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ly. and in the • y I had , mizawa | le mis- ‘ ge that apanese s asked

SfTrhcn we hastened back to Mr. MOood’s to meet a bunch of mission- »*rles, whom he had invited to tea, Sand talk with them of their work. Hand then back to Tokyo, to dine with Hl)r. Nitobe at the MacXair’s. He iis president of a government college tn ?Tokyo and a rare man. We spent the whole evening with him, muc>; to our edification and enlightenmeD^t in things Japanese.

if. We left Tokyo Thursday mornintii *fter a visit to the 'Meiji Gakuin (our’l jpresbytehan college). We had re- arranged our schedule so as to be present at the opening exercises, but alas! a misprint in the college cata- logue misled us, and we were in- formed that there would he no ex- orcises till the day following. How- ■ever, we met Dr. Ibuka, the presi- dent. looked over the campus and Jmildlngs and some fine young chaps iwho were playing baseball and ten- [pis, and caught our train at 11:50 it m. After an interesting ride of 'nearly twelve hours, marred only by ■the fact that Fuji again hid his gnowy peak in clouds, we reached jlagoya, and were soon sleeping the gleep of the just in the Nagoya Hotel. The next morning we spent an hour 60 looking over the splendid old tSeudal Castle, and then took train 'or Kyoito, arriving at 4 p. m., where have been most cordially enter- dned again by our friends, the Gor- »lds, who had returned to their e from Kamizawa. Yesterday I in had the privilege of preach- to a Japanese church and in the uing at a preaching station to a tong that reached away out into street: — but this letter is too g alread}’. ITl leave that for next e.

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py of Letter From the Rev. Minot C. Morgan.

Seoul, Korea, Sept. 24, 1908 Pi thiuk I told you last of our Suu- iay iu Kyoto, and of the rare privilege rhich I had of preacbiug twice to the ipanese through an interpreter, in ae morning in the Japanese church 'which the Rev. Mr. Sasaki is pastor, sd in the evening at a preaching ktion. And what do you think, my lorniug sermon is to be printed iu lapanese in pamphlet form to be used i the Japanese work in Kyoto and erbaps elsewhere. Poor people, I appose they must be short of aaterial, but anyhow it is a pleasure tlbiuk that I may be doing a little ^ork over iu Japan even after I get ame.--

The preaching station, where we went in the evening, is simply the home of a Japanese evangelist iu a thickly populated part of the city. Hike most Japanese houses it is made up almost exclusively of sliding screens so that the whole front of the house and two rooms deep may be thrown open to the street. We were in the inner room about two feet above the street level, where a number 'of Christians were squatting on the floor. In the outer room were low benches . on which an assemblage of all sorts of [people were seated, and out iu the j street, a dense throng, nearly blocking ]it, of passersby, moved mostly by I curiosity to stop and listen. And how I they did listen. After singing and I scripture and prayer, father preached Ito them fora half hour or so, and still they stayed. I preached for another half hour and still they stayed. Our interpreter gave them a fifteen minute talk and still they stayed. 1 don’t really know how long they would have stayed, if we had kept the meet- ing going, but it was getting late, so Mr. Gorbold distributed some tracts to them and we went home at the close of a glorious Sabbath day.

Early Monday morning, we went to the “Roshisha,” the Congregational College founded by Joseph Hardy Neesima, attended the chapel service, had a good look at that fine body of Japanese boys and young men, met Dr. Hasada, the Japanese D. D., who is president of the institution, and several of the faculty, went through the buildings and then hastened by jinrickshas to another part of the city to see another phrase of the Christian educational work, namely, the two tine kindergartens of our Presbyterian Board, which are under the leadership of Mrs. R. P. Gorbold (a cousin of Dr. IClelaud McAfee, of Brooklyn).

It was delightfully interesting to see Ithose wee children, fifty or more iu each school, as picturesquely dressed as Japanese dolls, going through their various games and mauoevres under the guidance of Japanese teachers, who seem to be ideal kindergarteners. (Ask Miss Budd 8hafer, who is an ex- i pert witness, if that is not true) . It is an important work, not only because of the Christian training which both children and teachers receive, but be- cause it gives these Christian workers auentrieinto the homes of all these children. I heard of several fathers and mothers who had been led to , Christ through this means, j Well, I could keep on talking about Kyoto for a long time, its castle and I palace, its temples, its j>icturesque I streets and people, its exquisite I cloisonne and damascene and Satsuma : pottery,; and cut velvet pictures and ! wonderful embroideries, but I must I hasten on to Nara, where w'e spent two interesting hours iu beautiful parks full of tame deer that run

around loose and eat outof yoiirband^ not timidly but with rude bolduc Kara like Nikko has many glorioiw big cryptomeria trees, and lots of old stone lanterns bordering the ap- proaches to the temples, and a Daibutsu (great image of Buddha) huge and ugly and not half so im- — pressive as the smaller one which we saw at Kamakura

Then from Nara we liasteued on to — ^ Yamada. Yamada was not on our original program but we wanted to go there for two reasons. The lesser reason was that the shrines of Ise there are the center of Hhintoism for

all Japan. Here it was that the em

peror came to worship after the war.

The other reason which really de- cided us, was that there is an interest- — iug mission station of the Cumberland churci) there, and now that we and

tlie Cumberlanders have united we

did not want to slight our Cumberland friends.

Twentj’ years or so ago. Dr. and Mrs.

A. D. Hail w’ere stoned by the people of YAmada on the streets, and after tlrey entered their house stones were thrown at them through the screens and windows. Tuey kept these stones, which now are iu the corner stone of tiie new Japanese church iu which the Japanese congregation with their Japanese pastor worshipped for the first time last iSuuday. What a" ciiange iu the life and view point of manj’ people this signifies, and what a

glorious reward of the heroism of

these faithful missionaries. The station now consists of Rev. and Mrs.

W. F. Hereford (who with character-

istic missionary hospitality took us to their Japanese home) and MissRiker, - whom he had met at Karuizawa. —

That evening we gave the boys of :■ Mr. Hereford’s Bible class a little talk, and the next daj’ went to the famous Shinto Temiiles and to Futami by the i seashore, and that afternoon by rail to I Osaka, arriving at eight p. m. and be- I iug cordially welcomed by the Rev.

1 Dr. D. A. Murray at the station. From the train we went straight to a preach- ing station and found a meeting i .-rimiiav to the .'-umlay niirlit meeting 1 at Kyoto.

The ne.\t ilay we siieiit at (*saka. j atlendimi (ii>l Mte Hiniiel i-erx iee ofJ ,I)r. Id umiv - Training .''Ciiool fori j j'lva nrfel i>l.'', a M>rl id' t iieological 1 I .-seminary, then tlie line mi ls' scliool, a i consolidation of ilie former I’reshy- j terian ami f 'nmlierland .-'cliools. We lal.so met several of llie Japanese I )ia>tors of O.saka. ami in the evening a 1 L’dodly mimher ol missionaries, Metho- idist, ('(/iitneeational and Freshyterian.

'I'ld-^ beside She ordinary round of I sigld--eein«r. lemnles. jiatrodas, the I ereale.'t hanmiii; liell in the world,

! weighing o\er lod tons Tn feet in j heiiilit. •'>-1 in eireiimlerence and in- ; .-eriiied within and \^ itimiil with a I multiUide of name- of .)U[)anese soldiers who fell in the Jtn->iavi war, etc., comjdeted our ilelightfnl stay at Osaka. NVe were already a week be-^ hind our schetiule, we had luomised H ^o Walter Erdujau to spend Sunday,

tlie2(>th; in Taiteii, Korea, and eio we decided to omit Kobe and Kaga.xaki and push on at once. We left Osaka with Mrs, Winn of Dairen, and lier daugliter, Mrs. Walter Krdman, on Friday at_6.30 a. lu.. iiy rail, passed tlirongh Kobe and Hirosiiima, and had. a glorious view of that marvel of beauty, the Japanese Inland Sea. We reached Shimonoseki about 8 30 p. m. aud t)y ten o’clock were steam- ing out of tlie harbor headed for Korea.

'^This next moruing, Saturday, I wa< on deck early to get mj' first view of Korea, where sucli a wonderful work of grace lias been in progress these past few years, and sure enough there were the dim outlines of lier mountains just beginning to be visille in tiie morning haze. We reached the dock at Fusan about 9 a. m. in a terrific downpour of rain, and found Waller Krdman w'aitiug for ns. W e boarded jinrickshas and w ere slowly jinlled m the sludgy-s(iudgy mud to the station, where we .saw the first broad <rauge railroad since we left America, to- gether with American cars aud Jlald- win locomotives. Hunuh for us I Fretiy soon you w ill be able to take through sleepers from h iisan to Paris via the Tras-8iberiau Jlailway.

After a most interesting talk with my good friend, itev. Walter .Smith, wdiom 1 knew in I’rinceion and who is now a missionary at Fusan. wetook the 10. oO a. in. train for TaiUu. and bud lunch in the dining car. Just I fancy that in Korea! Hut that does not mean that tlie days of luxury Inne arrived for the Kmean missionary as you will ))resently see.

We reached 'I'aiUu at 1 )i. m.. our baggage was put in ‘.jiggies’’ im the backs of men and carried for altout a mile to the Krdman’s Jiouse. the ladies were carried in clutirs. tty cooHies, aud the rest of us walked. A “jiggy” by the w a.^ is a devi-e made of a couple of ttig lot keti sticks ol'w ood iuid .strapiied on the backs of men. Hy means of it the Korean can carry tremendous tiurdens. W hat :i wali-. it was that we had through tliat filthy tow n! 'Diere is no drainage, the refuse of the city rots in the sun. tiie little mud hou-e' will, liialciieil roofs; |are jiacked lugeiiier will. lo. loom i.e- |lween. Iso w omier t hey )nt\'e a per- I (ect carnival .>( lypliiis and typlioi.l I aiiU clnnera and sm illi'O.v and lunei-: culosis and ma lai'ia. so far as geriH' i ate coiicei iieti 'I'aikii i~, I suppose, one ; of the most cosmopolitan places in the I world. Seven heroic men, most (d ' them medical missiouaries, have al-: ready .succumlied lo t.vrihiis, and iiav e j died the martyr’s detiln a~ tinly as i any early Clirisliaii who was cast in- | i to tlie Homan arena. 1 vvo men in the i ITaiku statinn alone have liad theii j battle w itii typhus and won. One of I them is m.y good Iriend and class-

I mate Piarry Hroeii, whose father was i| the first pastor of our church, aud the

II other is Dr. Woodliiidge Jiduisoii, the j medical missioiiar.v t)l' the station.

. tliougii it took Dr. .Johnson threeyeius j m America to recovei ins health.

Tiiere are nt mock heroics ai.out | those noble men and women al '1 ai kn. 2Sone of the ‘■now-walch-me-cio-the- 1 martyr-act” spirit for the benelii of the | galleries. 'I'here is not u poseur lo Hiel whoJe hunch. 'J'liey are as natural • and nnaflecleu, as lull of lighthearted- ness and wit, as though they were living a carefree danger free, luxurion- life with all tlieir liiends ahuut them ill liapjiy America.

Weil, Waller Krdman look me liii'ongh tlie city, down one little narrow crooked iane and up another,

I pointing owl the sights, soniewlial lollovvs: “Tiiis I- Fifth avenue, along [

I w hicii vv e are now gnmg. 1 1 ere is l’.Ii d ' istieeland Hroad w a v . 'I'his loftv one I story hiiildiiig IS the tlalimn tiuildinc,

I etc.” nil all '1 aikii must have thouglil jj had an atlatdv ol iivstencs. And ! what <jUeer ioid.lng peo)iic ate walk-,

' iiic tip and dowp iheseslieet' 'J'he j I hoys w iib their bunded hair, von can i j liHidl.v tell lidin Uie girls. W hen ! j they marr.v tliey liave tin iiriviiege ol '

I doing U|.' tneii bail in a lopivnoi . a ml wear a tdack partly trails part nt lioisc-; hair bat to luotecl it. It looks liseiij rat-trap with the rat inside. It i.-. 1 shaped like an inverted flowei-pot j with a straight brim: tindei it are [ black eyes, a ladt<l brown jnilty lilvei face, and usually a moth-eaten beard. : They wear flow ing w hite or approxi-| malel.v while lobes. W'e saw some fellows digging n p one of tlie streets, and It was a funny sight. One fellow holds the sjiade and two orfbnr others inill on roiies fastened lo the lower end of tlie handle. “'A .sim|ile de- vice” as Mr. Adams of the mission i says, ‘enabling live men to yio the! work of one.” |

The missionaries’ houses are at the' tO)i of a hill jusl lieyoud the i-ily , . where now ihe.v can get a little fre-h ! air ami borne fort. I!ut ho’ several ' .years they had to live in native | j houses ill tlie city. How they imssibly .

I endured it only love can expiaiii. 'I'lic ’work at'i'aiku is only ten years old.

J !\]r. Adams iHev. James K) and Dr. j .Johnson (before mentioned were the pioneers, and lor six year- not anoUiei foreigner came throng b. Now plenty L'.i Ibrougli as last a- they can on the railroad, but don’t slop in llii', one of tile dirtiest ol Korea's cities. i ,

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One ol the most thrilling meetings J I have ever attended, was a meeting ol the missionaries of Taikii .'sialioi., Saturday evening 'I'he liisiiopric of : ttial station, so io speak, is about ITo I miles long and 100 or so mile-s wivie. ' j and the men go on itinerating trips to j visit churches and groups of ", Ohristians, sonietimes walking thirty or forty’ miles a day in addition to preaching and catecliizing. ami in- cideniaily being away from their families tor weeks ;it a time. Well, the ] time had come when it was in their |j jmigmenl necessary to open uj) a new P -station at An Dong to tlie north. How simply it will read someilay in a missionary leport, ‘-one new station opened,” and how little the average reader will know of tlie lieroic self-

sacrifiee which made it |iossihle.*^t - will mean the roughest, seamiest, .J kind of pioneer work, unmeiitiouaiile- j, discomfoi ts and ex)tosure: it will mean a man’s separation from his family toi' a year or more, most of the tnue, and tlien taking them to tiial lemotej lieUi where he lias made some sort of a iiome for tliem, away from every- l>ody and everything. That is what’it Imeaiii when Mr. Adams and Dr. Johnson opened up 'I'aikn ten years ago. Hill at tliat meeling whicli'j at- le.idet! last Saturday night. Mi. Adam’s eyes fairly Nazed ( lie is one of tlie most magnetic men J have ever met as be said, “Oli I how I wisii I could uml Mtake it, there is no joy in Hie world like lieiug the first oi'ie to tiring tlie gos(iel to (leojile that never heard of it.” Hut Mr. Adams could not tie sjiared from the Taikn cluirch and tlie Academy. Walter lirdman wanted to go Ijiit Dr. Johnson ab- solutely forliade him because of his condition of health. Hrtieu could not he spated from the work he wasdoing. Me Farlaiid was needed in the -Academy, and fcawtell, a splendid big Xehraskaii volunteered to go. He had already talked it over with his iiohle wife and they had agreed to- gether to go wherever it seemed liest to the Mission that -they should go. They’ will have liardeliiiis but also the inexpressiUe joy which Haul coveted, of tniilding upon no other man’s foimdution, hut being the first to preach the gosjiel to tliose who liave never heard. What a meeting it was,

ISO liaruKinions, so ruled b.y the sjiirit \of love, so heroic in the truest sense.

Do you wonder that it set every lUire of my manhood tingling, and filled me with an almost uuconlrollatile longing to say ‘‘J’ll go too.”

And now 1 must tell yon aliont oiir l.Siinday at 'I'aikn. 1 have had a series (of wonderliil Sundays ever since J crok^-ed I lie I’acilic. J liave preached once or twice every Sunday, hut the Taiku congregation was the most re- markable o) all. They iire building a new cluiicli. but it’s not liuislied, so lliey stil! meet in Ihe old one, wliicii seat- five linndred sipiatting on the lloui a- cio'C a- sardines. 'J’lie biiild- in.g cannot i,o<sibly iiold the whole coiiLMcgaiii.n al one time, so tiiev’ meet in two sections. Fir>t the vvomeii canu-at !i a. ni.. •iiHi strong, ami fattier pieaclied lo Hieni. Mr. Aiiaiij' acting as interpreter. 'J'lien at 10. iiO came tlie men live hundred of then; inside, and a nuinlier (lut'^ide, and .1 preached to tiieni. Mr. ^\dam.s again acting as in- terpreter. H Was an interesting sigljt 1 leiiyou, lu see those men in their while Kiues. willi tbeir cjueer bhmk hats lied under their ehiim. and just as a tten 1 iv e as I bong h 1 w ere speak- ing liieir own longue, i'lfter tiie set- vice a lot of lliem cime forward to greet u-. \\'aJter Jerdmaii now acting a- interpretei said as eacli one vvould come along, ••JJe says lie sees you for the lii'.-i tune. Now you must how and say you see him for the Hr.-t lime. Fie sa.v.- !ii> nauie is Ha k a'lid is very gralclui fur y’oui hav ing come

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ir far to iinut; him tin^ gospe! anifssasrf wliicn helped him very P’liiiich. etc., elc. .And now ine Ivorean Christnin lake.' iu> liand i;i lioih <d his. an'ectionalel.\ .Miiiee/es u and pat' it. teil.s aeain hi' sriMtiliKle and then lolloped ny ain ther and mi ii eocs. (Ine can not tint he (Ira u n to snch a people, so .simide hearted and kindiy, so teachable, and wlieii taught an earnest in t iieir t 'lirist lan life.

At li\e o'clock we had an Knglisli ser\ice of in issuinaries and theii taniilies. w hich I was asked to add ress.

iMoiniay niornini: we vi'iied inc

HCadeniy and the hos)iital, two splen- did institution.', canahle of wdikiiie out with the church the tlalisfoiiiia- tion and regeneration ol' 'i'aikn, tint lioth ol them greati_\ in need of more adeiiuate e(|Uipment. .fir. Adams w as ,j not iai w ronii when he said "I know of no (dace w here t lie • 'll rist ia n man can lind liettergilt edaed iineslinietiis tlie Iviimdoiii than riLrlit iiere.” Oh, what a hold llie t'iuistian ^ lihV'iciaii iiere can get upon tiie liearls of Ills people. We saw a poor ho\ witli a 1 nlieicular an kle, whose faliiei had carried him a liundred miles on his own nark ill a Jiggy lliat Dr. .John- son niiglit operate. llis splendid worl. Is not only healing tne liodies of tliese poor people hiit leading th to the liL’iil. the true lightelli every man the world.

rAt one we left 'I'aikii for Seoul, arriving Iiere at eiglit p. lu . tint Seoul is a long story ami 1 will tell that next lime.

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/ Korea and Manchuria.

Dairen, (Dalny), INlauchuria, Sept. 30.

My last letter brought the story of our wauderiuge as far as Seoul, aud a delightfully iuterestiug city it is. It is a town of about 300,000 iuhabitauts aud the capital of the Empire. Hither it was, to the very center of I the Hermit Kingdom, that the missionaries of our cburcli came iu 1884, aud here, uudismayed by danger aud disease aud ojipositiou aud the slowness of tlie work, they labored through the early years, aud here un- spoiled by tlie pheuomeual success of the work iu later years they are laboring today, except that goodly number who liave finished their course and received their crowu.

• The very evening that we arrived, September 21, we were given illus- tratiou of the many blessiugs which Christian missious have brought to Korea, for Dr. Hir-st who met us at the station, a4id at whose hospitable home we were entertained duriug our stay in the city, took us at ouce to a Korean feast iu honor of the capping of two Korean uurses, by the nurses’ Iraiu- iug school of which Miss Shields is the head, lu two adjoiuiug rooms were two low tables, a couple of youug Korean doctors aud some of their male

assistants seated about cue, and the uurses seated about the other. If you could see, as I have seen, the un- speakable disease- breeding fifth of Korea, as it was aud is when un- touched by Christian influence, you would realize what an inestimable boon to these poor people, this traiued corps of doctors aud uurses will be. Our heroic missionary doctors aud nurses deserve high praise indeed for turuiiig out such a product from the apparently uupromisiug Korean lump, for they have done their work deuovo.

But, for some strange reason, the regeneration of the Korean’s heart aud mind has nut reached his gusta- tory nerve, otherwise lie never could have gotten auy fun of that Korean feast or any other of its kind, for ttie Stull which is served up for food is bad, inexcusably bad, ridiculously bad, preposterously bad. My long aud varied experience iu the Christian ministry (before reacliiug bummit, of course) has taught me the art of eat- ing almost anything uuder tlie sun for politeness sake aud “asKing no questious for couscieuce sake,” hut that Korean feast was my undoiug. The vermicilli a la hair oil and rice a la mud, were too much for me. M3’ iuuer organs as a unit, prououuced so imperative a veto, that 1 saw it was uo use, aud I grabbed a flue looking peach aud begau eating it for that seemed my 0UI3’ possibility of getting into the game at all. The peach with its f.Hir exterior was green as grass in- side, but the fate of Johuie Jones aud his sister, Sue, seemed far less terrible thau taking another Korean mouth- ful, so I munched away at my emerald peach regardless of the morrow, beiug convinced that suffi- cieut uuto the day was the evil there- of. 1 learned at the hospital that tlie Sliafers were present at tlie last nurse capping festivities at Seoul. I am curious to know whether they also had a feast of Korean dainties, aud furthermore whether tlie medical autiiorities of Seoul keep a few embryonic nurses on tap for tlie special delectation of emissaries of the Central Presbyterian church of Sum- mit.

The next morning, we went to prayers iu the hospital, led b3’ a Korean evangelist aud then insj'ected the building, (tlie gift of that large- hearted aud long-pursed Presb3’teriau elder, Mr. Severance) and its work. It filled us with enthusiasm. God bless the doctors of Korea (and their brethren iu a certain city, county of Union, State of Kew Jersey, of wliich I am ver3’ fond 1 for all their life sav- ing aud health restoring aud disease preventing labors of love.

Our next call was upon the Kev. James S. Gale, D. D., author of the “Vanguard” aud other books. He is one of the Lord’s noblemen, big and courageous, with a flue mind aud a great heart. I was glad to find him not only ttie beloved pastor of a great host of Koreans, I nt the honored friend of the foreign colony as well. An American, by uo means a mission-

ary, whom I met in ManchuriaS^id of him “Gale is all to the good.” He spoke at a missiouar3’ dinner at the Y. M. C. A. iu Summit ouce. Do you remember him V 1 was captivated by liim then, I love him now. Wednes- day evening we attended jirayer meeting iu his church. There were six hundred present, aud this is only one ol a numtier of churches in Seoul. Six hundred, think of it, ruminate about it, ask yourself what it means. I will tell yon wbat it means. It means that Christianity looms large to these simple Koreans. It is the wliole thing, and they know it. It has brouglit them out of the bondage of devil worship into the glorious liberty of the sous of God. Their love for Christ is the strongest impelling power iu tlieir lives aud the services of His cliurch are literally their chief delight, and as they come, the whole congregation comes, comes to prayer meeting, comes to Huuday school, comes to cliurcli twice on Sunday, aud how they listen when they’ do come. Fatlier aud I both preached to them that Wednesday uiglit. Dr. Gale act- ing as our interpreter, aud tlien a Jot of them flocked about us to shake hands, aud he introduced, aud tell us they were glad to receive our message aud were rejoicing in the truth.

An old elder iu that church, a Korean, is one of the most remarkable Chinese scliolars iu the Empire. To Chinese and Koreans alike such learn- ing carries witli it the highest social distinction, but this old man counting his social position hut loss, that he may gain Christ, is now spending his whole time as an expounder of Christianity to the many who come to ills house to inquire nrore pei- fectly (toncerniug the way of life. He led in prayer at the meeting, aud though I could not understand his words, I could not mistake tlie fervency of liis voice.

Of the many interesting sights which we saw in that city witii its present intermingling of east and west, of ancient aud modern, I liave time to mention just one thing, aud tha< is the Youug Men’s Christian Association. I had a letter of intro- duction from Mr. Andersen to Mr. Frank M. Brockman, the secretary, a *, ouuger brotlier of Mr. Fletcher Brockman, whose captivating aud in- spiring address on the “Literati of China” many of you heard at the annual Y. M. C. A.’diuuer a few years ago, and he was especially attentive to us duriug our stay iu Seoul. He took us one morning to the cliapel service of the Educational Department of the Y. M. C. A. and I had the privilege of addressing about one hundred aud flfty’ flue, ambitious youug Koreans, througb a Korean interpreter. The splendid new building of tlie Y. M. C. A., tbe gift of Mr. John Waua- maker, is nearing completion. They hope to enter it in December. Mean- time they are doing their best iu Die former abode of an ex-uobleman of Korea. In spite of tbe fact that it is a miserable ramsliackle oue-stor.y aflair,

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S dti defcS3wf#Iy‘tb'get’ my ■fiivt'AMeV of ■Korea, wibereMMicii'A' wonderful ^work of graoe iuk&ibeeu riu^progreee tliet<e pa^tje^y^r^ aodaure euougb there wereth^dim outlines of her mouutui tie' just beginning to . be visit le in the ■moroingiiaze.i-i'Wie'reacbed the duck att^usau abouti^ m. in -a territic downpouTiof raiu^'ikndt^found M'alter fi^dman waiting for us.' • AV« hoarded jiuriekehas aud were slowly' polled in thwsludgy-squdg^ mud to the statiou, ‘where^twe. saw the-4irst broad gauge railroadi siucet iwer.'JeCt - Ainerioa. to- gethenwlth dVmerican oars aud Bakl- ■wiuUooomotives./i lUurrah for ns’ u;* i ‘ 1ZiPretty>soon:you.wiil he able to take througli sleepers from Pusan to ^Baxis ^a)<tb«Tras^iberian .Hail way. /. :^After a*.m08tififterSstiug talk with myigoodifrieudy.Rev.nVValter Smith, ^^J'Wthom'd fcnew.in Ji^riucetouu and who, nmowiaimissiouary atFusau, we took" tte!fli0.30.’a;>m.t>ttrarn fur Taiku,i.and ihadijluunbM>ui 'Jther dining, car.'-' Just c^ey >thal:i«i<K<oreai!ii»jBut .that :<d6es dpt mean that the daysof luxury have tajcriVed foctbe; iKoreau xnissioirar^’ as . you striill^reseutiyisee.; n ■ dj^^p>‘ireHChecL ^I'aikU'at l .p. nuv-our. daggage jwas>"put Jml‘.‘jiggiesV.oii the , daaekam£ineii'i^d barrie<t for .about a' (mUf ettr theu'-Flrdmau’s house/j.the tladiesiowere -carriedc'Su ;.«hairs,>' by\ oooliies, and-lhe'icestof .us walked^■! A'' byjthe waj is a ■devise made wftaiaouplis'of big lOiked. sticks ofsvood^ andistrapped on, the backs of men. ^ By means of it the .Korean can carry ’ tremendousiiburdens. .’>What a walk ; itowasr that- we had throiigii tbat| Jiltby townl There is no drainage, the refnse'of the city rots in tlie sun, tlie little mud. houses witli t hate lied roofs are -packed together with tio room he- tweeu; No wonder they Jtave a jier- fect carniv^alrof typhus and typhoid •pud chiiiera and sm'illpox and tuber- culosis and malaria. so far as genus aieiconcerued Taiku is, I supfK>se, one ofithe. must cosmopolitan ]ilaces in the wbzid. •. .8eveu . heroic. oneu,. -most of themXmedical missionaries,., have, al- readyiBUccumbed to typluis, «iid have died 4be.martyrtfi ideatlr^as $ruly as' any early .Christian wlur -was .cast in- totUe Jinmau arena;r.; Two men in the Taikn^hstatiou alone, have: had their' battle with typhus and ■won. One of! them is my good friend and .class- ; matetHarry Broeu, -whose 'father was | the first pastorlof our .church., and the otheris Dr. -Woodbxidge Johnson, the medical.' missionary -c>f-Mthe. station, though ittnokDr. Johnson threeyears in Amyieado feeover.his.health..L. :.aj J--

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Well,-; jWalter*: Erdmau vfiMk' me through, the «ity,.<.dewQ .•ouer-'-tittle narrow orooked .lane ,and.:u n^smother, pointiitg nuHhe' sights/ somewhat as follows: “This is Fifth avenue,.,aiuiig which we are now going." Plere is’23rd street and BroadM’ay. This lofty one story huHdlttr-is the flatiron’huridiDgV etc.^’ till all, Taiku must have thought I had -an attack of hysterics-, And what queer looking people are walk- ing up auff down these streets." Tlie boys with their braided hair, yon can baldly tell from the- girls. When they marry tliey have the privilege ol doing up their hair iu a tojiknot, and wear a black jiartly transparent horse- haii fiat to prutect it. Jt.Jooks like a rat-trap with the rat inside. It is shaped-'Tike an ‘inverted -flower-pot with a straight brim.; undei it are black eyes, a faded brown putty like face, and usually -a luotb^eaten beard. They wear flowing white or approxi- mately white robes., We saw some fellow^' digging up one of the streets, andTt'was a fimtiy sight. One fellow bolds the spade and two or four ottiers .pull. -on ropes fastened/ U> the lower end plythe handle. |,“A simple de- vice’’,, as Mr.-'.Adams of, .the mission^ says',"" ‘enabling five men to the work of one.” • ' .i.-' <> ,

The missionaries’ houses are at tlie top'iof ai'hill just beyond,; the city, where now they cau^get.a little.fresli- aiy aud .home fort. But fo.r several’ yeafC’fhey had to' live" *io^ native houses iu tlie city. How they pos.sihly endured it only Jove can ex|>iaiu. Tlie work at Taiku is only ten years old. Mr. Adams (Kev. James E.) and Dr.- Jobusoii (before mentioned)- were the pioneers, and for six years notauotliex- foreigner came through. Now plenty go through as fast as they can on the railroad, but don’t stop in this, one of | the dirtiest. of Korea’s cities. i

One of the most thrilling meetings I j have ever attended, was a meeting oM the missionaries of Taiku Htatioi., Saturday eveiiiug.- Tlie hisliopric of that statiou, so to speak, is about 175 miles Jong. aud 100 or so , uiiles.,wide, aud the men go on .itinerating trips tp 1 visit ‘ cliurches “and groups' of Cliristians.-aometimes • wu I king thirty or foxtyiauiles ja.-day ..--iniadditiou' -to preacliing aud catechizing, and. in- cidcutgUy being' away from their, ffainilies for weeks at a time.;"Well, the kime had come •when it w«e in tlieir jjudgmeut ueces.sary to open up a new istatlou-.at «Au-JDuug.>.to 'the -north. How simply it will read someday in -a missionary report, “one new’ statiou opeLied,”«ud bow? little dhe .average reader.-Will ~k u ow 'of' the bcroKr~eel f-

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I Adam’s eyes fairly blazed (be is one of Itbe most magnetic ineu I have -ever imet) as he said, ’’Oh 1 how I wish J could uudirtake it, there -is no joy in tlie world like being the flrst one to Tiring tiie gospel to people that never ibeardof it.” But Mr. Adams .could not he spared from the Taiku church and the Academy. ' Walter Erdmau -wauted tp go hut Dr. Johusoii ab- solutely forbade iiim because of his |CondLtiou of health. Brueu could uot I be spared from the work he wasdoiug. Me Farlaud was needed iu the Academy, aud {.awtell, a splendid big Nebraskan volunteered to go: ? He had already talked it over with his noble wife aud tliey had agreed to- {gether to go wherever it seemed best ito tlie Mission tiiat they should go. They will have hardships but also the inexpressible joy wliich Faul coveted,- of building upon no -other man’s- foundation, but beiug the flrst To preacli the gospel to tliose who iiave never heard.'' What a meeting it was,' HO harmonious, so ruled by the .spirit: oflpve,|SO heroic..iu the truest seuse'. fDo you w,ouder that it set every fibre, |of my" manhood tingliiig, aud filled me,,wiUi. an, almost , uncontrollable- longing to say “I’ll go too.” j"),

' 'And now I must tell yon about -our. Sunday at Taiku. I'havehad a series of ivouderful; Sundays ewr since I crossed the Pacific.,..! have preached- once or tw'ice every Sunday, but the Taiku congregation was tlie most re-j ;j^axkable of ail. They’ are buildiug a I uew church, but it’s not finished, so ! iliev still meet in the old one, which 'seats live hundred -squatting on the I floor as close as sardines. The build- ing cannot possibly hold the whole congregation at one time, so they meet in two; sections. First the women _ came at Pa. m., .500 strong, aud fatlier preached to tliem, Mr. Adams acting a.s iuterpreter. Then at 10.30 came the men five liuudred of them inside, and a number outside, and ,I preached to tliem, Mr. Adams again acting as in- terpreter. It was an iuterestiug sight""

1 tell.you., to. see -those men iu their white robes, with .their queer black! hats tied uuder tlieir cliins, and just" as attentive as though ’J‘ w’ere speak- ing their ow'ii tongue^ After the ser- vice a lot of tliem came forward to." ■greet us, \V alter Frdmau' now’ acting as interpreter said us each one would come along, “He egys he sees you foi^ !the first time. Now you must"!bow laud say you see him for-dhe';^^! . Jtiulei. He says "Ills iiameJe-Pak'sJud- [is -veiy^grateJlu.l,, fqr_your -having come"

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