Morning Calm v.31 no.164(1920 Jul.)

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Supplications, Intercessions and Giving of Chanks FOE THE Diocese of Corca.

JULY 1920.

SUPPLICATIONS: Great, O Good Lord

GENERAL: 1. A blessing on the plans for carrying on the work of the Diocese during Bishop' absence 2. A blessing on the removal of the Orphanage to Seoul 3. Guidance in reorganising the work of Catechists. 4. Guidance in the selection of Theological Students in the reopened College of St. Michael 5. Guidance in reorganising the ~~ work amongst the Corean women and girls. 6. Guidance in erecting the Pro- Cathedral in Seoul 7. A blessing on the plans for building four permanent churches in Corea. 8. A restful furlough to those traveling homewards.

JAPANESE WORK : 9. More love and a deeper belief in the Communion of Saint. 10. Repentance for many who are Christians only in name.

INTERCESSIONS: Lord, be gracious, 11. Miss Grosjean, in temporary charge of St. Mary's Hostel

JAPANESE WORK: 12. Nathaniel Kikuta, Catechist. 13. Young men who after leaving school are beginning work in the country far from the means of Grace 14. A young man in difficulties as to his future life.

THANKSGIVINGS: We thank Thee, O Lord 최원재 (토론) : 15. For many blessings received during Easter. 16. For a revival of Religion in several places. 17. For help received at the April Diocesan Conference. 18. The safe return of Naomi Pak and Phoebe Etc. 19. ~ Coeil's work in St. Mary's Hospital and in Seoul. 20. The acquisition of additional Iand in Seoul.

JAPANESE WORK: 21. For blessings received through several first Confession 22. For special grace received by several during Lent. 23. For the increase of attendance of Christian children at Church on Sundays. 24. For the safe arrival in England of Bishop and his companions.

The Bishop's Letter.

(To the Readers of MORNING CALM.)

MY DEAR FRIENDS, — Laus Deo! Accompanied by Frs. Hunt and Arnold. I safely reached England on June 15. Ships and trains were frightfully crowded, and fares go up and up! Still we have arrived in good time, so we have much to be thankful for. We left Seoul on Tuesday morning. May 11, by train for Fusan, which we reached the same evening. After being most hospitably entertained at dinner by our Japanese Christians we boarded the steamer, which brought us to Shimonoseki, in Japan (an eleven hours' sea-journey). early on Tuesday morning. From thence to Kobe, where we stopped to spend Ascension Day, is a twelve hours' train journey. At Kobe I was most hospitably entertained by our old Corean friends, Dr. and Mrs. Scranton, while Fr. Naish, the English chaplain at Kobe, extended an equally generous hospitality to Frs. Hunt and Arnold. Leaving Kobe by the night express we arrived at Yokohama, where we were to embark on the C.P.O.S.s.s. Empress of Russia, early on Friday morning—so early, indeed, that it was impossible to do any business, and we ran out to Kamakura to see the famous Dai Butsu (Great Buddha), one of the great sights of Japan, and so fill up the time. After completing all the business connected with our steamer-tickets and baggage, we ran up to Tokyo (about forty minutes) and begged a night's lodging at St. Andrew's, where we were made very welcome by Fr. France. By eleven next morning we were back at Yokohama and on board the Empress of Russia, which promptly started on its ten days' journey of 4,500 miles ocross the Pacific Ocean to Vancouver. Over the first three days we had better draw a veil, as the sea was uncomfortably rough. After that we got into smoother water and finished the passage in comfort, though the ship (a splendid vessel of nearly 20,000 tons and rather longer than St. Paul's Cathedral !) was terribly crowded. Arriving at Vancouver on Whit Monday (May 24), we got straight into the Trans-Canada train, which took us the 3000 mile run over the Rocky Mountains, the Prairies, and Eastern Canada to Montreal, which we reached on Saturday, May 29. Here our friends at St. John the Evangelist welcomed us with D untiring and unbounded hospitality. I did my best to repay their kindness by helping in their Trinity Sunday services. And then, as we had to wait a week for the sailing of our steamer, the s.s. Metagama, and as our host, Fr. Davison, had a preaching engagement at Toronto, we ran down there to spend Corpus Christi, my two companions seizing the opportunity to visit Niagara Falls, while I improved the shining hour by renewing acquaintance with some leading Toronto church-folk, who have long been interested in our Mission. We were most hospitably entertained in Toronto, where, besides addressing a meeting of that wonderful organisation, the ‘”Woman's Auxiliary" of the Missionary Society of the Canadian Church, I was also privileged to take part in a magnificent festival service of the Guild of the Servants of the Sanctuary in St. Mary Magdalene's Church. Returning to Montreal we embarked on the s.s. Meagama (if possible more crowded than the Empress of Russia) on Saturday, June 5. and after a wonderfully smooth passage of ten days, enlivened by the sight of a few icebergs off Newfoundland, reached Liverpool in the small hours of Tuesday morning, June 15. And here we find you, over and above the ordinary crowd of summer engagements, very busy in anticipation of the Anglo-Catholic Congress and the Lambeth Conference. I am afraid that between them these will keep me so occupied from the end of June until the middle of August, that I shall have very little chance of seeing many of you, though certain visits—like that to my good friends at St. Alban's, Birmingham, overdue from last year—must at all costs be paid. Indeed, I did so much travelling about last year that I doubt whether I can do much this. During the latter part of August and in September I hope to take a little holiday, for I got none last year. And in October I shall have to be making tracks for Corea again!

How then am I ever to get before the Church at home our needs?

(a) Money—The ruinous rate of exchange and the terrible rise in the cost of living in Corea (as elsewhere) has exhausted all our reserves and balances, and we are now simply living from hand to mouth. Unless you can raise our income to £5,000 a year (apart from S.P.G. grants, which ought to, but do not, amount to another £5,000), and keep it there, there is very little chance of our even holding our own, let alone making any advance. In this connection it is interesting to note that one of the American bishops in Japan, with whom I travelled across the Pacific, told me that his Mission Board supplied him with the equivalent of £20,000 a year, while another, who hails from China, put down his yearly budget at nearly £30,000! We ought to be opening up new work both in the north and south of Corea (in addition to that which we already do, or try to do, in the centre), and thus to lay the foundation of two new Dioceses, and create the nucleus of an ecclesiastical province of Corea. But without much larger funds it will be difficult even to keep our existing work going.

(b) Men.—Do you remember that when we had fourteen English priests I asked for twenty-four, and said that, if we had that number once and for all, I thought the Church in Corea would become almost self-supporting and self-staffed within their lifetime? Well! now the fortunes of war have reduced our fourteen to eight. If only the men were forthcoming I should try once again to organise them into three communities or brotherhoods, working from centres. But where are the men?

(c) Our Cathedral.—I am most anxious to begin carrying out Mr. Dixon's beautiful plans next year, and should like to look forward to laying the foundation stone on our old festival day (Holy Cross), May 3. in 1921. But I doubt whether, as things are, we ought to start with less than £10,000 in hand, and at present we have not even half that sum. Here is an opening for a few large contributions from individuals, apart from the ordinary subscriptions and grants, on which we depend for our daily bread. Meanwhile, I look forward to the Ordination of at least one recruit, Arthur Loe, of Warminster, who is to be made deacon (D.V.) on Friday, June 25, in the Chapel of Fulham Palace, which our good friend, the Bishop of London, has lent me for the purpose. After his ordination he is to be temporary attached to the Staff of St. John the Divine, Kennington, until we all start back together to Corea in the late autumn. God grant that others may be moved to offer themselves and to come over and help us in our heavy but happy task of building up the Catholic Church in Corea. Yours affectionately in Christ. + MARK, Bishop is Corea

At 48 Vincent Square, S.W.I. June 18, 1920.

Calendar of Engagements,

As arranged at present, Bishop Trollope hopes to fulfil the following engagements: July 4. St. Saviour, Poplar, 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m.; July 6, St. Peter's, Clapham, 8 p.m.; July 11, Birmingham, St. Alban's, (morning), St. Gregory, Small Heath (evening): July 18, St. Michael's, Camden Town, 11.15: St. John the Divine, Balham, 6.30; July 25, St. Michael's, Brighton, 11; Aug. 1, St. James's, Great Yarmouth; Aug. 15, Winchester Cathedral.

Letter from the Organising Secretary.

The Catechist. Im Iacobo, has died—worn out by his labours. He was one who endured much of the burden and heat and was the chief pioneer in the Chin Chun district from 1906 onwards.

Always subjected to the attentions of his impecunious relations, he remained faithful and cheerful under all circumstances, and was untiring in his efforts to persuade the heathen to give Christianity a hearing, ever modest, courteous, and good-humoured. God rest thy simple soul, Im Iacobo : much toil and patient endurance have been wrought into the fashioning of your golden crown!

In the unavoidable absence of Bishop Corfe this year, it was a great joy to have (by arrangement with the Commissaries) such an old and fervent supporter of the Mission as the Rev. H. F. Goffe for our Celebrant at St. Paul's Cathedral on the Festival morning.

I hope many of Corea's friends were able to see the "propaganda" stall allowed us in the Albert Hall during the Anglo—Catholic Congress. Some skilful craftsman (of both sexes) were responsible for the beautiful lettering of the notices displayed—for which they made no сhаrgе.

Miss Clews, 33 Paget Road, Wolverhampton, is first rate at Church needlework. She buys good materials, for which she charges exactly what she pays; the moderate fees for making vestments and altar linen, &e., are all given to the Mission. A price list will be sent on application. I hope many readers of MORNING CALM will seize this opportunity of helping Corea, while, at the same time, they secure really good things at less than shop prices.

Some splendid gifts for the Mission came in answer to my request at the Festival meeting. Already a thurible, two sanctuary lamps, a "St. Mary " sanctus bell, and about 30$, towards the £9 I asked for towards cost of slides for propaganda and teaching in Corea have been given or promised. Fr. Hewlett says the slides are of urgent importance and extreme value in his work. They are already selected but cannot be secured until I get £7 105.od. more—please!

Father Wilson writes: "After Christmas things became much better in every way, and there was a real increase of zeal amongst the faithful in spiritual matters. At Onsoutong for instance, there was a large increase of attendances at Mass during Lent, and several lapsed Christians have been restored. In Kanghwa City much zeal was shown in the formation of a Society for the increase of knowledge, with crowded meetings, by means of lectures and debates. At Paik-Chun, slack Christians revived during Lent, and tremendous zeal was shown by quite unlooked for people : above all, the Catechism has increased from 20 to 100 children, many of whom insist upon bringing their parents with them! Boys and girls attending the government schools here turn up regularly for the daily Mass : in fact, the period of 'marking time' seems to be definitely over, and we are making a move forward into the enemy's lines. Fifteen heathen lads came recently to a special meeting for non-Christians and brought other members of their families with them.

"Altogether this Easter is the happiest I have had since I came to Corea. We hope to start building the new Church shortly at Paik-Chun. The local Christians are raising 1000 yen! But we need from England certain ornaments which cannot yet be obtained in Corea : a crucifix and candlesticks for the high altar, a tabernacle and pyx, figures for rood screen, sanctus bell, Stations of the Cross. The Church is to be in Corean style throughout, with two chapels (north and south)."

Now, who talks about failures? Of course there are failures, but nettles and dock-leaves generally grow together : so do roses and thorns. Encouraged ourselves by this report, let us encourage our representatives in Corea by supplying their needs. WILFRID N. GURNEY. MOONDARA, PINNER, MIDDLESEX.

Children's Letter.

St. Nicholas' HOSTEL, SEOUL

DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS, — In Corea the English Church Mission has taken the lead in supporting the government schools by establishing hostels for both boys and girls to live in while going to these day schools. The American Missions are now following our example, and last year I was asked to speak at a big Conference of Missionaries in Seoul on the usefulness of hostels.

At Seoul we have two hostels : St. Nicholas' Hostel for boys, and St. Mary's for girls. St. Nicholas' Hostel will accommodate twenty-five boys. It is a delightful Corean building situated in a beautiful garden. Over the garden wall is the palace where the ex-Emperor of Corea died last year. To the south is the British Consulate; so we are really living among the very noblest of the land! The boys and girls love coming to Seoul, and are most keen students. One hostel boy is a medical student, and will, we hope, graduate as a doctor next spring. Please pray for him during the next year. His name is 0. Key Taik. Another boy is a student at the Law School, and will probably get a good government appointment when ST. NICHOLAS’ HOSTEL, SEOUL

he graduates. Several boys attend the Government High School, and by special permission a few boys attend private schools at Seoul. All the boys attending the government schools pay something toward their keep, but the boys attending the private schools have to pay all their board. Even so, it costs the Mission about £250 to support the boys' hostel, and £200 to support the girls' hostel. The boys and girls attend the daily service of the Church and help to make the singing a special feature of our church life in Seoul. The boys act as servers at the altar, and take it in turns to read the lessons at matins and evensong.

The four boys in the picture are (left to right): Yi Athanasius, Kim Timothy, Kim Anselmo, and Kim Basil. Athanasius is now a student at the Teachers' College : Timothy is the son of Fr. Barnabas Kou; Anselmo is one of our best boys, always happy and a real lover of the Church. I want to tell you more about him some other time. Basil is the nephew of Fr. Mark Kim. He is very humorous and excellent at drawing. He has drawn pictures of all kinds for our kindergarten school. Last summer in Seoul we made a tennis court, and it has been a BOYS AT ST. NICHOLAS’ HOSTEL

great joy to our boys, who have been able to invite their school-friends to play tennis and introduce them to the Church. The poor little chaps at Chemulpo Hostel look with envy on the schoolboys, and although we have the ground at Chemulpo we cannot afford to buy nets and racquets. If you have any old nets or racquets please write to Miss Seaton (61 York Street Chambers, Bryanston Square, W.1), and I am sure she will arrange to send them on to us in Corea CHARLES HUNT.

Home Notes.

The Annual Festival began as usual with the Celebration at St. Paul's at 8.30, at which about fifteen people were present. There was a fair congregation later at All Saints'. Margaret Street, where the celebrant was Fr.Simpson, formerly a member of the Mission, and the preacher, Canon Down, Commissary to Bishop Trollope. The Annual Meeting was held at Sion College as it was found impossible to have a hall at the Church House on the day chosen by the Bishop of London. Unfortunately the change of place was not notified to the Bishop, who was searching for our gathering at the Church House, while we were awaiting his arrival at Soon College. After a time the Rev. C.E.R. Brocklebank was asked to take the chair, and without further delay Fr. Bridle gave us a clear description of the difficulties under which the Mission has laboared (181552부분) in the last year or two, owing to the political situation and the animosity which exists between Corean and Japanese. The Organising Secretary, Father Gurney, then gave some accounts of his work in England during the last six months, and pointed out the dire need of the Mission for additional younger priests.

The various Home Organisations are busy: three new branches of A.P.W.C. have been started, and a long list of new members testifies to the increasing enthusiasm. Will Local Secretaries please help the County Secretaries {and incidentally the General Secretary} by either sending in their reports punctually, or a card to say if nothing is to be expected?

We hope all supporters of the Mission are preparing to help the Corea Stall at the Annual Sale in November, either by providing things to stock the Stall or, if in London or neighbourhood, beating up their friends buyers. In these hand times we think those who attend sales are more ready to spend money on useful things than on fancy things. There are not likely to be many curios, so we are hoping to do a busy trade with more homely things. Please think of the things you have to buy, and would yourself be as glad to purchase at a sales at shop, and stock our Stall accordingly. We none of us want to buy badly made things, and so such must not appear on the Stall. Parcels can be sent to Mrs. Weir, 13 Westbournu Terrace Road, W.1 ; but all communications and correspondence should go to Biss Seaton, 61 York Street Chambers, Bryanston Square, W.1 Sister Etheldreds of St. Peter's writes that they hope to take part in the November Sale, and parcels for S.P.F.M.A. should be forwarded to her at St. Peter's House, Mortimer Place, N.W.6. May we suggest that it would be a kindness if each parcel contained a stamped postcard for acknowledgment.

Boxholders are reminded that June 29 is the day (half-year) on which boxes should be opened. Where possible, Local Secretaries should collect the contents and send cheque or postal order to Miss Hewlett, but not the boxes themselves. Fresh labels can be obtained from Miss Simpson, 92 North Side, Clapham Common, S.W.4. More hat boxes are being made, and Miss Simpson will supply these post free, on request. For the second time this year the Orphanage Secretary pleads hard for the Orphanage. To begin with, the Bishop says that ₤12 per annum for each child is now necessary to meet the increased expenses, so that if subscribers can raise their promised amounts—if only by a shilling or two—please will they do it.

Then, Miss Seaton, whose Children's Branches have given tremendous help to the Orphanage is now to devote her energies to Schools and Hostels. The branches who support individual children will do so till their particular orphan marries, which is a good deal to be thankful for. However, the Orphanage Fund loses a certain amount which must be made up somehow.

At present only one subscriber comes anywhere near the required ₤12 a year—will anyone, either partially or wholly, adopt Cho Nancy, aged 13 ; and will someone else augment the ₤2 105. which is all Kim Margaret has to live on every year? Please do, if you possibly can. The Orphanage Secretary also writes that the response to Sister Nora's Memorial has been disappointing, not quite ₤50, and thinks there must be many of Sister's personal friends who have not joined in the Memorial rather than give shillings when they cannot give pounds.

Annual Reports and Accounts from Home

Organisations for 1919.

The Treasurer, St. Peter's Foreign Missionary Association, writes: "The year 1919 was an anxious one with regard to funds, owing to the general difficult conditions in England and to the death of several, who for years had given generously to the Association ; but thanks to increased efforts on the part of members and friends, and the fresh interest aroused by Sister Isabel and Sister Edith Helena, who are home on furlough, ₤310 out of the ₤350 we aim at was raised for the Sisters' work. We have been able to welcome several new members, but in these days of costly living we need many more just to keep the work going, and our endeavours ought to be to extend and strengthen it."