Morning Calm v.21 no.125(1910 Jul.)

The Festival.

The Annual Festival was observed on the Feast of the Invention of the Cross, May 3. In the earlier days of the Mission it was the custom to hold such a festival once in three years. There can be no doubt that in deciding to hold it annually the Executive Committee did a wise thing. The day affords just that opportunity for united thanksgiving and intercession which seems to vitalise the work of the whole year, and give inspiration to those who work and pray. For although the day concerned, primarily, those who live and work in London with the few who came up from the provinces, many in distant parishes, as well as in Korea itself, assembled themselves together for worship and prayer. Of the services and meetings it is, perhaps necessary, to say something. The morning Eucharist at St. Paul's can never be attended largely. The great service of the day was the Choral Eucharist at St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey, E.C., which was well attended. Canon C. N. Kelly-the Rector-celebrated and Canon Newbolt preached. The singing of the Merbecke was remarkably well done by a choir of some forty priests and a few laymen. The Central Committee met at 12.30 P.M. in the Chapter House of St. Paul's to receive the Report of the Bishop and his senior commissary from the Executive Committee.

The afternoon meeting in the Hall of the National Society was exceedingly well attended and the speeches most interesting Mr. Athelstan Riley was in the chair and was supported by Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, Sir Ernest Satow, Mr. William McCarthy, and the Principal of the Missionary College of St. Peter and St. Paul, Dorchester. We left the meeting more than ever convinced of the opportunity which is ours now and of the necessity for doing more to meet it.

The Training of the Catechists.

Nothing has been causing greater anxiety to the Bishop than how to provide systematic training for those Korean Christians who offer themselves for the office of Catechist. As he has told us frequently there was no priest on the staff who could be spared for the work. That a man qualified for this work should offer himself has been a matter of intercession for some time past. In the Rev. Cecil H. N. Hodges' offer to go we have an answer. We are all full of thankfulness. Mr. Hodges sails on October 21 (D.V.) and will visit various educational establishments in Ceylon, India, and China on roule. In the meantime he continues his work of Assistant Priest at St. Michael's, Bromley, E.

Education.

Almost simultaneously with Mr. Hodges' offer came the news that a grant of £3000 had been made by the Pan-Anglican Thank offering Fund for the work of Education in Korea. The Executive Committee have been much concerned for some time past that more could not be done at home to enable the Bishop to furnish and equip the schools so badly needed in the various centres where the Mission at work. It has been resolved-pending the Bishop's permission-to form a new Committee for Education which shall meet in London. It will exist mainly to carry out such instructions as the Bishop may send home and to raise money sufficient for the growing requirements of this important department of the work. It is clear that a secretary for this committee is the one important requirement of the moment. May God call some one for the work. The members of the old Education Committee will continue their work as subCommittees for the districts they represent.

Japanese Work.

That the Rev. Aubrey L Sharpe has consented to remain in Korea is a great relief to the Bishop, as he says in his letter. It is no less a matter of satisfaction to know that Fusan will also have a resident priest, and that a Japanese. We would plead for more money. It cannot be too often insisted that there is no other solution of the political situation than that Koreans and Japanese should learn to live united in the Common Faith of Our Blessed Lord.

Bishop Corfe.

Bishop Corfe, as some of his friends will know, is back again in Manchuria, having secured his two priests required for work among the English-speaking Church people in Southern Manchuria.

Finance

One word is necessary on this subject ; that the amount required to meet the estimates for the year 1910 was considerably in advance of that required in former years is known to all. It is a matter of deep concern to the Executive that the income has shown no increase. The response to Dr. Laws' appeal for medical work at Chin-Chun has been generous, without - we trust- in any way affecting contributions to the General Fund. We would impress upon our many readers, now that the first half of the financial year is gone, that in addition to the estimated amount, a considerable sum of money must be forthcoming to meet the increased needs. For in addition to Mr. Hodges, there will shortly be added to the Medical Staff a lady doctor, Miss Borrow. The Committee have undertaken to provide £300 a year for her stipend and her work. This must fall upon -for the present at least- the General Fund. It is the support of this General Fund which is so essential and which is a cause of such anxiety to those responsible for it. Since these notes were written news has come of a grant of £200 from the Marriott Bequest for the proposed Grammar School in Seoul, and a legacy of £105 received from the estate of the late Miss A. H. Edwards.

The Bishop's Letters.Ⅰ.

SEOUL, KOREA. MY DEAR FRIENDS, -

My first letter this quarter must be about the Japanese work of our Church in Korea. You will realise that it is not a great work, but it has two elements of importance about it, and I have written to you to that effect before now, Pardon a little repetition. First, it is right that we should give the members of the Nippon Seikokwai, that is our own Church in Japan, who come to live and work in Korea every possible opportunity to keep up their duties as members of the Church, and help them in every way we can to avoid the danger they are in, when separated from their home and congregational ties, of lapsing from the practice and open profession of their faith. Secondly, we have our duty towards the rest of the Japanese who are crowding over to Korea, for two reasons; one, that they are open to influences which it is difficult to bring to bear upon them in their own country in many cases, the other, that one feels more and more that the tie of the Christian brotherhood is, under God, the one hope of bringing about a better feeling between the Koreans and Japanese, as it tends to remove that mutual suspicion and dislike which is so strong throughout the country at present.

There are some things connected with the work which give us cause for thanksgiving just now, and some which cause a great anxiety. The uppermost thought in my mind is that we have a permanent successor to Mr. Cartwright. Mr. Sharpe bas agreed, at my request and with the permission of Bishop Boutflower of South Tokyo, to give up his work in Japan and to settle down to work with us here in Korea. I need not say what a weight this decision of his lifts from my mind, and you will all make in your thanksgiving special remembrance of this, giving God thanks that He has moved him to make this act of real self-sacrifice. I felt, when he came over here, that we were asking a great deal of him, that he should give up his work at Shizuoka even for a time, but this further step involves much more. To give up the work which one has been doing for years and move to a new district, new people, and new surroundings, is always a serious matter, but when it involves a complete change as this does, one cannot but sympathise with the man who has to make the change. In Japan the work is of long standing, the principles on which the work is being carried on are fixed and settled, the support from the Church at home is more or less adequate. Here the problem is altogether different. The support is far from adequate : the work is new, and the principles on which it is to be done, if they are the same in theory, differ very considerably in detail, and besides this the people are changed by their novel surroundings. Into this new condition of life and work Mr. Sharpe has to fit himself, and I hope you will pray earnestly that he may build well and strongly on the foundations laid by Mr. Cartwright, and see of the fruit of his work. The conditions are changing, so that he will find much that will want to be changed to meet them, and I hope that he will feel a joy in the thought that he has the building up of a Church among the Japanese here which should have a future before it in the effect it may have on the nation, and even perhaps on the Church in Japan itself. This makes the burden of responsibility heavier and we must all try and hold up his hands and help him in every way we can.

Another great cause for thankfulness is that at last we have obtained a Priest for the congregation in Fusan. Mr. Iki, our Catechist, has been with us now some years, but we have always felt that we needed a Priest there to relieve the one in Seoul from the frequent journeys to and fro. Mr. Iki has gone to Shimonoseki to work under Mr. Robinson in the Osaka Diocese. Mr. Shiozaki is to be ordained on Trinity Sunday and will, we hope, be with us on the second Sunday after Trinity. On the first Sunday he will celebrate for the first time in the church which he has been serving for some years as a Deacon in Yokohama under our old friend Mr. Walton. It is largely on his recommendation that Mr. Shiozaki is coming to us. May he have many years of happy and successful work for God and His Church here in Korea.

This brings me to the question of Fusan and its needs. First of all we are in receipt of a sum of about £400, the insurance money on Mr. Cartwright's life, which his father has sent us from Canada to help to provide, what is so much needed there, adequate land for the development of the work in the future, and buildings in which we can carry on the work. How this money will be used I am not, as yet, quite certain. We had hoped to procure additional land adjoining what we hold at present, which is too small for what we need - a church and a personage. We shall probably sell this and buy another and larger piece of land near by. The land we bought before has gone up in value considerably, and with the proceeds of that scale and the money from Mr. Cartwright, we ought to be able to adequately equip the station. Mr. Sharpe tells me that the Christians are ready to do a good deal themselves when a definite scheme is decided on.

We should not have felt that we ought to spend so much money there if there had not been real keenness on the part of the people themselves. Mr. Sharpe has been down there for a month, and Miss Elrington too, and they report that among both men and women there is a real desire for teaching and a spirit of enterprise to which we ought to respond and encourage as much as we possibly can. Miss Elrington is hoping to go down there for a long visit again soon, and she may indeed spend a large part of the summer and autumn there, as the women especially need her help and teaching. We feel that she can be spared from Seoul at present as the work there, so far as it has developed at present, can be adequately managed by Miss Grosjean and Inaba San. We shall miss her in Seoul and hope she will be as happy as we know she will be busy in Fusan. The work in Seoul has been greatly strengthened by the coming of Mr. Okagaki as Catechist, but there is much to be done and our staff is small, and the plant is not adequate, to say the least of it. Mr. Sharpe is preparing a report for our Conference in June and suggestions for what is needed, of which you will hear more in due course. The one thought that bears heaviest on us all is how much there is to be done, and how little we are able to do. Chemulpo needs an active Catechist and Mr. Aoyama's probable departure for Japan will deprive us there of the voluntary assistance he has given us and for which we are really grateful. Benita Kurose has gone to Japan for training as a Mission woman and Miss Pooley and Mr. Guttridge will be left without the Japanese help, which is so essential to really successful work, except such as they can get from Seoul from time to time; and we fear we may lose Mr. Guttridge's help too, as he may have to leave Korea and go to Japan. The thousands of Japanese in the country, in large or smaller groups, make their claim upon us, and we often feel in despair about doing anything for them: but will desperandum, there must be no despair, for Christ is our leader; but if we all -you in England or Canada and we in Korea-do our best as fellow workers with God, we can go on in hope that in His good time doors will be opened that are closed now, and the Church of Christ will enter into her inheritance, even if we ourselves do not see it. “Shew Thy servants Thy work, and their children Thy glory."

I am yours truly, ARTHUR B. TURNER, Bishop.

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SEOUL, KOREA. MY DEAR FRIENDS, -

The other matter I want to write to you about is the question of Education. Two things I feel strongly. First, that it is a necessary part of our work in Korea. Secondly, that it is the source of considerable practical difficulty, and whatever future benefit may arise from it, it hinders the immediate development of the purely evangelistic work.

As to the first, all perhaps will not agree and may think that all our efforts should be concentrated on direct evangelistic work. This feeling arises, perhaps, from a view of Christianity as mainly a means for the salvation of individual souls; but when one considers it a great social work - a means for the uplifting and salvation of humanity or, in a more restricted sense, of a race or nation-it seems to me that one cannot neglect any of those means which, under God's guidance, tend towards that end. Can we doubt that education in its widest sense is a means to that end? Would We go back to a hundred years ago in England before the Church built up to the system of so-called 'National’ Schools! What went on then in England is going on now here. The demand for education is everywhere apparent and I do not feel that we can, or ought ; to hold aloof from the movement which is a truly national one. We must try, if not as we would, then as we can, to influence this movement in the right direction. Education has its dangers and left to itself may lead into strange paths and to disastrous results; but to Christianise it will avert danger and bring it into line with the will of God. It may be we can do little, but the little that we can do surely we ought.

And as to the difficulties in the present, they were made to be overcome. They arise from inexperience on our own part, and on that of the Koreans who know little or nothing of how to manage school matters. The result is failure in some cases and friction in others. The chief danger to the evangelistic work in the present is that the trouble caused by the school question often takes the Koreans' minds off other more important matters, for they find it hard to keep two objects in view at once. But if there is any real benefit to be obtained in the future we must meet these present difficulties, and trust to greater experience to show us all how to reap these benefits. I myself believe that such a harvest is possible. God grant us wisdom and patience.

The whole question of education is a wide one. As you know, so far our efforts have been small, for our funds have been limited. There are several small schools in the country districts, five of which have been fairly successful in teaching the boys the elements of knowledge, but none of them can be said to be up to the standard of secondary schools, for the Koreans are poor and £150 a year does not go far. When the boys reach a certain age, sixteen or thereabouts, they think they know all that their teachers can give them, and desiring further education drift off to the plough or the shop, or to some school in Chemulpo and Seoul, where schools aim higher than we can.

One need undoubtedly is for a school to meet these cases, not very numerous at present, but which are likely to increase in number. There is a scheme in the air of combining with a school in Seoul which has approached us on the subject, and if this can possibly be arranged it would, at any rate, give us some experience in the work of what we may call " Secondary Education." It will cost about £120 a year to begin with and this has been guaranteed for two years at any rate, but nothing can be settled till our conference is held in June.

Then beyond this, we want a special school for the preparation of Catechists and teachers and for the future clergy. This is at present in the future, but I do not doubt we shall find a way in answer to the prayers and efforts here and at home where the need is realised.

Others are up and stirring: the Government is doing what it can, but money is scarce and so are books and teachers; the Y.M.C.A. is doing something, but there, too, funds are not very plentiful, though far in excess of our small income; the Roman Catholics are founding a school for which they have obtained £50,000, so it is said, from the sale of the Religious Houses in France. The Presbyterians are pulling up their school in Seoul and probably have the best school in the country in Pyengyang. The Northern Methodists have two fair schools in Seoul, and the Southern Methodists are putting in good work in Songdo (fifty miles north of Seoul, the former capital of the country) for which they have received some £3000 lately from America. Then they are making a great effort in combination to found a University in Seoul and are sending a strong appeal to friends at home for £200,000 for this purpose, and they will get a good sum I have no doubt. I leave you to draw the inferences that follow from these facts. We have so far asked for £150 a year and don't get it.

If the Seoul school I speak of comes to anything we shall at any rate have made a beginning, and in two or three years we may hope to have further help for what I feel is, as I have said, one of the greatest needs for the extension, or rather for the solid growth of our work.

I am yours truly, ARTHUR B. TURNER, Bishop.

Since writing this I have received from Mr. Mynors official news of the grant of £3,000 from the Pan-Anglican Thankoffering Committee for educational purposes. This gives us heart and we must prepare our plans to use it to the best advantage. Further news has come of Mr. Hodges' offer to help us with the Catechists' school and future Theological College, which we have in view, I will only say now, “Deo gratias.”

Association of Prayer and Work for Korea.

THERE are again one or two changes to be noticed in the list of our Secretaries. Through death, we have lost our Bassett Secretary, the Rev. W. J. Rudge, who will be much missed. He has always been a good friend to the Mission, and has for the last few years carried on the splendid work done by Mrs. Rudge for Korea. I shall be very glad if any member in Bassett or Southampton will volunteer to take his place. It would be sad to lose so important a centre, and one which has been in existence for nineteen years.

We are delighted to welcome Mrs. Staley as Local Secretary for Rosliston (Derbyshire). Having been for many years a member of A.P.W. and a keen worker for the Children's Branch, she comes as no stranger to the Association, and we are glad, too, of this opportunity of opening up work in this county. Rosliston is our only new centre this quarter, but I hope it will be followed before long by others. There is great need to extend our Association, and I shall be very glad if Secretaries and members will suggest to me any from among their friends who would become Local Secretaries.

Miss M. Langley on beginning her missionary training at Portsmouth has been obliged to resign the Local Secretaryship at Leamington, and we are very grateful to her mother for taking her place. Miss Badoock has been successful in finding a Secretary at Herne Bay, for which we are most grateful to her, and to Miss Barnes, who takes up the work in that centre. If more of us could follow the excellent example of our Secretary for Bayswater, and not only find someone to carry on the work we leave, but start a fresh centre in the place to which we move, there would be no lack of growth in the Association. We are very sorry to lose Miss May at Balham, but hope that it may not be long before her name finds its way into MORNING CALM again, as Secretary in another county. To her successor, Mrs. Winterton, and to Miss D. Sankey, who has undertaken the duties of City Secretary, the Association tenders a warm welcome.

St. John's Missionary Guild at Highbridge, Somerset, is now affiliated with our Association. The Guild's primary rule of Daily Intercession is identical with our own, and we welcome this opportunity for closer union, believing that it will mean added strength to all our Mission work. I would ask you to remember this Guild in your prayers, as well as the "Guild of St. Augustine for the Foreign Missions of the Church," which has so long been associated with us. The chief event of the past quarter has been our Festival on May 3, a splendid day, full of hope and encouragement.

At St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey, and at the afternoon meeting the attendances were very good, and small though our numbers were at St. Paul's at 8 A.M., we know that at that hour Korea was being remembered in many other Churches, and that, even within a few hundred yards of us, eighteen of our city members were present at a special celebration for the Mission It was a great pleasure to me to have the opportunity of meeting at the Festival at least a few of our Secretaries, of whom I hope to know a good many more before long. The Festival must have filled us all with a spirit of thankfulness that the work in Korea has been allowed to grow so wonderfully, and at the same time have increased our sense of responsibility, and the need for far more earnest prayer and work if we are to rise to the responsibilities which are opening out before us. The following has been sent me by Miss Webster, our Local Secretary for Newcastle : -

"Friends of the Mission in Newcastle-on-Tyne, being debarred by distance and other considerations from Visiting London on May 3, kept the Festival locally, in simple fashion. At the early celebration of the Holy Eucharist in St. Nicholas' Cathedral, special mention was made by the Vicar (Rev. E. J. Gough, D.D.) of Bishop Turner and Korean work, and at the Parish Schoolroom in the evening, a selection of interesting lantern slides were viewed by an appreciative audience. The Rev. E. L. Owen (Priest-in-Charge at St. Nicholas' Mission, Newcastle) ably fulfilled the duties of Chairman, and some interesting remarks were added by the Rev. H. H. Barff (Northumberland County Secretary for the Korean Mission).”

Our new A.P.W. Secretary for Bournemouth has lost no time in beginning an active work for Korea. At a very short notice Miss Blaauw collected enough goods to furnish a stall at a "Far East” sale, and was able to realise nearly £15 for the Mission. Such efforts are well worth making, and this sale is, I hope, the forerunner of several others to be held during the year. Miss Seccombe is very grateful for the many contributions she is receiving for her stall at the S.P.G. Sale, and wishes to take this opportunity of thanking those who have sent their gifts anonymously.

Our new centre of A.P.W. at Liss began its life very auspiciously on April 1, when through the kindness of Fleet-Engineer and Mrs. Morgan a drawing-room meeting was held, at which Bishop Corfe addressed a gathering of some fifty people, and £3 8s 11d. was given to the work of the Mission. It was a good beginning and we hope that under Miss Bell's care the work will grow and prosper. Miss Keary, Secretary for Stoke-on-Trent, full of zeal for Korea, has addressed a Mothers' Union Meeting on the subject of the Mission at Longton, Staffs., and it is much hoped that through her energy and that of Mrs. Arthur Bailey, one of her members, it may be possible to form a centre for A.P.W. at Longton.

During the summer months people will be away from home, and it will be difficult to carry on much active work for Korea, but I shall be extremely glad if every Secretary will use for considering how the cause of the Association may best be furthered in his or her own particular centre, during the coming autumn and winter. With this number of MORNING CALM is published a list of Clergy, who will be good enough to help the Mission, as far as they can, by preaching or speaking for it. Do let us show our appreciation of their services by making some use of them. I shall be delighted to hear that dozens of meetings are being organised, and provided that we are given long notices, I do not think that anyone need be disappointed of a speaker. MAUD I. FALWASSER.

LIST OF CLERGYMEN WILLING TO PREACH OR SPEAK FOR THE MISSION TO KOREA

London and elsewhere, with long notice. The Rev. Canon Brooke, Bishop's Commissary, St. John the Divine Vicarage, Vassall Road, S.W. The Rev. A. G. Deedes, Vice-President A.P.W., St. John the Divine Vicarage, Vassall Road, S.W.

During Advent and Lent- London only. The Rev. W. E. Robinson, I. Eagle Mansions, and Stoke Newington, N.

Cornwall and elsewhere, with long notice. The Rev. Canon Corfe, Trevré, Truro.

Lincolnshire and elsewhere, with long notice. The Rev. H. F. Goffe, Thoresway Rectory, Caistor, Lines

Midlands, Birmingham and neighbourhood. The Rev. M. N. Trollope, Bishop's Commissary, St. Alban's Vicarage, Birmingham. Rev. L. Mitchell, Curdworth Rectory, Birmingham.

Northumberland. The Rev. H. H. Barff, The Vicarage, Wylam R.S.O., Northumberland. Durham. The Rev. W. M. Wykes, St. Andrew's Vicarage, Spennymoor, Co. Durham. In and near, Scarborough. The Rev. F. Fleetwood-Crombie, 21 Royal Avenue, Scarborough. In and near York. The Rev. T. E. B. Guy, Fulford Vicarage, York. Diocese of Liverpool. The Rev. W. E. Kingsbury, Clergy House, Wigan. Neighbourhood Burton-on-Trent. The Rev. L. S. Staley, Rosliston Vicarage, Burton-on-Trent. Worcestershire. The Rev. J. H. Waugh, St. John's, Worcester. Diocese of Ely. The Rev. S. Addleshaw, Gorefield Vicarage, Wisbech. Sussex. The Rev. F. H. Brewin, 26 Brunswick Road, Hove, Sussex. Wiltshire. The Rev. C. L. Sanders, Charlton Vicarage, Salisbury.

Children's branch.

DEAR CHILDREN, - You will all be sorry not to have a letter from Miss Falwasser this quarter I feel sure, but as she is busily engaged with the general work of the Association, she has passed the Children's Branch on to me. Many of you, as you grow up, will go on and join the adult branch, so later on you will again be hearing from her about the work in Korea. I said many of you, but it will, I hope be all of you. Having begun, you will not get slack or leave off this work of prayer and other work you can do for the Mission. The work in Korea is daily increasing and needing more support and we must do all we can to go forward. I have not yet met any of you, but I do hope we shall become friends. But, please do not let the writing be all on one side. I shall be so glad if some of you will write to me and tell me what you are doing, or ask me anything you may want to know about this work we are all interested in. I will not promise to answer questions in the next letter! I am new to Korea and its people, and it seems to me that the missionaries and the Sisters are all so busy at work out there that they have not much time to write and tell us all they are doing and lots of little bits of new we should like to have.

A picture has been kindly sent to me for you. These are the boys from St. Paul's School at Chin-Chun. Do you know whereabouts in Korea Chin-Chun is? If you look at a map you will see that it is a long way south of Seoul - about sixty miles-and is the most distant of the districts. There are about 200 Christians in the district, including about thirty quite small children. I wonder whether all of you have a map of Korea. There are some nice-sized ones that the Bishop had printed, which I could let you have ; each branch might like to have one, and perhaps some children one of their own. They are 1d each. Well, to return to the picture, what do you think of all these little people ?

Some of them might be taken for girls with their long hair and baggy clothes. It is a long time since we had any snow, but when Mr. Gurney sent this picture over he wrote that they had been keeping their Patronal Festival with great gladness. Early in the morning they had a procession round about, outside the church, crunching over the deep dry snow, and later in the day Mr. Hewlett had taken the boys out toboganning on the hills. These are some of the boys, I dare say, who enjoyed the fun. And now I want to tell you how much more schools are wanted to help forward the Mission in the future, and so will you, in your daily prayers, pray specially that help may be forthcoming - and pray not only for the Koreans who do not know how to help themselves, but pray that more children over here may be alive to their duty and privilege. We want so many more children of England to help in this work. I think the money sent, for which I thank you very much, will show how much in earnest the children are to do what they can. The youths and girls and boys from Newcastle have sent a splendid collection and also our new friends in Battersea. Best wishes to you from your friend, MABEL SEATON. Beavor Lodge, Hatch End: June, 1910.

Hospital Naval Fund.

The Executive Committee held its 80th meeting at the Royal United Service Institution at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, April 13. Present: The Right Rev. Bishop Corfe (in the chair); J. R. Clark, Esq; Rev. S. H. W. Lovett; Capt. J. H. Corfe; C. E. Baxter, Esq.; and Rev. S. J. Childs Clarke. Letters of regret were read from the Chaplain of the Fleet and Rev. J. C, Cox-Edwards. Those who read the H.N.F. notes in April MORNING CALM may remember, that we drew attention to the apparent falling off in subscriptions through offertories. This was, at all events, partly explained at the present meeting by Rev. S. H. W. Lovett, to whom offertories earmarked for H.N.F. had been sent, amounting to £36, and by him passed on to S.P.G., supposing that S.P.G. would pass them on to us. Through some misunderstanding, however, this had not been done. In future Mr. Lovett will hand them over to us direct, and they will appear in our Balance Sheet as hitherto. Dr. Weir's Annual Report is being incorporated in the Annual Report of the Mission, copies of which should be received in due course by all our subscribers, all Chaplains of H.M. Ships in commission, and our Vice-Presidents and Local Secretaries. Rear-Adm. David Beatty has become a Vice-President of the fund. C E. BAXTER. Hon. Sec. Ex. Com. H.N.F.

St. Luke's Hospital, Chemulpo.

FIRST QUARTER, 1910. The beginning of the year has always certain features of its own in the hospital work of Korea, for about the middle of February occurs the Korean new year, and though this is not quite so great a holiday as it is in China and is not now observed at all officially, it is still to most people the greatest of festivals, when new clothes are worn and friends visited, so that all who can wish to be at their homes, and only those who are homeless or too sick to take any interest in life are willing to stay in hospital. The Korean staff also want to be allowed to join in the general rejoicings and it is necessary to close the out-patient department for about a week to allow them to take turns off. The net result always is, that for the first half of the quarter work is getting rather slack in preparation for the new year, and during the last half it is rapidly making up for lost time as the spring sets in and brings with it, as in other countries, a burst of sickness.

This year has not proved an exception to the rule, but the work never got as easy as it has done in some years, and the increase has been more than usual. The women's ward has often been quite full, and for some time has not had less than half its beds occupied, while the second male ward, which had not been used for more than a few days since our return from England, has had to be called into play again.

The striking feature of the work has been the numbers of in-patients and particularly the number of medical cases suitable for admission who have presented themselves to the hospital. It is quite a new experience in Korea to have nearly half the in-patients without wounds, and it looks as if the people were at last beginning to realise that the foreign doctor is not merely a surgeon. Some of the cases too have been very seriously ill, and there is very little doubt that it is not a particularly unfortunate season which has brought them to hospital, but rather that they and their friends are beginning to understand that it is worth while bringing such cases for treatment, so that the usefulness of the hospital is likely to increase. There is also noticeable a greater tendency to bring accidents at the time of their occurrence instead of waiting some days, with the result that better cures can be obtained. Thus we have great cause for thankfulness.

Another aspect of these same facts calls for your prayers, for serious medical cases require much more nursing than most ordinary surgical ones, and the ones we have been having together with some severe operations, have involved a great deal of night work and consequently much strain on the whole staff. We have no one who is free to take on night work pure and simple, and though it has not in the past made much difference, as it was rare for even a single visit at night to be necessary, this last month or so has put a new complexion upon affairs, and though there is now a lull it is not very likely to last. Probably the best solution will be to get another Korean man, so that having two men and two boys it will be possible to put one of the men on regular night duty when necessary, and though this would not entirely relieve the foreign staff, for they would have to attend to anything serious that might arise, it would at any rate save them from sitting up simply to watch.

One thing that is presenting itself as a problem is the question of our financial relations with our patients. There is no doubt that it is best to make a charge, for they value more what they pay for, and many of them can well afford to contribute even more than they do; but at the same time the existing system seems to press hardly on some, and it is not uncommon to find that a patient has stayed away through lack of money, sometimes under the misapprehension that they will not be treated without payment, but more often simply because they do not like to come empty-handed when others are paying. The charges made are quite small, but even so are very frequently remitted, yet time and again patients will take enough medicine for a few days and stay away for a month or more till they think they have saved enough to pay another visit. With the in-patients the problem is different, for these hardly pay at all, some few do, and this year already a larger number, have paid the full amount asked than ever since we began work here, but their payments do not go far towards providing their food, and probably most of them cannot do much more than they do. It is, however, almost impossible to tell what they can afford, and the difficulty is made worse by the fact that it is so easy for the Korean staff, who are not all Christians, to take " squeezes " from the patients, instead of letting them pay the hospital all they might really be able to. We do not know that this has ever been done, but it would be good oriental custom, and is quite easy to carry out and almost impossible to discover; so that if some way could be devised to keep the temptation from them it would be in every way desirable.

HUGH H. WEIR.

St. Peter's foreign Mission Association.

THE Sister Superior's Report of the work amongst the women of Korea leaves no doubt of the need and urgency of steady unfailing support of the Sisters' various works-Evangelising, Orphanage, School - both by prayer and alms; and the hopeful outlook in all these branches makes one feel that all that has been done hitherto is as nothing to the possibilities and opportunities now opening out before us. Let us see that we make the most of them. The date of the Sale of Curios, &c., at the Associates' Bazaar is December 1 and 2, and the place has been changed to the Grosvenor Hall, Buckingham Palace Road.

The Day of Intercession and Thanksgiving at St. Peter's Home is on Tuesday, December 6, Feast of St. Nicolas. Through a mistake a sum of ₤5 was acknowledged in the April number of MORNING CALM as an anonymous donation; it should have been notified as part proceeds of a Sale at Bath, per Miss A. B. C. Drake. SISTER HELEN CONSTANCE, General Secretary, S.P.F.M.A. SEOUL: May, 1910.

WHEN writing some account of our women's work last year for our kind friends in S.P.F.M.A., I mentioned that we hoped to have about twenty of our native helpers here in October for ten days' instruction on what to teach and how to teach it. When the time approached we were in the midst of a serious outbreak of cholera, and though our Christians were preserved from it, it was not safe to bring country folk into Seoul. The men waited and met here early this year for instructions and a Conference with the Bishop on various matters connected with the growing Korean Church; the country women from non-infected parts met at the time appointed in a small village called Sanjikmal, near where Sou Won and Chin-Chun districts adjoin, and had ten days of study. The Rev. G. A. Bridle gave the instructions, to which they were most attentive, and after each lesson went through it again with a Sister, revising their notes and making sure that they had fully understood everything. Having none of the attractions of the capital, the women were able to give their undivided attention to what they were learning and were most industrious in their efforts.

As some could not even read when they became Christians only two or three years ago, their present knowledge and power of teaching others does them credit.

Owing to the increased number of villages asking to have their women taught Christianity, and where there are as yet no Christian women ready to teach their neighbours, we have made some rearrangement of the Mission women for whom the British and Foreign Bible Society supplies the salaries. Sarah, who at first worked in Seoul and then began the work in Sou Won so successfully, has been moved and begins again in the village of Poutari, in the farthest part of the district. Monica has gone to live at Pyengtaik, where she had worked from Sou Won, and can now make it a convenient centre for some ten or twelve villages within a radius of ten miles. Eunice, who did the work in Chemulpo and amongst the patients attending St. Luke's Hospital, has given it into the hands of the new Catechist's wife, and is pleased to have a larger scope for her energies and power of teaching in the town of Sou Won and its adjoining villages. Helena is still giving her services and only her travelling expenses are paid. Anna, an elderly Christian from Chin-Chun, is helping also for a time in Sou Won district villages, in order to learn how to make herself more useful nearer home: her salary also comes from the B. and F. Bible Society, which supplies the only paid Mission woman in Mr. Gurney's large district-about the size of Yorkshire! We have been too shorthanded to do much in so large a tract of rough country, where the nearest centre is a day's journey from the railway. Two Sisters spent three weeks there last July going about from village to village teaching and examining the women who had only had instruction from others who knew but little themselves; nevertheless their zeal and desire to learn the truth and practise it made up for their deficiency of learning, and a large proportion were baptised and have been since confirmed. The return of Dr. and Mrs. Weir to Chemulpo in the autumn enabled Dr. and Mrs. Laws to remove to Chin-Chun, where through their kindness and hospitality a Sister has been able to go alone. From there she takes the Mission woman, Deborah, with her to the villages -returning occasionally for a good night's rest and a bath! She has just returned from a three weeks' visit and again given the last lessons to a number of women before their baptism and confirmation -three regular classes a day besides private interviews with each. The women are so anxious to learn, they come all day long from early morning to late evening, so that a journey round the villages in either Sou Won or Chin-Chun district means heavy work for the time being, compensated by the pleasure it gives and the perseverance and gratitude of the learners. The cost of journeys beyond the Sisters' walking powers is a considerable expense, and we are especially grateful to two of our Associates for helping us. One has given us a regular contribution for extra travelling for some years past, and another has lately enabled us to buy our own jinrikisha for Sou Won, where the roads have been remade by the Japanese - it would be as useless amongst the mountains of Chin-Chun as across the paddy fields of Kanghwa. The Sisters have many odd experiences in new villages; as the people become Christian the Mission woman gets them to understand that Sisters need at least a separate room of one kan, eight feet square, but even there privacy is not much and a curtain and string are a necessary part of their travelling equipment. When the Christians build a chapel they usually add a tiny room which can be used by Sister or Priest, whichever happens to go. At the time of baptisms some Christian family prepares a "prophet's chamber" and offers hospitality. In my last letter I told of the building of the Girl's School at Sou Won, so kindly given by one of our Associates. It was opened with a Service of Benediction on St. Peter's Eve by the Bishop. There was a large congregation at Evensong in St. Stephen's Church, in spite of the heavy rains just begun which prevented a procession to the school and also kept away several of our friends from Seoul. The sun did come out after the service began and shone on the bright dresses of the children, who always resemble a flower garden with their brilliant colours. The school is doing good work, the average number of day scholars keeps steadily to about thirty-five, and there are added twenty boarders from various villages. All are making progress in their studies, reading and writing Korean and Chinese, geography, arithmetic, singing, needlework, and still more important, Christianity. A number of girls, nearly all the first class, were baptised last Christmas; their families followed and were prepared by Easter for baptism and confirmation. One little girl, who was very ill, entreated for baptism before the rest, and her heathen parents not only permitted it, but themselves came forward for instruction and have become Christians.

In Seoul the Korean Church, especially on the women's side, has become so crowded that the altar is now being moved back into a sort of apse so as to give space for three more rows of worshippers. You may remember that we are using the wards of the Women's Hospital, built by Mrs. Bird Bishop on one of her last journeys to the Far East. We cannot possibly enlarge it further and can only hope that funds may be found for a large Korean church before long. The congregation is poor, but it does all it can -provides cleaning, papering, fuel, light, and last year a fair-sized bell. I believe the people were trying to collect for a new church, found it so hopeless for years to come that they bought the much needed bell and then began again!

The services in Holy Week were well attended and the women not only crowded to the church on Good Friday, and behaved with reverent devotion, but many remained there most of the day, evidently engaged in private prayer. The addresses during the three hours were given by Koreans, who had taken great pains in preparation and spoke well and fervently. Before the daily Evensongs at 7 P., a Sister began to give a half-hour's class on the events of each day; the women were not satisfied, and asked if she could not spare time to come at 6 P.M. and give them an hour ! They came regularly and punctually and showed that their Mission room is already much too small. Some of the villages round Seoul, where we were doubtful of the reality of the inquirers and left them for a time, have come forward again and shown they are in earnest. A Mission woman goes and stays for a week at a time, and a Sister spends a day once a fortnight, and has been surprised to find how much they have learned. They began with learning to read, so can now study for themselves. Some were baptised at Eastertide and a larger number are preparing for Whitsun Eve.

St. Peter's Orphanage has kept about the same average of numbers; two of the delicate girls have died. One, Helena, had been with us eleven years; she was of a consumptive tendency and about the size of a child of five. Neither seaside nor country were of any avail; she faded away in spite of every care. There have been two marriages: Anna, seventeen, into the chief family of a Sou Won Village; her husband and his elder brother are doing what they can to help their neighbours and have had a chapel built. Anna is a clever girl and can teach girls and young women when she gets over her first shyness. Agatha, one of the "young widows" We have been training, was baptised on All Saints' Day and married the Tuesday before Advent to a widower in Chin-Chun district, who says his blind mother is devoted to her, and she taught the old lady and brought her to be baptised last month with great delight.

Now that we have an energetic local editor my report is likely to be all stale news. Please forgive it. It is difficult to find topics of interest in the sameness and routine of the women's work year after year, and what I am anxious to tell you is simply how it grows and spreads, and to thank you again for the means of carrying it on you so generously provide and for your many prayers on our behalf.

Yours gratefully, NORA,

Sister Superior, C.S.P.

Acknowledgments. AMOUNTS RECEIVED BY THE ORGANISING SECRETARY SINCE THE ISSUE OF THE LAST NUMBER OF MORNING CALM. GENERAL FUND () SPECIAL FUNDS () Festival Accounts. ()

Local Notes.

SEOUL-The attendance of Korean women at church in Holy Week was so large that Mr. Badcock is having the church lengthened to accommodate the increased Sunday congregations. The Sister who teaches the women held a class before Evensong during the Holy Week, in which to consider the events of each day of Our LORD's Life, which we then commemorate. So many assembled daily for these classes that there was scarcely room to stand in the Mission Room. Good Friday was well and reverently kept, many Koreans remaining in church between the Services, evidently absorbed in devotion. The Easter Services were more largely attended than ever, although the rain on Easter Eve compelled some of the village people to postpone their Communion until Easter Monday. The Bishop officiated at the services on Good Friday and Easter, Mr. Badcock being in Chemulpo. One of the elder orphans, Anna, was married, on the Monday after Low Sunday, to a young farmer from the Sou Won district. Another couple, who had, before their baptism, been married according to heathen rites, received the blessing of the Church on their union, at the same time.

CHEMULPO.-The commercial school established by Government here seems to be attracting young men from all parts of the country and among others, two of our Christians are attending it, while others are considering doing so if they can pass the entrance examination. As this means leaving their homes and living among the temptations of Chemulpo, it is very urgent that something should be done to help them. The present two are living with the Catechist, but he cannot accommodate more, and it may prove necessary to establish some form of boarding- house for them. It is also hoped to start some sort of evening class to which those who are Christians can bring others and so try to draw them into contact with the Church.

The regular work has been carried on as usual in the way of services and classes. A small class for little girls once a week has been started, and during Lent a weekly class was held for women, intended to be a sort of Mission Service, and it was attended fairly well.

Mr. Badcock took the services on Good Friday and Easter Day and the English Celebration of Holy Communion on Easter Monday. St. Michael's Church, Chemulpo, has been enriched by the gift of a beautiful festal altar frontal, hangings, burse, and veil, presented by the Community of St. John the Divine, Toronto, as a memorial of the work done by the Rev. W. Mockridge and the late Rev. S. H. Cartwright in Chemulpo.

KANGHWA. We are glad to note the safe arrival of Miss Bourne and Miss France for women's work in this district. A teacher has been engaged for them, and they have already begun to study the language. We regret the departure of Miss Dixon. She came to us in our hour of need, and although unable to do any direct missionary work, yet helped us in many ways, and we miss her.

Women's work is increasing, and it is being pointed out to the men that it will be necessary to increase the women's accommodation in church at the expense of the men.

The Girls' School has received much opposition and its teacher some persecution, but it is gaining ground in spite of this. Efforts are being made to start two more schools in the district, but it is difficult to get suitable women teachers. The Boys' Schools are increasing and now number eight in the district (including Paikchun school). Two new school-houses are being built.

A part of one of the forts on Kanghwa Island, where some years ago the Americans and Koreans had an engagement, has been bought and turned into a chapel. (N.B. - Kanghwa is a fortified island, but its ancient fortifications are useless now. The Church is fortifying it with churches and chapels nearly all the way round!) One new chapel is being built and one rebuilt. "The Wood of Martyrs is the seed of the Church." On an island midway between Kangwha and Chemulpo, called Shiru Sum, the descendants of a man, martyred in the great persecution forty years ago, have decided to embrace Christianity, and some thirty or forty people have joined the Church.

The Baptisms in Kangwha will, it is hoped, take place at four centres on Sundays April 24 and May 1. The candidates are of all ages and come from various parts. One contingent comes from an island opposite Chemulpo. The Bishop hopes to visit Kangwha to hold confirmations in Whitsun Week.

The Parish Councils have worked successfully, but as some of the evening meetings last on to nearly midnight one Missionary suggests an "Eight Hours Bill" for the Missionaries, Catechists, and Teachers who complain of headaches.

Holy Week and Easter Services were well attended. During Holy Week many came twice a day, and on Good Friday the addresses on the Passion, given by Koreans, were listened to with great interest.

A heavy rain on Easter Eve prevented many from coming to church to make their preparation for their Easter Communion, but Easter Day was fine and there were good congregations at the Eucharist.

Three permanent memorials of Mrs. Hillary's loving work among the women are being provided in the Island. First, a stone cross over her grave. (A large number of the Christians assembled to erect this, and it required some hundred and twenty of them to drag the base of the cross up the steep hill to the cemetery.)

Second, a silver chalice and paten have been presented for the church at Onsoutong. (This was made by a Korean Roman Catholic in Seoul.) Third, a brass plate has been given by the Koreans themselves, who also designed it. (This is for the church at Onsoutong, and will shortly be put on the wall of the church over the seat which Mrs, Hillary used to occupy there.)

All of us who knew her, Koreans and foreigners alike, will not need these as reminders, but they will serve to perpetuate the memory of one who gave her life for the people of Korea.

Sou Won-Owing to Mr. Bridle's illness most of the country work in Sou Won district during the past three months has been done by Mr. Cooper, who visited each mission chapel monthly, celebrated Holy Communion, baptised several children, and admitted a number of people to the Catechumenate. He took his magic lantern with him during his January trip, and each evening held a lantern service in the open air, the native Catechist explaining the pictures and preaching to large numbers of heathen.

During Passion Week Mr. Bridle was able to go through the country district, and during h is visit admitted seventy-eight people to the Catechumenate and baptised one hundred and six Catechumens.

The Bishop visited Sou Won Church on January 24, confirmed forty-six people and stayed overnight in order to keep the first anniversary of the Consecration of St. Stephen's Church with our people.

At St. Stephen's Holy Week Services were well attended, especially the preparation classes for Holy Communion. Unfortunately Easter Eve was so very wet that none of the country who come in here for great Festivals were able to arrive in time for the Easter Day Eucharist, but the greater number of them have made their Communion since.

CHIN-CHUN.- This year the number of Baptismal candidates is larger than usual. Priest and Catechist spend their time largely touring the district teaching and examining the Catechumens, &c. A good deal of chapel building and enlarging small places of worship has been done in the spring. In most cases help (never so much as half the total amount) has been given out of Mission Funds. We are hoping to try during the coming summer to train five young men for future work as Catechists. We sadly need: (1) More Priests so that the district may be divided ; (2) A house of the Sisters of St. Peter's Community, that the women may be better taught : (3) More prayers on our behalf that our lives and work may be more spiritual and efficient.

PAIK CHUN - On Sunday, March 6, eighteen adults and ten children were baptised in the Chapel of All Saints', Paik Chun, the two previous days being spent as Quiet Days in preparation for the receiving of the Sacrament: 6.0 A.M. had been fixed as the time for the service to begin, but long before that time everyone had arrived, two people coming in as early as 3.0 A.M.

During the last five months the Rev. F. Wilson has been living at Paik Chun. It only needs a priest to live here permanently for the work to develop as it should. Work has been started in two new villages, and there has been an increase of zeal in two or three of the other villages. A chapel is to be built this spring at a village called Solmotchi, about fourteen miles west of Paik Chun city. Help has been given towards this by the city people, but no help is promised or expected from Mission Funds. At another place called Hong Hyun arrangements have been made for part of the village school to be used as a chapel, we in return contributing towards school expenses.

Two stories from a village called Kouam might interest readers of MORNING CALM.

Seven or eight women from this village had been attending services in the city church for the last two or three years, but only one woman had shown any great zeal. This woman fell ill, and called in the believers in the village to pray for her. Finding, however, that she did not get any better she put back all the devil things in her house, and called in a sorceress, and strange to say She got a little better. One would have thought as a result of this that there would have been a further falling-off of the women from this village, but the unexpected took place. The other women had a meeting and decided that henceforth they would be more diligent than they had been before, and would show greater zeal, or else, so they said, they might fall into the snares of the devil as this other woman had done. The consequence has been that now instead of only five or six women coming into church, some fifteen or sixteen women have come in, and so what at first seemed to be a loss, has, by the grace of God, been the means of bringing others to Him.

A man from the above-named village Kouam was a Baptismal candidate. His wife, however, was very much opposed to Christianity and persecuted her husband in such a way as only Korean women know how. If he came to church there was no food for him that day; if he left any books about they were sure either to burnt, or on his return to be covered with filth. As he had destroyed his ancestral tablet, his wife was so enraged that she set all the heathen in the village against him, and be experienced some very rough treatment, the villagers threatening to burn his house down. Still the husband remained firm and went on steadily preparing for Baptism. The wife coming into contact with the women mentioned n the former story was gradually influenced, and eventually decided that she would like to learn the Holy Doctrine, and she came to church for the first time about three weeks before her husband was baptised. This woman who, three months ago, persecuted her husband because he was preparing for Baptism, is now herself learning to read so that she may know about the truth of Christianity. God indeed works in ways which we know not of.

Our thanks are due to the Rev. D. C. O. Adams, of Princes Risborough, for a donation which has enabled us to put a font in the chapel at Paik Chun.

JAPANESE WORK. It does not seem to be of much use to go on repeating in the same magazine the same tale of woe, of opportunities and needs always increasing and the means to meet them in men and money remaining stationary or growing less; so -though this burden is always with us- this report will dwell on the brighter side. There is much to be thankful for. The case of Kurose Benita San, mentioned in last quarter's report, has been taken up by the Women's Auxiliary Missionary Association of Canada- (what should we do without Canada?) -and she has now left for a two years' course of study at the Theological College of Sendai in Japan. Though not a qualified worker she gave a great deal of help in Sunday School work, and visiting, and her absence will be felt by Miss Pooley on whom, now, the continuance of this work will fall. Mr. Guttridge is making further efforts to be of help, and Miss Inaba will come from Seoul as often as possible to work among the women. There is every prospect of Mr. Aoyama having to return to Japan. For several years past he has been giving his services to the work in Chemulpo, and has held weekly Bible classes and taken Japanese services and preached on Sunday mornings. These will now have to cease- at least temporarily- as there is no one at present to take his place. The exchange of a Catechist (Ika San) for a Priest at Fusan will soon be accomplished, At the time of writing Mr. Iki is just starting for Shimonoseki, where he has been appointed to work, and it is Mr. Sharpe's intention to go to Fusan to tide over the interval until the Japanese Priest comes, which will probably be soon after Trinity. This will mean the reduction of the Celebrations of the Holy Eucharist in Seoul by at least one half. But, after all, the Church there will be no worse off than the Church in Fusan has been for several years past.

We may be thankful for our Holy Week and Easter. The church in Seoul was not exactly crowded at the services, but as the number of services was far more than they have been accustomed to in previous years, we may be thankful for the response they made. On Low Sunday we had a new experience, and one which we hope may often be repeated. We were pleased to welcome at the nine o'clock Celebration of the Holy Eucharist a large number of Korean Christians, many of whom communicated.

JAPANESE WOMEN'S WORK

FUSAN. -Miss Elrington writes: “The women's work in Seoul is going on much as usual, but those whom we hoped would be ready for Baptism by Easter have had to be kept back a little. The progress is extremely slow, but it is steady, and the average attendance at the monthly' fugin kwai' (women's meeting) is almost twice that of last year. It is, however, the individual work that really tells, as the Japanese women will not ask for explanations, or do more than listen politely, when taught in a class. Alone, they open out in quite a different way. "Miss Grosjean now teaches most of the communicants, so that Inaba San has more time to give to other work. "We had hoped a good deal at the beginning of the winter that much might be done by holding small meetings for unbelievers, with an address suitable for them, at the houses of Christians but the perpetual moving from one street to another makes this most difficult, as the people do not get to know their neighbours before they again change their residence. So much, too, depends upon the earnestness and general demeanour of the people at whose house the meeting is held. "One of our most satisfactory families has moved to Yeitoho, about half an hour from Seoul, and whenever one of us can go down we can get in a really satisfactory afternoon's work there; but how long these people may stay, we do not know. The man is in the Post Office, and is constantly moved.

"On April 6, I came to Fusan to represent the rest of us at the farewell party given to the Catechist, Iki San, who is shortly leaving for Shimonoseki in Japan. I stayed only two nights at the Mission House, as they were beginning to pack up, and am now with Mrs. Engel, of the Australian Presbyterian Mission at FusanChin, who had kindly invited me to her house. I can work Fusan from there, walking in when the trains do not suit.

"There is a great deal of women's work waiting to be done here, and the people ate begging me to stay, so that I hope some plan may be thought of whereby I, or some one, can be here very much more. Fusan badly needs settled workers, and a proper church. "I had a delightfully warm welcome, and Mrs. Yasutake, who with her husband, a lawyer in Fusan, was baptised and confirmed a year ago, is giving me every possible help, taking me round to the houses, as Iki San and his wife are busy preparing for their move. "She and two other women who live near have arranged to meet at each other's houses in turn, and are most eager in receiving what instruction I am able to give them. The great want hitherto at Fusan, so far as the women are concerned, has been this kind of work among them, and it is encouraging to find that the desire for it is now strong.

"It is also most satisfactory to have one among their number who can give such useful help as Mrs. Yasutake is now doing. "I see many other openings for work, but was glad to begin with this little class.” Help the General Fund by sending to Miss Mabel Seaton, Beavor Lodge, Hatch End, for illustrated post-cards of Korea and her Bishops.

Wants.

SEOUL- Will anyone undertake to send altar wafers to one or more districts? Small crucifixes (for wearing). Small bright-coloured pictures. Please address to "Sister Edith Helena, St. Peter's Mission House, Seoul." Large school maps of the World and of Asia. () for knitting stockings and socks. Please address to: "St. Peter's Orphanage, Seoul."

KANGHWA – A chalice and paten large enough to communicate fifty persons: new books for the Kanghwa Library, pencils, notebooks, comforters, gloves, and any other small articles for prizes to be given to the school children. Please address to: "The Rev. F. R. Hillary, English Church Mission, Kanghwa."

Sou Won- Small crucifixes. Pictures for the Churches. Footballs. Knitted scarves, cuffs, and balaclava helmets for the schoolboys. Thermos flask. Please address to: "The Rev. G. A. Bridle, English Church Mission, Sou Won, Korea.”

CHIN-CHUN. - Coloured slides for lantern (not Bethlehem or Calvary Scenes). Portable Mensa for use on tour (Pratt & Son, 9, Tavistock St., Covent Garden). Small crucifixes (several hundred Christians eager to buy at small price : money goes to Catechists' Fund). Oxford Church Text Books  ; "Mediaeval Church Missions," "The Future State," "The Apostles' Creed." Price 1s each, Rivingtons, Covent Garden Kind people who pray for us, please try to supply these needs. Address: "The Rev. W. N. Gurney, Chin Chun, Korea."

PAIKCHUN -Lantern slides, both Biblical and secular. Material for Vestments. A Cope. Books for the Library at Paikchun. A set of Nelson's pictures, Old Testament Series. Address: "The Rev. F. Wilson, English Church Mission, kanghwa, Korea."

Acknowledgments. CHEMULPO. - To the Community of St. John the Divine, Toronto, for the beautiful festal Altar Frontal, Hangings, Burse, and Veil, presented in memory of the Rev. W. Mockridge and the late Rev. S. H. Cartwright. Sou Won - To the children of the Catechism of St. Peter's, Great Berk hampstead, for a new Sanctuary carpet. CHIN-CHUN . -For Sacred pictures from Croydon, and from the Mission Pictures Association, per Mrs. J. W. Heare. For three Crucifixes (additional) from A.P.W.; one per Miss H. E. Merriman. For four Oxford Church Text Books from Edinburgh. Four crucifixes from Bury St. Edmunds PAIKCHUN-For the donation from the Rev. D. C. O. Adams, of Princes Risborough, which has provided the font for the chapel here.

The Spirit of Missions.

THE MISSIONARY CHARACTER OF THE CHURCH.-" Missions are not merely a philanthropic agency for the benefit of individual men. They are the essential and necessary outcome of the Divine character of the Church, inasmuch as she is the extension of Christ's glorified Body. That Body extends itself not merely by lapse of time and the increase of populations, but by the warfare of Divine life operating with a redemptive claim while Satan still seeks to hold mankind under his dominion."-Rev. R. M. Benson, S.S.J.E.

THE CRAVINGS OF THE HEATHER WORLD.-Mr. John Mott, speaking at a recent Missionary Exhibition, says that: "It had been his opportunity, during recent years, to visit all the continents of the world and many of the islands, and wherever he had gone he had heard a voice summoning the Church of Christendom to put forth far greater efforts on behalf of the non-Christian world. He had heard the unanimous voice of the trusted and expert missionaries ; he had heard the voice of the most discerning, the most large-minded, and the most spiritually-minded of the leaders among the Christian or the non-Christian nations, and wherever he went he also heard the deep undertone of the voice of the need of their brothers and sisters in the non-Christian nations who are still outside Jesus Christ. Their need was indescribably great."

OUR RESPONSIBILITIES.- “ We cannot deny that with us, more than any other nation, rests the responsibility for evangelizing the world. Can we imagine ourselves yielding the first place to any other nation under heaven? If we do not take care, we shall have to yield it, willingly or unwillingly, to America, who, with not a tithe of our foreign possessions, is running us very close in missionary endeavour. But for Very shame we must claim the front rank. For God has enlarged our Eastern possessions and given us an influence with Eastern nations accorded to go other power."-Sir W. Mackworth Young, K.C.S.I.

INFLUENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. -" Without fear of contradiction from anyone who knows the facts, I affirm that the influence of Missions is felt to-day through the length and breadth of Southern India in every class, from the highest to the lowest. "I affirm, further, that there is a great and growing reverence for Christ even among "conservative and aristocratic Hindus,’ and that the most outstanding religious tendency, at all events of their younger men, is to try how much of the teaching and the spirit of Christianity they can read into the forms of the ancient faith." - Rev. Dr. Miller, Principal of the Madras Christian College.

INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER.-The following remarkable testimony comes from a writer in the Indian National Missionary Intelligencer: - "In reviewing my life I cannot but feel sure that the chief agency which created in me a liking for Christianity was the sterling character of a Christian gentleman. The Tamil pundit in the school in which I was reading for my matriculation was himself a convert. His character, compounded as it was of the elements of love, truthfulness, humility, and integrity, fascinated me. I really admired his God and his Saviour, because I realized that it was his Saviour who ennobled his life and produced those beautiful traits of character which I sought for in vain among my fellows, friends and relatives. This admiration gradually led me to the feet of Christ."

A GREAT TRAVELLER'S APPRECIATION OF MISSIONARY WORK.- “At the Mission Church at Kötgur, in the Himalayas, rather more than two years ago, the world-renowned explorer, Dr. Sven Hedin, who had just returned to civilization after his travels in Tibet, was one of the congregation. Before leaving Kötgur for Simla on the following day be generously presented the Rev. H. F. Bentel with the gold watch which he had used throughout his two years' journey, in token of his sympathy with and appreciation of missionary work. The watch, as Dr. Hedin desired, is to be sold for the benefit of the work in Kötgur."

CHRISTIANITY AND MOHAMMEDANISM.-" An English woman who had had unusual opportunities of knowing many different kinds of Mohammedan women was once talking to a learned Oxford man on board ship. Both were returning from Mohammedan lands, and in the course of conversation the learned man said that in his opinion the religion of Islam decidedly elevated the men who embraced it, and therefore it was a pity for Christian missionaries to try and convert Mohammedans. "The woman replied, 'And what about the women?' “The learned man fairly gasped. ‘I-I-I tell you fairly. I have never thought about the women.' And then because he was just, as well as learned, be added, 'I am very sorry I said what I did, for I see that my conclusions are absolutely valueless because I have only studied one half of the subject.'" "One day I was talking to some people upon a verandah in Ng'ambo and I told them a story of some converts, women and children, who were martyred in the Boxer risings. I suppose I was crying a little when I finished, for an old Arab with worn garments and deep sunken eyes looked up from a mat in a corner and said gently. ‘Weep not, my daughter, for they are in peace.’ "A bystander instantly reproved him, 'La! La! la!' and this angered the old man and he stood up and spoke to the little crowd as he leant against a post of the verandah, where we were sitting. “ ‘The story-teller will hear stories,' the old man began. ‘I repeat that they are in peace, and I know what I say, for I was in China at the time, and I know that every word the Bibi says is true. Yes! I have seen a Mohammedan teacher nailed to his mosque who saw all his converts recant before his eyes. Some of the padres also saw the same. And I have seen those who valued their God more than they valued their skins- some of the padres also saw the same. So far, I found no difference between Christians and Mohammedans, the difference lay with the women. We men should never have expected our children, much less our women, to be martyrs, but the Christians did, and they were not disappointed. I see again the little group of Christian women and children standing beside the river. One word and they could have purchased a shameful freedom-one word, but not one would speak it. And what struck me above all was this : those Christian women and children realised the full meaning of the situation. They looked backwards and they looked forwards, and they understood that the honour of their God and the propagation of their religion depended upon their answers. There was no need to teach the children, they were already taught, for their mothers had taught them. And they died, and their bodies were cast into the river. And weep not, my daughter, for they are in peace!' "And the old teacher, with a lad on either side of him, turned and went slowly out of sight, the finest specimen Islam can show - the utterly devoted man, and because his soul was pure he recognised the higher when he saw it."

The Cross AGAINST THE CRESCENT.-" The great danger to Christianity is the Moslem peril, which marches steadily on, systematic, devoted, aggressive; every Moslem missionary, every group of Moslems planting a mosque. Against this is the march of Christianity northward from South Africa through Rhodesia, southward from Egypt through the Sudan, eastward from the Gold Coast, westward from Uganda and Zanzibar, the forces of Christ planting a barrier in the sign of the Cross upon Africa. But it is all on too small a scale, too few workers, too little money, too little love, too little prayer. If the devotion of the bome Church to the interests of the Lord of all the earth in His country of Africa, were at all comparable to that of those whom He has called into the field, the problem would be solved."

AX INDIAN CHRISTIAN MARTYR. - In the December number of the C.M.S. Gazette it was mentioned that a convert from Islam had, on his own responsibility, crossed the frontier to preach the Gospel in Afghanistan. We learn that his temerity has cost him his life. He was named Abdul Karim, and was at one time one of the workers at Baunw. Mrs. Pennell (Dr. T. L. Pennell's mother) wrote thence on January 27: - "While here he was always more or less restless and wanting to go to Quetta. At length he left us and went there; then without permission given, he crossed the border, was taken prisoner, and on refusing to repeat the 'Kalima,' and saying he was a Christian, he was taken to Kandahar, where the Amir then was. He questioned him, and on his again refusing to repeat the ‘Kalima,' and saying he had come to preach the Gospel, he was ordered to be flogged, put in chains, and to be taken to Kabul, where he was to await the return of the Amir, and unless he changed his mind, would get due punishment

"We heard that, heavily chained hand and foot, he set out with an escort for Kabul; that at the villages he was spat upon, and the hairs of his beard pulled out-and at length the poor, weary sufferer, at a village before reaching Kabul, was murdered. We have heard that the Amir, on hearing of the murder, ordered the people of the village to be punished."

CASTE AND OUTCASTE.-The Bishop of Madras writes: "A little while ago I visited a town which has been for the last fifty years the headquarters of one of the five districts into which the Telugu Mission of the Church Missionary Society is divided. During my visit I distributed the prixes to the Hindu girls of the Mission Girls' School in the town. The Schools are attended largely by the daughters of the leading Brahmans, merchants, and high-caste families of Ellore; but I found that every single teacher in all the schools was a Christian woman of out-caste origin. It is only a few years ago that the Mission High School in the same town was four times emptied of all its Hindu scholars because a single Christian boy from the out-caste classes was admitted as a pupil; yet here were the out-castes actually teaching the Brahmans! And this is by no means in isolated case. In many of our Mission Schools and Colleges Brahman students are taught by out-caste masters. The hereditary custodians of learning are actually sitting at the feet of the despised out-castes."

A HARDLY-WON TROPHY. In an account of some converts baptised last year, Miss M. Hughes, of Kushiro in the Hokkaido, writes thus of a retired schoolmaster : "We came across him early in the year as we went from house to house inviting the children to Sunday School. He was learned in the wisdom of Confucius, gloried in Bushido, but disliked Buddhism. He had read parts of the Bible with a prejudiced mind, regarding it as foreign teaching unsuited to Japan, I lent him books from time to time which he read eagerly and criticized with much bitterness. However, his heart seemed harder on every occasion we visited him, and finally it seemed best to leave him alone. With the autumn came a great change in Mr. O.'s health. He had a presentiment that he would not live very long, so he sent for our Catechist, who on arriving found him very weak and not able to talk much. He had written out a confession of his sins, expressing regret for his rudeness and for his obstinacy in resisting the truth so long. He begged to be forgiven, and finished with the words, 'I surrender to Christ.’ He asked for baptism at once, and was very disappointed to hear that the Catechist had not authority to administer the sacred rite. Fortunately Mr. Ito of Hakodate, visited Kushiro shortly afterwards, and baptized the old man in his bed before several heathen relatives and neighbours. During the last few days he used to murmur over and over again, ‘I Surrender to Christ, Surrender to Christ spoke to him two hours before he died, he was quite conscious, and passed away very peacefully."