Morning Calm v.25 no.139(1914 Jan.)

The Bishop's Letter.

(To the Readers of MORNING CALM.) MY DEAR FRIENDS,-- I have delayed writing this letter until the last moment in the hope that we might hear some definite news as to the result of Mr. Hewlett's voyage to England on our behalf. And now, on my return from a brief visit to Kanghwa, the longed-for news has come just in time to enable me to express in these columns my intense thankfulness: first and foremost to Almighty God for putting it into your hearts to give such good heed to our appeal, and then to all concerned at home, from the Archbishop of Canterbury down to that splendid "country curate," from the donors of large sums down to the donors of mites, for the generous way in which our challenge was taken up, and last, but by no means least, to our dear and trusty messenger, George Hewlett, who has made such good use of his time and those nimble legs of his! He writes cheerfully that he hopes to leave England on December 1 and to be with us soon after the middle of the month, so that after a few days' rest he will be able (D.V.) to keep the Feast of Christmas in his own Station of Chin-Chun. He will have been absent, all told, hardly more than one hundred days, of which nearly forty will have been spent on the railway journey to and fro across Siberia. And though he has always been accustomed to a fairly busy Life, I suspect that he will look back upon these three months as amongst the most strenuous he has ever spent ! I do not, of course, yet know in detail exactly what has happened.   and we are still in some doubt as to what S.P.G. will feel able to do in the matter of raising its annual grant, which is, after all, the backbone of the Mission's finance. We only know that the matter has been brought to the knowledge of the Turton Street authorities with clear and undeniable emphasis and that they are giving the matter their very earnest and sympathetic con-sideration. Some surprise has, I believe, been expressed (and not unnaturally) at Corea's Oliver Twist-like importunity in "asking for more " so soon after the generous action taken by the Society at the time of my consecration in 1911, when, it will be remembered, they added £1,000 a year to our Block Grant and presented me with a handsome and unexpected cheque for over £500 from members of the Standing Committee. Gratified as I naturally was at this action on their part, I had not the slightest notion then, nor any means of finding out, how far it exactly covered our needs. In point of fact, the sudden death of Canon Brooke--the “heart and soul” of the Corean Committee during his lifetime--following so rapidly as it did on the death of Bishop Turner, at a very critical period of the Mission's history, rendered it practically impossible to arrive at any clear understanding of our financial position until I arrived on the spot and made first-hand acquaintance with the work and its needs. If I had known in 1911 what I know now, I should have had to tell S.P.G. that, while grateful for the additional ￡1,000 a year, what was really needed was not one thousand but three! And it is this sum which, thanks to your generosity and theirs, we now seem to be in a fair way to obtain. Once again, then, let me thank all those concerned--not for-getting the special thanks due to our good friend and chairman, the Bishop of London, and the two other good Bishops who have come to stand by him in the breach. Only let us remember that we cannot live on “scares” and “spurts” of this kind, and that the interest aroused will be chiefly valuable so far as it secures to us a permanent increase of income, and thus sets us free both to maintain and develop the work which God has allowed us to begin. The A.P.W.C. meanwhile, with its simple rule of daily prayer for Missions, will surely see, in this crisis and the way in which it is being met, the best justification for the principles on which it was founded by Bishop Corfe, and also a stimulus to even further activities. My last letter was written, if I remember rightly, from Japan, whence I returned to Corea on the Eve of All Saints, a day even more notable in the local calendars as the official birthday of H.M. the Emperor of Japan. Being the first birthday since the expiration of mourning for the late Emperor, there were great doings in Seoul and everywhere else. But in these, as a traveller, I had no share. I was very glad to find Miss Grosjean looking so well and happy at Fusan, and after celebrating in our little Church there on All Saints' morning. I left by the day express for Seoul, which I reached the   same (Saturday) night. The greater part of the following week I was kept busy with the Sister's Retreat, which this year, at their Chaplain's request, I conducted myself. And when that was over I went off for my little visit to Kanghwa, partly in order that I might be present at the Dedication Festival of our Church of SS. Peter and Paul there, and partly to make final arrangements with Cecil Hodges and Stanley Smith for opening our work of clergy training, which is to begin there, and not at Mapo, next January. We are intending to begin in as small and quiet and unobtrusive a way as possible. But I am not without hope that the end of 1914 will find us with two Coreans (and possibly one Japanese) already advanced to the deaconate, and a compact little group of students being prepared for elevation to the same Holy Order in the not distant future. And that will be something more worth praying about, and thanking God for, even than the acquisition of additional funds. And now with one more word of thanks and one more earnest request to “keep your end up” in prayer and work. I am, Yours affectionately in Christ, * MARK. Bishop in Corea. ________________________________________

Income.

THIS is the one absorbing topic at this moment as we approach the end of the year. It is hardly possible as yet to estimate exactly how we stand. There is still money to come in before the books are finally closed. At any rate, it is possible to show how splendidly the Auxiliary Agencies (if we may, for want of a better name, so designate those original organisa-tions which have done so much for the Mission to Corea) have done during the year 1913. In order to understand the increase that has taken place in the amount subscribed by the members of A.P.W., it will be as well to give the figures for the last few years. In 1910 a sum of ￡552 was sent by Miss Falwasser to the Organising Secretary for remittance to Corea through S.P.G.; in 1911 ￡664: in 1912 ￡734, while for this year no less than £965 has already been sent in, and there is still half the amount taken at the Corean Stall at the Horticultural Hall, Westminster, to be added to this. The total will therefore exceed ￡1.000--a result which must cause the greatest satisfaction to the Honorary Secretary and all concerned. We pass to the support for the Sisters' work which comes through the St. Peter's Foreign Missionary Association. They are always consistent and never failing. The amount due for the maintenance of the Sisters at work in Corea, namely ￡350, has been paid in. But this does not represent the full amount raised by the Association of which Sister Helen Constance is the Secretary. At their annual   ===SUPPLICATIONS.=== Grant, O good Lord. GENERAL: 1. A blessing on all efforts now being made in England on behalf of the Mission. 2. Direction and a right judgment to all who are in authority. 3. Help to deal discreetly with many difficulties. 4. That the foreign members of the Mission staff may be vouchsafed a clearer insight into the Corean methods of thought. 5. The special guidance of the Holy Spirit in determining the vocation of native Christians to the Sacred Ministry. 6. That the Christians may shew more zeal in bringing their fellow countrymen to the Faith. 7. That Christian children, being taught the Faith; may be rightly brought up. SEOUL: 8. That by a greater outpouring of the Spirit of love and unity those Christians who are now estranged may live together in peace. 9. That all may value their privileges and, so, be more faithful in the use of them. 10. Steadfast perseverance to some who were in danger of lapsing. 11. Repentance and steadfastness to the Christians at Poung Namni. CHEMULPO: 12. Continued help and Divine strength to one who is struggling to overcome the opium habit. SUWON: 13. An increase of faith and zeal to the Christians Saimal. 14. Comfort and peace to John and Nancy Meun and to Timothy and Anne Ee, on the death o their children Susan Meun and John Ee. 15. A blessing on the marriage of Stephen Choi wit Naomi Yang, and of Matthew Ee with Salome Chun.   PAIK CHUN: 16. A blessing on the Children's Catechism and its leaders. INTERCESSIONS. Lord, be gracious. GENERAL: 17. The excommunicated, the lapsed and the in-different. SEOUL: 18. Sister Nora, who is sick. 19. Sister Isabel and her two fellow travellers returning to Corea. 20. The newly confirmed and those preparing for First Communion. CHEMULPO: 21. Maria Ee and Margarita O on their journey to Hawaii. 22. Catechumens preparing for Baptism. 23. Several boys and girls to be confirmed at Easter. KANG HWA: 24. Twenty-four new Churchwardens admitted to office last December. 25. Candidates for Baptism and Confirmation, and those who are preparing them. 26. Cecil Hodges (Priest) in his work at the College. 27. Mark Kim and Barnabas Kou, who are to join the College this month. 28. The two Catechists Moses Kim and Michael Ee in their largely increased responsibilities. 29. The Christians at Tong Chin, who are without a resident Catechist. SUWON: 30. Many, both adults and children, who are sick. 31. The repose of the soul of Joseph Cho. PAIK CHUN: 32. Catechumens preparing for Baptism, and those who are responsible for their instruction. 33. Certain Christians who have fallen into sin. 34. Esther Ensor, journeying to England. 35. Nurse Carswell on her taking up work in Corea.   JAPANESE WORK: 36. Those who have lapsed. 37. The Priest in charge having to face two difficult problems. 38. The Priest and people of the Church in Seoul, who have presented none for baptism during the past year. 39. One of the Mission staff who needs special help. 40. Three Christians preparing for Confirmation. THANKSGIVINGS. We thank Thee, good Lord. GENERAL: 41. The temporary solution of the financial difficulties. SEOUL : 42. Those confirmed in Advent. CHEMULPO: 43. The Baptism of Maria Ee before her departure for Hawaii. 44. Signs of renewed zeal on the part of some of the Christian workers in the hospital. 45. The improved financial position which has led to a second ward being opened in St. Luke's Hos-pital. 46. The restoration of a Christian who was a victim of the opium habit. KANG HWA: 47. The Bishop's visit on the thirteenth Dedication Festival of SS. Peter and Paul. 48. The restoration to communion, by the Bishop, of Susanna Kim, who had been excommunicated. 49. Three Christian marriages followed by the offering of the Holy Eucharist. 50. The repentance and confession of four men who for several years have absented themselves from Church. 51. For the good work--extending over many years--of Catechists Mark Kim and Barnabas Kou. SUWON: 52. The termination of a family feud of long standing. ________________________________________ Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., London, Colchester and Eton.   meeting on December 6 it was announced that no less than ￡800 had been raised this year, some of which was for special purposes and placed at the disposal of the Bishop, some has been placed on deposit and will be spread over a number of years. It is as well that the Community find themselves in this satisfactory position. since it is not unlikely that the amount now requisite for the Sisters support may, in the near future, be advanced to £400 per annum. We come now to H.N.F. In this department too there is an increase to report, and a substantial one. Captain Corfe, who has for so many years been Hon. Treasurer, has received and paid to the Organising Secretary ￡230. To this will be added half the amount (a little over £100) taken at the Horticultural Hall. The Naval Fund shared with A.P.W. the work of furnishing the stall, and will share in the excellent result of that undertaking. Of all the con-tributary funds the Children's Fund alone shows a slight falling off. This we hope will be put right next year. The total amount that has been raised by the work of the Auxiliary Agencies and the Organising Secretary and his assistant will be found recorded in Acknowledgements on pages 26, 27 and 28.

The Combined Sale. It was a great innovation for the Corean Mission to take a stall at this sale, and the experiment has been most fully justified. We understand that the "takings" at the Corean Stall have broken all previous records by very nearly £100. At the time of writing Mrs. Napier Trollope, who has been mainly responsible for this splendid result, reports that she has received £201 17s., and there is still some more money to come in. The previous best figure reached by any one stall at this sale was, we are told, £133. The explanation of this triumphant success is to be found, as we have already said, first in the enthusiasm and real hard work of Mrs. Napier Trollope: secondly, in the way that the A.P.W. branchesthroughout the country have responded to the appeal for things to sell (and it is impossible to say too much of the loyalty and devotion shown by the country branches in this matter); and lastly, in the co-operation of those ladies who, while not directly connected with the Mission and its work, not only bore with Mrs. Trollope the burden and the heat of the room during the hours of sale, but also brought up strong contingents of buyers from the ranks of their personal friends. That is how it was done; and we offer them all our most cordial thanks. With Mrs. Napier Trollope were Lady Florence Cecil, Lady Hillier, Mrs. W. P. Besley, Mrs. Childs-Clarke. Mrs. J. D. Malcolm, Mrs. Wiles, and Miss Molly Beauchamp. And the best of it is that they are all going to help again! So we look ahead to next November, when we shall have our own record to break. Mrs. Napier Trollope has her plans laid already. It is not too soon to ask those who are willing to help us again to make a note of what sells best and what we are going to ask them to send us. The secret of success in these large sales is an attractive   stall and plenty of buyers. Mrs. Trollope is anxious to have a large supply of curios and antiques. There will be a consignment of Corean curios again if they can be secured; and we ask our good friends in the country and in the town to look about for saleable things of the nature described. Old glass, old china, old engravings. old lace, aquatints and metzotints will be welcomed at 32 Nevern Mansions, Earls Court, S.W., and will find a very ready sale next November.

How to give. On another page will be found a record of the responses that have come into the Organising Secretary as a result of the various challenges that have been made by different people. The Mission is under a deep debt of gratitude for the splendid example of “A Country Curate.” His challenge, offering ￡10 a year for three years, has been taken up by 88 others. That means an additional income of £880 per annum for three years, at any rate. In reponse to the offer of “A priest,” who out of his savings gave £50 if twenty other persons would do the same, ten sums of ￡50 have been received or promised. The Henley challenge has also been taken up well. A priest who wishes to be anonymous offered ￡5 for five years, if ten others from that deanery, or even from the Diocese of Oxford, would do the same. Now there comes still another offer. ￡5 for three years if ten others will follow suit. We make the last final appeal for the ten sums of £50 to enable us to secure the original offer of ￡50. At the same time we confidently appeal for NINE PROMISES OF £5 FOR THREE YEARS in order that we may be in a position to claim the original offer of £5. And we have not the slightest hesitation in asking for another thirteen perons only to bring the total of responses to the offer of “A County Curate” up to 100. We have so nearly doubled the number that he stipulated for in his challenge that it really would be a pity to stop short of the 100.

Examples. This is how money is found for the work of the Church when it is needed. A servant girl has promised ￡1 per annum out of a wage of ￡13 a year. A girl in a post-office promises ￡10 a year for three years. At a midland town a lady, unable to give money because she had only an annuity just sufficient for her living, sent her most cherished possession-a gold muff-chain. It has been sold for £8 and the Mission is the better off by that amount. Another lady has sent her jewellery to the Organising Secretary. An inmate of a workhouse, given 6d. by a visitor for cocoa because she was ill, went without the cocoa and the money has gone, with more just as precious, to Corea. These are only a few of the many cases that are known to “the Office” of the Mission. There are others which will never be recorded here. Surely now every challenge will be taken up eagerly. The Bishop of London has doubled his subscription and hopes that many who may not have as yet done so will follow his example.  

St Nicholas's Day.

It is hardly possible to ascertain with any degree of accuracy to what extent December 6 was observed as a day of Intercession for Corea. In these days of revived enthusiasm for Foreign Missions when the Feast of St. Andrew is so well observed, and days of Intercession are held throughout the Octave, it can hardly be that the call of Corea has escaped notice. It is, perhaps, not easy to make December 6 the one day on which all those who pray for Corea make a special point of united prayer, and we are thankful that in view of the general observance of St. Andrews-tide it is not so necessary to impress it upon our supporters.

The task for 1914.

It may be as well at the beginning of the new year to know exactly what sum is required over and above the present grants that are made by S.P.G. and S.P.C.K. Without any additions to the staff and without any expansion of the work in Corea the Bishop asks for a sum of ￡3.500. But our goal is nothing less than the ￡10,000 a year from all sources, so that the Bishop may not only not have to retrench in any direction, but may proceed to carry out his plans as outlined in his “Statement of Polity.”

R.I.P.

The Hon. General Secretary for A.P.W. has alluded to the death of Mrs. Arthur of Atherington, which will prove such a loss to the work in Devonshire and such a gain to the sum of our Intercessions. It was of Corea that she thought to the last. “Our Mission,” she loved to call it. The day before she knew that her Calvary was before her (the last day in fact that she was out of doors), she called at Amen Court to know exactly the position of affairs. One of her last acts was to write to the Bishop of London asking him never to forget Corea. Not that he was likely to ; but what, in her anxiety she asked of him, she would ask of all readers of MORNING CALM. Our sympathy is extended to the inner circle of her own friends and to her own people. Her brother, Vice-Admiral J. Startin, is a keen supporter of missionary work, and one of the staunchest of the H.N.F. Vice-Presidents. There are still many copies of the Missionary Calendar unsold. It will help Corea if they are bought. Miss Drake will send them at once to those who apply. Address:--6 Edward St., Bath.

THE CHALLENGES.

Ⅰ. "A Country Curate" offered ￡10 a year for three years. Response.--In addition to these already published in the "Letter Leaflet" for December, the Organising Secretary has received the following promises of ￡10 for three years :--Miss   Cumming: "Anon.," J.; Guild of the Holy Spirit (two sums of ￡10, paid direct to S.P.G.); Rev T. W. Haworth; Miss M. Godley; “Anon.,” per Rev. S. J. Horsford; Miss A. B. Cardale; Miss M. L. Cardale; Miss E. Jennings. [We regret that in the first list published in the December “Letter Leaflet” Mrs. Roffe's name was wrongly printed “Rolfe.” Ed. M.C.]

II. The Henley Challenge.—"A Priest” offers £5 a year for five years if nine other persons or parishes in the Deanery of Henley or in the Diocese of Oxford will contribute a similar sum. Response.--Promises of sums of £5 have come from Mrs. Hampshire; “Former worker in Corea”; Rev. G. Jodrell Day; Parish of Twyford, Berks; Parish of Shiplake; Parish of Harpsden; Parish of Rotherfield, Greys; Parish of Henley; Parish of Holy Trinity, Greys; Parish of Remenham.

III. A single sum of £50 if twenty other persons will give a similar sum. Response.—“An Old Subscriber," £50; Miss Tidswell, £50; “Anon.,” £50; “Thankoffering,” three sums of £50 (£150); “Anon.” two sums of £50 (£100). Please send to the Organising Secretary the remaining ten £50's so that we may secure the original promise.

IV. A subscription of £5 a year for three years if nine others will give the same. Response.--As yet none have come in. “May I have them soon?” (This from the Organising Secretary.)

The Festival.

In view of the fact that a great public meeting will be held on the evening of Wednesday, March 11, 1914, in the Great Hall, Church House, Westminster, at which the Bishops of London and Oxford, and Canon Lord William Cecil will speak, the Executive Committee have decided that that meeting shall take the place of the usual Annual Meeting, so that at the Festival there will be no public meeting. The usual Choral Eucharist will take place as in former years on Thursday, April 30. The Lord Bishop of Argyle and the Isles has promised to preach the sermon. The service will be held at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, and the early Eucharist at St. Paul's (Chapel of St. Faith) as usual. In place of an evening meeting on Wednesday, April 29th, the Executive Committee have asked Miss Folkard, our Assistant Secretary, to arrange for some Corean tableaux. Miss Folkard was responsible last year for the very beautiful pictures that were presented at St. John's Hall, Westminster, so that we look forward   with pleasure to something as beautiful this year. She has already secured the help of those who so kindly gave up their time to help in this way before, and the Queen's Gate Hall for the evening. By an error, the address of Mrs. Winterton, our kind and pains-taking Magazine Secretary, was wrongly given on the slip attached to the November MORNING CALM. It is 30 Russell Gardens, Golders Green, N.W. (not 33). Will subscribers please note this, and, if they have not already done so, send her their subscription—1s. 6d., post free, with the monthly “Letter Leaflet.”

[Owing to the fact that several hundreds of those who take “Morn-nig Calm” have not paid their subscriptions, a further “Whip” has had to be attached to the copies of those who have forgotten to do so. If they only realised the extra expense the Mission is put to to meet this it surely would not have been found necessary. --ED. M. C.] ________________________________________ Association of Prayer and Work for Corea. OUR Association has suffered a great loss through the death of Mrs. Arthur, who has been County Secretary for Devon for some years, and Local Secretary in Atherington since 1890. She was always brimming over with enthusiasm and energy on behalf of Corea, and only a short time before her death visited the Organising Secretary, filled with sympathy and concern for the welfare of the Mission. We shall greatly miss her, but we feel certain, and rejoice at the thought, that, with clearer vision, she still joins with us in intercession. May her example inspire us all with fresh enthusiasm for the cause she had so much at heart! We are delighted to be able to announce the formation of our first A.P.W. branch in New Zealand--thanks to Miss Westcott, whose zeal has enabled her to do so much, though she has only been a short time in Feilding. The Association centres had lately been confined to England, then came the Dublin branch, and now having reached New Zealand, we shall surely before long have branches in all parts of the world. And here must come a word of congratulation to St. Alban's, Birmingham: (1) because of the splendid sum of money which the Members have given to Corea, (2) because it is to this centre that we owe both Dublin and Feilding. Surely Members have the real missionary spirit if, on finding themselves in new surroundings, they at once seek to make the Association known to others. This spirit has been by no means confined to one centre, but these two instances make one long to see a larger number of A.P.W. branches springing up in new localities. It will be well if we can bring this thought into wider practice during 1914. Besides Miss Westcott we welcome three other new Secretaries this quarter:--   At Harleston (Norfolk), Miss Catherine Wilby succeeds her sister, who has taken up work in London. Miss C. Carter hopes to carry on the splendid work done for us by Mrs. Medley at Kennington. At Streatham, Miss Hilda Jesson takes the place of Mr. Pittman, who has lately resigned. All these Secretaries have our thanks and best wishes in undertaking their new work. It has been delightful to hear of the enthusiasm exhibited by so many Local Secretaries in organising meetings and sales. following account has been received of a most successful effort in Brighton: “A large and enthusiastic meeting was held in the parish room of St. Nicholas, Brighton, on the afternoon of Monday, October 27. The Rev. H. M. Hordern, Vicar of the parish, was in the chair. The speakers were Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke, Organising Secretary of the Mission. Rev. G. E. Hewlett of Chin-Chun, Corea, and Miss Elrington of Fusan, Corea. “The Organising Secretary made a telling speech, dealing with the three ‘chapters’ of the Mission under the successive rule of Bishop Corfe, Bishop Turner, and Bishop Trollope. “He pointed out that the reason why the Mission had been sent to Corea in the first instance was because it had been asked for. not by the Coreans themselves, who had only just opened their doors to the foreigner, but by the Bishops in China and Japan, who saw the immense importance of the conversion of Corea in the ultimate evangelisation of the eastern nations. “The Church of England had sent the Mission, and the speaker called on the Church to maintain it, and not to let it languish just as the critical stage of the establishment of a native ministry in the near future was in sight. “When the work of establishing the Catholic Church in Corea was completed, the present workers might withdraw to other parts of the Mission Field, or take a long holiday in England, but not before! “Mr. Childs Clarke reported some striking and touching instances of generous self-denying help given by many sympathisers with the Mission during the last few days, and urged the audience to follow their example. “Miss Elrington, working among the Japanese in Corea, spoke of the great need of evangelistic work among a people who have absorbed much of their present materialistic ideas from contact with the western nations, and pointed out the necessity of a right presentation of the Christian Faith to such a people as the Japanese. “Rev. G. E. Hewlett gave a description of a day's work of a Mission priest in the country districts of Corea, showing how impossible it was to carry on the work without further help. When the native ministry could be established, as by the Mercy of God he hoped it shortly might be, the present strain on the mental and spiritual energies of the English clergy in the pastoral case of the   infant church of Corea would be somewhat relieved, and their work might flow into other channels. “The collection, including sums received later (among which was the generous donation of £5, sent anonymously), was over ￡16. “The meeting closed with a hymn, and intercessions and thanksgivings for the Mission.” The liberal contributions sent by A.P.W. Members to the Horticultural Hall Sale were very much appreciated, and helped to furnish the Corean stall with a splendid supply of goods. It is hoped that if the stall becomes an annual institution the Associa-tion will continue to support it, both by sending contributions and by coming in large numbers to buy. We can none of us fail to be full of thankfulness for the wonderful way in which money has poured in for our Mission, in response to many prayers. There has been true self-sacrifice on the part of many donors. Several branches have more than doubled their annual contributions, and (best of all) are determined that there shall be no falling off in the future. Let each one of us bear March 11 in mind, and try to bring or send to the London meeting, which is fixed for that evening, someone who at present knows little or nothing of the Mission to Corea. Will Local Secretaries kindly furnish me with a complete list of Members and addresses (or, in the case of large centres with necessary corrections) before the end of January? MAUD I.' FALWASSER, General Secretary. ________________________________________

Children's Letter.

DEAR CHILDREN,-- Again another New Year has come round, and again I write and wish you all a very happy New Year. Are you wondering how the children are getting on in their new quarters at Su Won? I hoped very much to have heard, and to have been able to tell you, but so far no letter has come. They will have spent Christmas in quite new surroundings. There will have been, I expect, the excite-ment of welcoming to Su Won those elder girls who went with the orphans to Su Won, and after the summer holidays went back to Seoul to attend the Government School. Probably those have gone to Su Won for the Christmas holidays, and will spend the New Year there, which you know is one of the principal Corean festivals. These elder girls will all be Christians, so it will be a great joy to them to be spending the Christmas Festival with those with whom they had had their home. Then there will be the new friends in Su Won, who, like the old friends in Seoul, will probably come forward and be giving some Christmas treats to the children. From what we read in Sister Nora's last letter I expect, don't you,   that the children will be going out and bringing in all sorts of fresh things they find in the country to add to all the preparations for sweets and tasty dishes. Though, then it will be winter, and there will not be the herbs they found in the summer, nor, should I think, the fishes, as the rivers may be frozen over.

EMBROIDERING A COPE.

Ivey Min, Inai Kim, Esther Chal, Enchal Kim and Elizabeth Han (Reading from left to right)

You will be remembering the children in your prayers, and praying for a New Year's blessing on them in that far-off country. And, think, perhaps some of them, though big children and some quite grown-up people, may this year he celebrating their first Epiphany. Some of you will have heard from your Secretaries of the very critical and serious times that the Mission has been passing through lately, so you children can do, and will do I hope, what you can in prayer, first in thanking God for the help given, and also in praying that the work begun may go on, and that more and more children may be taught and brought into the fold of the Good Shepherd. I do not seem to have heard so much of the various branches this year. I have heard of several new branches, and have just heard from Mr. Wilson, before he starts for Corea, of Miss Shannon who will kindly be Secretary for the new branch at Quarrington; and so, though I have not heard anything special from them. I do hope the older branches are steadily increasing in strength, though this quarter I have not received so many gifts or subscriptions in money to send in as usual.   The picture here is of an embroidery class at Paik-Chun. These five girls spent their spare time in Lent in 1911 making and embroidering a cope, which was presented by them at the Holy Eucharist on Maundy Thursday, and used for the first time at the baptism on Easter Eve. The second picture shows the children

TIDYING THE COMPOUND.

at work on Saturday morning, at Paik-Chun, getting the compound swept and tidy for Sunday. With renewed good wishes to you all. Believe me, Your sincere friend, MABEL SEATON. 61 YORK STREET CHAMBERS, YORK STREET, BRYANSTON SQUARE, W., December 1913.  

St. Peter's Community foreign Mission Association.

ALTHOUGH S.P.F.M.A. has not really been affected by the serious anxiety which has overtaken the General Fund of the Mission, yet the Bishop's Appeal has caused some ripples, from the waves of the inflowing tide of help which it evoked, to reach the Association. Various sums, chiefly donations, have been sent specially earn arked for the Sister's work. These have been remitted straightway to the Bishop, thus enabling him to finance the Hostel in Seoul under the charge of Sister Cecil which is for Corean girls attending the Japanese school; and also to make the necessary preparations for a similar Home for young women which is to be worked by Sister Isabel on her return in January. By permission of the Commissary and Treasurer other large sums have been placed to a suspense account which assures needful help for a few years. The Corean Stall at Portman Rooms brought £90 4s. 6d., and warm thanks are owing to all those who generously contributed, a list of whom is given below. There was a well-attended meeting of the St. Peter's Home, Woking Branch, on November 10, when Mr. Hewlett and Miss Pooley spoke on work in Corea, and the Organising Secretary gave striking instances of the sacrifices involved in the generous response to the needs of the Mission. ￡13 was collected in the Hall, and various sums promised. Warm praise is due to the patients at Kilburn, Woking, St. Leonards, and Cheddar, who at great self-sacrifice have afforded much help to the Mission by their Ward Boxes. The number of the Association's Members increases steadily. Corea has been placed among the Missions prayed for by many Parochial Missionary Associations, several members have generously doubled their subscriptions in this year of anxiety, and we can with much thankfulness look forward to possibly sending the Bishop in 1914 even more than our promised ￡350. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE, Secretary, S.P.F.M.A.  

The Orphanage, Su Won.

SINCE last quarter five little girls have been added to Sister Nora's flock--Dorothy and Maria Kion, Bertha Ni, Yengjo Hong and Kanani Hong--while little Aiin who has been wasting away with a kind of tuberculosis, has died, and is the first to be buried on the hill behind the Orphanage. The Coreans call this complaint the “swelling sickness,” and incurable; all the foreign doctors in rotation have tried to cure different children, and have taken the greatest pains, but all in vain. Miss Hope has kindly promised to befriend Theresa in Ain's place. All the other children seem better in the country air; it is a more natural life, and they are out all day and look fat and brown. The hill behind the house is an endless source of pleasure and of health. Owing to changes at Beer, Miss Chapple writes that the Guild of St. Ursula will no longer be able to support an orphan, but she hopes to send a contribution to the General Fund. To balance this loss, however, Miss Penney of Harvington, Evesham, kindly offers to provide ￡5 a year for Carita. It is so encouraging to receive letters of this kind; will anyone else come forward to help the seven or eight children still unprovided for? MARY SANDERS.  

Corean hospital Naval fund.

THE Ninety-fourth Meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the Royal United Service Institution at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, October 8. Present: Rev. J. C. Cox-Edwards (in the chair). Bishop Corfe, Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke, Rev. J.H. Berry, Capt. B. H. Chevallier, J. R. Clark, Esq., Capt. J.H. Corfe, and C. E. Baxter, Esq. A letter of regret was read from Rev. S. H. W. Lovett. The Hon. Secretary reported that a concert had recently been held on board H.M.S. Minotaur, Flagship. China. in aid of the hospital, and that about ￡30 had been handed over to Dr. Weir.

REV. C. H. N. HODGES, REV. G. E. HEWLETT, MRS. LAWS, DR. LAWS. (Reading from left to right)

Vice-Admiral Jerram. Commander-in-Chief, had also visited St. Luke's Hospital. The Sub-Committee were busy making preparations for the Annual Sale of Work at the Royal Horticultural Hall, which was held on November 20 and 21, and thanks to the ladies who so kindly assisted the Corean Stall, of which H.N.F. had a half share, did remarkably well, ￡200 being realised, ￡100 of which will be remitted to the Hon. Treasurer of H.N.F. The Easter Meeting 1914 will be held on April 8. C. E. BAXTER. Hon. Sec. Ex. Com. H.N.F.   Additional copies of this paper may be obtained by sending a stamped addressed envelope to Miss MERRI-MAN, 24, CLYDE ROAD, CROYDON.

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

JANUARY 1914.   ===SUPPLICATIONS.=== Grant, O good Lord. GENERAL : 1. A blessing on the efforts now being made in England on behalf of the Mission. 2. Direction and a right judgment to all who are labouring to help the Mission. 3. That the foreign workers of the Mission may be enabled to understand the Corean mind. 4. A revelation of the Divine will in regard to the vocation of native candidates for the Sacred Ministry. 5. That all the Christians, with greater zeal, may do their part in spreading the Faith. 6. That the children of Christians may be rightly brought up. 7. Repentance to all the excommunicated, the lapsed and indifferent. 8. That the Christians may be more careful of their spiritual welfare and have a greater appreciation of their privileges. 9. That the girls in the Hostel, growing in habits of prayer and penitence may develop Christian minds and characters. 10. Needful help and strength to a Christian under going a spiritual crisis. 11. That the difficulties at Poung Namui may be over-ruled for good. 12. Stedfastness to the Christians in Poung Namui. 13. Repentance to those who have fallen away and repentance to those who are causing the trouble in Poung Namui. KANG WHA: 14. A blessing on the Bishop s visit. 15. A blessing on the evening classes for women and girls. CHUN AN: 16. A blessing on the Mission held in December at Poo-to-Ri.   17. A blessing on the village of So-sin-Keui, whose leader--the only man who can read--is moving away. 18. That a capable woman Catechist may be found for the district of Chik-San. 19. Efficiency in the schools, that they may have power to give both religious and secular teaching. 20. That the problem of getting regular teachers for the Sunday Schools may be solved. JAPANESE WORK: 21. Assistance to Sakai San in several particular efforts. 22. Means to develop the immense opportunities now afforded by the Japanese in Corea. INTERCESSIONS. Lord, be gracious. JAPANESE WORK: 23. All the Japanese Christians during the temptations of the New Year season. FUSAN: 24. Monica Osada Kiku, who is incurably ill. 25. Her son, Timothy, who has no other Christian relation. 26. Three men who are searching for the Truth. 27. The sick, especially Mrs. Suzuki and Mrs. Takino-Uchi. 28. Five Christians in danger of being excommunicated. SEOUL: 29. Those who are preparing for Confirmation and Holy Communion. KANG WHA: 30. Frederick R. Hillary (Priest), now in Canada, hesitating whether or not to take up work among the Coreans in Hawaii. 31. The repose of the soul of John Han.   CHUMAN: 32. The new Catechist in the district of Chik-San. 33. Thirty-four Catechumens in Kom-Chon-Ni, in pre-paring for Baptism. 34. Many in this Province who by the failure of the harvest are in debt and reduced to poverty and starvation.

THANKSGIVINGS. We thank Thee, good Lord. SEOUL : 35. For the Baptism of three women. 36. For the return to Communion of two who were in danger of lapsing. 37. For the recovery to health of Nora Ee. KANG WHA: 38. For the arrival of Cecil Hodges (Priest) and the transfer of the Mission House to the College. 39. For improvement in some of the women as a result of their week in Seoul. 40. For the repentance and submission to discipline of an excommunicated woman. 41. For the recovery of several sick persons. CHUN AN : 42. For the completion of the School at Pyeng Taik. 43. For the efforts at self-help among Christians in several villages. 44. For the promise and keenness shown by the Inquirers and Catechumens at Kom-Chon-Ni. JAPANESE WORK : 45. For the arrival of Sakai San to carry on work among the women. 46. For the gift of money for necessary buildings is Taik Yū. 47. For a short but difficult missionary tour safely carried out. ________________________________________ Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., London, Colchester and Eton.  

St. Luke's hospital, Chemulpo.

THIRD QUARTER, 1913. Two charges are frequently brought against missionary publications: first, that they are not interesting, and second, that they are stale. The first of the charges is hard to avoid, for since the work of a missionary is to spread the Gospel, it may be assumed that he has some aptitude in that direction, but it does not at all follow that he is a skilful journalist; but the second ought to be getting less true as rapidity of transit increases. It is, however, necessary to take advantage of the increase, and, consequently, the time seems to have arrived when these quarterly reports ought no longer to be written at the end of a quarter. When the mail from Corea took at least six weeks any copy had to be off within the first month of each quarter, if it were to have a chance of getting into the next number ; but now that it only takes about a fortnight, it is only reasonable to try and get things a bit more up to date, so that this report is not really for a quarter but for a third, covering the time from the beginning of June to the end of October, and in future I propose to write each time up to the end of the first month of the quarter, so that my news will be just a trace less antique. It is right that such a change should take place just at this time of year, for the period concerned includes summer holidays, so that there are actually three months of work to report on. Holidays are “an unfortunate necessity”: without them things happen of a most undesirable nature, and work may be permanently injured or even ended; but they do an awful lot of harm. This has been said frequently and is probably well known, but I rather doubt whether people at home realise at all what is really involved, at any rate in medical work. I recently had a patient of Dr. Laws' here, he lived not very far from Chin-Chun, where he had been in hospital, and he came here, a long and expensive railway journey, because, as he told me. “Dr. Laws had gone to see the country of his origin.” As a matter of fact he was taking a very short holiday in Seoul, where he had barely arrived when the patient set out from home, but the news had travelled in this perverted form even before his start. Here in Chemulpo we have all summer been having about thirty to thirty-five patients in hospital all the time, and say forty coming every day for treatment; some of these are, of course, not very serious cases, but many are, and many of the most serious come from long distances. And when a holiday occurs there is no one to attend to them, all who can of the in-patients go home, perhaps half a dozen who cannot possibly do so are left in the charge of the Corean staff, who are quite able to go on doing the same thing for them, but have not the least idea what to do if any alteration is required. Fortunately such cases as stay do not often actually require any   change of treatment, though it may be that they would do better if they could have it, and this year, for instance, one very old stager got a change as soon as the holiday was over, and improved so much that he was able to go home, just a year after he came in. Possibly that period might have been two weeks shorter if there had been no holiday. Of the out-patients, perhaps ten may be taken into hospital in the course of a week. During the holiday these ten per week will have to go elsewhere or wait, and there is not very much in the way of “elsewhere” for them to go, as the Japanese hospitals charge so much that they cannot often go to them. The amount of suffering involved in this is such that we hardly know how to tear ourselves away; but there are not many people who can stand the work without going off, so it has to be done. There only seems to be one solution of the problem--unless some one will invent a race of cast-iron doctors and nurses who can keep at it all the year round--and that is to have two doctors to each hospital. At present there are, in all, three hospitals in Corea in this favoured position, and the rest of us doctors (there are nearly forty in our medical missionary association) are thinking a great deal and talking a little about the need of making such a good custom universal; but it is not at all easy to get it done. However, there is no need to labour that point here. I only want to make clear what an awful thing it is to be in the position that most of us occupy. Of course, the one and only question in anyone's mind just now is finance. Funds are short and every one has to economise as much as possible. I feel rather like the son in the parable, for the Bishop suggested to me that I might help a little by closing one ward, and I said it could not be done; but since we opened up at the beginning of September, we have only had a very few patients in the second ward for a very few days, so that while it has not been nominally shut it has been so practically. One male ward has been practically full the whole time, and the women's ward also. But we are doing what we can to keep down expenses by reducing the most costly item of in-patients, with some success but at some cost. It is bad enough to have to refuse to take very needy cases in for the last week or so before the holiday, but to have to keep up that behaviour after coming back is heart-breaking. It seems a bit hard to have to spoil all the year's figures just when the work seemed to have developed properly, and to reduce the statistical table to the level of early years again. But that is a detail, for, after all, figures do not matter though they may look nice, but it is the refusing of the individual patient that is the job. Of course, the hospital is in full work, and patients are being taken in at the rate of nearly one a day; but there is room for more, and there are many more needing and most anxious to come in, and they have to be refused for want of just a little money. We are getting quite used now to opening an enormous abscess in a leg and sending the patient home again immediately.   It seems a brutal thing to do, for they mostly have to walk, but it is the only thing under the circumstances, and let us be thankful that they seem to heal up well, in spite of the fact that the wound needs rest and can only get it very imperfectly. A patient comes from a long way, having heard that the hospital is a good place to get cured in; he is ill and really ought to come into hospital in any country, but it might be just possible to do something for him as an out-patient, and he is told that he cannot come in, but must find a place to stay at in the neighbourhood. If he has a friend who will put him up it is bad enough, for he can only get makeshift treatment instead of what he really needs; but if he has to pay his way it is more trying still, and most likely he has only enough money to stay quite an inadequately short time in the town. Then there are the very poor, those who are ill, but suffering more from want of food and rest and care than from their disease; they have come from a long distance perhaps, to a haven of rest of which they have heard, and all that can be done for them is to give them bottles of medicine and applications, which by them-selves can do little good. The amount of actual suffering and the amount of disappointment inflicted on all these sufferers is incalculable. In my last report I spoke of the difficulty of finding room for all who ought to come in during the summer months. It is true that they are generally the most busy, but work did not seem to have slackened much at the beginning of September, and now there is all this less room available and the struggle is far worse. A ray of hope, and a most welcome one, has come in the shape of news that two beds have been adopted, one in the male wards and one in the women's. There were already two cots in the latter with supporters, and if a few more beds are taken up it will make a great deal of difference; but it must be remembered that the support of a bed does not really do more than provide the food for the patient in it, while the funds of which we are sure from home do not do much more than account for the salaries of the foreign stall, so that beds alone will not suffice to keep the work going. HUGH H. WEIR. ________________________________________  

AY-IN HOSPITAL, CHIN-CHUN.

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Japanese Work.

SINCE sending in my last Report the summer holidays have come and gone, and as for some time one or other of our staff is away. there is not much to tell of in the autumn. Each, of course, is free to go where he or she likes. Mr. Shiozaki, our priest at Fusan,   fell ill the day before that on which he had arranged to start, and so got no summer holiday; but means were found to enable him to go off for a short time in October. Mr. Miyazawa decided to go to Tokyo for the summer school course of lectures. Mr. Ono visited the newly organised church of S. Manchuria (where our late catechist, Mr. Okagaki is now working), and finished with a week at one of our biggest Corean churches. Miss Kurose visited her father at Taikyu, but was driven back by the heat rather sooner than she expected. There was no “jo-kyoshi” in Seoul then. (I can't translate that word; “Bible-woman” or “Mission-woman” is too awful; “Lady-worker” seems to have got itself confined to foreigners; perhaps “Catechiste” would do for print !) As I have reported before, Miss Tange, who was to have taken Miss Inaba's place, failed us at the last moment. Then Miss Sakai was promised to us, and it was hoped that she would come here direct on her way from England. But that proved difficult, so she went first to Japan, and when there fell ill. Consequently, she was not able to come here until November 5, and therefore it is too early yet to speak of her work. On my return from my holidays in Japan I started my usual round of autumn visiting, rather shorter this year than usual, partly owing to our lack of funds. I did only that which was necessary. I wonder what is the solution of the problem of how to deal adequately with our numerous Christians dotted about all over the country? Take the instance of the wife of the gendarme, an earnest com-municant, whom I have just visited. Every year, since she has come to corea, they have been moved to a different place. This year they are in the most accessible place of all, so far; but even so, to get to them involves one whole day in the train, and then a walk of fifty-two miles--at least two days for me, even if the weather is fine. That is six days travelling, and about ￡2 10s. in money, all included, for one visit. Then, on arrival, there is simply nowhere to stay, except in the house of this Christian--in this particular case, rather an extra large box, with the parents, one small boy, and baby shortly expected. As a matter of fact, this last arrived the day after I left! What can one do in such a case, except to talk to them all the evening of arrival, celebrate the Holy Eucharist for the communicant the next morning, and then go. I have no doubt the husband would become a Christian if I was able to instruct him, but I cannot stay there, for one reason (among others), that it would put them to an expense which they would be quite unable to bear, and nothing would induce them to accept anything from me. Or, one more instance, that of a young man, also an earnest communicant, who wishes to be trained for missionary work. He is stationed at a small town, fifteen miles from a station, and situated on the Yalu, the river which divides China from Corea, in the extreme north of the country. I wrote to him in plenty of time to receive an answer, fixing the date of my proposed visit; but no answer had come by the time I had to leave Seoul, and after that   it is not easy to get letters, since I am constantly on the move. However, I did get an answer from him on my rounds, but dated from quite another place to which he had been sent. He par-ticularly wanted me to go to him, but I had to refuse: I could not. It is necessary to fix definitely beforehand the days of my arrival and departure, at and from the various places, and had I accedod to his request, every one of the after fixtures would have been dislocated. Now, unless I can find the time and money to go north again, specially for him, he will be two years without a Celebration, unless, of course, something unforeseen happens. Those are just two examples which show how difficult it is to deal adequately with those Christians who live away in the country. The only way to solve the difficulty that I can see is, to appoint a man simply to travel round the country--but----- ! At present I think it is a case in which one may use legitimately the hackneyed Japanese expression. “Shikata ga nai” (“There's no help for it”). In the midst of our financial distress it was indeed cheering to hear from Miss Erlington that, in consequence of her report about Taikyu, Mrs. Capel had offered £100 to build the house for which the land was bought some time ago, and which has since been lying almost idle, i.e. it has been let to a farmer for a very small rent. The house is for a catechist, and the appointment of a new catechist brings its own problems along with it. But should there be no immediate prospect of a catechist, it is important to have the house. A catechist might be forthcoming at short notice, and unless the house is there, we should have to refuse him. Meanwhile, a Christian family can enter, paying rent, and keeping the house ready for the services and meetings, and, above all, the priest and others can stay there on their visits, thus avoiding the heavy expenditure on inns. &c. We are indeed grateful for the gift. On this subject, it is with great regret that I have to say that I have given up all hope now of buying land at Gensan (Won-San), on the east coast. There were many difficulties, but chiefly that we were too late. The railway is now nearly through, and the price of everything has risen five-fold, rendering it quite impossible to buy, with our available means, anything at all suitable for our purpose. I have therefore written to the donor for permission to spend the money in the same way, only at Heijo (Pyengyang). This is next best: indeed, considering the present only, it is better than Won-San, there being rather more Christians at Heijo, and they more zealous, and land fairly cheap still. But I was thinking of the future. We shall have to open work at Won-San some day, and I know that I am leaving a difficult “job” for some one of my successors to grapple with. The Church at Jinsen (Chemulpo) has been further reduced in numbers, but the gallant little remnant goes bravely on under the quite capable management of Mr. Miyazawa. A week ago we had the first marriage there, also my first Japanese marriage, and it was a great occasion.   Two points are noteworthy. It brought out the eternal difficulty of reconciling the Church's idea of marriage with Eastern ideas of it. The particular form it took here was that all the relations on both sides--all unbelievers--strongly objected to the legal marriage being arranged (when there is no ceremony) before the religious ceremony. which, of course, has no legal validity in this country. There were many reasons for this, which it would take long to explain, and the bridal pair themselves were rather inclined to remain passive in the matter. But, eventually, I was able to carry the point. The other is that though the after-entertainments were in pure Japanese style, they put me, the foreigner, in the chief place of honour throughout. The point here, of course, is that in doing this they were desirous to emphasise the religious aspect of the whole matter, among a big crowd that would, otherwise, perhaps have taken a different view of it. A. L. SHARPE. SEOUL, November 19, 1913. ________________________________________

Local Notes.

Paik-Chun.-- During the last quarter all work in this district has been overshadowed by the probability that, after December, all the foreign staff would have to be withdrawn and our Christians left to shift for themselves. We have struggled on, hoping against hope, but such a situation does not produce the best results. The absence also of a permanent priest-in-charge has not made things any easier, but this difficulty will, we hope, be removed by the return of the Rev. F. Wilson from furlough early next year. Work here is growing, and that is something to be thankful for; but what is better is the fact that Christian houses are filling up, i.e. houses with one or more baptised inmates are becoming real Christian houses through the baptism of remaining members of the family. Mr. So-and-So's “Taik” (i.e. “house,” lit) down among the baptismal candidates would surprise a new-comer, but it is pleasant reading to one who knows that the word also denotes the same gentleman's "wife." There are a fair number of baptismal candidates this winter, the great majority coming from one village. Pomone, where the work is growing very rapidly. Next year the Christians there should be trebled in number after the Easter baptisms, and we are still admitting catechumens. In Paik-Chun city we seem to be getting younger people interested in the work, and we now have a congregation almost entirely composed of children, young men and women at certain services. The Children's Catechism, revived four months ago with fifteen children, now has nearly forty attending, and at Pomone there is also quite a vigorous little branch of the same.   Miss Bourne is still struggling single-handed with the women's work, but we hope she will be reinforced by the arrival of a partly-trained woman catechist early next year. The hospital will probably speak for itself, so I will not say anything about the good work which is being done there under very difficult circumstances. FRANK WESTON. ________________________________________

Correspondence.

DEAR SIR,-- May 1, by your courtesy through the pages of the MORNING CALM, ask the Mission workers in Corea, or Editors of the Magazine, for the gift or loan of negatives, photos, or pictures, for my use in making slides for Lantern Lectures. I only charge the actual cost of these. It is very essential that the Lectures given for the Mission should be up-to-date, and I frequently get growls from Lecturers; but it is not my fault. I cannot make slides out of my imagination, but am always ready to do my best if pictures are sent. Where such are “given” I will undertake to keep a scrap book or photo album of some kind to paste them in, and a faithful record of work done in Corea might in that way be built up. Believe me, Yours faithfully, HENRY F. GOFFE. ________________________________________  

The Spirit of Missions.

JAPAN'S NEED.-- If I may be permitted to apply as a parable an old-time tale to the land in which I am now labouring. I would say: “Japan is a great man with his Master, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, and honourable, but he is a leper.” And it seems to me that those of us who through Christ's loving call seek to become servants of this great people should reflect in some degree the attitude of the servants in the old story. Turning to a land, so venerable in its history, and so truly splendid in so many of its cherished traditions, we may say, “My father, if the Saviour had bidden thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it?” (Japan would certainly have had a good try!) How much more then when He said unto thee, “Wash, and be clean”? Hereinafter lies “the offence of the Cross.” Here, as one stands at the centre of quite a new world--a world only called into existence in the last century by the opening of China and Japan, and the coming through of Russia, Canada and the United States on to the Pacific borders--one gains a new insight into the Apostle's phrase, “The unsearchable riches of Christ.” By no means other than Christ crucified can Japan make return to the nations for the many blessings which she has received through their means, or realise in any full sense the glorious truth that “it is better to give than to receive.” Brethren and sisters at home, pray that Japan may respond in the truest sense to the call of “Noblesse oblige.” —Rev.C. Pickard-Cambridge, Mission Field, March 1911, p. 84.

BUSINESS MEN AND MISSIONS.--Preaching at an Advent midday service for men in St. Helens, York, Canon Tupper Carey, Canon Missioner of the diocese, put some pertinent questions to his hearers with reference to their responsibilities for the conversion of the world. In face of the secularisation and materialism of the East, which was the problem the western world would have to face in the future, what was going to be their attitude ? Were they going to repeat the parrot cry about charity beginning at home, that before converting the heathen abroad, the heathen at home must be converted? That was the sort of thing that many business men were content to think and say when the subject of foreign missions was raised. He put it to them that common sense and the real business view were to be found in the exactly opposite position. And, taking them on their own ground, he asked them whether as business men they would refuse to advertise their goods until every man, woman, and child in the City of York were their customers. The answer was obvious. The business man knew perfectly well that the way to make purchasers of people at his doors was to advertise far and wide, and secure a world-wide name. It was the same with Christianity. Proceeding, he said that the heathen at home had been preached to for 1.300 years, and almost every man and woman in England   to-day, was living within the sound of church bells. But these people wanted to remain as they were. Was it the business of the Church, he asked, in the face of the fields abroad whitening to harvest, to preach to people who didn't want to listen, and where no results were obtained--to go on bribing people by treats of all sorts and Pleasant Sunday Afternoons? These people were simply breaking men's hearts. There were big towns and villages in England where no results could be obtained, and where the whole bench of Bishops and all the best clergy might work for a year and not get five per cent. more

MISSION BUILDINGS AT A-NAI, CHUN-AN DISTRICT (conclating of school, rang, and chapel). conversions. But the natives of far-off lands were clamouring at the doors of the Church. Did any business man put his money into a concern which would yield only five or ten per cent., and neglect to put it in a business where he would get 450 per cent ?--which was really what the conversion of the heathen meant.” It is a mug's game going on doing that sort of thing,” he declared, “and yet we are doing it because we won't lift up our eyes and see the fields white unto harvest.” He always understood Englishmen were business men; but they certainly did not bring their business into religion. He did not believe the churches would ever see the salvation of all the heathen at home by their efforts; it would be the people in Africa, China, and Japan who would convert the heathen in this country. Singing hymns and listening to sermons would never convert the heathen at home; the only way to do   it would be by an inspiring enthusiasm which would make big demands for sacrifice on the people, and to which they would gladly respond.

VOCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD.--It is a bad thing to enter any profession to which God has not called us, but it is worse to take holy orders without a call to the priesthood. Yet does not reason show us that, at the present time, it is rather the other way: that many young men must have a vocation to the priesthood which they stifle. Everywhere there is the cry for more clergy. Is it the will of God that thousands of His children should be as sheep without a shepherd? Is it not more probable that the men who should be the shepherds fail to answer the Divine Purpose for them ?--Western Australia Quarterly Magazine, October 1903. p. 1620.

MEDICAL MISSIONS.— “If you want to help China, now is the time. The rapid advance of all kinds of science, introduced by various nations, unassociated with any religious teaching, makes us fear that China may develop some of the good qualities of modern civilisation without inner spiritual life, in which case her civilisation will be dead and empty. The responsibility rests with missions. At present ‘medicine’ is the only art associated with distinctly religious and missionary influence, and even this is threatened. Tremendous efforts are being made by other missionary bodies to keep this one door open, so that, by the establishment of Medical Schools, we can be assured that the Chinese doctors of the future shall be taught their profession from a standard far above that of commercialism. . . .” “We do not want, during the next fifty years, China to be in the same position as Japan is at present. Japan has not only accepted western medicine, but even become expert in some departments, and so large are her medical schools that almost all her small country districts have a doctor trained in western medicine, but 95 per cent of them have received their medical training in institutions which are not only anti-Christian but heathen, and this must inevitably rob the ‘healing profession’ of that inestimable quality which has in all ages been the stamp of its nobility."

CASTE.—“I went down to the Deccan and visited Poona. The Mahars there are of a very low caste. There is in the place a public tap which is always flowing with water. It is one of the public taps of the town close to the Mahar colony. Some thousand of these people live in that neighbourhood close by the tap, and it is the only tap there. Now in that neighbourhood live a few Brahmins. and I was told by Dr. Mann, who was there, that no Mahar is allowed to go to that tap and use it, though it is the public tap. The Mahars have to go half a mile in the burning sun if they want any water: they have to go to the next tap, which is the one they are allowed to use,”--Rev. C. P. Andrews.   INDIAN CHRISTIAN WOMEN.--Increased appreciation of the moral blessings of Christianity and the ethical excellence of its devoted missionaries is a great and ever-widening fact. Take, for instance, this description, culled from a non-Christian paper, of the “Indian Christian woman” who “has been the evangelist of education to hundreds and thousands of Hindu homes. Simple, neat, and kindly, she has won her way to the recesses of orthodoxy, overcoming a strength and bitterness of prejudice of which few outsiders can have an adequate conception. As these sentences are being written, there rises before the mind's eye the pictures of scores of tidy, gentle girls, trudging hot and dusty streets, bare-footed, under a scorching sun, to carry the light of knowledge to homes where they will not be admitted beyond the ante-chamber, and where they cannot get a glass of water without humiliation, yet never complaining, ever patient. To these brave and devoted women, wherever they are, friends of education all over the country will heartily wish ‘God-speed.’ ”

PREPARATION FOR PRIESTHOOD.--If we accept the common idea of what equips a man for the spiritual warfare of the priest, we shall meet with dismal failure. The common idea is, given a young man of blameless reputation and a fair amount of piety, get him ordained, and you will have a good clergyman. It overlooks two facts, that for everything you do well there must be preparation, and that unless you have taken in, you will not be able to give out. There must be preparation before ordination of the spirit and of the mind, and there must be time after ordination for the nourishment of the priest's own spiritual life, else be will be nothing but a lamp without oil. Hence it is that a scanty supply of clergy is an evil all round. An evil to the laity, an evil to the clergy. The parish priest lives in a whirl of ministries to others. He makes an overdraft upon his physical strength, and he starves the life of his soul. He is not the same benefit to his people that he was. His work has become soulless and mechanical.

THE Rr. Hon. JAMES BRYCE, His Majesty's ambassador at Washington, recently said: “The evangelisation of the world in this generation is one of the most urgent of questions, because the moment in which we are living is perhaps the most critical of any in the history of the non-Christian races. The Christian races are permeating every part of the world for material profit. But if the best results to both Christians and natives are to follow this tremendous movement-if the Christian nations are to develop national wealth in peace and under the best possible conditions to all concerned--then they must carry the evangelical truths of Christianity to all these non-Christian people.”   Additional copies of this paper may be obtained by sending a stamped addressed envelope to Miss MERRI-MAN, 24, CLYDE ROAD, CROYDON.

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

FEBRUARY 1914.