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THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ No. 89, VOL. XII.] AUGUST 1901. [PRICE 3d. ________________________________________ The Bishop's Letters. Ⅰ. LONDON: March 1901. DEAR FRIENDS, My first business on arriving in England was to set about the work which had brought me home. The Archbishop of Canterbury granted me a speedy interview, and promised to give every facility for the division of my over-large diocese, about which I may have more to say soon. A disappointment awaited me in the appointment of a permanent chaplain for Niu Chwang. The married priest who I hoped would have been on the point of starting, so as to relieve Mr. Turner by Easter, wrote to tell me that he was unable to go at all. I had not expected to have this additional task, but I set about it at once. Not until this month, therefore, have I been able to begin my visits to the responsible officials of the various funds which contribute to our necessities in Corea. My object in visiting them, you will remember, is to obtain their consent to the formation of a Central Committee, which will act as a conduit whereby these various funds may henceforth flow in one stream to the Standing Committee of the Diocesan Conference which, I hope, will be formed in Corea at Easter. Wherever I go I submit my scheme to ready ears, and invite criticisms from all quarters. This work necessarily involves much travelling, and precludes almost all work of any other kind. Missionary sermons and missionary meetings have been wholly set aside. By the end of this month I find that I have made thirty-eight missionary journeys, which have been distributed over thirteen different counties. I must not go into details, for to say where I have been and with what genuine kindness I have every-where been received would lengthen the letter beyond due limits. I went to Portsmouth to get the opinion of a valued friend, but could pay no visit to the dockyard or my many friends in the harbour. The only departure from my text here was a delightful visit of two hours to the Seamen and Marines'   62 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ Orphan Home, where the dear children received me with all the affectionate enthusiasm which their predecessors showed eleven years ago. Yours affectionately, * C. J. CORFE ________________________________________ Il. LONDON : April 1901. DEAR FRIENDS, The characteristics of this month have resembled those of March. The work has been the same, and it has taken me to nineteen places in nine different counties. Towards the end of the month I made an exception to my rule not to preach or speak at public meetings—for it seemed ungracious to come to England during the Bicentenary of the S.P.G., and to leave it without saying any word on behalf of a Society to which the Church owes so much, and Corea more than any other diocese. Accordingly, I have this month spoken at the Christ Church Mission in Poplar, and the Society's Annual Meeting in St. James's Hall, and have under taken a series of sermons and addresses on behalf of the Society on the occasion of the Missionary Exhibition at Exeter. This at the end of the month, and Holy Week at the beginning, have been the only large reductions of time from the task which is still unfinished. I have no news to give you from Corea. From Niu Chwang I hear every week, Mr. Turner and Mr. Charlesworth writing with commendable regularity. They have had a mild winter and a perfectly safe one. Mr. Turner's health is fairly good, and he has already begun to make arrangements to carry out my instructions to be present at the Diocesan Conference in Corea at Easter. I had expected to receive a telegram from Mr. Trollope in Easter week, as agreed upon, telling me that the Conference had been held. The delay is, I suspect, to be accounted for by the difficulty which Mr. Turner must have had in getting away from Niu Chwang now that the relief which he had expected from England has failed him. No doubt letters are on their way from Corea which will give you news of our affairs there. In the meanwhile no news is good news. The work of the formation of the Central Committee continues, and I have received the approval of the scheme from all our Associations, and the Committees of our various Funds. Yours affectionately, *C. J. CORFE.   THE MORNING CALM. 63________________________________________ III. AT SEA : May 1901. DEAR FRIENDS, During this month I have made twenty journeys in nine different counties, and on the 29th, after a visit of one hundred and ten days in England, I left Liverpool on my return to Corea. I have been careful to enumerate all these journeys that my friends at home may see how necessary was that notice which was sent to Local Secretaries in February, and that my friends in Corea may understand how necessary my journey to England was, not for the purpose of pleasure or of speaking or getting men and money for the Mission, but for the purposes designated in my Pastoral Letter to them last December. Of these seventy-seven journeys nearly all have been undertaken directly or indirectly in connection with the organisation of the Diocese. Such other work as I could do I have done by the way, and so it has not been done very successfully. I have failed to get a priest for Niu Chwang to replace Mr. Turner, who I hear by telegram is to leave for England under medical advice on the 1st of June. I have not been able to find a successor to Dr. Cardin, who has signified his intention to return to England next October. St. Luke's, Chemulpó, is still without its two nurses and the funds necessary for their support. I have tried hard to obtain the services of a Secretary, who will also act as an accountant, and take over from me and Mr. Trollope the increasing burden caused by the finances and correspondence of the Mission; but in vain. If therefore it is a disappointment to you to hear how I have failed where most of you will think that I ought to have succeeded, I must remind you that I did not come home for these purposes. Now that I have accomplished what I did come home to do I must return with all speed and leave these wants to be supplied by our Heavenly Father in His own time and way, confident that if it is good for us they will be supplied. There was indeed the alternative that, being in England, I should remain until I had obtained these much-needed helpers. And perhaps I might have delayed my departure for a little while had ( not received a telegram from the Vicar-General, telling me that owing to unforeseen circumstances the Diocesan Conference can-not be held, that, in fact, it awaits my return. This failure to create the Corean half of the Diocesan machinery, which was the principal reason for my coming to England, threatened to render inoperative all that I had succeeded in doing since February. Pending the holding of this Conference, therefore, I   64 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ had no choice but to take upon myself the formation of a Committee to co-operate with the Central Committee in England. I was able to telegraph the composition of this Committee just before the first meeting of the Central Committee. But a Bishop's Committee is a very different thing from a Committee of the Dio-cesan Conference, and can only serve as a temporary expedient until the obstacles to the Conference, of the nature of which I can form no conjecture, are removed. I beg you pray that a bless-ing may rest on the labours of this new Central Committee, and that the obstacles which have blocked the Conference may be speedily removed. In the absence, then, of any definite candidates to fill these various posts in Niu Chwang and Corea I felt it to be my duty to carry out the intention I had formed before leaving Corea last December, of returning to Corea not later than May. Just before my departure I went to Lambeth to bid good-bye to the Archbishop, and received from His Grace hearty sympathy on account of this unlooked-for postponement of our plans; for I need scarcely say that the Archbishop has been deeply interested in all I have told him of the present condition and the future hopes of the Diocese. The 3rd of May was a very happy day for all of us who were able to be present at the Triennial Festival, at the lovely service in St. John the Divine, and at the enthusiastic meeting in the Church House in the afternoon. It will fall to others to describe this day. For me it suffices to record my thankfulness to Al-mighty God for the blessings which He has given us during these twelve years, blessings so abundant, so continuous, so undeserved. The meeting had one keen unavoidable note of sadness, arising from my inability to shake hands with more than half of the dear friends whose familiar forms I could see from the platform. Before I get to Corea I expect that the transfer of the Manchurian portion of the Diocese to that of North China will have been completed. It is, indeed, probable that you will hear of this from the newspapers long before I shall. I propose going straight to Niu Chwang to prepare our dear friends there for the parting which must soon take place. Thanking you all for your kindness, I am always your affectionate and grateful *C. J. CORFE. ________________________________________   No. VI. (N.S.) JULY, 1901. 2nd Edition. If each one who uses this paper would find one other to do the same, the Missionary cause would at once be strengthened by 14,000 new Interceders.

QUARTERLY PAPER OF INTERCESSION AND THANKSGIVING FOR THE CHURCH'S WORK ABROAD. ________________________________________ Intercessions. Daily. For a deeper sense of the need and power of prayer in our efforts to win the world for Christ. For an increasing spirit of unity, sympathy, And glad co-operation amongst Missionary Societies and Missionary workers. That Thy grace may guide, illuminate, and teach all those who are preparing for service in the Colonies and the Mission Field. That it may please Thee to guide the issues in the election to the vacant Sees of Bloemfontein [Election July 10]. St. John's-Kaffraria, Nassau, Likoma, and Falkland Isles, and to send Thy blessing on the Bishops-elect of Natal [to be con-secrated Aug. 4) and Zanzibar. For the speedy endowment of the new Sees of Calgary, Keewatin and Kootenay, and for the creation of new Bishopries for North China, Cash-mere, Assam, Central Provinces of India, Soudan, Hausaland, Matabeleland, Perth and Bendigo-and-Beechworth. That our heavy responsibilities towards our vast   2

Empire may awaken in us a more earnest spirit of alms-giving, prayer, and ministry in its behalf. For India in distress through plague and famine, that Thy merciful hand may bring relief, and salvation through affliction. That Thy Fatherly love may be bountifully shown to our brethren in far off lands in isolation, in danger, in despondency, in temptation and in sickness. That it may please Thee to hear our earnest prayers and to call to the service of the Gospel Society a new Secretary rich in wisdom, faith, and zeal. Sunday. Vocation.--That the recognition of the deep and increasing need for help at home and abroad may serve as a clear call to many to dedicate them-selves to the service of their brethren. For the call of many in our schools and Univer-sities to give themselves to the work of the ministry. That parents may count it their highest joy to lead their children to the divine service. That men of faith and piety in all the ranks and callings of life may be drawn to consecrate their powers and skill to the missionary cause. For a large increase of able and devoted women for the service of the Church abroad in schools, in hospitals, in Zenanas, and in the ministry of the Religious Life. That each of us may earnestly seek for and listen to the voice of call, and with a ready will obey. Monday. Calcutta.-For the Metropolitan and all his   3

Clergy and fellow labourers, that they may be endued with grace and wisdom for their high callings. For the speedy formation of new dioceses for The Central Provinces and for Assam, so that the Church may be sustained and strengthened in her divine ministry. That Thy blessing may rest on Bishop's College and the Divinity School, Calcutta; and that it may please Thee to call many cultivated natives of India to the ministry of the Church. That it may please Thee to call men and women of single-hearted devotion to further the missionary, the educational, and the penitentiary work of the diocese. For Thy blessing on women's work in the Zenanas, and for the call of many more to devote themselves to service amongst Hindoo and Moham-medan women. That the European and Eurasian populations of the diocese may be duly supplied with the ministry of the Church and the means of grace. For Thy rich blessing on the work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the diocese, the Church Missionary Society, the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, and the Chanda Mission of the Scottish Church, and for the deepening of the spiritual life of both missionaries and converts. Tuesday. South Africa.--For the speedy restoration peace in South Africa, and the deliverance of our brethren from plague. For a great reviving of the Church's work in all the dioceses of the Province by the Holy Spirit's   4

power, and for the call of workers to supply the many urgent needs. That special guidance and counsel may be given to the Archbishop and Bishops of the Province in their distribution of the Bicentenary grant [£30,000) assigned for Mission work in South Africa. That it may please Thee to crown with success the efforts of the Archbishop to provide a Memorial Cathedral at Capetown.

China.-- For the Bishops and Clergy in China: for their fellow helpers and flocks; tuat Thy merci-ful hand may sustain and keep them in this time of anxiety. For the restoration of peace and good govern-ment in China, and for the call of the nation out of darkness into light. For the continued steadfastness of the faithful: for the comfort and help of those in tribulation and loss, and for the repentance and recovery of those who have fallen away. Wednesday. Rockhampton.--That Thy fatherly care may guide and support the Bishop, the Clergy, and all the Church workers of the diocese. For the call of priests strong in the Holy Spirit power to minister amongst our neglected fellow countrymen, and amongst the Aborigines, the Kanakas, and the Chinese [7,000] of the colony. That those of our fellow countrymen and brethren far removed from the Church's ministry may stand faithful and steadfast ; that the careles and indifferent may be roused to a newness of life;   5

that those living in sin and unbelief may be Converted and saved. That speedy relief may be granted to those suffering from drought, and prosperity restored to the colony, so that the Church may go forward in peace and security in her divine mission. That many may be moved to give liberally of their means to provide for the Sustentation Fund and the Endowment Fund of the Bishopric, and to support the many good works of the diocese. Thursday. Far-spread Needs.--For a due supply of men and means for the extension of the Gospel in the countries beyond Uganda. For Thy blessing on the efforts of Thy servants to lead the students of the Universities in India to the knowledge of Thy Truth. That many, both priests and laymen, men and women, may be inspired to give their services to the Central African Mission in its special need. For the establishing of a Mission in Formosa, and for the call of clergy of wisdom and zeal to begin the work. For a wide-opened door of access to the heathen and Mohammedans in the Nile valley and the Egyptian Soudan. For the Melanesian Mission in its urgent need of more workers and wider support, and especially for the call of priests for the spiritual needs of the Solomon Islands and the Santa Cruz Islands. Friday. Mauritius.--For the Bishop and Clergy of   6

the diocese in their arduous labours amongst the many nations and peoples of the Island. That the support and consolation of Thy presence may be granted to those ministering in the dependencies of Seychelles and Rodriquez and other isolated Missions of the diocese. That Thy blessing may rest on the Missions of the Gospel Society and the Church Missionary Society, granting them a steady growth and extension of their work. For the Schools and Orphanages of the diocese supported by these Societies, and for the due training of the children in Thy fear and love. For Thy blessing on the Training Institution at Moka, and for the call of many to prepare themselves to minister to the Indian population of the diocese. That the scheme for a Medical Mission amongst native women may be brought to a successful issue, and may promote the furtherance of the Gospel. That the many thousands of coolies from China, India, Madagascar, and East Africa, labouring in the island, may be brought to the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ. Saturday. Natal.--For an abundant supply of Thy rich gifts and graces to the Bishop-elect [to be conse-crated August 4], his clergy, and all who minister in the diocese in the Church's cause and for the love of Christ. For the call of faithful priests and devoted women to fill vacant posts, and to strengthen and extend the work of the Church in the diocese.   7

For Thy blessing on St. Alban's Training College for Natives, on the Diocesan Boys' School, on the work of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, and on all efforts for the religious training of the children of the Colony. That the colonists of the diocese may be inspired with an earnest desire to win the heathen around them to the Truth, and may commend the cause of Christ by holy and consistent lives. For all converts to the Faith, especially the Zulu and Indian Christians, that they may walk worthy of their high calling, and may advance in the fear and love of Thy holy Name. For a speedy restoration of peace and concord, and for a great revival of the Church's power and work throughout the colony. ________________________________________ At Rest. John Travers Lewis, Archbishop of Ontario; Francis Edward Zachary, priest (Central Africa); Ernest John Alexander Nichols, priest (Central Africa); Richard Thomas Dowbiggin, priest (Coylon). ________________________________________ Thanksgivings. For all offers of willing service, for all inter-cessions, labours, and gifts in behalf of the Church abroad. For persecutions and opposition overruled to the conversion of those in unbelief. For the courageous confession of many converts from Mohammedanism and heathenism. For the testimony of many to the power and grace of the Gospel in heathen lands. For the noble example of those who have   8

endured persecution and death in China rather than deny the Faith. For the encouragement and support given by the Governor of the Province to the Missions in Shantung. For the call of a faithful Bishop to rule over the diocese of Natal. For the admission of James Mata Dwane to the diaconate. For new openings for the Gospel in the hinterland of Sierra Leone. For the two hundred years of missionary Iabour granted to the Gospel Society, and for Thy blessing on the Bicentenary celebrations. For £30,000 set apart from the Bicentenary Fund for Mission work in South Africa. For the munificent gift towards the endowment of the Bishopric of Corea and the new diocese of Shantung. For the gift of £1,000 towards the endowment of St. Patrick's Mission, Bloemfontein. ________________________________________ ISSUED BY THE FEDERATION OF JUNIOR CLERGY MISSIONARY ASSOCIATIONS IN CONNEXION WITH THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL, The aim of this Quarterly Intercession Paper is to fasten attention on the more pressing needs of the Church in her work abroad, and at the same time to pass In order and cycle through all her Dioceses and Missions, bringing to each in turn the support of special Intercession. SUBSCRIPTION.--9d. a year for each dozen copies (or less) sent quarterly, post free. Apply to the Rev. G. R. Bullock-Webster, The Palace, Ely. ________________________________________ SPOTTIUWOODE & CO. LTD., PRINTERS, LONDON.   THE MORNING CALM. 65________________________________________ Verses. Lines written on the death of “Elizabeth,” and the other baptized Corean infants.--April 1899. “These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, these were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.”-- Epistle for Holy Innocents’ Day.

THE first-fruits of Corea to her Lord! His little ones safe garner'd in His fold By baptism here, now through the gate of death To be for ever with their loving Lord. Following the Lamb wherever He shall go.

The first-fruits of Corea to her Lord! First band of Intercessors for their race That they too may be garner'd in His fold;-- For those alike who seek to bring them in That this their work may blest and fruitful be.

The first-fruits of Corea to her Lord ! This band of little ones before the Throne Swelling the chorus of the Church's praise, Glory to God on high, on earth be peace, Ascending from each Eucharist below.

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The Triennial festival. THE Fourth Triennial Festival of this Mission was observed on Friday, May 3, by a solemn celebration of the Holy Eucharist at St. John the Divine, Kennington, the preacher being Bishop Corfe. In the afternoon of the same day the General Meeting was held at the Church House. The Bishop's commissary (Canon Brooke) presided, and there was a good attendance of the Mission's friends and supporters. The Chairman said they were much gratified to have Bishop Corfe amongst them once more, and were also glad to welcome Admiral Fremantle and Bishop Scott, who had had special opportunities of seeing the work which was being done in Corea. The Bishop of North China said it was a great pleasure to him to meet his dear friend Bishop Corfe from time to time, and also his clergy, in conference. It had been his great pleasure to help the Bishop on several occasions at Confirmations, and what he had seen on those occasions had made a very great impression on his memory. During the ten or eleven years that he had   66 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ known something of the work in Corea a remarkable advance had been made. The last time that he visited his brother's diocese he was delightfully surprised to know of the large number of Church people that were to be found in it The work that was going on presented most encouraging and hopeful aspects. The questions affecting China were apparently going to be with them to the end. Only let them pray that the fierceness of man may be turned to the praise of God. Sir Edmund R. Fremantle had seen Bishop Corfe at his work, and had great pleasure at being present that day to say a few words on its behalf. The Bishop's genial personality was, he was fully persuaded, a great factor in that success which had so signally attended the work in the diocese. The Bishop was one eminently cut out for a missionary Bishop. He (the speaker) had seen the work of the Mission in its various forms, and it had impressed him very greatly. The Coreans were a fine race physically and were worth helping. Bishop Corfe, after expressing his acknowledgments for what the previous speakers had said with reference to the work done in his diocese, remarked that he need scarcely tell those present that they had to pursue that work upon Corean models. They never in any way interfered with the people in their quarrels, or in the government of the country. He had always given very strong instructions to his clergy and others upon that point. He had come to England for the purpose of forming a committee which would greatly facilitate the finances of the Mission, and do a work which, he thought, it was not a Bishop's province to engage in. He regretted very much that he should be only able to shake hands with but a very few of the friends of the Mission, owing to the brevity of his visit. They must, however, bear in mind that he wrote to them a letter every month in the Morning Calm, and that was probably more frequently than many of their friends at home did. (Laughter.) He was glad to be able to tell them--and he was never weary in saying it—that he had as fine a body of clergy and lay-workers as any Bishop ever pos-sessed. They all worked together with the utmost unanimity. They did not always agree; it would be very dull if they did. (Laughter.) But they all agreed as to their one test, “Will this or that be best for the Coreans, whom we all love equally ?” They were a united people, and with God's blessing, time will show what that work would do. The Chairman having thanked the speakers, Bishop Corfe concluded the meeting with the Benediction. The Guardian, May 8, 1901.   THE MORNING CALM. 67________________________________________ Fourth Triennial Festival. Sermon preached at St. Join the Divine, Kennington, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Corfe, May 3, 1901.

“Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.” --2 Cor. i. II.

1. IT seems to be quite uncertain what particular trouble in Asia it was to which the Apostle is alluding, and his deliverance from which he attributes, under God, to the prayer of the “Church of God in Corinth and the saints in all Achaia.” Perhaps it was the trouble which overtook him in Ephesus, where his preaching, which had caused the Word of God “to grow so mightily,” had raised against him the storm of opposi-tion headed by Demetrius the coppersmith. Or it may have been the more general trouble which befell him in Asia by “the laying in wait by the Jews,” of which he speaks in his farewell address to the elders at Miletus. Or, again, the trouble which “pressed him out of measure,” in which he “despaired of life,” may have been some bodily illness added to his perils and anxieties. 2. But whatever it was, he regards his deliverance as due to the prayers which in their active sympathy they had offered for him. “God did deliver us from so great a death. He is now delivering us. We trust in Him yet to deliver us.” This deliverance he regards as “a gift” bestowed upon him “by the means of the prayers of many persons.” And then he points out the next course which he would have them take. He asks that those who have been instrumental by their prayers in procuring this gift for him shall now offer their eucharists to God that "thanks may be given by many on our behalf.” 3. Then St. Paul bespeaks for himself that which he exhorts Christian men and women to do for others. “I desire that before all things, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men.” It was their perform-ance of this universal Christian duty which increased his “consolation and salvation.” But it is equally clear that the benefits derived from inter-cession were not all on one side. They extended to those who brought as well as to him who received “the gift.” “Blessed be the God of all comfort, who comforteth us, that we may be able to comfort those which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.   68 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ As the sufferings of Jesus Christ abound in us, so our consola-tion aboundeth by Christ. And whether we be afflicted it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer,” Your prayers and thanksgivings have benefited me indeed. “Blessed be God the Father of mercies.” But they are bene-fiting you also, for He is “the God of all comfort.” 4. Three things, then, stand out clearly in the Apostle's mind at the beginning of this letter to the saints at Corinth :-- (i) The efficacy of intercessory prayer; (ii) The necessity of accompanying intercessory prayers with thanksgiving ; (iii) The reactive effect of intercessory prayer upon those who offer it. The same three things might be gathered from many other portions of the Apostle's writings, for he is dealing here not with things and duties which were peculiar to the saints in Corinth, but with principles of universal application. Nor again has he any exclusive affection for the saints in Corinth. Dearly as he loved them he was equally sincere when, in writing to the Church of the Thessalonians, he said : “We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers.” And in writing to the Colossians : “We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.” And to the Philippians: “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy.” And to the Ephesians: “After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints, I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers." 5. No. The Church of God in Corinth was not what might be called "a pet Mission" of the Apostle. He had for his daily burden, indeed, "the care of all the Churches." But at the same time he was enjoying also the communion of all the Churches. They were praying for him and he for them. They were thanking God for all that befell him, and he for all that befell them. Both he and they were all being uplifted and comforted by the effectual prayers and praises which each was offering for the other. 6. The man who does not practise because he does not believe in the efficacy of intercessory prayer, is the man who is not consciously uplifted in his sorrows and in his joys by the prayers of those who are interceding for him. His burden is,   THE MORNING CALM. 69________________________________________ indeed, heavy. He rejects that which will help him most, and the consciousness, namely, that they who are praying for him are also suffering with him, and are having their prayers answered for him and for themselves. True it is that all our prayers meet at the feet of Him Who alone can hear prayer; meet there to receive their answers—"more than we desire or deserve"--from Him Who alone can answer prayer. But the consciousness that God does hear our prayers for each other gives us great assurance of faith and uplifts us with a great flood of sympathy. By the mutual action of praying for others and of being prayed for by others we believe in the Communion of Saints as a permanent factor in our daily lives. We realise more vividly, especially at the Holy Eucharist, that “we are very members incorporate in the mystical Body of Christ." 7. "Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf." It is time to pass from general principles, and the particular application of them supplied us in the text, to the occasion and circumstances which have brought us together to this house of God to-day. Nearly twelve years have passed since the Association of Prayer and Work for Corea was founded by the late Archbishop of Canterbury and myself at the altar of Addington Church. The object of the Association has been that Christian men and women might "help together by prayer" for all the Foreign missionary work of the Catholic Church--for all those, that is to say, who were placed, as St. Paul was placed in Asia and Corinth, to do the work of the Church in her capacity either in the conversion of the heathen or as the nursing mother of her own children, knowing that such mutual prayer would result in "a gift" bestowed alike upon the Church of God and the heathen-a "gift bestowed by means of many persons," in different countries, in different parishes, in different stations of life, in sickness and in health, but all united, as the saints in Corinth and elsewhere were united, having been “called by God unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.’ And to keep alive this apostolate of prayer for the whole Church after the natural surprise and first enthusiasm of the sending forth of a new Mission to Corea should have abated, and in order to revive in others the practice of a duty not always or readily acknowledged--this Association of Prayer bound its members by one rule only; that, namely, which was observed by St. Paul, the rule of daily prayer. Daily prayer--   70 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ not the saying of a collect, not the repetition of any particular form of words, but by the use of any words, or by a single uplifted effort of silent prayer, to beseech God once at least every day that "the kingdoms of this world may become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.” This has been the aim and this the one rule of our Associa-tion. “I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers." For twelve years it has pursued its way amongst Church folk-in the mansions of the wealthy, in the cottages of the poor. (I heard only last week of the death in the workhouse of one of the oldest and most faithful of our members.) And once every three years the daily thanksgivings which always, I trust, accompany the daily prayers have been offered to God in a solemn eucharist by the members of the Association and the friends of the diocese. 8. It is my privilege once more to be present amongst you at the thanksgivings which in this church and in many other churches are being offered to-day “by the means of many persons on our behalf.” Let me say in a few words what God has wrought in my diocese by your “helping together in prayer for us." Although during the last twelve years Corea and Manchuria have, in different parts, been desolated by two great wars, our own people have been untouched and our goods uninjured. Thanks to your prayers and the lovingkindness of our God the work which eleven years ago had not been even begun is now to be seen above ground in four permanent churches, the largest of which has been built mainly by the congregation. Eleven years ago the Mission staff was represented by men who had the power neither of preaching nor of translating the Word of God and the Book of Common Prayer. Now, after eight years of unceasing study of Chinese and Corean, the Sacraments can be administered in the vernacular, whilst a very considerable part of the New Testament, together with a few portions of the Old Testament, have been translated by us, printed at the Mission press, and are being used to day in three of our four churches by eight out of my nine clergy. Twelve years ago the medical work of the Mission was only a dream. For nine years there have been hospitals and dispensaries thronged with patients, who have been treated for the most part gratuitously by fully qualified medical men and professional nurses. Schools and orphanages were alike unthought of eleven years ago. Now one parish has an orphanage for girls; a second parish has a boarding-school for boys and a growing number of day schools in the surround-   THE MORNING CALM. 71________________________________________ ing villages. At my consecration in 1889 I stood alone. Now the members of the Mission staff number twenty-seven, of whom twenty are content to work without salary or the means of providing for sickness and old age. Amongst the adult native Christians (numbering about one hundred) in three of our parishes, as amongst all the clergy and members of the Mission, the greatest unity prevails. In all our parishes the faith, the worship, and the practice of the Church are presented in the same way. We are not distracted with internal divisions. We know no differences of outward observance. The aim of all our people is to receive the Holy Communion every Lord's Day, and their practice is to receive it once a fortnight. Lines of discipline are being laid down amongst a people who have none of those prejudices with which we are familiar in England, who have consequently no difficulty in accepting the Rules of the Prayer-book in the letter as well as in the spirit. But though our native Christians form the bulk of the Church in Corea, the few English and European members of the Church of England have never been neglected. From the first--before the permanent churches were built--rooms were set apart and adapted for Divine worship wherever English Churchmen were found in the country. And in these churches the services once begun have never been discontinued. 9. These are some of the things which God has wrought in Corea and Manchuria during these twelve years, through your prayers and the prayers of our members “helping together for us” throughout the 114 centres of the recognised home of the Association in England, Canada, West Indies, and South Africa. And we are now assembled together to give thanks to. God for the many gifts which have been bestowed upon us “by the means of many persons.” Yet I would have you remember that these prayers have not been offered exclusively for the Church in Corea. We rejoice to know that the whole of the Foreign Mission-field has been made the subject of the daily prayers of the members of the Association. And not only the subject of daily prayers, but also of daily work. For if we pray and give thanks we must needs work--working for those missionary efforts which have a special claim upon our interests, our time, our money. And speaking in this dear church I am bound to acknowledge - and I do so with thankfulness to God - the wisdom of the parochial organisation by which, under the name of the Mission Band, the claims of the Foreign Missions of the Church are placed   72 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ before the parishioners. It is recognised that all Christian people must be missionaries. What Mission each should help with something more than prayer? How that help should be given? are questions to which the Holy Spirit will give the answer for the souls that are “helping together by prayer.” 10. Oh that the whole Church would rise to a practical working belief in this great truth! With the Bible before us, with the practice of the Holy Apostles known to us, with the history of Christendom in its best, its earliest days open to us, is it not wonderful that the Church of God should so long delay to take this solution of all her difficulties? But it can never be until our hearts are enlarged--not only “lifted up,” but enlarged—not only “listed up unto the Lord,” but lifted up in conscious communion with the Lord's people everywhere. More prayers—more prayers on behalf of a greater number of souls--more prayers that the circle of our interests may be widened, and the reality of our interest deepened: this is what the Church of God needs in her children, and this is what the Association of Prayer sets before its members as the privilege of this Christian profession rather than as a rule of daily observance. 11. Are you surprised that I have made no mention of the work done by the Association, or of the work done for Corea and Manchuria by so many devoted friends who are not formally members of the Association ? Work follows as the corollary of prayer. If prayer means anything at all, it means listening to God as much as speaking to Him. All the work which has been done for the diocese by the Hospital Naval Fund, the St. Peter's Foreign Missionary Association, the Education Fund, the Children's Fund, S.P.C.K., S.P.G.--all has been done by men, by women, by children of prayer. We would fain believe that the gifts of time, labour, money, have all been the outcome of prayer. But the gifts have been bestowed upon us by the means of many persons helping together by prayer for us. There is no need then to mention the work of this Association, or of any other. As our needs for money increase we shall appeal to you more earnestly, not for more money, but for more prayer. It may be that you have given Corea as much of your money and time as you ought to give. But by the urgency and the frequency of your prayers the hearts of others   THE MORNING CALM. 73________________________________________ will be opened to give to the work of the Church at home and abroad--others who as yet are strangers to the blessed effect of intercessory prayer. This, then, it is your proud privilege to do--to supply the needs of the Mission-field by the agency of intercessory prayer. And the gifts that come flowing in from all quarters--just when they are wanted—just when they are wanted in response to these daily prayers, will take root downwards and bear fruit upwards, turning the wilderness of the world into a garden of the Lord, making Him the praise and joy of the whole earth. ________________________________________ Association of Prayer and Work for Corea. MRS. WIGRAM has alluded in her report to the changes which the Bishop has made in the work of the Association, changes which appeared necessary owing to the increase of work in the Association, and the still more increasing needs for develop-ment of the Association in view of the growing wants of the Mission. Under the new arrangement Mrs. Wigram remains General Secretary, and will devote herself particularly to what the Bishop has always regarded as the most important work of the Association, the obligation of daily prayer for foreign Missions. It is hoped and expected that members will freely seek her assistance and counsel in the carrying out of this obligation. Miss C. N. Trollope now becomes responsible for what may be called the more directly business side of the Association--e.g. the holding of meetings, collection of money, and work for sales, &c.--and she will be assisted by Miss J. M. Trollope, who will have charge of the Corean curios, and Miss E. L. Trollope of the lantern slides, while Miss Maud Falwasser hopes to develope very largely the Children's Branch of the Association, and Miss Seccombe will look after needlework. This large addition to the working staff of the Association will, it is hoped, result in a corresponding increase in the usefulness of the Association as one of the chief agencies on which the Mission staff in Corea rely for sympathy and aid of a practical kind. Their needs were never more urgent, and the least we, who stay at home, can do is to see that their work is not hampered by the lack of means, or their burden in-creased by anxieties of a financial kind which it is in our power to relieve. ARTHUR G. DEEDES, Vice-President.   74 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ The Bishop's quarterly letter from Corea, so full of interest to us, will be missing in this number of Morning Calm, as he is still journeying back to his diocese; but in its place we shall be helped by reading the sermon he preached on May 3 at the Fourth Triennial Festival, which was celebrated at the Church of St. John the Divine, Kennington. It was a most beautiful and solemn offering of the Holy Eucharist for the needs of the Mission we love, and for ourselves as weak and feeble instruments in the work. The Bishop's presence in England was the greatest help. Only the few who saw him whilst he was here with us know how he toiled and travelled and used every means in his power to bring about a satisfactory plan of work. One of his objects was to rearrange the work of the Secretaries, and in so doing to make a complete separation between the membership of the Association, which carries with it the duties of prayer and endeavour to interest others in Mission work generally, and the subscribers and donors to the Mission funds, who are not necessarily members of the Associa-tion of Prayer and Work. Miss C. N. Trollope is now devoting herself as Work Secretary of the Association, and several other ladies have consented to be responsible for various items of work. Miss Seccombe continues Needlework Secre-tary. Miss J. M. Trollope will have the box of Corean curios, and Miss E. L. Trollope the lantern slides: but Miss C. N. Trollope will receive and forward any application for the same, and give all information about them; she will also send out all quarterly report forms, and when filled in these should be returned with the subscriptions to her. All matters regarding new membership, which means daily prayer for the foreign Mission work of the Church, may be referred to Mrs. H. Wigram, 31 Seymour Street, W. With regard to our Secretaries there are the following additions to be noticed :-- Miss Maud Falwasser takes Miss Coward's place as County Secretary for Hampshire ; this is in addition to her work as Secretary to the Children's Branch, and her old work of Local Secretary for Winchester. She has the grateful thanks and good wishes of the Association for so large an offering of time and work. Hampshire has also a new Local Secretary for Havant in Mrs. Long, and an extra Secretary for Southsea in Miss H. J. Becket. In Hertfordshire Mrs. Cherry has undertaken the work of the Welwyn Branch. The name of the Rev. T. H. Turner, Felton, Bristol, has appeared by mistake as Local Secretary for two or three years past, as he resigned the work some time ago. Three other   THE MORNING CALM. 75________________________________________ localities in Somerset have also been lost to us by the with-drawal or departure of their Secretaries. Miss Burd-Brooks' name as County Secretary for London appeared in the last number of Morning Calm, and we thank her for so promptly taking Miss Trollope's place. The box of Corean curios has been in great request at the various S.P.G. Bicentenary Loan Exhibitions during the last year, and we are told have been much appreciated. So far not many new members have joined the Association, as the result of this great movement to make known the Church's work in foreign parts, but many hundreds of children and adults have now learnt where Corea is, and something about its people and their ways, amongst whom our Bishop and his Mission staff live and work. The Bishop is expected to reach Shanghai on July 5, so we can now think of him as being welcomed by his friends in Corca. From recent letters these special thoughts for intercession are suggested. 1. The Bishop's new scheme for administering to the needs of his diocese. 2. The new Mission House started at Kang hoa, and Sister Margaretta and Sister Rosalie's work amongst the converts and catechumens. 3. For a married priest who, with his wife, will take charge of the parish and schools of Newchwang. 4. For the large and increasing orphan family under Sister Barbara's care. 5. “ For a deeper sense of the need and power of prayer in our efforts to win the world for Christ.” A. WIGRAM, General Secretary.

LIST OF NEW MEMBERS FROM MAY 1901 TO AUGUST 1901. Per Miss Toa Milne SaidMJE Fosberry, Miss Hilda W. Back, Miss Alice Darle, Miss Florence C. Pearce, Mis Harriott C. Bolt, Miss Ethel Smith, Miss Amy Bright; Miss Aunic Streathar -- Smith, Miss Emily Chapman, Miss Beatrice Palmer, Mrs. Glanfield, Miss Hetty Brichta -- Halton, Niis Annie Pearce, the Rev. Duncan Lyne, Miss Bessie Zircon Pearce, Mrs. Newton, Niss Kate Beattie, Miss L. E. East Paksa Tu Foythe Winchester Amery, Frances Cherry: Mr. B. L. Falwasser, Miss Ruth Waters, Jane Emily Cherry, Mrs. B. L. Kennington Gentral Scorzare Por Misr Chambers Hodgetts- Newberry, Mrs. Cecil Garbanati, MN. Lidstong, Miss Garbannti, Miss Everilde Walt, Mis Holliday, Mrs. John Garbannti, Mist Theresa Erder   76 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ LIST OF NEW MEMBERS--continued. Horton, Miss Esther ADULT MEMBERS TRANS- Verucastle Lewin, Mrs. FERRED FROM CHILDREN's Little, Edith Lewin, Miss Mabel Selkirk, Margaret Lewin, Edgar, Sub.-L.t. R.N. BRANCH. Yeats, Ebel Lishman, Miss Helen Meyrick, Miss Eleanor Rawlings, Herbert E. CHILDREN'S BRANCH. Rawlings, Mrs. H. E. Tenburg The Sister Sybilla, D.S.S. Clarke, Lizzie Clarke, Annie Wigrnm, Ernest, Lt. R.N. Foster, Lilian Downes, Mabel Wigram, Kenneth, Lt. and Graves, Maud Mason, Elendor Goorkhns Joyce, G. Michael Droorc, Beatrice

The quarterly reports for July are now coming in, and at the time of going to press (July 7) we have received, in addition to the ordinary subscriptions and donations, offertories from Radlett, Exeter, Moldgreen, Salisbury, Taunton, and Cowley. From Ashburton (Devon) we have received the offertories collected at the Saints' Day Eucharists in June, it being the custom at this church to devote these offerings each month to different Missions, of which Corea is to be one. From the churchwarden of St. John's, Mentone, we have received a portion of the offertories during the winter months, with a note that he wishes to carry out the intentions of the late Canon Sidebotham, who always contributed to the Mission. We are anxious to acknowledge here the proceeds of the Sales of Work held at Bassett, Southsea, and Great Yarmouth, which arrived too late to be inserted in the last number of the Magazine. A grant of £2 has been recently made to Miss Seccombe for the Needlework Fund, and the Embroidery Class have for the first time drawn on the grant of £10 made to it about two years ago. In the February Morning Calm (pp. 16, 20) Mr. Peake asks for a water-bed, and also money for surgical instruments. Subscriptions have been received, and the water-bed has been sent out; a recent gift towards the water-bed arrived too late, and it is suggested, with the consent of the donors, that this money should be used for the surgical instruments. Readers of Mr. Peake's letter will see that any sum is acceptable, and we mention it here in case any reader cares to make a special gift towards the same. CONSTANCE A. N. TROLLOPE. ________________________________________ A letter has been received from Sister Nora, warmly thank-ing all those who contributed to the useful parcel of garments, &c., which reached her in the spring of this year. She has   THE MORNING CALM. 77________________________________________ given a fresh list of the needs of the Hospitals, which our Needlework Secretary will be glad to communicate to any who will write to her on the subject. Amongst other things sheets and pillow cases would be very acceptable. Parcels of clothing are gratefully acknowledged, received from Miss Stephenson, in May 1900 and again in 1901, made by the Mission working party at Weston-super-Mare. Contributions of needlework can be forwarded to anyone intending to hold a Sale of Work for the Mission within the next few months. BLANCHE SECCOMBE. ________________________________________

Hospital Naval fund. Report of the Executive Committee to General Meeting May 22, 1901.

THE Executive Committee have to report with deep regret the recent death of Admiral of the Fleet H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh, who had been a patron of the Hospital Naval Fund from its first beginning, and had always taken the warmest interest in the work of the Mission. Rear-Admiral H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and York has kindly consented to continue his patronage of the Fund. Since the last General Meeting was held, the Hospital Naval Fund has lost the services of the Rev. J. H. Berry as President, on his retirement from the post of Chaplain of the Fleet; an old friend and enthusiastic worker he was always ready to give the Executive Committee the benefit of his wise counsel and direc-tion. To the satisfaction of the Committee, Mr. Berry has consented to become one of the Vice-Presidents of the Fund. The Rev. W. Stuart Harris having succeeded to the post of Chaplain of the Fleet, in becoming the new President, hopes to be able to retain his position as one of the Honorary Secretaries for General Purposes. In consequence of the formation by the Bishop of a Central Committee in England for the purpose of receiving and trans-mitting the various Funds which support the Mission in Corea, the Executive Committee hope that the duties of both the Hon. Treasurer and the Hon. Secretary will thereby be much sim-plified. The Standing Sub-Committee appointed in 1898 to deal with the Executive work in the intervals between the meetings of the   78 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ Executive Committee continues its useful work in preparing and distributing information concerning the Fund. The experiment of having local Secretaries at the Naval Ports, which also began in 1898, is working well, the General Secretary having been able to find local Secretaries, at different times, for eleven ports, and they are now being found for the ships of the Mediterranean and China squadrons. During the outbreak of hostilities in China last summer both the Hospitals in Seoul had to be closed for six months in conse-quence of the Commander-in-Chief having accepted the services of four of the Mission nurses, who volunteered to tend the sick and wounded in the Hospitals of Wei-Hai-Wei. The Committee note this fact with mixed feelings, but are confident that its significance will not be lost upon the members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. The Executive Committee think it unnecessary on this occa-sion to give a detailed account of the work which has been accomplished since the last General Meeting, more especially as the Bishop is again present in person to tell us all about the progress of the work in Corea and what he has done since his return to England, and the members have also received periodically the published reports of the Fund. They would mention, however, that at the last meeting of the Executive Committee the following resolution was proposed and carried unanimously :-- “That this Committee having duly considered the position of the Hospital Naval Fund, and the suggestions conveyed in the Bishop's letter to Mr. Kenah, and having heard from the Bishop personally the course he proposes to pursue for the reorganisa-tion of his funds generally, do hereby approve the same as far as it applies to the Hospital Naval Fund, and resolve to use every means in their power to promote the interests of the Hospital Naval Fund upon the same lines as hitherto.” The Committee sincerely hope that this Resolution and other efforts which are now being employed for obtaining increased support of the Fund will have the desired effect; and the Committee would remind the friends of the Mission that whilst as before, the Bishop promises not to exceed the expenditure upon the two Hospitals which is necessary to keep them main-tained at their present strength, the Hospital Naval Fund has never yet been able to provide anything for the repair of the buildings (which are rent-free) or for the supply of the nurses. We desire to send out £600 a year to Corea, and are confident that we shall receive this support from those in the Naval service   THE MORNING CALM. 79________________________________________ who desire to see this good work (continued now for ten years) placed on a permanent footing. Signed on behalf of the Committee, W.STUART HARRIS, C. E, BAXTER,

________________________________________ The following Report of the Meeting appeared in “ The Times" of May 23, 1901. COREAN HOSPITAL NAVAL FUND.--Vice-Admiral C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald presided at the Triennial General Meeting of the supporters of the Corean Hospital Naval Fund, which was held at the Royal United Service Institution yesterday afternoon. There was a small attendance, including Admiral the Hon. Sir E. Fremantle, Admiral Sir M. Culme-Seymour, Rear-Admiral Castle, Rear-Admiral Henderson, Engineer-in-Chief Sir Albert John Durston, and Chaplain of the Fleet W.S. Harris, to meet the missionary Bishop of Corea (Bishop Corfe), who is paying a visit to England. Letters of regret were received from Rear-Admiral Holland, the Bishop of Stepney, Canon Brooke, Major-General Poore, and others. The Annual Report of the Executive Com-mittee referred to the loss the fund had sustained by the death of Admiral of the Fleet the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and mentioned with satisfaction the continued patronage of Rear-Admiral the Duke of York. The Chairman reminded the meeting that the fund was purely naval, and that it originated amongst the personal friends of the Bishop, who gave up his prospects as a naval chaplain to become a missionary, some ten or eleven years ago. When the Navy put their hands to a thing they generally did it well, and he confidently appealed to them for increased support of the Hospitals at Seoul and Chemulpó. Admiral Sir E. Fre-mantle observed that whatever might be said about Missions, there could be no doubt of the value of hospitals and sanitary science, to which he bore personal testimony as to the Corean Hospitals. Mr. Roderick Campbell, of Shanghai, spoke from twenty-five years' experience of the value of Medical Mission work. Bishop Corfe, who was very warmly welcomed, acknow-ledged the kind references which had been made to his own labours, and while asking for an annual contribution of £600 from the Naval Fund, announced that he proposed to give ￡100 for the benefit of the Hospitals. He said that the hospitals had been closed for six months last year in order that the nursing staff might help in looking after sick and wounded seamen and marines of the British Navy. Admiral Sir Michael Culme-

80 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ Seymour said he had letters from his cousin the Commander-in-Chief speaking in high terms of the good work done by the Bishop, and of the admirable manner in which the Hospitals were conducted. The Medical Mission, it appeared, had success-fully paved the way for other missionary work, inasmuch as for the first seven years there were no baptized converts, while during the last four years there had been more than a hundred. ________________________________________ St. Peter's Community Foreign Mission Association. IT was pleasant to meet many members at the Triennial Festival on May 3, both at St. John's and at the meeting at the Church House. Those who heard Bishop Corfe speak then of the organisation and consolidation of the various funds from which the Mission draws its income will not have been surprised at the appeal shortly afterwards issued to members of the Association, asking if they were willing to respond to the Bishop's request that for the future S.P.F.M.A. should com-plete its support of St. Peter's Hospital, Seoul, by paying for the nurses as well as the doctor, drugs, food, &c. It is too soon yet to announce the result of this appeal, but it is most encouraging to find that in the London Branch alone upwards of £20 was given or promised within the first week of its issue, and there is every reason to hope that the income of the Association may be permanently increased. The arrival of the Sisters in March, and their settlement at Kang Hoa in the end of May, is now a matter of history, and the keenest interest follows them in their various branches of work, whether visiting, teaching, or in the Orphanage, which seems to meet a great need. There are now thirteen inmates, who are developing into healthy, intelligent children. There is no change of Secretaries to report, but it is with great pleasure that we announce the formation of a new Branch at Halifax, of which the Secretary is a member of St. Luke's Branch, and the nucleus is formed by a boys' league, who have banded themselves together to work for a Mission, and have chosen that to Corea We hope much from this small beginning. In the future the Halifax Branch may possibly itself send out a worker in Corea from this contingent of earnest lads. It is not too soon to begin working for the Bazaar stall; the holiday season gives leisure, and many are glad of an object for their work; anything and everything will be welcome.   THE MORNING CALM. 81________________________________________ The Secretary has a few of the new issue of Corean stamps at 6d., 9d., and 1s. each, according to value. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE, Secretary S.P.F.M.A. ________________________________________ Central Committee for the Diocese of Corea. THE Central Committee (a list of the members of which appears for the first time in this issue, and to which the Bishop refers in his letters) was formed in England, in order that the Diocesan Committee, to be formed in Corea, might have a representative body to whom they could address appeals to be laid before the proper authorities. It was further understood that the Central Committee would be called upon to advise on legal, literary, and general business matters. The funds of the various agencies in connection with the Mission will be paid over to its treasurer, and will ultimately go to the S.P.G. It is intended that the Diocesan Committee should send to the Central Committee annually an estimate of their proposed expenditure for the following year under the various headings, and this estimate is to be considered and dealt with by the Central Committee. The first meeting of the Committee was held on May 22 last, the chair being taken by Bishop Mitchinson, when Bishop Corfe explained the objects for which the Committee was formed. It was decided that the Committee should have power to add to their number, and an advisory Committee, consisting of Canon Brooke, Mr. T. Percy Fox, and Mr. F. G. Champernowne, was appointed to assist Mr. A. N. Radcliffe, the Hon. Secretary, in the work. ________________________________________ Bishop Corfe's Portrait. THIS picture, which is alluded to on page 55 of the May number of Morning Calm, is to find a permanent home at St. Michael's College, Tenbury. It has been suggested that before the picture is sent away from London we should have an engraving taken of it by Messrs. Walton & Co., Shaftesbury Avenue, who have been so successful with portraits of naval officers. Negotiations have been entered into, and if we can get a guarantee of 70 subscribers at 15s. each we can give the order, and if more copies are sold the proceeds will be devoted to the funds of the Mission. Mrs. H. Wigram will be glad to receive the names of intending subscribers. A list of subscribers' names will be published in the next issue of Morning Calm.

  82 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ Correspondence. Ⅰ. CHEMULPÓ: March 21, 1901. DEAR MR. EDITOR, I herewith send you a few more photographs which you may find interesting enough for the pages of Morning Calm. During the winter I have not been able to do much in the way of photography, but after Easter I am hoping to get to Kang Hoa for a ten days' visit, when there will be heaps of

1.-KANG HOA FOOTBALL TEAM.

photographs to take and plenty of interest to write about. The photographs enclosed are as follows:-- I. The Kang Hoa School football team, which has been carefully trained for some years by Rev. G. A. Bridle. The boys play a very good game, and after a little more training would be quite capable of taking part in some of the league matches in England. They are indeed by no means to be despised as football players. I only wish they could be induced to play cricket, too, but this game they unaccountably seem to funk. II. Part of our Corean house in the Chemulpó compound. Here, Rev. H. H. Firkins day by day instructs the four   84 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ catechumens who are preparing for baptism next Whitsuntide. At Chemulpó we have at present four Christians (two men and two women, who have migrated from Kang Hoa), and four catechumens. They are regular in their attendance at the various services, and especially diligent in their Sunday duties. All seem to take great pleasure in making the Sunday mass as dignified as possible. At present part of the service is said

IV.-ORPHAN GIRIS, TYENG TONG.

in Corean and part in English. I hope by Whit-Sunday to take the whole of the service, with the exception of the Canon proper, in Corean. One of the catechumens plays the organ for the hymns in place of the introit and gradual, while one leading Christian is thurifer, and a little Japanese boy acts as boat boy, arrayed in scarlet cassock and cotta. We hope to sing the whole service as soon as it is possible to give sufficient instruction.   86 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ III. A Corean Tomb.--I believe I am right in saying that formerly (some say 1,000 years ago) when a Corean nobleman died, slaves were taken to the tomb and killed and buried with him, in order that their spirits might attend upon the departed gentleman in the world beyond. Lately this custom was changed, and images of boys were buried in the same grave. Later still this custom, too, was changed to the present one, in which these stone figures are erected on either side of the grave. On the upright stone are written the name and offices and position of the deceased, while in front is the sacrificial stone, and in front of that a still smaller stone, in which a brazier is placed with incense burning therein -- verily a “still” use. IV. Here are two of the orphans (girls) cared for by the Sisters at Tyeng Tong Soul. I am sorry I do not know their names, and one has unfortunately moved. V. This is taken outside St. Michael's, Chemulpó, and is of Bishop Corfe and “Tommy,” one of the Kang Hoa boys of whom the Kang Hoa authorities have great hopes. He is a clever bright boy, but not quite as strong as could be wished. You will probably hear more of him as the years pass by. VI. A Corean mat (or at least half of one). These mats are made at Kang Hoa and are really very pretty, being of grass and dyed different colours. There was a scheme to teach the boys at Kang Hoa this industry, and so give some employment to them, and also aid in their support I may say that this special form of mat-making is peculiar to Kang Hoa. Hoping, Mr. Editor, that these few photographs will be of interest to you and the readers of Morning Calm, Believe me, Yours very truly, SYDNEY J. PEAKE. ________________________________________ Il.

CHEMULPÓ: April 17, 1901. DEAR MR. EDITOR, Having had an opportunity of spending a few days (including a Sunday) at Kang Hoa City, I thought it might be of interest to the readers of Morning Calm if I gave you some impressions of my visit Arriving at the city on the evening of Easter Day, I found that the various members of the Mission there were somewhat   THE MORNING CALM. 87________________________________________ fagged after the late st ain of Holy Week and Easter Day. This is explained by the fact that a great deal of work was necessary in the final preparation of the catechumens who were admitted to baptism on Easter Eve, and in the very careful additional prepara-tion of the various communicants for their Easter Day Com-munion. Mr Trollope had been especially busy in some special translation work for the Good Friday and Easter Day services. You will not be surprised, therefore, to learn that Easter Monday was decided upon as a holiday for the members of the Mission as well as for the boys in the school. It was a gloriously warm day. and we all started for a Buddhist monastery about three miles distant, where we camped and had our food, wandering about amongst the hills, picking flowers, looking for a Royal tomb of the late dynasty, and otherwise enjoying ourselves. I should have said that the Holy Eucharist (choral) had been offered in church at 7 o'clock, being preceded by Matins as far as it has been translated. We returned to Evensong at the church by 4 o'clock. These services have been fairly well attended throughout the Easter Octave by such members of the church as live in the city. On Low Sunday I was privileged to be present at the new church for the first time on a Sunday. The service commenced with Corean Matins at 6 o'clock, followed at 6.30 by the special preparation of communicants. At 7 o'clock, the church being well filled, the Litany was sung: this has lately been revised and the Corean much improved, preceded by a Procession. Then fol-lowed the Holy Eucharist, Mr. Bridle celebrating, Mr. Badcock, as deacon, and Mr. Trollope at the organ. I was able to enter much more intelligently into the Corean service on this occasion, as with Mr. Bridle's able assistance I had gone through nearly the whole of the Mass during the past week, and therefore understood much more than formerly. Mr. Trollope preached immediately after the Gospel, and the Coreans appeared to be very attentive during his discourse. The sermon ender, the catechumens were dismissed, and the service proceeded to the usual conclusion. A mid-day service is held on Sundays for catechumens and for Engineers. Though I was not down at the church to see, I understand these services are remarkable for the large number of attendances ; Mr. Badcock has apparently done much by stirring up the people in the neighbouring villages during his various journeys each week, and perhaps there will be a great ingathering of Coreans to the Church during the next few years. At times, they say, in dealing with Coreans, one, becomes much depressed. They are so hopeless and muddle-   88 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ headed. It is so difficult to know what is “meat” and what “milk"; I should think a long milk diet must suffice for many years to come ; but then the question arises again, and it is a difficult one to answer : What is “meat” and what is “milk”? The school and the school work seems to be the best way of solving the difficulty. In the school there are some twenty boys, and these boys are being carefully trained. The doctrine is allowed to soak in, and their education in Chinese and Corean carefully looked after, while their moral and spiritual training is the especial care of the Rev. G. A. Bridle, who is doing his work in an admirable manner, and has completely won the confidence and affection of the boys. He also looks after their general well-being and spares himself in no way. Though Mr. Trollope says very few of these boys are at all likely to show any signs of becoming catechists, yet we may hope that one or perhaps two from this school will be able to take up that definite work. Whether they become catechists or not, I feel convinced that the training which they are now receiving in the school at Kang Hoa will leave such an indelible mark upon their lives that they will affect the lives of those amongst whom they live and work here-after, whether that work be purely work for the Church, or work for the Church which they unconsciously perform in the following of their duties in after life as farmers, servants, in the printing office, or elsewhere. If you take two boys from the school and any two heathen boys you may find and place them side by side, I feel perfectly certain that from their faces alone even a stranger lately arrived from England could point out the difference and pick out the two Christian boys. There is a something in the faces which makes this striking difference, a difference which, I am convinced, is due, and due alone, to the grace of God which they have received. Please don't think I am trying to picture these school boys as "saints," or goody-goody boys; they are nothing of the kind, but are as full of mischief as any other boys, and as either Mr. Trollope or Mr. Bridle would say, cause an endless amount of anxiety and worry. But they are boys who have received the grace of God and are growing and will grow in grace, and a Christian character is now being formed in them which will be found to develop into the perfect Christ-like character. Mr. Editor, some people are inclined to regard this school in the light of a plaything, saying it is all very well to give the missionaries something to do. I can't help thinking that they are entirely wrong. Whether we get many native catechists from amongst these boys or no, is not to the point.   THE MORNING CALM. 89________________________________________ The school is primarily to train the boys as Christian boys should be trained, and if any are found fit for a higher work for the Church we must be devoutly thankful. But for my own part I sincerely hope the school will go on and flourish though none of the present twenty boys should turn out fit for special work as catechists, I hope I have not given the impression that this school work is the only work which is going on. There is much more than this doing at Kang Hoa. The whole day long Mr. Trollope is being called upon to interview Coreans, either inquirers or those who have been admitted catechumens, or in instructing the faithful either collectively or individually, and by patient work is getting in many adherents. Mr. Badcock, too, is travelling weekly to neighbouring villages and islands, and is causing many to become inquirers. I think that we may look forward at no very great distant date to the time when the Church will be strongly established, certainly in an infant condition, yet firmly rooted, in the Island of Kang Hoa. I had hoped, Mr. Editor, to have enclosed herewith photo-graphs of the interior of the church, but unfortunately I cannot induce the Japanese photographers here to sell me any plates, so I shall be obliged to wait until some arrive from Shanghai. But I promise you a photograph of the interior as soon as possible. Yours very truly SYDNEY J. PEAKE. ________________________________________ Children's Corner. DEAR CHILDREN, I think this is the first time that there has ever been a letter written especially to you in Morning Calm, and it is certainly the first letter that most of you have ever had from me, your new Secretary. As I write I have by me a book with all your names in it; there are more than 100 of you who have promised to pray every day for all Foreign Missions, and especially for Corea. I wish I could get to know you all, but, as some of you live as far away as South Africa, I am afraid we shall not be able to meet; so I hope instead to write you a letter in every Morning Calm, and tell you something more about the Corean people, for whom you are praying every day. I saw the Bishop when he was in England, and he talked to me about his children members, and was so sorry that he had not time to see them all.   90 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ I know how glad he will be to see that seven who have been members of the Children's Branch for a good many years are still being faithful to their rule of daily prayer, and are now joining our Adult Branch of the Association. Those of you who have helped so much by sending money that you have collected for the Mission will like to know that I am just sending £10 out to Corea for the Children's Cot in St. Peter's Hospital. You will remember that you bought that cot with your own money, and what you send me now provides for the care of little Corean children, who use your cot, and are well looked after in the Hospital. I wonder whether many of you have been to one of those large Missionary Exhibitions which have been held lately in so many parts of England ; there was one in Exeter, to which I expect some of you went, and there you will have seen curios from all parts of the world. There were some very interesting things from Corea: perhaps you saw the funny clothes that the people wear, the pillows they use, and the money, which is so heavy that if they take much about with them they want one or two ponies to carry it. Then there were a few very pretty photographs of the Corean children; if you have not seen these and would like to look at them you must write and tell me, or ask your local Secretary to write, and I will send them to you. You must take great care of them, and send them back again for others to see. In my next letter I shall tell you more about the Corean children, so that you will see how your prayers for them are being answered, and that we want many more children to keep our one rule of daily prayer, so as to make that chain which you see on your card of membership a very much stronger one than it is already. I am, Always your affectionate friend, MAUD I. FALWASSER. Newlands, East Liss, Hants : July 1901. ________________________________________

The Spirit of Missions.

“ But, observe, Christian Missions must be the work of a Christian people and of a Christian Church. From such the first Mission in the Acts of the Apostles issued. From such Missions must issue now. Some complaints may be true. One friend has told me that we have had too much worrying by   THE MORNING CALM. 91________________________________________ reiterated sermons. Another has spoken of touting for Missions by rather childish agencies, and another of an objection to meetings patronised by distinguished persons. At all events, many as our sermons may be and diffuse as no doubt they are, we do not realise our duty as we should. A taste for Missions is not a singular and extravagant fad like one for orchids or collecting various sorts of sherries or postage-stamps. It is an integral part of the duty of the Church, as a Church and of Christians as Christians. Out of the depth of penitence, obedience following on the sacramental life, personal love to Christ, must the tree grow which is to gather all nations under the shadow of its branches. Unless and until that, though the seed be the seed of heaven, the tree it produces will be a Japanese tree of baby stature three or four feet high, arms which should be so mighty dwarfed into inches, and the root which should go down to the deeps cabined in a painted box: the Church will become as it was when one great Englishman spoke of it as an institution as purely local as the Court of Common Pleas, and another as a department of the Home Office.”— The Archbishop of Armagh.

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A notable and thankworthy outcome of the troubles in China is the creation of a new See, Shantung, for North China. An anonymous donor has given £1,000 towards its endowment, and S.P.G. is helping largely from the Bicentenary Fund. And in the meantime we hear of Chinese Christians living faithful lives in all parts of the world, through whose instrumentality it may not be presumptuous to hope that the complete conversion of their great empire may be effected. The wife of a missionary, who was making a somewhat adventurous journey in the interior of Borneo, found at Beaufort

“ a small band of Chinese Christians who had fled from the persecutions in China to the more stable government of the British North Borneo Company. These were visited, and at the time seemed rather uncomfortable and unhappy, but on Mrs. Perry's return from the interior, two months later, they were found bright and cheerful, with flourishing gardens full of vegetables, and so content at heart that one of the women was returning to China to tell the good news, and to bring back with her some thirty or forty more emigrants. Once more the need of a really good Chinese catechist was shown.”   92 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ The Bishop of Singapore, in his report to S.P.G., speaks “with much thankfulness of the Chinese Christian immigrants to Kudat, to whom the Society's missionary, Mr. Richards, is a true shepherd of souls. I hope that in the future we shall be able to draw our supply of Hakka Chinese teachers from this source; the prospect of doing so seems nearer and clearer, since Mr. Richards has been able in the past year to build an excellent boys' school on his Mission ground, which will, I hope, lead to the educa tional work being of a higher quality than before.”

In another part of the same report the Bishop tells us of the missionary zeal of another body of body Chinese Christians : “In the town of Kuala Lumpur, in Selangor, there are many Chinese who are old pupils of the S.P.G. Mission School in Sarawak. I am happy to be able to say that they have won the goodwill of their employers by their excellent conduct and their efficiency as clerks, &c. They all speak, read, and write English exceedingly well, and are themselves accustomed to attend the services of the Church, when English is the language used. During my last visit to the place they met me, as usual, for a con-ference in the church, and there they told me they had a request to make. They had seen with pleasure the growth of the Tamil congregation under Mr. Vethavanam, the Tamil missionary, and they much desired that Mission work should be commenced among their own heathen fellow-countrymen in Selangor, and they asked me to send a catechist to begin with. I replied that I should be glad to do so, but did not know where the salary was to come from, as my funds were all exhausted. They then said that they had already considered that question among themselves, and they wished it to be understood that they would be responsible for finding the money. They after-wards held a meeting and passed formal resolutions to the same effect, a copy of which they forwarded to me, accom-panied by excellent suggestions as to the method which they believed it would be best for the catechist to adopt in beginning his work. Fortunately there is in Mr. Richards' congregation at Kudat a man who will, we think, be suitable, and I am expecting him by the next steamer.”   THE MORNING CALM. 93________________________________________ One of the most interesting speeches at the concluding Bicentenary meeting in London in June last was made by the first Japanese native priest of our Church, the Rev. J. Toshimichi Imai. After describing the religious situation in Japan, he went on to say :-- “ The last point of the difficulties might be called natural hindrances. Western travellers talked of clear skies, beautiful flowers, picturesque dress, charming man-ners; but these were only travellers who stayed in Japan for half an hour. Anyone who stayed long in the land was sure to feel the exhausting effect of the climate, whether in hot summer or in wet season. His will would be affected more or less, his constitution would be weakened, and it required strong self-denying spirit to carry on the work in activity and zeal. A generation had not yet passed since the Church of England began to work, but many valuable lives were shortened by premature death amidst their noble works, many vigorous minds and bodies were disabled by gradual weakening of the consti-tution. An English friend one day told him that Japan was just as good a place for martyrs as Central Africa, and he quite agreed with the remark. But what had been the result notwithstanding the difficulties? There were of the Anglican communion six Bishops, fifty-one missionaries, fifteen lay-workers, seventy-two ladies, all drawn from England and America. In addition to these there were twenty-six priests, eighteen deacons, 137 catechists, and sixty female workers, who were all Japanese and were working with foreign workers hand in hand. And there were nearly 9,000 native converts attached to seventy-five churches and 138 out-stations, all being bound together in one native Church with its own constitution and synods. There were grave reasons to strengthen the Society's work. It was often noticed that people in the West talked or wrote about the ‘yellow peril,’ but he would like to ask if they ever thought of the ‘white peril’ in the far East--he meant the Western materialistic civilisation which would utterly destroy the old morality and introduce new evils and corruptions. If in the Far East Japan took the lead in an unchristian civilisation, it was really most serious : and surely she would, if left alone to take in all the materialistic civilisation from the West, as she was doing now with such rapidity. She even now, said, after seeing the sad and dreadful deeds recently done in China, that the   94 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ Japanese were better than some of the European allies. The facts would have proved more fatal to Christianity if English soldiers in China and South Africa did not show them in Japan that there were better and truer samples of Christian characters. Non-religious Europeans would ferment this ‘white peril,’ unless the Church and her faith-ful sons stirred themselves up to prevent or redeem Japan from such a danger.”

Very weighty words also were those uttered by the Metro-politan of India, Dr. Welldon. We quote from the Guardian report: -- “ He spoke of the difficulty of evangelising the great and sorrowful country from which he came. When he went out to India he had no conception of the gulf between the East and the West. He was not sure that he could have gone had he known it. It had been forced upon his mind every week of his life in Bengal. Although it was true that something, and perhaps a good deal, had been done by travel, by commerce, and by education to bring the East and the West a little nearer together, yet in his heart he believed that the gulf fixed between them was almost as profound and almost as impassable as ever. If he had ever felt that the East and the West might become one it was when he had seen in a little Mission church Europeans and natives kneeling side by side in the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ. He was not sure that English people realised what the cost of conversion was to a native of India. Henry Martyn made the remark that the con-version of the first Brahmin to Christianity was as great a miracle as the raising of the dead. It was said by Dr. Duff that the attempt to enter zenanas in India--an attempt which, thank God, had been successful--was like an attempt to scale a wall five hundred feet high. When he (the Bishop) went out to Calcutta the Bengali Christians were good enough to present him with an address. Among those Christians was a well-known gentleman who was kind enough to say that it must have been a little hard for the Bishop to leave England for India. That gentleman had been for twenty years a Christian, and during all that time he had been utterly cut off from his own family and kindred. His mother, who lived almost in the next street to him, had never spoken to him during that time, and : every letter that he had addressed to her in those twenty   THE MORNING CALM. 95________________________________________ years had been returned to him unopened. If it were not for the express command of our Lord Himself, he (the speaker) would shrink from asking the high caste people of India to make the sacrifice involved in becoming Christians. When he reflected on what the cost of conversion was, he was astonished not at the paucity of Christians but at the number of them. In Bengal there was a society of educated Hindoos who were called Baboos. He sometimes wondered if Christians in England realised with what acute vigilance these Baboos watched the course of events in this country. They were enemies of Christianity. They dis-liked it, not so much as a religion but as a disruption and, indeed, a subversion of their whole social system, and they were every day on the look-out for some fault among Christians at which they might point the finger of scorn. Some months ago he was sitting waiting for a train at the station of Serampore, where Carey lived and died, and there came and sat by his side a native gentleman, a rajah, who entered into conversation with him. He told the Bishop that he thought that he was too sanguine in his view of the prospects of Christianity in India, and he added that if the lives of Christians in India were better than they were the process of conversion would be much easier, After these remarks this native Hindoo gentleman, who would scorn the idea of becoming a Christian, said, 'What do you think of the Round-table Conference?' That would suffice to show that there was in India, or at least in Bengal, a body of men who had been educated upon Western lines, who were endowed with singularly subtle intellects, and who spent themselves in trying to prove that Christianity was more a profession than a practice, or at all events that it was a practice not superior to the practices of other religions in the world.”

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Father Puller gives in the Cowley Evangelist an account of the work among the “Ethiopians,” to which he has been called by the Bishop of Grahamstown. It will be remembered that this large body of African schismatics expressed a desire to join the Church, and that the Bishops of the Province laid down certain conditions prior to their admission. One of these was that their teachers should receive Episcopal ordination after adequate instruction in the doctrines of the Church. Their leader, James Dwané, has now been made a deacon, and   96 THE MORNING CALM. ________________________________________ Father Puller's work is to instruct those who may in turn become teachers of their own people. He has settled at Queenstown, where there is a large native location, and has as his assistant the Rev. John Xaba, a native priest of the Diocese of St. John's, Kaffraria. He writes : --

“ The thirteen Ethiopians with whom I am living, and to whom I am lecturing, are delightful people. They drink in all that I say, taking most copious notes, which they afterwards copy out into exercise-books. They are thoroughly in earnest, being prayerful, and imbued with a missionary spirit, and most anxious to assimilate the teaching of the Church. They live together in great simplicity and brotherly love. . . . There are about 4,000 natives in the location. I am the only white man there. “ One of my Ethiopian pupils said lately to Xaba, 'I am perfectly happy now. I feel sure that the Church of England is in possession of the truth. Even if the Ethiopian Order were to come to nothing, it will be a joy to me to belong to the Church and to work for her.' The men are immensely impressed with the Eucharistic service. It is the revelation to them of a higher kind of worship than anything of which they had ever dreamed. Their delight in the service is all the more satisfactory in that we have nothing but the barest necessaries. The Mission chapel in the location is of the most unadorned character.”