Morning Calm v.26 no.145(1915 Jul.) - 편집 역사

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‎Japanese Work.

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‎Annual Report of the Corean Mission.

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‎The Orphanage Secretary's Report.

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‎The Diocesan Orphanage for Girls.

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‎The Bishop's Letter.

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최원재: 새 문서: The Bishop's Letter. (To the Readers of MORNING CALM.) MY DEAR FRIENDS, - Troubles crowd upon us thick and fast. A year ago I was telling you that with an addition of seven or eight p...

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새 문서: The Bishop's Letter. (To the Readers of MORNING CALM.) MY DEAR FRIENDS, - Troubles crowd upon us thick and fast. A year ago I was telling you that with an addition of seven or eight p...

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 ===Japanese Work.===
 I HAVE just remembered in the middle of the long spring country journeys, that all matter for the next MORNING CALM is now due. There is no time to ask for reports from Fusan and Taikyu -indeed only just time to send something myself. However, as Fr. Sharpe is at home in England, some readers will have heard about the Japanese work from him by word of mouth, and that is much better than writing.
-I have to report that we are still without a resident worker at Chemulpo, either man or woman. No serious effort has been made to get one from Japan, since the hope with which Fr. Sharpe left has not been fulfilled. Moreover Miss Sakai has again been recalled to her own diocese, that of South Tokyo. And it is left to Miss Pooley, the deacon-Miyazawa San-and the temporary priest, to do what they can for Chemulpo from Seoul. The reason for not trying hard to get a Chemulpo catechist just now is that the War might so soon leave us with no money to pay him that it does not seem fair to ask anyone to come. And our Christians at Chemulpo are very sad about it. Chemulpo is on the down-grade in general prosperity, and to a large extent if people come there they are likely to move on again soon. It is a kind of entrance place, as it were, from which they move to other parts of Corea, so that it is not likely that the small number of Christians will permanently increase. However, one young man catechumen has been baptised this year and another admitted to the catechumenate, and there are a few enquirers.
+I have to report that we are still without a resident worker at Chemulpo, either man or woman. No serious effort has been made to get one from Japan, since the hope with which Fr. Sharpe left has not been fulfilled. Moreover Miss Sakai has again been recalled to her own diocese, that of South Tokyo. And it is left to Miss Pooley, the deacon-Miyazawa San-and the temporary priest, to do what they can for Chemulpo from Seoul. <span style="color:green">The reason for not trying hard to get a Chemulpo catechist just now is that the War might so soon leave us with no money to pay him that it does not seem fair to ask anyone to come.</span> And our Christians at Chemulpo are very sad about it. Chemulpo is on the down-grade in general prosperity, and to a large extent if people come there they are likely to move on again soon. It is a kind of entrance place, as it were, from which they move to other parts of Corea, so that it is not likely that the small number of Christians will permanently increase. However, one young man catechumen has been baptised this year and another admitted to the catechumenate, and there are a few enquirers.
 In Seoul, though there are difficulties not a few, I believe they are almost entirely signs of real life, and the work there is very happy. Holy Week was well kept, and we had a splendid Easter. It seems as though we are not likely to gain in membership there much longer by immigration-the tide of Japanese immigration into Corea is slackening very much. But our numbers in Seoul are steadily rising all the same. There are quite a number of enquirers, and a larger increase than usual by means of infant baptisms.
 As to confirmations, though there are not more than just a few candidates in each place, we are calling on the Bishop to hold Japanese confirmations in four places before the summer. He is going down south for that purpose, both to Fusan and Taikyu, early in May; there will, we hope, be a confirmation in Seoul towards the end of June, and directly afterwards one up north on the banks of the Yahr river, where Corea joins Manchuria.
 The distant country visits I have paid since Easter, to give Communion to our scattered Christians, make me long to be able to plant down at least three resident catechists, quite apart from the prior claims of Taikyu and Chemulpo. But I fear these things cannot be yet for a long time.
 J. B. SIMPSON.
 GENSAN, St. George's Day 1915.

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 ===Annual Report of the Corean Mission.===
 THE Bishop has furnished the following account of the work of the Mission during the past year for the Annual Report of the S.P.G., by whose kind permission we are permitted to reprint it.
-The outstanding features of last year's report were the prospects of a Corean ministry, and the need for more priests for adequate staffing of the seven districts in which the Mission works. With regard to the first, the ordination of two Coreans as deacons at Trinity, 1914, marked a great step forward in the life of the Mission. These two men were ordained on the strength of proved character, service well rendered, and universal good repute, but without the long course of training and discipline which will be required of all future candidates. Mark Kim, the senior deacon, was the first convert, baptised about seventeen years ago. He is now engaged in evangelistic work. Barnabas Kou is attached permanently to the Training School at Kanghwa, and Mr. Hodges, the Principal, writes: -
+The outstanding features of last year's report were the prospects of a Corean ministry, and the need for more priests for adequate staffing of the seven districts in which the Mission works. With regard to the first, the ordination of two Coreans as deacons at Trinity, 1914, marked a great step forward in the life of the Mission. These two men were ordained on the strength of proved character, service well rendered, and universal good repute, but without the long course of training and discipline which will be required of all future candidates. <span style="color:red">Mark Kim, the senior deacon, was the first convert, baptised about seventeen years ago. He is now engaged in evangelistic work. Barnabas Kou is attached permanently to the Training School at Kanghwa, and Mr. Hodges, the Principal, writes: -
-"In the short time since the opening of the school he has proved himself a most efficient and pleasant colleague. Being a man of considerable knowledge of Chinese-the scholar type of Corean- the work suits him here in a way that his previous catechist's work never could."
+"In the short time since the opening of the school he has proved himself a most efficient and pleasant colleague. Being a man of considerable knowledge of Chinese-the scholar type of Corean- the work suits him here in a way that his previous catechist's work never could."</span>
 Both these men had spent some months at Kanghwa with Mr. Hodges and Mr. Stanley Smith, who are specially set aside for the Training College work; but the College itself, in old adapted buildings, was not actually opened until May. Since that date there are been eleven students in training. At the close of the second term Mr. Hodges writes:-
-"There was much to be thankful for in last term. The men have all really deepened ; almost all came up very superficial and knowing little what religion really meant to a man ... they are learning that education does not consist in learning somebody else's opinions by heart and going no further. There are signs of attempts at original thinking, mirabile dictu!"
+"There was much to be thankful for in last term. The men have all really deepened ; <span style="color:blue">almost all came up very superficial and knowing little what religion really meant to a man </span>... <span style="color:yellow">they are learning that education does not consist in learning somebody else's opinions by heart and going no further. There are signs of attempts at original thinking, mirabile dictu!"
 But with so much reason for thankfulness there is still also cause for anxiety, as the natural weakness of the Corean character makes itself evident in many little ways.
 The second feature of last year's report, the need for more priests, is alas ! still painfully before us. A very substantial increase by the S.P.G. of their annual grant makes it possible to support the seven additional priests asked for. But so far there have been no additions to the staff, though it is hoped that this is only a temporary incident due to the influence of the War, and the many claims on priests in England. The position in Corea is not becoming any less serious. Mr. Hewlett was seriously ill for some time, and has taken up work again without adequate time for convalescence. Mr. Dallas has been obliged to return to England by medical advice, and furloughs further denude the staff. The Bishop's short visit to England during the slacker season of the hot weather was extended owing to the difficulties of return across Siberia. But he was accompanied on his return by the Rev. H. Derham Marshall, who, by his arrival in Japan, has set free Mr. Simpson to help in Japanese work in Corea during Mr. Sharpe's furlough.
 The work among the Japanese is encouraging. At Seoul, thanks to the zeal of a Japanese Christian lady, there have been many inquiries. At Fusan, the work goes on under Mr. Shiozaki. At Taikyu, another important centre, a Church House has been built, and is already proving its usefulness. The Japanese element at Chemulpo is also not neglected, as Mr. Miyazawa, the newly ordained deacon, makes visits from Seoul.
 Taking the seven stations in detail, it is always most difficult to write about the work in Seoul. For a variety of reasons, it is full of difficulties, and lacks the encouragement met with in country stations. But the Bishop is satisfied that there is no real reason for the workers to be disheartened.
 At Chemulpo, where Dr. and Mrs. Weir have done such excellent work, through the hospital, the parsonage is again occupied after a lapse of many years, as the Rev. H. J. Drake has definitely taken up his abode there.
 At Kanghwa there are the two centres - at Kanghwa City itself, and at On Sou Tong. In the City, as has been said above, is the Training College. Here Mr. Gurney is in charge and should be joined by another priest, although the work does not go with such a rush as a few years ago. And even if things are a little slower our clergy have as much as they can manage, until the students training under Mr. Hodges and Mr. Smith are ready to enter the ministry and share in the pastoral and evangelistic work.
 In the Su Won district the work is much more scattered and sporadic than in Kanghwa, and this fact makes it more imperative that one priest shall not be left single-handed. Here Mr. Bridle and Mr. Dallas worked, until the latter was ordered home by the doctor.
 At Chin-Chun there are over a thousand Christians in the district, with about a dozen chapelries to be served in addition to the central church. Here, too, is the important hospital where Dr. Laws has worked for some time.
 Connected with this centre is another district of Chunan, with large area to deal with, and many Christians to shepherd.
 The last of the seven stations is Paik-Chun, originally served from Kanghwa. Here a hospital was open for a short time, but it had to be closed when Dr. Borrow took the place of Dr. Laws during furlough.
 At all these stations there has been steady progress, the Bishop having held confirmations at several centres during the year. The men and women catechists have been helped to obtain greater efficiency for their difficult task by coming apart for a short time at intervals for study and prayer.
 Of the educational work there is not much to say. The little village schools go on quietly, and the older and more intelligent boys and girls are doing well at Japanese schools, while they make their home at Mission hostels.
 Chemulpo.- Evangelistic work in this port centres round the hospital where Nurse Dodd and Miss Cant share with Mrs. Weir the many opportunities which come to hospital workers among both the patients and the women connected with the Church.
 "As before, the teaching in the out-patient department and in the hospital is responsible for many becoming Christians. It is with joy and thankfulness one sees a poor, ignorant woman gradually growing into a regular communicant, even though the difficulties and hardships are many that a Corean woman has to undergo.”
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 "Before I left on furlough there were certain points with regard to the women's meetings which caused me anxiety, such as a tendency to a clique among the rather better off women who would naturally have more common interests. This had produced its natural results in a narrowing of interests, and consequent somewhat stagnant condition of fujin kwai (women's meetings). But I must say, when I pointed this out to the principal offenders, they took the admonition in very good part, and I am sure the best way to manage these people is by pointing out the higher path, rather than by overmuch fault-finding. We have now started a monthly paper of short Intercessions and Thanksgivings in connection with the whole Fusan congregation. I think this plan will be the beginning of a better spirit of mutual fellowship and wider interests. Another point with regard to women’s work is an attempt to encourage them more in the Christian education of their children at home. Every house where there are children has been given copies of ‘Prayers for Children’, and I have some where the mothers do really try to teach their children to pray."
 Kurose, the young Biblewoman supported by the Canadian Church, who has until late in the year with Miss Pooley worked at Chemulpo, has now joined Miss Elrington. We would ask our readers to remember in prayer a Japanese woman doctor and a young widow, trained as a midwife, who have both been admitted as catechumens, and who, as Christians, will have wide spheres of influence.
 Taikyu.-Miss Grosjean, who had previously worked among Japanese in Seoul, has now come to live at this new station. Already some of the Japanese have been instructed and baptised, and it is good to read that, though the priest is at present only able to pay a monthly visit, yet-
 "All are very earnest and eager to lead others, and everyone is striving to practise their religion in their lives."
 Kanghwa-On this island the work among Corean women and girls is carried on by Miss France and Miss Packer. Visits are paid to outlying villages, and, where there are no resident catechists and Biblewomen, Christians come at intervals to the city for classes and study, returning to help and instruct their weaker brethren.
 "We have just completed a five-days' study under Mr. Gurney and the catechists, women coming in from some of the outlying districts and staying the whole time. It has been very encouraging for the lecturers-the great zeal and earnestness shown by all who took part. . . . Persita Kim, the Biblewoman, has a great influence with the women and is a splendid Christian example among them."
 Of the school work Miss France writes : -
-"Three of the older girls left to go to Seoul and live under Sister Isabel, and we hope they will be eligible to be trained as future Biblewomen. We have a Government trained teacher now, and she proved a very capable and trustworthy worker, and, though not a Christian, has a good influence among the children."
+<span style="color:pink">Of the school work Miss France writes : -
 Paik-Chun. -The closing of the women's medical work leaves Miss Bourne and Miss Borrowman the only two women workers; but the addition of a trained woman catechist, Paulina Pak, has been a great help. The work has gone on quietly and steadily, the record of five Christian marriages bringing encouragement to the workers.
 Seoul. - Here the work among Coreans is under the care of the Sisters of St. Peter's, Kilburn, who are in charge of the hostel for Corean girls attending the Japanese school, and who also train Corean women catechists. The Church in Japan has once more shown its practical sympathy with Corea by lending Sakai San for work with Miss Pooley among the Japanese in the capital.

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 Martha, or, as the Coreans pronounce it, Maruta, has been adopted by Miss Wylde, Mayfield, Chislehurst, who has promised ₤6 a year. It is very splendid of people to adopt orphans just now, when there are so many ways in which money is wanted.
 The Reverend J. B. d'Arcy (late Sub-Warden of St. Peter's Home, Kilburn) has promised ₤1 a year either for a child, or for one or other of the Orphanage expenses.
-Sister Nora writes: "We had a very happy Christmas at the Orphanage ; five of our married girls were able to come and stay. One had walked twenty-five miles to get to the train from the Chin-Chun district; she had heard we were here, and though I had thought she was too far away to ask her, she contrived to ‘come home,' as they all call it.... All their five children were much cleaner and better behaved than ordinary Corean children, so it is a comfort to feel their mothers did learn something at the Orphanage."
+Sister Nora writes: "We had a very happy Christmas at the Orphanage ; five of our married girls were able to come and stay. One had walked twenty-five miles to get to the train from the Chin-Chun district; she had heard we were here, and though I had thought she was too far away to ask her, she contrived to ‘come home,' as they all call it.... <span style="color:red">All their five children were much cleaner and better behaved than ordinary Corean children, so it is a comfort to feel their mothers did learn something at the Orphanage."</span>
 MARY SANDERS,
 Orphanage Secretary.

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 ===The Diocesan Orphanage for Girls.===
-I do not think subscribers at home realise that there is a Diocesan Orphanage. I have heard it spoken of as a small private affair of the Sisters, as "Sister Nora's little Orphanage," or even as a place where cast-off children are taken in to die. There is never much mention of the Orphanage in MORNING CALM beyond a few words in the Children's Comer. Even some of our most willing helpers at home do not even know where the Orphanage is situated. Not long ago I saw it stated in MORNING CALM that the Orphanage was at Suigen, near Su Won. The writer evidently had not grasped the fact that Suigen is Japanese for Su Won !
+I do not think subscribers at home realise that there is a Diocesan Orphanage. I have heard it spoken of as a small private affair of the Sisters, as "Sister Nora's little Orphanage," or even as a place where cast-off children are taken in to die. There is never much mention of the Orphanage in MORNING CALM beyond a few words in the Children's Comer. Even some of our most willing helpers at home do not even know where the Orphanage is situated. Not long ago I saw it stated in MORNING CALM that the Orphanage was at [http://www.gomapper.com/travel/where-is/suigen-kyonggi-do-located.html Suigen], near Su Won. The writer evidently had not grasped the fact that Suigen is Japanese for Su Won !
 The Orphanage for girls was opened about 1900 in a small house in very confined quarters of the Sisters compound work was carried on there until the summer of 1913. During that time the mortality amongst the children was very high, but a fair proportion were educated, brought up, and married into Christian families. I know from personal experience what an influence for good more than one of these young women have exercised upon the villages in which they live; they have kept the Christian women together, and given them much better instruction than the native Mission-woman in her monthly visit has been able to impart.
-In 1913 it was decided to move the Orphanage to Su Won, and the orphans, escorted by two Sisters, arrived in July. The change to the country soon made a marvellous difference to the appetites and appearance of the children, and I doubt if, at the present moment, a healthier collection of youngsters can be found in Corea. The Orphanage is built on the slope of a pine-covered hill facing south, so the children have a very extensive playground in the healthiest situation in Su Won.
+<span style="color:pink">The Orphanage for girls was opened about 1900 in a small house in very confined quarters of the Sisters compound work was carried on there until the summer of 1913. During that time the mortality amongst the children was very high, but a fair proportion were educated, brought up, and married into Christian families. I know from personal experience what an influence for good more than one of these young women have exercised upon the villages in which they live; they have kept the Christian women together, and given them much better instruction than the native Mission-woman in her monthly visit has been able to impart.</span>
 They are all given a simple but sound education until they are fifteen, and then for a year they remain in the Orphanage learning all things necessary for a wife to know, and doing all the house work, preparing all the food and washing, and remaking the children's clothes. Soon after sixteen they are married into Christian families, and there is no lack of suitors for brides from the Orphanage. The Orphanage is always most spotlessly clean, and this is in itself a lesson to any of the native Christian women who are allowed to see it. At the same time it is a home, a large family, and not simply an institution, and for this reason the numbers are limited to thirty.
 Girls who married and went from the Orphanage years ago still look on it as their "pon chip" (real home), and five of them returned at Christmas, some with their babes, in order to spend the festival at Home.
 One could give many examples of the help the Orphanage has been to poor widows and widowers; I will content myself with one only. About three months ago a good Christian man, Athanasius, died leaving a widow and five dependants, the eldest son being married. Before the father had been dead a month, the married son died, leaving his mother and wife and three children quite destitute. Sister Nora kindly offered to take the two girls, Salome and Joanna, into the Orphanage at once, where they are very happy and content. If there had been no Orphanage, it is terrible to think of what the fate of these two girls would have been.
 Christmastide is always a great time for the Orphanage, and this last year the children had a happier time than ever. Each orphan received a nice present on Christmas Day, and on Holy Innocents' Day, the annual Orphanage Christmas tree party was given, when each girl, including outsiders attending the girls' day school, who had been invited by Sister Nora, received at least two presents from the Christmas tree.
 One could write much more about the Orphanage, but the editor's blue pencil looks too threatening for me to continue.
 Please help the Orphanage as much as you can by your prayers and your offerings

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 (To the Readers of MORNING CALM.)
 MY DEAR FRIENDS, -
 Troubles crowd upon us thick and fast. A year ago I was telling you that with an addition of seven or eight priests to our existing staff of twelve, I thought we might possibly "keep our end up and at least prevent the work of the Church in Corea falling backwards, pending the gradual growth of our native ministry. The physical breakdown in one direction or another, which I dreaded if we attempted to carry on our existing work with our present staff, realised itself almost immediately in the case of Frs. Hewlett and Dallas during those few weeks I spent in England last summer. Fr. Hewlett, who very nearly died last July, is now on his way home for a much-needed furlough, but will, we hope, return “like a giant refreshed" at the end of the year. From all that I can hear it is very doubtful whether Fr. Dallas will ever be able to take up work in the Far East again. Instead of an addition of seven or eight there is therefore so far a net loss of one, where literally no one can be spared.
 Next we have Fr. Bridle, who has done yeoman's service for the Mission during the last eighteen years, realising that his strength is not what it used to be and in particular that his increasing lameness makes it impossible for him to give the oversight he would like to give and ought to give to the widely scattered work surrounding his station at Su Won. He thinks that he has other causes for uneasiness, with regard to which I have done my best to relieve his anxiety.
 In particular I know he would feel it very keenly if the constant shrinkage of our staff necessitated (as it may very well necessitate) such a revision of our methods and redistribution of our forces as would in any measure detach him from his beloved Su Won.
 Nobody, of course, in these disturbed times, can say what lies ahead of us. But plainly if our meagre staff of twelve priests, instead of being raised to twenty, is to be reduced to six or seven, some such revision of methods may be necessary. As I have already pointed out, it might become necessary to concentrate our few remaining priests in some one centre, from which they must do their best to visit, in turn and at longish intervals, all the outlying stations, for the periodical administration of the Sacraments etc. Such a course would (I think) be full of danger, as (pace Mr. Roland Allen) I doubt whether the native Church and our native workers (for the most part as yet almost wholly untrained) are strong enough to be left so largely to their own resources. At present, of course, it is nothing more than a suggestion for meeting a difficult set of circumstances which may arise in the near future, and I have made it quite plain that, if some such action becomes necessary, I shall be quite ready to discard my own suggestion for any other more feasible and satisfactory one. But to those who, like Fr. Bridle, have become wedded to, and identified with, one particular corner of the Church's work here, even the suggestion is sufficiently disturbing! And now that he has gone for a much-needed holiday to Japan, I hear with dismay that great pressure is being put upon him to accept the vacant chaplaincy-i.e. the spiritual care of the very large English community at Kobe. It is, of course, an important and very difficult post, though it would not involve such a heavy physical strain as does the charge of his present district at Su Won. And I am half afraid from what he writes to me from Japan that he may feel that he ought not to refuse the offer, though we all hope he may. Then there is the very difficult question of the marriage of the clergy. I do not think I am breaking anything but very “open secrets" when I say that, of the staff of twelve at my disposal this time last year, no less than four are at the present moment either married or contemplating matrimony in the near future. I have never made any secret of my belief that, whatever may be said of the marriage of the clergy elsewhere, I cannot myself regard it as a suitable or possible arrangement in the Mission Field -anyhow in Corea. Personally, I should be at my wits' end to know what to do with four married clergy here! Moreover the norm of the Mission has always been celibacy for the clergy, here as in the U.M.C.A. And I have reason to believe not only that many supporters of the Mission at home, but some at least of those who joined it as missionaries on the old understanding, would feel greatly aggrieved by sach a revolution. The practical difficulties, moreover, are enormous. Even if money is forthcoming for adequate salaries for married clergy, we have no houses suited for married couples. And unless we are to erect such houses on all our stations, it will mean that a given priest has to be placed not where the needs of the Church call for him, but in the place where there happens to be a house suitable for his wife and family. I am therefore in a cleft stick, and, whatever I do, am pretty sure to be severely blamed, though I suppose that Bishops must get used to that! I certainly have no desire to lose the four priests in question and shall certainly be called over the coals for doing so. On the other hand, even if I felt equal to carrying on the Mission after its basis had been revolutionised, I should be regarded as a traitor by those to whom the older ideals of the Mission are dear and should certainly alienate sympathies in quarters to which we should naturally look for help both in money and men. I fear therefore that I must stick to my guns with such of the clergy as are prepared to stand by me, and we must just go on till we drop. But I would have you note that this, together with the circumstances already referred to, is likely enough to bring our staff of clergy in the near future down from twelve to six, instead of raising it to twenty!
 I had hoped to write at length in this letter on the question of our schools and of education generally in Corea. But this is so large a subject, and events of such importance have recently occurred in connexion with it, that I feel it must have a letter all to itself next time.
 Miss Bourne has just started homewards on her furlough after five very useful years of unselfish work as a volunteer here. I am afraid that we may not count upon another spell. Next week Miss France and Miss Dodd also both start homewards - the former hoping very much to return in a year's time, while the latter desires to resume her nursing work at home. Our staff of lady-workers therefore is suffering almost as much from depletion as our staff of clergy!
 Yours very truly in Christ,
 MARK,
 Bishop in Corea.
 PS. - I am glad to be able to add that Mr. Bridle has declined the Kobe Chaplaincy.