Morning Calm v.36 no.184(1925 Jul.)

The Corean Mission.

The Mission to Corea was set on foot in 1889 by the direct action of the then Archbishop of Canterbury., in response to the urgent and repeated request of those best fitted to judge of its necessity, viz, the bishops in the neighbouring countries of China and Japan. From the out it has been worked, in Corea itself, on the most economical lines possible, by a small staff of cellbate clergy, assisted by Sisters (of the Community of St. Peter, Kilburn), a few other lady workers, and one or two doctors—none of them paid more than the barest living wage. In 1922 the American Congregation of the S.S.J.E. (Cowley Father) accepted the invitation of Bishop Trollope to open Branch House of the Society in the Diocese of Corea.

Ill-equipped with men and means from the start, constantly embarrassed by political disturbances in Corea, and, of course, especially hampered since 1914 by the war, the Mission has nevertheless succeeded by its patient labours in building up in Corea a compact little Christian community of some 6,000 souls, about nine-tenths of whom are of Corean birth and speech, and the remaining tenth Japanese. The English, or English-speaking, community is small, but the Mission has always regarded the care of their souls also as a first change on its time and energies.

The “objective” of the Mission—which since its foundation has always been worked on distinctively Catholic lines—is, and always has been, not the mere conversion of individuals, but the setting up in Corea of a fully equipped and synodically governed province of the Catholic Church, self-supporting and capable of managing its own affairs, with an indigenous ministry and a vernacular liturgy carefully formed on the best Catholic models. Upon the native Church thus formed will ultimately rest the task of winning their myriads of non-Christian brothers and sisters to the Faith. With the object in view no pains have been spared in impressing on the members of the infant Church the necessity for self-support. Not only are they learning to take a keen Interest in the affairs of the Church, through their local and diocesan conferences (with the Bishop and Presbyters in Synod the supreme authority within the Diocese), but as Christian congregations are formed, they relieve the Mission of the entire burden of local Church express and the maintenance of the native ministry.

Two things are urgently needed (a) A yearly income of ₤12,000 (towards which S.P.G. at present contributes about ₤5,000) to replace the present wholly inadequate sum of about ₤8,000 a year. (b) A capital of ₤2,500 to enable us to decorate the first part of the great Central Church in Seoul. The Bishop is convinced that, if once an adequate measure of support is secured, we may look forward to seeing in the not distant future the infant Church in Corea capable of standing on its own feet with only a minimum of support and supervision from the Church in England. ——————— The Leage of St. Nicolas (with which is incorporated the Association of Prayer and Work for Corea) is a League of Churches, or Parishes, whose priests and people are pledged to support the Mission by their sympathy, prayer, and alms. Full particulars to be had from the General Secretary (see page iv.).The full list of Churches is printed in July and January Magazines.

Children's Letter.

MY DEAR CHILDREN, It is a long time since I wrote to you about the Boys' Hostel and now that I have a good photograph to send you it Is an opportunity to tell you how we are getting along. This photograph was taken just before two or three of our students left us after finishing their education in Seoul. Mark. who is sitting next but one on my right, has passed into the Tokyo Art School. He still retains his scholarship given by the Mission and Lancing College, but I know he has to endure many hardships in Japan and I hardly know how he manages to keep going. He The Boys of St. Nicolae Hostel, Seoul is very poor and but for your help he could not be there. Neither could our other two students who are in Japan, Bernardo at Sendai University, and Basil at Hiroshima. The picture does not show all the students; seven new boys came up from the country this spring, so that we are now quite full and overflowing into the Lower Compound.

Our tallest boy is Nicholas, and our youngest and smallest boy is Nicholas. Small Nicholas' uncle was at one time Secretary at the Corean Legation in London. I think that he is happy here, although on his first Sunday in the hostel I found him crying before the looking glass with a fish-bone in his throat, and all the bread from my bread-pan would not remove it. However, the doctor soon did so for 2s. 6d—kindly sent by the Children of St. Nicolas

Our hostel is very popular and although the Mission has to pay quite a lot, yet the boys subscribe about half the expenses—last year contributing yen. 2,020, about £200. Considering there are thirty boys living together in very close quarters they are extraordinary amiable and there is very little quarrelling. They have a wonderful debating society and discuss religious and social questions. A little while ago, when there was a school holiday, they arranged an exhibition in the hostel, and although there were no guests yet they entertained each other. Tea was served, songs were sung, and the walls were covered with drawings, essays and poems. On another holiday about two weeks ago the boys arranged a tennis tournament and although they were not expecting prizes I turned up with two prizes—one from you and one from me. Sometimes the boys bring me little presents from home. This Easter one boy brought me some eggs, having carried them twenty-five miles by road and thirty by train. Another brought me a brush made at his home, and another a pot of honey from the wild bees in the north of Corea. Some of the boys have not had the advantage of a Christian home. It makes all the difference. I notice that the boys from Christian homes know how to pray and to give alms. They enter so heartily into the festivals and set the tone for the other boys. All the boys are Christian, but I fear that some have great difficulties to contend with from their heathen parents and friends; although we know how some of them have carried the glad tidings to their own people and homes.

I feel so sorry for the hundreds of Corean boys who come up from the country and have to live in dirty inns and uncomfortable and overcrowded houses in Seoul. Here our boys have a delightful garden, and coming home from school through the hot and dusty streets, after a bath they can sit in the cool shade of the trees and play the flute or mouth-organ until the priest calls them to Compline and we all say together, "I will lay me down in peace and take my rest, for it is Thou, O Lord, who makest me to dwell in safety. Yours affectionately, CHARLES HUNT. ——————— Contributions since last quarter: All Saints', Margaret Street, Little Catechism, ₤1 5s. 6d.: St. Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, 10s ; Three Cross, Wimborne, 10s. : Wallingford, Is. ; Resliston, 10s. 8 1/2d. Please note copies of this leaflet may be obtained at the following rates: 12 for 3d. ; 25 for 6d. ; or single copies at 1/4d. each, from Miss Seaton, 61 York Street Chambers, W. 1.

The Donkey as the Missionary's friend.

IF anyone wants to understand the full force of the expression “playing the ass," I recommend them to come out to Corea and ride a donkey for a week on end. What with obstinacy and a fixed determination to get you off its back after having gone about three miles or so, also its frequent shies at various objects along the road and its sudden dives into people's houses, riding a donkey is not a joy-ride by any means—in fact, it is quite as tiring as walking.

Considering everything, however, the little beast has not done so badly, as for the last six months it has averaged at least 200 miles a month, and therefore enabled me to visit the thirteen country villages in my district of Eum-song and give Communion to the Christians therein. The donkey's food is barley in the husk, taken dry. which it seems to like, and when it can't get that, dry millet, and for a change, if it can chew any old bit of wood or bark of the mulberry or poplar it seems quite content. When it likes it can go quite well, doing four miles an hour and keeping it up for sixteen miles or so, but more often than not it takes much longer. When it is in a pleasant mood it is at pleasure to ride, but when obstinate and when it refuses to go unless it is led, it is most annoying. On such occasions I long to be able to walk again. This is NOT Fr. Hewlett The Ma-Pao (literally, "horse's father) is an old man aged seventy-two, Kim Matthew by name, and it is most amusing listening to him either swearing at it or trying to coax it into better ways. Occasionally the donkey has moments of playfulness, when it pretends to bite his heels or elbows, and then the old man lets fly in language it is better, I expect, for me not to understand. I have on two occasions lent him for the bridegroom to ride back home after the wedding ceremony at church, but the donkey resents this very much and on one occasion the unfortunate bridegroom was thrown, owing to the donkey taking a sudden dive down a steep bank by the wayside. He tried that trick with me on several occasions, but it didn't work, and in order to get me off for a rest by the roadside and, incidentally, a feed for himself, he turns his head swiftly round and attempts to bite my toes. There exists almost a perfect understanding between us that after five miles I get off for a cigarette and he has a feed. There are two days when I am sorry for the little beast, as on each of these days he has to do over twenty miles and is very tired at the end of it. He has on two occasions carried me thirty miles in the day. As the price of barley varies at different times in the year it is hard to estimate per month what it cost, but I should think £25 a year would be sufficient.

GEORGE HEWLETT.

We Want Stamps! We have started it foreign stamp department and the money we get from selling foreign stamps will go towards furnishing the new Cathedral in Seoul, so here is a way in which you can all help to make the Cathedral beautiful. If you collect foreign stamps write and ask our Stamp Secretary, the Corean Mission, Mary Sumner House, Tufton Street, Westminster, for an approval sheet or for a price list of the cheap sets of stamps and please send us some of your duplicates to sell. If you don't collect stamps for yourself, will you start collecting them for us and ask all your friends to save them for you. Stamps are no good if they are tom or if the edges are cut. We sell tamps ! ON BEHALF OF THE CATHEDRAL FURNISHING FUND. ————— Good selections sent on approval. Cheap packets. ————— 500 Miscellaneous (all different) ... ... 4/- 100 British Colonials ... ... ... 2/6 55 Portuguese Colonials ... ... ... 2/6 45 French Colonials ... ... ... 1/6 Particulars from the Stamp Secretary, the Corean Mission, Mary Sumner House, Tufton Street, Westminster.

The Bishop's Letter.

EUM-SONG, COREA. May 18th, 1925. MY DEAR FRIENDS, It is hardly credible that over three months have elapsed since I said good-bye to you in England, and nearly three months since I landed in Corea again. Already those wonderful fifty days which I spent with you seems like a dream. I am writing this from the depths of the country (Eum-song is still eighteen miles, and was until lately, fifty miles from the nearest railway), where I am engaged on a round of visits endeavouring to catch up the arrears of confirmations, &c., which accumulated during my absence in England. Everywhere, in spite of our crippling shorthandedness, I find most cheering signs of growth and expansion. But the question of replenishing the staff of English clergy is becoming very pressing. Knowing how shorthanded the Church at home was, I have tried recently to hold my tongue on the subject. But now that you seem to have turned the corner and that the supply of ordination candidates at home is slowly rising, I shall have to begin to scream. For the position here is rapidly becoming impossible. Grateful as we are for the accession to our forces of Frs. Lee, Morley, and Giles, together with the S.S.J.E. Fathers from America during the last five years, it must be remembered that these accessions have barely filled the gaps left by those of whose services we have been deprived during recent years by ill-health, and other circumstances over which we have had no control. There is moreover the fear, at which I briefly hinted when I was in England, that we may have to face in the near future the loss of the American S.S.J.E. Fathers, owing to the shorthandedness of the Society in the United States and the change of policy initiated by the new Superior. If that is the case, nobody will be more sorry than the two S.S.J.E. Fathers who are now with us, and who are very happy (and supremely useful) in the work they have now undertaken at my request in Paikchun district. At the present moment we are looking forward to a visit from Fr. Williams, the Assistant Superior of S.S.J.E. in Boston, who is to arrive in Corea about Whitsuntide and to spend three weeks with us, with the view of familiarizing himself with the situation here, in order that the Society may arrive at some definite conclusion at their Chapter in July. We shall continue to hope for the best, and shall rely on your prayers that the decision arrived at may be A.M.D.G. Meanwhile, we are very grateful to Fr. Burton, the Superior of S.S.J.E. in America, for sparing Fr. Williams for this visit, as we know how badly his services are required in America, where, in addition to being Assistant Superior, he is also Master of the Society's Novice House, in Cambridge, Mass. (which it may be explained to the uninitiated and ignorant Englishman is practically synonymous with Harvard University).

But even if the S.S.J.E. Fathers are spared to us and are able to bring up the strength of their community in Corea to three or four, as originally intended, I must ask you to observe how threadbare our staff of Mission priests is. Apart from the American

The Church at Eum song.

Fathers, the Bishop has now only eight English priests on his staff, Frs. Drake, Cooper, Hewlett, Arnold, Hunt, Morley, Lee, and Giles; and of these Frs. Drake and Lee have just departed on their much-needed furloughs, long experience having made it quite clear that a short furlough after every five years of service is of incalculable benefit, if it is not an absolute necessity. Even Roman Catholic Mission whose boast it has been for long that they “never returned home" have found it wise to adopt a furlough policy in recent years. Our staff of foreign clergy is therefore strain on the few "willing horses" now at my disposal, such, for instance, as Fr. Hewlett with whom I am now staying, and who (crippled as he is with sciatica) has to say Mass and supply the means of grace to no less than nine outlying chapelries, of which the three nearest are six or seven miles, and the two further, over thirty miles distant from his central Church and residence. How he gets through the work I cannot think, and I live in daily dread of a breakdown; and when I think of churches at home with a staff of three or four priests, and a flock, the most distant member of which lives probably ten minutes' walk from the Church—well, it sometimes seems to me rather disproportionate,

Fr. Cooper is about equally overbundened with the tremendous demand of the recently opened work in the northern district of Ping-Yang and neighbourhood, while Fr. Hunt, the most willing of all willing horses, besides the charge of the Church in Seoul, and his manifold duties there, is also now in charge of the newly opened work at Yo-Ju (where Dr. Borrow's new hospital is) seventy miles distant, without any railway in one direction, and Chemulpo, thirty miles distant in another; and if the work of Frs. Arnold and Morley among the Japanese is not capable of being stated in quite such startling terms, the peculiar circumstances of their special task makes their burden no easier to bear. Our native Corean priests, whose number has now been reduced to six by the wholly unexpected death of Fr. Peter Kang (R.I.P.). have done, and continue to do, wonders in relieving us of the immediate charge of the older established churches in Kanghwa City, and Kanghwa On Soutong, in Suwon, in Chunan and Chin-chun, to which latter place I have now, in consequence of the death of Fr. Peter Kang, been obliged to send Fr. Michael Yi (Junior), who has hitherto doubled the part of assistant priest in Seoul with that of confidential (Corean) Secretary to the Bishop, and this at a time when the Bishop most urgently stands in need of the help he could give, as from Michaelmas next, he (the Bishop) has (with the help of the already overworked Frs. Hunt and Arnold) to undertake the post (at least, pro tem.) of Principal of the Training College for Native Clergy and Catechists, fitting in his specially episcopal duties when he can. It was a great pleasure to welcome Sisters Helen Constance and Isabel back in Passion-tide, and Fr. Giles on his first arrival on Easter Eve. The latter has now taken up his residence at Chin-Chun where he is wrestling with the intricacies of the Corean language, while the Sisters are busy with their preparation starting the Corean novitiate, the necessary buildings for which are now being got ready, while Sister Faith has started of homewards on her well-earned furlough.

Of the Cathedral I shall not say much in this letter, except that we are gradually pushing forward preparations for its consecration (as we hope) in May, 1926. Begging for a continuance of your prayers. Yours affectionately in our Lord. + MARK Bishop in Corea

The "Intolerable Strain" on the English Staff.

THOSE who read the Bishop's letter will realize why we give this thought the first place in our Magazine this quarter. Has not the time come for the laity (in Parochial Council perhaps !) to take the first steps in setting free priests for overseas work by moderating their demands for the provision of the Mans of Grace in such abundance in England that they may be readily Paik-Chun, the scene of the Cowley Father' work. accessible and available at all hours in case the laity desire to avail themselves of the opportunity? Are they prepared to ask their parish priest so to adjust the services and work (at inconvenience to themselves) so that priests may be set free to fill the breach in the line overseas? But if this is to be possible, it seems it must carry with it two conditions : that the laity are prepared to make their sacrifice as to spiritual requirements and not allow the parish priest to make his sacrifice by trying to make the same provision with a smaller staff; and also, secondly, that it shall be a real sacrifice of money, not a mere saving of the pockets of the laity, but a setting free of that money to support the priest who leaves for that purpose. It sometimes seems as if only some such action coming from the side of the keen Catholic laity will really show there is reality in their profession of love for our Lord. Those of us who have heard the appeals in the last few months for Central Africa and for chaplaincy work in Assam cannot forget their need of Catholic priests, yet at the same time remembering the need in yet a third corner of the world—in Corea.

For Corea there is a special need. A priest is needed with special qualifications to go out this autumn to Corea, so that he may spend more time among Coreans in the country, and understand their life and character with a view to taking over the Training College at Chemulpo next year and setting free the Bishop from this additional “temporary job."

Some such thoughts, coupled with the anxiety felt as to the future of the work of the American Fathers in Corea, will provide us with intentions for Sacrament and Prayer during this month of July which will be overshadowed by the Anglo-Catholic Congress, and which may mean so much (or so little) to those abroad who will not be able to share in it. All enquiries as to the work which lies before a priest in the Corean Mission should be made, in the first place, to Fr. Dawson, of Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell, who is the Bishop's Commissary and who has visited the Mission

Medical Work in Corea.Ⅰ.

Extract from letter from Dr. Nancy Borrow, Yo-Ju:— “I have been silent for a long time, but could not help myself, as I got typhus in the middle of February and was away from Yo-Ju—work and everything—till May 1st. "We had a typhus epidemic in this town and district and I was unfortunate enough to get bitten by the small creature that transmits the complaint; some of the houses we had to go to were excessively dirty, and as most Coreans neither wash nor change their clothes—on principle—when they are ill, you can easily imagine that we were in contact with such conditions of dirt and uncleanness that it was not easy to escape infection. The only other doctor in the town went down with the disease the same day as I did and had it very badly: thanks, I believe, to the prayers of many at home who are constantly remembering us here, I did not have a very severe attack—much less severe than any of the patients I attended. I was sent out of Corea to recruit and went to Peking, where I had a very restful invigorating time at the S.P.G. Mission there. China is tremendously interesting everywhere you look at her, barring the scenery (in the north), it is as flat as a pancake (and there is very little water to relieve the eye), except for the distant vistas of the western hills. I rejoiced every day to think that there were the beautiful Corean hills to come back to. "I got back here at last on April 29th and found everything in apple-pie order and looking very clean and fresh, as a good deal of papering and thatching was done in my absence; I had a great welcome from the staff and congregation, and patients Women Patients at St. Anne’s Hospital, Yo Ju. With Currying Chairs on right began to put in an appearance at once. Our first catechumens—those who came forward during our first weeks here, just a year ago, and who have been studying and persevering steadily all through the year—were baptized before Easter—seven men, four women, and the six children belonging to the three females. I was very, very sorry to miss being present to witness the baptisms—the first-fruits of our work at Yo-Ju—but it was a real joy to come back to find our small group of Christians so much enlarged and to join in worship with the newly baptizer as Christians for the first time. We have very faithful Corean workers here, a sub-deacon and a woman catechist, and both are unusually good teachers as Coreans go, the work is going steadily ahead; many new enquirers had come in while I was away and there were several new admissions to the catechumenate. It is wonderful and rebukes my faithlessness when I think how hard and unfavourable everything seemed when we first arrived a year ago. We have a flourishing Sunday school of heathen children, and several of the new enquirers are parents of these children, who are evidently being taught to some purpose and are carrying home what they have learned. "Our little chapel is hopelessly crowded and people are being kept away because of the squash, so the Bishop is beginning the building of a new church next week. We hope it will be ready for use before the rainy season sets in in July. The present very temporary chapel is housed, together with the catechist's room, in quarters adjacent to the main hospital block, and when these rooms are no longer wanted for Church purposes. I hope to use them as in-patient rooms, and so be able to do something to deal with the numbers of serious cases which come for treatment and want to be taken in, but who mostly have to be sent away. The special work that I want to do here in caring for cases—especially among the poor—who need a long course of treatment seems to be pressing in on me more and more. To give you an illustration : I have only been back six days and already during that time have been asked to take four cases of phthisis, a tubercular knee, a tubercular ankle. two cases of tubercular spinal disease, two bad heart cases, and two beri-beri cases; also I was begged to take charge of a baby whose mother died at its birth. If the father is poor and cannot afford to get a foster-mother for the baby, or sometimes if it is only a girl he does not bother, these children nearly always join their mothers pretty quickly. One poor fellow—a beggar, and dirty beyond words and very far gone with starvation and liver disease—came and flopped in a state of collapse on our verandah. There was not a corner available for him, but yet he was just the case beyond all others for a Mission hospital to receive; so we took him and looked after him, and while he was being bathed and reclothed, I had a temporary shelter made in the vegetable garden with wooden poles and mats, and he is very comfortable there and doing well and was not even damp after a night's rain "Food is more than half the problem with many of these cases: so many of them are underfed and their illnesses, due to debility, making them an easy prey to germs. It is interesting to watch the quick improvement with some of them just with good food and open-air treatment. "Some of you will have heard that Miss Caroline Walford is on her way out to join me for a year ; she will be a great strength and support. I do not propose to increase the work in any way because she is coming, but I am hoping that what is being done will be done henceforth more effectively, so that, through healing the bodies of the patients by our prayers here and yours at home, more and more souls may be added to the Church,”

II.

Extract from letter from Fr. Hewlett :— (In answer to inquiries for information as to the progress of the work of the hospital under Dr, O. Key Taik at Chung-Ju, which comes into Fr. Hewlett's district, we are glad to be able to give a little news. We are sure it will send our readers to their prayers with increased earnestness for guidance and per-

Chung ju Hospital, with Dr. O. Key Taik (in dark neat). severance for the three Corean workers in their loneliness, and that it may be possible to find both the priest and the necessary money to give then the spiritual strength and encouragement they sorely need if their work is to be a real witness.—ED.) "From a missionary point of view I am afraid there is nothing much to report. Chung-Ju is a very large place and a centre for the Government Tobacco Monopoly, and a tremendous amount of land all round is devoted to the cultivation of tobacco. “Owing to lack of funds we have had to begin in a very small way and the present prayer room is only sixteen feet long and eight feel broad, just large enough to accommodate our present Christians—about eighteen in all and all connected with the hospital. The man and the woman catechist living there lack initiative, and really to make the place go a priest ought to be in residence. "Another matter that is against all aggressive work in the hospital is that all patients are out-patients, coming daily for treatment, or else they are cases which he visits at their own homes. If it were possible to enlarge the hospital, giving him sufficient rooms to enable him to take in in-patients, the catechists, both man and woman, would be able to become acquainted with them and we should be able to open up fresh work. "O. Key Taik has made quite a name for himself in Chung-Ju and outlying districts. He is quite a clever doctor and is frequently called upon by Japanese as well as Coreans anywhere within a radius of fifteen miles, and by Christians living farther away than that. He never refuses to go anywhere or at any time of day or night, and in this way is a striking contrast to some doctors. Next year I expect the railway will get through to Chung-Ju, and as soon as we can get a resident priest in the piace I feel sure the work will go ahead." The Decoration and furnishing of the Cathedral, Seoul. THE Bishop tells us that in Corea they are going on with their share of preparations, in the hope that the Consecration may take place next spring. It is time that we at home gave some account of what we have been able to do as our share. Promises of money have been given to provide the seven candles and the Crucifix for the High Altar. The Crucifix and the one special candle, used when a Bishop says Mass, is given by money and the sale of articles from friends of Bishop Corfe. The other candles have been provided by money given for the purpose, mostly by private donors, though we are keeping one for St. Saviour's, Poplar, who desire to make that their contribution. It was reported some time ago that the hanging lamp before the High Altar was given by an old friend of Bishop Trollope, and as we received the news of the arrival of the lamp in Corea, so we heard that the donor had passed to his rest. His memory will be thus preserved in Corea. For the Crypt Altar sums of ₤10 have been given by friends of Bishop Turner to meet the probable cost of ₤25, as the Crypt has always been his memorial in a special sense. The Crucifix and the hanging lamp have also been promised for this Altar. The six candles provisionally priced at £12 each are not yet provided. The censer is a memorial from St. John's, Red Lion Square, of Fr. Cowan, a faithful friend of the Mission. A private donor has offered the accompanying incense boat. St. Alhan's, Holborn, have offered to give the actual Tabernacle apart from any question of further adornment for it, and it is proposed to utilize a small contribution from St. Alban's, Birmingham, for the ciborium. If any desire to make special gifts there are, therefore, still the Crypt candles, also sacring bells and googs. But gilts of money are more urgently needed towards the general decoration. Towards this there is about £200 available in

The East End of the Cathedral. Awaiting Decoration and Furnishing.

Corea, and we now hold over 300 in England for the same purpose. Part of this has been given in money, and part is the result of sales. It may be interesting to give a list of some of the things sold; a diamond broach and pearl ring fetched about £75, a silver porringer £40, sundry other gifts of silver, basket, mug. spoons, of no great value as to date or style, but sold its silver: a considerable quantity of jewellery of all sorts (gold bracelets which sell as gold even if not of great value for their style): some lace (lace is not very saleable at present and is too delicate to be used on Corean vestments where washing arrangements are primitive). We should advise possessors of lace to hold back any they are thinking of selling until the possible change in fashion foreshadowed from Paris takes place. We merely mention some of these typical gifts.

Bishop Trollope mentioned in one letter that he had heard of the possibility of a firm of Japanese craftsmen being able to undertake the carrying out of the design, as some of their people had been sent to Europe to study such work for another purpose. Nothing is settled, but, of course, this might reduce the cost. The whole question is being carefully considered by the Bishop (in his “spare time"!) in consultation with the architect. In the meantime, any further contributions of money, or suggestions of articles for sale, should be made, if convenient, direct to Miss Trollope, 48 Vincent Square, S.W.1, who is holding a temporary special fund for this purpose, so as not to confuse it with money used for the general purposes of the Mission. Any money sent to the Office will be forwarded and acknowledged. In the meantime, it is of supreme importance that nothing should be given which would otherwise have gone to the General Fund.

Organising Secretary's Letter.

THE Summer Festival has come and gone, and I think we may congratulate ourselves on its having been a great success. I am only rather sorry that there were not more communicants at the Mass in St. Paul's Cathedral. Perhaps some of us were nervous about the great building. Fr. Montgomery-Campbell was good enough to say the Mass, as he did last year. At St. Matthew's, Westminster, there was a good congregation and I said Low Mass this time, as I was unable to obtain the help of the priests who usually come to our aid on this occasion, they having gone on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I understand. Hymns were sung, and the service was followed by a helpful sermon from Canon Underhill, who has now come to live in London; but you will remember he was one of the successors of our Bishop at St. Alban's, Birmingham. I am, as a matter of fact, rather glad we had a Low Mass this year, as a contrast to the glorious service I hope we shall hold in 1926, synchronizing with the Consecration of the Cathedral in Seoul, which the Bishop hopes to accomplish on or about Holy Cross Day. Plans are being made—though it is too soon to give any definite particulars yet—to observe the historic event of next year in a fitting manner. I hope it will be a day memorable in the Church, which will unite with us Coreans and Japanese in thanksgiving and prayer for an event which is an epoch in Foreign Mission story.

An anonymous gift of £100 reached us on the day,

To return to the Festival. In the evening a goodly number assembled in the Hoare Memorial Hall at the Church House, to hear the Bishop of London, who took the chair as is his custom year by year, and to listen to Fr. Harker, of St. Andrew's, Handsworth, Birmingham, who gave us a very interesting address indeed of the things he had seen when in Corea. The Bishop of London was a little handicapped—at least he thought he was—by the fact that he had not received the usual letter from Bishop Mark, but his speech showed his great interest in the Mission and also that he was thoroughly well up in what we were doing. I gave my usual dry résumé of events of the past year, and was anxious to emphasize the importance of the forthcoming Consecration of the Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas in Seoul; of its importance in the history of the Anglican Provinces of the Catholic Church; and how I hoped it would prove no less interesting an event to the Church at large than was the Sacring of Liverpool Cathedral last year. I have been kept very busy since I last wrote the Organizing Secretary's letter in March. Amongst other places, I have been able to preach at St. George's, Catford; St. Andrew's, West Kensington; St. Mark's, New Barnet; and at Radlett in Herts. I thought at the time Fr. Crutwell of the last-named parish was looking unwell, and since I have read, to my great regret, that he has had an attack of smallpox, but not serious, thank God. I am not at all nervous of these things myself, but as I was due to leave on a preaching tour in Devon and Cornwall where I was to stay with various incumbents with children, I thought it best to pay a visit to a doctor, who promptly vaccinated me, and told me I was a tough old dog. So that was all right. The West Country tour I feel has been a great success. I am writing this letter on the morrow of my return, but I am given to understand the Mission has benefited considerably financially, apart from the propaganda work I was able to do. In St. Germans, Cornwall, I addressed a crowded ruridecanal meeting in their wonderful ancient church. In Teignmouth there was a special missionary festival to do with that deanery, organized very skilfully by Fr. Gotto of St. Michael's in that town. I spoke to a full hall in the afternoon, with the Bishops of Exeter, Singapore, and Zululand, on the platform. At a ruridecanal meeting the audience is apt to be a mixed one holding many opinions, but I never will compromise on that account, and that was a sentiment well applauded on this occasion. After all, I do not go to meetings to propagate my own school of thought ; I go to tell people about the Church in Corea, and if I am going to make them interested in us and to ask them to pray for the work, it would not be fair, it would not be honest, if I did not tell them that we have always taught the full Faith from the first, as please God we always shall.

Afterwards one who wishes to remain unknown came to me and offered the Mission ₤500 to build a memorial little church or chapel in the country in commemoration of certain intentions, and I have written to the Bishop asking what he would propose to do with the gift. Teignmouth is sending its us some ₤15 as our share of the offerings on the occasion of this Missionary Festival.

Later on I preached at St. Peter's, Plymouth, to what I thought an extraordinarily good Wednesday evening congregation. This letter is reaching undue lengths, and I must draw to a close, as the soldiers used to say in the army. If anybody has any brilliant ideas about the fitting celebration of the Great Summer Festival of 1926 I hope they will communicate with me. I commend the work to your prayers, and the direction of some of your Communions to the forwarding of the Bishop's intentions, and to the inspiration of our desires at home. I wish you all a happy summer, and an influx of health and good spirits under the glorious sunshine which is making June so radiant. God bless you GRAHAM MARTYR.

The New Office.

WE hope to move into our new office at the Mary Sumner House, Tufton Street, Westminster, about July 8th. As a rule Miss Borrowman hopes to spend the greater part of the morning there, but sometimes Mission work calls her away. It is best for anyone who wishes to be sure of an interview to write and make an appointment, and if more convenient Miss Borrowman can sometimes arrange for the afternoon. We shall miss our connection with the Church House in some ways, not least in the proximity of our good neighbours the Missionary Literature Supply. They will still stock all our literature for sale and can also get other books for the missionary student or supporter. We shall be glad to have offers of small rugs or of a simple and not too bulky shelved cupboard or bookcase. If anyone has such gifts to offer and would be able to deliver them, would they first write to Miss Borrowman and give the sizes. The room is only 14-ft. by 8-ft., so we cannot utilize large furniture.

New Literature and Collecting Bores.

We are glad to be able to announce additions to our small stock of literature. An interesting article in The East and The West, by Fr. Hodges, on "Theological Training in the Mission Field," with special reference to the Corean Mission, has been reprinted in pamphlet form with illustration on cover (price 4d. postage 1/2d.), by permission of S.P.G., as we a good many of our readers might otherwise miss it. Miss Elrington has also, at our request, put together her impressions of Japanese Church life in Corea as she has known it, in some aspects, during the last seventeen years (illustrated cover, price 2d., postage 1/2d.). We hope that all our readers will also get Illustrated Cover of New Pamphlet. a copy of the 1994 Annual Report (with accounts), as it contains not only general summaries of the work, but also three reports which have not hitherto been published—by Fr. Hunt on many sides of his work, by Fr. Hodges on his last year at the Training College, and by Dr. Borrow on her first year at Yo-Ju. The S.P.G. have also ready a new edition of their "Study Book on Corea" (price 9d.), which has been largely rewritten as to the chapters dealing with the Mission work and has also fresh pictures. (Please ask for the new edition when ordering, or purchasing it anywhere.)

The Corean "hat" collecting boxes have come to an end after many years' popularity, and we hope our new venture, in the shape of a Corean prayer book with lettering on the cover ("The Holy Catholic Church in Corea), will prove equally popular. We hope these will be ready when this Magazine is out, and may we ask those who send for these special boxes to revert to their old custom of enclosing 1s. as a contribution to the initial expense of our new stock. We are sure our supporters are glad when we provide them with fresh ammunition for their warfare, but would yet regret that the cost should reduce the money available for foreign work.

Home Notes.

1. Income.—We hope to publish a statement as to our position in the October number, when winter propaganda work begins. But will our friends please keep up supplies as well as they can in the next few months, so that we may not have too meagre a cheque to send to the Bishop at that date? The news of the anonymous gift of £100 and the offer of £500 will rejoice the hearts of those in Coren. One can read, between the lines, of the endless scraping and cutting down needed to find money for any new development, and this seems a first answer to the Bishop's suggestion of the helpfulness of a few capital sums every year, for immediate use, in addition to a steadily growing income which is needed for ordinary work. 2. Sales.—Please indulge in some country sales in the summer months and also prepare for the Corean stall at the November Sale in London. We hear things from Corea are on the way and have already received a little consignment of brass made in our own Industrial School, the first time we have had Mission produce to sell. ———————————————————————————————————————— Please cut off here for Private use.

Suggestions for Thanksgivings and Intercessions.

THANKSGIVINGS.

For the evident signs of God's blessing on the work though the workers have been few in number. For the beginning of the Corean novitiate. For generous anonymous gifts of money. For gifts to beautify the Cathedral. For preservation of Anne Borrow (doctor) is dangerous illness. For the arrival in Corea of Edward Gilles (priest) ; also of Caroline Walford to Dr. Borrow in her lonely life. SUPPLICATIONS. That the way may be made clear for the appointment of an assistant Bishop. That God will show who He is calling to this office. That a priest in England may be found to consecrate his gifts to the work of training Corean clergy. That the decisions as to the work of the American Fathers S.S.J.E may be to the ultimate furtherance of His work in Corea. Will our friends help us by buying at the July sales remnants of white blanket cloth, flannel, holland, coloured drill, linen, sateen, hessian, and embroidery silk thread, and apply to Miss Seaton, 61 York Street Chambers, for patterns of the Corean letterings to make up bags, aprons, hot-water bottle covers, &c.? We find all these things sell well, but that there is little demand for other things which may be found on every other stall, unless they are particularly well made or attractive. Buyers seem to like to spend their money on useful things 3. Children's Letter Leaflet.—Will Secretaries and others who have not yet paid for the reprints of leaflets they have had during the current year pay their debts without delay to Miss Seaton. It was notified some time ago that this bit of work had grown so much recently that it had become necessary to make a small charge amounting to about 1/4d. per copy, i.e., 12 copies for 3d. ; 25 for 6d.; and larger quantities at the same rate? —————————————— FORM OF LEGACY. I give to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts the sum of £ : : ,"to be applied to the purposes of the Corean Mission, and the receipt of a Treasurer of the Society shall be sufficient discharge for the same, the application or disposal of any such funds to be at the discretion of the Executive Committee of the Corean Mission. “If imtended, please insert the word, “free of day.” ————————————————————————————————————————— That guidance may be given to those to whom Is entrusted the training of the Corean novkes. That continued welf-sacrifice may bring the necessary gifts for the furtherance of the work of the Mission and especially for the dedication of the Cathedral to the Glory and Worship of God. That workers and means may be furthering to give spiritual support to the medical work under O. Key Taik (doctor). That self-sacrifice at home may supply the needed priests for abroad. INTERCESSIONS. For the Bishop and all priests and lay workers under the burdens of their ministry in the hot weather. For Eduard Giles (priest) and Caroline Walford in their new lives in Conra. For the Corean women in the norritiate. For the hotel boys and specially for Bernardo, Basil, and Mark away from their bodies in Japan. For all working at home for Missions that they may be shown how to take their share in the new plans of the Missionary Council for awakening the English Church to its opportunity.

A limited member of extra copies of these Thanksgivings and Intercessions may be obtained from the Office at the following raise : twelve copies for 3d, twenty-five copies for 6d, i.e., about 1/4d. per copy.