Morning Calm v.24 no.137(1913 Jul.)

The bishop's Letter.

(To the Readers of MORNING CALM.)

MY DEAR FRIENDS, - My last letter was written from Chin-Chun, where I had just arrived to spend a fortnight with Fr. Hewlett and his colleagues. And the month which has since elapsed has been a pretty busy one. At Chin-Chun, where Dr. and Mrs. Laws entertained me with their accustomed hospitality in the hospital premises adjoining the church and clergyhouse, my movements were a good deal hampered by the Spring rains, which have been unusually late and unusually heavy this year. Indeed on my first day out with Fr. Hewlett an excellent companion under such circumstances-it rained nearly all the way through our walk of about twenty-five miles. As most of the little streams, which one has to keep constantly crossing, were in flood and bridgeless, I found it simplest to take off my boots and stockings and tramp part of the way in my bare feet. And one felt that it was quite worth while doing when one found that some at least of the Confirmation candidates had tramped an even longer distance in the opposite direction to meet me and to receive the laying-on of hands. With all their tiresome ways (and I suppose that all Westerners find Orientals more or less tiresome at times) certainly many of our Coreans put one to shame with the tremendous earnestness they shew in their spiritual concerns. Not many people in England would walk thirty miles through the rain for their confirmation. I see that Bishop Stiff has some very illuminating remarks in the Mission Field on the contradictory features in Chinese life - presenting such a mixture of what is, from our point of view, praiseworthy and blameworthy - and in this respect the Corean is not much unlike the Chinese, though the fault, in part at least, doubtless lies with our own artificial and conventional standards of judgment. Altogether I confirmed nearly 150 candidates in Chin-Chun and its outlying chapelries, and ended my visit with a very happy Ascension Day, when, at Dr. Law's request and attended by the whole congregation. I went in solemn procession, before the sung eucharist, and blessed the Ay-in Hospital, which is doing such a great work for the sick and suffering throughout the whole province and which is now mercifully out of debt. Just before leaving Chin-Chun I received a visit from the Koun-su, or prefect, a typical Corean of quite the old style, who spoke most warmly of the work of Dr. Laws and the hospital. I cannot part from Chin-Chun without expressing my great gratification at the marked revival and extension which has recently taken place there, and which is largely due, under Fr. Hewlett's guidance, to the enterprise of the Christians themselves. He has also started a self-denial and self-support scheme which gives every promise of great success, as I am sure it is based on the right lines. One difficulty about raising funds from our native Christians lies in the fact that, except in big towns and on market days, money, in the shape of coins, plays a very small part in their lives. Throughout the country districts still, as in old days everywhere, wealth consists in grain and especially rice-and over the stores of this in any given house the women folk, who do all the cooking and preparation of food, have the control. Fr. Hewlett therefore hit on the plan of supplying each Christian household with a special bag, into which, on fast days and other occasions of self-denial, they were to place a spoonful or more of the rice put out to be cooked for the day's meals. The bags were all collected at Easter and brought into Chin-Chun, where their contents were sold in the market and realised the considerable sum of $50, over and above the usual alms and offerings. It is hoped to repeat this every quarter. And if this, or anything like this, sum is regularly obtained, it would practically solve the question of the financial support of a native priest in the district, so soon as we are able to provide one. I was to have spent the Sunday after Ascension Day (May 4) at Fusan, the seaport at the southern end of Corea, where we have such a flourishing church of Japanese Christians. But when on Saturday I had traversed the twenty-five miles which separates Chin-Chun from the railway. I found to my chagrin that the railway time-table had been altered on the first of the month, and that there was no means of covering the journey of 200 miles to Fusan that day. I had therefore to telegraph postponing my visit until May 13, when I rushed down for one night and spent a happy evening there, confirming six men and three women (Japanese) and incidentally saying goodbye to Miss Elrington (who has now started home on her furlough, via Siberia) and welcoming Miss Grosjean, who landed safely at Fusan (on her return from her furlough) almost half an hour before I started on the return journey to Seoul. The feast of Whitsuntide, and the greater part of the week previous, I was glad to be able to spend in Seoul, after an absence of nearly a month, holding Confirmation in Seoul itself on WhitSunday and in Chemulpo on Monday in Whitsun week; while on Wednesday and Thursday of the previous week I paid a delightful visit to the village of Poung-nam-ni, beautifully situated on the Han River, about ten miles outside the east gate of Seoul. This is the one important piece of country work dependent on our Seoul Church and seems both healthy and thriving. The occasion of my visit was the benediction of the more spacious chapel, with which the Christians have succeeded in providing themselves, to take the place of the tiny prayer room, which they have hitherto used, and which, being about twelve feet square, was no longer adequate to hold the fifty odd Christians who now habitually meet there. The new Chapel, being full twenty-four feet long and sixteen feet across (about the size of the vestry at St. Albans, Birmingham), seemed almost incredibly roomy! On Saturday, May 16, I came to spend a fortnight with Frs. Gurney and Weston in my old home, Kanghwa -surely one of the beauty spots of Corea. It was a great pleasure to find oneself again in the Church of SS. Peter and Paul on Trinity Sunday, when I confirmed fifty candidates, while an equal number are waiting for my arrival at the end of this week at Ou-Su-Dong in the southern end of the island. The country, in its spring garb, is looking its best, and I am glad to find both the clergy and the lady workers - Miss Borrowman, Miss France and Miss Packer-all well and happy. At the end of the month I expect to get back to Seoul, where I hope to be joined early in June by all the priests of the Mission for conference on a variety of important topics. You will be glad to hear, if I have not told you before, that Sr. Edith Helena is safely back in Seoul after her furlough, while brave old Sr. Nora has gone off all by herself across the Yellow Sea, to spend a month's well-earned holiday with old friends at Chefoo, on the China coast. Meanwhile Fr. Hodges, having relinquished the pastoral charge of the district, entrusted to him for the last year, has gone off to Japan to visit Fr. Kelly of the S.S.M., who is hard at work in the new Theological College of the Japanese Church in Tokyo, and to see what wrinkles he can pick up for our own Training College, which will, we hope, be open by the beginning of next year. You will remember how full of importance this step is going to be future of the Church in Corea, and will, I hope, give it a prominent place in your prayers for us. Yours very truly in Our Lord MARK Bishop in Corea. KANGHWA COREA, May 20, 1913.

The Bishop's Letter.

For some reason that is not at present clear, nothing, with the exception of the Bishop's Letter, has come from Corea for publication in this issue of MORNING CALM. Possibly the local correspondent has omitted to add ‘via Siberia' to the address, and the packet may therefore have gone by the long route. Subscribers to the magazine will perhaps overlook the absence of the usual amount of Corean news and be content with a fuller record of the Festival than they would other-wise have had. The Festival. IN some ways our Festival was a great encouragement, in others it left something to be desired. The services we feel might be a little better attended. Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, is a large building to fill, and a small congregation looks lost. We depend, and must do so perhaps, upon our London supporters to make the Festival a success, but at the same time we do look for a visit from our country helpers on this one occasion. We have to thank Mr. Burgess, the conductor of the Gregorian Association, for the admirable way in which he managed the music at Christ Church. We did not, after all, sing “Missa Simplex," since, owing to copyright difficulties, the publishers could not allow it to be sung in England until it was also available for use in America. Mr. Royle Shaw's edition of Merbecke was employed, and the choir of priests did their part with much credit. It is perhaps a little disappointing to find only half the number of those who promised their aid actually present on the day, but it is always difficult for the parochial clergy to keep engagements punctually. Mr. Bowlby's excellent sermon we print in full in another column. The collection was something over ₤18. In the evening of the same day the Tableaux were presented at St. John's Institute, Westminster. The hall was crowded with an enthusiastic audience who thoroughly appreciated the really beautiful pictures of Corean life that had been arranged by Miss Folkard and grouped by Mrs. Ward. The stage management was in the capable hands at Mr. Frank Hard. Too much praise cannot be given to them for the excellent results of their labours. We sincerely thank them and the company who represented the characters, as well as those who made music with such credit to themselves while giving pleasure to those who heard them; we thank them and shall shew our appreciation by asking them to be kind enough to undertake the production of another set of pictures next year. The grouping and colouring of the scenes were delightfully artistic, and the audience surely went away with a very good idea of what Corean life was like. The receipts were rather over ₤20. The Annual General Meeting was not quite up to what we have become accustomed to in the last few years. Probably the drop in numbers was accounted for by the necessity of holding the Festival earlier in the year and also by reason of our having the services and meetings on successive days. Next year we hope to revert to the former custom. The collection at the General Meeting was about ₤18. We are grateful to Mr. G. W. E. Russell and to Admiral Fremantle for speaking for the Mission and of course to the Bishop of London for his continued interest and support. Annual Report. The Annual Report as it appeared this year will be improved upon text. More attention will be paid to the record of the work done by the Auxiliary Agencies of the Mission at Home. Some of our friends have asked why it is that we do not publish a full list of all contributions in our Annual Report. We do not do so because all such amounts are already acknowledged in detail every quarter, as they are received, in MORNING CALM. This satisfies the auditors, who are a prominent city firm, and at the same time saves the Mission funds a considerable sum of money. The Executive Committee feel that they have the general consensus of opinion in favour of this method and hope that it will meet with the approval of all our contributors. Income. We are able to report good progress, thanks to many generous gifts. Every year brings us some gift which gives a great and unexpected lift to the income. In 1911 it was a splendid one of £500 "In memory of Canon Brooke": last year it was £250 per the Bishop of London. Already this year we have to acknowledge the receipt of a sum of £200 from one kind friend. Of this amount £150 is for the rebuilding of the Orphanage, towards which the Bishop may possibly decide to accept the recommendation of the Executive Committee and allocate a legacy from the late Miss Bannister of £50: in which case the difficulty of meeting the unexpected increase in the estimate for the rebuilding will have been met. Laus Deo. The Organising Secretary has received over £1,400 for the first half year, which is not quite half of the total sum required for 1913, but it is an increase on last year of well over £500 for the same period. This of course includes all contributions from A.P.W., H.N.F. and from the St. Peter's Sisters. The Appeal. With the June "Leaflet" a copy of an Appeal issued by the Executive Committee was sent out. Many copies have also been circulated by the Organising Secretary and his new Assistant, Miss Folkard. The response has been modestly good! A total sum of £255 7s. has been received as a direct result, and we are most grateful for it ; but, please remember that £200 of this comes from one generous giver-the sum already alluded to. The Boxes. The unique collecting boxes instituted last year are a source of considerable gain to the funds. They have produced over £25 already this year. Many holders in sending up the contents regret that they are so small; so do we of course, but collectors should bear in mind that boxes are provided for the express purpose of picking up these crumbs. The method of emptying them once a quarter, though tiresome and to some seemingly unnecessary, is an excellent tonic really ; for it keeps the box in the forefront of one's thoughts! And possibly the small sums that are now sent quarterly accompanied by an apology for their size would appear in the same midget form annually if they were asked for annually ! Not all of the holders are kind enough to respond to the request for the contents of their box. Of the 225 or more holders some 160 have taken no notice of the reminder sent to them. If this should perchance meet the eye of some erring friends, perhaps they will hasten to open their box and remit the contents. Autumn Sales. "Autumn Sales" as a phrase would seem to savour of bargains and crowds. That is exactly what we have got and what we hope to get ! The bargains will be there ; for a large consignment of Corean works of Art and Corean Antiques is on its way to England for the Combined Sale at the Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, in November. Mrs. Napier Trollope is in charge of it and is ready to receive goods to stock the stall such as are described in the leaflet accompanying this issue. Mrs. Besley is open to receive similar gifts for the H.N.F. hall of the stall. Working parties will please make a note of what things “go” best and every one will make a note of the date and come and buy and get the bargains offered. There are many things among the Corean goods that will make excellent Christmas presents. At the same time the sale organised by the Sisters needs support. Sister Helen Constance refers to this in another column. Exhibition and Curios. The work that Mrs. Cooper is doing for the Mission as Exhibition Secretary is beyond all praise and of enormous value. At any Exhibition where the claim of Corea has not been overlooked, there you may find our indefatigable Secretary with a constant knot of eager inquirers at the Corean Court, listening to stories of Corea and the work that her own son and the other priests are doing. The information thus given and gained brings its reward : to the listener a new light on Missionary problems in the Far East ; to the informer the satisfaction of adding another to the roll of those who pray; to the Mission not infrequently a cheque or postal order. The curios, at one time in the care of the Hon. General Secretary for A.P.W., are now entrusted to Mrs. Cooper, since she is the person who knows where they ought to go next and where they are most wanted. They may be borrowed from Mrs. Cooper for meetings, etc. Address enquiries to "Mountside," Malvern. Eucharistic Vessels for Corea. The Organising Secretary has received two sets of Eucharistic Vessels for the use of priests in instances of private celebrations. They will be much valued, and the circumstances of the gift, which have been communicated to the Bishop, make the gift of more than ordinary interest and worth. Miss Brooksmith will be glad to receive any contributions to her sale November 12 and 13. Address : 7 Teviot Street, Poplar, E. It is not too late to add a reminder that Miss Rice, Kingscote House, East Grinstead, has a sale on July 4 and will be glad of any gifts. Will those who have hitherto been kind enough to send “woolies" to the late Miss Bannister for the boys of the Su-Won school now please send them to Mrs. George Bailey, Sanringham Road, Petersfield, Hants, before September 10. Here is a way of helping the funds of the Mission : MISSIONARY QUOTATION CALENDAR, 1914. Copies of the above will be ready for Sale early in October. Price 1s. Orders are earnestly requested by: Mrs. Sanders, Charlton Vicarage, Salisbury; Miss F. Robertson Macdonald, 2 Farndon Road, Oxford: Miss Tylee, S. Kevins. Rownhams, near Southampton, and Miss Drake, 6 Edward Street, Bath. The festival.

A SERMON

PREACHED AT THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THE COREAN MISSION, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1913. AT CHRIST CHURCH, LANCASTER GATE, BY THE REV. H. T. BOWLBY, HEADMASTER OF LANCING COLLEGE. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. – Isaiah xxxiii. 17. We are suffering, as a people, from a want of imagination. We live in eager, hurrying days, when we leave ourselves no time to think or to be quiet ; and that tender, dainty plant, imagination cannot grow in such an atmosphere. Viewed from another side, we find ourselves with so much to think about and picture, in the moving slow of a modern world, that the older ones at all events among us grow tired, and remain what we call "practical." And the inevitable result? The wider outlook suffers. Our eyes do not see the King in His beauty: they do not behold any land that is very far off. In education, that province of work in which my own lot for many years has been cast, the one cry “is give us quick returns, some visible profit from your teaching, something to take effect at once." Argue that the finest effect is the long-drawn-out growth of mind and body and character, "education" in the true sense of the word, and the appeal falls on deaf ears. Neither parents nor boys have the imagination, or the faith to foresee such distant issues so the wider culture languishes - the things of beauty and the things of the spirit. So again in public life. From time to time there are appeals to wide imperial or national questions. The prophets here and there may see visions, and thunder from the mountain top ; but most of us, the little people of the plains below, have no imagination to see or hear, or hearing will not hearken. And this truth tells heavily against the cause which I am here to plead before you to-day, the cause of Missions. Most of us who are out in the world have got our definite work, which we do with such energy and loyalty as we can command: and we have our leisure occupations of more or less intrinsic value; but beyond that we begin to draw lines. "To be aware of your limitations is the secret of happiness," said Bishop Creighton ; and slightly misinterpreting the meaning of his words, we limit our interests to the things that are near and seem practicable. Missions are a land that is very far off, and the beauty of high venture and sacrifice is too loyal for our eyes. For a time, on days like this of your Festival, we are quickened and awakened and see then slowly again for the many, if not for the faithful few, the vision fades: and efforts. undertaken in all good intention, slacken and fall away But there remains one glorious exception full of promise and hope for the future. I was present fifteen months ago at Liverpool, at a Conference of the Student Volunteer Movement. There were gathered together some hundreds of young men and women, some from lands that were literally very far off, all with the eyes that were capable of such visions, yet most with the square jaw and look that told of no mere mystical exaltation. On the platform were priests and ministers of the Word, belonging to all the varying schools of thought in the Church, here at last united. The common aim of platform and hall alike - the planting of the faith of Christ in lands where it was still unknown. And that Liverpool Conference was only the expression of a spirit abroad among the more serious at Oxford and Cambridge and in other university centres throughout the world. It is possible still for those entering on manhood and womanhood to imagine, and to follow steadfastly, the glories of a great call. Still the older ones hang back. The result that reaches me as a master is that boys come to us not unfrequently with the commendation from parents that they trust they may one day take Holy Orders; but it is always for work at home. Why should that be? It is not the mere idea of exile. The shrinkage of the world goes on apace, and parents feel no doubt about exiling their sons abroad in the Civil Service, in the Indian Army, in business occupations in the colonies. Why then grudge the son's life abroad, if only imagination would show the beauty of the high calling of the Ambassador to lands very far off? In the past the school where I work, Lancing, has sent out its two bishops to Corea : and I am here to-day as a thankful witness to that fact. Yet when I first settled there, and as suitable opportunities presented themselves, I asked all the boys of the school in turn what career they hoped to adopt, the claims of the Mission Field had won their way, as it seemed, with hardly one. Their parents did not wish them, if ordained, to go abroad ! First, then, may I plead that we older ones should let imagination open to us, and so half unconsciously to the young about us, the beauty and the vision of that work in lands very far off, that does thrill the hearts of students when boyhood is over, but still in numbers that are far too few. So far I have sounded a warning note. Yet on this day let me turn to more triumphant music. For what a chance lies open, if only our imagination would work! If only our eyes could behold one corner only of the lands that lie very far off! The mysterious imagination-kindling East, India, China, Japan, Corea ! (a) A fortnight ago I was listening at a Missionary Conference, arranged for some thirty headmasters of our leading public schools to a speaker from India-a speaker who used the modern and most welcome language of restraint as opposed to the rhapsodies that often hardly moved us in younger days. He spoke of the educational chances opened freely by the Government to any who would help in the work they were inaugurating on a wide scale for the elementary instruction of the people. We had learnt what mere intellectual training, without the check and balance of religion, had done for the higher classes in India. What line were we at home going to adopt, when this call came for the masses, who were far readier to be influenced than we knew or dreamed? (b) In China every newspaper has told us of the request of the new Government for our prayers next Sunday, and of the officials in that Government who are definitely Christian. Sunday will come: prayers, many and earnest, we doubt not, will be offered in English churches - and then? What then? Cannot imagination follow up the hint of a spirit and a meaning that lies behind those facts? Let us not again sink back to our "practical" ways and limitations, and do nothing, till the moment of appeal, say the next few years, have passed. (c) In Japan we are told that that moment, humanly speaking, has passed for the present; and that the expectation, formed ten years ago, of a large movement towards Christianity has not, and will not be fulfilled. We have been tried and found wanting. I say " we," not the faith for which we stand, but we, the halting, narrow-viewed disciples who are not prepared to go into the world and preach to all nations, or to send our sons, or even to provide the means for those who might go, or who are there already, but crippled in their work for want of funds. (d) Of Corea to such an audience I need not speak in detail. You know the unique chance of influence given by its mere geographical position in the East, by the nature of its people, by the hold already obtained among them by the teaching of Christ. The prospect is full of encouragement, if only we at home will do our part. Everywhere it may be that the time has come when we should reconsider and perhaps alter our methods. Before, we reckoned our success by the number of conversions, mere numbers; we hardly waited to listen for sincerity or proofs of permanence. We were elated by statistics of baptisms, appalled by statistics of size of country, or masses of people yet untouched. And in our British pride we held ourselves to be the directors, the people solely responsible for the conversion of the world, all were to be a new enrolment on the lists, and according to the rules and ceremonies, of the Anglican Church. Again, imagination and the prophetic vision had failed. Wisely we are coming to know, though it may seem to make the lands yet farther off, that instead of always pushing farther afield to new centres of work, we should first make the old centres sound and strong-centres of education that can train an independent native ministry, from which may arise, in God's good time, a sell-centred Yellow Church, vital enough to push out of itself as an indigenous thing, spreading from its own innate force. Then, should the day come when the gorgeous East refuses to be held in fee longer by the West, there need be no rupture with the Christianity of the discarded nations; for the Christianity of the East-of India, China, Corea-will live on unshaken. Herein lies the hope of Christian education for the elementary schools of India. Herein the purpose of founding a great Christian University for China; herein the plan for a hostel and Catechist School as training centres in Corea. Only the time is now, not necessarily for launching out to swell the number of new conversions, but for holding at least the position that we have won; and for starting wisely and generously the means by which the process of turning a whole land towards the faith may develop by a natural organic growth from within. So far, by way of stirring your imagination, I have dealt rather with the general outlook-and the effect of our action, or our negligence on the souls yet to be saved. One simple set of figures shows how the case stands in the matter of Corea. Merely to maintain the work that has been already started, £1000 at least is needed each quarter of the year : for the first quarter of 1913 the sum raised has been £400. Such figures mean decay, not growth, of the life already begun, let alone the organising of a fruitful centre for education and the forming of a native ministry. It is ours to fill up the work of Christ and see to it that the support is given at home. But there is a reaction to be gained from the East which may well quicken our own want of faith. And here let me end with thoughts of joy: (i) With the Orientals' subtler powers of imagination we may develop sides of Truth, which in all these hundreds of years we Westerns have missed. (ii) As with the students, and those who attend their gatherings, there may be in our common work for the heathen, a lessening of our own "unhappy divisions." (iii) There may be, too, a call for a more active, realised Churchmanship among ourselves, when we have the spur of helping a growing, struggling Church, as part of our normal life and work as Christians. (iv) More than that, there will follow an ennobling, an exaltation of our whole petty self-satisfied lives, when we attain to seeing something of the King in His beauty; and, through spiritual imagination, if we gain but a glimpse of the land that is very far off, when the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

ADDRESSES BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON, MR. G. W. E RUSSELL, AND ADMIRAL HON. SIR E. FREMANTLE. The Annual General meeting of the Corean Mission was held in the Hoare Memorial Hall of the Church House on Friday, April 25. The Bishop of London presided, and among those present were the Rt. Hon. G.W.E. Russell, Admiral Hon. Sir. E. Fremantle, G.C.B. Admiral J. Startin, Mrs. Gurney, Mrs. Cooper, Miss Falwasser, Miss Seaton (in charge of the Literature stall). Canon W. Hobhouse, Canon Deedes, Rev. W. P. Besley, etc., etc. THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S PROMISE. The Bishop of London said: In taking the chair this afternoon you will remember I am fulfilling a promise I made publicly to Bishop Trollope in the Church House when he was present, that if he held to his intention to go out to Corea the Church at home would not forget him and that I would, if possible, take the chair at every annual meeting in connection with the mission, while I was Bishop of London. I am trying to fulfil that promise, for I am most anxious that Bishop Trollope should always feel that he has the heart of the Church at home with him. I know what he has felt about sending Bishops out and then leaving them alone. We are here to show that we are not doing that. We know that he feels most keenly about this. I want a message to go out to him in far Corea telling him how deeply interested we are in all that he is doing, and that I am fulfilling the promise publicly made to him on St. James's Day, 1911. Now, I want to speak to you in as much detail as I can about the work of the Mission. And the first thing I want to say is that I feel very keenly about the different conditions under which these men are doing their work as compared with the conditions at home. I myself have had a very hard week. I have had to take the Archbishop's place at Convocation during some very difficult discussions; every night of the week I have spoken at some great meeting and I have had confirmations as well. But look at the conditions under which I do my work: fresh air; taken backwards and forwards to my home with perfect comfort and ease, -no difficulty like that terrible heat of the sun which, when I was in the Soudan and Lower Egypt, took all the strength out of me. Though my life has been active and busy from morning to night, I am doing my work under conditions that conduce to health. I mention this only by way of illustration. Bishop Turner was younger than I was. We were at Keble together. He is dead, because we gave him conditions of work which broke him down in about five or six years, I want every one to realise that, however busy we may be with the work at home, the conditions under which we labour are totally different from those to which we send these men to work in the Far East. THE HOPE IN THE FAR EAST: COREA'S STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE. It is indeed a time of wonderful hope in the Far East to-day. I have been chaffed by Canon Scott Holland that I was always going to start for the East and never got farther than the East End. I started for the East, but I never got farther than the Near East. When we look at the Far East to-day we find the atmosphere charged with greater hopefulness than ever it has been before. Then think of that telegram that came on Friday last when I took the chair at that enormous S.P.G. meeting at the Albert Hall - a telegram from the Chinese Government asking for prayer for the whole of China, and especially from the missionaries next Sunday. It is a thing that twenty years ago, we should have thought absolutely impossible. I do not think it is possible to exaggerate the importance of this great change of sentiment. Of course China is not Corea and Corea is not China, but these countries have an extraordinary effect upon each other. It has often been pointed out - especially at the PanAnglican Congress-what an important strategic position Corea holds in missionary work. It is said by those who have studied the matter very carefully, and it was pointed out by Mr. Mott at the Edinburgh Conference, that a mission to convert Corea must have an extraordinary effect upon Japan, for the Japanese have poured into the peninsula to the number of a quarter of a million. It will also have an effect on China. Therefore we are dealing to-day with a great strategic position in regard to missionary work. If we once capture it very great results will be produced.

BISHOP TROLLOPE'S LINE OF ADVANCE.

These are general considerations. Now we come to the Corean Mission itself, to the policy which is outlined by our leader out there, You may have studied very carefully or you may not have studied at all the literature or the work of the Mission. My impression is that when people come to a meeting they never look at the papers which are placed before them in regard to the work of the Society which they are asked to support-I used to assume that they did. But my experience in speaking for Oxford House taught me different. I found it necessary to take it for granted that it was best to speak as if those present knew little or nothing about the work of the organisation. I remember once after making a vigorous speech, at Oxford or somewhere else about Oxford House, an old gentleman tottered to his legs and said that from what he had heard an organ at Toynbee Hall was the very thing that was wanted. Having learned my lesson in other fields I am not going to assume that you know very much about the policy which our leader has outlined with regard to the Corean Mission. I will take three or four points about it. The first is that the Bishop has set his heart on a native ministry. When I had Bishop Trollope in East London, I not only loved him, I also had a great respect for his intellect and for his conception of what should be done. I am absolutely certain he is right in this instance. And even if I did not believe in him, I should, from my own knowledge of the Mission field, believe in the policy he is so set upon. Mr. Rowland Allen in his book on “Christian Missions in relation to St. Paul" contrasts St. Paul's method with our plan of carrying on missions-good people meeting here at home and concentrating their efforts on sending out money and workers. I think he runs his idea to death. If you good people were all to withdraw your subscriptions you would certainly break up the Mission. But all the same there is this strong point about Mr. Allen's contention. Undoubtedly we have not aimed sufficiently at providing a real native ministry in the Church, and that is the great point of his book. I am glad to say that our leader has definitely set his mind on a native ministry to supersede gradually the staff of English clergy on whom he has at present to rely. It is impossible for us to go on sending men to every single Mission in every part of the world. We cannot do it. The island is too little ; but we can do it for a time until we have created in every part of the world a native ministry. The Bishop has set his heart on that and I am in warm agreement with him. The next special bit of policy which he outlines in the letter which I have before me is that instead of spreading the butter too thin upon the bread you should have a small bit of bread and spread the butter thickly upon it. I would much rather have a small piece of bread with plenty of butter than a huge piece with the butter thinly spread over it. That is exactly the point of the Bishop's policy. There are eight enormous provinces in Corea, in five of which we have no missionary at all. Instead of trying to cover the whole of this enormous ground the Bishop proposes to concentrate upon his three provinces until he has made strong centres there, then to build up a native ministry in these three provinces, to man the Mission there with Coreans and then to send the Englishmen out into the other provinces. Is not that common sense? It is exactly what he proposes to do, and I want him to feel that we have a little intelligence here at home and we understand that the best policy for the Mission is to concentrate upon what he has already and make that effective before spreading his work into the other five provinces.

A TRAINING COLLEGE WANTED.

In order to carry out this policy he must have a Training College. You remember we were able out of the Pan-Anglican offering to plant down what we thought would be a fine Training College in Japan. We must have one in Corea. We have the Pan-Anglican thank-offering to fall back upon once more.

THE JAPANESE IN COREA.

Another point is this. Our Bishop has not only got to do with the Coreans. There are a quarter of a million Japanese; you cannot leave them out. Many of them are Christians and they look for a Christian Church, they want the Sacraments. Our Bishop has this tremendous problem to face.

A DEVOTED SISTERHOOD.

Then we have mention in the Bishop's letter of one of the finest Sisterhoods in the Church of England, the Sisterhood of St. Peter's, Kilburn. I have the honour of being the visitor, and it is with the greatest pleasure that I bear testimony to the merits of this Sister hood. There are never any quarrels or grumbles from the Sisters of St. Peter's, Kilburn. The Sisterhood is always well managed, and is carrying on good work all over the world. I confess I was not aware there were so many of them in Corea until I looked at this letter. I see there are seven members of the Sisterhood working there, backing up the work of the Bishop.

MEDICAL MISSIONARIES THE RULERS OF THE EAST.

Another point is Medical Missionary work. I confess that until I went out to the Near East I did not entirely understand the work of the Medical Missionary. The Medical Missionary rules the East.

I venture to say in face of what I saw that in the Near East the most influential man within a hundred miles of where he lives is the head of the Medical Mission, whether Edinburgh, British, Syrian, or London Jews. There the trained, educated doctor is ruling everybody for a hundred miles around; he is trusted wherever he goes. That is the case all through the Near East, and I have not much doubt that it is the case in the Far East also. Our Lord went about doing good, preaching the Gospel and reaching men's hearts by healing them of their sicknesses. It is the same with the Medical Missionaries. They reach the men by dealing with them in a way that they understand. Time after time poor fellows are brought in suffering from terrible diseases. By the alleviation of the disease the Medical Missionary finds out what sort of a character the man has. There is no better way of getting into real touch with these people. Mrs. Paget's book, "The Call of Suffering," which I referred to at the S.P.G. meeting, gives a wonderful account of the Medical Missions of the world, or at any rate of those connected with the S.P.G., and shows what a wonderful influence the Medical Missionary has. I do not know what the work of the ordinary Corean doctor is. I should not like to libel any native member of the profession in that country. But still in some parts of the Far East it is perfectly awful the way in which the treatment of disease is carried on. I heard through the records of a S.P.G. Mission that a native doctor bored holes in the flesh of a poor boy in order to let out the evil spirit that was supposed to be in him, and he was brought to the Medical Missionary to be healed. It is terrible the absolute barbarity which these ignorant native doctors exercise towards sufferers, and the misery that is inflicted upon human beings in the treatment of diseases. We have three Medical Missions in connection with our work. They are of inestimable benefit to the people among whom they work.

PRESENT NEEDS AND FUTURE IDEALS.

Very well then, there is an immediate need in the Mission of eight additional priests, and we can say to our Bishop and those who are working with him that we here at home believe thoroughly that the work is entirely on the right lines, and we are prepared to help them and back them up with all our power. How are we going to back them up? We will see. For this year's needs of the Mission a sum of £7,500 is required, of which £3,000 is secured mainly by grants from S.P.G. The S.P.C.K. also makes a small grant towards the medical work. That leaves £4,500 for the Church at home to provide. The additional priests for whom the Bishop asks would necessitate another £1,200 a year, that makes altogether 48.700. As the work grows in the rural deanery-the old names are going to be used -money will be required for additional workers. In time the support of these will be placed more and more upon the native Church. We are working for a permanent annual income of £10,000 inclusive of grants. That is the maximum which the Church at home is likely to be asked to give. But this year we want £7,500, which is £4,500 beyond the grant we have received, and for the year we ask £1,200 a year more for extra clergy, with, as I have said, the ideal of an ultimate expansion of the income to £10,000 a year. It is really a pitifully small sum to ask for, for such a work as this. But with it we should hope to train Coreans to do the work in their own Church. We all look forward to the time when we shall give a parting blessing to the Church in Corea, to the Church in China, to the Church in Japan, and leave them to manage their own affairs. Mr. G. W. E. RUSSELL ON MISSIONARY CHURCH ORGANISATION.

The Rt. Hon. G. W. E. Russell was the next speaker. He said: His Lordship in his opening address confessed to his own share in a very common human appetite. He spoke of his love for butter in one sense or another figurative or literal. I fancy we all like butter, and those who are promoting and administering this Mission work in Corea have received an abundance of it from his Lordship, but not an ounce more than they deserve. I was asked to take part in this meeting by your indefatigable secretary, Mr. Childs Clarke He said in his letter to me that he could only account for the insufficient support which the Corean Mission receives from Church people by apathy or ignorance. Between them there is sufficient to account for the financial state of affairs. But it is not true of Corea only, but of all the missionary work of the Church. We say that people at home have far less zeal for it than might be reasonably expected from persons who believe in the extension of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus on earth. I was brought up in an evangelical circle of the Church. I confess that there was in that circle, it seems to me, a very much fuller and livelier zeal for foreign Mission work than in that section of the Church with which, in later life, I have been closely connected, and it is something for which we ought to be ashamed. I do not know how far Martin Luther is held in veneration by this assembly. I do not trace his name among the saints of God in the Corean Church. We are accustomed to pay Martin Luther's dicta a little more respect than is always their due. He said, "The test of a standing or a falling Church is belief in the doctrine of justification by faith." We all respect Luther, but I should have thought that the truest test of a standing or a falling Church was its zeal in missionary enterprise. For if we do truly believe that God the Holy Ghost has commanded and is inspiring this Mission work in the world to win souls to Christ and to extend the kingdom of the Lord on earth, if we believe that as a matter of truth and not as a matter of words, how can we be indifferent to missionary work? And yet, as I said just now, many of us are. We are more interested in some liturgical work, or pastoral preaching. or church building, or one thing and another much more keenly and much more practically than in the work of Missions. If that is true, and I feel with compunction and shame that it is true of most of us, then I say we ought to be ashamed of it.

We all want in our own hearts something of the missionary zeal, something of that desire to spread the kingdom of the Lord in the dark places of the earth, which has animated the founders of the Corean Mission, and other Missions, to overcome this apathy and indifference. Another difficulty or hindrance of the cause is ignorance. If I confess to some amount of apathy I must confess also to a larger share of ignorance. Most of those I address are what we should call "hardened Coreans" ready to think about Corea, and working worsted comforters for Corea for years past. But if you take the ordinary man in the street, even though he be a Churchman, and ask him to show you where Corea is on the map he will not get to within a thousand miles of it. Ignorance co-operates with indifference, special ignorance, general indifference, to produce this very insufficient result of which the Secretary spoke to me in his letter. The Bishop said incidentally that China is not Corea! That might seem to some people a truism-to some of us not. Some of us may think Corea is part of China, I do not think nine people out of ten have a very clear geographical conception of Corea. If they wish to remedy their ignorance and quicken their interest they should peruse the little history of the Mission compiled by Bishop Corfe and placed in my hands. They will find that history of missionary enterprise even in one small centre is as full of interest as any story of adventure. The devotion of the missionaries to their work and above all the readiness for self-sacrifice, the willingness, as the Bishop says, even to sacrifice life itself as well as everything that makes life pleasant, away from England and its comforts, makes the narrative of thrilling interest and inspiration. The greatest interest in this narrative of the Church in Corea lies, I think, in the fact that it affords a great object-lesson, as I read, in the development of a Local Church on lines as far as we know of primitive Church organisation. I observe that Bishop Corfe said it had sometimes been made a reproach to Mission work in Corea that the Bishop retained too much authority over his priests. I think I trace in what the Bishop said on that point something of the spirit of the great John Wesley. The latter said "If by episcopal authority is meant that authority which I exercise solely and without any colleagues therein that is true and I see no evil therein." When Bishop Corfe said he declined to apologise for the power he retained he spoke in the same sense. Of course John Wesley with all his gifts - his supernatural gifts - was not a Bishop, though in his later days he thought he was. We, who believe in the apostolic constitution of the Church and believe that nothing but that apostolic succession can make the Church live and grow, must feel that Bishop Corfe and his successors in episcopal oversight of Corea have exercised their jurisdiction with the most singular care and thoughtfulness. I do not know that I ever read anything more interesting in its way than the order of Divine Service as drawn up for the instruction and guidance of the converts and priests of the Church in Corea It is full of the true liturgical spirit. It is not rigid, but with a general adhesion to primitive limits, adapted at every turn to the minutest circumstances of the place in which the new church is set up. There is happily no cast-iron uniformity about the Church in Corea. It has no judicial committee of the Privy Council or any other authorities like those that have thrust themselves into the high places of the Church at home. I may be pardoned a little Latin in the presence of some 300 ladies! It has the jus Liturgicum, the inherent right of the Bishop, to order the services in his own Diocese, to have everything on strictly ecclesiastical lines. We are not pleading for a missionary society covering the whole world, but for a Mission of the Church in one particular defined spot. The more closely one concentrates upon one spot, the more closely we follow the work of an individual Church in the Mission field, the keener, naturally, our interest becomes. I can remember long ago when I was an undergraduate I saw a good deal of a great man, the late Sir Henry Acland, as true a Christian as a physician. He and his family adopted, spiritually adopted, a little negro child in the South African Mission field who was baptised by the names of Acland Sahara. A photograph of this little image in ebony was sent every year or so. We had his development before us from infancy and marked his growth in nature and intelligence to young manhood. This was very interesting to those who provided for little Acland Sahara's spiritual and temporal welfare. This is an extreme instance of personal missionary interest concentrated on the individual. The work of the Mission in Corea is sufficiently wide to satisfy one's notions of what missionary work should be, and narrow enough to enable us to take some interest in the work in all its details and the efforts of those who take part in it. Remember the people of Corea are destined to have a part-if we may reverently speak of God's scheme in the redemption of the world. They must be sooner or later our brothers and sisters in the great family in which our Lord Jesus Christ is the eldest brother. Recollect that what we are to pray for and expect is unity of spirit with outward diversities. What our Lord promised was not that there should be one fold and one shepherd, but many folds containing the one flock, even the flock of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Chairman in calling upon the next speaker said the witness of our admirals to Mission work overseas was of immense importance. In Sir Edmund Fremantle we had one of our most distinguished admirals, and his testimony as to the work and fruits of the Mission would no doubt be of great interest and value.

THE HOSPITAL NAVAL FUND.

Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle, G.C.B., said: The Bishop has told you why I am called upon to address you. It is thought perhaps I have had better opportunities than almost anybody in this room of seeing something of the Mission, and of knowing something about Corea. I remember a good many years ago I asked a little niece of mine if she knew what Italy was. She replied, “Oh yes, it is a map.” Now to a great many people Corea is a map. To some it appears in a more concrete form. When I first visited Seoul, which you hear about very often in MORNING CALM, I arrived there after dark, and knowing the manners and customs of the Coreans I was not surprised to find that I could not get into the city because the doors were locked. The gates of the city were closed and locked and the King was fast asleep with the keys under his pillow. It did not matter much, for I scaled the wall with the assistance of a good rope, it was only a matter of about forty feet. I have a very vivid recollection of Seoul and if Bishop Corfe who was there then. Now about the Hospital Naval Fund. It is nearly twenty-four years since Bishop Corfe was consecrated Bishop of Corea. He had been a naval chaplain, and many naval officers who had been associated with him and who knew the extremely valuable work he had done, the extraordinary influence he had over young officers and men of the Royal Navy, wished to be linked with him still in his new career, and being in full sympathy with the Mission they assisted in the establishment of a hospital to enable people with modern medical skill to care for the sick and suffering in Corea. I know the hospital at Chemulpo, though it is sixteen years since I was out there. The ideal of the Hospital Naval Fund was an income of ₤600 a year. I am sorry to say we have not been able to reach that figure. What we have been able to achieve is something like £300 a year, which has been a great help to the medical work. I remember when I was out there in Chemulpo I heard a tremendous din- a noise of so-called music, horns and drums and whistles. I said "What is the matter? What is this for?" I was told that there was a man dying and they were making that noise to keep the devils away. That was their way of treating a sick person. They gave him some extraordinary medicines too, and drove evil spirits away by making its much noise as possible in the sick room. I should like to add a little about our present Bishop out there. Mr. Trollope was one of Bishop Corfe's priests when I was there, and I had the greatest admiration for him in every possible way. When he came from Europe I was only too glad to see him and to wall with him thirty odd miles up to Seoul. I had one fault to find with him, that is that he tried to live like the Coreans. I have been on the East Coast of Africa and have seen many of our devout missionaries living like the natives. But no European can possibly live on the same food as natives. I hope the Bishop will be careful about his health. No one can do the work out there so well as he can. He is a strong man, an able man, a devoted man, and we do not want to lose another Bishop as we lost Bishop Turner. The warning the Bishop of London uttered in his opening speech is a very true one. It is wise not to attempt too much in the way of travelling under the conditions prevailing in the Far East. Many of us have travelled all over the world and very often without a great deal of effort and generally with the greatest comfort. But travelling in Corea is very different. You have to face these hardships. They can be borne for a time, but if you are going to live in the country you must take things more easily. You must suit the work to your strength. I will illustrate that by speaking of the East Coast of Africa to which I have referred before. There were Roman Catholic missionaries out there, one of whom had been twenty-five years in the country and had never left it. Another had been seventeen years at Zanzibar, and had never left it. Both lived at extremely unhealthy places at which it was very difficult for a European to live. They were both good men but they did not attempt to do what our missionaries attempt to do, and so they did not use up their lives. In conclusion I hope you will understand that everybody can subscribe to the Hospital Naval Fund. It is one of the ways you can best help the Corean Mission. The Hospital is extremely valuable in teaching the Coreans the use and value of Christianity in that form. I assure you those who are at the head of the Hospital are as good missionaries as any of the others, including even the good Bishop of whom I have spoken.

THE CHAIRMAN'S APPEAL.

The Bishop of London in a concluding address said that with regard to finance instead of going forward they had gone back. That was very disheartening to the people out in Corea. I mean to double my own modest subscription, and I hope all of you will do the same. If we can only bring the total to what it was last year and get a gradual increase, then we shall make the Bishop feel that he really has the Church behind him. Association of Prayer and work for Corea. I HAVE to record with very great regret the death of Mrs. Picton. Local Secretary for North Tyne, who has represented the Association, either there or in Newcastle, for nearly twenty years. In spite of advancing age, which often prevented her from doing as much as she would have wished for Corea, her enthusiasm in the cause of the Mission never seemed to flag, and she was always full of joy if she could gain new members or subscribers. We shall indeed miss her warm support, but we are very grateful to Miss Picton for carrying on her mother's good work, for which she has our thanks and best wishes. I have another loss to record, which I hope, however, is only a temporary one. Miss B. Cooper, who has been Local Secretary for Wilmington since 1896, and has been an immense help to us there, is leaving Kent and is therefore obliged to hand in her resignation. But whilst thanking her sincerely for all she has done, we cannot afford to lose her as an A.P.W. representative and hope that it will not be long before we can welcome her as a Local Secretary in Cornwall. At Wilmington, as at North Tyne, I am thankful to say that we are not left without a Local Secretary, and in Mrs. Greenaway we have one who already loves Corea and A.P.W. May I here say how very much I appreciate the fact that Local Secretaries and their Members are not allowing secretaryships to fall vacant. During the last two years whenever a loss has been reported a successor has almost invariably been named to me at the same time, and this is not only a saving of trouble and anxiety to the General Secretary, but an immense gain to A.P.W.

Our centre at St. Alban's, Birmingham, has just reported a daughter branch in that city, which we heartily welcome, and of which we hope to hear more later on. There are healthy signs of activity in the way of prospective sales in several A.P.W. centres, all of which will, I hope, be patronised to the best of our ability. Will it be possible for us to arrange more meetings during the late summer and autumn? They are a fruitful means of helping A.P.W. and yet there have been so few during the last year. If Secretaries can make local arrangements we will, with a sufficiently long notice, gladly provide a speaker, and do anything else that lies in our power to make the meeting a success. The Corean curios might often be a means of arousing interest: the care of these has been kindly undertaken by Mrs. Cooper (Mountside Malvern), and she is prepared to send them to any applicant who will make himself responsible for the care of the curios and return them in good condition. Miss Mabel Seaton (Beavor Lodge, Hatch End), who has still a large number of Corean picture postcards to be sold for the good of the Mission, will gladly send a selection to any who apply to her for them. Will those who are hoping to send parcels of Corean garments to our Needlework Secretary, Miss Newman, kindly see that they reach her not later than August 20? The needs of Corea are still uppermost in our minds at the present moment, but I hope and believe that they also find a prominent place in our prayers, and, if this is so, we need not be over anxious as to their realisation. MAUD I FALWASSER. General Secretary.

Children's Branch.

DEAR CHILDREN, - Is it not a pity? The new building for the Orphanage which I told you about in the letter of last quarter and which I said I hoped to be able to tell you more about, and that it was well on its way to being finished, has not even been begun. When it came to the point it was found that it would cost nearly ₤500 instead of ₤300 as was at first thought, and the necessary money has not been forthcoming. Everything has gone up in price in Corea during the last few years, and so for the present the sisters and orphans have to put up with their very limited and inadequate quarters. Let us pray and do what we can that before long the money may be given. Sister Nora writes that they are quite outgrowing in numbers and size their present place. The walk to and fro to school has made the elder girls grow so fast that they are getting too big for the house! And not only is it so very necessary to move the orphans for the children's sake, but to make room for the elder girls who are studying. And the spot where the orphanage is at present is wanted for the building of the memorial chapel to Bishop Turner, which will be the first part to be begun of the church which is to be built and which is also so necessary. I am so sorry to have to tell you such disappointing news. And now to tell you about some of the children, and this is very good news and encouraging. The elder girls have done very well at their first annual examination and all go up into higher classes Even Edna, who was in the upper school and must have worked hard to keep her place when all had to be learned in Japanese, has done well. Of the second class Rachel was first out of fifty; little Marietta, eleven years old, was third, and two more were fourth and fifth. The upper two had 100 marks in every subject. And they can all chatter Japanese gaily. Rachel, Betty, Jemima, Katerina and Eva were to be confirmed this last Whitsuntide, and one new girl conditionally baptised and her name changed as she does not like her Corean one, Oki. The picture of the two girls is of Eva and Rebecca. The children who help to support these two will be so glad to see their photographs. They were taken by a Japanese lady. Sister Nora kindly sent me one for you. I do wish you children could have seen the tableaux given at one of the Festival meetings in London. There were such beautiful scenes shewing the life of the people, and all were dressed in real Corean dresses, some of them made by the orphans in Seoul who gave up their holiday to make them and did such a lot of work in the short time. One scene was of a man travelling with a little child and with his jiggy on his back on which such heavy bundles can be carried; and then when he wanted rest he put it down, and it was a good rest for his back whilst he slept; and then in the next scene he carried the child on it. This was a most delightful and picturesque scene. And the little child did look so sweet. Perhaps some of your secretaries will be able to get up some tableaux with you and the dresses can be lent to you for use. This last winter was a very cold one in Seoul, with cold winds from Siberia, and there was only one snowdrop in the Orphanage garden, but Sister Nora writes that the boys went out on the hills and gathered Forsythia long before the leaf was out. They put it in water in a warm room for some weeks and then the sticks were covered with golden flowers, and these made the altars at Easter look very festive. Do you know the shrub? I have seen it in mid-England, and I expect in Cornwall there is a lot. It is something like broom. I want to thank the children at Newcastle for their contribution from their Lenten savings. It shews a real self-denial for them to send such a sum. Believe me, Your affectionate friend, MABEL SEATON. BEAVOR LODGE, HATCH END, June, 1913.

Corean Hospital Naval fund.

The Ninety-second Meeting of the Executive Committee was held at the Royal United Service Institution at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, April 16. Present: J. R. Clark, Esq., C.B. (in the chair), Capt. B. H. Chevallier, Major-Gen. J. F. Daniell, Rev. Charles Moore, Capt. J. H. Corfe, and C. E. Baxter, Esq. Letters of regret were read from Rear-Adm. James Startin, Rev. S. H. W. Lovett, Rev. J. C. Cox-Edwards, Rev. W. Stuart Harris, and Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke. With reference to the annual Sale of Work for Foreign Missions which is held at the Royal Horticultural Hall in November, H.N.F. will share the stall of the Corean Mission, and by the very kind consent of the A.P.W. will take a half share of the proceeds. Dr. and Mrs. Weir have already secured a valuable lot of Corean curios and antiques for H.N.F. The following articles are asked for: Well-cut shirts for men; well-cut underclothes for women; knitted socks and stockings: embroidered handkerchiels, collars ; muslin cushion covers; towels, pillow slips, doyleys, etc., etc., hot-water can coseys; old glass, china, lace, etc., framed prints and water-colour drawings, -Mrs. W. P. Besley, 9 Amen Court, St. Paul's Cathedral, E.C. (for the Hospital Naval Fund). Goods should be clearly marked by means of a ticket which should be sewn on to the garments, or securely stuck on to other things, and should bear the price for which they are to be sold. All goods sent for the Hospital Naval Fund should have the initials “H.N.F.," as well as the price. The Annual General Meeting was held at the Hoare Memorial Hall, Church House, Westminster, on Friday, April 25, when excellent speeches were made by the Bishop of London, Rt. Hon. G.W.E. Russell, and by Adm. Hon Sir E. R. Fremantle on behalf of H.N.F. The only naval members on the platform were Sir E. R. Fremantle and Mr. Baxter. The committee hope that in future years the service will be better represented on the platform on this occasion, which is always of great interest, and the Bishop of London deserves a strong backing in support of his keenness on our behalf. Letters were read from a good many of our local secretaries emphasising the difficulties of getting increased support for our work in Corea throughout the service. All the more reason for increased efforts on our part. C. E. BAXTER, Hon. Sec. Ex. Com. H.N.F.

HOSPITAL NAVAL FUND.

DEAR MR. EDITOR, - I am an original member of the Hospital Naval Fund; one of those who started out to do honour to and to assist our very good friend Bishop Corfe when, to our regret as lovers of our service, he left us to enter the mission field. In those days we were not keen about the missionary work, but we did want to help our Bishop, and we liked the idea of Hospitals. I, for one, used to think I will stick to H.N.F. as long as Bishop Corfe is in Corea, but when he retires I shall give it up. This, the personal, element is often brought up at our meetings, and the point of my letter to you is to indicate my own change of feeling in this respect. Bishop Corfe retired seven years ago ; I am still supporting H.N.F., and more keenly than at the commencement. Why? For two reasons: 1. Because I feel that work done by men like Corfe, Turner, and Trollope and the staff that assists them, must do an immense amount of good wherever it is carried on. 2. Because I have gradually come to realise that it is a very narrow view to take that it does not do as good also to open our minds to the needs of others all over the world, and that the answer to those who say. "Charity begins at home and there is plenty to do here without wasting your energies on Chinese and Coreans" is that there is plenty of room for both, and that the only thing we have to fear is indifference: we must either go forward or backward; our efforts for Chinese and Coreans will help rather than hinder us in good work at home. I am, Sir, Yours very faithfully, A. “CASTAWAY."

St. Peter's Community Foreign Mission Association.

It is especially necessary this year that members should concentrate their efforts on the Sale of Work to be held in Portman Rooms on November 4 and 5-as our promised contribution to the funds of the Mission depends largely on the Sale. The Curios are on their way, perhaps for the last time, as they are increasingly difficult to procure, and some very welcome contributions from Lenten Working parties have arrived; but we would urge all Members to send plain underclothing for women and children, men's and boys' shirts, etc., rather than fancy things for which there is no sale. We are most regretfully losing the support of the Halifax Branch which has not only very generously contributed for years to the General Fund of S.P.F.M.A., but after maintaining Paul in the Orphanage for some time, now contributes annually to Su Won Boys' School. With the marriage of the Secretary and consequent removal from Halifax the Branch is merged into the Parochial Missionary Association for S.P.G., but we are glad to know that the contributions will still be earmarked for Corea, so the Mission will not be the loser by our loss. There was a well-attended meeting of the St. Columba Branch on May 14 at which Sister Isabel was warmly welcomed. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE. Secretary, S.P.F.M.A.

Correspondence.

DEAR MR. EDITOR. - As I have had letters from local secretaries of the A.P.W.C. asking me to speak at various places, will you allow me through MORNING CALM to state what my arrangements are whilst I am in England. I shall be at Quarrington until the end of October, and all my Sundays are thus engaged. My Rector is, however, willing to leave me free during the week to speak for Corea if called upon. May I ask any secretaries who wish me to do so to let me know as early as possible, so as to fit in dates. My grateful thanks are due to Mrs. MacDougall-Rawson of Halifax for the gift of a lantern, and to Mrs. Keble of Scarboro for a parcel of embroidery silks. Yours sincerely, FREDK. WILSON. QUARRINGTON RECTORY, SLEAFORD, June 9, 1913.

Wants.

PAIK CHUN-Lantern-slides. (A lantern has been given for this work. Will someone now be moved to supply slides?) Embroidery Silks. Crucifixes Any Books on Catechising. A machine for Printing or copying Notices (Lessons and Notices, if a number are required, have all to be copied out by hand, which entails much loss of time.) Address whilst in England (until the end of October) - Rev. Fredk. Wilson, Quarrington Rectory, Sleaford.

The Corean Stall will be under the general management of Mrs. C. S. Napier Trollope, Assisted by THE LADY FLORENCE CECIL, LADY HILLIER. Mrs. W. P. BESLEY. Mrs. S. J. CHILDS-CLARKE. Mrs. J. D. MALCOLM. Mrs. WILES. Miss MOLLY BEAUCHAMP.