Morning Calm v.27 no.149(1916 Jul.) - 편집 역사

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‎Japanese work.

최원재: /* St. Peter's Community foreign Mission Association. */

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‎St. Peter's Community foreign Mission Association.

최원재: /* Children's Letter. */

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‎Children's Letter.

최원재: /* Needlework Report for 1915. */

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‎Needlework Report for 1915.

최원재: /* The Orphanage. */

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‎The Orphanage.

최원재: /* The Bishop's Report. */

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‎The Bishop's Report.

최원재: /* COREAN ANNUAL REPORT. */

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‎COREAN ANNUAL REPORT.

최원재: /* Annual Meeting. */

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‎Annual Meeting.

차이 보기

최원재: /* The Bishop's Letter. */

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‎The Bishop's Letter.

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

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 It is a long time, I believe, since anything appeared in MORNING CALM about the work among Japanese in the northern part of Corea, which includes the settled work in Seoul and Chemulpo, and the occasional visiting of scattered Christians in over a score of other places.
 During that time the work in Chemulpo has been very stagnant, being under the disadvantage for more than a year of having no resident worker at all, and being dependent on weekly visits by the workers from Seoul. But since December a catechist has been stationed there, who has come over for at least a year from the Kyoto diocese in Japan.
 During the same period, in spite of constant changes on the staff, the work in Seoul has been really wonderful: and nowhere, I think, has the flowing tide that has shown itself in many ways and places in work among the Japanese during the last two years been more apparent, the number of our baptised Christians in Seoul rising in a year and a half from under a hundred to over a hundred and forty.
 But it is not of this settled work that I wish chiefly to write this time, but of the scattered work; and as an instance of the kind of work let me describe roughly the journey I have just completed since Easter.
 Travelling all day by train from Seoul takes you to the Yalu river, the boundary between Corea and Manchuria, also the boundary of the diocese. But for convenience' sake we include the Japanese Christians at Autung, on the northern side of the great railway bridge of which the Japanese are so proud, in the visiting work of this diocese, though strictly speaking they belong to North China.
 Last year the Bishop went up there with me and confirmed five people. One of these, a school mistress in the primary school, went immediately afterwards as a governess to the Japanese Consulate; and two of the servants there, led by her, and visited regularly from Seoul for instruction, were baptised this time.
 There are one or two English Church people also in Autung connected with the Chinese Customs, and one morning the Eucharist was celebrated in English in one of their houses. Another morning I celebrated in the big railway hospital, for a Christian in from the country who had been very ill, but was much better.
 Then from the south side of the river I bicycled down to the town at the mouth of the river, where the postmaster is a Christian; but his children are not baptised, as his wife is an earnest Buddhist; but he received his communion the next morning, after which a young man in the post office, to whom I had talked a long time the previous evening, was admitted catechumen. The way he had been brought to Christianity was rather exceptional; he is the telegraph operator, and such men, when they have transmitted public messages, sometimes carry on private conversations with the operator at the other end. In such a way he had got to know one of our Christians, who is a telegraphist at a neighbouring town. Gradually they had got on to the subject of religion, and this month had thus been brought to study the Bible, without ever having met the man who led him, and is now a very promising catechumen.
 That was not the only time on this journey that I was forcibly reminded of the words: "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts." Coming back a day or two later by rail halfway to Seoul, to Pyeng Yang (the great city in the north, where the Presbyterian work among Coreans is so strong). I celebrated the Eucharist for our Christians there on Sunday morning. After admitting catechumen the wife of one of them, I bicycled out to Seisen, a place forty miles east, right in the heart of the central mountains of the country.
 Last autumn, doing this same bit, I lost my way badly (a not unlikely contingency away from the towns in Corea, when you cannot speak a word of Corean), and was treated very kindly by the postmaster of a town on the way, whom I then discovered to be a Christian (not a Churchman). So I called on him again this time, and was told of a woman in the same place, the wife of the gendarme chief officer there, who was not a Christian, but had been taking in a Christian magazine and reading the Bible.
-Her knowledge of the New Testament was quite extensive, and she knew a little of what baptism means, but had never read or heard anything about the Church as a present-day fact at all. What is so necessary here as elsewhere is regular visiting for instruction, but under present conditions such a place as that only gets a flying visit perhaps twice a year.
+Last autumn, doing this same bit, I lost my way badly (a not unlikely contingency away from the towns in Corea, when you cannot speak a word of Corean), and was treated very kindly by the postmaster of a town on the way, whom I then discovered to be a Christian (not a Churchman). So I called on him again this time, and <span style="color:red">was told of a woman in the same place, the wife of the gendarme chief officer there, who was not a Christian, but had been taking in a Christian magazine and reading the Bible.</span>
 While I was in that house my bicycle had remained at the Little Japanese inn where I had had lunch, and some enterprising Corean tried to ride it, had a bad fall, and bent the pedal crank so badly that the outlook for going on at all was bad. However, in the end a sort of blacksmith hammered it into usable shape, smashing off most of the plating in the process. I was only too thankful not to be held up altogether. I heard afterwards that the crowd of Coreans round the bicycle during the operation, not understanding my objurgations in English, thought I had been much more patient with the offender than any of themselves would have been, and explained the cause as being due to the largeness of my body, which gave room for a large heart!
 At Seisen that night I stayed in the house of a sub-officer of gendarmes, whose wife is a Christian. The man himself is not a Christian, but very friendly: two children have been baptised, and the baby I baptised this time. The next morning the mother made her communion before the rest of the family woke. And later I called on the chief officer, who again is a Christian but not a Churchman.
 Two days later, a good deal further south down the main railway line, I bicycled out seventeen miles to spend a night with Fr. Wilson at Paik-Chun, and he took me round calling on some of the Japanese who live there. He is hoping to try to get some of them to come to church there.
 My last night out on that journey was spent at the place from which I had ridden out to Paik-Chun, where we have a young Christian couple, married in St. Paul's, Seoul, last November. They also put me up and were very kind.
 This account has been very personal, but a brief description of the kind of things that actually happen will perhaps show how very much this scattered work wants praying for. No description could show the happiness of it; but one thing it does is to throw the worker wholly upon God, because under such conditions all human means are obviously so - more than usually -inadequate.
 I am writing this in the middle of Synod week, and next week am off again, to the east coast this time, I shall probably be a fortnight away, during which one of the trials will be total absence of newspapers and consequent wondering what is happening in the war area.
 J. B. SIMPSON.
 SEOUL, May 10, 1916.

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 ===St. Peter's Community foreign Mission Association.===
 MEMBERS are specially asked to remember the date of the Corean Stall to be held in the cloisters of St. Peter's House, Kilburn, on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 11, 12.
 Some new and attractive small curios, figures in native costume, etc., have been received by post from Corea, and we would impress on friends of the Mission that it will be impossible to secure the necessary funds for the Sisters' work unless the Stall is well supported.
 Owing to the heavily increased rate of freightage, parcels cannot now be enclosed in the cases to Corea unless a sufficient sum is contributed towards the expenses of shipping, customs, etc.
 SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE,
 General Secretary, S.P.F.M.A.

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 ===Children's Letter.===
 DEAR CHILDREN, -
 Summer time has come round again and some of you may be planning a picnic; and the Corean children will doubtless have their picnics too. The names of these children in the group with the swing are Angela, Theresa, Marcetta, Lucia, Maria, Dinah, Cecilia, Ada, Susanna, Lilian, and Rebecca, all with hair so neatly parted and plastered down, none with the wavy curly hair some of you English girls have. Some of the grown-ups in China (and I expect it is the same in Corea) think we English are very untidy with our hair certainly it can be said with truth of some, but even naturally curly hair they seem to look upon as being not quite the thing, and that it ought all to be smoothed down.
 This letter again will have to have several pictures to interest you, as I have no news from Corea to give you about the children in the Orphanage.
-And this other picture is of a catechist and his family at Chin-Chun. And in the background is the picture of a house, and you can see well the thatched roof and the kind of windows. The uprights and cross pieces will be of bamboo, across which paper is plastered, and the frames in summer taken right out of the windows. Some of us living in close towns where it is difficult to get a good blow of air through the house might be glad of this way of building the house, and also in the country it might have its charm, in giving a good wide view of the fields outside. But I do not think paper windows would last long with some of our children. Do you think so? I hear that a great number of the children from the Newcastle branch have been transferred to the adult branch. It is always cheering to hear that, as it shows the idea of the association and its foundation of prayer has taken hold of their minds, and that they do not belong just as children and then give it up when they leave the school where they may be. In the monthly intercession paper we are asked to pray for some sixty candidates for confirmation. I expect some of them will be from the Orphanage, so I hope you will remember them in your prayers. Have some of you had meetings the last month - I mean at the time of the usual annual service and meetings?
+And this other picture is of a catechist and his family at Chin-Chun. <span style="color:red">And in the background is the picture of a house, and you can see well the thatched roof and the kind of windows. The uprights and cross pieces will be of bamboo, across which paper is plastered, and the frames in summer taken right out of the windows. Some of us living in close towns where it is difficult to get a good blow of air through the house might be glad of this way of building the house, and also in the country it might have its charm, in giving a good wide view of the fields outside. But I do not think paper windows would last long with some of our children. Do you think so? </span>
 You will see mentioned below the sum of the Lent savings of the children at Newcastle. It seems quite a big sum for them to send and must have meant very real self-denial, I expect, to some who gave.
 Believe me,
 Your sincere Friend,
 MABEL SEATON.
 YORK STREET CHAMBERS,

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 ===Needlework Report for 1915.===
-THE Needlework Secretary apologises for this very tardy report. She wishes to thank all those who so kindly made the 160 garments which were sent out to Corea last August. The contributors were Miss Corfe, Miss Cow, Miss H. N. Norris, and Miss S. A. Robertson Working parties - per Miss B. M. Crombie, Miss Casswell, Miss Drake, Miss D. King, Mrs. Poyntz, and Miss Downall, who sent, as usual, a box of excellent things for Sale.
+THE Needlework Secretary apologises for this very tardy report. She wishes to thank all those who so kindly made <span style="color:purple">the 160 garments which were sent out to Corea last August</span>. The contributors were Miss Corfe, Miss Cow, Miss H. N. Norris, and Miss S. A. Robertson Working parties - per Miss B. M. Crombie, Miss Casswell, Miss Drake, Miss D. King, Mrs. Poyntz, and Miss Downall, who sent, as usual, a box of excellent things for Sale.
 The Needlework Secretary would be glad to receive parcels for Corea before the end of July, and she will be much obliged if contributors will kindly let her know the cost of materials used, as this is necessary for freightage.

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 ===The Orphanage.===
-ONE orphan has been married during the past year. Four new children have been admitted, bringing the numbers up to thirty.
+<span style="color:red">ONE orphan has been married during the past year. Four new children have been admitted, bringing the numbers up to thirty.
-"Owing to shortage of funds the little Girls' School in the compound has been closed, and fifteen of the orphans go to the Government Japanese school for Coreans. They walk to and fro in good order; it is only four or five minutes' round the hill, and they do not need to go on a road at all. Our great dog sees them safely and sometimes fetches them!"
+"Owing to shortage of funds the little Girls' School in the compound has been closed, and fifteen of the orphans go to the Government Japanese school for Coreans. They walk to and fro in good order; it is only four or five minutes' round the hill, and they do not need to go on a road at all. Our great dog sees them safely and sometimes fetches them!"</span>
 ===Association of Prayer and Work for Corea.===

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 EVERYTHING seems to show that the period of almost miraculously rapid expansion in Corea is past. And in any case the financial uncertainty and the difficulty of manning stations, consequent on the war, would have rendered the gamering of an extensive harvest during the past year impossible. Happily the return of Mr. Hewlett from furlough at the end of the year, with health and strength renewed after his serious illness, and the fact that he was accompanied by a new priest and two candidates for the diaconate brings this period of strain to a close. And we can now look forward to a full twelve months during which, barring accidents, each of the stations may count upon the services of its own priest-in-charge.
-But if lengthening of cords has been out of the question, there has been some strengthening of stakes. The ‘native ministry’ has taken root, and the ordination of one Japanese and two Corean deacons in 1914 was followed by the raising of one of them, Mark Kim, to the priesthood-our first Corean priest-on St. Thomas' Day, 1915. And side by side with this it is gratifying to note that the Christians are steadily maintaining their endeavours to create such a Native Clergy Sustentation Fund as will save the Church in Corea from the shameful expedient of making its clergy dependent on subsidies and grants from England. There is, moreover, good reason to hope for further ordinations in 1916.
+But if lengthening of cords has been out of the question, there has been some strengthening of stakes. <span style="color:blue">The ‘native ministry’ has taken root, and the ordination of one Japanese and two Corean deacons in 1914 was followed by the raising of one of them, Mark Kim, to the priesthood-our first Corean priest-on St.</span> Thomas' Day, 1915. And side by side with this it is gratifying to note that the Christians are steadily maintaining their endeavours to create such a Native Clergy Sustentation Fund as will save the Church in Corea from the shameful expedient of making its clergy dependent on subsidies and grants from England. There is, moreover, good reason to hope for further ordinations in 1916.
 The gradual development of the Japanese Government's educational schemes for Corea makes it abundantly plain that there is no great future for Missionary schools here. We are, however, doing our best to make use of the excellent but wholly secular educational facilities offered by the Government, and to supply its deficiencies by gradually extending our system of hostels for Christian boys and girls attending the Government schools.
 The Women's Work among Coreans tends to revert more and more into the hands of the Sisters of St. Peter's, who are already fairly well occupied with the charge of the Orphanage at Su Won and the Hostels for girls and women in Seoul, besides fulfilling a number of other useful functions. Miss Bourne and Miss France both left on a well-earned furlough after Easter 1915, and this necessitated the closing of the Ladies' Home at Paik-Chun, and concentrating the two remaining ladies, Miss Borrowman and Miss Packer, in Kanghwa, One cannot speak too highly of the work done by all these ladies - and perhaps without being invidious one may single out for special remark Miss France's indefatigable labours in Kanghwa during the past five years: but there are signs that it will be a matter of some difficulty to continue this work when the two remaining ladies go home on furlough.
 Miss Pooley in Seoul, Miss Elrington in Fusan, and Miss Grosjean in her rather lonely post at Taikyu have continued to do yeoman's service among the Japanese women, and have provided most efficient helpers to Mr. Simpson, who came over from Tokyo to take charge of our Japanese work when Mr. Sharpe went home on furlough. At a time when the work among Coreans has shown signs of shrinkage, or at least of being stationary, it is a pleasure to record that the work among the Japanese, in Mr. Simpson's capable hands, shows signs of being more healthy and vigorous than ever before.

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 ===COREAN ANNUAL REPORT.===
 The Bishop's report (which we are able to print here by the courtesy of the S.P.G., to whom it was addressed) covers the work of the Mission as far as its operations in Corea are concerned, and needs no comment from me, except to emphasise the gains of the past year, which afford indeed much cause for thankfulness. They may be summarised as follows: -
 . The admission to the priesthood of Mark Kim, the first native priest, and the real beginning of the native ministry.
 . The addition of one priest, Rev. E. A. Greene, and two laymen, Mr. Charles Hunt and Mr. Ernest Arnold, who have since been admitted to the diaconate. To these must be added now Rev. George Laurence, who after ordination at home has since proceeded to Corea.
 Against these gains must be set the losses of which the Bishop speaks, Dr. and Mrs. Weir, and Miss France, under circumstances which are fully set out in the Bishop's monthly letter. It is only necessary to add here with regard to Dr. Weir's withdrawal, that it will not necessitate the abandonment of any of the medical work which he has carried on with such devotion for many years, nor does it deprive Conan men of such medical treatment as they have come to look for from the Mission, and which they have been receiving at the hands of Dr. Borrow since she took over the charge of the hospital. If there has to be a temporary suspension of the hospital work during her furlough, it will only be a prelude to increased activity on her return with a colleague, whom she hopes to take out with her. Moreover, it is intended to refit and reconstruct the hospital in such a way that it will make more adequate provision for the needs of the Coreans than has been possible before.
 As far as the Home Organisation is concerned it is a matter for sincere congratulation that the Mission has suffered financially much less than might have been expected under the circumstances. It is, however, necessary to sound a note of warning. The three years' challenge of a country curate has now worked itself out, and this will involve a serious diminution of income, unless the appeal which has been made for a renewal of the pledge meets with a generous response. It would indeed be a grievous pity if the splendid impetus which this challenge gave to the work of the Mission were now allowed to die down, and were to make any retrenchment inevitable. We are sure our supporters will not allow this to happen.
 The withdrawal of Mr. Childs Clarke, together with his assistant Miss Folkard, really belongs to the history of 1916, not 1915, but it is impossible to pass it over without placing on record that all those connected with the work of the Mission at home do most heartily endorse every word which the Bishop has said in his letter. Never has a Mission had a more energetic and devoted organiser than Mr. Childs Clarke, or one who managed to inspire more enthusiasm in others in his cause at a very critical time in the history of the Mission. To say more than this would I believe he distasteful to him. His successor will have a high ideal to live up to, but he will also find a good and solid foundation on which to build. At the present time no successor has been appointed, and the necessary secretarial work has kindly been undertaken by Miss C. Trollope, to whom any contributions should be sent, or any letters on Mission business should be addressed until further notice at 184 Ashley Gardens, S.W.
 ARTHUR G. DEEDES,
 Bishop's Commissary.
 Whitsunday, 1916.

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 MY DEAR FRIENDS, -
-There is so much to be said in this letter that I hardly know where to begin. Perhaps it will be well first briefly to recount my movements since I wrote last in the middle of April. We had then just dispersed after the Ordination of Ernest Arnold and Charles Hunt to the Diaconate, and I had been busily occupied during the following week in administering confirmation in Fr. Wilson's steadily developing district of Paik-Chun. I was then able to return on the eve of Palm Sunday to Seoul, where as usual I spent Holy Week and Easter Day, giving what help I could to Fr. Badcock and Fr. Chambers in the Corean and English services. I had to leave Seoul at noon on Easter Day and to rush to Chemulpo, where Fr. Drake presented to me twenty-three candidates (including two delightful Chinese !) for confirmation in St. Michael's Church. There was much else to occupy me in Chemulpo, but "tides wait for no man," and I had perforce to leave at daybreak on Easter Monday morning by steam launch for Kanghwa. There, after pontificatings and preaching at Solemn Evensong on Monday night, in the Church of SS. Peter and Paul, I gave confirmation on Tuesday morning to the sixty-five candidates (ranging in age from ten to sixty-seven years) presented by Fr. Gurney from the various churches and chapelries in the northern half of the island, following the confirmation by a solemn celebration of the Holy Eucharist, at which a large number of communions were made (Easter Day itself had been terribly wet). The same afternoon I was carried off by Fr. Gurney to the delightful little village of San Moun Ni, nestling in a wooded dimple in the mountains about eight miles from the city, where I spent the night and said Mass the next morning in the little chapel of St. Mary for the seventy or more Christians who constitute the very vigorous Church there, and of whom forty odd received Holy Communion at my hands. The next morning my unwearied guide whisked me across the narrow straits to the neighbouring island of Napseum, where again I spent the night and enjoyed an almost exactly similar experience. Then (Thursday morning) we parted company, Fr. Gurney returning to the northern part of Kanghwa Island, to give Easter communion in some of his outlying chapelries there, while I crossed to the southern part and passed into the custody of Fr. Stanley Smith, who is priest-in-charge (vice Fr. Hodges on furlough) of the Church at Onsutong and the various outlying chapelries in the southern half of Kanghwa. Shortly after I had crossed the ferry, he met me with a large party of the Christian villagers from Ankol, where we were to spend the night, and other places in the neighbourhood.
+There is so much to be said in this letter that I hardly know where to begin. Perhaps it will be well first briefly to recount my movements since I wrote last in the middle of April. We had then just dispersed after the Ordination of Ernest Arnold and Charles Hunt to the Diaconate, and I had been busily occupied during the following week in administering confirmation in Fr. Wilson's steadily developing district of Paik-Chun. I was then able to return on the eve of [https://www.christianity.com/wiki/holidays/what-is-palm-sunday-bible-story-and-meaning-today.html Palm Sunday] to Seoul, where as usual I spent Holy Week and Easter Day, giving what help I could to Fr. Badcock and Fr. Chambers in the Corean and English services. I had to leave Seoul at noon on Easter Day and to rush to Chemulpo, where Fr. Drake presented to me twenty-three candidates (including two delightful Chinese !) for confirmation in St. Michael's Church.
 At St. Andrew's, Onsutong. on Low Sunday morning I confirmed forty-one candidates (varying in age from eleven to sixty-five years), and then after a solemn celebration of the Holy Eucharist, at which many communions were made, I set off on the ten mile walk into Kanghwa city, hoping to get off to Chemulpo again that night. But the tides served so badly that I could not leave until Monday afternoon (thus being enabled to keep SS. Philip and James Day in the Church of SS. Peter and Paul) and I finally reached Seoul, after a fairly strenuous Easter week, Monday midnight.
-The rush back was necessary, as on Tuesday morning I was due to marry one of Sister Cecil's best girls, Phoebe Choi, to Samuel Yi (the son of our good old Seoul catechist), one of the regular servers at the altar of the Corean Church in Seoul. Even apart from the Christian ceremony, a wedding in Corea is a very “weighty affair," what with the traditional dressing up of bride and bridegroom in old court dress and the tremendous marriage feast at the bridegroom's house afterwards. And I think Phoebe must have breathed a sigh of relief when she woke up on Wednesday morning to find it was all over ! Anyhow, they are well married now.
+<span style="color:red">The rush back was necessary, as on Tuesday morning I was due to marry one of Sister Cecil's best girls, Phoebe Choi, to Samuel Yi (the son of our good old Seoul catechist), one of the regular servers at the altar of the Corean Church in Seoul. Even apart from the Christian ceremony, a wedding in Corea is a very “weighty affair," what with the traditional dressing up of bride and bridegroom in old court dress and the tremendous marriage feast at the bridegroom's house afterwards. And I think Phoebe must have breathed a sigh of relief when she woke up on Wednesday morning to find it was all over ! Anyhow, they are well married now.</span>
 I had hoped to devote all this week to preparation for the tremendously important work ahead of us in the week that followed. And now already two days were gone, and there was yet another big event to be surmounted. The Y.M.C.A-an institution about which at home one has always reasonably or unreasonably felt suspicious - does a great and useful work here among the lads of the city, just as it appears to be doing a great work just now among the soldiers of the British Army. With the aid of generous benefactions from America they have recently added to their already large premises in Seoul a large new gymnasium and a junior department. There was to be a great opening of the new buildings on may 6, and nothing would satisfy the responsible authorities but that the religious ceremony of dedication should be performed by me in the presence of the Governor-General or his representative, the American and British Consuls General, and all the rank and fashion-Corean, Japanese, and European-of the town. After some demur I accepted the invitation, and resplendent in my doctorial habiliments performed my part, I believe, to the satisfaction of the assembled company. I must say that the sight of all those hundreds of young men gathered together filled me with hungry thoughts of the work the Church might be doing, and ought to be doing, among the rising generation of Seoul, if only we had the right man to allocate to that work. But it is not everybody's job!
 On Sunday and Monday, May 7 and 8, the clergy gradually assembled for the all-important event for which we had been preparing for a year or more, and for which we had kept "Good Shepherd Week " free -namely, our first Diocesan Synod. But this is a matter of such tremendous importance that I cannot possibly do it justice in the short space at my disposal here. Nor have I got the Acta of the Synod sufficiently into shape to reproduce them here. I propose, therefore, to devote the whole of next month's " letter leaflet "to it, and will content myself with saying here and now that, in spite of the hard work involved, the week provided us with a most glorious and happy experience, and that I believe we have taken a real step forward in the building of the City of God in this land.
-Now I have two or three very sad pieces of intelligence for you. First, I am afraid that we are going to lose the services of Dr. and Mrs. Weir. And what that means to us it is difficult to describe in words. But for the war they were to have been back with us last autumn. But Dr. Weir had made himself so indispensable to the Medical Missions Department of S.P.G., and the war made it so impossible to get any substitute for him there, that his return was delayed first till this spring, then till next autumn ; and only six or eight weeks ago I got a letter from him bidding us expect him and Mrs. Weir in September. Then just after my return from Japan last month the blow fell, in the shape of a tremendously urgent letter from Bishop Montgomery, begging that in the wider interests of the Church we would forego our claim on Dr. Weir, of whose services to the Medical Mission Department of S.P.G. he spoke in terms which must have made the doctor's ears tingle. The upshot of it all was that Dr. Weir's departure would practically mean the collapse of that department of their work, and that Dr. Weir himself had undertaken to abide by whatever decision was arrived at. It was not an easy letter to answer, but after giving the matter all the careful thought I could, and taking such advice as was accessible, I came to the conclusion that I could not possibly say "No." And so I am afraid that we have got to face the future without Dr. and Mrs. Weir, though I am sure Corea will always fill a large place in their hearts, as the good doctor and his wife must also always fill a large place in the hearts of those who have known them out here. One point I had to make quite clear to Bishop Montgomery, and that was that, in acquiescing in his request, I must not be understood as admitting that our hospital work was of no importance, or that we were willing to close down St. Luke's Hospital, Chemulpo. Indeed, in response to our self-sacrifice in giving up Dr. Weir, I claimed that S.P.G. should do its best to place our hospital work, and especially St. Luke's, on a better footing than ever before. True it is that Chemulpo no longer occupies quite the prominent place it once did in Corea. But still it is and must remain the seaport of the capital, with all that that entails, and from the point of view of the Mission, it is an admirable centre for our hospital work. It is the port of departure for Kanghwa (some two hours distant by steam launch), where we have such large interests, and it is easily accessible by rail from Seoul, Su Won, Chunan, and all the other stations on the line which give access to our chief centres of Mission work - the most inaccessible and remote of all, Chin-Chun (some twenty-five miles from the nearest station), having its own excellent hospital under the zealous care of Dr. Laws. Before saying "Yes" therefore to Bishop Montgomery's request, I ascertained from Dr. Borrow, who has been carrying on St. Luke's since last autumn, and who is now just leaving on at much needed and overdue furlough, that she would be willing to return as medical officer in charge of St. Luke's. And I have moreover pledged myself to do my best to support her in her endeavours to find another colleague as soon as the war is over (for both she and Dr. Weir were quite agreed that St. Luke's was much too big a business for any doctor to run single-handed), and also to improve the present rather inadequate plant and equipment. And you must help me to redeem that pledge, as soon as we are able to get our schemes for the reorganised St. Luke's into shape.
+Now I have two or three very sad pieces of intelligence for you. First, '''I am afraid that we are going to lose the services of Dr. and Mrs. Weir'''. And what that means to us it is difficult to describe in words. But for the war they were to have been back with us last autumn. But Dr. Weir had made himself so indispensable to the Medical Missions Department of S.P.G., and the war made it so impossible to get any substitute for him there, that his return was delayed first till this spring, then till next autumn ; and only six or eight weeks ago I got a letter from him bidding us expect him and Mrs. Weir in September. Then just after my return from Japan last month the blow fell, in the shape of a tremendously urgent letter from Bishop Montgomery, begging that in the wider interests of the Church we would forego our claim on Dr. Weir, of whose services to the Medical Mission Department of S.P.G. he spoke in terms which must have made the doctor's ears tingle. The upshot of it all was that Dr. Weir's departure would practically mean '''the collapse of that department of their work''', and that Dr. Weir himself had undertaken to abide by whatever decision was arrived at. It was not an easy letter to answer, but after giving the matter all the careful thought I could, and taking such advice as was accessible, I came to the conclusion that I could not possibly say "No." And so I am afraid that we have got to face the future without Dr. and Mrs. Weir, though I am sure Corea will always fill a large place in their hearts, as the good doctor and his wife must also always fill a large place in the hearts of those who have known them out here.
 The other sorrowful piece of news is that we are parting company with Mr. Childs-Clarke, who has proved himself so good a friend to the Mission now for so many years. Apart from his indefatigable labours and unquenchable zeal, the link which he provided with St. Paul's Cathedral has been a real boon to us. As many of you know, at the outbreak of the war he was carried off as a Naval Chaplain to Portsmouth. That is now nearly two years ago. And although he has done his best to fulfil his duties to the Mission as well as the R.N., he himself felt that he was now no longer able to do all that he used to do and wished to do for us, and so tendered his resignation, which with great regret I have accepted, throwing on Canon Deede's broad shoulders the onus of finding some substitute. But it will be difficult indeed to find anyone who will be to us all that Mr. Child-Clarke has been, or do all that he has done.
 And now I must bring this overlong letter to a close, commending myself and my work once more to your most earnest prayers.
 MARK,

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 SUPPLICATIONS: Grant, O Good Lord
 SEOUL:
 . The awakening of Christians to the need of spiritual help.
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 INTERCESSIONS: Lord, be gracious.
 SEOUL :
 . Those who were to be confirmed and to make their first Communion at Whitsuntide.
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 . For the good observance of Easter in the City and St. Mary's, San Monuhi.
 . The good example and diligent labours of Paul Kang whereby many have been led to believe and repent.
 ON SOU TONG:
 . The repentance of some backsliders.