Morning Calm v.20 no.119(1909 Jan.)

Editorial.

The Festival IN the last number of MORNING CALM notice was given of a Festival to be held on November 3. Owing to circumstances which could not be avoided, it was not possible to send out particulars until a few days before the day of the Festival. As the programme given in our October number was altered in a few details only, it is not likely that the delay seriously affected those who had made a note of the date and had made up their minds to be present. The number of supporters who attended one or other of the services and meetings, although not overwhelming, was distinctly encouraging : sufficient surely to warrant a repetition of the experiment next year. That the early Eucharist should have been held in St. Paul's Cathedral, was most appropriate; while the later celebration at St. Nicholas Cole Abbey was very helpful.

A General Fund.

The appointment of an Organising Secretary has raised many debatable points. Not the least important of these, is the question of the recognition of a General Fund. That such a thing would be contrary to the previous methods and constitution of the Home Organisation may be admitted. But at the same time, as the Dean of West-minster said at the Annual Meeting on November 3, “Do not modern conditions necessitate modern methods ?" The cry for men is urgent. And if the men are forthcoming--and there are offers already coming in--how shall we support them? It is a lamentable fact that whereas at one time the amount contributed by the members of the A.P.W. exceeded £800 per annum, it is now reduced to £450 (circa). Again, it is clear from letters received, even from old and tried supporters, that an Organising Secretary proved the existence--real or contemplated--of a General Fund; and the supposition was productive of certain cheques and postal orders, which hitherto had not been sent, for the only reason that these well-wishers did not know where, or to whom, to send them. The subject will come before the newly-appointed Executive Committee, and the result of their deliberations will be conveyed to the friends of this Mission, through this journal.

The Bishop.

On December 1 Bishop Turner left England for Genoa, where he was to join the s.s. Prins Eitd Friedrich. He had originally intended to go via America, but his perpetual journeyings up and down England in search of men and means, and disseminating news of the work in Corea, had so worn him out, that it was essential that he should be persuaded to take the longer sea-voyage that he might obtain that rest which he so much needed, but which he failed to get while at home. The latest news from him states that he had reached Port Said safely. Writing from Naples on December 4, he says: "Certain changes will be noticed in MORNING CALM. THE CHURCH ABROAD, which was added by me some four years ago, will be discontinued. The expense was considerable, and so many people get it in other ways, that it has been decided to give it up. Then the ‘Spirit of Missions,’ which has been supplied for us from the beginning by Miss Anson, also lapses, as she finds that she is no longer able to give the time necessary for the work of extracting such news for us alone. I would, on your behalf, thank her sincerely for all that she has done for us for so many years. I hope we may be able to fill the blank thus left, in some way in the years to come." The prayers of all for the Bishop's refreshment and guidance in all things will follow him.

Dr. Weir.

At the present time Dr. and Mrs. Weir are on furlough in England. Many of us have had the pleasure of meeting them, while some of us have listened with attention to Dr. Weir's accounts of the Mission work in general, and of the hospital work in particular. Is it too much to hope, that before his time is up to return to his post, he may be able to look forward with confidence, to a great increase in the support of the medical side of the Mission ? Dr. Weir has already spoken in several centres, and is prepared, as far as his time will permit, to address meetings on behalf of the Mission.

Parochial Support.

Answers to the appeals for Intercessions sent out on or about St. Nicholas' Day, have been very few. Will those clergy who are willing to intercede for the work, whether or no they can give the offertory alms, kindly communicate with the Organising Secretary, as requested by the Bishop in his letter? It will then be possible to estimate, to some extent, what support we are getting. The lateness with which the Intercessions were sent out was due to a misunderstanding. They reached the Editor of MORNING CALM with a covering note that they were to be inserted in this number. The decision to circulate them separately in time for St. Nicholas' Day was only arrived at within a few days of December 6.   An order has been given by the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament for a chalice and paten to be sent to Chin Chun. We owe the donors our best thanks for the gift.

Back Numbers. There are a large number of back numbers of MORN-ING CALM, which Miss Atkins will be glad to supply to secretaries of A.P.W.C., H.N.F., or S.P.E.M.A. Miss Atkins' address is 24 Overton Road, Brixton, S.W.

The Editor will be pleased if, for the future, all Contribu-tions for "Morning Calm" reach him not later than the first week in the month preceding that of issue. All communications should be addressed: The Editor, 5 Amen Court, St. Paul's Cathedral, E.C.

THE FONT IN THE CHURCH OF THE ADVENT, SEOUL. This Font was posted to the Church by friends of Bishop Corfe  

The Bishop's Letters.Ⅰ.

127 VASSALI ROAD, BRIXTON, S.W. November 30, 1908. MY DEAR FRIENDS,-- I have written no letters this quarter. Pardon me. I am leaving to-morrow for Corea, via Genoa, and hope to arrive there about January 9th; I may be able to send back a letter to our new Editor from Dover, but I think our correspondents will have given you much of interest. I could only tell you of my travels in England, and thank you all for your kindness during my stay in England. That I can do in very few words, and indeed I do thank you with all my heart. I am yours sincerely, ARTHUR B. TURNER, Bishop. ________________________________________

II.

S.S. PRINZ EITAL FRIEDRICH, OFF ELBA, December 3, 1908. MY DEAR FRIENDS,-- I wrote a hurried line before leaving England saying I hoped to write a letter in time for publication on my way out and post it before leaving Europe. There are some few matters I wish to tell you about, and I will try and write a few words on each in turn. First, you know that I am returning with Miss Frances Robertson MacDonald, and glad though I am to have her companionship on board, I am truly sorry for the cause which is taking her to Corea. Her sister, Sister Margaretta, as some of you will remember, was very poorly when she was at home a year or two ago, and it was doubtful whether she ought to return to work. She did so, however, and very grateful we are to her for the work she has done for us since her return to Corea. But now complications have arisen, which make it necessary for her to return home for a time, and as there is no one that we can spare to come home with her, her sister has volunteered to go out and bring her home. It has meant the laying on other   shoulders temporarily the work Miss Macdonald was doing for the Church in Scotland, but she has made arrangements and we hope the work will not suffer in any way. The loss of Sister Margaretta's help at the present juncture is a serious one, but both Sister Edith Helena and Sister Cecil are making progress with the language, and the former will be able to supervise in some way the work in Seoul for which Sister Margaretta was responsible, though naturally she will at first find the burden a heavy one. Speaking of return to England, you will remember that among our workers at different times in the Mission, were Mr. J. W. Hodge, who looked after our printing work for some nine years, and Nurse Laura Mills, who worked under Dr. Baldock in the Naktong Hospital. After their marriage, some eight years ago, Mr. Hodge set up a printing office for himself; now we are sorry to say he has had to sell off his business, and, owing to the illness of his wife, to return to England. I hear they passed through Genoa on their way home the day I arrived there. Hers is a very serious illness, and she will go, after a short visit to her sister in Bedford, to the Sisters at St. Peter's to be nursed, and I would ask you not to forget her in your prayers, that she may bear bravely the illness she is suffering from, and all the trouble consequent thereon. Let me refer to matters connected with our organisation at home. The most important change I have made has been the appointment of an Organising Secretary, who will help to keep all our various branches more in touch with each other, and all with the Mother Society and with myself. I hope that he may be able to keep me up to the mark in all matters in which I can help our friends at home, while I am in Corea (for I have been told more than once since I have been at home that my dislike to letter writing has caused no little inconvenience at times), and also I hope that he will keep you all up to the mark, if such a thing is needed. His appointment will not necessarily make any changes in the home organisation, and if any changes are found necessary, they will be decided upon in the Executive Committee meetings, and will be communicated to you, in so far as they concern you, either by special letter, or through the pages of MORNING CALM. One change that we have already made is to form this *Executive Committee, which shall be elected from the larger Central Committee, the latter to meet *A complete list of the name of those now serving upon the Central Com-mittee, as well as the names of those nominated as members of the Executive Committee, will be given in the next issue of MORNING CALM.—(ED.)   only annually, the former more frequently, probably once a month during the working months of the year. All matters connected with the home work will come before them, and the A.P.W.C., H.N.F., S.P.F.M.A., etc., will all be represented on it. I am thankful to feel that in Mr. Childs Clarke, we have a Secretary who will do all in his power to push on the work at home, to stir up fresh interest, and to keep us all closely in touch with one another as we should be. His appointment has seemed to make another change ad-visable. Twenty years ago, when Bishop Corfe was beginning his work in Corea, he issued those first monthly letters which were so interesting to all his friends; and from them sprang our present MORNING CALM, at first mainly composed of his letters, and gradually growing larger as the work grew, and necessary reports had to be included and news came in from Corea itself. At first it was monthly, then quarterly, as it is still; but through all these years of change and growth, the Rev. E. A. Down, of St. John the Divine Vicarage, has been editor ; of late years with the valuable assistance of Mr. H. W. Harvey. It is difficult to say how much we owe to Mr. Down and Mr. Harvey for all the care and labour they have bestowed on the work they undertook for Bishop Corfe. Editing a magazine is not a task for which one receives much thanks, and I want you all to realise a little, the debt of gratitude which has been piling up in Mr. Down's favour, and which we can never adequately repay. It is difficult to express our gratitude--even if all our readers were to send a post-card saying “Thank you,” I don't know that it would fully express our feelings. Can anyone suggest a way to show our gratitude? As to the work in Corea, all the reports I have received seem to be satisfactory--that is, as far as the Church is concerned. As to the political condition of affairs, Mr. Gurney's letter, which I held over last quarter, will show you that there is a great deal that might be said on that point. In speaking at various places I have tried to point out that, however necessary to the very existence of Japan it was for her to take possession of the country, the Japanese have not yet shown that they have power to keep the country quiet or to do anything to really benefit the people. Rather, their advent has been the source of troubles of all kinds, the end of which at present one cannot foresee. Another matter which Mr. Bridle and Mr. Gurney plead for very strongly is for help in the work they have to do, and Mr. Hillary has written to me privately just as strongly. Even with Mr. Cooper to help him, Mr. Bridle will have more on his hands   than he can efficiently do, and with Dr. and Mrs. Laws in Chin-Chun, Mr. Gurney will not be able to answer all the calls upon him. With only one more priest to help him, Mr. Hillary will still find himself under-staffed. The cry on all sides is for men. You know it, you are praying that God may move men to come. This brings me to the question of what I have been able to do in supplying our needs while I have been at home. Before I left Corea I knew of Mr. Cooper's offer; now he has preceded me. I had also had some correspondence with Mr. G. Hewlett, who, after several years in South Africa, has been preparing for Orders at Dorchester Missionary College. He hopes to be ordained at Trinity, and to join us next autumn. There are others who are hoping to come out to us later. Mr. Parsons (now at Cuddesdon), and who is going to Leeds for his Diaconate ; Mr. Dallas, who has three or four more years at Dor-chester; two younger friends of Corea, who are going to Mirfield for their education next year. These offers and prospects make us hopeful for the future, but we want men now. I had hopes that a priest was coming, who could have taken charge of the Catechists' School, to prepare them more thoroughly for their work and for future orders; but no one has yet definitely offered for the work. It may be that the difficulty makes men shrink from it; one would have thought the importance of the work would have encouraged someone fitted for it to offer to undertake the task of training the future Clergy of the Church in Corea. No doubt it is better to wait and get “Mr. Right,” than to hurry and get the services of “Mr. Wrong,” but we do want the man and we want him now. One more word before I close this long letter. I should like to speak in detail of my experiences as I travelled up and down England. It would take too long, and I should find it hard to pick out one or two places only and speak of them to the exclusion of others of perhaps equal importance. I will only say, that everywhere I have found people interested in the Church's work, and in Corea too; everywhere I have found audiences prepared to listen to me, even though, as in more than one instance, my address has lengthened itself out nearly two hours: everywhere I have been received with the greatest kind-ness. I feel, as I look back on my three months' wanderings, that there is a great stirring of interest generally, throughout the Church, in its own work in other countries and amongst other people, and that now is the time, when men's minds have been roused (largely I think by the Pan-Anglican Conference), for those who know, to report what is being done at the present   time, and for those who see visions for the future to show what may be done if Churchmen will only realise their duty and their responsibility. I would add this :--Of all my audiences I think the most responsive were among the young; at St. Elizabeth Col-lege, Guernsey, and at Marlborough; at Miss Moberley's school at Hayward's Heath, and at St. Gabriel's College, Kennington--if my hearers there will allow me to include them among the young--I found a readiness of response, which seemed to augur well for the Church if she can now take hold of, and utilise, the enthusiasm and self-devotion of the young. With one word more of thanks to all my friends for their kindness, and, if I may select one, to Canon Brooke for all he has done to make my visit to England a happy one, I remain yours sincerely, ARTHUR B. TURNER, Bishop.

THE WOMEN'S WARD.

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The festival.

THE day began with a celebration of the Holy Eucharist in the chapel of St. Faith (crypt), St. Paul's Cathedral, at 8 A.M., for which the Dean and Chapter kindly gave permission. There were some fifty communicants at the service, when the Bishop was the celebrant, assisted by the Organising Secretary (Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke). Breakfast was subsequently provided for those who lived at a distance, at the Chapter House at 9 A.M. At 11 A.M , a Choral Celebration was held at the Church of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, E.C, when the Rector (the Rev. Canon C N. Kelly) officiated, and the Bishop preached. All who were able to be present felt that this service was most helpful, and most beautiful. The difficulty of providing a choir was got over by getting together a number of priests, including three of the Minor Canons of St. Paul's. These, together with several ladies connected with the choir of St. Nicholas, sang the Plain Song Music most effectively. The Bishop, in his sermon, which he based upon Ephesians iv. 4 and 5, said that he realised more and more, the unity in the work of Christ, which underlay all outward difficulties; though there might be great difficulties in the way of any visible unity for the present, yet behind everything there was a need which was identical in all countries, and an expression of faith which was universal. The truth of that was apparent, when they thought of Corea, the Coreans, and their country. The need of the Coreans and their country, and the need of England and her people, was essentially the same, with regard to spiritual necessities. That need was the requirement of a Personal God. The late wars had brought this out, both in Japan and Corea. In their trouble, in their difficulties and dangers, the people realised that they wanted a Person to whom to turn. It was not until a people understood the Personality of God, that they appreciated the meaning of sin. In Corea there was no realisation of sin. Wrong for the Corean, was only the standard of his fellow-man. What men did not do--that was wrong; and the idea of sin was that which was found out. With the knowledge of the Christian idea of sin, came the admission of the judgment of God. So there was born the demand for the Saviour as the means by which sin could be done away. For when the past sin was done away, how could they then be kept from sin? Then came the teaching of the Holy Spirit. It was the One Faith which   they needed, and which they were beginning to find did fulfil their necessities. The service at St. Nicholas was followed by a meeting of the Central Committee at the Chapter House. The main business of that meeting was the Bishop's formal announcement of his appointment of an Organising Secretary. This appointment was in accordance with a resolution of a sub-committee previously nominated to consider the question. The Bishop's action in the matter was approved by the Committee. It was made clear that the new departure would in no way interfere with the relationship of the Home Organisation with the S.P.G. The meeting of the Committee was then adjourned until November 25. In the afternoon a public meeting was held in the Hall of the National Society's Offices in Great Peter Street, S.W., at 3 P.M. The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster presided. The Dean spoke of the Mission to Corea as a remarkable venture of Faith. It was an effort to go back to some of those earlier methods which were successful in the past. Archbishop Benson had tried once again the method of propagating the Church of Christ with a fine disregard of modern methods and necessities as so accounted. He sent out a Bishop in the hope that the Church would support him. As St. Gregory sent out Augustine, so he sent out the first Bishop. He formed no society, he raised no funds. He blessed them and sent them out. So it was that they left it to the Providence of Almighty God to see if He would not again bless. The Bishop was chosen and supported partly by Her Majesty's Navy. It was a remarkable start. Now they found themselves face to face with facts, Modern conditions had seemed to have altered the circumstances of the case. The power of money was a factor to be reckoned with even in Mission work. Little could be done without it. There-fore they were obliged to ask the Church, not only to send out men and women, but also to supply funds, that the machinery might be kept in working order. Two imperative needs appeared to him to call for attention, judging from what he had learnt from those on the spot : (1) The proper training of the native Catechists; for definite theological teaching was essential to the future of the work. The native teacher of the Faith must be properly grounded. At present there was no organised provision for such teaching.  (2) A system of education for the people generally. There they had a great opportunity of being a real help to the Coreans, in giving them an education sanctified by the Christian Faith. By giving them a Christian education they would win multitudes to Christ. Bishop Turner confined his remarks principally to thanking the supporters of Missions at home. In conclusion he alluded to the remarkable growth of the work during the past three years. He attributed this to the fact that they were building on foundations laid with such care by Bishop Corfe. At the first, there could be no evangelistic work--the language had to be learnt. At the end of six years there were no Christians. After fourteen years the work of Evangelisation was just beginning. The staff was now fairly competent to do the work. The native teachers had done much. The voluntary helpers had done good work. The political situation had also contributed to the advance, for in the old beliefs of the country the people possessed nothing which could help them to bear the humilia-tion and suffering of the present time. Dr. Weir, of St. Luke's Hospital, Chemulpo, also spoke very earnestly as to the real necessity of Medical Missions as an essential part of Foreign Mission work.

THE ENGLISH MISSION SCHOOL, SOU WON.

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Association of Prayer and work for Corea.

WHILE the Bishop has been in England he has visited very many of our Branches and Parishes. This, it is hoped, has been the means of arousing fresher interest and greater enthusiasm in our work. As one result of this a new Branch has been started at Chinnor in Oxfordshire, and Mrs. Bernard Baldwin, an old friend of Bishop Turner, has taken on the work of Local Secretary there. It is a matter for regret that in the same county Dorchester Branch is unable to be continued owing to members having passed away, and most people in the place devoting all their time and interest to U.M.C.A. With regard to literature being supplied for meetings, services, etc., it would be a great help if secretaries would, when sending for it, say how many copies of leaflets, etc., they require. It is very difficult to know what to send when sometimes we are not even told whether it is a drawing-room meeting that is being held or a large meeting in a hall. The special Leaflets of Intercession for St. Nicholas' Day were not ready in time to send out by December 7, unfortunately : but the Bishop hopes that they will be used during the next quarter as well as Q.I.P., and perhaps some parishes who were not able to have a special celebration on behalf of the Mission on St. Nicholas' Day will be able to arrange to have one during that time. Further copies of the leaflet will be gladly supplied on application to me. It will be a great help if at the end of the year County Secretaries (and Local Secretaries where no County Secretary exists) would send me a complete list of the subscribers, etc., in their localities for the year. GERTRUDE M. SECCOMBE, Hon. Sec. ________________________________________

Cbildren's Branch.

MY DEAR CHILDREN,-- This letter brings you my best wishes for a very happy New Year. I am very glad that we have so many new members for the Association at Newcastle (two more have also joined our number at Great Berkhamsted), and I want you all, whether you are quite new members or have kept your rule of daily intercession for a long time, to thank God for all His love and goodness to us, and to pray Him that, during 1909, very many of those who are still heathen may be brought to know and love Him.

When we think of the many people in other lands who have never heard of Jesus Christ, we think first of the Coreans, be-cause it is for them that we more especially pray, and it is to them that we send our money and our gifts. But we must remember that Jesus Christ died for the whole world, and that we must pray that the Good News may be known north, south, east and west, in every corner of the globe. I have heard lately of so many different parts of the world where missionaries are working very hard, and I will tell you a little bit about one part, which is called Melanesia. I wonder whether any of you know where Melanesia is? If you look in your map you will see that it consists of a number of islands to the north of New Zealand. The people who live in these islands were all savages not so very long ago, but through the teaching and example of such good men as Bishop Selwyn, Bishop Patteson, and many others, a good many have become Christians, and are now teaching the Good News to others. The Melanesian Mission has a ship called The Southern Cross, and in this ship the missionaries are able to visit the different islands. One island further south than the others is called Norfolk Island, and here there is a very nice church, and a school for any boys whose friends are willing to let them go there and be taught. In Melanesia it seems to be always the child's uncle who has charge of him, and says whether he may go away to school!

At the end of the first two years these boys are taken in The Southern Cross back to their own islands to spend a few months at home, so that they may tell their friends what they have learnt, and ask if they may become Christians. When the holiday is over The Southern Cross calls at the islands for the boys they have left, and most of them are very glad to go back to school, and some are even waiting on the shore with their boxes when the ship arrives Others perhaps bring the news that they are engaged to be married and ask if the little girl they are engaged to may come, too; so if the friends are willing, the little girl also goes to Norfolk Island, and is taught there by the ladies of the Mission. As these boys grow up to be good Christians they go back as teachers to their own people, and some of them have good wives to go with them, and help them with their work. This is all I have time to tell you to-day about Melanesia, but it is just enough to show you what sort of work is being done in another little corner of the big world that you are praying for.   I was so pleased with that beautiful parcel of work that came from some of you at Swindon, and I am sure it will be very welcome in Corea. Your two little dolls, Margaretta, will be travelling out to Corea soon; what a pity they cannot write and tell us all that they see there! Our Children's Fund has reached just over ￡8 this year, which is almost the same as last year. I wonder whether it will grow a little larger in 1909? [Yes, please !--ED. MORNING CALM.]

Good-bye, dear Children. I am always your affectionate friend, MAUD I FALWASSER. ________________________________________

NEW MEMBERS

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VIEW OF ONE SIDE OF THE HOSPITAL COMPOUND (CHEMULPO)

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Report of the Executive Committee of the hospital naval fund.

PRESENTED TO THE GENERAL MEETING, October 19, 1908. THE Executive Committee have to report various important changes since the last General Meeting. In the first place Bishop Corfe has been succeeded by Bishop Turner, after fourteen years of strenuous work, during which the Mission has been founded and carried to the eminently satis-factory position in which we now find it. The Hospital Naval Fund has to do with the medical side of the Mission, which has had its vicissitudes, owing, more particu-larly, to the want of adequate financial support, which, with all our efforts, and the best intentions, we have never been able to give it. On the average we have been able to send out to the Bishop about ￡300 a year—this has been supplemented from outside sources; but if we could have sent double that amount, and even more, it could have been used to advantage. In consequence of this lack of funds, advantage was taken of the termination of Dr. Baldock's agreement to close the hospital at Seoul, and to concentrate our energies on the more necessary one at Chemulpo, which had been recently rebuilt and enlarged as a memorial to Dr. Landis, who, after eight years' admirable work, succumbed to typhoid fever. This Hospital of St. Luke's, Chemulpo, under the able management of Dr. Hugh H. Weir, is now in full working order. Dr. Weir, who is assisted by his wife in the capacity of honorary lady superintendent and nurse, went out to Corea in 1904, and is expected to arrive in England shortly on a well-earned furlough. The presence of Dr. Weir in England will, it is hoped, stimulate interest in this important department of the work. A women's ward has recently been added, and from the reports of naval officers on the China Station who have visited Chemulpo, the Committee have reason to congratulate the subscribers on the good work which is being done by their aid, and to tender their thanks to the Bishop, to Dr. and Mrs. Weir, and the hospital staff, for their efficient administration of our funds. The Bishop will tell you that to carry on the work and develop it still further, if possible, he requires at least ￡600 a   year, and he would be still better pleased to devote ￡800 a year to the medical work. Naval officers, who started this Fund to assist their friend Bishop Corfe, are carrying on the good work which he began, and by continuing their support to Bishop Turner will not only meet the heart's desire of Bishop Corfe, that the Navy should take an interest in the practical side of missionary work, but they will have the satisfaction of feeling that they are really working in a good cause. Consequent on the change of Bishops, it has been found necessary to change the title of the Fund. The original title was "Bishop Corfe's Mission, Hospital Naval Fund." The Committee, nevertheless, feel that we shall all wish to perpetuate Bishop Corfe's name in connection with our work in Corea, and our pride in the fact that it was founded by a naval chaplain. Accordingly, subject to the approval of this meeting, it is proposed to change the title to "Corean Mission, Hospital Naval Fund. Founded by Bishop Corfe, Chaplain R. N. (re-tired), first Anglican Missionary Bishop of Corea." Since our last meeting we have lost the following Vice-Presidents:-- Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Keppel; Admiral Sir Robert More-Molyneux ; Vice-Admiral T. B. M. Sulivan ; Admiral Sir Richard E. Tracey : and a much-valued friend of the Mission, who started the medical work and for many years administered the Fund-- Deputy-Surgeon General G. Wiles. The Rev. Samuel Kenah has been succeeded by Capt. J. H. Corfe as Hon. Treasurer. The work of Hon. Organising Secretary is being carried on by Bishop Corfe, although, for various reasons, he has not officially taken the title; but the Committee hope that he may eventually be able to do so, for they feel that his assistance in this capacity would be invaluable to the fund. We now have local secretaries in all the principal ports at home and abroad and on all foreign stations, and it is hoped that they will continue to help the Fund by keeping in touch with all those who wish well to the medical work in Corea : amongst these it is obvious that the warmest supporters may be expected to be found in those who, like the late Commander-in-Chief, Sir Arthur Moore, are serving on the China Station, and have unique opportunities of personally inspecting the work, The Committee have purposely omitted further statistics,   which are embodied in Dr. Weir's last report issued this year, of which copies are before the meeting. Signed on behalf of the Committee-- J. H. CORFE,. C. E. BAXTER. } Hon. Secs.

________________________________________ The Executive Committee of the Hospital Naval Fund met at the Royal United Service Institution at 3 P.M. on Friday November 6, the date having been postponed in order that Bishop Turner and Dr. Weir might both be present. There were present :--The Chaplain of the Fleet (in the chair), Bishop Corfe, Rev. J. C. Cox-Edwards, J. R. Clark, Esq., Capt. Henry Campbell, Capt. J. H. Corfe, Rev. Samuel Kenah, and C. E. Baxter, Esq. Letters of regret were read from Admiral Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle, Archdeacon W. Stuart Harris, and Commander A. Havergal. A report of the very successful General Meeting held at Admiralty House, Devonport, by kind permission of Admiral Sir W. H. Fawkes, was presented to the Committee. Bishop Turner and Dr. Weir, the latter of whom had not arrived home in time for the General Meeting, gave the Com-mittee much useful information. Dr. Weir was convinced that our hospital work in Corea would be useful for an indefinite period, and that with more doctors, a larger foreign staff for the hospital, and increased funds there was no limit to the good which might be done; also, that the cost of living in Corea having risen, the salaries of our staff should be proportionately raised. It is hoped to take advantage of Dr. Weir's presence in England for nearly a year to hold some drawing-room meetings at the home ports. Capt. W. T. C. Jones, D.S.O., R.M.L.I., was elected a member of the Executive Committee, and the Rev. Thomas Ravenshaw has been appointed Local Secretary for the Australian Station. The Easter Meeting, 1909, will be held on the second Wednesday in the quarter as usual. CHARLES E. BAXTER. Hon. Sec. Ex. Com. H.N.F.  

St. Peter's Community foreign Mission Association.

WE are quite accustomed to hear the question " Which is the Corean stall ?" asked repeatedly at the Bazaar held by the Associates of St. Peter's Community ; but this year there was a variation in the inquiry. Mrs. Robertson-Macdonald and the Misses Trollope must have had their patience sorely tried by having to tell the many would be customers clamouring for Corean treasures, "The curios have not arrived." By some unlucky contretemps the case was detained at Kobe on trans-shipment, and did not reach St. Peter's Home until the week following the Bazaar. Those remaining from the consignment of 1907 kept up a semblance of former glories on the first day, and on the second Bishop Turner most nobly came to the rescue, refurnishing the stall with his own beautiful personal gifts. Considering the absence of the universal attraction the stall did remarkably well, realising £87, and there need be no further outlay of curios for 1909. Warm thanks are due to those who sent contributions, the names of whom are given in this issue. Fund for training Corean Bible-women.---The need for this fund in Corea is very great. There are now ten Bible-women working in the various districts round Seoul, Kang Wha, and Sou Won, and of these, the Women's Auxiliary Association in Canada supports the Bible-women in Seoul. The sum of ￡28 10s. already collected by S.P.F.M.A. was handed over to Bishop Turner, and the fund sadly needs replenishing. Girls School at Sou Won.--Mention has already been made of the welcome gift of £100 as a private Pan-Anglican Thank-offering to St. Peter's Association. This has been allotted towards a suitable building for the Girls' School at Sou Won which Sister Cecil is carrying on so successfully under the great disadvantage of cramped space, etc. There is need of a paid teacher to help her, and Bishop Turner has arranged with the Secretary of St. Luke's Branch that the ￡10 hitherto given annually to support a Bed in the Women's Ward at Chemulpo should now be transferred to provide the payment of the native teacher's salary. Girls' Orphanage at Seoul.--There are now twenty-two children in the Orphanage, twelve of whom are adopted by friends in England and America. This is most welcome help. but the Secretary would like to point out that, though it is a   great relief to the Orphanage to pay for the support of an orphan, it is a great loss to the General Fund when that support is only given by diverting the subscriptions from one fund to another. This has happened lately in three cases, and when Branch and other subscriptions are reckoned upon as a source of income it leaves a deficit in the receipts to have them transferred. There is a great attraction in special funds. It is pleasant to have some definite object to support; but if all the fair promises of work in Corea are to be followed up there must be a continuance of the hitherto unfailing support of the General Fund. The sum for which we are pledged to Bishop Turner has hitherto been ￡300 a year. This would hardly suffice if the whole staff of eight Sisters was working in Corea. At present Sister Rosalie is in England on furlough, and Sister Margaretta, who has had four serious attacks of malarial fever this autumn, has been ordered home on sick leave. At the Central Committee Meeting on November 25 it was decided by Bishop Turner and Dr. Weir that another ￡50 must be raised; therefore we must do all in our power to provide ￡350. Day of Intercession and Thanksgiving.-- It was an immense privilege on December 1 to have the Bishop at St. Peter's Home for the Eucharist at 8 A.M., when he was the celebrant, assisted by Rev. M. N. Trollope, although, to everyone's regret, he had to leave immediately afterwards to join his ship at Genoa. In spite of fog and darkness the Intercessory Service at noon was well attended, and a helpful address was given by the Rev. P. H. Leary, Vicar of St. Augustine's, Kilburn. The afternoon meet-ing was one of special interest, as there were no fewer than five persons present who knew and had worked in Corea, and all felt the keen thrill of interest that comes from contact with "those in the front." Dr. Weir's clear and striking speech emphasised the need of further support of the Sisters in their strenuous work, and the Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke, who was cordially welcomed in his new capacity as Organising Secretary, also made a most amusing reference to the evil effects of over-work, with the cheering result that a donation of ￡10 has been received since the meeting, and several subscriptions have been increased or doubled. Notes of the addresses and speeches will be sent to all members of the S.P.F.M.A., and to any others on receipt of a stamped envelope. The Rev. Lord William Cecil was unavoidably detained by his Bishop on business concerning the Education Bill, but most kindly came later in the afternoon, and gave a helpful and spiritual address at Evensong on the needs and prospects of the   English Mission to Corea, as gathered from his recent visit to the Far East. The offerings throughout the day amounted to ￡8 16s. 9d. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE, Secretary S.P.F.M.A. ________________________________________

Contributors to the Corean Stall at the Bazaar held at Kensington, on November 18 and 19

The Mix Addeuluooke, Min. Blaich, Miss A. Brittenden, Lady Burrell, Miss Cow, Miss Elizabeth Chandler. Miss Mary Cobb, Miss Egerton, Miss Adeline Fielding, Miss E. C. Fowler, Miss Frampton, M. Gaskell, Miss B Going, Miss A Gralom, Mn. Hammer, Miss Hayward, Miss Hope, Miss Tulis Huckman, Miss Mabel Hyds, Miss Forence Jarrett, the Misses Kent, Miss E. Suff, Miss M. P. Martin, Miss H E Pepper Mis Emily Raynes, She Sanden, Miss Gurney Smith, Min Frances Street, Miss Gertrude Strait, Mes. Thorneville, Miss K. Turner, Miss Ann Whittaker, Sis Bessie White

WORKING PARTIES Members of Shipley Working Party. Members of Harleston Working Party, per Miss R. Ransom - King's Mewangi,” Sydenham, per Sister Anita St. Michael's Home, Cheddar. St. Peter's Gate, St. Leonard's-on-Sen. St. Leonard's Working Party : - Miss Bethune, Miss M. Chilton, Miss Florence Hall, Mrs. Makenes, Miss France Jones, Miss E Setman, Miss J. Stratton, Miss Siddons, Miss G. E. Woodward. Newcastle-on-Tyne Working Party - Mrs. Barf, Mr. and Misses Cowell, the Misses Dixon, Miss Ethel Graham, Miss Hudlow, Miss Hall, Mrs. Haswell, Miss Daisy Hill, Mr. Picton, Miss Snowden ________________________________________

ST. PETER'S COMMUNITY FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION.

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Correspondence.Ⅰ.

ST. PAUL'S, CHIN CHUN, COREA: July 6, 1908. DEAR MR. EDITOR, -- The calm of morning doesn't last very long in this unhappy country nowadays, and I fear the title of your maga-zine is something of a misnomer--the more so as it no longer represents a translation of the name of this land. Our English word "Corea" is a flesh-Creeping mispronun-ciation of the title of the kingdom from A.D. 918 to 1392. During that period, the country was called kö-ryǒ; I don't know who was responsible for the horrible false quantity in the transliteration. Before that date, from B.C. 2317 onwards, various titles had been in use. From 1392 to 1895, the name was “Cho-Sen," which may (or may not) be translated "Morning Calm." Since the great war of 1895, Corea has cast off her gentle yoke of the suzerainty of China, and is now called "Tai Han." The "Calm" is a thing of the past. I dare not trust myself to “let go” on the political situation, but the Japanese usurped authority, and the conduct of her lesser officials and military police and trading classes, have rendered the degraded condition of their nominally independent country so unbearable, that large numbers of mistaken patriots (mistaken, because of the hope-lessness of their cause) have taken up arms, and about one half of Corea is the shifting scene of a miserable guerilla warfare. Not only so, but the deep-rooted hatred and contempt which almost every Corean has felt for centuries, for his neighbour of Japan, is ten times intensified by the events of the last few years, beginning with the murder of Corea's Queen. Of course we have nothing to do with political relations, as such, but living as I do in a part of the disturbed area, these things are brought home to me in my work every day, and it is right that you should realise what some of our difficulties are. In this little town, for instance, the Japanese (not the Coreans, as the Bishop wrote by mistake in one of his letters) burnt sixty-seven houses last October. This was an act of reprisal, is the Coreans had previously burnt four houses in which Japanese were living. There has been a garrison of about thirty Japanese military police here ever since   This sort of thing has been going on for two or three years now, and God alone knows when or how it will all end. Naturally, my sympathies are all for the Coreans, and it is a most difficult matter to retain a sober judgment and strictly impartial attitude, when one witnesses the sorrows (however justly brought on) and sufferings of our dear people. There are faults all round, and political needs which drive our island friends, so you must not suppose that I condemn the Japanese wholesale; it is the results of the condition of affairs which affect us and our work, and which I lay before you--(I could do so in much greater detail)-- in order to direct your intercessions for ourselves, the Coreans, and the people of Japan. For ourselves, the serpent's wisdom in avoiding a false step in our attitude towards either party, and especially in retaining level-headedness in hearing Corea's tales of love, and the dove's gentleness in soothing hot hearts of hatred, and in trying to soften the blow, and heal the soreness, by consolations not of this world.

For the Coreans, a happy release out of all their afflictions, in God's own ways, in God's own time. For the Japanese, a knowledge of Jesus Christ, that--having become--they may behave as a truly Christian nation towards the people of Corea. Committing us all to your prayers, which have already proved, and are increasingly becoming, the main support of our work, as your representatives for God in this land. Yours sincerely, WILFRID N. GURNEY, ________________________________________

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ENGLISH MISSION, Sou Won, COREA. SS. Simon and Jude Day, 1908. DEAR SIR,-- A report of the opening of our new church at Sou Won on Saturday, August 1, will, I hope, have already appeared in the October number of MORNING CALM, so I need not trouble you with another long account. In spite of the rain and heat the church was crowded for the opening service with our Corean Christians and catechumens. Some of them had great difficulty in getting here; one party from a distant village were stopped by a flooded stream, and only those who could swim could come on, the rest had to go back.   Owing to various reasons, the members of the Mission were conspicuous by their absence, Sister Nora and Miss Lillingston being the only representatives present. The Rev. F. Kettlewell, of Japan, who was spending a short holiday in Corea, came down for the opening service and kindly stayed with me over the Sunday. He assisted me in the administration at Holy Communion, and as it was a terribly hot morning, and there were eighty-three communicants, I was exceedingly grateful to him for his help. The daily offices are said in the new church regularly, and the Sunday morning service for the Christians consists of Matins, Litany, and Holy Eucharist with sermon. At present it is impossible to have Saints' Day celebrations, as I am generally away in the country to celebrate for our Christians at St. Mary's, Pyeng Taik. It is a matter for thanksgiving that in Sou Won, where, three years ago, we only possessed a small prayer room, twelve feet by eight, and a following of some thirty inquirers, we have now a permanent church, over a hundred communicants, and about 1,500 catechumens and inquirers. It is a great joy to be in the new church and to have room to move about comfortably; the women are especially grateful, as they no longer have to step over one another and push and struggle in order to get up to the altar for their communion. The opening of the new church has, perhaps not unnaturally, brought in many fresh inquirers, who almost fill the church at the Sunday Mission Service, and the people in and near the city who are under instruction for baptism at Christmas number about seventy. The church still looks very bare inside, there are no frontals, no proper sanctuary carpet--my sitting-room carpet is doing duty at present, but it is very small and most disgracefully shabby--in fact we have no proper sanctuary furniture, beyond the altar which was given by Mr. Trollope. Readers of MORNING CALM will be glad to know that a friend in Shanghai, who has been very liberal to the Mission during the past few years, has promised a big bell for the new church, and a lady in Seoul has presented us with an organ. The foreigners in the Far East have done a fair share towards building the new church here at Sou Won, and I hope people at home will do their best towards paying off the debt on the church and supplying us with necessary furniture. The children of St. Peter's, Great Berkhamsted, have promised a font, so we are getting along slowly.   The two schools here are flourishing. The girls' school, under Sister Cecil, has quite outgrown its present accommodation, and a new school is to be built next spring. The boys' school is doing well, both at work and play ; a donation of fifty yen (about ￡5) from the Emperor of Corea has enabled us to indulge in the expensive luxury of a Japanese-made football costing 18s., and the boys are very keen on it. All the children in the schools here had a most exciting day on October 2, when his Majesty the Emperor of Corea paid a visit to some royal tombs near this city. A temporary station had been erected on the line near the tombs and a grand new road made. Our children, owing to the very early start they insisted on my making, 5-30 A.M., got an exceedingly good place on the side of the road by which the Imperial procession was to pass, and so obtained a good view of the Emperor both going and returning. One of the Corean school managers gave all the boys a pair of socks and a Corean flag, and in addition presented the school with a banner and 10s. to buy refreshments. I do not think they will ever forget the day; they had two good meals and an enormous amount of sweets, biscuits, and fruit, and, most important of all, they saw their Emperor, and are in consequence, if that is possible, more patriotic than ever. The country district work is simply overwhelming, and it is impossible for one man to deal with it at all adequately. There are now five district chapels--St. Mary, St. John Baptist, St. Peter, St. Mark, and St. Barnabas--and in all these places there are, or will be, Christians before the end of this year, and that means that in each place, there ought to be at least a monthly celebration of Holy Communion. About 150 are under instruction for baptism at Christmas in these out stations, and it is a physical impossibility for one man to look after Sou Won parish properly, and visit these out-stations regularly. The work is growing on all sides, and applications reach me every month asking me to visit fresh villages and start work. Mr. Cooper's arrival will be a great help, if he is stationed at Sou Won permanently until he knows something of the language, as he will be able to look after the school, and celebrate for the Sisters, whilst I am away in the country. I am wondering if anybody is going to be kind enough to give me the bicycle I asked for, in the October number of MORNING CALM. It would save so much time and labour in my journeys, and I should arrive at the Mission stations com-paratively fresh after a ten-mile ride, instead of being tired out   by a ten-mile walk. My present bicycle, given me four years ago, is quite worn out and is useless for country work. Yours very truly, GEORGE A. BRIDLE. ________________________________________

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ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL, CHEMULPO. DEAR SIR, -- After an absence of over two years, one naturally looks for changes --(1) in the Mission Staff, (2) in the scope of the work, and (3) in politics. Five of the staff are out of the country on furlough, and though furlough is a necessity--and a pleasant necessity too--not one of them left Corea willingly, all being loth to leave their work even for a time. So far I have not seen any of the other stations, and even if I had it is not my place to criticise favourably or otherwise. Generally speaking, we seem to have improved in our methods, profiting by the experience of those preceding us. Certainly there never was a time when the work has been carried on with so much spirit as the present. When one considers the growth of the work one gives honour to those who did that most difficult part of it--the pioneering--especially to those whose graves are in Corea. It is a real pleasure to meet some patients who knew Dr. Landis--Nam-Teuk-Si, as he was called--and to hear them speak in terms of highest praise and appreciation of his work here, Equally pleasing to one's vanity is the flow of old Kanghoa patients who have called to pay their respects. It is sad to hear the tales of oppression and robbery which many have suffered at the hands of the Righteous Army, Fortunately only the rich have been mulcted so far, and as most of their riches have been gotten by money-lending at extortionate rates of interest, perhaps it is as well that they should be bled first. The Japanese have not effectively occupied the rural districts, and these robbers, posing as patriots, are making life unbearable for the agricultural class. The Corean soldiery did most of the police work in the past, and with their disbandment, and   replacement by a few Japanese gendarmes, things have not improved. The medical work done here has been of a high standard. The old difficulty of making poor in-patients pay for treatment and food is still a real one. What is one to do when sick people are dumped down by their friends at the Hospital door and left? Quite recently two such died on admission, others were the result of accidents, and in such cases the question of pecuniary remuneration is out of the question. Another case was admitted to the Women's Ward, after a boat journey over-night, the patient suffering from double pneumonia ! from which she died two days later. So, while those responsible for the conduct of the Hospital are anxious to make the work more or less self-supporting, the odds are heavy against them. It is a great joy to have lived to see a Women's Ward erected and comfortably fitted out for ten patients in a separate building, after years of struggling with owners of the various sites on which the new ward has been erected, and to see the whole place fitted up so well and on foreign lines, and com-pletely surrounded by a wall, and the whole question of drainage settled up. I do not think any other hospital with foreign skilled nursing is run on such economical lines as St. Luke's--every penny is carefully spent, realising that the source of support comes from all ranks. Certainly those of the Services who have done us the honour of visiting the Hospital have been loud in their praises of the work done at so small a cost. With regard to the spiritual work here—i.e. the evangelising work--there is the ever-present difficulty of the shifting character of the population, also of the shifty character--as anyone who has got into debt, and is liable to arrest, will run off to one of the Treaty ports, like Chemulpo, and be lost in this rabbit-warren of a place. Every credit is due to Dr. and Mrs. Weir for holding the fort, and carrying on aggressive constructive work here, amid such unproductive surroundings. Mission work is difficult in the country districts; trebly so in Treaty ports where drink and lust have such a hold. We are still with-out a resident priest to give us Sunday Services. The priest in charge of the Japanese work kindly gives us a celebration in English on Thursdays, coming down from the capital for that purpose (and also for the purpose of taking a Japanese class on Wednesday nights). What we badly need is a Corean-speaking priest to carry on aggressive work. Protestant Nonconformists from America can obtain plenty of recruits--the Presbyterians alone have raised twenty-four in one year! Why cannot the   great Anglican Church do the like for this Mission ? We could find work for forty! It is only the scarcity of foreign workers that limits the results. Most pressing of all is the need for one who will run a school for catechists, for it is certain that Corea will never be Christianised by direct foreign work. We ought to be able to give to all suitable voluntary workers a course of instruction, and so endue them with such Missionary zeal that Christianity would be self-propagating. We do what we can; but the pastoral oversight of the work is heavy, and precludes a persistent course of instruction. The Sisters and Mrs. Hillary have done much in this direction amongst the women--much that will never be known, as they are too modest to tell of it. ARTHUR F. LAWS, M.D.

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NAK TONG, SEOUL. DEAR SIR,-- Mention has been made more than once of work among the Japanese at Yong San, and of Miss Grosjean's visits there week by week, as well as for Sunday-school, so it may be interesting to explain what it is, how it began, and why it was undertaken when there is so much other work. Yong San is an old Corean village adjoining Mapo, and is where the public execution ground was situated, the scene of the martyrdom of the four French priests in 1866. The village lies near the Han River, two and a half miles from Seoul, and has been made the point of junction for the railway line to Wiju in the north, and is the military headquarters. The railway people have established their offices and resi-dences at Yong San also, which makes a new town of railway men, in which there are about 1,500 single men, living two by two in what are called official boarding-houses, in addition to quarters for married men, as well as the engine-drivers and the higher officials, About the middle of last year the railway authorities asked the Y.M.C.A. board at Tokyo, to send a man to Corea who might live at Yong San, and carry on the same social and religious work among the railway men as was so useful among the soldiers during the war, it being rather the social and educa-tional side of the society's work that appeals to the Japanese, and they would not allow any distinctly religious body to establish itself at Yong San. Accordingly Mr. Imai Kumajiro, who had been engaged in the Y.M.C.A. work in Manchuria, was sent over at the end of 1907, quarters were assigned to him, and a house was set apart for meeting rooms, etc., as part of the railway town. Mr. Imai is a member of the Anglican communion, Nippon Sei Ko Kwai and he asked us to help him so as to supplement the social work by a direct religious influence, and as the women and children there need help as much as the men (for the Y.M.C.A. at Yong San is not confined to young men alone), Mr. Imai asked that Miss Grosjean might go regularly and help with the women. A large Sunday-school was at once begun, and in the spring about sixty children came, rather irregularly it is true. Imai and two other men teach the boys and Miss Grosjean has the older girls, with a Japanese woman to help with the smaller ones. Since the summer the Sunday-school has grown, and Miss Inaba is going down regularly with Miss Grosjean, Besides the Sunday-school, there is one Christian family, Mr. and Mrs. Takenouchi and three little girls, who come from Nagano, diocese of S. Tokyo, and two other women, Mrs. Asada and Mrs. Fukuda, as well as others with whom we get in touch, and Mr. Imai's family have joined him since the summer. To see these women Miss Grosjean goes down each Tuesday, and has a woman's meeting one Tuesday in the month. All this is very hard on Miss Grosjean, of course, especially as she has only been out a year and a half now, and is still in the midst of the language study, and so is unable to say much (none of us ever grow to be able to say all we would wish): but in spite of these objections there was the need--the opening--and if we did not take it the opportunity would be lost, the door shut. But we realise that it is not so much what we say as what we are. Miss Grosjean began to go to Yong San to do what teaching she can, but much more to meet the people, to become friendly with them, to put herself out a good deal to see them, and so to enter their lives a little and let them see that there is someone who cares for them, and from that to lead them to an idea of the Father's love . STEPHEN H. CARTWRIGHT.  

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NAK TONG, SEOUL: October 22, 1908. DEAR MR. EDITOR,--

This summer I was able to spend three months in Japan. It is hard in Corea to realise Japanese life as it is in Japan itself. In many respects the contrast is very marked, and I am extremely glad to have had the opportunity of seeing the Japanese at home.

The first part of the time I spent in Tokyo, partly at St. Hilda's Mission, and partly at Sci Mariya Kwan, St. Mary's House, where the S.P.G, ladies live and work. It was a very helpful as well as a very enjoyable time, and I was able to talk over various difficult points in the women's work here with Miss Rickards and Miss Weston. I was able to see something of the work done at both these Mission Houses, and was also very much interested in going over several Japanese schools of different types, the Peeress' school, the Tora no Mon High School, and a private high school kept by a Japanese lady, in which the boarders are entirely responsible for their own house-keeping. Each boarding house consists of four or five girls, who do everything for themselves, under the superintendence of a matron.

Although there is no school work in the Mission to the Japanese in Corea, it is useful to see on what lines a modern Japanese girl's education is carried out, and what in consequence is likely to be her mental outlook.

I also saw a large school for slum children in one of the very poor parts of Tokyo. The occasion was "Speech Day," and many of the performances of the children were wonderful con-sidering the material on which the school has to work.

On July 21, there was a very helpful quiet day at Sei Mariya Kwan, the addresses were given by Mr. Walton, from Yokohama : and on July 22 the S.P.G. women workers met for a conference. Several interesting reports were read, and the discussions on various points proposed for consideration were helpful in showing the conditions of work at various centres, and the difficulties to be met with in each of them. A great deal of nterest was taken by all in the Japanese work in Corea

After the conference every one separated for the summer holidays. I went for a few days to Hakone with some of my friends, and then to the hot springs at Kowakidani, about two hours' walk from Hakone. It rained for exactly half the time I was there, so I did not do much outside. Hakone and the surrounding country are lovely. I should like to have stayed there much longer, but had many things to fit in. I spent three weeks at Kahuizawa, which is high up in the mountains, and very cool, not to say cold. I was so much interested in the number of English wild flowers I found there. Then I returned to Tokyo, so that I had a fortnight of the new term at Sei Mariya Kwan. I spent one day at Shizuoka on the way back, for which I am very glad, as one of the women who has been very helpful to her fellow church women there has come this month to join her husband in Seoul. If one has seen the place they come from, or has met any of their friends in Japan, it makes such a bond of union with them over here.

I stayed three days at Fusan, on the way back to Seoul, so have had about a week there this summer, and feel that I am beginning to know some of the people a little, so that it will be easier to go down again.

There is not a very great deal to be said about the Seoul work this quarter. It is impossible for anyone to do very much outside work in the hottest weather, as Japanese visiting cannot be done late in the afternoon. Japanese women do not generally care about visitors after four o'clock as they are busy getting the evening meal ready.

Inaba San's work is going on steadily. Two or three of the women she is teaching are evidently increasing in their desire to learn, and there are new openings which we hope to follow up.

Sunday-school is the least satisfactory feature of Seoul work at present. It seems impossible to get the children out of the streets on Sunday afternoons. They come for a week or two, and seem to like it, but then disappear, perhaps to turn up again, perhaps not. This being the case I felt it would be much more profitable for Inaba San to transfer her energies to Yong San with Miss Grosjean. The conditions there make for a fairly large attendance, and I do what I can myself with the few children we can collect here.

BEATRIX ELRINGTON.  

Local notes.

SEOUL-- In the interval between the Rev. M. N. Trollope's departure and the arrival of the Rev. J. S. Badcock, the Rev. W. N. Gurney did duty in Seoul and Chemulpo. The Corean Church is in such an out-of-the-way place--hidden in a corner of the foreign quarter--that it makes the work more difficult than it would be were the Mission Compound in a more thickly populated Corean part of the city. But as Seoul is the constant rendezvous of Christians from all other districts, there is scope for good work; and there is also hope that work in the villages round may be opened up. The Orphanage flourishes as usual. The eldest girl, Maria Gee, is to be married next month to a Christian who lives not far from Chin Chun, and her trousseau is nearly ready--clothing and warm winter quilt were made by herself--for in the skilful use of her needle, as well as in the other household duties so essential for a Corean woman, she has been well instructed at the Orphanage, of which she has been an inmate for some years. The women who came to Seoul from Chin Chun for a month's instruction in the Doctrine, were much impressed by the difference between Christian and heathen methods of bringing up children. CHEMULPO.--There has been almost a complete change of Mission workers here, as Dr. and Mrs. Weir and Miss Rice have gone home on furlough, and their places are supplied by Dr. and Mrs. Laws and Miss Lillingston. KANGHWA.--In August the women teachers in the island met for a week of study. The following week all the male teachers in the island also met at the city for a similar purpose. About 35 or 36 persons were present at these classes. Lectures were given on Church History, the Prayer-book, and the Use of the Psalms. During this month special days of study have been held for the Chris-tians and catechumens in four different places, viz. : The city, On Sou Tong. Ankol, and Ta-oni. Altogether about 600 people attended the lectures given.

On Sunday, August 30, a chapel was opened at the village of Song-Chun, about four miles outside the north gate of the city. The chapel was dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels. The work in this village has been going on for several years, and we have about 50 Christians and catechumens in that district.

New work has been opened in the village of Kaiou-ti, on the mainland to the east of Kanghwa. This makes the fourth village in that district in which work is being done.

SOU WON.--News of this Mission Station will be found in the Rev. G. A. Bridle's letter. CHIN CHUN.--From July 2 to 20, Sister Margaretta, accom-panied by Sister Edith Helena, stayed here, and held daily classes for the instruction of the women, and a fair number attended regularly and studied with diligence. Four of these women have since stayed with the Sisters in Seoul for a month's further study. There is now in the Chin Chun district a total of 501 catechumens, of whom 376 are men and boys, and 125 women and girls. Communicants number 14. The district of Chin Chun spreads over a very wide area--some 60 miles or more in length--and it is impossible for the priest-in-charge (the Rev. W. N. Gurney) to visit all the 200 or so towns, villages and hamlets in which there are people studying the Doctrine and desiring to be taught. In order to do really efficient work the district should be subdivided, with two priests in both parts, which means that three more clergy are required for this district alone, and that without any opening up of fresh work (Will our supporters kindly note this? --ED, M. C.] It is hoped that at Christmas there will be about one hundred baptisms, the candidates being from three of the centres.

NOTES ON JAPANESE WORK.

SEOUL-Miss Elrington was in Japan during the three months from the end of June to the end of September, and spent the time in study, seeing the life of the Japanese in their own country, besides meeting those who have been at work there for many years. She has returned much the better physically also, the result of special treatment for her lameness with hot baths. Peter Murata, one of the faithful, has been married, but his wife is a Buddhist. These things are arranged by the family. We ask for intercession that she may learn to believe. Miss Grosjean has begun her work at Yong San again; it had been interrupted during the summer. Miss Inaba is going there to help with the Sunday-school CHEMULPO.---The Japanese house for a catechist's dwelling and class-room is finished, but there is no occupant yet. Mr. Luke Aoyama is returning, however, and will do some work, though not as a regular catechist.   During the summer Mr. Cartwright has been giving instruct-tion each week on Wednesday evenings, and Matins has been said on Sundays as usual, Mr. Murata or Mr. Ito going down from Seoul for the purpose.

FUSAN.--Mr. Cartwright was unable to visit Fusan in July, as the railway was broken by the rains. At the end of September Iki Kyujiro, the catechist, came to Seoul for a week, which he seemed to enjoy. He was much struck by the Corean style of building, and said that it was very suitable for a church. The visit was a help in his spiritual life, and a broadening of his ideas generally, for it was the first time he had seen anything of Corea, having scarcely been out of Fusan hitherto. On October 11 a young man, Toki, was baptised, and chose the name Peter, the meaning of which seems to appeal to the Japanese, perhaps because stability is what they feel they lack. Toki was being kept back till the return of the Bishop, that he might receive the Laying on of Hands at the same time; but as his marriage to a Christian has been arranged for October 22, be was baptised so as to be married is a Christian.

MASAMPO.-- In August Mr. Cartwright went to Masampo, but not in September, as other engagements hindered. The little house which had been rented for meeting has been given up as the man who chiefly interested himself in it has gone. Mr. Cartwright simply visited the people, but did not preach.

WORK AMONG WOMEN IN VILLAGES NEAR SOU WON.

EXTRACT FROM LETTER.--" On Tuesday I was at San Chik Mal, where the little Church of St. Peter was opened last Easter Monday. It is rather uphill work there among the women, as they are very ignorant. Elizabeth, the wife of John Chun, the catechist, is a very nice young woman, but has a good deal to do looking after the house and her little son, so has not much time for teaching, Monica Ko visits there sometimes, but at present the work among the women has not grown much. The evening I was there John had told all the women to come for a class, followed by a magic-lantern service. Thirty or forty women came, and Monica, Elizabeth, and I tried our best to teach them the very first facts of religion. It was hard work, on account of their extreme ignorance, but we hope a few may be roused to come forward and learn. About twelve gave in their names and said they wished to be taught. They were much interested in the pictures, which John explained very simply,   but I think he found it difficult to make the meaning plain enough for them to understand. “The next day we walked on to a little village on the coast, Paik Sok Po--a very pretty walk of about seven or eight miles. We visited a catechumen on the way, and as she begged to be allowed to cook food for Monica and Martin (the ‘boy,’) we rested there for nearly two hours, which was longer than I had intended, and I was glad when we reached Paik Sok Po. John had brought the lantern and given out that there would be a service for women in the evening, and we settled we would do as at San Chik Mal, and have some teaching first, but our inten-tions were not carried out. It was all so new to the women (who are quite ignorant country-women) that they did not know what to make of it, and crowded into the church, nearly everyone with one or more babies, and nearly every baby employed the time weeping! Outside a crowd of small boys were being driven from one side by the churchwardens, and run-ning back to the other with much loud talking and noise Monica and I tried to teach, but found it was useless. Whispering and consulting as to what the strange creature in black could be, made it quite hopeless, so I called John and asked him to have the pictures first, and then I would teach anyone who stayed afterwards. He came in and arranged the lantern and began, but several times had to stop to remonstrate when whispering women and whimpering babies drowned his voice. However, again we hoped that some had, at any rate, found there was something to learn, and those who remained afterwards were most attentive and tried their best to learn all they could. Indeed, they were so keen, that we had another class for them at 6.30 the next morning, before we started to walk to Pyung Taik (twelve miles away), and so home by train. The women are very busy now--some working in the fields, but most of them in their own little yards picking beans, peas, rice, etc., off the stalls, and preparing and carrying food to the men who are hard at work cutting the rice, so the evening and early morning are the only times they can come to classes just now. “Paik Sok Po is quite a small place, but steamers come every three or four days from Chemulpo—I suppose chiefly to carry away rice and other grain."

FOOTBALL AT SOU WON SCHOOL.

It was my pleasure, just recently, to be the “son-nim” (honourable guest) of the Rev. G. A. Bridle, priest-in-charge of the English Mission at Sou Won.   Readers at home of MORNING CALM may be interested to learn that, among the boys who attend the English Mission Boys' School at Sou Won, there are some whose energy and dash on the football field would surprise those people who, in their ignorance, are fond of telling us that the Coreans have no "grit"! From this, the reader will have assumed that football is indulged in by Mr. Bridle's school-boys. Indulged in--yes. I ache when I remember that, on a recent Saturday afternoon, I accompanied those boys to the playing-field--a piece of ground about eighty yards long and about six yards wide at each end, and about twenty yards wide in the middle! The boys were duly arranged into two teams, about ten a side, and as I had not kicked a football for some years, and was therefore nervous of my “staying power," I started gently by being "moon-jiggy" (lit, doorkeeper--goalkeeper !) for the "first hall," Mr. Bridle acting in the same position at the other end, besides being referee! I had a sneaking impression that my side were confident of victory, because I believe that Mr. Bridle had told the boys that the “son-nim” was a great player! Well, the whistle went for the start, and then the fun com-menced. In spite of all that they had been told about keeping their positions on the field, each boy was quite intent on getting near the ball and doing his best to give it a kick nearer his opponents' goal, and the consequence was that instead of being like "soccer" it was more often like a "scrum" at "rugger"! A tremendous shout announced the scoring of the first goal. The victors pro tem, were dancing round each other, gloating immensely over their success. But their joy was short-lived. The other side took the loss of that goal very much to heart, and from their faces it appeared that some of them were not far from crying--one would remonstrate with another for being where he was not wanted, and for not being where he was wanted--and so on. And then they kicked off, their teeth clenched, and battle gleaming in their eyes, determined to equalise. What excitement, too, when their persistency was duly rewarded and the score was "one all"! The excitement of a Cup-tie crowd at the Crystal Palace could not compare with the excitement of those youngsters! The “second half” was as full of "dash" as was the first. The boys did not seem to tire at all, and when "time" was called, after an hour's play, they were all quite ready to go on, for the score was then “two all,” and victory to either side   would have made that side, and the performances of its indi-vidual players, a subject of much discussion for the next week. The boys are not likely to suffer from bruised shins, for they wear padded socks and shoes made of hemp. It is amusing to see these shoes flying in all directions when the wearers miskick, as they often do. The football is crude, but there is no doubt but that it is thoroughly enjoyed by every boy. G. W. G., Chelmulpo. ________________________________________

The Spirit of Missions.

WORK IN CARPENTARIA.--The Bishop of Carpentaria said that the Japanese, Chinese, and others come over to Australia and they go back to their own country, and, crowded and crushed and cramped as they are--Japanese into their little territory in Japan, and the Chinese into their territory, small compared with the population--their thoughts are continually turning towards this vast area of Australia : and I maintain that it is a matter of the most primary importance to such men what kind of representatives of our race those are with whom they come in contact when they first come to Australia. Mind, many of these are the only white people with whom they come in contact at all, because great numbers of them go straight back to their own country and form their ideas of the English race to a very large extent from the few thousands of white men that they meet in the Far North of Australia ; and the opinion that they form of our race is going to have it very large influence on our future history. They are a very far-seeing race; they have great ambitions and great ideas for their country. It seems to me perfectly evident, and it is a fact which has been known since the days of Horace, that there is one thing, and one thing alone, on which the character, the force and the power of a nation depends, and that is just what Horace said--on their religion. If these Japanese, Chinese, and others who come over to Australia find the white men there slack, careless, self-indu-lgent, and without a religion which has any influence on their lives, it is going to be a very serious factor in the future history of our race, because our colonies are bound up almost inextric-ably with the Mother Country. ________________________________________ WOMEN'S WORK IN MELANESIA.--"Our New Hebrides Women's Station, under Miss Hardacre, has been open all the   year, and, under Miss Kitchen, in the Solomons the greater part of it. A very great deal of good work has been done at each of them. We have by them got into real touch with some of the women, and learnt how very ignorant we have been of their true condition and needs. It has not been altogether pleasant to have our eyes opened, but we could never have helped them without. I am most thankful for the work of these stations, believing as I do that very great good will come of them. The ladies teach daily in the morning schools, and hold large classes for women later in the day. They teach sewing and cutting-out, and give medicine and advice to the sick. They visit the villages near the station on foot, and occasionally reach those at a distance."—(From Report of Mission.) ________________________________________ SALE OF LIQUOR IN MELANESIA.--" The Anglo-French Convention for the New Hebrides was not signed until the end of the year, and pending its signature the sale of liquor to the natives in the southern islands of that group was greater than ever. Our island of Opa was, according to Commander D'Oyly, 'the hotbed of the gin trade, and liquor was poured into it from all sources.’ ‘The settlers,’ he wrote in his report, ‘who are almost all French, make their living by the sale of gin and firearms to the natives.' Besides the liquor imported here, there were said to be three stills for the local manufacture of ‘grog.’ In Ambrym, close by, I was told by the Presbyterian missionary, Dr. Bowie, that on May 18 there were landed at one trader's store 160 cases of this poison, and 200 cases more within the next two months. Patients with delirium tremens and other complaints due to alcoholic poisoning were constantly being dealt with at the New Hebrides Hospital, and accidents and deaths by gunshot wounds caused by drunken natives were very common. Happily, except in Opa, our natives escaped this abominable traffic. We saw no grog, grog-drinking, nor drunken men in any of our islands: It seemed to be confined to those further south in the group, where white settlers are more numerous and the islands more easily reached by small vessels." --(Report of Mission.) ________________________________________ KANAKAS RETURN TO MELANESIA.—"The year 1907 will be memorable for the return from Queensland of the Melanesian labourers, or ‘Kanakas,’ to their homes and the cessation of the Queensland labour traffic. The first duty of the Mission during the year was to such of these 9,000 'returns'   as belonged to our diocese, and every effort was made to fit them into their new surroundings: to avert the evils that were to be feared when so many half-civilised natives came back from a land where the arm of the law was strong to one where it was weak, many of them probably with a grievance against the white man for having cast them out and closed the door for ever against their return; and to reap the benefit of large num-bers of Christian boys from Mission schools in Australia who might give valuable help to existing Christian centres, or open up new ones in heathen places. In all other islands except Mala the Christian ‘returns’ suffered no risks on account of their faith, but settled quietly in their hornes, building houses, making gardens, taking to themselves wives, and joining in worship on Sundays. I did not hear of ill-usage offered to the ‘Kanakas’ anywhere. Nor, strange to say, did one 'Kanaka' regret having returned, nor say one word against the white man for having deported him."--(Report of Mission.) ________________________________________ A VALUABLE NURSE IN JAPAN. — There is much happi-ness in Numadzu just now, for Koshishi San, the nurse who wishes to devote herself to lepers, has surprised and delighted everyone, including herself, by doing unexpectedly well in her examinations. This will give her, of course, a better chance in doing the work on which she has set her heart. ________________________________________ Wants Column. 1. Coloured pictures (avoiding any with nude figures) of religious teaching. 2. “The Gospel and the Church,” by Alfred Loisy (translation of "L’Evangile et l'Eglise "), 3s. 6d., published by Pitman. 3. “Passing Protestantism and Coming Catholicism,” by Newman Smith, D.D., 5s. net, published by Hodder & Stonghton. 4. “The Little Lives of the Saints,” by the Rev. Percy Dearner, 2s. 6d., pub-lished by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. 5. “The Gospel in Action,” by the Bishop of London, 3s. 6d., same publishers. 6. Small Crucifixes, any member. SEOUL-Orphanage. Large school maps to hung up. Pictures, coloured or otherwise, of sacred salt. Pictures from illustrated papers, such as the Graphic and illustrated News. Odds and code of wool and woested. Knitting pins. Beads. Scraps of all sorts (especially woollen) to make patchwork quilts. Scraps of silk for Corean purses. Please address to “The Sister Superior, St. Peter's Mission House, Seoul, Corea.” CHEMULPO - A pair of b u ses for the church. Coloured pictures of sacred subjects for the class room in the Japanese house. Please address, “Miss Pooley. St. Luke's Hospital, Chemulpo, Corea.”. KANGHWA.--Chalice and peten for Paik Chyen Church. Altar linen for Paik Chyen Church. Chalice and paten for Ankol Church. Please address, "Rev. F. Hillary, Kang Hoa City, Kang Hoa, Corea.”   Sou Won.--(1) A set of Communion vessels for the altar of St. Stephen, Sou Won. (2) Some footballs for the tw of the school. Tennis-balls, old or new. (3) Picture books--preferably on sacred subjects. Pocket knives and other things suitable to give as prices to the school boys. (4) A good carpet for the sanctuary of the new church. Please address, “Rev. G. A. Bridle, care of Messrs. Holme, Ringer & Co., Chemulpo, Corea." ________________________________________ Pan-Anglican Thankoffering. We have received from the Treasure of the above fund the following sums, and have, so far as we have been able to do so, sent our acknowledgments to those who so generously have been anxious to help us. In addition to these we have to thank others who sent us money which arrived too late to be included in the Thankoffering, especially one donor whose gift of ￡100 was to be given to the Sisters' work. We have spoken of this before. As to the General Fund, our readers know that no definite statement will be made till Christmas, that every object that needs help may be thoughly sifted before the final decision is come to, but we fear that the demands of other countries will be considered to be of so much greater importance than ours that it is not probable we shall receive any help from it, though a claim was put in for assistance for our educational work. Gunal F Dace of War s : Teese of York. Parish of Ln . 13: Dice of Southwark {t: Die Leaders. Newcale Paris of August, 20 Cathedral, St George's Jesco, 25: Nr. L N Loting, TX Chichester, 21. Toal, C od For SP A Doce Wakefield, St. Pear's Sorely stor Hal Na Falico Peterborough, Disco Rocher, .: Discoflacher (H.MS. Natal !: Diocene of achter, 615 61: Da ZA TO For t of OSS . Res. F. R. Hillary's Work, s. Dice of pa, TV e Tree , Cost. . For Sitem' W ) 2100: Sou Won Church Cabready colgad), SN W Chur TP. H . Lipur G. Gear, u: R . O. Mika, Total, 46 y. Sa So I Clwr wilding Fund Already acknowledged, 44 d. Ac , Duane, ar a ba The Nh Adele , Miss Som 41Collecties, Bali , T .Ner To Copthorne Chyst Gerra , Toal, LIST d e l for Bow Wow Church M. Fad-Collection Meeting. Last ta) 6. Collections, St. Nicholas Mix, Newcastle Tys, ; Donate, M Franco, D . Tal Training Home for Women Teacher colocad by St. Peter's F.M.A. . Se Grand Collecte al Meeting Pro Cyst St.Ge Kurt Whi, Neay Charan, Tualetel od Sest direct toiser Nar Toalha Receiver Won Church from Hatinggal bers Str. Postal ________________________________________ COREAN EDUCATION FUND. SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER. Friends Havilla de S , CE C , SL Clip twy FECHAD awToLEE 1 Rosalie Marie Carlin, Ryde Laage, Sanley Road, Gurray L ________________________________________ HOSPITAL NAVAL FUND. CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED DURING QUARTER ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1909. Hos Faily LayAdana ar Cender H. B. A . N., 3. per Rex. Ha l SCH ERRN, RCC RHM , MEN Dance 10 CE , RN M GM S. Embre, per a Good RN. HM Dack, S o: Die Hands, RN WTC JILL, 2. Rex, SL KN ZIL M . L e r Mary, RS Black Cham, Cender CMP IN, W. S Howardowo C C Th . per Mabel Wewe Nicolas Church, Now L CT W XN Inter Dewit Acco , Total,