out-patients, and waiting-rooms for the said out-patients--one for women and one for men. The operation-room appeared to attract the guests, who went over the hospital after the ceremony, most of all. There is a curious morbid fascination about an operation-table, and in the instruments by which so many surgeons carve their way to fame and their patients to a renewed lease of life. After viewing the hospital the guests partook of refresh-ments and, for a time, the private part of the building in which they were entertained presented a gay and animated scene. But all too soon time inexorably reminded those who had come from Seoul that the train would wait for no one—not even those who would fain prolong a pleasant afternoon, and farewells were reluctantly spoken—the Chemulpó guests following those who came from Seoul. So all were gone : but we think there lingered behind, and will linger for ever as a blessing on the place, the memory of kind words and good wishes for the work now pro-ceeding—that work of healing which was especially sanctified by the Divine Physician, in whose Name it is being done here. —The Seoul Press Weekly. (Report for the second quarter, April to June, 1905.) THE noticeable event of the quarter has been the arrival of Miss Jephson, who has taken over the dispensing and is work-ing hard at the language. She had to wait some time in Shanghai for a ship, and, failing that, went to Japan and found her way in a small coasting vessel, arriving here in safety. Partly as the result of the work she has been able to do, and Partly on account of the natural growth of the work, the quarter has also been marked by a rise in the number of in-patients, and this has, by taking up more time in their treatment, prevented the increase of out-patients, which slightly greater familiarity with the language ought to have rendered likely. The figures for the quarter are :—Operations under anæsthe-tics : In-patients, 20; out-patients, 16; total, 36. Number of new cases: April, 328; May, 321; June, 391 ; total, 1,040. Number of attendances: April, 763: May, 725: June, 886; total, 2,374. Deaths among in-patients, 7. One European was an in-patient for over a month, and, in spite of all that could be done, died. Among the other deaths, two were from lockjaw and one from a broken back. Several of the operations were of a very serious nature.

The religious work is greatly hampered for want of a catechist. Mr. Bridle comes and talks to the men in the ward as much as he can, and Gospels, “ Pilgrim's Progress," and Mr. Law's hospital tract are in the ward and are a good deal read, but there is scope for most of one man's time. Besides this, evening prayers are read in the ward every day, and morning prayers, with a few words on a passage of Scripture, in the out-patient room in the morning. The Bible-woman also teaches such women as care to listen to her in the waiting-room, and several of these come to church on Sundays. But the little one can do makes one feel every day how much there is to be done. H. H. WEIR.

A Corean Christian Wedding. I THOUGHT, perhaps, you would like to hear a little about our first Christian wedding. One or two of our Christian boys have been married, but their wives have only been catechumens or inquirers, so this was really the first wedding where both were Christians. The bridegroom (Moses Kim) was educa ed in our Mission-school at Kangwha, and since then he has been working for the Mission in the city, learning the harmonium, playing at the services, teaching, and doing any work given him by the priest-in-charge. The bride (Lydia) is an orphan, and has been living with her future mother-in-law for eight years. It is the Corean custom in their rank of life for the daughter-in-law to go as a child to her mother-in-law and to be brought up by her. The marriage was fixed for January 26. As it was a quarterly meeting of their Guild, a great many Christians had assembled the day before. This fitted in very well, as it was very good for them to see what a Christian wedding was like. Marriage is only exceeded in importance by funerals in the opinion of Coreans, and in both ceremonies there are many superstitions. Mr. Badoock, taking advantage of the occasion, had instruct-tions given on marriage at both morning and evening prayers, so by the end of the day the people must have known more about Christian marriage than they had ever known before.

The bride and bridegroom are always very grandly dressed for the ceremony. It is the only occasion, I believe, on which a man who has no right to it may wear Court dress, so Moses wore a claret coloured silk coat with wide hanging sleeves, with a kind of breastplate of embroidery, and a black horse-hair cap of peculiar construction. The bride was dressed in a very bright collection of silk garments, her face much powdered, and on her head a funny little kind of cap. This was all truly Corean, but over it all she had a long white net veil coming far down at the back and front, so her face was covered.

This was, of course, necessary from a Corean point of view, as they stood in front of the chancel screen in full view of all the congregation. You know, of course, that the church is divided with a muslin curtain to within about six feet of the chancel screen, the men sitting on one side and the women on the other. During the Marriage Service the bride and bridegroom both behaved beautifully; they were very reverent, and quite free from any awkward self-consciousness. It is the custom for both to have their hands entirely covered with white silk, but in spite of the difficulty the giving of the ring and taking hands was quite successfully accomplished. A Corean woman always wears two rings, so the bride was married with two large silver rings. After that the bride and bridegroom moved up together into the chance for the last half of the service, and at the end, during the address, they came back to their places outside the chancel screen and sat side by side. Such a thing is so absolutely un-Corean that the quiet, dignified way in which they walked was to us rather remarkable. We had several hymns, in which all joined very heartily. After the service was over the bride was taken back to the house in the chair which had brought her up, attended by her husband. Everyone seems to have been very much impressed by the service, and several Christians said how they wished they could have been married in that way, and the parents of young families said when their children marry they must have that service. The Opening function of the Seoul-fusan Railway.

ALTHOUGH a railway in itself is a prosaic thing, the function attendant upon the opening of one in this eastern country of Corea was as brilliant and unique a ceremony in reality as the pageants described in the “Arabian Nights" were to our young imaginations. Entering the grounds under a triumphal arch flanked by two towers, all covered with green branches, one was struck with the daring but admirable mixture of colour in the varied decorations—an admixture which Westerners would never dream of attempting, but in which the colours were so skilfully blended that the whole effect was harmonious. On showing our tickets a packet of souvenirs was handed to each, and then we wended our way under flags and lanterns to the pavilion where the opening ceremony was to take place.

GENKILAL VIEW OF THE NEW STATION LOOKING NORTH.   Prince Fushimi, from Japan, and the Corean Prince Yi Chai Gak were, of course, the most prominent figures, and grouped behind them on the platform were the ministers of the various Legations, Japanese and Corean officials of rank, and a con-course of Japanese military officers in their gay uniforms, look-ing as gallant as their deeds have proved them to be. Among the many invited guests were Europeans of various nations, the men dressed as usual in their highly inartistic garb which seems likely, alas ! to be copied by all men, if one may judge from the hundreds of Japanese, and not a few Corean gentle-

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men, who have given up their far more graceful dress for it. The ladies wore their gayest apparel, but, pretty as some of the dresses were, none could vie with the dainty kimonas of the many Japanese ladies who were present. Another touch of Oriental style was given by the Chinese, their hats adorned with various buttons according to their rank, the grave simplicity but richness of whose dress adds much to their naturally dignified appearance.

After the speeches (which were in Japanese and Corean, with the exception of one by the American Minister) an excellent banquet was served to the guests in another pavilion, the tables being prettily decorated with artificial flowers, &c. The grounds were beautifully ornamented with strings of gay paper lanterns and flags, marvellous cherry trees covered with blossom-artificial, but looking extraordinarily real-fancy summer-houses, a miniature stream (the water being repre-sented by paper shavings) with groups of iris (artificial) grow-ing along the banks, and a tiny bridge spanning its dangerous torrent ! On the highest point in the grounds the excellent Corean band delighted the guests who wandered up there, and seats were placed under a canopy of wisteria facing the best LUNCHEON TENT AND A THEATE WITH DECORATIONS ADOVE-TAKEN FROM THE STATION LOOKING EAST. view. Continually, day fireworks were being let off, which seemed to interest the crowds of Coreans who were to be seen in white masses in the road below and on the hills around. There were several allegorical side-shows, in which, by means of stuffed figures, various dramatic scenes were represented. The most curious was the Union of Japan and Corea, in which two lay-figures (the Japanese in European clothes, the Corean in his own dress), both wearing white cotton gloves, were to be seen in the act of shaking hands--neither, to judge by their faces, with the enthusiasm which they were supposed to be entertaining. On a stage in another part of the ground was a company of conjurors; but magicians' tricks being apparently the same all the world over, their embroidered dresses attracted more attention than their performance. Undoubtedly the best entertainment was that of the "No dancers.” This theatrical company came from Tokyo, and was one of the best that city could produce. They acted several short pieces. The comedy one could easily follow, despite the strangeness of the language. The tragedies and representations of old legendary stories were most unique and weird. The actors were dressed in the ancient style of Court dress-priceless brocades and embroideries None of them walked; they glided with ghostly glides about the stage, their faces often portraying such intense tragedy that the feelings of an audience could not fail to be stirred to their lowest depths-to the very verge of tears, indeed-or laughter, according to the temperament worked upon, so closely does bathos wait on pathos! None of them spoke or sang; they wailed, in a heartrending way, reminding one of the sorrows depicted nightly by gentle quadrupeds who have not been fed on Nestle's milk. The musicians and their instruments were as weird as the actors, and managed to convey a depth of woe unapproachable by any Western orchestra.

One can only say in conclusion that if the Seoul-Fusan Railway is made half as comfortable and entertaining to its passengers as the opening ceremony was to its guests, it will be the most popular railroad in the world--The Seoul Press Weekly.

Statement of Accounts, 1904. The following accounts, which were originally intended to be printed in the form of an annual report, have been unavoidably delayed owing to the difficulty of communicating with the Bishop when on his return voyage to Corea. It was hoped to be able to print with them a report from the Bishop him-self ; but as this has not been possible, it has been decided to include them in the October issue of Morning Calm in the hope that they will thus meet the eyes of the members of the various associations who usually receive the Annual Report.  

The Spirit of missions.

"THE first report of the new Missionary Society, started by the Tinnevelly Church, relates the dismissal of its first mis-sionary, who has gone to the Mohammedan State of Hydera-bad, and is learning a new language (Telegu) in which to preach the Gospel. A fine hall for meetings, holding 3,000 people, has been built at Palamcotta by the Tamil Christians in commemoration of the C.M.S. Centenary. A still happier memorial is the increased spiritual life of the Madras congre-gations. Bishop Whitehead told their Tamil pastor that the Church in Madras stands for two principles--self-help and the priesthood of the laity. His own journal of his visitation of the Telegu Mission presents a striking picture of an expanding work, and concludes by saying that the tour had given abun-dant reason to ‘thank God and take courage.' Illustrations occur in the reports of the estimation in which leading Chris-tian laymen are held. . . . A Sikh farmer in the Punjaub remarked that while ninety-nine out of every hundred non-Christian officials were takers of bribes, the proportion of Christian native judges was just the reverse. Such a remark justifies the new Punjaub Church Council just started, in which, on an entirely new plan, Indians are now combined with Englishmen in the administration of the Mission."-(C.M. Report.)   SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY MISSION.--" The work of this Mission is better known than that of the Cyclist Mission, but is alike an effort of ‘sanctified common sense,’ to use new ways of locomotion in order to carry the Gospel message to our own countrymen in lonely places. The Rev. J. H. Warner has been working both in Cape Colony and the Transvaal, but in the future he hopes to concentrate his work more entirely in the latter. ‘Spiritual work' (he says) ' in this new Colony is in many ways difficult and disheartening. There is an intense prevalence of materialism; the one object with which the great majority come to this country is to "get on" (get rich), and return home as soon as may be. Men of this type are naturally selfish, and absorbed in selfish aims. As compared with that generally prevailing in England, the standard of morality out here is low, Sunday is a day of recreation, of cricket, football, or shooting, rather than a day of worship. The whites are bitterly prejudiced against missionary work among native races, and the prejudice when analysed is seen to be the result of purely selfish ways of looking at things. Intemperance is, I think, at least as common as at home. Left often for a long period or altogether without services or ministrations, people have lost their sense of the need of them, and are fitful and careless in church attendance. But given men on whom God has put His Spirit, given earnest, large-hearted, great-hearted men, this country can and will be won for Christ. The average colonial will have nothing to do with namby-pamby men, but he does respect a man who is what he professes to be, who is not afraid to endure hardships, who has strong convictions and lives up to his convictions. Are there no such men to be found at home, ready to give some part of their life to the work of building up a Christian Empire in this country which has so great a future before it?'"-(Greater Britain Messenger.)

CYCLIST MISSIONARIES IN QUEENSLAND BACK-BLOCKS,-- The following extracts are from the Report of the Bishop of North Queensland :--'One of my great aims in North Queens -land has been to break down the isolation of the clergy. . . . When clergymen have been left at the outposts of civilisation, where for two years at a time they have seen no brother clergyman, is it surprising that some have fallen to the level of their surroundings ? With this in my mind, I have en-deavoured to draw them into centres whence they can go to their work, and whither they can return for society, encourage-ment, and prayer. The addition of a few hundred miles to a missionary journey of thousands of miles in the year is fully compensated by the increase of spiritual strength.' . . . The Bishop goes on to describe the working of his missionary bicycle corps, who are sent out two and two from these centres, and says, ‘Even if isolated settlers are some miles off the main track, a talk is had with them, prayers said, and the Bible read. If there are children, they are taught to pray, many of them, alas ! not even knowing what it was to say a prayer. Perhaps more good is done in this way than in any other. Bibles, Prayer-books are given away. . . . That the people value our work is beyond question. They beg us to teach the children about God, and many ride ten and twelve miles to the different centres solely for the service. That our work requires patience and perseverance is also beyond question. Perhaps two days travelling for the sake of one isolated family, and so little can be done when it is reached. But these isolated sheep are of our own household, and have a claim on us that they should not continue in ignorance (often absolute) of the God Who made them and the Saviour Who died for them. No one else cares for their souls.'"-(Greater Britain Messenger.)

MISSIONS TO MOHAMMEDANS-The governor of a certain province in the British Empire, who is described as an earnest Christian Englishman, said to Canon Robinson: "If you will only organise Missions to the heathen in my province instead of attempting to convert Mohammedans I will do everything in my power to further and support them, but I cannot approve or allow, at any rate at present, the opening of a Mission to the Mohammedans." An interesting article in The East and The West discusses this objection. Some people who object to this form of missionary work do so on the ground that we are not justified in neglecting the heathen, who are totally without the knowledge of God, in order to send missionaries to those who are at any rate, however imperfectly, worshippers of the true God. Canon Robinson first of all appeals to the example of St. Paul, who, instead of going to the entirely savage tribes of Northern and Central Europe, went to those who had in their midst such really noble teachers as Seneca and Epictetus. We believe that he was entirely right in going to the cultured people of Greece and Rome and the coast towns of Asia Minor, and working through them on those who were further from the truth. Other people say that Missions to Mohammedans have been carried on for several years past without producing any   level of civilisation prevailing among the Mohammedans of North Africa, Turkey, or Western Asia. But before the advent of Islam these countries were Christian, and have been for centuries in contact with civilization. . . . If we look at Arabia, where for centuries Islam has exercised an entirely undisturbed influence, we can judge better than anywhere else what the influence of Islam really is. Palgrave, who spent the greater part of his life entirely among Mohammedans, and who was so far sympathy with them that on more than one occasion he conducted service in their mosques, gives it as his opinion that the Arabs of Mecca and Medina--the two cities visited by pilgrims--are notorious, above all other Arabs, for their evil living." After referring to the decreasing hold which Islam has upon Arabia, he says : "When the Koran and Mecca shall have disappeared from Arabia, then, and then only, can we expect to see the Arab assume that place in the ranks of civilisation from which Mohammed and his book have for long held him back." - The East and The West. IN JAPAN. --Soldiers leaving for the front have begged for Gospels to carry with them, saying they know that only the God of the Christians can give peace in death. And that peace some have found. One who started careless, but read his Gospel afterwards, fell mortally wounded before the Russian entrenchments, saying to a Christian soldier who crept to him to bind up his wounds, "Don't mind me, I have believed in Jesus Christ.

"FROM CHINA come manifold evidences of the awakening, at last, of that most conservative of all nations. Bishop Hoare, after a recent visitation of a portion of Fuh-kien, wrote : ‘I have returned full of thankfulness to God for what He is doing there. . . . The large numbers and increased earnestness of the candidates for confirmation (over one thousand at some thirty centres), the number and well-attested qualifica-tions of the candidates for Holy Orders, the solidity of the work done by the native pastors, the growth of the spirit of self-support and self-government-all are a manifest witness that the Holy Spirit is working with power in the Church.' The great city of Kien-ning Fu was famous a few years ago for resisting all attempts at evangelisation, and for its bitter persecutions In that city there are now 300 Christians, and Bishop Hoare held in it last year confirmations at five centres and an ordina-tion."-(C.M. Report.)   THE ENLISTMENT OF NATIVE CHRISTIANS IN THE INDIAN ARMY.-The Indian Government has arrived at an interesting decision, that of adding a company of native Christians to each of the twelve Madras regiments. According to the last census, there are 983,000 native Christians in the Madras Presidency, so that there will be a large number of soldiers from whom to make a selection. "We welcome the decision," says East and West," for two reasons: first, because, as was the case in the days of the Roman Empire, there is every reason to expect that Christian Indian soldiers will prove even more loyal, courageous, and efficient than their heathen fellow-countrymen ; and, secondly, because it will be no small help to the Christian natives themselves to be brought together in this way. We trust that the Government will make provision for the worship of these Christian soldiers to the same extent that it makes provision for the worship of Hindus and Mohammedans."

NEW GUINEA.--"We have often looked on New Guinea as the Mission in all the world where there were the most opportunities for martyrdom, and especially for the slow martyrdom which comes from hard work in a very bad climate and amidst conditions which only very faithful Christians will accept. How refreshing then is it to meet with the following words of thankfulness: 'We have often asked for the prayers of our friends that God would put it into the hearts of the people to contribute liberally for the Bishopric endowment. May we now ask them to add their humble and hearty thanks for His answer to our prayers. . . . We wish to point out clearly that the next annual meeting is not to be like the one last year, at which we had to plead very urgently for funds. This year we want our friends to come and rejoice with us. . . . Already in twelve years, eight of the Mission staff have proved faithful unto death'--viz. two clergy, two laymen, three South Sea Islanders, and one of the Mission nurses. This we believe is the seed which the Lord hath blessed." -- (Occasional Leaflet.) A MISSIONARY LESSON FROM CANADA.--“Associated with the missionary command is the promise of Christ's perpetual presence with His Church. It is well to emphasise this often. . . . When the clergynian desires to increase attendance at the House of God there is a great temptation to do so by adding the features of a concert to the worship of God. We need to be reminded that Church life does not depend on oratory, or music, or cushioned pews, but that the measure of Christ's Presence in the Church depends first of all upon our interest and activity in the expansion of the Gospel throughout the world. The world, the whole world is the field of Jesus. . . . We remember that the first disciples were filled with a holy ardour and went forth with the power of God and in the might of His Spirit, and they faced, not a broken and effete civilisa-tion, but all the strength and greatness of Pagan Rome. . . . In our British Empire we have exceptional opportunities for missionary enterprise. Amongst our four hundred millions of fellow citizens there are savages whose religion is mere supersti-tion and fetish worship ; there are Buddhists whose religious precepts, excellent in many respects, lead only to self-efface-ment and Nirvana ; there are Mohammedans whose religion has been propagated by the sword, and whose moral ideas are lacking in tone and purity ; and there are the Jews, most Interesting of all, who gave us our Lord, and who crucified Him. All these and many more are our fellow-citizens in this great Empire. No people has received greater privileges than the Anglo-Celtic race, and none have a greater burden of respon-sibility laid upon them, and that responsibility is placed at our very door. . . . The day is coming when men will believe in a larger evangelicalism, and that the work of the Christian religion is not so much to promote soul-saving as to save others. Reaching out after others is the ideal of the Lord Jesus Christ, for Christianity is a religion of unselfishness, of brotherhood, and it is worked out in the word Love.”—(Rev. T. G. Wallace Rector of Oakville, Ontario, in New Era)

TELEGU MISSIONS---One of the Cowley Fathers paid a visit to Nandyal, where a great movement towards Christianity is taking place. “The work," he says, "is on a far larger scale than ours, yet Mr. Inman is the only European worker. Besides all the work on the spot, he has to look after about torty villages. Of course, it is far too much for any one man, yet he seems to have a wonderful grasp of it. . . . I have asked him about the movement towards Christianity, which is being so much talked about. He expresses himself very carefully about it. The numbers affected have been somewhat over-stated, but he has admitted about 3.000 catechumens in the last twelve months. . . . He thinks that this is the result of many years' labour which some hidden cause has fructified. . . . I should think Mr. Inman more likely to err on the side of caution than the opposite, but he tells me that he has often bap-tized forty at a time, day after day, up to more than 100. . . . So the work goes on. I know that many people would call it exaggeration, false optimism, &c., but I really do not think it is too much to say that India is practically won. When once we get beyond individual conversions, and whole communities take to coming in, the end must come. Of course, in the slow moving East it may take generations to come, and we must not only not relax, but rather re-double our efforts to bring it to pass. Nevertheless, there can be no doubt that it is merely a question of time for India to submit to Christ."-(Cowley Evangelist.)

MISSION OF HELP TO SOUTH AFRICA.--In the last number of East and West we are allowed to see behind the scenes, and to learn what this Mission meant, the ideals and plans of the missioners, and to a certain extent what it has accomplished. In the first place we are told that after peace was restored, the feeling of England towards South Africa was entirely changed. It had become a part of the Empire, and the responsibility of its national and spiritual life was ours. The Church out there, always a struggling one, was weakened, exhausted, imperfectly equipped. It occurred to the Bishop of St. Andrews that now was the time when England could be a very real help to her daughter Church, and very soon be received an invitation from the Archbishop of Capetown and the Bishops of South Africa to undertake this work. He himself paid a visit to South Africa, to judge of the readiness of the Church for such a venture, and on his return gathered a band of forty men, who met for the first time in December 1903 for prayer and conference in Westminster Abbey. Again they met at the Abbey in April of the following year to receive the Holy Communion together before starting. They were divided into two groups, one undertaking Grahamstown, St. John's, Kaffraria ; and the other Natal, Zululand and Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Mashonaland. A remarkable welcome was given to the missioners from the very first, and not only by Church people. They were prayed for in the chapels, and all who loved the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, and were keen for the uplifting of their country, showed interest in the work. The methods adopted were rather different to those commonly used in Missions in England, and the missioners, who were too ignorant of the conditions of life out there to know how far ordinary plans would succeed, had one simple aim before them, that of bringing home to the hearts of the people that God took a practical interest in their lives, and claimed their allegiance by the surrender of their wills to the dictates of His Holy Spirit. They belonged to different schools of thought in the Church, and tried to keep before them the one ideal of bringing the Gospel in its simple power to South Africa. Their preaching seemed to touch many who would not have been moved by ordinary revivals, because there was time and power to go more deeply into spiritual difficulties. The writer (himself one of the missioners), after describing the remarkable welcome given to them, accounts for it by saying, "Here were men come out to the struggling Church in South Africa, not to criticise, but to sympathise, to stir, to encourage, to inspire, to help. Thus it was that laymen as well as clergy were on the look-out for a definite spiritual gift which should sanctify and interpret life, and bring God into it. Governors, mayors, magistrates, men of business, threw themselves into it, and much gratitude was expressed by such men for the way in which the Mission had supported what they all along are struggling to produce, a strong religious and moral foundation for social and religious life to be built on." . . . Although the Mission was primarily to our own colonists, it did something to change the feeling of antagonism between white men and natives, as it helped the white men to understand that there can be no Christianity which says that God sent His Son to die for us, but that there is no necessity to preach the Gospel to the native. . . Also the native will judge of Christianity by the standard of the white man who professes it. Once for all the Mission proved that it was possible that the Church of England, the Mother Church, can meet the spiritual needs of her children, and not only meet them, but do so in a way more effectively than any other religious body, if she will present to them the faith in that true proportion which appeals to the spiritual needs of men and makes Faith reasonable.

FROM THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH.--"Australia (says the Bishop of Rockhampton) is doubtless a land of great expecta-tions, and in this sense a land of promise, both materially and spiritually, but while still tramping on, heart-sore and footsore, in the desert of needful discipline, we are apt at times to grow dim-visaged and despondent when, mirage like, our hope of a ‘better country’ is again and again deferred, and the heart made sick. . . . So surely as this great island continent contains within itself almost boundless store of material wealth capable of untold development, if only the people of the Commonwealth are true to themselves and their heritage, so will the Church of Christ go forward in the fulness of her strength, and from the seed which we now sow in tears, there will come a golden harvest to enrich the nation, and multiply its joy--it may be, long after we have been gathered to our fathers." --(Australian Busk Leaves.)

Notes. MISS MAUDE RICE, who has been trained at King's College Hospital, left England on August 22 to take up work in the Hospital of St. Luke, Chemulpó, under Dr. Weir. Lay Sister Barbara, as noted elsewhere, will leave on October 18 in the Prins Heinrich to return to the Mission Home of St. Peter in Seoul. "The Rev. F. Wilson, who, after receiving his training at St. Augustine's, Canterbury, was ordained Deacon by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury on Trinity Sunday, proceeds very shortly to take up work in Corea.

We earnestly commend these travellers to the prayers of our readers, both on their journey and in the work which lies before them. Bishop Corfe, who has been staying with Bishop Scott in North China, has accepted the invitation of the Admiral to make his journey home on H.M.S. Glory, and may be expected to reach England about the time when this issue of Morning Calm is published.