Morning Calm v.18 no.113(1907 Jul.)

The Bishop's Letters.Ⅰ.

CHONG DONG: SEOUL, COREA MY DEAR FRIENDS, -

There is one thing about which I have long meant to write to you, but I have hesitated to do so, for whenever I try to put my thoughts on paper I find that there are always reservations that I wish to make, so that it is difficult to make you understand clearly the condition of affairs.

The matter I have in my mind is the occupation of Corea by the Japanese. As to whether they were justified in equity in doing as they have done, everyone, I think, must feel somewhat doubtful, and some people feel very strongly that they had no justification whatever. But there are many who feel that whether they were justified or not, it was nevertheless absolutely necessary for them as a matter of self-preservation that they should obtain supreme power in the country, to prevent the Corean Government from intriguing with countries hostile to Japan in the future.

Anyway, what we have to deal with is the actual facts of the case rather than the right and wrong of it, for we can do nothing to set things right if they are wrong. The fact is, that the Japanese are here and mean to stay here, and we have to consider how far that is prejudicial to us and our work, and also how far we can help to make the new condition of things bearable to the Coreans. As to the first point, I think we have little to fear. The Japanese in their own country do not interfere with the work of missions so long as their representatives are careful to observe the laws of the land, and I feel sure it will be the same in Corea; and, further, I have been assured by the leading men among them that they are only too glad to welcome any efforts made by foreigners to educate the people and to forward the development of the country in any way, and I believe that they mean what they say. So that I have no fear as to the effect of the Japanese occupation on our work from the point of view of the Japanese themselves, or, at any rate, of their leaders.

But when we come to consider the effect on our work from the Corean side, I feel we are on more debatable ground. One effect we all recognise is that it has made the people generally more anxious to enter the Church. On all sides during the last year one hears the same story of numbers of men who formerly held aloof from Christianity now pouring into the Church and demanding admission. One feels thankful that it is so, and that the sufferings of the people (and they have suffered and are suffering severely from the occupation of their country by their ancient enemies) have led them to seek for help from Him who alone can help individuals or nations in times of adversity; and one realises how great an opportunity is given us now which may never occur again, and how great is the responsibility laid upon us.

But at the same time we see that there are dangers which are inseparable from such a movement. Many of those who come in are entirely ignorant of the meaning of Christianity, and how are the few men in Corea who really know to teach so many? I feel this especially in our own case. For instance, what can Mr. Bridle do in the neighbourhood of Sou Won with hundreds of inquirers and no really adequate assistants? Mr. Gurney, too, in his journeys in the country to the south-east of Seoul, finds the same problem facing him with even greater difficulties. The Methodist Episcopal missionaries tell me that their numbers have increased this last two years from ten to twenty thousand. Who is equal to these things? We who are out here will do what we can. Can you not send us some men to help us in Our need?

And then there is another danger, and that is that many seem to think that is only they become Christians that is all that is necessary to save their country from the oppression of the Japanese, and it is hard to prove to them that this is not 50. They do not see that much more is wanted than the mere acceptance of the faith. There is the gradual growth in character which can alone give them the power they require to govern themselves. Christianity will not act as a charm. It is a power, indeed, that works for the salvation of a country or an individual, but it is a power that must be, and can be, only developed slowly. And even then, may it not be that it is God's will that this nation shall do the work He has for it to do in the economy of the world through and in subjection to another nation?. It is difficult to put before our people fully and clearly all that Christianity does and does not mean, and to protect them from false ideas which may lead to serious difficulties in the future history of the Church. May God guide us in the work we are trying to do for Him.

One thing that has struck me very forcibly in the last few months has been the growth of the national idea among the Coreans. Nothing could have brought it out as the late troubles have done. To give you an instance. The Japanese forced upon the country a loan of some £1,000,000. This was really needed for the development of the country, and the only criticism of the Japanese has been on two points. First, the way in which the money was obtained from Japan, and, secondly, the way in which it is being spent. But the Coreans felt that it was a disgrace to the country, and that if it was not paid back the Japanese would take advantage of the debt to claim all sorts of imaginary advantages in addition to what they have already, so they determined to set to work and collect money to repay this debt. They have collected a large sum, stated to be about £300,000. But it is not the amount collected that has surprised us all : it is the unanimity with which Coreans of all classes have worked together to subscribe. Women have sold their personal ornaments and sent in the money, others have cut off their hair and sold it. Men have refused to smoke, especially Japanese cigarettes, and the savings have gone in to swell the amount. In some places it has amounted to a boycott of Japanese goods. If the object of this movement is unobtainable, the spirit which has made such a national project possible is in all ways admirable, and it gives one greater hopes for Corea than anything that has happened before. Cliques and parties and divisions have heretofore been rife, but they are gradually being welded into one by the force of trouble.

In the last ten years we have seen a great growth in the national idea, a great increase in the spirit of independence, a wonderful drawing of men of all classes to the Church of Christ -what will the next ten years show us? One hardly dares to hope for the freedom of the country from foreign rule; but I think we may look for a still greater increase of patriotism and of religion, the two working hand in hand, and from such roots what great tree may not grow?

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

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CHONG DONG, SEOUL, COREA MY DEAR FRIENDS, -

A few months ago we had to be thankful for the safe arrival of the Sisters, and now we have to thank God for sending us three more ladies for our work. You knew they were coming ; you knew how much we needed their help. Now they are here, and you will rejoice with us. There is, of course, little to say about them at present. Miss Lillingston has settled down with the Weirs and Miss Rice at Chemulpo, and you can think of her as distributing medicines to people who cannot understand her and whom she cannot understand. If you like to use your imagination you may think of her as forcing the same down the throats of unwilling patients, who think she is going to poison them, but I do not say it will be a true picture. Miss Elrington and Miss Grosjean, after some weeks with the Sisters, are in their own home at last, and though it is not completely furnished or very palatial, they profess themselves as satisfied. They are hard at work on the language, and from what I hear are making progress, but festina lente is a good proverb to remember in Italy or England or Corea.

Talking of houses and palaces, I do not know whether our naval guest would not call the ladies' residence a "hut." I will try and send you for next Morning Calm a photograph of the huts in which Mr. Gurney and I live, and will leave you to judge whether you agree with him or not. Anyway, I hope you will not consider that we are at all uncomfortable or unhappy in them, whatever name they may go by. They are both most comfortable if not extremely commodious or quite so palatial as Lambeth Palace, but there is one comfort about them, they are not so expensive to keep up. I think, seeing the cost and trouble incident on a big building, that we are happier in a house that will accommodate us without overcrowding so long as we can put up a friend at a pinch.

I have been writing the Local Notes and have put into them all my thoughts and all that I have to say to you this time, so I will leave off and refer you to them for any news of the Mission. Only one thing I must say. I told you some months ago that Mr. Badcock would be leaving us this summer to go home and take care of his father and mother in their old age. Now you will grieve to hear that he has lost his father, and all the more does he feel the claim of his one remaining parent that he may do all he can to comfort her last days on earth. How sorry we are to lose him I need not say. We shall miss him at every turn, and it will be with real grief that his people in Kangwha will say "good-bye" to him; but we have the memory of his uncomplaining bearing of a good deal of bodily weakness and of his steady perseverance, first in the study of the language of which he has got so strong a grip, and then in the management of the printing press, and above all, in his careful and patient instruction of his people in spite of many difficulties and discouragements. May God's blessing go with him and keep him safe and bring him back to us. Thinking of our friends out of Corea reminds me that I have had several letters from Mr. Laws in Philadelphia, where he is hard and happily at work studying in the hospital and medical college. Only a year before he rejoins us, but a year seems a long time to look forward to. He hopes to be home this summer, so perhaps some of you will see him and hear something of his experience.

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

Bishop Corfe's Memorial.

WHEN Bishop Corfe resigned the Bishopric and went to England, his friends in Corea felt that they would wish some memorial of his work and life in Corea to be put in the church in Seoul, and a meeting was held, at which it was decided to put a font in the Church of the Advent to his memory. Up to the present we have always used a Corean brass bowl at our baptisms, but we have realised that no church is complete without the proper and decent font in which our children may be admitted into Christ's Church by the washing of regeneration. The order was immediately sent to Chefoo, and the Chinese stone mason undertook to make a copy of the font in St. Andrew's Church there. After long delays it arrived, and was put up in the church just in time for it to be dedicated to the service of God on Christmas Day. It is made of white marble, hexagonal, with carving in the panels, simple as he in whose memory it is erected would wish, but such as no one would feel was in any way unfit for the purpose for which it was made. Already one of our flock has been baptized in it. Edward Morris Hewlett, the infant son of the Assistant at the Consulate, was the first to be there received into Christ's flock. We pray that he may be a faithful member of the same till his life's end. Bishop Corfe has returned to England, and all the friends of the Mission will be glad to hear that he is prepared to devote himself to stimulating the work of the Mission in England. He is ready to speak and preach anywhere and everywhere, and those who know his untiring energy, which is still undiminished, will, we are sure, be glad to avail themselves of his assistance. We may add that he is undertaking this work by the special invitation of Bishop Turner. Letters addressed to the Church House, Westminster, will find him at any time.

Association of Prayer and Work for Corea.

WILL all Secretaries please notice the change of address of Miss Merriman who sends out the Quarterly Intercession Papers; it is now 23 Weighton Road, Anerley. Miss Eva Prosser has very kindly undertaken the work of Local Seeretary for Bromley. Miss E. S. Trollope has given up being Secretary for Surbiton; and we are sorry that, owing to the death of Minor Canon Taylor and to press of other duties, Mrs. Taylor feels obliged to give up her work as County and Local Secretary for Hereford. We can only assure her of our sympathy and thank her for all the work she has done for the Association in the past. Mrs. Rudge, the Bassett Secretary, has been very ill for some months, and has not been able to hold her Annual Sale for Corea Over £6 has already been made at other sales by work which she had collected. In Bournemouth, at the North China and Japan Annual Sale, a stall was held for Corea which realised over £8 The Bath Sale of Work, postponed from April, will take place on Thursday, October 10, and any contributions will be gratefully received by the Local Secretary. We are glad to notice that Corea is to have its recognised place in the St. Alban's (South Norwood) Missionary Guild, which has just been set in working Order.

The Annual Meeting of the Missions of the Church in the Far East, North China, Japan and Corea, was held in the Church House, Westminster, on Tuesday, June 4. It was a most interesting meeting, and we only wish that more members of the Association could have been present. We tried to arrange a conference of Secretaries before the meeting, thinking it would be of great help and interest to discuss various matters, but as only five Secretaries could be sure of being present, it had to be postponed. Miss Trollope has received a nice parcel of work from Miss Duval's Lent Working Party at Beckenham for the Corea Stall at the Annual St. Peter's Sale in November; we hope others are also working to furnish us with a supply of plain clothing for women and men for which there is always a large demand. The Committee of Women's Work, S.P.G., have heard from Miss Elrington that she and the other ladies who have gone to Corea were already beginning Japanese, and they hoped to be settled in their own house in Seoul soon after Easter. On their arrival they were entertained by Sister Nora as their own quarters were not ready. GERTRUDE M. SECCOMBE.

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

MY DEAR CHILDREN - How nice it is to see quite a long list of names at the end of this letter and to know that I have thirty-five more little friends to write to than I had three months ago, and this means something better still - that there are thirty-five more friends for Corea. Some of you live in New Brighton, some in Exeter, some in Swindon, and others in Great Berkhamstead, and this last name I write with special joy, because we have never had any Children Members there before, and I hope that the sixteen I am now writing to will form the beginning of a very strong hand of workers for the Church of Christ abroad. What a help it ought to be to us all, as we say our little Missionary Prayer each day, to think how many others are doing the same! I want to say thank you to Leslie for having sent money for the Children's Fund all the way from America, to Mary, who never forgets to help Corea whenever she can, and to all the children at Harvington who have remembered to put their pennies into the Sunday School box. If you look at the picture of the orphans that I sent you in January you will see a little girl called Anna standing in the front row. I have just heard that she died not long ago. She has never been at all strong, so we can only feel glad for her sake that she has been taken home. She was often not well enough to be with the other child in the orphanage, but she was allowed to join them whenever she liked, and then they were always so good to her and so gentle. Rhoda is especially fond of the orphanage dog, whose name is Horange, but she was never quite sure whether Anna liked him much, and so she never let the dog bother her. Whenever she saw Horange going too near to Anna she used to move him, and very often she caught hold of his tail with her fat hands and pulled him away. When any visitors came to the orphanage it was always a great treat to little Anna to be nursed by them. Since she died another little girl has been baptized by the same name. Perhaps we shall hear more of her another day. Good-bye, dear Children, Always your affectionate Friend, MAUD I FALWASSER. Ashurst, Winchester: June, 1907.

ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL, CHEMULPO.

Annual Report for the year 1906. LAST year the fact was mentioned in the report of the hospital that the year then beginning would be the first year in which the work was carried on with the full staff of foreigners. That is now completed, and work has accordingly been for the first time of the kind which it may be expected to be in the future. There have been, however, a good many changes among the Coreans, which have resulted in improving the general tone of the whole hospital, and making it a great deal more Christian than it used to be. The first of these changes took place just after the Corean new year, when it was found necessary to discharge one of the two boys who had been working in the hospital in Seoul, and were taken on in Chemulpo when St. Matthew's was closed. His place was filled by a man who had before had some experience as a catechist, and who, being a rather older man, might have some influence in preventing the others from getting into mischief. His name is John Choi. During the year he has not only got on very well with the hospital work, but has proved most useful in the religious work and teaching the Christians and catechumens as well. During the spring it became evident that the third boy, who had been taken on in the hospital from among the patients the year before, would never become really useful, and it was decided to get rid of him. A young Christian from Kangwha, about twenty years old, was put in his place, and this boy-David-has quickly learnt the work, and though of course he does not as yet know as much as he might, he appears likely to make good progress, and if it is possible in the future to give the boy a little instruction in medical science he should prove a very efficient worker in the hospital. Towards the end of the year a third change became necessary, and this one, which was much regretted, has deprived the hospital of the services of the last of the old staff. Up to the present his place has not been filled, as the work has not been very heavy, and it was thought desirable to wait until after the Corean new year. The statistics for the year have not been quite as large as the year before, except in the average number of beds occupied daily. This particular figure causes some anxiety, as it is the one which uses most money, and its increase being so marked in a year when all the others are slightly smaller indicates a probable increase of expenditure in the future which, if it occurs, will tax the resources of the hospital very severely indeed. The slight reduction in the figures for out-patients, operations, and in-patients admitted, is probably accounted for by the fact that the year was a very healthy one, both among Coreans and foreigners, but it may be that the many Japanese chemists and doctors who are now coming into the country are helping to treat some of the Coreans. Certainly a number of those who come to the hospital have been to a Japanese first, but in many cases this is because they have been working for a Japanese, and he has taken them for treatment to one of his own people. It does not follow from this that there is any less need for medical work among the Coreans, as the Japanese to whom they go are often only owners of druggists' shops, and not only charge prices which are too great for a Corean to pay for long, but do not know enough to deal with anything at all serious. The fall in the number of operations is partly due to the difficulty of giving up afternoons to them when preparation has to be made for services and classes. On the other hand, the increase already referred to in the average number of beds full every day, in spite of the comparatively healthy year, is caused by the extremely long stay of chronic cases, some of whom might almost be called permanent residents, so long have they been in hospital. These patients form a problem of management, as the expense they give the hospital is very considerable, and it does not seem possible to dispose of them in any way. If they were not in hospital they would have to go to their homes, often very far away, and could not possibly get the necessary dressing, so that the whole benefit of their stay in hospital would be thrown away; and the only thing is to keep them, even though they cost much both in food and dressings, and are rarely able to pay anything in the way of fees. These patients are likely to still further increase in number as time goes on, and the increased expenditure on food this year is really due to the fact that they have been accumulating since last year. The question of finance has been giving a good deal of anxiety, as it became evident early in the year that there would be a deficit, though how great was of course uncertain. Now that the full foreign staff is at work their salaries take up a good deal of the available funds of the medical work, and this, coupled with a considerable rise in prices and in the increase of in-patients, required a sum greater than the estimates for the year allowed. Fortunately there was a small balance in hand, but this would not have proved enough had not the kindness of friends in Corea contributed a sum of nearly ₤70 in response to an appeal made by the Bishop. Thanks to this sum the accounts show still a small balance, but a bill for drugs and dressings, amounting to £25, has since had to be paid, so that had this been received earlier there would have been quite a considerable deficit. On the other hand, the stock of drugs now in hand is such that it should not require much addition this year, and this will make it easier to make both ends meet. There has been no expenditure on building during the year, as it has been impossible to get the land promised for a women's ward properly transferred as yet, and consequently female in-patients have to be still put in the small Corean room which was formerly used. Very few foreigners have been in hospital during the year, and most of these were members of the Mission-a clear demonstration of the fact that the hospital is, if nothing else, of very real value to the work in general. Out of the very small staff of the Mission no fewer than four have spent from a week to a month as in-patients, and they have benefited even more by the rest than by the treatment. Turning to the religious work, the most striking advance is due to the change in the Corean staff. The two hospital boys are now both Christians, with the result that there is an entirely different atmosphere about the place. Though they do not know as much as the old boys they are a good deal more reliable, and can be trusted to treat the patients with more kindness than their predecessors could. Not only so, but both teach to some extent, and the patients have the truths of Christianity and the fact that the hospital is a Mission hospital brought much more before them. Every morning after the doors are opened John Choi reads, sells books, and talks to the out patients until prayers, and for a short time afterwards while the wards are being visited. Prayers are the same as before, and consist of a few short prayers read altogether out of a book, and accompanied by some explanation. In addition to this there are prayers in the wards every afternoon taken by one of the Christians, and generally including some exposition, and both John and David often read with the patients who have Gospels and other religious books available. The results are not very great, but there has been some encouragement, and if more force and more time could be given to this work they ought to be greater. Two boys among the patients have been admitted catechumens, and one man, who first came to the hospital for nothing more terrible than a corn on the sole of his foot, has also been admitted, and shows promise of becoming an excellent Christian, The woman who was mentioned last year as having been brought in through the hospital, has just been baptized, and her husband, who has also been a patient, and their two little boys have been made catechumens. In a Mission hospital the bond between the hospital and the church should be very close, but the work is certainly hindered when the regular services have to be taken by the doctor, and the pastoral work done by him, even in part, as it is bound to prevent him from doing as much in the hospital as would be desirable, and tends to let the Christian workers who are under him get slack in their teaching. In this case it is quite a necessity, and the work of trying to help on those who do know something, and are anxious to know more about Christianity, is much more important than any efforts of a foreigner to interest in religion those of another tongue who do not care. If those who do wish to serve our Master can be taught more of Him they will do far more to make the hospital a means of spreading the Gospel than the foreigners could ever do, even if they did no medical work at all. Chemulpo is not an easy place for Mission work and progress is slow, but there has been some made this year, and it is progress which ought to increase by geometrical progression, so that the future is full of hope. H. H. WEIR.

Hospital Naval Fund.

St. Luke's Hospital, January to March 1907. The most interesting point to record for the first quarter of the year is finance. Contrary to expectation, the quarter has closed with a substantial balance amounting to yen 230, which is certainly satisfactory as far as it goes, but must not be regarded as meaning that less effort will be needed in the future, as a very little explanation will show. A number of causes have combined to temporarily reduce expenses, and at the same time the local receipts have had an increase, also, alas ! temporary. As is usual at the time of the Chinese new year the numbers of in-patients decreased during January, and have remained low ever since, the average number per day for the whole quarter being only 12.63, which is less than any quarter of last year, and not much over half the largest then recorded. This, of course, lessens expenditure very considerably, as food is one of the most expensive items Also for a period of six weeks the hospital was one boy short; as with so few in-patients it was unnecessary to fill the place of the one discharged last year until after the new year. In addition to these items the foreign salaries were reduced by the departure of Miss Pooley on furlough about the middle of the quarter, and the fact that Miss Lillingston, who has taken her place, did not arrive until nearly the end. On the side of receipts the fees from hospital patients came to more than usual, as several in patients, especially two Chinamen, who were in for a long time, have paid up well, which is not very commonly done. Besides this there have been donations received to the sum of yen 565, and it is really this that has turned the scale. Of this sum £16 was received directly from friends at home, and $126 from friends in Corea as church offertories, while nearly yen 300 was forwarded by Admiral Moore as a subscription from the China squadron. While we may hope that some of these may be repeated we can hardly count upon them, and the fact remains that the total sum received through the regular channels was only a little over half of the total shown in the statement for the quarter, including the payments for the foreign staff. Considering the fact that the hospital was more or less shut for ten days, as usual, at the new year, the number of outpatients was quite up to the average, being 1,466 attendances in all, but they were for the most part chronic cases, and do not present many points of interest. There were several severe cases among the in-patients, some of them involving serious operations, and though there were as many as six deaths, a number made very good recoveries, and others are still on the way to health. The work was for a time carried on under some difficulty. As is the custom at the new year the boys were given short holidays, and when David, who had gone first, was due to come back from Kangwha he became very ill. It was some days before the news arrived, during which time he was expected daily, and in the meantime John got a bad attack of influenza, and was quite unable to do any work for several days, thus leaving no Corean except the coolie to look after the patients at all. At the time nearly all the in-patients were quite unable to do anything for themselves, and this, combined with a large number of dressings, made the work anything but easy. Fortunately John was not ill long, and when he was able to work did his best, so that it was possible to get along. David was ill for a long time, and it was necessary to go up to Kangwha to see him, as he was supposed to be dying ; but he eventually made a good recovery, and is at work again none the worse. The only definite step in the religious work has been the confirmation of the women who were baptized at Christmas, and of one other who had been baptized privately long ago, but had never taken any interest in Christianity until she came to the hospital for treatment. The new hospital boy, Song Guani, is a nephew of John Choi, and was taken on at the new year when the hospital was so short-handed. He seems a nice boy, and is getting on fairly well with his work. H. H. WEIR.

St. Peter's Community Foreign Mission Association.

THERE is usually very little to remark upon in the summer months as to the home-work of S.P.F.M.A.; we more gladly therefore welcome the promised report from the Sister Superior in Seoul, which will give us a very clear idea of the work of the Sisters, and it certainly in no way diminishes the responsibilities of S.P.F.M.A. Apart from the project for training native women as teachers, for which a special fund was started in 1906, and now amounts to £25-the new departure in the Orphanage makes an added strain on the already slender funds, and the Secretary will gladly welcome any sums, however small, towards the support and education of the children mentioned by the Sister Superior. The statement of receipts for the last quarter printed in this issue shows that funds are steadily coming in, and already some very acceptable contributions to the Bazaar Stall have been received. The consignment of curios arrived in April, brought from Corea by Sister Isabel. Gifts Acknowledged.-Lace for the altar at Kangwha made by a patient at St. Peter's Home, Woking. A portrait of Bishop Corfe for the Sisters' House in Seoul, from Mrs. Arthur. Ten pounds for the Sisters' itinerations (chairs, coolies, &c.). from (the late) Mrs. Cooke and Miss Cooke. Wants. - Some large simple maps with only a few names for the Orphanage schoolroom. Wool, worsted, and knitting pins for the orphans. Notice of Dates -November 20 and 21: St. Peter's Bazaar. December 3: Day of Intercession and Thanksgiving at St. Peter's Home. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE, Secretary S.P.F.M.A. SEOUL : February 6, 1907.

OUR kind friends in England, members of S.P.F.M.A., who respond so warmly to the demands we make for the growing work amongst the Corean women and children, will be looking for some account of what has been done in 1906. It has been a year of changes in the land of the Morning Calm, and not only of changes but of progress; the people are waking up, or rather being awakened, by the influx of their active and energetic neighbours, the Japanese, so that the desire for knowledge and the spirit of advance are taking the place of sleepy indifference and contented ignorance even amongst the lower classes. Owing to our sad loss in the death of Sister Alma last May we have been very short-handed, and the women's work, in Kangwha especially, has suffered considerably, but not so much as we feared it would, for the native workers have risen to the occasion.

The mission woman, Elizabeth, has worked hard and well, going round to the different villages teaching the catechumens and inquirers, and giving the newer Christians her sympathy and practical help in their difficulties. She has been assisted by several of the Christian women who can only give part of their time as voluntary workers, receiving only their actual travelling expenses, chiefly wear and tear of shoes and other clothing; the village people, thankful for instruction, welcome their teachers, and are glad to offer them hospitality. The fact that the native women were thrown more on their own resources and were less dependent on foreigners may have done them good in many ways, making them more self-reliant, and perhaps teaching them the Christian lesson so needful for these Orientals to learn." It is more blessed to give than to receive." The women who help in teaching, as well as the mission women from Seoul, Sou Won, and Chemulpo, were allowed to attend some instructions given by the Bishop and clergy to catechists last October in the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Kangwha, and the Sister who was with them and had after meetings to help them in any points they did not understand, was surprised at their intelligence and how much they had grasped, some even taking notes very creditably, and all showing that they are capable of being further taught and trained for their work. With only two exceptions they are simple country women, supposed to be intensely stupid, without a thought beyond their domestic duties!

The Mission work at Sou Won developed so rapidly that the small church, school, &c., dedicated at Christmas 1905, was soon quite inadequate ; the site, too, was damp and inconvenient, so last spring Mr. Bridle secured a larger and far better one on a hill outside the South Gate, and had a clergy-house built, part of which serves as a temporary church (already far too small) also mission-rooms for men and women. A catechist's house with rooms for Sisters is to follow this year, and we look forward to a full-sized church within two or three years; it is much needed, for Sou Won not only supplies a large congregation itself, but is a centre for many villages, some of which are easy of access by the Seoul-Fusan railway, and she Japanese are improving the roads all round. Eighty-two catechumens have been admitted amongst the women; fortunately all do not attend every class, for the women's mission-room is only 16 ft. by 8 ft., and the Sister has barely standing room in a corner by the door while she is teaching some sixty women, packed on the floor as only Eastern women can be.

There are very intelligent faces amongst them, and they are rather a higher class and better off than the Kangwha women, so we hope that in time useful teachers may be trained from amongst them. At first few could read, now most of the younger ones have learned and can follow what is read and sung in church and classes, and have bought New Testaments for themselves. Sarah, the Mission-woman, has a little school to teach the girls to read and write, &c.; here, as elsewhere, there is a desire for education, which ought to lead to good results. The Sister who goes to Sou Won to teach takes Sarah with her, and visits some of the adjacent villages, sometimes spending a night at Pyen Tak, where many of the women are already catechumens and anxious to learn, and the men and women, with a little help from the Mission, have bought a house, which is used for services and for a resident catechist.

In another village farther away the men have built themselves a little church, and have prayers there even when no priest or catechist can be present. The one cry from this and many other places is, “Please send us a teacher - we believe in and wish to learn the Christian doctrine," and this although they are told distinctly that the Church will not afford them any assistance in their endless law-suits and political difficulties.

The villages round Seoul are just the same; many men and some women come from long distances to the Sunday Mission service. Over 100 men came on Christmas Eve and slept in the Boys' School or anywhere they could find room in the compound, and fully appreciated the services of their first Christmas amongst Christians. Fortunately, with increasing congregations, it had been found necessary last summer to throw the whole of the hospital building into the church, which is now about 50 ft. long by 24 ft. wide, quite a roomy church for our ordinary congregations, but packed on festivals. A room has been built for the women on the north side of the church and a little detached from it, where they assemble before services and for classes, a much more convenient arrangement than having their room literally part of the church, hearing and being heard through the paper doors. It was too cold this year at Christmas for the women to come in long distances as they intended to do, and many are waiting until the weather moderates and makes it possible for a Sister and Mission-woman to go out and prepare them finally to be admitted catechumens for which they will either come into Seoul or a priest go out to them.

In order to meet and help forward the desire for education amongst our native Christians in this our “day of small things." I brought four girls from nine to thirteen from Kangwha in May to be taught with our elder orphans, and have also admitted four day scholars, children of our Christian servants living in this compound. (We live here in Oriental style with our servants and their families round us) This necessitated the enlargement of the orphanage schoolroom, which was only 10 it by 8 ft., and is now half as large again, sufficient space for the twenty scholars who occupy it and have made good progress in reading, writing, and needlework as well as religious instruction It would seem natural that the Kangwha parents should pay something towards the support of their children; but going carefully into all the circumstances, it was evidently impossible, even rice could not be spared from their homes, and the improvement in them since they have good regular meals proves that we were right, and so far we have had enough for all. I own that in December there was a considerable deficit impending; but having made it known, our kind friends in Seoul came to the rescue, and we had enough to “make both ends meet" at the end of the year without any stint of food or fuel. We have only lost three small babies last year, and have now twenty-three children in the Home and a little motherless boy whose father had to go to the north for work, and asked us to take care of him for some months, as he was too delicate to be left where he might not be kindly treated. The children have a Corean teacher every morning, and read and write with their books on the floor in true native style and get on much better than when they came up to the Mission-house and had a table and chairs ! Some large simple maps with only few names, so as to leave space for writing them in Corean, would be a help in the schoolroom, but our friends at home are so kind in sending clothing, beads, toys, &c., that I hesitate to mention other wants. They may not know, however, that knitted stockings are becoming fashionable in Corea, and knitting pins and odds and ends of worsted, enabling the girls, and boys, too, to practise the knitting, in which they take delight, might lead to a remunerative industry and make the orphanage partially self-supporting.

We are much cheered by the return of Sister Margaretta yesterday, bringing two new Sisters with her who have learned something of the language from her at home. Unfortunately Sister Isabel has to leave us on furlough the end of this month, and Miss Jephson, who has so kindly helped at Kangwha in Sister Margaretta's absence, is also returning to England, so we shall still be understaffed for a time until the new-comers are able to understand and converse in this most difficult tongue. I really do not know how to thank you sufficiently for all you have done for us and our people all these years. I can only give you the Corean salutation : "Pyenani Nasio" (Peace be with you), and subscribe myself,

Yours ever gratefully, NORA, Sister Superior, Community of S. Peter

Local Notes.

The work of the Mission has been going on steadily during the last three months, and there is not much of special interest to record except the large number of baptisms at Easter. Let the place of honour be given to our newest station About eighteen months ago Mr. Bridle moved to Sou Won. At that time there were some twenty or thirty inquirers who had been saying prayers together for some months, but had perforce been left without instruction. Till Easter only two men had been baptized, with the exception of one or two who had been baptized practically in extremis. On Easter Eve fifteen men and eleven women were admitted into the Church. They are the foundations of what we may well hope will be a great Church, and I would ask your prayers especially for them that they may be worthy of the honourable position they have obtained. Pray that they may hold fast to the Faith they have professed and may witness a good profession among their heathen neighbours, and show such an example of good living that many may follow in their steps. That is the first visible result of all the hard work that Mr. Bridle has done, with the assistance of his helper, Paul Kim. We rejoice with him and hope it may encourage him to even greater labours, and lead on to great things for the Church of Christ in Sou Won and neighbourhood. For it is not only in the city that the work grows, as in Kangwha it is rather in the country districts that we see the people drawn to the Faith. There are villages, some within fairly easy reach, some at a considerable distance only reachable by train or by a long day or two days' tramp, where people are crying out for teaching, and at once two or three men could be placed in the district who would have their hands full of Tounpo and Pyung-taik you have heard before. In addition to these work is opening out in Paik-sok-po, No-sanny, Chul-kul. Kong-sok-kul, Sam kory, &c., and especially in the town of Chun-an. Queer names, are they not? But all have their meaning, e.g. Chun-an means The peace of heaven. May it be prophetic for its inhabitants. In the latter place, after only one visit from Mr. Bridle, and one or two from John Chun, the catechist, there are eighty inquirers who have given in their names. In Pyung-taik the people, as you saw in the last Morning Calm, have with our help got a small chapel, and in Tounpo they are well on the way to getting one. What can one say as one sees the work extending on all sides? Surely this work is of God. Who will come and help us?

In Seoul there were a few baptisms to encourage Mr. Gurney in his hard uphill work. One family of husband and wife and three children, and three men. May God bless and help them. Mr. Gurney's work, however, has consisted more in visiting out-stations than of work in Seoul only. He has been in the country twice, travelling a long round in villages to the cast of Mr. Bridle's district, and there, too, he found hundreds of men and women waiting for instruction. It is but little that can be done for them when he has so many other claims on his time and strength, but he hopes to keep in touch with them sufficiently to hold them together till he can give them more of what they need. This summer it is proposed, if possible, to get some of them to come up to Seoul for teaching, but it is difficult for they are mostly poor, and they are far from railways or any means of conveyance except "shanks' mare."

In Chemulpo there is not much to record. The hospital work has gone on satisfactorily, but of that and other things you will be able to read in Dr. Weir's report for the quarter.

In Kangwha city the baptisms at Easter were the most numerous we have ever had, and Mr. Badcock and Sisters Margaretta and Rosalie were hard at work for weeks before preparing the seventy-six men, women and children that were admitted into the Church for the reception of the New Birth by water and the Spirit. It must have been an inspiring sight to see so many at one time receiving the Sacrament of Baptism, and it will rejoice the hearts of all our friends to hear of this great number of believers being added to the Lord. May He of His grace keep them in the Way! It must have been a grateful task for Mr. Badcock, too, on the eve of his departure for home, to feel that indeed he had not laboured in vain, but that under God he had been instrumental in bringing so many to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, not that he or you forget that he is entering into other men's labours, but he has had the joy of seeing the fruition of them before he leaves us for a time to attend upon his aged mother in her last days.

All these were not from the city itself, most of them were from the country villages round. In many of these are small groups of believers, and Sunday by Sunday those who cannot walk into the city meet for prayer and teaching which their leaders receive from Mr. Badcock during the week. There are not yet many chapels, but in each village a room in the house of one of the leading men is used for their meetings. In Kobe a house has been set apart for some time, procured by the people with some little help from the Mission, and now in Song-sanny by means of local subscriptions and one or two donations the Christians and catechumens have provided a chapel which will serve them for a meeting place for a time. Not long we fear, or rather hope, for their numbers are growing, and the house will not grow of itself. Part of the money was subscribed by the Christians from other villages. A collection was made at a meeting for study they had in church in the city, but the churchwardens did not think the response was adequate and, locking the compound gate afterwards, sent round a subscription list which brought in some £2, a big sum when one considers that the whole building was to cost only about £20. It does not seem much, does it? Many of our friends could, and would if they were asked, give one such out of his or her own pocket, but we do not ask for it for we feel that it is better for the people to realise that the support of their own church depends on themselves, and surely they value more what has cost them something to provide to the honour and glory of God. There will be and now are other places where such small chapels are needed. If anyone would wish to help, money sent for the purpose specially, to be put at the disposal of the Bishop, would be welcome. Heretofore we have been able to help by means of local subscriptions from foreigners, or collections in church, or from one or two sums of money entrusted to the Bishop to be used for the Mission at his discretion.

At On Sou Tong Mr. and Mrs. Hillary have had a very busy and in some ways a very unpleasant time. They have many villages to visit and many classes to hold, and what with long distances and small rooms the preparation of their people for baptism and confirmation has been indeed a labour, though no less a labour of love. The baptisms have been postponed till Whit Sunday, so that there are no numbers to report upon, but here, too, a large number will be brought to the font to receive the regenerating grace of the Holy Spirit of God. The unpleasantness has arisen from the fact that the converts of the American Methodist Mission in the neighbourhood have, so far as we can see, causelessly set themselves in strong opposition to ours, and have been trying to get our members and catechumens to leave us and join them. It would be hard for you to understand all the ins and outs of the story, but at last it became so bad that the Bishop and Dr. Scranton, the head of their Mission, went down from Seoul to meet the people and see if anything could be done to smooth matters over. After a long “pow-wow" with two Catechists on either side, it was felt that there was little that could be done to make matters go more smoothly, but those present agreed that they would keep the peace so far as was possible on either side, and suggestions of an agreement not to proselytise and not to take part in law cases were made, and so the meeting broke up. But after further discussion in Seoul it was found impossible to come to terms, and matters were left much in statu quo. Later the same difficulties recurred and culminated in one of their leaders coming into our compound and grossly insulting Mrs. Hillary who was in the garden, and on Mr. Hillary's return continuing to shout insults at him for a long time, standing outside the house. On the matter being referred to Dr. Scranton, he was able to bring the man to a sense of his wrong-doing, and he apologised for it. One hopes that this may make things more easy for our people there and make the others see that such doings will bring them into serious trouble, for if the man had been put in prison he would have had a very bad time of it indeed. We were anxious to avoid the publicity of such a course as it would have caused the adversary to blaspheme; as it is, the matter is only known locally and, though such action on the part of those who call themselves Christians is a serious cause of offence to the heathen, yet it is not as if the facts had been spread through the country. God grant that all may settle down and that we may work peacefully side by side, for indeed there is plenty of work for us all to do among those who know not the Truth, without interfering with those who do, But, in spite of difficulties, there is much to be thankful for, and we can take courage and go forward.

Corean Monuments and Buildings.

(1) This is the grave of a Corean noble, perhaps that of the present Emperor's father. The large mound is the part which is common to all Corean graves, without respect to rank, and the fixtures, the wall around three sides, the two pillars, the sacrificial stone in the centre, the sheep at each side, the lanthorn, and the human figures, of which only one is visible, all indicate the exalted rank of the deceased. On first going to Corea these grave mounds do not present themselves to one's notice, one sees them about and knows they are there, but that is all. Gradually, however, the immense numbers of these mounds becomes more apparent, and it is found that the lower slopes of the hills, especially the spurs which jut into the valleys, are covered with these graves, more particularly the hills about a large city like Seoul. The Coreans have great disputes concerning these burial places, as the place has to be fixed by soothsayers and various rules, as to direction of the shadows cast by the sun, the distance from other graves, and so on, must be looked after. (2) This is such a stone lanthorn as is seen in the preceding picture, but not the same one as will be at once evident if the detail of the two be noticed at all. Behind the wall surrounding the grave is visible and in the left corner is a dark object, which is the corner of a sacrificial stone raised on four stone balls like that in the former picture. The use of these stone lanthorns is common to Japan too, where they are used in great numbers, and during the time of the Tokugawa Shoguns each feudal lord throughout the country (there were three hundred odd) had to give one as a token of respect and loyalty at the shrine of each ruler who died. (3) This picture shows the Gate of Great Peace, one of the side entrances to the palace. It is in the regular form of Buddhist architecture which is practically common to China, Corea and Japan, though it differs slightly in each country, the roof has a very fine curvature always. This roof is tiled. In the foreground is a Corean soldier with his rifle on his shoulder and the bayonet fixed, as is their usual custom when on duty. Also in the foreground and a little to the right of the guard are some large blocks of stone for building or repairing just left there and apparently not for use at all, for they have been lying so for a long time. (4) Here is a picture of historic interest, for this is the gateway on the Pekin Road at which the Corean envoys met the Chinese envoys who came to collect the tribute which Corea always paid to China in recognition of the latter's suzerainty. The architecture of the gateway is interesting and unlike the common style of Corean building, for they do not use arches out lay the beams flat across the supporting pillars in the Greek style. The name of the gate is written above in native script "Tok Chip Mun," with the emblem of the Corean flag at each end. (To be continued.)

The Spirit of Missions.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAY MISSION.-"At the Annual Meeting Lord Milner remarked that if there were one thing on earth in which all men who knew South Africa were agreed it was the importance of railways in the life of the country. They were important everywhere, but it requires a knowledge of the physical peculiarities of South Africa to realise all that they mean in that country. In that land of immense distances, of thinly scattered populations, where centres of industry absolutely depend on one another, and are often separated by hundreds of miles of almost wilderness, the railway is the artery of civilised life. It not only sustains it, but creates it. The railways have to go ahead. They very often make the settlement which it is their ultimate duty to serve. The railway men are the pioneers of European settlement, and they are men mostly of our own race and language, and very good specimens of the race. ... The Rev. H. P. Hale next said: "I suppose you will expect me to speak about the work in Bechuanaland and Rhodesia. There the problem is, of course, very much the same as it is in other parts of the railway system of South Africa that of dealing with those terribly isolated people and communities. In speaking of this isolation I only wish I could bring home to you its dangers, how it tends, for example, to throw men back upon themselves, causing them to dwell upon the gratification of their desires and passions, and making them fly in too many instances to drink, to drown, if only for a short time, the terrible depression that comes at times upon them. Again, all those conventionalities, all those checks which Society exercises upon its members are destroyed, or at any rate are of no effect in this isolation. Then I wish I could bring before you the picture of these isolated communities and individuals in the midst of great native populations, and thus open to those awful influences which it has been observed are constantly at work to cause a superior race, when in contact with inferior races, to be dragged down to their level, rather than for the superior race to lift the lower up. It is the work, then, of the Railway Mission to try to do something to counteract the hurricane of temptation which assails these people when cut off from communion with their fellows... Then I would appeal to you also on another ground-the importance of taking advantage of that great Opportunity which is now opening to the Church throughout the colonies of the Empire ... and there is nothing false about the call to think imperially about Church matters in regard to the religion of Jesus Christ. We do want to get out of our narrow parochialism, and here is a way ready to hand by which we can escape by helping those pioneers of civilisation up and down the lines of South Africa. Travelling up and down these lines I know that one of the great needs is that the Church should be on the spot to set the moral atmosphere of these new communities. As it is the devil gets there long before we do, and tells the men that hospitality must be accompanied by drunkenness, that the old moral laws of the old country can be put aside, and that in the new land they are free men. We want the Church to be the first to tell the men that the old morality is as necessary there as out in England; and the Railway Mission is doing something to set that moral atmosphere.... Then, also, I think that the Church needs to grasp the fact that the white men are setting an example for good or ill to that great native population which we hope one day to draw into the Church. That native population is watching with keen observant eyes to learn the secret of the white man's power and wisdom, and the Church is losing her opportunity unless she so arranges matters that these natives go back to their kraals convinced in their mind that the superiority of the white men is due to character, and that their character is due to their Christian faith, and in gaining this conviction to be drawn themselves to the Christian religion."-(S.A.R.M. Quarterly Paper.) THE BISHOP OF THE KLONDYKE-" It must be fatiguing to be always explaining where you come from, but that is the fate of Bishop Stringer, of Selkirk, now on a visit to this country. To the ordinary English mind, Selkirk conveys only vague ideas, compounded of Southern Scotland and the original of Robinson Crusoe. When you substitute the "Yukon" the Englishman begins to have some glimmerings of understanding; but when you say the "Klondyke the matter becomes clear. It is true that the Klondyke is only one small region in the valley of the mighty Yukon, but it conjures up visions of a land of ice and gold. Bishop Stringer began his ministerial life in the neighbouring and more northerly Diocese of Mackenzie River, where as a missionary to the Indians and Eskimos under the C.M.S. he spent several years in Herschel Island, the most northerly Mission station in the world with the exception of Port Barrow. He was asked whether he had many white people on Herschel Island, and answered "Yes, always a certain number of ships wintered there. I have known as many as 200 men at a time. I used to do what I could for them and my wife used to try to make them welcome at our house. But there were generally a great many bad men amongst them, who used to corrupt the natives." Bishop Stringer had to leave Herschel Island in consequence of inflammation of the eyes brought on by doing a good deal of translating work amidst the disadvantages of smoky huts and the glare of the snow ... so he accepted an offer from Bishop Bompas to go to work amongst the miners of the Klondyke"(Greater Britain Messenger.) PROSPECTING AT QUARTZ CREEK.-" The following is an extract from a letter to the Bishop of Selkirk from the Rev. J. M. Comyn Chang, who is prospecting for the souls of men in the district of Bonanza, Yukon, North-West Canada: 'I want to tell you of my trip over to Quartz Creek last week.... I had not gone far (the first few places I called at plainly told me) before I realised that here was a veritable stronghold of Satan. In addition to other temptations to vice, three saloons were doing a roaring business, and not a single thing being done by any Church to combat all this evil, and extend a helping hand to the two hundred or more men located neighbourhood. I cannot tell you how deeply I regretted not having made a decided effort to get to work over there much sooner ; but now with God's help I hope to hold at least a fortnightly service there, and shall make every effort to get over every week.' The remainder of the letter, which is too long to quote, goes on to describe the services, and helps one to realise that the well-known descriptions of the ‘Sky Pilot' are taken from life."-(Ibid.) WEAKNESS OF THE WESTERN CHURCH – “Under the above heading, a writer from the Diocese of Qu'Appelle, tells us that although his district has been open for two whole years to missionary as well as to agricultural enterprise, and although the Methodist and Presbyterian bodies had already at work four agents each, the Church did not arrive till last July.... By her slackness, the Church is mortgaging her opportunities in this country. . . . As an example we may give the case of a rural district where the majority of the farmers owed allegiance to the Church. In the absence of a Church clergyman the religious services and Sunday School instruction in the local school-houses have been supplied by Methodist and Presbyterian missionaries.... In the case of people who attach a real value to religion, they have been glad to take advantage for themselves and their children of whatever ministrations were at hand, and naturally enough their allegiance has been shaken if not actually transferred. In other cases deplorably numerous, a still worse effect has been produced by the Church's dilatoriness. Their religion had probably been of the nature of an outer garment, assumed in deference to public opinion, and worn as a matter of habit. The absence of the Church's ministrations has supplied a convenient excuse for getting rid of the burden, until Sunday observance and public worship have practically disappeared from their scheme of life. Now it is most difficult to interest them in the ministrations of their own Church or of any other. And as to their personal religion and week-day morality, who shall say? In this corner of the West, at any rate, no Communion has so great an opportunity as the Anglican. Of the materials she has to work with, the most valuable are Churchmen of the East; unlike even the best of Churchmen from England, they seem to realise the necessity for self-help. But what the old-country Churchmen lack in energy they make up in numbers, and their exiled condition inclines them to welcome with affection and appreciation the ministrations of their spiritual mother.... Why is it that so very few men are offering themselves for service on the frontier ? No doubt there is a natural hesitancy to sever ties of home and friendship, but that is balanced by the Anglo-Saxon instinct for enterprise and adventure, and the Anglo-Saxon love for an active open-air life. Nowhere in the whole world, one would think, is there to be found such opportunity for useful, telling work, combined with so invigorating and healthful an environment, as in the Church of the Canadian West. The air of this prairie-plateau is a continual tonic; the moral atmosphere of energy and hopefulness in an unlimited future is no less bracing. A missionary is not only a builder in no mean city, but an architect as well. He is not obliged to build on another man's foundation or to pull down before he begins to build. If he has ideas and methods of his own, he has the chance of giving them a fair trial.... There is every indication that the spring of 1907 will witness a further quickening of the pace of the country's development in population, in agricultural, and commercial matters. The Church, too, must quicken her pace if her influence is to accompany and sanctify the youthful nation's advance.”—(Canadian New Era.) RELIGIOUS AWAKENINGS IN THE CHURCH IN INDIA – “Towards the close of the year 1897 a special call was issued in India for a day of prayer for the spiritual awakening of India and Ceylon. The call was signed by a number of representative missionaries, some of whom had been feeling the deadness and stagnation of the work, and the crying need manifest everywhere for some special manifestation of the life and power of God the Holy Ghost. The call met with an immediate, wide, and warm response, and evidently voiced the desire of many hearts. ‘I venture,' says the Rev. T. Walker,' to date the spiritual movements of the present time in a very real sense from the inception of these days of special prayer. Some years later a deepening of the prayer spirit was distinctly visible in the missionary power. Speaking from experience, wherever I went I found a growing sense of dissatisfaction with the condition of failure and powerlessness which was admittedly so widely prevalent, and in particular, an increasing longing to see a rising tide of spiritual life and energy in the Christian congregations. Here and there little companies of missionaries began to go apart, as they had never done before, for definite seasons of prayer and intercession. Clearly God was laying on their hearts a burden of strong desire.... But it was undoubtedly the tidings of the Welsh Revival which excited new desire and fresh hope in India. The first movement of any magnitude was that on the Khassia Hills, and this is traceable distinctly to the influence upon the Welsh missionaries there of the mighty stir which had taken place in the homeland. It was the prayers of the Welsh Christians and the fire of the Welsh Revival which, under God, were used to kindle the flame in Assam. This desire for blessing led an Indian Church Council in Bengal to issue a circular to its congregations calling on all to wait upon God in prayer for showers of blessing and to promote special sermons giving information on the subject, followed by definite efforts in the direction of Revival.... Then came the great stir at Mukti, in June 1905, when Ramabai's large company of widows and orphans, well nigh two thousand of them, were bowed under the Spirit's power as the trees of the forest are bowed and bent before the wind. The accounts of God's doings at Mukti spread on every side and added new fuel to the flame of desire and expectation.’ He next gives a short account of the after result of these Revival movements, of which the following are typical cases :- The Principal of a boys' second grade college says: ‘Several young men, who were notoriously the leaders in mischief and wrong, are real good examples of steady Christian endeavour. About twenty young men and boys are anxious to do Christian work.' This is surely a sober and reliable piece of evidence. A lady Principal writes: There is life in school work now. The Bible is becoming daily indispensable food. There is a marked improvement in the secular work; girls are learning what it means to "work heartily as to the Lord." There is a zeal characterising the work of the Christian teachers such as was not seen previously. A Tamil brother tells us how, in the Congregation committed to his charge, 'many men, women, and children are now earnestly leading a good Christian life,' and goes on to narrate how Sunday observance, Bible reading, private and family prayers, and street preaching were the visible results.’ And what of the influence of this movement on the workers of the Missions? One missionary brother answers this question both pithily and satisfactorily: 'The uplifting of nearly all our workers.’ Another says: 'Workers work with new zeal.' After relating some instances of what has been done to follow up these results, he quotes a Scotch brother, who says, with shrewd wisdom: ‘A Revival cannot be a substitute for ordinary work, though it may bring it to fruition.'"-(C.M. Intelligencer.) TEMPLE GIRLS -" Those who have read the affecting allusions to these girls in Miss Amy Wilson Carmichael's book, ‘Overweights of Joy,' will rejoice to learn that the High Court of Bombay has lately decided a case which promises to be historic, by sentencing the relatives of one of these girls to exemplary punishment. From the Christian Express we gather that a girl of thirteen had been married to the god Khandoba, which destined her to an immoral life in connection with the Temple service. The girl's relatives were brought before the local magistrate on a charge of selling her for immoral purposes, but, as has happened so frequently, the case was dismissed. An appeal was made, however, to the High Court of Bombay; the Hon. Justices Russell and Batty held it proved that those occupying the position in the temple to which the child was destined lived an immoral life, and as the relatives knew this, the magistrate's decision was reversed and the mother and uncle sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment. "In a recent article in the Ceylon Observer, the Hon. John Ferguson, C.M.G., M.LC, says that he has often silenced cavillers against Missions by a single word, and that word was ‘Woman.' In what condition were the women of the Hindus or even the Mohammedans before the advent of Christian Missions, and to what is the instruction, enlightenment, freedom from terrible burdens and uplifting of a host of them due, if not to the influence of Christianity and its teachers ?" -(C.M. Intelligencer.) Morning Calm, 4d. quarterly, or 1s. 4d. per annum (post free), may be obtained from Miss B. Atkins, 24 Overton Road, Brixton, S.W., Miss Day, Lorne House, Rochester, or Messrs Spottiswoode & Co., New Street Square, E. C.

Corean Mission Accounts, 1906. In the following statement received from the Bishop the value of the Pound sterling seems to have varied between yen nine sen seventy-seven and yen nine sen sixty-nine. It is therefore impossible to express the whole statement in sterling with accuracy; but in each case where money has been remitted from England in sterling currency and expended in Corea in yen, the actual amount under each currency appears in the account. Detailed accounts may be obtained from the Secretary of each department.

Vol. V. MAY, 1907. No. 53. The Church Abroad Published by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Paris. In a Japanese Village. HERE is a village in Japan which I have been in the habit of visiting monthly for some years. It is a place that I always enjoy going to, for one gets on to a more intimate footing with the people there than one can do in the towns. When I came this month it was for the purpose of attending the funeral of the wife of the chief man of the village. There are few things more mysterious than the Providence which takes away the mother of family. Here was a Christian woman