Morning Calm v.23 no.131(1912 Jan.)

Letter from the Bishop.

MY DEAR FRIENDS,-- My last letter was written just as I was on the point of leaving England, on the eve of Holy Cross Day: this is being written from Seoul, the ancient capital of Corea, on the Feast of All Saints. This is a memorable date for us, as it is the twenty-second anniver-sary of the consecration of Charles John Corfe, our first Bishop, and the first anniversary of the burial of Arthur Beresford Turner, our second Bishop, who was laid to his rest in our little cemetery in the suburbs of Seoul just a year ago to-day. As he passed away on the Festival of SS. Simon and Jude, 1910, it will be natural and easy to keep his “years in mind” regularly year by year on the morrow of that festival, and possibly also to visit his grave, as we are hoping to do this afternoon, on All Saints' Day. Our own little cemetery, as some of you will remember, adjoins the general Foreign Cemetery. in a picturesque spot called Yang-Haw-chin, on the banks of the river Han, about an hour's walk distant from the City Gates. I find the memory of Arthur, our late Bishop, very green and fresh here still, and, if his example is an inspiration to me, I fear it will be none the less difficult for his successor to live up to the reputation which he left behind. May God grant rest and peace to his soul, and enable me to fulfil worthily the task which he has bequeathed to me! I do not think that I need now delay you with a long account of my journey out. I took the first part leisurely, staying one night in Berlin and two nights in Petersburg on my way to Moscow, where I met Bishop Cecil (Boutflower), of S. Tokyo (Japan), who was to be my companion in the ten days' railway journey across Siberia. The features of that route are likely to become more and more familiar to readers of MORNING CALM now that it is so rapidly superseding the old, tiresome sea journey of six or seven weeks which used to separate England and the Far East. Things move rapidly nowadays, and, although I have only been in Corea a few weeks, already changes have taken place which will bring Seoul into more direct and easy communication with Europe, Hitherto, owing to the unfinished state of the railway in Manchuria, north of Corea, the problem has always been how to bridge over the 1.000 miles which lay between Seoul and the nearest point of Siberian railway. Some have preferred to risk the fearful pleasures of the unfinished railway route through Manchuria; others have gone by sea to Dalny (Port Arthur) and there joined the South Manchurian railway, which effects a junction with the Siberian main line at Harbin; while others have done as I did, and formed a connection with Wladiwostok (the eastern terminus of the Siberian railway) vid Japan and the Japan Sea. To-day it is announced that the line through North Corea and Manchuria, viâ Mukden, to Harbin is completed, and we shall soon be seeing the International "Wagons-lit" running into the Nandaimon (South Gate) station in Seoul. Miss Grosjean, who starts on her furlough at the end of this month, intends to travel by this route, and hopes to reach London in thirteen days from Seoul!

We reached the terminus of the Siberian railway at Wladiwostok on Saturday, September 30, and left the same afternoon by steamer for Tsuruga, the nearest port in Japan, a sea-journey of thirty-six hours. Arriving there on Monday morning. October 2, we reached Tokyo by rail the following morning, after spending a few interest-ing hours at Gifu on the road. At Tokyo, over and above the kind attentions of Bishop Cecil. I found myself among old friends--to wit, Archdeacon Ring and his colleagues at St. Andrew's Mission House. The few days I spent in Tokyo were of great value, enabling me to see something of Sir Claude and Lady Macdonald at the Embassy, of Bishop Mckim of the American Diocese of North Tokyo, and (as it happened) of Bishop Lee of Kiu-Siu (South Japan) and others, as well as to visit Yokohama, and to see there something of Frs. Field and Walton, as well as of Mr. Gutteredge, who used to be such a useful volunteer worker for us in Chemulpo. I was also able to practise my Corean, by visiting a little knot of Corean students who are living in Tokyo, and who were delighted to see someone who knew and cared for their country. But, apart from everything else, my visit to Japan gave me an opportunity of looking at the Corean problem from the Japanese end, which is, of course, an all-important one, now that Corea is (for weal or woe) as much a part of the Japanese Empire as Ireland is of the British or Alsace-Lorraine of the German Empires. The whole of Corea is, of course, now absolutely under the dominion of the Japanese, and Japanese immigrants, who are everywhere in evidence, are arriving daily in shoals and settling all over the country. It is difficult to see what the end of it will be--whether the two peoples, whose languages and customs are so different, will intermarry and amalga-mate, or hold sullenly aloof from one another until another sum in the wheel of Fortune sets the Far East in a blaze again. At present I am happy to say that peace and order prevail everywhere; and that is something to be grateful for. So let us hope for the best. It is a thirty hours' journey by rail from Tokyo to Shimonoseki the port from which the steamers now start to Corea daily. En route I stayed off for one night at Hiro-Shima to visit my old Poplar friends and neighbours, Mr. and Mrs. Pringle. And about 10 P.M. on Tuesday, October 10, I left Shimonoseki by steamer for Fusan, the southern port of Corea. And at Fusan I landed about 10 A.M. on Wednesday, October 11.

As my baggage is all on its way round by sea and is not likely to arrive for some weeks, I determined not to go straight up to Seoul, the capital, a journey of about 275 miles by rail, but to stop off at the various stations at which we have work en route. At Fusan we have an interesting and encouraging work among the Japanese, in charge of Fr. Shiozaki, a Japanese priest, ably helped by Miss Elrington, whom I was delighted to find in such good health and spirits. Through a benefaction from the family of Stephen Cartwright we have recently been able to secure a more adequate site in the Japanese town for our work amongst the Japanese, and thereon to erect, in Japanese style, a most convenient Church-room. with a house for Fr. Shiozaki attached, and a small residence for Miss Elrington in the same "compound" Adjoining this is an excellent site for a permanent church so soon as we are build it. At present the Church-room serves excellently. Japanese houses are wonderfully neat erections of wood and plaster (mostly one storey high), with the floors covered by softly padded grass mats, called tatami, which necessitate the removal of boots on entering. The rooms are for the most part divided from one another by shoji, or sliding screens, which can be wholly removed at will, thus enabling the whole floor space of the house to be used as a single room or to be divided up into several chambers, one of which in this case is permanently shut off for the sanctuary. As the outer walls of a Japanese house are to a great extent composed of the same sort of sliding shutters, it is almost practicable to remove these too- in which case nothing is left but the roof, sup-ported on a few slender uprights. This is an arrangement which has distinct advantages in a hot summer. But the original designer of Japanese dwellings, which practically follow the same model every-where, appears to have forgotten that there is such a season as winter! I have no personal experience of it, but I gather that residence in a Japanese house during the rigours of a Corean winter has its not inconsiderable drawbacks.   In Fusan, as indeed throughout the two southern provinces of Corea, we have as yet no work among the Coreans, our responsi-bilities there being as yet limited to our Japanese flock, which is at present composed (here and elsewhere in the country) chiefly of Christian immigrants from Japan, commended to us by our brethren there. Hence the little group which greeted me on my landing at Fusan was composed almost wholly of Japanese Christians, with Mr. Shiozaki at their head, accompanied by Miss Elrington, Mr. Sharpe (the only European priest we have, so far, for Japanese work), and Mr. Cecil Hodges, late of St. Michael's, Bromley, who had come down from Seoul specially to greet me. The last-mentioned priest, it will be remembered, left England about a year ago, with a view to taking up special educational work in the Mission, and (to his great discomfort) arrived in the country shortly after Bishop Turner's unexpected death, which naturally left things rather at sixes and sevens. He was therefore, I think, as glad to greet his new Bishop as his new Bishop was to greet him, both for his own sake and for the sake of old Poplar memories.

"Where's the band?" humorously inquired an old American gentleman who had travelled across the Straits of Shimonoseki with me, and who was much impressed by the ceremonious curtseying and bowing with which the Japanese members of my flock greeted me on the Quay. There was, indeed, no band, but none the less a very warm-hearted welcome. Frs. Sharpe and Hodges were staying at a Japanese inn, where it was decided that I also should stay with them for the night. (It is rather difficult to talk about "taking a room" at a Japanese hotel, as hotels are built on the same elastic sort of plan is other Japanese houses.) This enabled me to get my luggage through the Customs, and also to see some-thing of the town and our work there. In the evening there was a full attendance of the Japanese Christians at Evensong, at the close of which I managed, with rather stammering lips, to give them my blessing in Japanese, a tongue of which I practically knew nothing. At the close of the service the Sanctuary was shut off, and we indulged in one of those rather formal meetings of welcome which our Japanese friends delight in. We all sat on the floor, with our backs against the wall, all round the room, which when the screens are removed forms the “Nave” of the church. Japanese tea and sweetmeats were produced, and the Christians--ladies and gentlemen with one or two little children--were solemnly presented one by one to me with many mutual prostrations and bows. One or two set speeches of welcome were made, and I did my best to reply, Fr. Sharpe (acting as interpreter) assuring them that, as God had sent me out to be their Bishop, I was anxious to do all that lay in my power for all the sheep committed to my charge, whether Japanese or Corean, and reminding them that my success or failure depended very much on the prayers which I trusted they would offer for me. We parted with many mutual expressions of good-will, which were, indeed, something more than empty expressions.  

       I felt very much impressed with the solidity and steadiness of this little band of half a hundred Japanese Christians, living their life and bearing their witness among the thousands of their heathen fellow-countrymen who inhabit this outpost of the Japanese Empire, I trust it will not be long before the work is further strengthened there by the erection of the more permanent church for which funds are now being raised.

Returning to our Japanese inn for the night, I felt doubly glad of the companionship of my two brother clergy amid such strange surroundings and the innocent, but embarrassing, attentions of the maid-servants, who in Japanese hotels take complete control of the male guests, which is rather distressing to the shy foreigner ! The next morning I was able to celebrate Holy Communion (in English) at the altar of our little Japanese church, and thus on the very morrow of my setting foot on Corean soil to begin my ministry in this strange land in the best of all possible ways--by pleading the merits of the one full, perfect, and all-sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. Leaving Fusan by the north-bound express next morning (October 12), Frs. Sharp, Hodges and I travelled (some seventy or eighty miles) as far as Tai-ku, the old capital of Kyung-sang-do, the populous south-eastern province of Corea. It is natural that this and the adjoining south-west province (Chol-la-do) should, by the very fact of their nearness to Japan, be those in which the tide of Japanese immigration seems likely to reach its high-water mark. And as the Corean population is also probably thicker here than almost anywhere else in the peninsula, our double-barrelled task of ministry to Japanese and Coreans is likely to present us with more difficulties here than elsewhere in the future. At present, as I have already said, our Mission has started no Corean work in these provinces, as our hands have been more than full elsewhere. The American Presbyterians, however (who never lack men or money), have in recent years started a very vigorous pro-paganda in this neighbourhood, in some districts of which also the French R. C. Mission is hard at work. But their united efforts do not, of course, touch more than a barely appreciable fraction of the teeming population and the wide area of these provinces. Our short stay of one night at Tai-ku enabled us to meet the small nucleus of Japanese Church-folk who live there, and to discuss with them plans for extending our work amongst the Japanese of this centre as soon as possible. Early in the afternoon of the next day (October 13) we left again by the north-bound express, and, dropping Fr. Sharpe to look after some stray Japanese sheep of his flock at Taiden, Fr. Hodges and I went on to Song-hwan (some 200 miles from Fusan and seventy-five short of Seoul). the nearest point on the railway line to Fr. Gurney's Mission station at Chin-Chun, which lies some twenty-four miles distant, over a range of mountains. Fr. Gurney met us at Song-hwan station, but as it was pitch dark and very late we were glad to accept the offer of a night's hospitality at the Chik-san gold mines, which lie about ten miles from the station on the way to Chin-Chun. The little colony of six or eight Americans (including two ladies) who form the "camp" made us very wel-come, and it was a real joy to sleep on a real bedstead after two nights on the floor of Japanese inns and with the prospect of a week of nights on the still harder floors of Corean houses. Up early the next morning (Saturday, October 14), we left the mines, and crossing the mountain pass made our way to Chin-Chun. It was a beautiful day's walk through beautiful country. When one gets over that mountain pass one realises that one is in “the heart of Corea” indeed. Every pace takes you further and further away from railways and "civilisation" (so-called), and one is face to face with Corea and the Coreans as Nature and their own history have made them. Chin-Chun itself is an old-fashioned town with a market every few days, and has proved an admirable centre for Fr. Gurney's work, which stretches northward and eastward over a district some thirty miles long by twenty or more wide. In Chin-Chun itself is the central Mission house, where he lives with Fr. Hewlett (and at present Mr. Dallas, the deacon). In the same compound is the Church of St. Paul, a large old-fashioned tiled Corean house, which has been adapted for the purpose, as well as the boys' school, while adjoining is the Ay-in Hospital, with the residence of Dr. and Mrs. Laws. A most complete and compact Mission station, from which the work radiates out in numberless villages, chiefly to the north and east. The total number of Christians in the district amounts now (after four or five years' work) to some 700 or more, of whom about two-thirds are communicants.

Some miles from the town we were met by a large deputation of Christian men, who had come to salute the new Bishop and ask for his blessing; a little farther on we encountered the school, who had marched out to meet us; and still farther on by a group of Christian women. A pony of the usual Corean build (so small that my feet would naturally nearly touch the ground when astride of him if he were not provided with a mountainous peak saddle) had been provided, in order that I might make my entry with becoming dignity! But as no stirrups and no reins are provided with such “mounts,” I felt anything but secure when perched on top of the pack saddle, which almost obscured the pony. And "if it were not for the honour and glory of the thing " I should have preferred the security of "terra firma " and my own legs! By the time we reached the Mission house we found a lengthy and imposing procession, and after greetings to Dr. and Mrs. Laws (and Dr. Nancy Borrow, who was staying with them) we were glad to rest a little in preparation for Evensong and the devotions preparatory to Sunday. As Fr. Gurney had only returned from a brief holiday in time to welcome me, he had had no time to get ready those who would otherwise have been presented for Con-firmation. And after a happy Sunday, which I began by singing the Mass and preaching in Corean, I comforted myself during the rest of the week with making as thorough an acquaintance as possible with the work at headquarters, including the school and Dr. Law's Hospital, and with a "walking tour" round some of the nearer Christian villages, which involved a jaunt of some forty or fifty miles and two or three nights "hard lying" on Corean floors in “priests' rooms” attached to outlying and outlandish village churches. Everywhere I met with a warm welcome from the Christians, and my chief regret was that I had no time to make a more complete survey of the interesting and encouraging work which has grown up under Fr. Gurney's hands. However, as he has now been out here for full eight years and badly needs a rest, I hope to send him home on furlough without delay, and then some of you will be able to hear his story from his own lips.

On Friday, October 20, I started from Chin-Chun with Fr. Hodges for a glorious and beautiful walk of twelve to fifteen miles over the hills westward to Anai, a village in the district of Mokchun, the southernmost point of Fr. Bridle's work, which has its head-quarters at Su Won. Here again, some miles from our destination, in spite of a doubt as to the hour of our arrival, we were met by a large body of Christians, who escorted us to the Mission house and little village church, where we met Fr. Bridle. Here I had to wind up the day by holding a Confirmation for, I think, about forty candidates in the little church, in which I could hardly stand upright. (This I find to be often the case in Corea !) Next morning, after a brief inspection of the school, we started off on another walk of twelve to fifteen miles to Chon-an, the nearest station, from which we took train up to Su Won, the headquarters of this Mission district, only some twenty-five miles short of Seoul. At Su Won a most imposing welcome awaited me. Hundreds of Corean Christians, in their curious white dresses, including a large group of Christian women and the whole of the boys’ and girls’ schools (the latter under the charge of the Sisters), were drawn up in rows outside the station to greet me. As soon as I had passed through their serried ranks they closed up in a sort of procession behind me, and we walked the mile leading up to the Mission compound on the hill-side just outside the picturesque old City Gate. Here on our arrival we found triumphal arches, inscriptions, illuminations and fireworks--a very blaze of Splendour--in the midst of which I escaped into Fr. Bridle's residence. But it was already late, and, in spite of the long walk with which we had begun the day and the railway journey since, we had with all speed to get to the church, where after Evensong I confirmed 122 candidates, who, owing to the vacancy in the bishopric, had long been waiting for the “laying on of hands.” After that we were all ready for bed. And, indeed, it had to be a case of early to bed, as the Eucharist had to be celebrated at an early hour the next morning (Sunday, October 23), to enable the Christians to disperse afterwards to their homes, for “divers of them had come from far,” Fr. Bridle's district being as widely scattered as Fr. Gurney's at Chin-Chun, and it was the height of the harvest season. It was, indeed, a memorable Sunday, and I was glad of a rest on Monday before starting out with Fr. Cecil Cooper (who lives and works with Fr. Bridle) to spend some three or four days and nights in visiting and confirming in some of the three or four outlying village churches attached to the Lawson district. In all of these I found my arrival awaited with equal eagerness and greeted with equal warmth of welcome.

After one more night and day in Su Won, which gave me a chance of seeing something of Sisters Cecil and Isabel, C.S.P., and hearing more about their work, both in the girls' school and in the district, and a final visit to the boys’ school, I left by train on Saturday evening (October 28) for Seoul, thus arriving there on the very anniversary of the day when my predecessor breathed his last.

You will be tired of hearing of welcomes; but here again, in spite of the late evening hour, I was met by a large body of our Christians carrying lanterns, who escorted me through the picturesque and crowded streets up to the Bishop's little house in the old Mission headquarters adjoining the British Consulate.

And now that I have brought myself and you safely to the Capital, I must lay down my pen, or I shall have tired your patience and far exceeded the limit which the Editor will be ready to allow me. But you most pardon the garrulity of the new-comer.

Trusting to be remembered by you constantly in your prayers, Yours very truly, &c., MARK NAPIER TROLLOPE, Bishop in Corea.

Association of Prayer and Work for Corea.

REPORTS received from the various A.P.W. centres show that the Association has not been standing still during the past quarter, One is thankful to notice, not only that the list of new members is such a long one (owing chiefly to the splendid branches which have been formed at Croydon and Birmingham), but also that in it an unusual number of localities are represented. This is a very hopeful sign, and I believe that when we all realise more fully the power of prayer in our midst, and believe that prayer (if worthy of the name) is bound to lead to work, we shall do all in our power to make daily intercession for Missions not the exception, but the rule, among those with whom we are brought into contact. Of entirely new A.P.W. centres there are three to record, viz. at Hovingham (Yorks), Shipley (Sussex), and Wood Newton (Northampton), and, besides these, Stoke-by-Nayland (Suffolk) has again become a branch, under its original secretary, Miss Simpson, who has returned to her old home. Miss Young has since her   sister's death most kindly undertaken the Lincoln secretaryship. Mrs. Thornton-Down has already begun work at Basset, in success-sion to Miss Starkey, who kindly came to the rescue until we could find a more permanent secretary. Miss G. E. Glennie has become local secretary for Hereford, while her brother still remains with us as secretary for the county. Miss Roberts has been succeeded at Poplar by Miss Baiss and Mr. James Pearson. Most encouraging meetings have been held in several localities. A.P.W. was inaugurated by its president at St. Andrew's, Croydon, early in October, when a large number of members were admitted to the Association. Bishop Corfe has also had splendid meetings, both of adults and children, at Birmingham, and, owing to the energy of our indefatigable secretary at Bristol, and through the kindness of Mrs. Beilby, he was able to address a drawing-room meeting, which resulted in several new members. The Organising Secretary has spoken for Corea in many places, and amongst others in Great Berkhamsted, Searborough (where Mrs. Crompton has kindly undertaken the duties of sec-retary). Barnsley, Hartlepool, Hovingham, Cawthorne, Newcastle, Goole, Bromley, and Brighton. His visit to Hovingham saw the inauguration of the new branch, which enables us once more to welcome the Rev. F. F. Crombie as a local secretary. One hardly dared to hope that he would lose so little time in starting A.P.W. in his new parish. He has already several new members (whose names will be reported later), and the meeting addressed by Mr. Childs Clarke was well attended, and, in addition to a good collection, the sum of ￡1 2s. 6d. was given (to be continued in annual subscriptions to the Mission) and three missionary boxes were taken. I hope next quarter to be able to report an A.P.W. branch at Hartlepool. St. Nicholas' Day has been widely observed in our centres by intercession and thanksgiving; the Rev. F. Hillary spent that day at Thoresway, and gave a much appreciated talk at the evening meeting. Corea has lately been represented at a big United Missionary Sale at Bristol, and at the splendid Missionary Exhibition at Malvern the Corean Court proved very attractive. Our stock of A.P.W. curios, though not large, is interesting, and with a fairly long notice I shall be glad to send it to any secretary who will be good enough to make himself or herself responsible for the curios and return them in good condition. A new stock of A.P.W. literature has lately been printed, and I should like to draw the attention of all secretaries to the valuable pamphlet containing extracts from back numbers of MORNING CALM, and to suggest that a copy of this paper should be given to every new member with his card of membership. So that each one may have by him a constant reminder of the principle and obligations of A.P.W. Will all who read this please take especial note of two things :--   1. Our local secretary for Bath (Miss B. Drake, 6 Edward St.) hopes to have a sale for Corea during the second week in February, and she will be most grateful for any contributions, and especially for flowering bulbs, to help furnish a stall of Spring flowers. 2. I do not propose this year to ask for a complete list of members and addresses from every locality, because I know that in many cases lists have been sent me so lately that there are hardly likely to be many alterations; but will every secretary be kind enough to send me, before the end of January (through the county secretary, if there be one) -- (a) The names of members they have lost during the year, stating whether through death, withdrawal, or transference: (b) The total number of members on the locality list (not including any who may have been admitted since the December report was sent in): (c) The number of copies of the Annual Report required. Any notes as to services of intercession, meetings, working parties, sales of work, &c., which have been held during the year will be welcome. This year we look forward with pleasure to having a monthly letter from our Bishop in Corea, believing that through its means we shall be brought into closer touch with those in Corea, and that with the accompanying intercession paper it will serve to remind us month by month of those things which call for special prayer. MAUD I. FALWASSER, General Secretary. [The “Corean Monthly Letter Leaflet” will be sent to Subscribers to MORNING CALM only, and no more copies will be available. The Monthly Intercession P aper will be given to all who may wish to have it.--ED. MORNING CALM.) ________________________________________

Children's Letter.

DEAR CHILDREN,--

A very happy New Year to you all. Another New Year! how quickly the years come round! A New Year, new beginnings, new work, new resolutions. And what a lot of new work and new openings there are to take advantage of! Our Bishop in Corea is out there now and beginning his new work, and Sister Nora will be back again refreshed, we hope, by her holiday in England, though she spent a lot of time and energy in going about in England to speak about Corea.

And the New Year, you already know, is a great time amongst the Corean people--it is their great Festival. They are all as it were starting anew, and we, too, must start anew to see that we do our part in helping forward all the new work. For the Coreans are asking for and so needing our prayers and help. They want to learn and hear about the Good News. We must remember that the reward of doing our work for our Lord Jesus is that He gives us more work to do for Him.

I reached here again a few days ago from my short visit to China. Oh ! dear children, I should like to take you all out there to see the children and those of other lands I came past on my way home--Chinese, Malays, Tamils, Cingalese, Arabs. Those fascinating little Cingalese boys, with their soft pretty voices and beseeching bright eyes! The Chinese I saw most of, and they are such merry, bright little bits of good--so comical to look at. When babies they have their heads shaved mostly, then at about four or five years old the black hair which they all have is about three or four inches long and is tied up with red or pink wool in five or six tight short plaits; so short it is that they stick straight up away from their heads. A great number have no clothes on, and others have a short cotton coat and others just a pair of cotton knickers--this was in warm weather, and they were all out in the streets playing about--just swarms of them, laughing and talking. In the country the children very soon begin to help in the fields, and it is surprising to see how young they are and yet go about their work in such a capable way, leading the donkey who is pulling the stone to crush the grain, or themselves, with a flay, threshing the grain. At Shanghai I was taken to a large place the American Mission have, a college for men, school for boys, another school for girls, and an orphanage. Poor little things! the little children and babies I saw there did look as though they needed to be taken care of. They were children who had been found in the streets neglected and uncared for, or children who were deformed or ill and wanted nursing. And there in this place they had indeed found a home. Amahs and girls to nurse them, a nice big clean house to live in, a nice little cot or mattress to lie on and a big garden to play in. That was where I found them, on the grass with a few playthings. And I thought the Corean children we are working for would, perhaps, look something like these.

You know these orphanages and schools are something quite new for these Corean and Chinese girls. Till now the girls have been left in ignorance, and evidently the girls I saw at the Mission School in Pekin are finding the life there much more enjoyable than the ignorant and dull time they have had before. I was there when they all came back after the summer holidays, many coming up from the far country. They came back to find a beautiful new school built for them. The staircase from the ground floor to the sleeping rooms is on the outside to a verandah--a very important place, as all beddingishung out there in the morning. From our rooms we could hear the girls bounding up and down these stairs, which afforded them great amusement and enjoyment. Across the court where they played games is the dining-room, and the girls asked my friend and myself to dinner. It is a long room with about a dozen tables, all so polished and clean. We sat at one table, then a large bowl of boiled rice was brought in and small bowls were filled from it and put in front of each of us. In the centre of the table were several small bowls with condiments in them--boiled vegetables, red cabbage, bacon, a long tin vermicelli-looking stuff and various other things to which the girls helped us. They are eaten with the rice to give it a flavour. Then we began to eat with chopsticks, or at least tried to eat. It took a little time to arrive at getting anything into one's mouth. The chopsticks have a knack of slipping and the rice goes tumbling back into the bowl or on the floor or the table. How we did laugh, and the girls, too, at our efforts! Of course Miss Phillimore who was with us could go gaily on as she had often used chopsticks before. The girls were so delightful to us and kept helping us to fresh condiments. It is good manners there to help each other with one's own chopsticks or from the bowls. It would be amusing for you in the holidays to get two thin pieces of stick eight inches long and a bowl of boiled rice, &c., &c., and see what kind of a meal you could get. But there, I must add, the floors are of brick, so the rice which arrives on the floor is easily brushed up. Your carpets might possibly suffer!

Well, now I must write about what has been going on here. It is nice to be able to give the name of another new branch. The Rev. A. Bagshawe has started one at Wood Newton in Northamp-tonshire. Bishop Corfe kindly went to Birmingham to speak to the children of the new branch after Bishop Trollope left and they have added new members. High Ham has also recruited new members. Sister Nora kindly went to speak to the children of St. Saviour’s, Clapham, and also to the new branch at Croydon, where she admitted fifty children as members. I hear she was bombarded with questions after her address, and the children, she wrote and told me, were so interested in hearing about Corean children and asked her such intelligent and sometimes amusing questions. We are very grateful to Miss Theresa Russell and Miss Cooke for being secretary for the boys and girls respectively, and to the children of St. Mark's, Portsmouth, for their generous offering.

Believe me, Your affectionate friend, MABEL SEATON.

PS.--I am delighted to record that the children of the Swindon Branch had a Service of Intercession on St. Nicholas' Day. BEAVOR LODGE, HATCH END. December 7, 1911.  

Hospital Naval fund.

THE Eighty-sixth Meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the R.U.S. Institution at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, October 19. Present: Rev. W. Stuart Harris, in the Chair, Right Rev. Bishop Corfe, Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke, J. R. Clark, Esq., Capt. J. H. Corfe, and C. E. Baxter, Esq. Letters of regret were read from Rev. J. C. Cox-Edwards and Rev. S. H. W. Lovett. The Organising Secretary reported the steps which had been taken so far to strengthen the organisation on the China station, and it is hoped to have a local secretary in the Fleet in future as well as at Hong Kong. Among changes of Officers the Committee noted with great regret the death of Major H. F. Mackay, R.M.A., late of the Execu-tive Committee. The Committee also read with regret a letter from Rev. J. C. Cox-Edwards resigning his post on the Standing Sub-Committee, as he is no longer living in town. Rev. Charles Moore, Chaplain of the Royal Hospital School, Greenwich, has consented to take his place. It was decided that the Easter Meeting, 1912, will be held on the second Wednesday in the Quarter (10th April), as usual. C. E. BAXTER Hon. Sec., Ex. Com. H.N.F.  

St. Luke's hospital, Chemulpo.

THIRD QUARTER, 1911.

THERE is a very common idea that the main function of Medical Missions is to act as the thin end of the wedge for other workers and to break down opposition; but this is only one of many reasons for them, and there is a great deal to be said for the thesis that it is the least important. Indeed, there is an element of deception about the using of baits to attract hearers which is at any rate not altogether easy to reconcile with the highest aspects of Christianity. If our religion does not attract men through its intrinsic value it is not likely to make good Christians merely through gratitude for services rendered to the body. Medical work is of great value as a demonstration of what Christianity means, but this is something quite different from using it as an attraction because of its temporal use. It would be much nearer the truth to say that Medical Missions are an essential part of all Mission work, for if we go to demonstrate the love of God, and do not practise love by helping all we can, we are open to the charge of simply wishing to increase our numbers and make a fair show in the flesh, while if we go because we are constrained by the love of God to love all men we cannot help ministering to their bodies as well as their souls. Nowadays many are realising at home that this is true, and if it be so where the State does so much, and where public opinion causes so much philanthropic effort, surely it is far more true in a non-Christian land. Not only is it impossible to preach the Gospel without healing the sick, but the mind that wishes to do so seems to come short of the mind of Christ. These thoughts are suggested by one aspect of our work which has been much on my mind lately. The church in Chemulpo is very small, and it is no new thing to say that it does not grow much. This is blameworthy, in spite of the difficulties which have so often been described, and we can only once more ask for your prayers that we may all be more faithful, both in our lives and our words. Under the circumstances, however, it has been perhaps natural to expend most of our efforts on the few Christians we have; and here the value of the hospital has begun to be apparent. It forms a training ground for the Christians which is of very great value to their characters, and some of them are beginning to show the effect of it. We all fail often enough, perhaps the foreigners more than the Coreans, in such matters as patience and sympathy, but several of the men have been lately acting in a way to be an example to almost anyone in these things, which are so particularly hard to those who have to deal in a limited time with large numbers of ignorant and stupid people, and we cannot help feeling that it is because of the opportunity given by the hospital work for the exercise of these virtues that they are being developed. If the   hospital did nothing more than this it would be doing a great work and would be really worth all the money spent on it. Some of the patients are peculiarly trying, and at times every effort to win the needful co-operation from them seems to fail. A very sad case was in lately. Two oldish men came one morning to hospital very much swollen, probably the result of drink. They were both told that they ought to come into hospital if they were to have any chance of recovery, and both agreed to do so. One of them is a Christian, and he has proved reasonable and is making some progress, but the other began that evening by saying that he

CORFE WARD, ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL, CHEMULPO.

did not like the ward and wished to go home. He was with some difficulty persuaded to stay, but the next day complained more and more because he did not like the medicine given him and wished to have all sorts of food which would have aggravated his condition. He was really very ill, and a great deal of effort was made to get him to consent to be treated properly, without much success. In the course of the night he had a severe hæmorrhage, and in the morning his condition was extremely serious, necessitating the most absolute quiet. He insisted, however, on getting up, would take no medicine or food, and resisted violently every effort made to help him. It then appeared that he had said the day before that if we did not let him go home that day he would act in this fashion, and his foolish persistence in this resolution was rapidly bringing his life to an end. It seemed absolutely useless to do anything for him, as any attempt only made him more angry and obstinate; and as his old parents wished to take him away we at last let him go, though we knew well   that he could not live many hours if he were moved. It is very sad to have to record such failures as this, but the case serves to show how great are the difficulties sometimes met with, and the strain of dealing with them is perhaps the hardest and most exhausting part of the work; it is literally fighting for a life, not with the disease, but with the patient and his friends. Another case now in hospital is likely to die from the same cause, but there is still a chance. A woman with very serious heart disease has been some time in hospital, and, though it is by no means sure that anything like a cure can be expected, there is no doubt that her only chance of life is to stay on

A FEW IN PATIENTS.

and have perfect rest and treatment. Unfortunately, shortly after she came in one of the accidents of this disease occurred and caused a partial paralysis. Had she not been in hospital it would almost certainly have been much worse, and she would probably have died at that time; but of course she, and still more her friends, thought it was due to being here and wanted at once to take her out. So far two pitched battles have been fought with her husband, and she is still with us; but the last time we only won by promising that she should go in ten days' time, that much gain being won with the greatest difficulty and in the hope that even that short time might do some good and give her a chance of continuing to improve after discharge. The summer months are always ones that show small figures for in-patients, for they include the summer holiday--a most necessary thing for the staff; and not only does that mean the closing of the out-patient department for a month, but so far as possible emptying   the wards. During August very few patients were left in the hospital, and the contiguous months were largely employed in empty-ing and filling up again, so that the average for the quarter is much below that for the rest of the year. The holiday arrangement for the year is somewhat complicated, as the Corean staff all want some holiday at the time of the new year; and then the plan is that half go off at a time for about five days each; the foreign staff remaining, the work is cut down as little as possible. In the summer the foreign staff are away and the Coreans again go off half at a time, the other half having to look after the few remaining in-patients--not a very onerous job—so that all get a rest and a change. It is good to be able to report that finances are in an improved position for the present. The Hospital Naval Fund has been able to pay over a considerable sum, and, besides this and other grants from S.P.G. and S.P.C.K., there have been some donations and rather more fees both from hospital and private patients. The last of these isa most variable and precarious source of income; but for this year it seems likely to stand at a good figure, so that there has been more money available, and with our present reduced staff expenses have not been so great, which has enabled us to save a little money, though we have suffered in efficiency in spite of the help that has been so kindly given by others in the hospital work. HUGH H. WEIR. ________________________________________ St. Peter's Community foreign Mission Association. AUTUMN always brings a great evidencing of zeal and interest from our members, and, as will be seen from the subjoined list, this year has not fallen behind at all. The new venture of having a stall for curios, &c., at the Com-bined Sale for Foreign Missions was very successful, and with the small stall at the Association Bazaar the sum of £90 was realised, less ￡20 for expenses of curios and guarantees. Another new departure was a meeting of the Woking branch on October 12 at St. Peter's Memorial Home, Woking, when the speakers were Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke and Mrs. Talbot. There was a gathering of friends to wish Godspeed to Sister Nora and Sister Rosalie, who with Miss Ensor started on October 28, and are due in Corea about December 12. As the Notes of the Day of Intercession will be sent to each member in January, there is no need to give a detailed account in this issue; it was a larger gathering of friends than usual from all parts, both A.P.W. and S.P.F.M.A. The very beautiful address at the noon service was given by Rev. J. A. Le Courteur, and at the meeting, of which Canon Deedes   was chairman, the speakers were the Organising Secretary, Rev. A L. Gardner and Sir Frederick Holiday. The Sub-Warden of St. Peter's Community read a very hopeful report, detailing the twelve branches of S.P.F.M.A. and announcing that the Orphanage now has a distinct secretary, Miss Sanders, Charlton Vicarage, Salisbury, to whom all correspondence about the Seoul Orphanage or contributions for the orphans should be sent. The offerings on December 5 were ￡11 18s. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE, Secretary, S.P.F.M.A.  

Japanese Work.

WITH regard to Fusan, I must begin by saying what an immense difference the new buildings make to the work. I especially appreciate the present suitable and adequate provision for the women's work. The Bishop's arrival on October 11 had been much looked for-ward to by the Japanese Christians here, and many of them went to meet him at the boat. In the evening we had Evensong, and a social meeting afterwards, when everybody was introduced to him. Some, too, are looking forward to being Confirmed by him before Christmas.   At last I have an opening at the Girls' High School in Fusan. One girl, who some years ago was at Chemulpo with her family and received a certain amount of Christian instruction there, is now in Fusan attending the High School. In the interval she had been at a place called Mitsuyū, in this district, but where she was quite away from Christian influences. However, the seed sown in early childhood has now sprung up, and she was recently admitted as a Catechumen. Now she comes to church and for instruction as often as she can; but the girls are worked pretty hard at school when they get to the third year's course, and it is a case of helping them when possible. Through this girl a young teacher named Hōri San, who is a very clever girl, has become a very promising inquirer. The actual results of the Japanese work seem so very small when compared with the Corean work that there is one thing I would like to say about it, and that is that it is a vast sowing of seed, which one hopes and prays may spring up and bear fruit elsewhere. Lately I have been told many stories by the Japanese themselves which prove how long a time the seed has lain hidden, perhaps all but forgotten, and then somehow in some wonderful way the light comes to them and the seed springs up. I suppose most of the better-educated people with whom we get into touch are cases of this sort. In some ways it makes them easier to teach and in some ways more difficult, as perhaps they have previously read or heard a good deal of Christian doctrine and dismissed it from their minds as mere theory. This has been actually said to me by a Japanese, so it is not just my theory! As always, Mr. Yasutake is our great stand-by in Fusan, and now he gives Mr. Shiozaki valuable help in taking the services of Matins and Evensong, and preaching on the Sundays when the latter is absent at other stations. Taikyū, too, goes on well, and now a room has been lent for services on Sundays, and one of the more experienced Christian women gives me much valuable help. BEATRIX ELRINGTON. FUSAN, October 14, 1911. ________________________________________

Correspondence.

DEAR MR. EDITOR,--

As I have now very shortly to hand over the care of the girls' school at Su Won to others, I should like to write a few words from a very thankful heart to those who have helped me and been interested in the work. The school, which was begun with seven little girls on Monday, May 18, 1908, has steadily increased in numbers ever since. It was a venture of faith, but the first morning its number seven was suggestive of success, and now, as I leave it. It is curious that it numbers seventy. Only those who work amongst children can realise the intense interest of the work--the gradual unfolding of character and wakening of intelligence, the growth of the reality of religion in their hearts, each individual child needing special treatment, and each one so lovable. The Corean girl is not one whit behind an English girl in intelligence and ability if she begins young enough, and she is even more full of fun and individu-ality.

The boarders are much the most important part of the work. They come from our distant country villages where they have no means of education, and after some time (longer or shorter according to funds) they return amongst their own people able to read and write well and grounded in religious knowledge. Having learnt how to behave in church, how to prepare for their Communions, &c., &c., they go back on quite a different footing and become little mission-aries in their own villages. Here in Corea, where work amongst the women offers such a problem, surely this is one solution, only it needs to be developed. The people can pay only very little for the children, and therefore I have been entirely dependent on the kind-ness of friends in this work of taking boarders. Friends have been most kind, and I have received nearly £50, and have now twenty-seven boarders and a good barn full of rice with which to feed them. But it has been anxious work, and I am always on the verge of sending several children away, and yet the anxious time has always passed, and when the need is great the help has always come. In the future I see a castle in the air always well filled with rice without the constant anxiety of wondering how to get it or the unpleasant task of begging for it; but so far this part of the work has been quite private, and has not been helped by any mission fund. The boarders are all Christians, though they often come before they are actually baptised in order to be prepared in the school. Before leaving the subject, I ask your special prayers for these children and for all the work of the school. The fact that many are now praying for it has been very plain to me all along, but I would beg again your special prayers during this coming year of my furlough. Old Hannah is just as patient and good as ever. Much of the success of the school is due to her prayers and her sweet influence--without the faintest notion of discipline she keeps her large family happy and good and always content. The feeding is her business entirely, and it is truly Corean. She receives from me in money or rice two shillings a head a fortnight and I hear no more on the subject. The clothing is a more difficult matter, and though I am trying to train a woman who lives near to do it, she does not show much sign at present of being capable of doing it alone. I dress the children exactly like other Corean children, and with little money and all washing materials it is a very difficult and big bit of work. This also has been provided for privately, or at least it is squeezed out of the boarders' payments, and from any orders for needlework that we can get.

Kim Agatha, of whom many of you have often heard, goes on very well. She has been doing less teaching lately and more studying, as she and several other pupil teachers hope to pass an examination and get a sort of certificate before Christmas, which, though not official, is the best they can get at present.

Twelve of our little girls were confirmed at Bishop Trollope's first confirmation in Su Won on October 21. Last spring we added a new wing to our school, which is a great comfort. It gives us another class-room, and gives Kim Agatha a private sitting-room to study in, which she appreciates very much, There are many more things we want, and I hope there always will be, for wants are a sign of progress and growth. If anyone would like to inquire into some of those wants in detail, I shall hope to be at St. Peter's Home, Kilburn, from March to November 1912, and shall always be delighted to talk about the school and answer any questions. I began this letter by saying I was writing “with a very thankful heart,” and so indeed I do, but just now there is also bound to be some feeling of sadness. It is very hard to part from these children, so again let me commend them to your loving interest and prayers, always remembering that “of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. * CECIL, Community of St. Peter ________________________________________

Local Notes.

Seoul.--During the summer months there is very little to report. The rain and the heat are great hindrances to any kind of study, and classes have to be dropped. With the cooler weather in September Baptismal and Confirmation classes have been started. In Seoul and at Poungnamnie it is hoped that the Bishop will hold a Confirmation in Seoul on October 29. On St. James' Day special intercessions were offered for the Bishop at the choral Eucharist in the Korean Church and also at Evensong. On the Feast of the Transfiguration a double wedding was celebrated before the Holy Eucharist. One couple had been married some years previously with heathen rites, but, wishing for the Sacrament of the Church, had asked for the Christian ceremony. Chemulpo.--August was a holiday, the Hospital being more or less closed, though Dr. Borrow saw any urgent cases and took charge of the few in-patients who were unable to be sent home. Classes were also discontinued during the heat, but began again in September, and now include small classes of men and women pre-paring for Holy Baptism and also for Confirmation, in view of the Bishop's promised visit early in November. One of our chief difficulties is that we have no schools for the children of parents who attend our church; this especially applies to the girls, who mostly attend the Roman Catholic school, and are expected to go on Sundays and week-days alike, which causes grave complications.   We have received the good news that S.P.G. hope to send us a nurse in the spring. Kanghwa.--On St. James' Day special united Eucharists were arranged at Kanghwa City, Onsoutong and Paikchön, so that all the Christians in the three main centres might have the opportunity of pleading the Holy Sacrifice for our new Father-in-God on the very day on which he was to receive his high office. The ser-vices were all well attended, especially at Onsoutons, where the communicants numbered 200. August 22 being the anniversary of Mrs. Hillary's death, a Requiem Mass was sung in Onsoutong church on that day. The church was crowded, especially on the women's side. At noon Christians from both the north and south ends of the island met at the cemetery, and a service for the departed was held there. The enlargement of the girls' school at Onsoutong is now completed; the opening ceremony will take place on St. Luke's Day. At Paikchön one of the first women baptised there has fallen into great sin. Moses Ri, who went there as catechist last May, has had many difficulties to meet. Your prayers are asked specially on his behalf. Su Won.--We record with pleasure visits during the past three months from Fathers Hodges, Hewlett, and Wilson, all of whom kindly assisted at the Sunday services at St. Stephen's. The rainy season stopped most of the country work for some two months, but Father Cooper, being a good swimmer, was able to get to one or two chapels in his district. He also paid a visit to one or two towns lying some sixty miles beyond our district, where we have been repeatedly urged to go and take up work: it is too soon yet to say whether it will be possible to do this, as it will mean the establishing of a new centre; but it is hoped a way will be found soon for extending our work into that district. Father Bridle went for his summer holidays to some friends at Chemulpo. Father Cooper spent his vacation in travelling by easy stages to Mukden, via Dalny and Nu-chang: combining duty with pleasure, be preached at St. Nicolas, Nu-chang, and assisted Father Courney in administering the Word and the Sacraments to the faithful in Mukden. There will not be so many baptisms this winter as in former years (about 150 in this district). It is much more important that we should strengthen those already within the fold than continue to gather in large numbers those whom we cannot properly superintend. The schools, both at the central church and in the country, are doing well. Sister Cecil will be much missed in the girls' school at Su Won during her well-earned furlough. It is impossible to say how much of the present success of the girls' school is due to her energy and zeal. Mr. Bridle writes again, after the Bishop's visit:-- The Bishop reached St. Matthew's Chapel, An-ai, from Chin-Chun   on Friday, October 20, and in the evening administered the Sacra-ment of Confirmation to thirty-eight people. Next morning he celebrated the Holy Eucharist, and after inspecting the school, walked some fourteen miles to Chun-an railway station, where he was met by the scholars from St. John Baptist's School, Pou-to-ri, and a number of Christians. A large crowd of our people, including some 130 school children attached to St. Stephen's School, welcomed the Bishop on his arrival at Su Won station, and a long procession, in which many lanterns were carried, escorted him to the Mission House. As he

JAPANESE WORK IN SEOUL.

Left Foreground, Peiest’s House; Left background, Ladies' House: Right, Corean Style Church.

entered the compound, there was a great firing of Chinese crackers and a discharge of rockets, and he made his way to the Mission House between lines of lanterns, passing under a triumphal arch on which was inscribed in Chinese characters, “A joyful welcome to the Bishop.” All these arrangements were made and carried out by the Coreans without any aid or suggestion from either of the priests. A very strenuous day was finished by solemn Evensong and the presentation of 122 people to the Bishop for Confirmation. The usual Sunday morning service--Matins, Litany, and Holy Com-munion--began at 7 A.M. The Bishop celebrated and preached; there were a large number of Communicants, and the church was most uncomfortably crowded. It was quite evident that before long steps will have to be taken to enlarge or rather complete the church.

During the week the Bishop visited Pyengtaik, Paik-sok-po. Sau-chik-mal and Pou-to-ki, administering Confirmation in each place. Chin-Chun.--The summer quarter--July to August--passed quietly. We had terrific rains and floods in July, but it was hot and dry all August. There have been no Baptisms, except of infants. Our new Lady Chapel has been damaged by rain, but we hope to have it in good order and ready for use by Advent. The daily Mass is always well attended and is a privilege and inspiration for us all.

The new school at Kwang-hei-won is going on well; the Educa-tion Fund grants 8s. a month towards expenses, but the two teachers do their work without payment at present. Mr. Dallas' good work in superintending our vegetable patch has resulted in a constant supply of fresh potatoes and cabbages, tomatoes and artichokes, with one really excellent cauliflower. All the rest have grown so tall and thin that the heart has failed to form.

JAPANESE WORK.

In my last report, I described our recent building operations, but had to stop short of the opening of the new church. This took place on July 23 and was especially interesting in that Japanese, Corean and English Christians joined together in worship at the Holy Eucharist. The service began with prayers offering the building to God, followed by a shortened form of Matins, after which Archdeacon King (who had come over from Japan to join with us on this occasion) celebrated the Holy Communion in Japanese. The Gospel was read by Mr. Badcock in Corean, and the hymns were chosen so that, as far as possible, all might unite in singing in their own language. The sermon was to have been preached by the Rev. S. Shiozaki, the priest-in-charge at Fusan, but illness prevented him from being present, and as the service was rather long, the sermon was omitted. I am thankful to God for bringing us through a long and difficult undertaking to what all (with only one or perhaps, two exceptions) agree is a most successful conclusion. The next event of importance was the arrival of our new Bishop. As he came from Japan, viâ Fusan, the Japanese church at Fusan was able to be the first to welcome him to his diocese; he spent two days in visiting the Japanese work in that district. The first night was spent at Fusan; nearly the whole church there met together at the new Kogisho (i.e. the priest's house, in which there is a temporary church until the new permanent church on an adjacent site is ready) to hold a meeting of welcome. The following day the Bishop went to Taikyū, where we have already a small community of Christians, and hope soon to do more aggressive work. Here again all the Christians met to welcome him, and the Bishop gave himself up to a long discussion with them (by interpretation) as to ways and means for advancing the work there. The following day he went on to Chin-Sen (Chin-Chun), which brought him among the Corean members of his flock.

There is not much detail to report during the holiday quarter, but, briefly. I can see already much good result from our increased staff. The appointment of a priest to Fusan and Miss Erlington's work among the women there have greatly strengthened the

LAWS. DALLAS. HODGES. HEWLETT. MRS. LAWS. BISHOP. GUBNEY.

church, a matter of equal importance to that of gaining converts, though converts have also been gained.

At Chemulpo, since the arrival of the new Catechist, Dir. Miya-zawa, the congregations have been much better, and some of the “slack” Christians are showing signs of increasing earnestness. We are all deeply thankful for Miss Pooley's recovery after her operation; her time is fully occupied in training the younger women in the Sunday school. She will soon, we trust, be helped by Kurose Benita, who passes out of the Theological College early next year. I cannot see signs of any marked progress among our people in Seoul. I wish I could. Perhaps our methods might be better, but in any case, since Seoul is more especially my charge, the chief blame must fall on me. The new building and the immense amount of legal work which it has entailed has kept me fully occupied for over a year; while the long journeys I so often have to take, and the business of the Mission which falls to me, draw me away from any sort of continued spiritual work. Until someone can be found who will share this work with me, I do not expect to see much as far as I am personally concerned. ________________________________________

The Spirit of Missions.

A DYING CHURCH.-- "A great artist some time ago was asked to paint a picture of a dying church. He painted a magnificent church in the west end of a great city. He showed the interior, with a well-dressed congregation streaming out of the west door. The altar was brilliant with jewels and all kinds of precious gems. The congregation were dressed in silks and satins, there were rings on their fingers, and they were resplendent in all kinds of beautiful things. And just at the door there was a box, with above it the words 'Foreign Missions,' and across the opening where the money could be put in a spider had spun a cobweb. That was the artist's conception of a dying church--a church lavish on its own luxuries and forgetful of the needs of the church beyond the seas.” KEEP THE EXTREMITIES WARM.—"A friend of mine not long ago went to a doctor. He had got something wrong with his heart, or he thought he had. He said ‘Doctor, what am I to do when I feel these heart attacks coming on?' 'My dear chap,' said the doctor, ‘if there is anything wrong with the heart, warm the toes.' That is a very good motto for Church people. If you think there is anything wrong with the old church at home, do what you can to warm the extremities of the church beyond the seas.”--The Rev. H. Pitts. THE MEN AND THE MONEY.--At a meeting, held in the Hoare Memorial Hall of the Church House last June, the Bishop of Perth (W. Australia) said:-- “Since I was here last we have had a great start in the way of emigration. Western Australia is now known in the Old Country as a splendid field for emigration. We can accommodate a very large number of people who want to be farmers or to go on the land, and we have a goodly number coming out now--I think about 1,000 a month. You will understand, therefore, that it requires more clergy to look after these people who come. I get letters saying, ‘My son is out in Western Australia, and he has never been able to near a church.’ Well, if you have a country, as my diocese is, about ten times the size of England, and if you have fifty-five clergy and put them in that territory, you will find that there are a good number of people who are a long way off the clergy and a church. However, we are doing our very best, poor as it may be, and what we require, of course, is more money and more men. If we had the men we should get the money, or if we had the money perhaps we should get the men. It does not matter; if you get the one you get the other.”--Diocese of Perth Quarterly Magazine, p. 2628.

BUILDING TOGETHER THE EMPIRE.—“I have heard and read during the last few weeks a great number of speeches with regard to the necessity of binding all parts of the Empire. Now, a great deal of these speeches will be absolutely of no worth at all unless people recognise the fact that one of the first things we have to do for the different parts of the Empire is to provide the people with proper church conveniences; and the necessity which lies upon us all is to give every man who goes out to the colonies a fair chance of obtaining Church assistance. Personally, the indifferent manner in which many people of the Church of England regard their re-sponsibilities with regard to outside portions of the Empire has grieved me very much indeed.”--Mr. Foulkes, M.P. (Westers Australia). THE WHITE MAN WITHOUT HIS RELIGION.—“The Rev. S. M. Stewart, Missionary Priest in Ungava, Northern Labrador, speaking at a recent meeting, said:-- ‘We have been hearing a great deal lately about a new Empire or Nation in the making, but I think that it is well to remember that, in proportion to the influx and increase of the Anglo-Saxon into any portion of Greater Britain, which has originally been the reserve of native races, so in like manner, though perhaps in a lesser degree, those native races deteriorate and decline. Alas ! that it should be, and that with the advent of the white man into the domain of the red man or the black man, lust, liquor, and licentiousness invariably follow. We try to keep the white man Christian, we try to follow him from the day that he leaves the shores of Christian England to settle on the plain, with those civilising influences which make for righteousness and peace, and try to give him a help heavenward; and thus, by helping him forward, we are safeguarding the moral of the native races with whom he comes into contact, and we are safeguarding their interests and their eternal welfare. “ ‘ My work lies and has lain for the past eight years amongst the native races in Ungava, and one of the saddest sights that I have seen, not in Ungava, but in a portion of British North America remote from Ungava, was a great tribe of people, numbering perhaps 1,100 or 1.200--I was there when they were examined by a medical man. They were a race of splendid looking men, and one could not help admiring their physique. But the report that the doctor himself gave me was that they were in a very short time all doomed to die, not from natural causes, as some people try to suppose, but from unnatural causes. They were dying, and dying rapidly, because they had been the victims of the white man's sins.’ ” --Greater Britain Messenger, June 1910, p. 277. A HEATHER WOMAN GIVES HER BEST.—" An officer in the army went home to England some years ago, having witnessed this incident in India. He was walking along the banks of the sacred river when he heard behind him a moan as of a soul in agony. He turned round, and there before him was a Hindu mother with two children. One was a lovely boy, the other a puny, weak, miserable little girl. He asked what was the matter. The answer of the poor woman was, ‘The gods are angry with me.’ ‘Why?’ he said. ‘Because they have given me this miserable little girl.’ He replied, ‘But you have that boy.’ All she would say was, ‘The gods are angry.’ He passed on, not knowing what the woman meant. Presently he returned. There was the same woman, the same little girl. But where was the boy? Thrown into the Ganges. She had given the fruit of her body for the sin of her soul. He turned to her in astonishment and said, 'Surely, if you had to give one, you would have given the girl.' Listen to her answer: 'Sahib, do you think I would give my god anything but the best?’ Her religion broke her heart. Ours binds up the broken-hearted, comforts those that mourn, wipes tears from off all faces. Yet, which of us has given the best? So what happens ? To-day in the Church of England only one in every five thousand of our communicants goes forth to the Mission field, and a heathen can throw the taunt in our face that we are not like our Christ. When we reverse the order, and the five thousand go and the one remains at home, then we shall be giving our best; then we shall be a little more like the ‘Lord of Glory who has bought us.’ ”--C.M.S. Intelligencer. ________________________________________ Wants. SEOUL.-- Small crucifixes for wearing are always in request. Scarlet blankets, for the use of Christians who come for one night from the country. Odds and ends of bright coloured wools or crochet cotton. Address, “Sister Edith Helena, St. Peter's Mission House, Seoul.” KANGHWA.-- Knitting wool for the girls’ school. Fine linen to be used for making purificators. A lantern and a thurible for Paikchün. SU WON.--Foothalls: crucifixes: an organ for St. Stephen's Church. CHIN-CHUN.--300 small crucifixes: 10 for 2s. 6d. Please send half-crowns to Mr. David Jones, 18 High Street, Clydach Vale, Ton-y-Pandy Glam. Fine linen cloths for six small altars, feet long by two feet six inches wide. Banners without staves, with no English words thereon.   Additional copies of this paper may be obtained by sending a stamped envelope to Miss MERRIMAN, 33. WHITEHALL ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, SURREY. ________________________________________

Supplications. Intercessions and Giving of Thanks FOR THE Diocese of Corea,

JANUARY 1912.   TO THE READERS OF “MORNING CALM.” ________________________________________ Subscribers to “MORNING CALM” will, in future, receive monthly an Intercession Paper, extra copies of which will be obtainable. They will also receive on the first of those months in which “MORNING CALM” is not published (i.e., February, March, May, June, August, September, November, and December) a “Letter Leaflet” con-taining a short Letter from the Bishop. The subscription for the Magazine is 1/-. There will be no charge for the “Letter Leaflet” and “Intercession Paper,” but those who receive their copies by post are asked to pay 6d. per annum to cover the cost of postage of “Morning Calm,” “Letter Leaflet,” and “Intercessions.” Your subscription is now due, and should be sent to Miss B. ATKINS, 24 Overton Road, Brixton, S.W. THE EDITOR. The “MORNING CALM.” 1/- per annum: post free, 1/6.