Address: Harold Voelkel (Civ Missionary), 63 Mil Gov!t Hq & Hq Co

A.P.O. 6-1, % P.K., San Francisco, California,

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indong, Korea, Sunday afternoon, January 5, 1947.

Dearest Everybody,

Greetings in the New Year. The Lord bless you all with a ereat 1947. I hope you've all started off with good health. For myself I think I ought to report that I never felt better physcially in my life, and I'm Indeed grate- ful for the good health I've enjoyed. I sleep like a top and the meals they feed us here^are all that money and the army’s authority and priorities can buy. We simply have the best of e verything, and I think of you each time I »it down at the table. In fact I make it a point to pray that the Lord will feed you, and also that He will feed the poor, for t here are so many of them here.” We have just everything in the way of meats, bacon every monring, gen- erous heioinrs of it, oork, roast, beef and beefsteaks, huge steaks, chicken and turkev. Reventlv the G.I.'s have been hunting pheasants °nd today 30 were nreoared for about that many men. Imagine it.' I frequently wash the mea s were sinroler.****That reminds me of something to pass on. In some of the packages' churches prepared for the Koreans they included Jello puddings. Che other night I met with the four local pastors, Kim of the big church, --m Ch. n now, Im Hock Soo who happened to be in town, and Vi Wun Yung, at the Central Church. The pastors wife brought in a drink that tasted good bait - ®ouldn t for the life of me figure out what it was. Then she explained It was . Butterscotch nudd inv nowder with hot water added. They couldn v rea , ggli sh on the na ckage and thought it was coffee so added hot. water and with- OTt surar and cream served itM is. Its a success. Try1 at some time. I lust carne from East End Church which today celebrated its first S

& inent After the Service we had Vo0k« y0<u remember wh ^

8 Spe la t fnous ma ss wi th shredded Kim Chi and vegetab3.es on top T we, given a bowl breed- soup at which I nimbled because I knew Sunday dinner w°uld

A , ±. -z -za t +■ w o q o v>?n uy service and the remarks of the pastor,

S?W 1*4. th. n.,d for for all

th,,. did dhd.r th, «!»".=., Tilt.

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T, the “ for my congratulatory remarks. Quite a coincidence',

T emphasized that we lach have 1. Gospel, not because we made it but because^fS^fjLus has done for us . Wh^t kind of a Gospel is ,*t P au 1 * s was a Gospel of resurrection and power. A Gosj - ^ » >

SScV «nd Ph,,ch.d .1th s *•«*<*»;• M*ylnr"“

5 n the new of th© church J. ie.^.^,0 - ,

nLiirjt’w^d'SavfL^

far 3 the 0.1,-s was concerned wad just_ that. I « gjrt on which

h kentd them1 all fc gu ardi ng the houses for an night for «

for that T fear we might have had some ^mkenness, ^^^ecttd to the le gi-l alert.-k Kim** T took ^^^queSS^we^

others together to B^over ^ questions of administration of

'ondhd’htvltc S

one in thejr of it Wednes-

slature in him and the to prepare for th mission affairs, m stations, etc. Phew, munjas, Chinese, when but I buns

of of

etc . ,

but T hung oVn^ v ^ :V-sS alone with Kim the next morning and evening i SP •

, Then,

to get ideas in d e tail

for

2. ^ he mirht be expected to have more light to shed or the • situat 5. or thato thewdimi* oountry P^tor, but I 'm af.tr* id # reactions are th*t Ms polit- \c9H activity and Ms much learning both here and in Japan haven1! given him any • It ood? It, dement over Yi wun YunS and the. other, whose heart, and minds ar*

Illumined by God's Spirit and who put what to try mind ape JSEh because

the church will . .. - - ^VtahUshed on a rirhebus foundation, which is

^ {KhSssiir1^1 cTas %-

U*£Zll?*ry whence st^ed^'hstbis electlon^was^the^wlll^of^the ^people* _

whereas everybody. pleasant mannered, with a. gift for frisnd-

eering. He is an able ts.uow, v &» J i , for his ^leadership . Increasing-

rhip. But he's paying a much too high aPf — congregation, and when

ly I hear reports of drinking among the member ^ of t . -y^stepped ^ ^

j confronted • it wit tK©,;n ,£v ppilr reeling at the distfi-.

M*ht the army doctor here t old me he saw Dr.,PaIk corner to the army

SSlon <* WmV P.U.T, »d oth.r (By S eet^Sh.^ibl.

hn.aquart.ps arvmk. Tt» ”rJ tr.-lrs to inter. »t the Kore.ns In r«P»**-

tirS5r»~» “« * 4 r. us*s.

JSirtS nere-itentiohea there m.«, £«*“£>&£» S“ho« tL f”lt-tP.e

they disappeared when Kinv SfJL^rhuroh" was in charge of the local agricul- land was sold in back of the A' n0i -h ^ ^ the head of it, and the meetings tural young mens' associa \idru . V- o ali ground making anti-American

were held in our Bible Institutd.He t ^ T ,ve met him a few times

speeches, and as a result is in ra -h g mope information and more evidence

and he' very pleasant tou me and u i Mother example of an able fellow

I can't confront him with things. t ■ ^ t a time it w ill be when the

who fell before the subtlety of the - ap ■ imeR3v consciences are cleans-

revival comes, and all relief packages have

ed. May God grant it soon. - - Vn t Mt our wash-woman Kim Sj and her

hf»en Gertrude, you !1! be happy V -» 4i. "CVid Thev are grateful for a

husband were both in church this “JJ"1 Jof's wi'fe’is on the committee and

number of things they received. in\ ^ ',.h, The clothing is so much

S?Sd a list of an the families ^f^^Uve of the missionaries end more of a personal reminder of the , we ml(Tht glve them. They are more

their friends in America .than, snythi ^ gnotional experience to see the

grateful than I can aa.y, and i E " Rnd 0f V;raps which we take or

children running around in s, P cane wTth a letter of thanks for the

granted in America. Adams y™ SJ;aJ baok had an American cap on, . lo°.^dsl

things she got, and the g d f it This morning our Washing - im ■

so warm and snug. I prai se the Lord a.sking you why you were sending

had a skirt made of material *hieh T rememl ae as K J stood, grateful

if out! It was just "a piece of newly mended which went to

T'm sor~v to have to say that n»a^y, ma y v a ^ gtHl enroute. It ls i m ou v ir at*v possioi^ un.H t -- o •nfpvi^TSR'DST* hs® an

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packages addr©

ven !t received tne

Janu ry £ d bless you all with a great year in 1947. For myself, I never felt better physically in my life, and I'm grateful for good health. Recently the G.I.s have been hunting pheasants and today 30 were prepared for about that many men. I declare, these days race by.

Prices are still running away and commodities are disappearing. Homespun cotton cloth has doubled in price since las t Fall. serious. To have American things come now makes the people aeep_y appreciative of the love behind the gifts. They are more graceful than I can say. It gives me an emotional experience to s.eH.rean children running around in such pride over wraps that are taken for granted in America.

Tan,8The one thing and the choice thing and the great thing we look to Godhto give us is REVIVAL. I. trust Hirnfor it in His own good tim and in His own perfect way to His own praise and gl /•

JSn’ ^Tomorrow I am to take the two services at the local church, and beginning Monday thru Friday I am to lead morning pra ye ^-meetings at 5:30 a"m! Ve - re looking to the Lord no bless us , and I believe the time is ripe for the revival, we ns^e been pleading - or •

Last Sunday was the first anniversary of the reopening of our East End church^ now on the former Shrine property. I was in^ed to attpnd the celebrat'* on, a service followed by refreshments. One old

“epSaiSl Sder circumstances as

that which Cm “re died in the Japanese army.either

ills?*

Mini, thank you for personally and

°r°”S till the^glasses* fitted his need exactly. It delights », soul.

safe

“sTgJehYlessJw Wo easily, we Mai realise the cost of revival 10 ^vThe^ef feet ua^ferven^prayer1 of ^a6 righteous man sv.ileth much."

Andong, January 6, 1947, Dearest Vett, Mary, and Father,

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Thanks so much for your Christmas letter and the enclosures* I am most grateful to have these likenesses of you, to know how the years have treat- ed you and also to see what a beautiful home you have* I must confess I have given you rather absent treatment, for the weekly carboncopy letters are not all that I would like to send you* Father looks the picture of -contentment as he sits their reading his magazine. Youfll be interested to know that the Committee here approved the idea of having the two books

O. T* HISTORY and LIFE OF CHRIST printed, and that action has gone on to the Board where I hope things will get going soon. Father will be grate- ful for this I know* I was showing his picture to my former country cook who works around the house here for the M.G*, and he spoke appreciatively of a kindness of Father fs to him. It seems the cookfc boy was ill and Father hearing that the family had no money for wood, gave the cook five yen to help out the family exchequer. That boy is now 19 years old and

is working for the M.G* It seems Father had told no one at the time, so now after these years the good deed is returning for its recognition. May the Lori b3e ss you for it and make up for the 5 yen.

how goes it? I haven1 1 had a ohat with you for years and years, and there is all that war experience to go over sometime. From my time in the array I *11 be able to appreciate many of your experiences, although there is a difference between service here and overseas. I don’t see many nurses over here though they doubtless have them around the big hospi- tals. I would certainly not recommend any girl, from what I see here, going overseas, for the h vel on which many of these military men live is about as low as an individual could go. It is an unnatural and impossible life, and I pray daily that God will use my life to offer a challenge to all the felldws here. I fve rather lost track of your plans far I haven’t seen a letter from you for a while. The last I heard it w as dress designing orsomethat to that effect. Is that still it, or have other fields called? You’ve certainly made a very great contribution to the home there in St.

P. especially during the time of all the selling and buying of houses. You’re quite the real estate authority by this time, and from the appear- ance of the house I can see that you have given it careful attention all over.

Vett, you’re still the able manager and efficient home-maker. The Lord will reward you for your loving devotion to Mother and Father these years. You’ve provided a beautiful home for them, and both Mary and yourself have the gratitude of the whole family. It was sacrifical of you to step right in and arrange things as you have. Now that you have this attractive place all set-up you’ll be able to coast along for a while, doubtless, andenjoy it with a sense of being ”putn for a while. Your ideas of keep- ingthe smokers are excellent and have my hearty commendation. The moment the fellows finish eating here they light up and all day the place is flood ed with smoke. The first thing in the momiigg, while getting out of bed they light up and keep at it all day. I’ve reached the conclusion that it hides an inferior complex for many of them. They just simply know what ejfese to do while hanging around. God’s been good to us all, hasn’t He?

I certainly enjoyed Esther’s letters telling of the childrens’ various activities and a ccomplihsments. they’re a great bunch. And Gertrude’s and the childrens’ letters make me grateful to God for His faithfulness. This separation isn’t easy for me for I miss my family more than I can say, but after all it is Gertrude who has all the responsibility and the work. But how lovingly and uncomplainingly she gives herself to our pre- cious youngdBrs. I am increasingly grateful to God for her. Our children

Andong, Wednesday afternoon, Jnauary B, 194^,

Mv dearest Obtrude,

How can T thank you enough for your wonderful letters, three of them that came Monday evening. Talk about an evening. The truck from Taiku brought them about 7.30 or R, and I was the rest of the evening until retiring, reading them. May/gg the Lord bless youi/iear hea^t and fill you to the brim with His joy, I came aero the picture of you alone, standing on Logu6s ’ lawn, and T was so thankful for you and happy over you I kissed the picture. I just love you so much, you precious darling*.' You are so thoroughly devoted and unselfish and dear. In the same mail a Christmas card from Mrs. Gillespie, and among other things she says th3s: f,Vour wife looks happy as only she could 1ookf with the peace of God in her heart. ’What a wonderful helpmeet he has given you. Also your boys, I talked to them the other day a jy oys. I 1 : pe you get t ojsee them soon . isn’t that

the kind of a letter a man falls to his knees in gratitude over. As only SHE can look with the peace of God in her heart" - yes and on. her ^ace and in all her ways. I trust this brings you a joy, my d ear and an inner compensation in the confidence that like Moses of old God has made your face to/hine .without Y0Ur knowing it. What a blessing He has given you, and what an inspiration you are to manv of God 1 s people. And tohat a delight to me. How blessed above many

I am, and I know it, and rejoice in God for it. May I show my gratitude ^n a

holy and devoted life. And our "mar# boys". Isn’t that just the phrase you would wish to be used in d escribing our bairAs, manly fellows. And I mustn t leave out our dear Skooks, charming, able, and consecrated young woman that she is. And now I turn to your letters, the first one that of Dec. 20. And Ger- Just let me thank you for the time you put into these epistles. I know you

you give* me through them. "The packages -nd the 900 letters - phew, te do jou do it. It kept us BOTH going in former years, and now you dash °£^verything by^

yourself. I r e member the time consumed previously in those Post Office lines.

Well I’m sitting here third 3 g to myself that- you skimp your sleep in getting it

a husband’s love permit him to urge you to^

slacken the pace. Whether I imagine it or not I can’t say but in this picture, taken in the Philippino dress, you SEEM thinner. Are htfsy to <~et weighed. And how about the Wilbur Jones, see anybody like them, rather the Lord through them.

.put, of' sight I know that, but God ninpr a bit to another letter) but

you? /Perhaps you* re too Goodness me, did you ever A turkey would simply be remembers us with the best. And then (I’m ski^- I can't help but refer now to the second turkey

overwhelming as I r ead of

which is absolutely us. I wept for joy .. , , ^

gracious of them and of God who led them to do it. say the least how the L0rd has led in the matter of with the piano and this f elllwship. The first year

in assuring us of the the kindness of the S.

How Mrs she

Lord’s thoughtfulness of Hollywood people. How isn

’t it interesting to Miller and the children was represented as second teacher,

sad in the material

tha t but the choice of

boot and we that sad experience with the other .

eirrohasis orie'e to be mid in advance, etc. For Mrs. M. to have won Ved&ys

E £ S.'SSi

» unsparing you are of X .75 oo.t

like for the kids, and something more personal fo^ ^ {ettar> of appreciation, and

tWi satisfaction to know Sat you all knew that I was remembering you and getting a gift of love and cheer for each of my precious ones.

I’m happy -to know 'theft Jack-’ now- has 9&lei d • 1111 have drop him a note

about that. Your walk all the way well, iTts just too bad I wasn't there to

walk with you and carry the bundles. My, but I’m sorry to hear of Hanier’s illness and the dragging out of all the arrangements. Poor t hing, the delay in itself will require patience enough. How thankful to God I am for my health. I trust you will keep me informed injdetail of your health my dear. And will you not write me more fully about Skooks "check-up". I’ll feel ever so much more satisfied with all the facts. You’ll trust me with everything, won’t you Gertrude. I know how readily you can reach a decision to "spare" me by not giving me all the truth when you have the confidence that a trip to the doctor with some medicine or a little treatment will clear things up. What I’d like from you is the assurance that you are always keeping me informed of everything. Shall* we do that? Please. **#*1 ’m interested ' and thankful that Jack is getting so much fun out of the scouts. The Scoutmaster either makes it or breaks it, of course, and as 16 ng as he is not going to take them out on Sunday hikes and jaunts next Spring and Summer, I should imagine it would be alright, It might be well to clear the atmosphere on that now, for if Jack gets into it and EVERYBODY else agrees to do something, it will embaijass htSun not to,***Teddy is certainly the poster boy, isn’t he, crazy kid, and I c n just see the whole house decorated with his art-work. Darling, please do HOT send me a $15.00 dountain pen and if the thing would write from now on for 50 years. Oh, what an idea. I've seen and tried the pens and its like writing with stick.

What a way to spend $15.00. "Sent to Hayfork”. "Hayfork” is good. Why not write with a hayfork. Gertrude its not the cost of the pen but the head and heart be- hind the hand that writes witht it. _ I ’ye given aviray only one of the army pens I bought'' for $.65, a'hd that was io Yung at his hankap. - I regard^ them as so

(precious I can't decide whom to too. Here's one thing you car^end me,

a mirror, one about 6 by 8 inches. that stands by itself that I can use for

shaving . It will have t o be w r,a dfegyfr *c JS f ' u 1 ly though for things are t ossed around » by the time they reach here. officer’s wife sent him a number of vic-

trola records and very few wer^^Ste^^^* There is a church in Davis, California, whom the Adams gave my name, I thiTrci^and the fellow that does up the stuff is a man after my own heart. Oh, its a sight to behold, the package securely packed, wrapped, and then done up in burlap, sewed . I just smile to myself in admiration of a guy whom I know gets an immense satisfaction out of knowing that he c ould

send the clothes to the moon and back without any fear of damage or loss.****

Yow your letter of the 23rd, Quote from Judy Duncan, "Thank you for your blessed presence". I know what she meant, Gertrude, she was thankful for the Holy Spirit's blessing upon your message, the kind of a meeting when you can feel God near. It seems to .me I've had a number of them in Knox Khurch with those praying people.

This is your weekly letter to the family gathering up the doings of the days, and what a busy family it is with such worthy activities. Its fun just to read what all you are doing, and of the kindness of friends like good Mrs White who calls for the boys. That’s a grand thing to do, isn't it, and it goes deep with me. May the Lord reward him richly for it. ves, Gertrude, I ldTre to hear Talbot

talk about Heaven and in his good, enthusiastic wav,- he makes you feel as though

he had been there and knew all about it. He really makes you homesick for Heaven, doesn't he? It ms awfully good of Shell and Ann to send the Christmas tree, wasn't it? My, what if it hadn't come? But it d id , and In good time, so we're "grateful tLo *^o<r for that, too. Hbarlhg ^you speak so, much, of Dr. Fuller, I'm won- dering whether I dare suggest this. This is a beautiful radio that ^brought with me, but apparently it is going to be a long time before the c urrent will be strong enough to operate It, In Seoul, they listen to the broadcasts continally, but here that can't be done* I know the portable ones, the little ^por table ones are terribly expensive, BUT in case someone runs into one that isn t so high that can be operated by batteries, it would certainly give me hours of enjoyment and blessing* to be able to tune in here and there. You would have t o send batteries. Or, if anybody has a little radio, one about the size of the one w e used in the kitchen (but under no circumstances do I want you to send that), one that would require only a little elec t** city , that w ould work. The broadcast sfrom Tokyo are strong and do not require short wave, so any cheap (?) (I know cheap in America these- days), little ’ radio, or any portable small outfit run by batteries will enable me to get the programs of the army that originate in Tokyo * And will you please find out from Fuller's headquarters by 'phone, when

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and by what stations they broadcast in this area. I »d love to hear a program of his over here And now dear, that blessed Christmas letter for which I know you reserved the whole of the Christmas evening, four full pages of just the loveliest news that a man could desire. The Holy Day spent in worship, in celebration of His birth, and in remembering each other with gifts, symbolized first in God’s gift. Jack is certainly the Dad of the family, more and more, and I ,m happy to hear that he took the oversight of %the erection of the tree.

How I can visualize the "room billowy with gay tissue paper wrappings". Was ever a family remembered so generously by its friends. Yes, it all s ounds so familiar and so good. And you there, thoughtful Mother, jotting down the gifts so as to be able to acknowledge them. The "gold-colored" packages sounds like Aunti Kee, too, doesn’t it? However, giving you steel pans in which to make roasts and pies for the rest of the family - that s ounds like the familiar gift of a barrel of flour by generous (?) sons to their mother of which to make them biscuits. Daisy wrote to me that she had sent the blanket, or rather tfarier did, as T remember it. I »ve gotten a 16t o^andy, and after being gen- erous to the other officers I still have plenty left. Bless Skooks7 heart for the gift of the pearl necklace to you. That 1 s the kind of gift I want you to have^ I see that from now on I shall look to our daughter for suggestions for gifts for you. Holden Dixon is also a man after my own heart with the gift of the Good Humor ice creams. Now that’s a gift. I fve seen the George Adams ’ picture of the boys. They sent one t o Ned. Gertrude, the ham and beef roast; Praise God. It just overwhelms me with praise to our God. Why in these diffi- cult days to be remembered this way is a miracle. And yet, it is just the Lddd’s gracious way, Gertrude I am so l&nely for you and the children, and no one would choose to leave his family without being absolutely sure it is God’s will, but when we do obey His leading, how graciously He indicates His pleasure to us. My, but I am thankful to the Lord Jesus for these evidences of His love a nd

care. Mrs. Gill esnie wrote about the quilt and said,fi^^^e tfnuH?ee it some

time". Yes, I She said the circle made it for us. Good for Herman

going into the ministry. But how I wish he would go t o Biola instead of a M ,E /seminarywi 11 steal his faith. The $50.00 will buy a lot of stuff, and your packages, Gertrude, represent a real wisdom in selection for you know what to buy. Some of the things the Board includes in the lists are really not to the ooint like thread and needles. The cloth pierces, the bargains you got at Rucky’s and Neelands, they are what count. You know from experience what to buy/ whereas Ila wouldn^t.* Trust your own judgment. I’m so grateful for Jack’s tithing his money. I’ll have to^rrite him about that. Did I ever tell/vou this .^bout Dr . .Apnleman. On the Joplin Victory coming out was a big hulk of a fellow xaSTwi ad been in the first war, in the army, with Appleman, ^nd at that time Apjfcleman was a mess sargent, Isn t that f\mny. vou know what that, •means, he was a cook and oversaw the preparation of the food. As I remember it he found the Lord while he was in the army. Now that dinner at Millers was the

musical time, wasn’t it. I would have loved it. I remember the studio and how

attractive it is. That is a fine idea too about New Years, and I’m delighted that you all can see the Pasadena parade. The kids in years to come will. get a satis-Q faction in being able to say that they saw it. How kind of you to give.the secon turkev away. My, how you’re pfccking up with a cement burner. That s high collar isn’t it? I can imagine how Bobby will be envied with his new bike, but. the noveltv and the paint will wear off it and then the whole neighborhood w ill be riding" it. I’m glad to get the financial account and to know that your heads are still above water and the 'family Solvent. But I knew you would be. of course, and I thank the Lord for it, but dearest, how many, many other rich things God has given us. Our cup is running over. Praise God, Hallelujah, Now darling, the one thing and the choice thing and the great thing we look to God to give us, ves, REVIVAlT Oh Lord, how long? I trust- Him for it in His own rood time, m His own oe-fect way, to His own praise and Glory. Dearest love to you all,

tKXU, .

Address: Paroldfc Voelkel (Civ Mis sionary) , 63

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Andong, Korea, January 11, 1947. ^

?®7see ?-ve7mo5d up a day in writing yea, Saturday night instead of Sunday,

Sii^ftS tl« V UouAipc for the

t^t 5e bavt been pleading with the Lord for, I haven’t an alar- clock that we nave oeen px - ,ptt1nr nD 1n tii"e**Mv, but I’m grateful

mailSUandWhow I thank you for your faithfulness in writing. Thank 7 ™

. Lou for the photograph. I •» ^ \ oof smoke s 'uP so

ill ^lhl?tS?S«Ut^t 'Have. a^^tn^^a^f KV?sW^^

aett-

is as patient (and as flow) as ?y^dap , of. it°is a”link with the past, a for the daily felllwship with Yx and Pak Sx,^xt my laul£ry wonder-

family fellowship. She darns soc.^ | J a wlfile, for the

There vras^ cor ,ic xtuat ^ ^RW style, that her husband

the woman called S- Si fh ’ ' V,ot thev called him. Poor guy, he’?

S'fr*srkv« —•«*» — - - be °aiu4

ginning looking revival and T ’m for the Sally

by his wife’s name was

, , . tn i n iur v and t had to call the of i icers

u ?? , *11 f i«d S The officers all think a lot of off and correct them. .ow its • - o that thev receive, fruit, piece-, of

Pak Si’s wor^nd^yat^egTJew si tuat ion that has arisen with the coming of silb. eggs, etc. An entire. _ m0nstrositv indeed. The tables are

Americans is Korean 3*S®°h ®n i ^ tQ out “,p with our msk e- shifts, the

being turned for whereas the Ko --a .TV the' verv limited English of these

Americans are having to grope alog Q 4 ,/ears 0f Middle School study,

interpreters who are young relliws *1 J- 5 «■ - „£ J no" (have o’ no) and "Have

One of the constructions worked ^ “thei dav and one of the officers wish- yes" (have o’ yes). It was col . through t he kitchen got this off:

■ing to comment on the weather as ■ * , n . ^s^t\2dop da have o’ ves". How

(Sowing tfc* to bo cold m Korean w« ’ me p?op?e S the Wl "hn-ch

about t hat Selling Sospels i 1 w to the market place and calling

were not long in learning that L ^s going each was too cheap.

Gospels and when they heard the price they . d . f >50 each. They

That was the price the Bible SocM g^eslions *£ged from 9 yen up. To satis- said I ought to get more, and the si^^es^^ ^ fhe price at 5 yen and went fy them and do the correctt thing l talk^slmost continuously for

fonth this week. BUT despite the : to tliTpeople to buy, I sold Pi hours, advertising my v/aAM and a£P b&H having gble up to 5 I feel I can't only 45. Apparently that s bo° b p ’sTt least f^a while. I think I better go back immediately to a low®^"n „ forth amain with a third price. *#*I had a wait a couple weeks beforesailing (If those involved relatives

wedding this week. The bride was a ^ stant, on <^0 ^ y oouldn*t beg off, of VI Ouon Chal. Hone of the w^aStors^wer noticed a young woman

and anyway a wedding is alw^ ' ^ ^Unfortunately ha^ had a slit upper lip, working around Yi's house, w . n whom Yi andhis wife had picked up

and" she was the bride. She was an orphan whom 7i ^ ^ very

a year ago and brought here and s%0ncSrning the groom who has

generous of Yi . I had to laugh at his reroarK business end of one

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After all ; ^oom is a we II ^pr op or ti pned young man; unaphooled, but po is the girl He’s been to church and* prayer meeting and has decided to believe, and impressed me as being an agreeable type of individual. I borrowed a camera from a G.I and took some pictures and it seemed to me that it w ou!3 work out as a good team. They hadn’t seen each other, I learned when Vi first came to see me go"i arranged for" a get-together at Vi»s house, and I made a point of it. to have Chaw ChangwNo ask the groom-to-be if he knew the girl had a split lip, for I didn’t want arv misunderstanding on that score. afterward. **Last Sunday was the first a nnivernary of the founding of the East End Church on the former Shrine nronertv and T was invited to attend the celebration, a sera/ice followed by food.

supoose there? no you remember Kale, that bright girl the Baugh, hah working with them at Bast End. she used to help Emms Sue with the school the Bauchs conducted in their home. Kale later married Yi Sun Gay, a young fellow who came In from mv territory first as a patient at the hospital and then an „iMee Wen, the sad news is that Sund Cray died, leaving Kale a widow with a little boy. Sunr Gay died of T.B. and apparently the baby has inherited a nhyscial wearness Whim. Kale is as bright and alert, as ever, Is now he Jailer in ttowomens' department of the prison. My, it embarrasses me the way*V thl Korean women greet me. Kale of course was just a kid whom we all admired Sr her faith and zeal, and she rushed up to a* with a genuine enthusiasm that mn q a little morr demonstrative than Korean ef/iqrette usu ■ • , Y,y

cour s e it was good to see her, but distressing tohear of her loss. Its hard iff poim for her to keep herself and her baby with the sky-rocketing prices of fve^thinP St speaking of demonstration. Kale's was nothing to that given me hv an old^prannv whose white hair and obvious years spared me. She just up and Hr™ hei arms around me. I do^now who she is excepting that she is one of the nYi faithfuls at Pup Sang, andber tears were a blessing to my soul, for Go d sotnet) the ini^e we have f elldwsMp together for a ime

and then been separated under/ circumstances such as took u^way ^rom • -.ore? .

Q , . _ nf» +->ip death of voun^ fellows we know , there are quite a _ew from

saddened une ne^ '<> u ^ * - . . . _ w T -^qa of thee e exner iences

they all yearn for Spiritual refreshing.^ had anoth r o t A» e exp ^ ^

this week that breaks me up Hs^tS^o , d S t ,• ,hbh rrnk^the movies if the old eld er was wearing glasses that *ouJ.ci nq_ were the

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Old pair of GQLD-FILLEP glasses, so I ^ ^ * r 0penin- the yes of

of his thank you letter; it is a classic. Thant VOu for

a blind man. Thank you for ne’" ® . thsnk' me personal lv“ cud. report

becoming eyes to blind me". Then he came up ^ ■ v,r J felt iike

that the glasses fitted his need exactly^ '■■t supfpoi e*,I ought to

I'd done something, ALL BECAUSE I LISTEKKO TO. ^ W^^elights my soul'. I tell Kim that th« ifl s ail the' d etailsVf the Christ-

very grateful to Renter for -• ^ , Shout vou all and ho w thankful I am

as Eve dinner party. I can’t hear enough about you a ^ the dinrer,

to God for the joys of the home sto^y, the piano duets,

the worship after, the recitati - white about his bald herd

everything. fc I enjoy your pictures, you

and what happened to all his hair. . ;otheT,_ Kids, all of you got

kids, and I 'm only sorry there is :f> rrot one of all the family bpT^er. mother to have her picture taken, fo ^ ^ ;etired men, Rhodes and Blair **-*Word has come from the Boar g,' b t we will have the advantage of CANNOT serve on the Emergency Ex. Cm., it We certainly need it.

their years of experience in an advisory /n-vt

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Andong, Tuesday evening, January U, 1947.

nearest fiertnude,

„ __ T fVel as 4iourh T had neglected you for a long time . T wrote

T.iy, darling, I fe®1 ; T to be ver,~ busy on Sunday when I usually write

Tost on _ Saturday - 1 • - ' f 5 „ j We been Vent as busy or busier than

you, and much has happened. . . * ;weetest for -our lovely let-era, that of

any time since arriving. Thank you sweer ^il rejection of a gift ,

D«c. ^th telling o ? - of -ou to write t^o days in succession. \ love

and that of 30th, low ppe.l ^ h eday Also, thank you

you for that darli^, k^e te^show e ^ ^ fln ,ngriT.*d idea. I

for a ending all the Chr st as - ■ • • » „ Qid Christmas cards", but then

5f she Ms a friend in -*e ' - Christmas rift provided the exact opportunity

*** you o opportune sending of the f£r £hfse let.t^rs and bell eye He

for her to respond. rp F . " r Y wn* t-h s that will lead to

m g S *•; i iit*. » w $*>

and experience of the taybiUi/prayer meeting, I was

happy on my knees thus mining o -o 1 g t - • rich widow, Kim Si,

truly rejoicing in the ou^with the Lord in the prayer

at Pup Sang this morning began having tbi . the local Womens* P"-

time/ She has been so active H-lTt^ally, the lead o t*« foe _

triotic Soceity, etc., but she that will get he dead with

ness with the T nd this morni-.g - ■’ _ bnb ohe made a deB.nl te

everything, and she doubtless Jgf — a wMle to beginning wi th tears t. at we. . ^ bf con^tssi'sn b\xt the- see it as inevitable

. rill ^e!d-it« gf^i|3£of --^rlnreMesslSr

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,flc c.cknov/1 ddjjnent of one I • Se

know about), that's some Ik mg f-** waV as* 1 f the igord was saying,

of it, and this morning in my prayer time it was as r;; d ^

abbn.t it, for T knew how impatient I am, and , see . ^ nev ho ne,

^Vv^fr^and tb%- read

v,a;' ghonrj me the unwisdom of any accusations on my part, .m o. at n t Them know what they've done and need only -he m n s h! n ^ . 0*„d from

through the Word to lead them to brokenness. Jy, lead to '

that Chinese boy to good effect ?n my sermon, ^ - 'Tit n And the t-s-

confoss to the Immigration authorities hi s d eception. It tit . •

timory of his: *hrlstl.a

sending those ~ n - . >. so stiff «rd nnbendinf,

front pn-e of the Church Bulletin seem to me to.be w ^ T ^n, ^

correct they ore. 1 miss he ^ , vnr Pont Office. Th°t ^na-

W • . > thr' . ^ al'l opened and examined

>ldih£ things rp, f •

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”!i.’?"^hista’h tirss: ^ f-i;.-* » *g!*rt

ot 3™r mL^™nrL-wS.'f"Vr!”rrw»f. star? taut ”lih tai

ryr-X^Jl ^ WL~*,

to them still a child and It will Interest them greatly to know that she has a babe all her own. Turning to my own daughter, let me say how thankful T am for the precious letter, the good looking letter, and the interesting letter.

I was showing the picture off again yesterday. Yang Si w^s up doing t he washing. The C.O. here told Pak Si to hire someone each week to help with the wash and this time Yang Si was up. Oyron Ong Yun was up for a visit, telling me the pack- age had arrived, and I showed them all my Skooks, They are all agreed that she resembles me, poor child', and that Jackie resembles his mother, fortunate lad.

T »n be getting off a reply to my Skooks soon. You were asking about old Chang Si, Gertrude, "she same up to me faithfully after the service on Sunday and greet ed me and was so pleased when I told her that you enquired in particular about her. Im fhang No" of Angle Is one of the Pup Sang elders now, right on the lob and attending the mronlng prayer meetings. Chaw Chang No is the moving spirit behind -’up Sang, *nd he went with me to. see Chang Su Bang, the Crothers 1 man who hadn't been to church for a long time. Last Sunday Chang -was at the morning service. May he be richly blessed in' the coming series of meetings. T do^’t see the Chaws, parents of Choo Sun Hi at c hurch, although they are said to attend Choo Sun Hi who lives out in the' country has sent a word of greeting and Is anxious to get in when she can. My, Gertrude, let me say again that as I read over this list of stuff you bought, clothes, suits, shoes, it" ill represent a young d apartment store when it arrives. 'm sorry if I haven’t mentioned old Kim Ik Fyun who turned up the morning I spoke first, at East End. He is still well and hearty but is slipping some mentally end is definitely in his dottage.

But his face is still a benediction. When T mentioned seeing his old friend Walter Erdman a number of times in America Kim just about went into ecjfcacy for theywere such close friends in the Lord Jesus, And it happend that "Uncle Walter* mentioned Kim in his Christmas card, so I sent a letter to the Erdmans telling them of dear old Ik Hyun . What a precious thing Christian felllwship is, and what a delight to see how the bonds tighten through the years. Praise God . -shh*

T »m rambling a bit, but to get back t o the purchases, I can see that its going to he some job packing that/ stuff, and T certainly hope you don’t have to do it yourself, for that would be a good evening's fun for that Methodist Society's group. Dear me, Gertrude, it would just about wear you out. Its jobs like that" that make we wish I were around to spare you, for being as ’ illing as you 3ce you just go ahead and do it all yourself ,*tffcYou mention that lovely peach blanket of Daisy’s. Well I fm c ertainly glad that we have it and T hone to enjoy its warmth, but its good it isn’t in this room now for the soot from this stove is unbelievable. It piles up so thick and fast you can collect it In pans, and in such circumstances I'm grateful for this army stuff. I f’re got to keep my clothes tucked away in the drawers of what was the Adams pantry, otherwise they would be filthy. About every four of five days the pipes nf the stoves block up with soot and we’ve got to take the whole thing down and clean it out o^ the smoke would drive me "out .#*-*- Enclosed is one of the Christmas checks which ’will be easy for you to cash. The other one T spoke of is a Postal Money order and I think I can get that cashed out here and save you the trouble of having to identify' yourself to that dame at the local post office. T know her, and remembe how particular she was. Of course I had my army identification that made it easy for rne , I got a nice motto card today f'rom "Miss Hedwig and Mrs. Lena Schmutz" That last name is about as German and as unphonetic as a name could be but the card is beautiful, "As for God His way is perfect". I fm thankful to have it to help decorate the.se walls. If v/hen you are in South Hollywood church again you may" remember this name Schmutz, pronounced Schmootz. Nam Chang No is still on

r *n one of the c hurehes . I ’’ire ' hi someth' g , iv

of the tennis shoes I bought at May Co., do you remember £5 pairs. T have 17 pairs left to give pastors and helpers this week when the big, class ge :s under way, Yan<^ SI Ts boy hangs around, is without a job. There awfully sea rce but ! La laying Loing noi-M ng. The younger daughter Is married,

and mv dear from her pictures is quite fashionable as 1 s the older daughter.

1 irch* You remember she n v-m

pet's nrav and work for her,. Her husband Las nok-sl mined r oo,

time. Yanr Si’s younger ^irl married

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at any time, Le* Ts pray and work for .be and Tv«m go5^g after him during this class a photographer and she has 0 big picture o^

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v - January 19*^1947. - \ndong, Korea*

v&fettood letters continue to come thru and I am feasting on all the good news* blessed with exceedingly kind friends* God encouraged me greatly

j®y«r life this week! Pastor Ye, head of th6 Bible Institute and Moderator •tfbycery, has had a >hai’6 time getting support from the churches, for the _ » . 9 simply do not have money; I found he hadnt had any salary for sometime ( it it only 300 yen a month, at a time when rice is 1,200 yen a bushel) and there are 3 children at hom6* At the rate of 15 to 1, I havent any money to give* So I took it to God in prayer* Within a day or two the commanding officer said he could let me have some extra grain for distribution, ndo you know of any worthy family? Did I? What a testimony to trust God in everything! When I gave it to Ye, he asked, 'Isnt there a needier family than we? H9*s a spiritual giant and yet he is so natural about things, busy holding Bible classes out in the little country churches to which he frequently has to walk*

These are great days, for the Andong Bible Conference is on* Its good to see the Christians from the country again, so hearty and cordial in their greet- ing* The guest speaker. Pastor Han from the north is a praying man, fearless in his denunciation of sin and fervent in his exaltation of the Lord Jesus* I spoke five times on Repentanoe and prayed for God to enable me to preach that message in love* We had good attendance in spite of rainy weather*

Greeting from Rev. Harold Voelkel, Presbyterian Missionary 71 Military Gov»t Co., Detachment 3.

A*P*0« 6-1, Postmaster, San Francisco*

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Jan* 26 - Its a cold day, but my heart is warm as I turn my thots to you all* I preaohed down in the prison today; an excellant congregation, of course, but they were attentive* The Bible Society has sent scripture portions to all prisons for

distribution* I was surprised how well the prisonors sang l

How many opportunities the ohuroh now has for evangelism! In the local High school for boys, out of 600 a group of 30 students are meeting for Christian fellow- ship* The Youth for Christ is enthusiastic with big plans for work* About 4

thousand Korean soldiers are to come hero for training 1 its a great challenge*

At the service this morning I was told there were 30 new beliovers, converts during the Conference* The meetings stirrod us all* An offering of 120,000 yen, which despite inflation is a lot of money, is to bo used to send evangelists out to preach in villages where churches are closed during the war. Women gave their wedding rings, watches and ornaments* I am impressed with the appearance of the congregation and tho^ order is good too* A^ttual is being built up in the worship sirailiar to our American church service* Its noticeable to see in all this thG result of years of training in missionary homes and institutions* They are doing a good Job in distribution of charity bundles, and I want to have the country churches, as well, share in the bounty that is coming*

Every day I am teaohing in the Bible Institute; 25 men and 8 women atudying in the Sunday School rooms at the ohuroh* Ifm enjoying teaohing the Life of Christ, a tremendous subject*

Feb* 2* Seoul, Korea*

The winter in Andong has been moderate but it is bitter cold here, and I am grateful for the big winter array ovorooat that a generous Supply officer let me have* I dont know what I*d do without it* The heating situation is serious for lack of fuel* What a ride we had up horo by plane! ’ .We climbed 10,000 ft* to keep above a solid bank of clouds*

I had a shock when I visited Severance Hospital* I had heard about it but the sight was depressing in the extreme* No electricity, unpainted walls, every- thing in bad repair* The wards were pitiable, the patients being cored for by relatives with food prepared on oharooal burners* It isnt easy for the management these days with shortages of everything,- another manifestation of the suffering of the people as a result of the war* Things are desperato; thieves are bold,* I saw a government car with two windows broken; these shatter-proof windows are tough, but the oonscienoes of some of the people aro tougher*

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Address: Harold Voelkel (Civ Missionary) % 63 Mil Gov't Hq & Hq Co

A.P.O. 6-1, i 'P.M., San Francisco, California 0

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Andong, Sunday afternoon, January 19, 1947.

I°mrtMT*“l1for this opportunity of • little visit with you. Your gooi letters

si.nfSc s1 £ :s -t*-

neips seems terrific, but then when I remind myself that with

tS development of the children ..oh

gree. the ‘ot.l ”80in|s-on"^ltiply. ^1"”“ bustle. It. getting

Voelkels and it theref ? Phristmas but with the day behind us I am

pretty late now to be speakingabout ™ it a happy day for

overwhelmingly grateful for al I nd thoughtful friends. Jack I'm

you. «v. .re blessed with eteeedingl, kind ^ and the pic-

glad to have your letters with the news oicnri tenderfoot tests,

ture of the Pasadena float. O^atulat second-class I'll be waiting now to hear that you P it'll take work I know, but its

Scout and so on until you go r lg .. t* Qr when does that come. When

fun too, isn't it. "^e you got^th. s^t yet^^or^.hen ^ ^ j h„. .

you get it, be sure and 1 7 haven't got a larger size. Can't

small wallet size picture o you , to t on my desk. Teddy, you can

I have one of the big ones to fjcl£g^ two that you ha& wtitten her. They were

write good letters and mentioned ,fHaba is quite well again . I

both good. Keep it up. Ge^ ’ i , it that he had a coh, for all was well

hadn't known that he was sic . didn't speak of his being sick in order

on Christ*, day. J ’?vPr'SAl ?o tolw he is well again, and after

to spare me any anxiety. Well, its I great worried doubtless more

all 5 would have ^en wondering what ^

than I should have been. JL“®e £olds like that we'd have them in bed^-nd and I think to myself if , , ^-*ttThe poor old piano stool is gone » ^ell,

debate about sending for the ?Sst!lnd it has been 4 ! :

I'm not surprised for ?tk makes me think about a piano when

given some pretty hard JWJ. have to bring it' you cons out here for 1 „eak of Dr. Paik's son Nok Kaw whcr

with you. That reminds me to P vacation. The other morning on the

is home from Song Do music schoo him pounding away at some Con- way to daybreak prayer meeting 5*lb 1 fine boy. Sally Lou, I'm sure

certo. He's good, and he sings 'r Miller and the piano duets. Her father

you're having a lot of fun with Mary Ann Miller ana P back tQ Haba> j

coming after you in the him^he high-chair, forgetful, of

must acknowledge that I kept ^hulking ol h A n | natural that by this

course of the fact that cSir at the* table. My, his smile

time he'd be a big boy with a regular siz & letter from j.y. telling of

in this picture is a tonic for my so . — £ ftnd didnit the Koreans, especially

the arrival of Catherine Crot hers Hodge ^ ^ as & childj forgetful of the women, gasp at that news. us> The crothers have sent some things

the change the years bring ,, mention sending packages. I hope the

and in a letter from the Baughs ^hey mention s i ^ P reCeived about a dozen

staff begins to appear, for S'.nfoute for me. The Army ne„-

packages, there must be all told abou ° water during a storm when

paper mentioned the damaging of 3, 000 . P«k g 7 hundreds 0f thousands of a hatch was blown off a freighter, still undelivered for all the army

Christmas packages for Mo Adthu frQm home hasn't arrived. When my stuff

fellows here say their big P c & MothinR Fortunately we have had a does come through I'll be »J - » J t melts. «• bed about t.o

mild winter. We've had a 1^?„°r,n-ld weather in December when I vas maxing or three weeks of terrifically recently it has moderated and it hasn t

those trips to and from Seoul but recently it and everything else in

is? sms sws esss w s — *- 27o-°°- “• eee costs

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Yen/°% Befo ^an^efit pony £rV.n 6™oT SSr

the ctoch service whel the deacons coundt the collection, I see some hundred yen notes' in the basket. Poke ««*» ’ i“ ljS2?e?°li.?e”SS* wSSlc ifST-S an-

swer^ to^prayer . °?i J^a^'the head^of fave^ey.

had any sa for thlf w&^iiS^S^iild-

think was ^^dTuP°" MONK TO GIVE HIM AT 15 TO 1. So, I simply

ren at home. AND I HAVEN 1 bOi aix i think it was within a day

took it to god in prayer and asked Him to fee d Yi^ I grain> almost

or two that toe Oommanding Officer he^e f or distribution. Did I know of any worthy a mal of good rice he coul ile to myself at the wonder and the ease of

family? Did I? I actually had to smile to myseil testimony to my own soul to

it all. And the C.O. is a Z^i As flifficult as is that man's

trust God withe very thing. And, h to *him he asked, "Isn't there a needier

financial situation, when 1 pre vou He’»s a spiritual giant, and yet he

family than we?" Isn't that a mb for ? bSsy holding cllsses out in the

is so natural and matter of f freauently has to walk, transportation

little country churches to ^hich^ he frequently^ ^ , B class is on. 3;

is so poor. ---These are great days in And ngJJ morning and the ciass began Fri- finished my series of 5 Daybreak >e.?vi * ^ Prida? a0 that no visitors from

day night. It gained hard all ihursda ni ^ ^ are begltoing to arrive,

the country churches got m. But iv n and cordiai ln their greeting.

0, its great to see the Pe°Ple ’ Han Mok'sa who graduated from the North

The guest speaker is from the no , H d Betty Hopkins Crother's father, and China Theo. Seminary, and J^cf”^“°^ith a fog-horn voice and a thump and

all the rest. He is atahort stocky W™ &mgn&too and is C-od's messenger,

stamp that shakes the building. - fervent in his exaltation of the Lord

fearless in his denunciation of sin an - book. Repentence as the

Sus. I spoke f ti.ee on Repentence, usine 0f p„,i. , preyed tor

message of Job, of John c.he 3ap . , of ^ Jes _ , - md T trust Him to take it home

God to enable me to thlJ g00d attendance. I believe it was excellen

to the hearts of the peop_e. ^ i°verilv believe the revival is not far of .

preparation for these .meeting » ers Him Chin Ho Moksa broke down with a

Praise God, this morning at e y P „ n That was his phra^ae, and as

genuine corf ession of sin "under^the Japanese^d tMngs BY HAMS, I Relieve

soon as grace is given to reRfiy for it. Keep praying, keep praying,

the fire will fall. They 1 ^pver times showing me the need for and en-

God has beend ealing with me in W prayer timers! nng^ ^ ^ Qf Bible study

couragin. me in consistent and persists - •« 7, f T llljasn't prepared for any-

?S“Xf afternoon, aid it is "G»«h.nd to »»<* f»|h the ll3got Scriptura verses

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are many others to be won back. fjtt fegj '*eek 1

S YunF JU now has 2 concubines - a fathei £ of the new Korean constabulary.

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Friday Afternoon, January 24, 1947.

My Dearest,

Gertrude, it seems like an awfully long time since I !ve written you, and there is much to discuss in answering your wonderful letters. The various contents of the last two or three letters are all scattered over the top of this big desk the local C.O. has made available for me. 1*11 get all the enclsoures together and go to it. First of all, here are my two big boys » pictures, the little snaps, both so clear and both fellows libfrking so happy. Ted's got his eyes wide open and he's looking right at me. I couldn't ask for a better picture from anybody. But, darling as you say they need haircuts. My, ray.

I'm afraid they needed them d esperately. Now may I suggest, my dearly beloved, that you not economize on haircuts. If Jack gets his cut close around the ears and on the sides he can go three weeks, and Ted can go three or more.

At least I think so. Perhaps that w£s all the time they had gone when the

snaps were taken, but at any rate, letTs not all&w it to go on too long. Bless your hearts, kids, I just love looking at my family, and before starting this letter I had a good look at my good-looking Skooks. Last night Ned, who stop- ped in for an overnight visit remarked on the attractive daughter we had. I thoroughly agree with him, and the Lord bless you too, my precious Skooks.

Now Gertrude, how sad that I don't have a picture of you to press to my heart

as I think of you and praise the Lord for you. Gome on, loosen up and skip

off to the photographer f s . -shm* Now my Sweetheart, a letter like Ann's is just about all that one could ask$fr~ What a wonderful testimony it gives on your Christian witness and the Christian atmosphere of the home. Praise God for it, for it is in the close-up of the 24 hour relationship that the little inconsistencies as well as the big ones come to 1 ight, and to have a girl who has entered so intimately into the affairs of the family to say what she does with the feeling she says it, is something to rejoice in the Lord for.

"The1 live of the Lord beaming in your face”; "The Lord certainly is using her (Sally Lou)". Its humbling, isn't it?*****About Elmer and the book, you musn T t take that too hard, Gertrude. Its disappointing, I know, and it is evidence of the narrowness of that outlook, and it is always that group that a re talking about openmindedness. I got a letter from

to mine, a copy of which I sent you, Its certainly requiring patienceTW^n^ it?***I don * t remember Hazel P. Hall, but whoever she is, she writes a lively letter and the idea of butter on the morning toast, isn t bad. I often think how little this group appreciates the butter, they eat it like cheese, thic • ***When you see Edna Larence will you thank her for the package she sent, of which she wrote me. As yet it hasn't arrived and when it does I -11 acknowledge it. When will these packages arrive, and that leads me tow rite something I am really sorry I have to write. The point is, Gertrude, please don t send me anything BUT PERSONAL ITEMS BY A.P.O. And the reason Is this. If the authorities discover anybody using the A.P.O. for any use other than personal items THEY WILL LOOSE THE A.P.O. PRIVILEGE. How what would I do if I had J“™it twee months for a letter from you and then after thro, months, six months in all, have you heatffrom me. We have already beenwarned, and it was nnlv bv srace that we were allied to have a distributing committee^ to han 1 the things for us, otherwise the army would have CONFISCATED EVEKYTnING .

if 1. ser^uS, nut., must play the earn.. It all gro.s out of a ring of smugglers who had organized themselves into a tremendous proposition to S?hSe amounts of Lings through A.P.O. during the < and I imagine my Christmas packages a re being held up by the delay

ment over Catholicism, and by studying for the felliw.

the truth, isn't that an answer to our prayers. Thank God^for th ^ ^

jtiVidS^ fSSit my1 big lln ^Tb^Ld^' ’buS it was one of the days I

was occupied with preparation for the Daybreak meetings, and I didn’t have a minute to spend at my desk. I’ll never forget my teaching up at Kang Kei and having the telegraph boy stamp and shake the snow off himself and yell,

"Telegram" announcing my big man’s arrival. How w eek and helpless hew as,

and how big and strong he is now.#** The mystery is solved about my not know- ing of Haba’s cough. The letter telling about it arrived after the one with the news that he w as better. I see too that my letters don't arrive in exact order either .*** What a Nww Year’s program, my dear. Wowie, after 12 the night before and then 6.50 the morning after. I’m glad you could all see it, that is the parade at Pasadena. It will always be something to remember as I said before, and no place can rival Los Angeles for extravagance in display, whether it be floats or anything else. "Apol^etic tinkle" is a good phrase for an alarm going off anhour ahead of time. Mine, that is an alarm that I borrowed for the past 12 days has not been apologetic but firm and rosolute in its

demands that I shake out of it. Really 1 got to feeling such a sense of self-

satisfaction each morning as Returned and asked myself the question that I suppose everyone asks after getting up that early, "Why don't I do it all the time?" But keeping busy until late at night requires pretty regular rest or one gets droopy. Too bad, too bad, about the turkey, but It can't be helped.

It was a big loss for the Baugh’s, if they had to make it good.***I’m wondering what thed eal is in Talbot being taken off KPAS Sunday morning and Puller,

Sun. afternoon. Has that station changed ownership. Also, Ranier wrote that Puller had sold that valuable tract of land in Pasadena to get money for West- mont, mentioning that that was what I had wtitten him. Well, I had forgotten that I had urged him as I did, but it is encouraging to see that I was on the right road. With Puller behind Westmont, they are doubtless going ahead, and no college has any trouble getting students these days.***You write about candy. Thanks for the box, I’ll enjoy it. But everybody has been so kind. I just open- ed up Ranier' s the other night, the fine sealed tin box she sent fa? Christmas. The P.X.'s here have a pretty good line up of the usual run of candy bars.***

The bulb of the Duncan’s lamp reached me the other night, so the body may not be far off. It is apprently a real, splendiferous affair, one of these with a l&ng, white bulb, about 20" long.***I’ll be on the look-out for the 16 and 12 year old jackets, getting word back to Bill/and Bob Voelkel**I ’m glad Jack is through with his work at Culter and in view of all the Dime it has taken, let s

pay next year, i»f the kids are there, but it isn t worth it in view of the

transportation. If they lived close enough I would stress the w ork and feel it was good discipline, even every day, but when it gets near to meal time when he returns I think its a poor bargain, and we have the money.. ***Quite a line up the Vermont Ave. Church has had. I notice quite a few of w hat w ovLla call "Paith Mission" people on the missionary program. May the Lord bless Mon- tano. I shall certainly pray for him and his wife and the family. I wn t suppose anything was said of Betty. Poor kid, there is- a quirk in er d i ing", and I know it worries the parents terribly .** 'Pore I forget, speaking of the radio in the kitchen that needs (or needed) a new case, the electricity is so weak here that even a little set wont operate on the current. So, I think for the present you better let it go since a portable battery affair

costs so much.#-*# That Mother Stewart birthday dinner affair 13 * „?!Pf!e£ e thev

of time and saddens me. My, when will they be done with it. Could be y are hoping for something in the poor woman's will? That Mrs . Charr whose hus- band is still here is a cppable and attractive personality I think, and it is easy to see how she got along well with the American < of fleer, s. It was lv no small privilege that she was able to w angle out of t he officials in being allielto tLe h./fandl, to Merlca. «.r children .11

agreeable also.***My dear, Haba in jeans, that must be a sight . ^ecious “*n how I’d love tosee him. And a new red hat for myself, bweet thing, you re worth half a dozen red hats, if only you'd go and buy them.^^I'm so glad for Jack that Dianne has returned after a trip to the hast. 1 c ® T, , , ,

strain its been to have her so faraway all this time.' Jack and Dianne. .J.. Look at the nice letter enclosed from gertrude - (Me Fadden)

Address :

Harold Voelkel (Civ Missionary), 63 Mil Gov’t Hq & Hq Co. A.P.O. 6-1, P.M., San Francisco, California

Andong, Sunday Afternoon, 1/26/47.

Dearest Family, 07 J

It’s a cold day, about the coldest we’ve had for some time, but my heart is wanned as I turn my thoughts to you all. People keep asking me everyday when you are arriving and I don^t like to have to answer that X don’t know. About an hour ago Marykol Kim Si asked me if you were coming out this Spring, and I have simply to say I haven’t any idea when it will be. I preached down in the Prison this morning twice, once to the women and once to the men.

An excellent congregation, of course, just like it is in any prison, but they were attentive and I believe we are going to see some excellent results from these prison chaplaincies. Ivly impression of the prison pastors is similar to what I thought of most army chaplains (I can’t speak for the Navy). Not all, but a good man^y fellows went into the army chaplaincy because of a dissatisfac- tion with their churches, and many were men who had had difficulties. A leader in our Presbytery, whose judgment I value, told me the three pastors from our territory who became prison chaplains did so because there was no call from any church. But God can use any of us to His glory, and I doubt not that great good will come out of the daily contact of the pastors and the prisoners. The Bible Society has sent Bibles and Testaments to all the prisons for distribution, so the inmates can read them in their spare time of which they have rnuchj They looked well and in these days of scarcity they are better fed than lots oT people outside. The Superintendent showed me a pile of American wheat being prepared for the next meal. I was surprised how well the prisoners sang. After- wards the Supt. put on a feed for me, a very substantial meal. How different from the Ja p. regime. How many more opportunities the church has for evangelism 'he two local High Schools are both still out on winter vacation, but when they get back I want to establish some kind of contact. Five or six hundred boys and about 300 girls to reach in impressionable ages. And from BOO - 1,000 Korean soldiers comine here. Its a great challenge. ****Now I must tell you about the Mens’ Big Class. In fact it was both Mens’ and Womens * . About 150 came in from the coun- try, I believe, and while in comparison with former times it is poor, yet for the present it is good, for remember there is no transportation, to speak oi, either east or west. Moreover the Presbytery and a Revival Meeting with Pe On Hei Iv.oksa was held in Yung Ju in December, so few came from there, if any. The speaker amazed me with his stamina. He was somewhat tuckered he went on

with his tremendous voice cl ar to the end ana conducted an extra Daybreak fet- ing the morning after the official close of the » e tings. How he did it I don t know, and I thaik God for the man and his message. He preaches the Gospel and is concerned with essentials. His whole emphasis and appeal was to the gp.od, and it delighted my soul to hear him plead for repentance of all sin and a total dedication to the Lord Jesus. In fact his straight-forward, out. and out appeal is having some repercmJSions locally. The pastor Kira Kwan rtyun is a member of the legislature and the guest deplored the abandoning of the pulpit for politics on theSpart of sons many pastors! One of the things no one can miss in visiting the Mi/ Gov't, in Seoul i s/the presence of so many Korean pastors, men from all over th; country They've simply flocked to govt. jobs. Now one explanation of that Is that they are the men best fitted by training and temperament for democratic rule, and in a sense its good to have t heir influence. at the top in the pov't. On the other hand, the church in its awful weakness is woe full

nni 1 1 1 pal ca mbaien are now displeased with him, and m - , •

political campaign axe xi Extraordinary honor that has cons to Kim who is

Club insignia. Kim wore his until the b lis the Legislature went with it. Christ, then the pin went.’ I hope the glory of the begisiauu

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T dPPidecL to attend all the Daybreak meetings, 7, which with the 5 I led ,iade 12, and since I taught an hour four afternoons, I couldn’t get a nap in but one day The night meetings kept going late and how the Koreans stand it TLnn kno;. At one meeting the speaker prefaced his remarks with the assurance -np would sneak briefly, just briefly* I glanced at my watch and decided to see what that would mean. When be came to what I figured would be the stopping

place I noticed that he had spoken 30 minutes, and ^^^ou^and1?^

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t'T1 ti-uatL^ that 3 r/ time all that was done, all the sin committed, during tU® lastaye^ Si? s'orae h°w take care of i t seif as ling^as^ they are sor^abcut^

it. All the prayers J° re f elt ' le ad to take as one" of my Bible studies

HgSS.5 in°contrast S^SSR sorrow, ^essing^hat J^dl^sorrow

it does something about t he sins we ■ «e d ’ The2whole area is ready for

But w*'ve made a beginning for which I thank God . The wnoie^ ^ ^ fpa^y

revival and hungry for it and Playing fo . d h replied immediately

what he thought of my continued appe ^J°?0 hear it! we^now its necessary- .

"Keep it up, we like to hear it, we rebuking them all

I said I didn't want the people to get the session lsSthe next

the time, but he waved that asi oubiect are hardly in the same bracket

step. And as it is ^remarks on the subgc\ar ^ ^ gQ int0 the

as the thundering of the guest speaker. y. They're pitiless. So, praise

details of the church’s compromise uni er the Japs, ihey r p were 30

God for a good class. At the service this morning^Ijas^o^^, ^ ^ ^ ^

new believers in attendance, conve 0 “ninKS several backsliders came

Sun, for the former pastor who came out 2 evening . about several things.,

out, andLthe meetings stirred us all. God spoke to m ^ ^ ^ ^ villages

They decided to take up a collection to s end ou P ^ total reached i20

where churches have closed a^d ^ ^ lot of money# Several women gave

thousand yen, which despite inflation i th for Christ is enthusiastic

their wedding rings and watches, et c . The were the humor-

with big plans for work. It was a g^e^time. Of -n sllence t0 my_

ous moments too, at least funny^ forward to sine a solo, one of these

self, as for example when a youth came f l8SS and while he was hold-

poems extolling the bliss of the ^ ^ l a d a Bible woman were walking in

ing forth in tremuldus emition, three mn- animat*^- discussion about

front of him and alia round prying on an^i^ others , activity.

the offering, the soloist and theTredioament of a mother on t he crowded Another less elegant sudJ®ct the predicar^^^ herself ln a state of ernergen-

womens ' side, who when her through the crowd to the door in time

oy, realizing that the child couldn't get througnjn relief. I doubt

simply raised the nearby window and enabled the c l & out 30 recently from

if anybody in the etowh thought twice about it, orowded church?are at home from America I couldn't help but m®ddtate on how ess.Gellently the choir is

here. I think I ought to mention, by t h y. & beautifui/ voice and plays the doing, the work of the pastor s • ,, appearance of the congregation

organ well. And also I was impressed with the appears ^ don,t know where

which in these days of poverty is cental J le and the order is good. A rit- e Is e" anyone could see so neat a group P milar t0 American worship. Its ual is being built up with responses very similar^to^^^^ Qf years train_ very noticeable, and as I see all this 1 see ,

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i in missionary homes and institutions. 'They are doing a good job too in the distribution of the charity bundles. Crothers' former outside man, Pak, the strone boy is just as poor, adjust as agreeable as ever. Two bundles of cotton batting came recently which I turned over to the committee and one evening T saw Pak coinE down the road with ane of the bundles. It was a great satisfac- tion to me that they had piacked him. I saw him enter the church a few Sundays ago, a wet, cold day without any socks, just barefooted. And today, a cold day mpny tare, without socks. Two fine bundles of things from the Davis Community Chur^i&iSved some weeks as° and 1 saV6d th6m for. th® cl^ss t<r l want the coun- try cnunrche s we wll as the lAcal church to share in the bounty. I saved the neatly wrapped Christmas gifts (late in arrival .from the Los A. Korean S.S., so with the contents of the three cartons, 4 itemi^ere sent to 4° ch^rahaa» ^e^e" sentatives of which attended the class. I aske<L i i Won Yung, the Moderator of Presbvtery/to distribute a pair of the Cuban basketball shoes that I bought at Sav Co fo? a dollar a paiS to each pastor and helper which he was delighted to do! 'ien he asked about a couple of extra pair ^r ^ible Institute students who, he said, if we could provide them shoes could walk 50 li (lb 2/3 miles) each y to a pastorless church each week-end. So I was glad to let him have two pair for t-hat 1 Ned came up" the last day of the class with the chapI^n and I was sure gla f ;e III and h^e him see the class. The tenant of one patch of land owned by Ceor-e had turned in 2 bags of millet and I waited for Ned's decision as to what

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°V Pafsi ^ siSply bOwling^Shese officers and particularly the C.O by

value.***cPak simpiy , finish she produces on the shirts. They

the neatness of her work, the States-side Iimsn sne officials

are so impressed they !d give her the moon 1 s w fruit etc etc., it findd

s.„t up gift, for which this "“irlcSh^Tlie; she

its way to Pak Si. The woman isn't dull in app£®°ia™ ting for her and the waxed bold the other day with a request. I do th 1 t v b she needs

officers. Yun Haw her oldest boy is 2°* ZSe lo the boy must have a b!ide al- a daughter-in-law to do the work of the house, ^ b & 70ung man to talk

though he doesn’t want to get marri . So" Kim Kum Hi, the Bible woman

about whether or not j* ' wants to take fof the fSly to worship in a

and Pak Si go into a huddle and it ds ut 16 or i8 miles away, where during country church the other side of Pung San about 1 o 18m damsel/ahe in turn

the service the boy will be able to f£a£c® °Vlov maybe. The only fly in the out of the corner of her eye will behold her lover, maj . ^ & ^ for a

ointment was transportation for buses are u . , ^ &1P on the blink, so

jeep from the C.O. for the occassion. Bu - 5 these 10 wheel trucks. What

the C .0 . not to fail in the request pr°^d®£e°£®b^ -n on a truck capable of a picture, the boy, mother and father *n b The report is that the boy thi-

hauling tons of stuff roaring out to tb® iak eno^g h apparently, but the father nks the girl quite countnfie , . rirl is of good parentage, toy

tells me he is going to do i “fine, f or the girl is Z^ ^

guess is it will go through, and so m a e around. I tried

family can get a feast together t^gi^ls suppor/s ince they are having trouble subtly to raise the question of the gi l PP^ ^ concern anybody. They need feeding all the mouths now, but that di ape met first> There's the week,

sone body to work in the house and fi s service in English for the G.I.'s.

family, and in a half hour I m schedule fo 2 > the regular Committee meet-

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Taiku, January 28, 1947.

Dearest Wife,

I don’t know that I have ever addressed you this way "before, but it is certainly alright, isn’t it? You are my wife and the dearest wife I can imagine. The more wives I see the more gret eful I become. A few days ago a number of military wives and families arrived, mostly mothers with young children, sub- school age, and the more I see of them, the more readily I appr* ciate my sweetheart’s worth and charm. Yes, I wonder how long it will be before you and the children arrive. But with this inflation something drastic must be rb ne for we could re ver live here as a family, with all the help we need, at the 15 to 1 rate The yen is now 250 to 1 in New York we understand, and commodi- ties have just about disappeared from the stores.

But I rausn’t get started on that again, for I want to tell you that when I went to the D.O. yesterday to mail my Sunday letter which I brought down from Andong with me, there was your packa^ the one with the blue cotton pieces and Jack’s heavy coat, or is it Teddy’s, and the ONE mitten. Did I loose the other or did jf you send only one, or did they get separated in the packing? At any rate, one of the mittens came. AM) my darling, the Valinthe gift is in it. ly birthday present is certainly on time, this time. Thank you so much. I haven’t opened it so I don’t know what's in it, but then you’ve alredy told me, haven’t you? Thak you again darling, and a big hug and a kiss for it. I love you for it.

All day today I worked on the paper in preparation for the Ex.

Com. meeting to which we all go tomorrow, D.v# I call it an "Exposition of the Obvious". Its stuff that all of us know, and the longer we've been here the better we know it. No this paper is just for you and Hanier and any others whom you decide i twill be O.K. to show it to. The point is it is something which Tee mve discussing. It isn’t any action aboii aiything, nothing final, it is merely thinking out loud, so don’t let anyone go away saying the Committee out here thinks so and so, etc. This is just my notion aboil Andong.

darling, I am deligH ed and 8<yt hankful, I can't tell you how thankful I am to have this beautiful picture of the children. I really craved ore , happy as I was to have the wallet sized ore •

It is beautiful and I am so proud of it. The children are lovely, and it is such a joy to show it to friends. ^Diat precious kids, all so lovely and well. Thank you dear. And the one of my De De. Boy, he can take a picture a good one. I'm going to get a_ pane

of glass somewhere and frame all these pictures, many of you.

I can’t have tbo

I haven't received a letter from you for sore time now, but I heard from you indirectly. Ned had a letter from his family saying “Gat the Van Dyke's were enroute to San Erancisco but were stopping with the Voe lk els in L.A. "Deep in the heart of Texas 1” Did yuu rene raber to sing that to Nicky. Tell me what you thought of him Jack. And what news about that dreadful "°eter, the guy who thinks Chaplains and their assistance are sissies!

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— Seoul, February 2, 1947.

^ ( Dearest Family, „ . . . , ^ „

^ I am having to go a long time without word from you. The last time or

* j two the truck brought mail to Andong I didn’t get any, rather an un- =S T usual experience, for my "mail" average is excellent, my family is so

^ faithful So, I shall let patiehee have her faithful and perfect work,

but it is going to be a long time until I can get back again, bed.

Dr. B. and I decei4ed that in order to make sure the jeeps would be

- — in running order to take back with us we had better get up here and get 4 them going before eur Committee meeting got going, and then with bus i-

Js.'^'ness over we could drive back. True to expectation nothing hao been do^e on them and it is necessary to hang around the Army garage and gee that someone works on them or nothing at all would be done. Even B the work considered completed by them the jeep would not start.

on the Monday truck fnwiAndong for that’s all there would be until - day* And was it cold, freezing* Monday afternoon and Tuesday I worked on mv Paper concerning the Surrey which we axe to begin discussing*

SrSSTfinf day, c.ldmd clear. The ehcrtage of traeep«rta- tion is indicated by the fact that we rode to the airfield on a 10 whee truck -that ’sail there was. AND we three were the only passengers, so

STSiuSd t.aa .S’Ll plane for the ^^“t^thlVelSt ^'.“e*

" cloud,, and « hept IT.eili “ee'fl

fe? £*S.i;0S,fSi llllVX fl^cSed t^aSe tl^the pllet they appeared jSst iSe the o»e‘w« hid come

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having to he very careful in its use of fuel like everyone else* Some army homes are critically short of heat* The word yesterday was that Aba- gail Genso Me Kinney hadn't had any fuel# any coal, since Christmas, that her 3 children had had whooping cough and one was in the hospital with pnuemonia****Thcee So* Pres, wives have arrived, thfc first missionary wives, Mrs. Crane, Hopper, and Linton* Ned's wondering how they beat Sue who is waiting in Berekely; the probability is the Southerners boarded a ship on a Gulf port, one coming through the Canal***I suppose you've all) got the news of Betty Lutz' son* We were out there yesterday and Lenore was rejoicing ovSr her new grandson but as yet hadn't learned his name!**

I had a shock the other day in visiting Sever ence. I had heard about it since before coming to Korea but the sight of it was depressing in the extreme. There was no electricity, all dingy and dark, and to add to the gloom were the unpainted, dirty, pealing walls. Everything in bad repair. The wards were pitiable, no order or system such as we are accustomed to in hispitals , and the patients being oared for by relatives, being fed food prepared on their individual charcoal stoves. It isn't easy for the management either th6se days with shortages of everything. It is another manfi estation of the overall suffering of the people as a result of the war. And things are desperate. Thieves are getting pretty bold. The other night Fletcher and Scott were out somewhere and in locking his car Fletcher left Scott's brief case on the front sefeA, visible t© passersby. When they emerged from the meeting, the window of the car had been brokkn by a big stone and the brief case stolen* I saw a government car this boon with two windows broken, and these shatter proof windows are tough, but th* consciences of the people, some of them, are tougher .***31air is anxious to get up to Pyeng Yang before his year is up if he can make it & the other day I was wi th him as he discussed permission to make the trip with an official* We were told that the American Army la^isson officer in Pyeng Yang is accompanied by armed guards wherever he goes, and that the recent imeumbent when on a trip from his home with the guards attempted to say something to aKorein and for that reason his withdrawal was requested by the Pyeng Yang Russian General. The word is that the churches are go- ing well in the north. God is blessing them with real life and vigor and new believers. Recently a number of pastors were jailed for opposing elections on Sundays* Throughout Europe it is the custom apparently to hold elections of the Lord's Lay, a commentary on the life of the church, Pnd when the Russians made similar arrangements in their area in North Korea the pa,stors gave them a lesson from God's Word. We hear there are about 40 new congregafc ions in Seoul mostly ppople from the north, refugees Han Kyung Chick's church is flourishing, and this morning at the service an announcement was made for a meeting this afternoon to protest the plan for a Trusteeship for Korea., which is the present plan of America and Russia if they ever get around to it. Blair worshipped there this morning and he said that after the meeting a whole group of Pyeng Yang people sur- rounded him. What a reunion it must have been* I can understand the longing for freedom by the Koreans but I think theie protest -is unwise for the alternative to the Trusteeship would be the withdrawal of both A. and R. , and we can be sure the Russians would not, and that would give them the whole country vhich would b/a sorry time for every Korean, I'm sure.***Its good to be up here for a visit with the Seoul men and to have the added fellowship. Last night and tonight we are spending time in pray- er for revival. How ready everything is, and yet there is needed the intercession. God is teaching me the need for persistent prayer. It is a great blessing we need and only earnest and fervent and continued plead- ing will bring the blessing I am convinced. I dp not believe v.e faruexpec Got to rive us a «eat blessing too + ea.sy jl8|dpgf . realize the c6at or revival In deep devotion ana absolute yi- - A

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We hoar there are about forty now ohurch groups in Sooul, mostly people from tho north,— refugees*

Feb. 9* - Andong, Hore I am back again aftor two wcoks absence, and what full anc^( eventful days they have boentf Your letters send mo to my knees in gratitude to God for His wonderful kindness. Thero is so much to praise God for* I never felt bettor in my life*

You recall that tho Mission bought a joop for each of tho four Prosbytcrian stations* • grade A* jeeps purchased at highest price# On. Feb* 1st, I went down to get tho Andong jeep, but it wouldnt budgo* ^ter .a day's delay I got it start- ed,- #505, and a day later ’Nod Adams drevo off with # 503* It was bitter cold and each morning as wo went to breakfast at the mess hall, there was watchful waiting to soo if tho jeeps would start. They didl Wo wore thru the Committee

business and ready to start south on Friday, Oh, what roads and what temperature!

I was cold not merely to the bone but to tho marrow! As we got into thG mountains

the recont snow added real beauty to tho scone* Both cars were loaded with

Sunday school supplies just out from America* On Saturday wo were off in good timo* With the high Mun-kyung pass in front of us* How thankful we were for ’the 4-whoel drive, for as we made the ascent the snow and ico on the road was+fcioker and our wheels began to spin* Do you recall those precipitous drops from that road? The special drive got us up and over, and then what a view! Soon wo were in the next town with a crowd all about us* Wo met the Christians, sold them some S*S* literature, had prayer with them, and learned that their church build** ing was sold during the war and they are now meeting in a former Japanese homo# Than on together until Nod turned off for Taiku, and I kept on toward Andong#

Wo Tve made plans for visits in tho joop to a number of places whero churches disappeared during tho war and are again springing into life, chrisitans begging for help* Its most encouraging, thore are real signs of life and the people are eager#

Feb^, 22* I have had my first trip to tho country in my jeep* The ongino works boautifully and we had no mishaps oxcopt that tho radiator froze, it was so cold* Pastor Ye, two oldors and I started out Sat* noon driving East* We stopped at a place where it happened to be Market day, and what a crowd! I asked if they wonted to buy a most valuable Book, for only 5 yen* It wc&s unanimous, thoy didf in a matter of minutes all tho gospels I had wore gone, snatched out of my hands* Spending tho night in an inn at Chung-song, we had a service in the ohurch whioh is in a dreadful condition, tho result of disuse during tho war when tho pooplo woro forbidden to meet and the congregation was scattered# Tho few who arc now meeting are too poor to repair it.

Maroh 10 • You will notlco tho change in my address* The. Company at Andong hag officially been deactivated and made a detachment, half tho men being sent else where* The commanding officer told mo that ho expocts one house and pro** bably two to bo vacant* So all we have to do is to get them ready*. We have tho good word that 13 missionaries are returning this month, among them George Adams for Andong* ^ho opportunities are great and thoy will all have plenty to do*

Poof Korea is restless and weary without knowing whioh way to turn* But ; her real need is spiritual, peaoe with (Jod# Koep praying*

Sent by Mps* Harold Voolkel, 1200 West 30th St*, I*os Angeles 7 California*

Harold Voelkel (Civ Missionary), %63 Mil Gov't Hq & Hq Co., V « « = _ 1 1 <f0 p.M., San Francisco, CaliY'of irnia. i

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Sunday, Feb. 9.

Dearest Family, '

Here I am back in Andong after two weeks absence, and what full &

eventful days they have been. I returned hungry for news for the last mail or two before I left didn’t bring anything fr^m you and the receipt of letters by the men in Seoul made me all the more eager to hear from you. How thankful, there- fore to find 4 letters here from you, Gertrude. Praise the Lord for all the happy times you are having, for your health, and for the privileges of witnessing in so many places. Where shall I start to answer your letters? I'll begin with Teddy's birthday party, for that was a grand occassion, especially since Teddy's "girl" (his own word) was there. That's the way to celebrate your 8th birthday party, boy. I'm so glad to hear of all the fun you had, and the second party the next day with your friends around the neighborhood. You got a lot of gifts too didn't you? Thank you Teddy, for writing me about your celebrations. And Jack has a Boy Scout suit.' Yes, that must be the next picture. I'm anxious to see my big felldw in a Scout rig. I was glad to get your letter and to know that yOu had planted sweet peas. I'll be answering you soon in a personal letter.

What a ldt of wonderful mail was waiting here for me. A dandy letter from Sis, good juicy epistles from Ranier, Daisy, J.Y., Otto, Walter Erdman, and last tut not least that whole box of Christmas cards and letters, which amounted to about 20 letters with such cheerful and encouraging news. I'm more grateful than I say for the assurances of so many who are praying for me. Its hard going to have to live through 2 weeks and more without a letter, but there is a gldrious compensation when !he mail does arrive and it takes two or t hree HOURS to read it all ’What an experience it is, especially when the news is all so good.

Your letters send me to my knees in gratitude to God _ for His wonderful kindness.

His rracious Providence in looking after you and caring for you. I never felt better in my life, even after 2 days on the road from Seoul in a trip, the de- tails of which I'll give you later. There is so much to praise God for.

Let me see I left you all last in Seoul where Ned and Dr. B. and I had gone early in order to get the jeeps. What a time, and since it is typicalof so MANY MANY things in Korea now (and for sometime, 2T11 venture) I 11 |xYe the details . You recall that the Mission bought 4 jeeps and after driving them from the army depot, 20 miles out on the Chemulpo road, none of them would budge. So, instead of driving them away at the January meeting,’ we lef' t h to be repaired. And they were Grade A jeeps, purchased at the

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our business on Thursday and Ned and I ; trip^to Taiku and Andong could

night at Chung Ju with ^h bo th cars md roads fn poor* shape It is impossible, be made in a day but with both c a , . an exceedingly valuable item.

Moreover there is no place to in the price but no

When the jeeps were purchased a s the General's office in

one got any tools, simply because the army has nc . ^ tools tQ be had 2XCEPT

the Mil Gov't we were t old that there w£shdd for prices which at 15 to

on the black market, and there you could all you wBshdyo^P ^ wr^hes from

1 would ‘•equal a jeer's dan. Hed Seoul -nd wl th. these we started out. Oh, Taiku, belonging to^the Pore kit, to Seoul and with .q the bone but to the

what roads, and what temperature.

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arrow. Fortunately, the army has been generous In "lending' those of us in gfg, and indon'- the heavy winter coats, really 2 coats, issued to the soldiers, Mr thick things with a hood that leaves only eyes and nose exposed. But hands aid feet and knees, left exposed in a sitting position get trie dra^fc. We left Seoul at 10.00 Friday and after anhour and £ of the worst roads I've ever seen, imnroved and as we got into the mountains the recent snows added a real beauty to the view. There's no denying the fact that it was a beautiful ride.

We had Coca Cola and candy bars for lunch. Please don't be too nara on me her-

haV^gotten^the^regular^ai^^ratlons^df^dahned -S'aSf etoj^but that' stuff cold

aftvn • gularly eying this Ian array uieo. aj-x hop o

”*A SfTs^arliff 5S ESJd'S^iirJet an^on^ S boxes

were loaded with the S.S Yearlies, just arriv started slipping and

0f dSalir? elieon°S4 rfStt.S arm lid In 'the split second that the bag pushed gradually fell on his ri0nu ****. > road and smacked right into a tree,

his arm the car swearved to the aide of the Pord over the r oad very recently

Ned was leading the h^^gh^niLror which would enable him to keep an eye

and also because his car * side mi ^eMnd and when I caught up to Ned

on me in the rear. I had fallen quiue a u±o fact is that

I wondered why he was sitting the first moments of the crash. His

he^as just recovering ys equalib r rum after the ofxrstQ- ^adse an easter egg, and

head had bumped against the wind sni annoying. Seeing the car up against

my guess is the disooinfort e^ug ge t?ee. I suppose he

the tree I ignorantly asked Ned i ™ that. He was immediately in front

felt like hitting me with a ^ ask about t he way. He had to EXPIAIN

of a house and I figured h® h* lifted his cap expecting to find his head that he had hit the tree and wfs A whole village of Koreans

cracked open, I supoose, but all i straightened out the bumper, and

gathered immediately and with an ir on »ached Chung Ju at 5 - 7 hours

refused to take anything for their eiio . , with the staff, treated me

drive.' Lamps was all ready for us, took us^o gleep. day in the

to a delightful bath, plenty of we were ofAngood time with the high

air made us ready for the hay. Satyday wew ere Xf £ ^ drive> f6r as

Mun Kyung pass in front of us. JxtitS. the snow and ice on the roads was

we made the ascent and heg § nv wheels began to spin and we both

thicker and at last in making those precipitous drops FROM THE ROADS. We

stopped immediately. ?0/?V*nd lh^ and « was a job getting

hadn't used the 4 wheel drive and the extra low >P ^ ^ a t Ned

the levers in gear. Fin^ iy they yielded an ^ to a break in the ice, , came got off with a good start and af ter maki ^ ^ special drive did it and.

back and watched my wheels as t00k pictures of the magnificent stretch of

we crept up. Oh, what a view. Ned t^ok pictures oi^ where a crowd

snow-covered valley below us, a Christians for a few minutes, sold, them some

soon gathered. We visited with the ^^ans lor ~ t helr church building of the S.S. literature, had prayer and left, jhjy -^identally, after filling during the war and are meeting in a P h • s *eep refused to start. The

the Xnk with so* 6.3 Hed S Sm. He figured the

crowd of on-lookers was so 6 line, so he unscrewed the pipe just

trouble with the car must be m the . gas » internals of a jeep. I came

take a look at it while the crowd 6*^ once OTer, waited for lied to

olinrr at that time and after giving 1 ^ went to our very great surprise

try starting it again and to our *t the astonishne nt of the Kore. ns ,

and delight. We s -ailed inwardiy ; had visited their town, a man who could

Who decided that America's sup . - -mech- fore* heir until Chom Chon where Ned

fix a major didorder so easily! We cent to Andong without turned of f for Taiku, and praise the Lord I c°n^u^egf 't bad, and today it a Jack or a wrench, and without refueling. we've made plans for

*t“XWlSht off. I ™-“Slfapl.cLSS.Sy^ ’* Sng territory -here tT • ^ n the 1 e ep . A numb erolp . f n n f p bepfc lng f or he lp •

churches disappeared during the war \rG of'life. The" people are eager.

Its mcs t encouraging. There are real g

Sunday Evening, February 9, 1947.

My Dearest,

I tm afraid my family letters are becoming a misnomer for more and more I have the large AUDIENCE in mind, the larger group to whom they go, and now having finished the family epistle I turn in private to you, my dearest dear. Darling, how can I tell you how grateful I am for thoughts of you, and I must confess you are seldom out of mind and heart. And your letters are sod ear and there is so much that I want to enthuse to only you about, I must keep the overflow of my heart for your eyes alone. You can understand therefore, why I begin the other letter with hearty references to your five letters and then after a sentence or two about the boys take off with details of my experiences. I turn to your loving self, my dearest one. Praise God that He has made you such a precious wife and sweetheart. First of all thanks for the ^packages, 3 of which came. One was marked #10, containing cotton batting, pieces of mater- ial and shoes. Really the shoes are so good I believe I'll turn them over to Yi Moksa to give to pastors or helpers. And I imagine the boys who receive the woolen jackets will be privileged high above their fellows. I'm real_y expecting a lot of things to come through now, for one day while we were meet- ing in Seoul a mail man came with a huge pile of things, and I m sure that if they got that much, both A.P.O. and Korean mail, that we will soon be catch- ing up wish the bazoos' of things. Glad to hear of the meeting with the Bethany girls, the dim&r, and then a dinner the next night. ®iat about these people who think a Christian life is a dull experience. Why, look at the fine social times you are having beside the privilege of Christian -witness, may the Lord bless you richly, darling. My, but you keep going at a whirl. That was a big undertaking to have that crowd for Teddy's birthday. I can see every- thing so clearly, the d etails of the dinner. And how nice of the Grays to brinv several things for Teddy, d ear little mah. I was thinking of him and wishing I could send him something. I'm sure his eyes did sparkle as he saw his cake coming in, with pink icing too. I'd love for him to have skates but the only thing about them is that they tare their shoes to pieces, the claj?Ps I mean/ If there were skates with straps I'd say immediately, go ahead. Bu with these clamps it s imply pulls the shoes to pieces in no time. 0'V®ra^e me plenty of expense with that .***1 'm happy to near of that Red Hat to make me feel young". Gertrude you look like 16 to me, and your smile is out of this world, .tod I trust you will go right ahead and have a picture made. Get a hair-do before you go to the photographer, and don't economize to the point where economy8Will five a cheapness to the picture. ““iJ011

have had a picture and I want a good one of you, worthy of the subject, . loveliest person I know.**»About the religious magazines, I wouldn tsend them because there is no day room here, and they wouh be gathered up with every- S eh e 2d tossed out. The felllws rooms are a mess. They are here for a

short time and then sent on, Fred Harris. How ^ting

to be back again . *w*#Well, word from Wheaton! I was on the point of writing them a number of times for the months are gliding swiftly by. It is something to be accepted these days when they are turning THOUSANDS away, T^der stand. Yes dear I know you will have to do some thinking and praying, and I will be with ?ou as we try to discern the will of God. i fiH be expensive and -et we have nd" arrived at the time that we prepared for all these years, bkooks has I nSe liftle account in her name, so that you need not fear over much and vd h her 18th year, she will be given the fullest allowance by the Board, i?420 I thiS it S. And yet I know that we don't like to be extravagant. And also, the fact is that Westmont is expensive too. All these schools are h have a big endowment. Westmont is dependent almost wholly ;®?8’

vouJsee and you can appreciate what that means* Of course, 1 J ‘

Sttak StHh. family »«« then It.o.ld M«li» * “»* *^"*“*

arrangement to have our Skooks in^ Westmont. n., , Junior College there

to the Pasadena apartments, she might wis o vou"'ll r emember that one

where the Chris tian s tudent groups have a real work. You i

of the Norman Taylor girls attended there. I'm just mentioning this, for I'm aware that Sally herself will have ideas on the matter and we. want to please her. My, we yjant her college days to be a really&elightful time. Hoy; happy I am to'’ hear of my Jack growing and filling out like a big man. I'm so grate- ful for him. Yes', what a health record you have had this year. Praise God.

Praise Him with all our hearts. ***Now what about that nice lady from Vermont sending the bundles of clothing for the Koreans Sally Lou and Ann. How good the L4dd is to send along a bundle of stuff like that. It is His w ay of re- warding you for all you've sent to the Koreans. See.' What a Saviour we have. Even a short fur jacket. It must have been like one that came in a box which

I gave to Elsie Fletcher. I wished I might have sent it to Skooks and now the

Lord sent her one afterall. Darling, how can we keep from trusting God for everything. Thank you for including the books in the packages, especially the Testament of Demotion by Thomas Kelly. I had read it before but I will enj0y roing over it again. Gertrude, you must not attempt sewing, repairing things to be sent here. Dear me, you'll wear youBselfto a frazzle. Really, now, "won't you let up a bit. I'm actually worried, for I know that if I'm not there to apply the brakes you'll carry on as you did m the YLW.C.A. and. work yourself to the point of exhaustion. #**Don 't think anymoreabout the radio. Barrus is high, high in 'everything. Forget about it darling, and I'll get a little radio from some of these departing soldiers. They don't take their stuff with them, only what they have to. I'm glad Diane has gotten rid of her freckles. That's really important for a guy a s handsome as.Jac,:.. What a picture he takes. He's attractive without half trying. **Darling, Sis has come across with a letter and with a Christmas package of cakes and candy.

Now isn't that much to praise God for. Thanks for the roll of ulms and the red and blue pencils in one of the packages.— To answer your questions about B.I. There are both men and women studying, about 25 men and 6 or o women, most young fellows and girls. I teach English and the Life and Christ, but with the trips to Seoul you see how interrupted my schedule is.#** About Sunday services here for the G.I.'s, the chaplain never comes Sundays for he is down in Taiku at the larger outfit. He cone s here every other week, Wednesdays, and has a service Wed. evening. I therefore hold a Sunday evening. service whenever I am here. Yes, Gertrude I got package with the. rag rug in it.. Is that the one you mean? Jones' subscription of Readers ' .Digest began coming this mail. Don't insure packages, Gertrude, for there is no receipt m the army. The truck here picks up the mail in Taiku and there is never any signa- ture. Its a waste of money to insure them. #***I 'm just rereading your. letters and your desire to see me finds a deep response in my soul. Yes, Precious there are few days when I do not long to see you and be with you, but God will reward us for this voluntary absence from each other for His ^ Name s sake*

I'm following on through your letter and I come to your feeling very sol®™J about the finances. Ye% I imagine you do. And have no doubt about my confi- dence in the efficiency of your management. Yes, you are economical, I m sure of that. And I hear f rom everone of the terrifically high prices. ^ ^

account you send me. Doesn't it take a lot of time kee ping ' But I ^°W how careful you are. As I remember it, we had a little more than $500.00 in the bank when I left and if you have that now you are. just about keeping eve . •*##*1 enjoyed hearing of your attendance at the Westminster concert!. Yes, there's no doubt but what Williamson is good, one of the best.****

Now since this letter is for you, for your eyes only I want to share a few thing with you from the recent Ex Com. Don't forget dear, this is for you in confi- dence and for no one else. The Board is hesitant to s end the Baughs back for what it calls "Professional incompetence". Theyare suggesting further study for him. ?n the meantime both Baugh and Emma Sue have written me nice letters abouf ?he£ return here. Both are most anxious to return. . ^^vet^he however, there is no likelihood of opening the Andong hospital and yet the

word either since the last urging her to get a job for 2 year

Just what

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antagonized the Beard against her, I canTt imagine. But apparently they have decided not to send her back. And Gertrude you would be shocked to see what the last coup£e years have done to Blair. He is an old man, with an old man’s demonstration of the work of the years, shuffling through papers while we are singing and praying, misplacing papers and unable to find things he had a mo- ment before. All excited about a really indifferent matter. We are all agreed that he should return at the end of his year. That ' s awful^r hard to say of Blair whom w e all love and admire. But h£s time is through. Fran Kinsler in replying to Rhodes letter asking about his plans, said he would be interested in returning if he could be assured of a job that would last, something definite. I must lonfess I w as flabbergast and told the committee so. For who are we to guarantee anybody anything. Who is guaranteeing us? I shall certainly pray for Pran. but how different that is from his pioneering ambitions when he was in seminary. -**#Now look at the wonderful letter from Walter Srdman. Isn’t he a saint. He’s a precious man. Ho w I thank God for every rememberance of him. Now here are some things to send me, a half a dozen cans of brown shoe polish. There is none in the P.X.’s. Also a dictionary. Have you seen that brand new | “ ' en ’

polish. There is none in the P.X.’s. Also a die

brand new $

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You can use

Dearest Dear,

Andong, Tuesday evening, February 11, 1946.

Now who could that be? One guess only, and if yonr_ wrong - well, 't

be for you ’ve know for many years you are the one In the world for me, near,

think I have Lough to get me out to Yea An and back. t0 Talku „„

There was a ™&xl ine^uAc^o^letter s, one f£om Elmer (I imagine you get Mondays, andl got a fine ouncn 01 xe J ^ f'rom Mrs. Mann, enclosed,

t^^-alo^^^nkr^anay, ;a„hjnh ^g^tt.n^Bill

5S*S-JS SV-Sn S S Korea J . to

Cook spoke of a simiiariy wav * can understand that the Board out

were laid down authoritatively. I J - netting missionaries know

of its long experience has dxscovered tne need^f^tting ^ prepared

with finality what the decision i, anDointment under the Board by Reis-

to a degree for fcMs teminatibn of her app_ ^ imagine the girl

chatter '’s letter, it is neverthelessaa side ’of what I wrote Daisy and

is staggered by it. Enclose - Pye've discussed the unwisdom of Ranier's

on the other side what I wrote Ranier.w hing revsrsal in her expectations,

expecting to return and yet i'. i-- - Mme doesn’t lighten the load a nd

Having such a serious °P®£a^°£ ® ealth and no’ source of income her outlook cannot under the double burden of poor health and no becoming , to think of her

help but be gloomy. Although ^ ^ f g of financial support. Ranier men- connection with the Boaru as ea® ' ” * and adi 0f us woull say the same of

tions in two letters that shots unwor thy^an< 1^11 for close scrutiny

ourselves, but in any case the r, sc°^ ^ ^® ™a ^ guess is, and it is only as the decisions are being made. In Daisy s case - ~ dence of all the

a guess, that the Board has gone took over^i to Mrs. Me Afee, or at mission members and dicovered in h “ , that has made her persona non

least a reference to it, or something s ■ ine the bottom has dropped

grata. What else could it be? an- J; at®* sorry. From what Fletcher said,

out of her world and I am s°]fI’y doubtful if the Baughs will get back, and

as I mentioned previously, it x°°k? d™b:*Uthe Philippines. Now sweetheart, even the Crothers. are being urged to go to the Jhiiippx ^ i sugEest

don't forget I am sharing wites of your sharing my letters

SS Sr3»d*ir.o“rb”™™t.ssarll, embarrassing to h.v. this tall into

XLSIghn for the

The item for "U . S . Salary " which you ^^y^pposedly for my use to be drawn

y«l%“!ovfein each month, , althouch any amonnt that Is necessary to feed the family could hardly be considered a £11^, see names of those

appSv'edl Vt.IVa«'S.1 S.fKt. ». • —lf„l l.tter wasn't it? fiJxL J ^ c ■

(Civ Missionary). 63 February 14, 1947.

Mil Gov’t Hq & Hq Co, A.P.O. 6 -

Yi vi/un Yung, Chav/ Hung No, ana Im Chang No (AnGie). We *11 leave afternoon and get back Monday in time for th^aftemoon B.I. Cla£ there ia another reason, really significant, why I’m writing on and blusing violet that T ovvi T /'ov',+’ 1 * ~ 4 — +. +-i

Harold Voelkel (Andong, Korea)

Dearest Family,

This is only Friday, and yet you are getting a letter. The reason is that with the jeep and with gasoline I am planning a week-end trip out to C/jung Song Up with Wun Yung, Chav/ Hung No, and Im Chang No (AnGie). We *11 leave D.V. tomorrow

isses. And of course the above date,

— . - I am I can’t hesitate linger to admit that it is my birth-

day. Yes, this is the day 49 years a^o that there was a new voice giving forth melody in Phiadelphia, Pa. How well I remember the day and the flood of congr at- ulations that came to iry parents l Its been a happy day, indeed. Since nobody would know what a really important day it was if I didn’t tell them, I started off with an announcement to Pak Si and Poke Chew right off. Pak^came through with a fine reply, saying, "If only I had sugar, I’d bake you a cake", reminding me of the wonderful calces we always had at our birthday celebrations here. Yes, will I ever f cr get Mrs. Crother’s chocoloate layer cakes? Hardly. Then Pak Si spoiled it all and took all the pride out of me by remarking, "Yes, you look much older- than you did before leaving Korea". Feeling as young and spry as I do, really I don’t believe I ever felt bettor, and having had a particularly good shave this morning, I considered myself appearing about 35, then Pak Si had to take me down. But I suppose she figured that I wanted to look aged and wise as Orientals do. So feeling quite pepper physcially, and looking aged, if not wise) there’s little more to desire. Except, yes to see the family, and celebrate with you all. I’ll venture you’re having a birthday party for me, singing happy birthday and remembering me in prayer. And I’ve been thinking of you all today, knowing that if I were there I’d be getting ny panks, es- pecially from Teddy and Haba. Just save them up kiwi kids and when you get out here you can start in from the beginning and give me all that have piled up. #hank you Gertrude for your gift which came in penty of time, two full weeks and more in advance. I’ll think of you each time I eat the candy.

Gertrude, your letter, the last one, makes me realize how1 poorly I’ve gotten across the appearance of the compound. You say you can’t figure out how the trucks come up into our yard. Don’t let that trouble you, for they’ve just torn down the gate that stood beside Yi Qun Chal’s house. Surely, just took it av/ay. The trucks all go up to the Adams house and turn around in back of it. "Are the arbar vitae cut down?" Oh, my dear, the front yard is packed down sand, a motor pool, an outdoor garage, with a dozen vehicle^ lined up.

Where the wisteria arbor was is a gasoline dump, a huge pile of gasoline drums. I hope to get sore pictures of it soon and send them on. Your heart will sink. But don’t get too discouraged for its remarkable what can be done. After seeing the Seoul Yondong compound last September, filled with refugees, hundreds in each house, a fowl wreckage, and what the Mil. Govt, did to it in a matter of weeks, restoring it most attractively, I’m encouraged to believe that Andong can be rehabilitated too. Once the K.G. makes up its mind, things are made to hum. But for the present Andong, to put it mildly, is a ness. ITo, the Pup Sang primary school is not functioning. The building is t.iere, vindow- less, and could be out into repair. But it would take a fabulous amount of yen and teachers salaries would be" beyond the budget of the church. The Japanese

railway village at Angie is occuplied by ries haven’t kept up w • th the inflation as attractive as you remember them. Yes in the house, a ..ell built house, former the Shinto Priest. But it is a but a good stiff climb just the Oulter Parent-Teachers meeting.

freckles than formerly. i.o, you’ll bo- inter?.- tod ■»ch service last Sunday ? lg Si’s house. I’m ifr i she has only been at ter to la i 1 :u seme t i • e ago.

Korean railroad workers. Their sal nd. the homes arm run iown, not near the East End congregation is meeti \j the he dquarters and residence of climb up there, beautiful to viev/ the town f Same. I certainly enjoyed the news of the Its also comf acting to know that Jack’s girl

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has fewer -::-;-v-Gertru local chu her in Ya

apparently

She moved Yi is divorced and is working as

After all each freckle makes to .know that Yi Sung Yun Si tu nd on the way back from church d she slipped quite a bit during ding churci ' any particular activity,

her oldest daugiita.'5 married to that v/ortnless nurse in a hospital. The 2nd daughter nas

difference.

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r^ied nuite well (whatever that means) to a dentist and has a son (so with a husband a dentist and a son, Yif remarked the daughter is O.K. now). Taki the bov eot hold of a Japanese orchard in faiku and is very successful financially. Yi>was greatly interested in hearing the family news and seeing the childrens* Picture. The reason why she didn*t see yours is that I don’t have any. So there’s an inspiration to visit the photogr aphexS . many families have struc.: rich with tht^ Japanese properties. In fact there are terrific church rows brewing over some of these deals. Former Japanese hotels are a lucrative source of income to the sharpers who got permission from the Iw.C-. to operate them and are Wired to pay a ridiculously low

Custodian. Some are just coining money on property aeals , out the most oi the people are not making it. Poke Chew told me today he thu gin: o.e would have" to .--uit this job because the fo.C. is paying him only a t nous and yen a month and is 1,200 yen a mal now. Ehe : . . i ' but has held

salaries* dowfi in the confioerce that ini

The second washer woman who helps Pak 5i here is so poor. Pa,, told me . -

the woman cane the other morning and washed all day Without nr.ving nad ai^yt>. ing| Numbers of beggars are Tbmri the roads too. The other day I Peii do-rm to the hospital and found a man and his 3 year old boy, beggar^an rags, warmin° ^mselves before a fire which they had kindled in the furnace room. Ss fiS &h, but either they or others had lighted fires in the

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likhkl^^nfoffSh^eJs'burnS wM^couid ^asil^e "started V " h 1 ,„od start in an empty building the nearby hospital could

easilyiteve^ne with-it. HS££; Sj

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is summoned by :he police it is because l , . so baddy he had to

the police came after the former s uc . nu > - f" total 1 °oo yen, about

go to Falk's hospital for tr ; tment and jhe it

a month's pay for a wor , . . • ,♦ si ' t*v«»n torture nd bpatingss

may h,,ve has done . ' SS’knew It. 'flie form*- student came to

out of the pc. .ice system, Snd JM Pe°p±h rk , 7llile t strive to keep out

Of government affairs as men a s P°?3^ge^ , *- upbut the doctor bill! I

ry cone e^n was no ---- - J^the fellow to tell his story,

spoke to the C thf^r^lwa^cops^lll have some embarrassing explaining to and it looks li._.e h. 0f the TJniv. of Nebraska football team and

do. 33ae C.O. played on the line of the toph endeavor. In these

can engender fear, physcial fear P P » imagine his putting into

instances I feel sorry for the C o! will ask a Korean cop,

Korean the pointed questions which h poverty I'm happy to announce

the ^ Korean postoffice

clothing is in excellent von-

Oi men.. 1 pleasure for me to take the things ._to,

dition, almost like new. a d j anu Gas is so short

the Bible woman's home for _distribu i . — schedule and yet I was able to here the local M.G. has had to SS toikST w I can begin my

have a drum of high octane gas shipp mirrinr like a contented cat.

itineration. The local G.I.'s keep the Lfw^ out to Yea .In to

Last Wednesday evening^li nun > hadn’t seen them since returning,

lead prayer meeting ana meet the people. I aith is there. Kow we need

built a new church, but a. ■»»»*»;;. g Aiff ineoiration for the

revival. Will you not pray for ohat. This 0r -him. full directip|

of my life, God spoke through the last ^ ^ tj, . **-+.***-'

Andong, Wednesday afternoon, February 19, 1947,

My Dearest,

Now how do you like that type for clarity and cleanliness? I just put in a new ribbon and brushed the keys off with alcohol and being made ready I am all set to have a little fellowship with you. Before me are your two letters of Feb, 1 and 3 which arrived on Monday. I *11 give you the details of the week-end trip in my next family letter, for the present I want this to be a chat just between us. Skooks siege with the Annual is first on the docket 8c what a tine the kid had. My, my, keeping going until nearly 3 in the morn- ing was some task, but now the first allotment is in and soon the thing will be all in and a matter of history. Its something to be able to take responsi- bility and see that the job gets done. I’m proud of our daughter for her job. And incidentally, the stacking up of activity on that Friday night is indica- tive of the talents of our little girl, music, s cholarship, and leadership.

I am exceedingly grateful for the report of the recital and the part of the Voelkels. Six numbers, wow, Sally was one of the prime performers. How the kid has worked her way into the life of the school. She’ll not be soon for- gotten. I’m so grateful too for Jack and Ted and their parts in the recital.

I take it that the Voelkels played a trio. What a demonstration that was.

The idea of teaching the children how to enter, bow, and leave is great fore- sight too.**I think it was a good idea having the kids go swimming at Bimini, but the mere thought of it chills me. It has been so dreadfully cold here, it requires all the courage I’ve got to get into the bathtub of an unheated bathroom. Your reference to hair cuts reminds me to mention that we have a G.I. barber now, a Korean paid by the array and we get our hair trimmed for

nothing. Wouldn’t I like to have the kids here. I’m sure Jack looked slick

with his .75 haircut .-fr-frYes, Ranier is wise in making a will and having all things made ready in case of an emergency. I’m anxiously a waiting news of the operation. It wasn’t easy to face I know and Ranier is so alone. My

surmise is you are her closest friend. ** I have mentioned before that Ella

Sharrocks has been transfered from Seoul to Kwang Ju, a significant change, and upon inquiry I have learned that it was a transfer as an alternative to being sent back to America. The report was that Ella didn’t “cooperate", and the colonel in charge decided to send her home but upon Ella’s pleading agreed finally to a transfer. I mention this as a subject for prayer for Ella is not happy, quite apparently, and needs the blessing God granted us. With no spiritual objective how dull the outlook must seem.-JHHfrNow I come to Ann and the "decision" to study a year in college. That’s what she ought to do, of course, but I doubt y? sJj^Jll be able to manage it. With Shel and the parents counting the 3a^^thelHd will be swept into it as she will in many, many decisions of life, because of the desparagement in t heir ages.

But that isn’t a 11, for my guess is that Shel hasn’t had any college either, and to have a wife, a housewife, to possess more education than the pastor husband would be a continual sourse of comparison unfavorable to the husband, and a young wife with more education that the older husband would give her an edge in the family counsel not easy to overcome. It w ill be interesting to see how it comes out, but can the kid buck both parents and older lover.

I’m waiting for news about the Van Dyke’s visit. I know Jack and Nickie had a great time singing "Deep in the Heart of Texas" if nothing else.** Gertrude not a package of all the stuff the Gibbs sent has come excepting that one I wrote about long, long ago. I ’m awfully sorry, for so many things have come via both Korean postoffice and A.P.O. that were s hipped after theirs ««H6, ho, Sally is certainly the fountain pen girl. What shall be do with her. Get her engaged to a fountain pen manufacturer, I suppose.’ Good boy. Jack, rescuing the valuable item. And Haba boy swiping the key. My, ray, what a trickster. -JHi-l *m so happy Gertrude that you c an enjoy all these happy anniversaries at Knox. Its a very cordial church, isn’t it, and the people are so hearty and g enerous. I’m so distressed to hear about Judy Duncan’s operation. Now please let me know what they discover. That’s a crisis for a couple to have to meet, isn't it? I prayed for them this morning in ray devotions. Gertrude dear, what a letter this is that you send, two full page four sides. Thank you so rauch.**Yes, a projector is a good buy and we 11

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be able to use all these things. The Ed Rogers wrote me of their accepting a call to Honolulu. How the Lord has worked out things for them and how much more interesting it w ill be for them in a thoroughly evangelistic work than in that church in Hollywood. God does guide us all so wonderfully. But I'll tell you that was ardawfully humbling Ed got. I trust God has sanctified it to hlnu«*I'm thankful for the childrens' letters, word from all of them: Skook's letter to Carol (a copy). Jack's, Teddy's with the drawing of the ship, and haba's dictated letter. That's a real high average .**Darling how I praise God for these letters and post cards that continue t o come, telling of blessing through the REVIVAL booklet. Really, it is a sourse of blessing isn't it, a means of encouragement to my own heart. About how many have you sent out lately? I don't suppose you've had to have them reprinted since I Deft, H&ve you? I take it you have sent copies to these people who r equested them. *hhh*

And sweetheart, the yearly reconing of our f inane ial accounts in Greenwich.

I forget about it until the t ime rolls around for a statement from the Board. Since we prepared through the years for Skooks education, how fortunate that we can face the matter of her college enrollment with these funds before us.

raying that God will reveal his will to us in the matter of college which involves of course so many other things, your coming or not coming out, your home next Pall, etc., etc. The one matter of a piano is the only thing I can figure about not going to Pasadena, and if an arrangement for the kids to prac- tice at s chool or some nearby neighbors could be made everything w ould be hunky dory. As far a s kindergarten for Haba is concerned you c an be sure Pasadena would have the best. And the Lake Ave. Congregational Church would be a grand place for the family to attend.

Will you please send me a few wash clo^ths. I mentioned them some time ago but I take it you forgot them. Also will you include a few high-powered light bulbs, about 150 or 180 W. The current is so weak out here you've got to get a bright bulb to have light enough t o see. I have the bulb but not the lamp of the gift the Duncans are sending. *»Your including of M&s. Berrieisels letter leads me to remark that their son is little different from the general run of G.I.'S. He smokes, and his conversation and interests are apparently fully worldly. ^His wife won’t come out, and goodness knows what she's like, not delighting! he opportunity of a trip to Korea, which in her case wouldn't be more than a year. How different he is from the Moffett boys. He's as gray as Ella Sharrocks was, a nice guy, cordial, but light and frivilous.

There's a letter herelfrom the Board Treasurer saying that the Al&gheny Church, Penna. where I visited on the itineration that um time w.i*h-that group of women, is sending me $25.00. I'll request the Board tq a>hd’-dfc to you and you can apply it to the Kor® fund. /

Enclosed is a copy of a letter I felt Jf had to write I don't sup-

pose it will effect him much but it ought to. Yourd ' » a pertinent remark, that he will have a rabbi in his pulpit but not a f and amen talist like myself who preaches the Gospel. I keep praying for Elmer and Mercy, and for Sis.

Sis is beginning to respond, I verily believe, and we shall just have to trust God to work a miracle in Elmer and Mercy's lives.

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/l^rcU,

Harold Voelkel, % 63 Mil Gov’t Hq & Hq Co,

% PJ« San Francisco, California

Dearest Everybody, Andong, February 22, 1947.

What a day J One of the officers here called it "Wash" Day, which is one way of designating the day of our coun try’s father’s birth* Its Saturday evening, and I ’m writing you now instead of tomorrow because the truck is due to go to Taiku tomorrow instead of Monday. I’m sorry about that for it will take one of my standbys from the evening service I hold for the G.I.’s, a fine, big boy from Missouri. He’s pure gold. *~H"*Thank you Gertrude for your two dandy letters that came Thursday, telling of the arrival of the Van Dykes. It was a crowded house to say the least, but the more the merrier. Ho^ppropriate it was to have two church missionary dinners during their stay. Oh, my dear, the thought of Sally Liu sleeping out on the sleeping porch; It gives me the shiver to think of it for it has been bitter cold, but more of that later. *h**I »m glad to get the news of Ranier’s operation and will await further details on her recovery. «*Wellf I fve had my first trip to the country with the jeep, and I’m happy to say that I believe we’ve got a good, byy, at least thus far. The engine worked beautifully and we had no mishaps except the radiator freezing up a num ber of times, it wax so cold. I bought some anti-freeze in Seoul, but it had all boiled out on the w ay down here and there is none to be purchased here.

Yi Wun Yung, Chaw Hung No, Im Chang No of Angie and myself started out right after dinner Saturday and I enjoyed the drive out east to Chim Baw. I had been over the road once, at night, coming from Yung Duk, and it did me good to pass by the villages we had v isited so frequently with groups from the B.I. We stop- ped at Chek Ku Ri and it happendd to be Market Day, and Phew; what a crowd gathered when they say the foreigner* Since none of the G.I.’s speak Korean it is always a surprise when I start off in conver sation. I asked them if they wanted to buy a book, a most valuable book for only 5 yen. It was unanimous that they did, and in a matter of minutes all the Gospels I had were gone, they snatched them out of my hands. Soon we w ere off, and arriving at Chim Baw wished to cross the river to Kwang Duk but it was too far and too cold, so we headed for Chunfy Song Up. What a reception. The inn-keeper, where w e w ere to stay, is the unbelieving older brother of a former deaaon in the church, and while an unbeliever is most cordial. You may remember a story about him; he beat up a youth in my presence who had signified a willingness to marry the inn-keeper fs younger sister but when it came to the time of signing the contract declined.

It was quite a scene, the helper, the girl, the younger brother, friends, and I were all present and it was a tenee moment. The only apparent place to park the jeep was in the court-yxard of the inn but I couldn’t drive in because the top of the gate was too low. While I was wondering what I could do, the

husky appeared with a saw and sawed off the top* of the gate. Now what about

that for a welcome. I brought a bedding roll and army rations, K rations, but as the army men know, this is light diet and I decided to eat Korean £ood, 2 meals a day, anyway. Supper at the inn wax only fair, very different from what inns used to serve, indicative of the changed conditions in the country, and of course very different from these man doo kook feasts that the ldBcal people

have been giving me. In the evening we had a service in the church which is

in a dreadfu^condition, the result of its disuse during the war yea.rs. The people were forbidden to meet, and the congregation has scattered. The few who are meeting haven’t the means to repair it. They are anxious to get a Japanese property, a store right at the corner of the main roads in the town,

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took me all Sunday morning to get it , , fan suck the warm

coal brazer up against the radiator and by a straw bag

air throughthe radiator thawed it °u^* radiator. By t he time we got out

and that sent all the hot air right ini* farther Sam Yi isn't

to Sam Yi, the 30 li place, it was too late to go on farther. Sam Yi isn

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meeting as a congregation, the former leader has gone from the town and the ore sent one is planning to get t hings going in the Spring. The church like the one at the OOP needs quite a bit of repair. The day was as c old as any we 'ye

had and I was out in it from the time I got working on the jeep until we returned

at about 5.30 from Sam Yi. My, how God's Providence covers us. We had to go through three streams to and from Sam Yi and the water froze on my brakes. There was™ deep ditch in front of the inn and the home-made bridge oyer it was just about wide enough for the jeep. When I applied the brakes to slow up upon near- ing the bridge I found to my alarm that there was no traction and a° we sailed „ h-nldffp and into the inn yard, safe but by a elds e call# I felt deli

nitely that God had protected us in missing the ditch, for to have fallen down

it in the je^would doubtless have done us real injury. It was so fitter cold I don't belieVe we had many but the faithful out. And I must confess I wa anxious to get to bed. Saturday night I had slept on the floor in the bedding 1 arri it was so snug and warm I had already decided to do it again, p10 JmAnrflfure^of the room wasn't very different from outdoors but once in the roll JTtnn ™ and blankets on the outside that I had brought to cover

us in the Jeep I &oon dozed off into a sound sleep. How I enjoyed it. In turn- over a time or two during the night I realized I wasn't resting on a beauty- hut t knew I was having a grand sleep. I was given a room to my I Hi ^fthrttoLoSers decided t^bunk together. I rejoiced in the fellowship.

For breakfasts I ate the ar^ ^e^e 5TS 2°&p market

Pl^e where Jay tVTilfr’&ntV JrS.f sZ°I ^d^fde^enfif lo^gear.

stuck in crossi g .. waY home in good condition, and it was a

cause for celebration in the local church that itlnera^ ^the^ipf ^o- At prayer meeting Wedn®3day t o ®t he6 installation ofTn^lder at Ong ChuA, 40

mowrow I 'm placing a visit to ^e installaci * j. believe m the Bible

li out. I(m glad it isn t so lar io , ha 1u8b a headc old, but I

institute which isn't always as warm as it might be, just want to get rid of it and the best way is to day covered.

Well, the week has slid rapidly by. ^ Lif^of Christ before in Korean,

I-m enjoying it greatly. I ^^High Sch^Is are having their

and of course its a tremendous subject. The loeax nig t0 offer my ser -

examinations now or I would be opting ^em.^^a m^lanning^^^^ ^7 ^

Christiana, arc meeting for fell* ship.

I'll have to be writing the boys propose^trip^ o^aris with the

I can't help but cogent however, oi lik^a bargain but so cheap, all the way Boy Scouts for $50.00. That sounds somewhere. If you can make it for

JKoS W^olTStWt^S tomt6ake the mothers along to look after the Scouts???????

SaJ th“'a^L?f“n5syq?orhoSd”ha Se.p.rlnce Rallies, at least the nurse tfo m there used to distribute temperance literature. ^ ^ ^

Andong, February 26, 1947.

Dearest Gertrude,

Where shall I start to thank you enough for your letters and for everything else. My, my, how deeply, deeply indebted to you I am. Gertrude, I confess to you frankly, the whirl you are maintaing leaves me breathless, and lam wondering why you simply do not disintegrate into atoms as a result of the supersonic (get the word - everybody's using it nowadays) pace you are travel- ing. Your letters remind me of C. A. Clark* s station report, with the exception that you appear to take everything in its stride without particular exertion, although I can appreciate how much effort goes into a dinner, a party for several guests. How do you do it? Well, my darling, I committ you to the Lord and pray that He may grant you daily grace, -in** What a day, what a day was Wednesday when 7 packages came, 1 from the Baughs with a few, only a few youngster s> things, worn, that friends had given them, and 6 from you, packed with the wonderful new materials. And Gertrude, how thoughtful and generous to have had the boys shoes repaired before you sent them. I recognized a number of pair of shoes that I had shined.* They were precious to me, belonging as they did to the boys, and it gave me an emotional experience to handle them again. Two rolls of filns came, tucked in nicely. And also a nostalgic surge came over me as I recognized sweaters and things Dede and Haba wore. Dear little men. Oh, I must get to writing Teddy about his hand, really his own hand in plaster. I have it right on my desk and enjoy looking at it, and showing it to the Koreans. I first saw it upside-down, and not knowing what it w as 1 thought it was sugar candy and took a taste of it, and then turning it over saw the hand. And Sweetheart, the pencil- sharpener at last. Thanks very, very much. I haven* t got it nailed down yet, but I will. I am so grate- ful to have it. And the mirror, a big one . but my dear, yes, I *m sorry to have to report that it was cracked, but orfione crack and I am using it very delightedly since it is so much bigger than anything I had previously. I smile to myself as I s ee Pak Si taking a peep at herself, since there isn*t a mirror like it in town. And my dearest, this candy that you sent me for birthday is the yuramiest I *ve had in a long, long time. How rich it is, delicious. I enjoy a piece at the time. Thanks for it. The package itself is a work of art. I thought I would have to untie the beautiful red bow of ribbon until I discover- ed that it s imply lifted off. How rich I am in gifts. Thank you you precious dears for all these loving gifts. And not only the gifts but the letters!

Three from you, no less. One, that of Jan 27th was held up somehow, and it filled in with items that had been anticipated or referred to in other connec- tions. "The gifted nurse"you speak about I remember, but she is no where around here now. Paik*s outfit is a small- aLaried group with little semblence of the clean, efficient staff we used to have. I can*t help but refer to Olga Johnson's eye-closing habit, for it about worried me in New York at the conference. I think it is a defence mechanism, and it lobks entirely voluntary to me. Maybe I'm wrong, for I can't say for sure, but it wearied me and in fact embarassed me, and I feel it must do the same to others. I felt it was an example of how we can let a mannerism get a hold on us.** Hurrah for the cabin that Jack a nd Nickie built. They must have had a great time. I'm still wondering whether they sang, "Deep in the heart o' Texas together. They'll be friends for life and it will be interesting in the years ahead to see how their paths will cross for the Van's have so much in common with us. Arch Campbell and his "lovely big car" are amusing, for the Ex. Com. out here got a letter from him telling of his deals in cars, how he bought a new Chevie expecting to bring it to Korea and then because of the lure of a profit of $300.00, sold it and started a series of second-hand car purchases. Strange, isn't it, how some people with no more salary than we always have fCars , plural, not singular, but darling there is something else they don t have, and I'd rather have that, a penny or two on reserve that we can count on.

Oh, Mrs. Stewart, yes Gertrude, that is a dead give-away on Kim's character. He's weak, and you can put it down that the Koreans see his Patronizing 91 wealth. It would require courage for him to take a stand on it but in the end, in little time they'd recognize the man's spiritual aim and methods, and admire

his devotion.** 1*111 interested in Sally Lou*s chat with young Dave Van D. about vocations, especially the reference to Peter and his music. Peter is the young man who thought a chaplain 's assistant job was sissy, and now he's considering music as a life's work. I felt sure he was aspiring to some masculine endeavor like blacksmiMng or piano-moving. A musician. Is there anything more sisified, than a long-haired - no, I wonTt go any further, for I want my boys all to be musicians. I shall answer Skook ' s wonderful letter soon. I am most grateful for it and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a really provocative epistle with many good subjects to discuss, one of which is, art and its relation to a Christian witness. And S.L.'s interest in phjlosphy awakens a responsive chord in my heart for I was at one time so enthused about it. It won^t be hard to write at length about it. I'm happy to get such good reports about Dave V.D. and Nickie. Yes indeed, God has answered prayer in behalf of those boys, and He will answer prayer for our boys, too, and our girl. How thankfully I pray for them daily, morning and evening, and. each time I eat. You precious dears, you are before me always.*** Now my dearest, may I suggest in connection with the kindness of the Culter folk in granting you permission to use the mimeographer, that you not anticipate a regular thing out of it. forgive me, for even thinking that you would abuse a privilege, but I know how logical it seems to expect them to O.K. something that is definitely the Lord's work. I therefore humbly suggest that if at all possible that you seek help elsewhere, and best of all pay for it aout of some funds for my experience has been that those things, the machines, • are always out of whack and it costs to keep them in repair. But what activity, Gertrude. Phew.' how can you keep going at this rate? Now how about this Yeddy and the ponies. How I'd like to hear him. I'd love to hear him galloping over the keys. And oh dear that grand solo of Skooks. Just wrap it up in a package and send it to me. Please don't forget the crashing chords. And the crashing grades. A wonderful report from both Skooks and Dede.. S.L.'s A in English under Micky is highly commendable. The B- in Algebra is the first one, isn't it? I can't say much about Algebra for I got a powerfully low grade in that in Fresh- man High School. Come on kid- show them your dust now in the final stretch.

I'll be waiting for Jack's grades.** Its nice you could have the chat with the V.D.'s about Wheaton, and get' Nan's reaction about it. It will doubtless take some strong deciding to separate the family, and there w ill be many factors to consider. Word just came from Fletcher, the same mail as yours, to the effect that the M.E. missionaries who made application for travel permits for t heir families were turned down. It was a test case. I thought of making application when in Seoul for you but the army would not accept any more applications until action had been taken on the M.E.'s. Now we've got something definite, and while as Fletcher says the army on oecassion goes into reverse, yet it won t be for a little while anyway. We certainly hope they will reverse this after awhile.** And the washline and the punishing of the culprits by Jack. He's quite the Dad of the family, isn't he? Good hoy, Jack.**Gertrude, I want to tell you again what a delight it is to me to have the room filled with this wonderful 6 packages of wonderful material. It is s imply not on the market. Everything is getting scarcer all the time, and with the* jeep now I can get out to the country, and I w as planning to get out to Yong Yang and take some of the things with me. Be- cause it is feared there might be uprisings in many quarters on the 1st of March which is Saturday the trip maybe delayed. But I'll get out there sooner or later and the people will gasp when they see the wonderful gifts. Thank you, you big hearted lover of the Lord and the poor. What a gracious and generous soul the Lord has given you, and how blessed I am to have you for my partner and wife, my sweetheart. I am so richly blessed with you, Gertrude, and I am grateful to God and ling to be moreso because He has given you to me. This is Wednesday and this evening I am planning (D.V.) to drive out on the Yi Sund road 20 li to a churtfh where that big, blind pastor, you remember him I8m su^e, is holding meet- ings for us. Poor fellow he w as led astray during the war and made quite anti America speaches and whether he has truly repented or not I don't know. I hope so for otherwise he won't be able to bring blessing to ypfsPVone else. May the Lord hover tenderly over you all and warm your hearts with His loving presence. May the home be filled with His joy and unite you in a constant fellowship.

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Andong, February 28, 1947.

Dearest Gertrude,

Your two letters, those of Feb. 14th and 17th, came last night and their con- tents sent me to my knees in deepest gratitude to God for His great kindness to you. What blessed days you are having and how beautifully everything is working out. My dear, I 'm afraid I shall have to admit that the affairs of the family seem to go smoother with me away. At least it sounds so. My guess if however, that you are so happy you minimize the chores that are a part of each day's routine. I praise God, my dearest for you all and for His gracious care, for the many happy activities with which He crowds the days. And you are a dear, simply precious. I am going to start at the begin- ning and go through the letters and make some comments, just fellowship a little witl^ou in conversation. Why not? Well, thanks f or t he birthday party and the cake with the candles# And my dear little namesake. Bless his heart. I'm glad, Haba big man that you blew out the candles for me.

Just wait until he is 49, - but that is a long time off, isn't it. He will be a big boy when he is 9, without waiting for the 49# I'm glad Sally Lou could get rested up by lying around for a couple days. Surely, that's just the thing to do# Do it every once in a while. But better still, don't get so fagged out that you reach the exhaustion point J Now my dearest, I'm afraid I shall have to caution you about Lincoln Ave. Church. You remember that is the congreation that "used" us up last summer with very little ex- pression of gratitude. Not that we do things to be thanked. But the fact

that Me Gee could ask a busy house wife and mother like you to take a street car up to the B.I. when he could drive down to our place from there in a

few minutes to get you. That provokes me, and I tell you I'm indignant

about it. That sort of thing, Gertrude^ is unpardonable and I am grieved deeply about it. How thoughtless people are, and the NEXT TIME my darling, just say you'll wait for someone to come for the duties of the family don't enable you to spend so much time waiting for cars. I'll venture that few "modernists" would be so thoughtless; it remains for fundamentalists to be so crude, and I *m a fundamentalists Now Marjorie Hansen is destined for limbo and stands4n danger of be ex-communicated from her church for attend- ing a PRESBYTERIAN church. How could she? What wouM Carl Me Intyre say to that. And I observe that Harriet Parker was at the Church of the Open D. Bible class again. Isn't that a compromise? But I musn't go on this way, in a letter to my darling. What I'm doing is pointing out how smallness inevitably catches up with people and they always have to back track. I *m wondering what Me Intyre is saying now against the Fed. Council since the new pBsident is an Episcopalian, a layman who perhaps is so unaquainted with what is going on in the theological world that he isn't making doctrinal beeches. Is all that was said against the former Fed Council president now cancelled. Thanks and congratulations on the news-letter. Why, you get out 250 letters just like nothing at all. Its well done, dear, only some of my words like "pop-eyed" were for the family, and I feel almost slangy in having /fotfv'fco forth in a formal letter. I've written Jack a letter of congratulation on his decision to stick by the Lord Jesus and His Word and not be tempted into breaking his record. Do you see how the Scouts could actually be the means of breaking a boys attendance record and starting him out in skipping worship for play. I feared that at the very beginning o the plan for him to join the scouts, but now that he has faced it and made hi ^decision its alright. Now sweetheart, forgive your lovers irascability while I smile at anybody who would go into the Biltmore for hot tamalies.

"And they do it every Sunday". What laughs the waiters must have at people like that. Dearest I congratulate the Doctor and his girl friend for choosing you to be their guest#. They know a charming guest when they see one.

People always pick you. Now don't they? How about it? O.K., ”^ey do.

But then to create the impression of splurge and saunter up to the Biltmore and order , well they could have done only one thing worse and that would have been to order a cheese sandwich. Do you see me taring my hairj I

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Biltraor© - tamalies. Well, to get back to earth., I hope you walked around the place for it is beautiful. You may recall^that is where I addressed 500 Los Angeles business men in the Ballroom at a Rotary Club meeting.

What a time it was. So nowwe’ve both been there. You know what’s in my heart, dear, don’t you; I’d just like to take you to dinner in the Main Din- ing Room. That’s where you belong, right there in the middle, not with a fish order, but with half a fried chicken a la Maryland, fresh asparagras tips, and hot biscuits. But how could I spend the money with half the world starving. I ’mg rateful for a wife who would be just as happy with Spam.

Bless your heart. Well, by this timel imagine you have my letter with ref- erences to Ann and he#r affair which seems almost like a prediction in view of the tdephone calls of her mother and step-father Shel. Sa lifer spoke of going to a fire as material for a college essay. My, but what a novel this aflkir would turn out to be. It is so typical, so obvious, and so regret- able. The girl is merely incidental in the deal whereby the mother is gain- ing a son-in-law. The fact is the situation is dangerous. For if the kid does really possess some conviction, she may even after marriage, after discovering the truth of the situation decide to let the husband go. And you’ll remember the mother’s phrase in that letter, "there is a great differ- ence in their ages but the Lord is leading", or some words to that effect.

How about God’s leading now. It’s an unnatural and unbecoming affair in which the girl is being victimized. Romance being as blinding and over- whelming as it is, colored with the spiritual language of the fellow’s call- ing a girl could hardly be expected not to yield. But after the surge of emotion levels off and the hard reality involved in marriage becomes appa- rent, the LIKELIHOOD is, I believe, the kid will have a rude awakening.

Now may I hasten to make a suggestion. Neither the Mother nor Shel nor Ann, I believe will welcome any intrusion by us into their affairs. Sad as it is, I would be very careful NOT to give the impression that you feel Ann ought to go on to college whether or not the parents or the boy friend approve. If that mother isn’t already aware of the folly of her plan little can be done now to make her see it. To say it is "strapge" the way the mother is working, is to put it mildly. But it is true to type, the kind of thing that is happening all the time. Now I must get on to other things. Enclosed are travelers checks for my whole February salary. Unless I’ve forgotten I sent you $70.00 last month too. How I’m living on nothing I don’t knowj Really, its something isn’t it. I had a few dollars extra when I landed and that goes to pay for my board, $.75 a day, about $22.50 a month. Next month I won’t have $70.00, so go ahead a buy yourselves some- thing with it. Please do Gertrude. Take the family up to the Biltmore and get them a pair of shoe laces. Praise the Lord for good old Louie Talbot and his trip to Australia. That he almost missed the plane is true to form. Notice please that he signed his letter to the staff, "Heaps of love". He must have been reared a SwallenJ Now forgive me for that, darling Gertrude, for you know I have a deep affection for Swallens, for one in particular anyway. "Safe landing and glorious welcome". Yes, thank God for it, and when he returns he’ll be preaching here and there from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back again on his experiences in Australia. I am enclosing a number of letters, none of which you need keep or return. I trust the Lord will bless the suggestion to Fletcher for a prayer meeting and enable him to get the Methodists to join us in a time of intercession for revival.

It is Providential, I believe, that Fletcher should have raised the question and created the opening for Blair to make the suggestion. I decided to work through Blair for I have been talking about prayer so much I felt I couldn’t gracefully raise the question again. One has to be careful talking about prayer these days,, does he not??????The Lord bless you dearest one, and care for you lovingly these days, keeping you well and strong and in His peace and fellowship. And may our precious children continue in growth in body, mind and soul, in favor with God and man.

Address: Harold Voelkel (Civ. Presbyterian Mission),

63 Mil Gov't Hq & Hq Co. A.P.O. 6 - 1, % P.M., S.P. Calif

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Dearest Everybody, f ^ j * ^

I have had to let you go two days later than usual for thl® f ^

the ieep I am getting into somewhat of regular schedule, six days of Bible Institute and then the week-end in the country with Yi Wun Yung, Moderator of V the Presbytery. We leave Saturday after classes and get back Monday afternoon in time for a class or two. You can appreciate how it steps up the tempo and crowds me for time. But it is a happy time. It happend that Saturday was the first of March, a historic and Important day in Korea, but more of£hat later.

I always enjoy Monday, e specially Monday evening for that is when the truck returns from Taiku with the mail and there is ALWAYS mail from you. How grate- ful it makes me to get an account of the family's doings, and I am regularly led to STto.™ «° PrU.. God for His loving ere or you and HI. .b^d.nt pro- vision for all your needs. I'm thankful you are keeping well, in fact it seems like the best winter yet. I'm glad you are all getting such a baseball mitt for Jack, a pair of skates for Teddy and Haba, and a MIRROR for Sally Lou. And Jack's being assigned the seat right behind Diana seems like a frame-up to me. Jack are you sure you didn't arrange that ahead of

STngfdon^fsJanfstill anywhere, do they, and that is certainly true here. There is something daily to occupy our time and demand our strength* A few , we»m on Hn»s wife came to the back door to tell me he was very ill

corner of a room with his N.i. n prayed after entering the room,

uation class from the B. I. As 3°°n P going to die, that he had

he began immediately to tell me ^hathekn g i | w t0 meet his

had his han-kap (61 years old), ®nd ^h^n has neglected him, and before he Saviour. His one regret was that whereabouts he didn’t know. There

died he wished to see his son again Gov’t in Taiku,

all the Korean labor learned. ^Mle the man was hardly able payroll. But after promising N through his tears, a hymn he had

to bare the agonizing pain, he sang to ™ f the forgiveness of His

recently written, praising G4d for his "* ££ ^he peace of Heaven after

sins through Jesus' Blood, anything that has moved me so in a

departing from this world. I do nndar-ful 3tt all was, that a man in such

long time. How real and sacred and J&b’een swallowed up in

dreadful pain could sing* Al1 ® Praise God. Would that we weren't

Jesus' salvation. I shall never forget : m help iS these friends financially kept by this artificial ra ® ° mention of finances brings to mind

but at 15 to 1, we can do nothing. And me mentioning Kael, the

another experience that wrung “y,£ the'sehool conducted in her home. The girl girl Emma Sue Baugh had helping in ^®T natl°ute one day, radiant. She was is now a widow and turned up in Bible Inst itute « on^t y^ ^ ^ ^ In3ti_

preparing herself for the w°rk b k t0 teli u3 that the family who agreed

tute only one day. Later she cam studied found they couldn't do it,

to look after her little son while sh her story and my hear)

and she couldn't forsake her baby. She wept as sne

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was heavy too, but there was nothing I could do. I've seen her since on the road, bright and cheerful, her baby on her back, going her way. Speak- ing of children leads me to mention the recent reiteration by the Mil Gov’t of its attitude twward missionary children, dependents. Two Methodist men, Jensen and Amendt, I think it was, who made application for their children and thereby created a test case, were turned down. So for the time ahbeing we know where we are in the matter of dependents although it is to be remembered that the army can go into reverse whenever it wishes. I've great peace about you all coming out here for I feel that God is working out a definite plan for us and with us and in His own perfect time will indicate when we are to be a reunited family.

I'm beginning to feel that some of my remarks, my sermons, on the confession of

sin and restitution are taking effect. The other day old Kim Sun Kyu, elder in

the local church came up to see me and pulled out of his pocket a huge spike

not unlike an American railroad spike although it has some queer markings on it.

The point is the old fellow explained something I didn't know that when these missionary houses were built, 36 years ago, if I remember his story correctly, he was in on the deal. At the time he had stolen this spike and now his con- science had been at work ahd he came to acknowledge his, sin, his theft, and re- qfnre the spike. Well, that's something, isn't it? A duke isn t very valuable but it takes a lot of grace to acknowledge a theft, an<T I accept this restitution as the beginning of what I trust will be a wholesale cleaning up of much that I know has cluttered the lives of the Christians. I've had an experience* with the local congregation that distresses me, and is indicative of the corroding, corrupting effect of sin. I think I've told you that I discovered the furnace from oS Cellar in front of the church in a bath-house that the Japanese erected when they used the church as a barracks. I mentioned to the pastor one day that the furnace was ours and of our delight in anticipating its return to its old

Sb in S£r cella£. I never gave the matter of the return of the furnace any job in our cellar, i feting of the officers of the church there was

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crushing conviction of sin comes. Incidentally I happened to mentioned tothe

since for that isn’t the way to least, for with the approach

‘The past week has been exciting, relative y julv there

of the first of March, the nearest

were all kinds of rumors of uprisings ^ demonst: rati^ bu^ed pollce officers, the Rightists. L^t October, you 1 , * province This time precautions

police homes, and “killed 58 VSlSay 'of amod might. On the

were taken and in Andong we were ,.5. moaq© marched with guns

Tuesday before Mar* 1st (Saturday), the loca P ft outfit the American

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tl£oufe SS fire t .ruck siren a^ounced&the ^leit

G.I.’s and Korean police passed. It certainly naux protection. But as

is no doubting the fadt that it do*® ® , t d ^ angered by what happened after,

credible showing as it made I was diW°£™ lla invited the G.I.’s into

On the return to the center of town the tlme two of the felliws

the police office and gave them ^-^^tfSl^d^Sk. I learned after that one had to be helped to t heir rooms, frightfully drunx. same age.

of them was an 18 year old boy and the other I imagin

Tt is the sort of thing that is happening all the time and I don’t know how to answer the Koreans when they asked me if these American soldier* are Chrjstians We planned to go6ut to Young Ju but as the day neared, the first of March I began to crow a little uneasy for Young Ju is a hot-bed of unrest. All the soldiers working out of Andong, those stationed in Young Ju, Sang Ju, and Yea Chun were called in here lest there be uprisings in those places, for there are only three men in each outpost. The C.O. here thought that everything would be O.K., and Yi Wun Yung felt satisfied that the precautions were sufficient so we went forth and I'm glad w© did. The army way of doing things is to give you what they call rations when eating away from the post, for I pay by the month at $.25 a meal.

That is so reasonable I could well affort to eat only half the time and ©et more than my full value financially, but the fact is the rations are no* J* to

put it otherwise they are only what they were Intended to be, a

soldier in battle sufficently nourished. K rations consists of a can of ^t, a few dried crackers, powdered coffee or lemonade, pending on whether it is breakfast, lunch, or dinner, a bar of candy, a piece of chewing gum, and a small nack of cigaretets. Well, to repeat it is nourishment, but hardly a meal, especially when I sitSby and see the good hot rice, soup, and kirn chi. So folks, I must a&nit t fup r* ottia to it X had mv rations with me, but I ate Korean food every meal, ave breakfasts and it was fish sou On Sunday we had five meals. Imagine that when people are going hungry here, but nothing is half good enough for the honored euests Sunday night after supper I even ate, had to eat it, mook. Do you re- ^ber whfTmoLll Yes, it looks and tastes just like «

camaf louge the taste I indulged in the red pepper until I felt the roof ol my mouth gradually dissolving. Saturday afternoon we &*"<***** drove directly p r* stooping only at Yung Ju to tell them we'd be there tne next day.

Poong Gi* put their political steam into a community celebration in the school

Of fellcs dancing around s.lnglng the long t.stles from ‘hose

ffilcSoua* fum., hats »U.d -yi. iS.ToLSK.'S S.’S-

°ff until recently both congregations have been meeting together

a s^ hey?w ere Sr e qu ir ed" to o during the wal. low they are separated the older

excellent attendance. Monday we i 6 f young felliws from the later

b‘=a:^apoveStheI1eep t^the village. "The road is good, you can make it easilyL'

inche3/<v ider than the jeep, with a P J? lf but j c ould hardly do otherwise

It took grace and patience to contain ^ .country .illag*, and

at the reception we got. The attendace is "P^ful ReLved!TwL read? for a after the service we had more feeling at Monday breakfast in

cup of coffee. And *®kt add q recited touchingly the visit

Yung Ju when an old elder f ormerly f Jloh tiie the missionary ate Koran of Sawtelle , years ago, to Nam Ay » l3 only the day after but as yet

food and as a result took sick and • toast and coffee was this morning,

all is well. But how tasty the Fre^^f^*^fe^®°the GRUEL the Africans Think of a real missionary like David Living stone eating the ^ ^ fop

cooked for him. Agrican gruel the food ^3pirationof his life,

years and not a word of complaint. Praise

~ yw~r / u Lovingly,

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-'ur letter of deb. 22 err-ved and T *ct a nc"’ ri'*on» Vtesterdav

epeech by Koldcrett^t £e ’ WtlSfl ^°fnS :^>st * : S ~in.

fuwarloo ho had returned to the field, ^st ' : tl *5 4hat of a11 nie-

0. 1e end. Can you guess? Han Poo Sun ' oksa^f^i™ lirn on cne Shrine ; to

:o hto ,fter it over anc' a° :od aboS VoilSl S8 ^ he talked 20 ^ ‘>11 ruled out by be in ? under the ’ nitmnnne r> * ~ ~'~T} :S> Conn, ut they are

Southern Presbyterians, ard ’h ' had * ^-d ^ t '1fen ft® ar'ked ** H. ruled out the

statement slightly. Otto said he chared ~ S??v ■ : fought .to change his

would ean re had r n all, accordin' o’ ^ the ?th co a nt, which

second chapter of ,0 ,-.ns *^Thou>that »S,«.und ,ou1' "ut Mm squarely in the

+. . • letter was sent Is which ha? thJ thfU £>est.the =** things.-

r opinion that narjy are bein' driven strai vht*4n:J; ports fron orean friends and ditlons, even in the . -.ricen zone -re , 1 “J-0 coas-unist ams and that con-

of many minds oVid 07ET’ C!rJnCH*f'B»S‘P10J«Pf^8flSiL — $ 11 is a luestion of many ying to Urork up revivals, - ■- uttcri - ' (compromise, union etc.) and that r-

•■aintaining do not 1a’-e vs -li f^*™.'*** their difficulties in

here. ;e are not nervously able for r^-’ •Thile wrlc there as

1, -ncnc Sssiok Tinn, has worn out Lifer's Y- 1 ' 1 : ^ • '? £uthor> <P*I7AI

lsar) note if you cat to, but donTt +fif d Vfw1 contention in the oast, out of you got it from le. ’ COn * tel1 'Yho xt wa= that wrote the above, or that

haven^the l.astidba^iSI ftatSjtadt o^ritei T ^\&££er over an hour, and some boohs and ~ot others. I „at ™ hbir cut Ini IZZ *° %-° librarie* **d returned

?i?g*P.j but no, as cLap as - Yr YlY' Y ? If?- rie? “P liver* ^±ch is

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inr.; ore boxes be lore Ion*. w

I'n sending zone pictures the '.Hoard had me get taken They cost ue the noble sum of c^nts eacn. i.on»t te..l the .oreans that. If you think any other re.- tors reserve and v.- nt uiei.'i, I cm send ore.

yfwc <iAuU*y /^oU? ^w -:o ~oufl ccr. espcnc.ence. ’ e keep up praying for you*

Andong, Thursday Evening, March 6, 1947

Sweetheart,

I just know there is going to be a letter from you whenever I hear that the truck has arrived with American mail. Yesterday (Wednesday) after arriving from Prayer Meeting at Mfung Dong, 15 li west, I hadn’t known that mail had arrived, and so this morning as I entered our home for breakfast I saw another of your packages. Now I fm skipping at bit, but since Mrs. Ulm refers to send- ing her fingers to Korea in packing the relatively few packages of Knox Church what must you have sent in view of the continual flow of stuff you are mail- ing. It makes me all the more grateful to you, darling, and it is another of the loving duties the Lord will bless you for. This package has a package of cotton wading, cloth for garments, the electric-light batteries, soap, small pencil sharpener, and the airplane "pilot" caps for kids. I gave one of the later to Yi Wun Yung for the son, THE SON. And is he spoiled? But he is aw- fully nice to me, and he is so well cared for he really looks nice. He got a coat out of one of the packages and the way he is dolled up in that coat over which the family is obviously pleased, is something to behold. It Is a joy darling to see what these gifts mean to the people. I can speak with mor^detail in this personal letter than I can in the "public" family letter, even though it is a communication to the family. Really, Gertrude, I think its a pretty good scheme, don’t you, this plan of sharing the family letter with a whole circuit of people? It lets them in on the family activity, and it keeps an active corifspondence going with so many. Then I can get more intimate reflections in these "in-between" letters, between Sundays. God is so good to us, Gertrude, and you are having such precious times almost continually, I must repeat what I mentioned in my last letter, I think it was, that you seem to be getting along better without me than when I was there with the family. But in saying this, I hasten to add that I realize there are many busy tasks that you do not mention, lots of good hard work that you minimize. Well, God bless you dearest one, you are doing an excep- tionally capable job of managing our family, a large family. How beautifully everything is going. God is so definitely giving you strength and faith and wisdom. The family’s life can’t help but be a testimony to many. And as for me I never felt better. I’ve gone right through this winter, sitting in un- heated churches, or churches whose draughty windows and doors made the fire of little effect, with surprising freedom of colds. I got over one last week, a runny nose, but aside from that it has surprised me that I haven’t taken more cold. The Lord’s hand is in it all. Also with my work. I was given this subject of the Life of Christ to teach out of a clear sky, some- thing I never attempted before for it is virtually a study of the four gos- pels. I had Staulker’s book, which is an inspiration to read, and is a scholarly work, but it is so general a presentation with little detail, al- most no chapter and verse. One day, by shere accident I happened across an outline in the back of the Thompson Chain Reference Bible which is just the thing for me and easy to teach. It is very informing to the Teacher.’ It also has wonderful maps giving the visits of Jesus in great detail, easy to understand. I’m sure you remember the army blouse, coat, that one of the officers in Santa Monica gave me. I toyed with the idea of having it cut down to a battle jacket. Well I got the operation completed In Seoul by a Koren tailor and now I am wearing it and feeling quite dressed up In it.

Life out here with the dirt on the roads and visiting Korean houses, the soot and dust and dirt in the rooms due to burning soft coal is very hard on clothing and I’m glad to have this tough stuff. And how about this fine suit that has been given you. Isn’t it interesting, dear, the way things go with these gifts. What we don’t enjoy doing particularly for ourselves, the choosing of a suit and moreover the PAYING for it is all taken care of by the Kindness of friends. Some how or other I seem to get a particular delight out of wearing stuff that has been given me. Your reference to the Christian Beacfyand Caldwell’s discerning "smile about working with them is right to the point. Crothers wrote that Chishom, Toms, and Malsbury

are soon to come out under the Independent Board* My guess is they will find things dif ferent f rom what they figure for the issue isn't as clear* drawn as they present it. They won't find anyone who will uphold Shrine Worship as is for t-hat is inseparately linked with the Japs and would involve a politi- cal as well as religious issue. Even those who were on s alary for the Japs, preaching against America have completely swung around. This blind Holiness pastor from Kuni, whom we once had in our home, went around speaking against Americans after having received all he had from the Oriental Mission. Now he's back, active as ever, holding one series of meetings after the other, and only last night while waiting for the prayer meeting I got a request from him through one of the elders to put him to work in tent meetings. He's out in Yung Duk now holding a weeks class. Of course he hasn't any idea that I know about his anti-American activities. Sweetheart, it grieves me to hear about Kim and his son Paul, lazily drifting into church and the disinterest about the young people.

I know I've spoken quite a bit to you about him but I sized the man up in Seminary. He was different from Han Kyung Jik and the others, a lazy indiffer- ent fellow, and why Clark picked him to come to America is a mystery to me.

I can’t help but express a disappointment in Clark’s judgment# Kim is definite- ly a second class man. Now how about Robert Hill being in medical s chool.

That takes brains and I didn’t think Robert was weighted down particularly with talent. I take it that it is a P.Y. Poriegn School romance. Now I'll say for Barnhouse that if he can get the girls to decide to go hear him every night he is Rifted. I know with what conviction he speaks. I hope Sally Ldu made her- self known to him. I'll be waiting to hear what topics he chose. Possibly (or probably) he took a book of the Bible. The sermons he preached last year when he substituted for Talbot at C.O.D. were some of the same he gave in Korea years ago. But they were informing and as such were helpful. Yes, my dear, Mayell is an able fellow, most likeable, and is just the man for that jo .

He^s the fellow who gave the boys and me the fun of riding home on his truck last summer after the Culter picnic, you'll remember. Now Gertrude, the extra three cents or however much it is to insure an A.P.O. package isn t much, but it is lust that much thrown out the window, for nobody signs for these packages, and as you see all that have gone astray, like the Duncan's lamp, etc> are just that much loss. Nothing of what the Gibbs have se^t

that one package. I think it was about which I wrote you. I think I 11 have to be getting a litter off to these folks for since we are getting pre^ * ®

March they will want word to report to the churches who gave the money for h

gifts # Gertrude, you are most generous in classing my poor letters as an ex citing ’’installment in a fascinating novel”. They may be interesting to yo as I can assure you that your letters are all the most fascinating reading in the world to me, but please do not even spoof about pub lining them. my

dear I notice them way you rearrange my letters, and let me urge vou to g ahead, please, and edit the sentence structure, for many of the items are hard- ly grammatical. At present I don’t have any inspiration for writing a £ "

letter. My d ear, how inadvertantly my inherent system way of doing thi g

is revealed. Did you observe that you quote from my letters of Jan-

and 14 each one lust three days apart. I didn’t know that I was working so meticiously accurate a schedule, but there is _a

Tomorrow, Praiday, afternoon, Ned is due from Taiku to help me with these land and house deals. We'll get at that Saturday, then Sunday early w® pi 1®^. . for Taiku stopping enroute at two churches for services. Then Sunday nigh I°plan^to* take^a sleeper for Seoul to be in good time for the Military Governor^ conference Tuesday. Then Wednesday we begin our Ex. Com. meetings. I have written*1?! Fletcher, adding my own appeal to that of Blair's for a meeting of as many missionaries who will attend a prayer meeting f. or It i»

we need and I have kept praying that God will give us a time of craving lust as the missionaries did in Pyeng Yang. I shall keep at it. near, untilrevival cones, everything else in my life shall be secondary to revival. May God encourage me in it and keep me faithful until the ^sing co . A

TJSSfffS 2XS^&r$$L’*> W.

Let us pray that God will abundantly use that witness.

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NOTICE CHANGE IN ADDRESS: Harold Voelkel, 71 Mil Gov’t Co, Det. 3, A.P.O. 6-1, % P.]

San Franc isco> Calif ornia, \ -x ^

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Seoul, March 10, 1946*

Dearest Everybody, c^rr^' ^

I*ve waited until arriving here that I might include any items of interest to all of you that one naturally picks up in the Capitol. Ned came up to Andong to help me in getting some of the property matters straightened out. He was the last one to deal with the Koreans when the missionaries left and it strengthens inyhand to have a second party back me up in assigning the farming plots etc. We left AndongTn^he jeeps, Ned in his and I in mine and took part in the service at Yi Sund/Up. Ned preached; I prayed and sang a solo. The pastor had us as his dinner guest and gaw us a delicious feast# We took right off for Taiku, and left on th** night train for Seoul, in the old first ala** Japaj**** sleepr* if you please, We were i.u 2ft* 1*33, AND the eer r aa heated1 The tmirc m.* nore < br :\ 0 horn- lr+*s, but +M sped rapidly because I fell into conversation dth a French priest bound for Seoul to attend the Military Governor’s conference which we will all be on hand for tomorrow. He couldn’t understand why there were so many Protestant "Religions#. He meant denominations. So I informed the brother why the Roman church had forfeited its fcfctariai right to be considered the tnie ohu* ch. He was very patient with me. You will notice a change in my address. The Company at Andong has officially been deactivated and made a Detachment, and half of the men will be sent else- where. The C0.0. told me he expects one house and probably two to be vacant. So all we have to do is get them ready. This afternoon X went with Fletcha: to visit the colonel responsible for rehabilitating houses and the procedure is still vague to them, but here’s hoping we can in the end get the heat turned on them and have our places put into condition. I am still at the same old stand even though the address has been changed. What experiences this inflation brings. I brought the pytoent for the Sunday School Lesson Yearlies and N.T.’s, a total of more than 27,000.00 yen. Ned had fifty some thousand yen. Its value isn’t so great but its volume is. Now I must tell you that I am just about dazed. I am nothing less than overwhelmed by the news that the Crothers are NOT reb urning to Korea. This is a mystery beyond any possi- ble solution for me, for let me say as emphatically as I can that months agoCrother s name was put on the list and permission secured for his military permit from the government.

doctors had approved Mrs. ped and sit here without

Months ago, let me repeat. And as soon as word came that the Boa C rot her i’ return a permit was secured for her too. We are all sta

anv word from the Board. Rhodes during his tfne)ure of office as Chairman of the Emergency Ex.

Com. rot not one letter from Dr. Hooper We’ve just been pooling information: I supplied the news of Daisy’s not ret urning# Others have received word from the Cooks of their retirement, and so it goes. There is word of others but I ai^ot certain so I hesitate to speak, but doubt- less you have the information there. The point is we get this word from the former Mijibcrs of the mission rather than from the Boart . On the other hand we have the good word that 13 have sailed on the 7th from Seattle, The Campbells, Sue, Mrs. Fletoher, Mrs. Lampe, Gerda Bergman, George Adams, Olga Johnson, Mrs. Lillian Dean Miller, Gensos, Edna Lawrence, Lowe. It. will change the picture definitely for it will enlarge our force 200%% But with the Crothers and Daisy out of the picture for Andong, and Lillian Ross who was tentatively scheduled for Andong delayed by her parents’ circumstances, it looks like George and I were to have it all to our- selves and Taiku simply bulging with people. But the opportunity are great and they have plenty to do. Now Gertrude while I think of it I am going to ask you to send me something, some flannel-o-graphs. I like one or more each for believes and unbelievers. Something for evangelistic meetings, and something for a heart- searching message appealing for repenoence on the part of Christians. I met Alice Appenzellar today for the first time. She s been her* for some months but when I was up the last time she was just getting out of the hospital after an attack of pneumonia. She explained today that she figured it was the sudden change from the even olimate of Honolulu where she had been for 4 years to the rigors of this frigid Seoul weather. She looked very well to me^nd is her usual charming self, gifted woman, no doubt about that# All the foreigners, army and civilians, all who are using the American military currenoy were suddenly and unpextedly oalled in today and told that m every area in the world where Ameri®. n occupational forces are stationed the same things was being don , all money called in because of black market. Since no Amerioan is allowed to possess more than $600*00 without special permission the Koreans here and natives in the other countries who had given big quantities of their respective moneys for Anerican currency would be caught short. For all those away from home, delay would be permitted, but it won t affect me particu- larly for my total possession of Amerioan cash amounts to less than $5.00. are greeted with balmy weather this time in the oity. It was a beautiful day today. There was some talk of agitation for apprising on the partwof some Koreans since the Four Powers Fomgn Ministers

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are to open the i’r' meeting "today in‘ Moscow^ but thus far everything is quiet. Foot old Kor® is restless and weary without knowing which way to turn for political freed ome. . .

been promised so many things so frequently they are despairing. But their real need is spiri- tual and it is our joy to kindle their hope in a peace with God that passer;

Address:

Dearest Family,

Harold Voeikel (Civ Presbyterian Ms sionary) - ) NOTE NEW

71 M.G. Co#, Det 3 ) ADDRESS

A.P#0. 6 “ 1, J/o P.M. , San Francisco, California# j r/y~a.

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(Taiku, March 16, 1947) Vv^>

Greetings from Taiku, enroute to Andong from the conference in Seoul. I remembered after writ- ing mv previous letter following the February Conference that I simply refered to the meeting without giving you any particular information. The fact is that much of our time is occupied with simply talking. After about two $<?lid days of going over things Coen, who is the secretary of the Committee remarked that we hadn’t passed a single action. The point 1S tha^ nf^y, ®very Question that arises with regard to instutions, stations, and help to the Koreans is tied up vdth the 38 parallel dilemma and the impossible 15 - 1 financial exchange. For the present and until a ra tional exchange rate is established we will not be able to help the church a penny. Announoement^ame over tL radio of a revised rate of 50 - 1. but the next day General Leroh told us that was even worse than 15 - 1, for it took on a semblence of improvement without being anv. And until we can ge t into the Russian-occupied territory we cannot consider ourselves a Kore a Mission. Until that time we shall not have a KOREAN General Assembly, only a South Korea one! S^t of the time of the committee is occupied with subjects going into the SURVEY thlt we a^e preparing for the Board- s visitation. 1 think I mentioned did I riot that we elected Fletcher chairman of the committee in place of Rhodes whom the Board decided could not serve becaus^he isrretmred. B oth he and Blair continue to take part in the discussions of the Com- mittee but are not members. Blair came down with a swollen ankle and was run down from the which he and Ned had been bothered with in Taiku. Fletcher recommended Blair’s remaining in

Seoul a n^getting fully recovered before returning ktato the teaching schedule in the Taiku Seoul ^df|ett g ^ ^ ^ & conferenC9 with the Military Government and it was

* I nrofitable for it gave us the facts on what the authontes are trying to ^

d^and what the idea is behind many happenings that can be so easily misunderstood. The Military Governor, Mai. Gen. Lerch spoke first, taking more than an hour and he impressed us all with M _ bilitv We later had another smaller conference with him for over an hour and he is

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ment to ourselves we felt set up in business. With N.T.-s, Gospels, tracts, and

if Si f ^ a. “o~<l ll«P~ ««°„rnea J ... .M.nly t. — »-»

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la ueh a t the humor of it all. What a brutal time for exeroise, 1.30 A.M.. A jeep

ur> to the compound where we started the day with a hot shower and a good army breakfast. e up iso tne oompounu wnwy invited to preach. For dinner we were invited to the

Chap lain^s whose vdf e'delighted us with Southern home-made rolls, plus other appetising items. iKSe you- U be Interested in an ingenious outline of the sermon Yi Wun Yung preached in Ando^w the First of March, the Korean holiday. His text. Rev. 3:1, "Thou hast a name that

«nd art dead”. He was speaking of the Korean Church, A name for living but really dead"! and he made the appeal to the individual Christians were theyspirituaily deadjr *Xw. His divisions were the three dead that Jb-sus had raised; Jairus daughter, son of the wi w Sin. Sd Lasarus. In the first instance, said Yi, the girl had just died,. died J^V^e was on the way to the house, but being dead she mightjust as well have e V *

The widow's son was dead and was on the way to be Uuried and the $£* J yi diL- t say

to be buried. Lazatus was already buried and says the Script » th erave BUT THAI

thA t the fa ith of some stank, but the lesson was that it was a^r®a Y/*?n ^ f ±.h

to a dead and buried faith the Saviour had brought £e®;™tion an^l*^

dea th clothes, the bondage of death and sin. ^n-t that greatt ^ be

trea tment. It is a lesson to me. Tomorrow I go to Andong, ID.V.; i .aicm your

there and what a delight to hear from you. Best love,

Andong, March 18th, 1947

My Sweetheart,

So you felt quite young and almost giddy at the Presbyterial meeting with the new grey suit, the red and white striped blouse, and the red hat to match? Just wait until I get hold of you and see if I donft make you feel younger and giddi- er than ever. I won’t have you saying or thinking that you are old. You’ll never get old with that lovely, jolly smile of yours. I don’t think giddy is the word, you were just looking snappy. And by the way that is the fun of some of these "gift1' packages, isn’t it? A blouse or a hat or something else that you would never spend money for but which you enjoy wearing greatly. I’m sure you were a picture, dearest, and you’ll always be one to me. What wouldn’t I give you see you right now, and with Ned, Fletcher, and Lampe all planning to meet their wives in two weeks I’m feeling all the lonelier. But our day will come and oh what a day it will be. In the meantime we ’ll keep on praying and working for revival. After reading your three letters which were waiting for me here upon my return from Taiku, my heart was filled with rejoicing in the Lord. What days these are. Darling, your letters are just filled with good things; everything is working out so wonderfully, I can’t help but praise the Lord for ALL His mercies. How marvelous it all is. It is His own gracious way of approving our separation. And so we go on. I must confess I never felt better physcially in my life. I’ve kept so well and hardly know what a pain or an ache is, and I praise the Lord for this with all my heart. I am glad to get the word about Donald Barnhouse, and you give such an excellent account of his preaching and of the fellow himself. He is true to form, impressive, enthu- siastic, clever, and emphatic, but he doesn't wear well and can’t hold his friends. Moreover he is frequently mistaken, is rash, and rushes to conclusions. I am glad that you were able to hear him and also able to attend the dinner. It^would be interesting to know why he isn’t speaking at C.O.D. My guess is the reasbn 'for it would not be pleasing to the Lord. Poor Barny allows himself to get into such regretable situations with the Lord’s people. But we thank God for the gifts the man has and for the help and inspiration he is to many congre- gations. I was looking for some word about inquiries concerning Korea. Did the conversation at the table not turn to Korea at all? How beautifully everything is going at Culter. God is definitely leading, isn’t He, and Gertrude when God is in a matter things hum don’t they? Praise His Name. Have you noticed, inci- dentally how wonderfully Columbia Bible College is developing. Bob Me Quilkin is God’s man there. Yes, dearest, we’ll just trust God for the work here, for a great blessing. Of course, Mayelle is jupt the man. I can see him, in my mind’s eye, the perfect toastmaster, the charming, . able master of ceremonies. Think of it, he is a cousin of Vic Peters; can you imagine two men more differ- ent. No I haven’t received the lamp from Duncans and I shall be writing them about it. There isn’t any probability of it turning up now. Thanks for the good news of the cloth that the Gibbs are sending. The Knoxville pastor will be glad to get this news I know and it will please him a lot to know that they are making such a practical contribution to the Koreans. Now of course I remem- ber Harold Roberts, who with his wife Gertrude made it two Harolds and two Ger- trudes on the front page of Tenth Church calendar. How unnecessary to criti- cize Torrey Johnson for the remark about Bible teaching. Also, about the chorus es, you know what I think about them, but I rejoice in the Lord for raising up Youth for Christ. It is cracks like this that alienate Barny from many people and minimize his usefulness. My own guess is that were he possessed with a sweet reasonableness he would be where Old Fashioned Revival Fuller is today, for they started out on the radio about the same time, and Barny is much more gifted as a speaker, but he doesn't last. I’ve seen the book you bought, LIFE BY THE SON, and wasn't particularly impressed by it. How interesting is the report about Ockenga and Westmont. My guess is that he won’t take it, for he is a pre- acher with a ministry that includes all of New England. Gertrude, what an idea that 3 of the men who tried Barney in the Phila. Presb. committed suicide } I 'd hesitate even to mention it.

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How generous and thoiff^tful of Vett and Mary to send Skooks gifts and offer to make her an evening dress. Yes, that is most kind and I am grateful to them for it. My, it depresses me to hear of Ann’s marriage in the Fall, but it is what we have all figured and is regretable, another of those things w hich ought not to be, obviously so, and which reflects seriously on the parents and the future husband. It cancels the effectiveness of t heir testimony. I’m very sorry about it all and I pity the kid. Mrs. J. Martin Proctor, of course. I first met her in Washington during our first furlough. She was on the committee that arranged for me to speak at the big Washington church of which Me Gartney’s brother was pastor. I’m delighted to get the word of Skooks completing the Annual, and how about me in the deal. Please send me a copy of it. And I’ll be sure and return it after looking through it and realizing the work of our daughter that went into it. You speak of me giving all these women who are coming to Korea a welcome. Ned asked me if I'didn’t want to go with him and welcome Sue. I replied that if I went with him I’d weap since you were not coming. I’m not going to say a word about Mother Stewart and Kim excepting that I agree with you absolutely. Moreover I seriously question the wisdom of the Independent Board’s sending Jim out. Yes, Gertrude, why not take Jack to the Childrens' Cline nearby. It can't be anything too serious wrong with his tooth since he was examined only a few months ago.***Now I’ve finished, going over your letters, precious epistles. My, how it lifts me up to come back after a week's absence and see your letters. Pak Si asked me when I showedjier my mail which included Fritz Cropp’s, one from Crothers, Baugh, ancf

Sd Rogers^. Crothers tells about the Board's assigning him to the Philippines which news I passed on to Pak Si, and she saw your three letters lying there unopened. Knowing they were yours from having told her so shortly before, she asked, "Why don’t you read your wife’s letters?". I replied like any kid would about his ice cream, "I’m saving them until the last for I want them to last long". See what you mean to me and what every word from you does to me. I had a good trip up from Taiku and made it in less than 3 hours making two stops of about 10 minutes, one to soe a Bible woman in Kun Yi, Taiku territory, and another to sej&l 10 N.T. in Tori Wun. Darling, I am confiding to you, for your information only, that I believe Blair is a sick man. He hasn’t been well & in Seoul had such a painfully swollen ankle he could hardly get his shoe on, and he looks terrible. Really, you can’t imagine how the man has failed, not only physically, for he is a wreck but mentally also. He wastes our time in the Committee and hardly anyone pays attention to him. It requires patience to bear with him. He is so tense over nothing. All agree that it would be much better for him to be home. And in the midst of his weakness he resents the slightest suggestion of his ahe. He always wants to carry the heaviest bag when in reality he has difficulty Agoing. Its pitiable to us who know what the man was in his prime, and it is another illustration of the wisdom of the Boards plan to retire people at 70. I'm afraid Daisy's letter won't commend her favor- ably to the Board. And as a matter of fact it isn’t an able or appealing lette But I am sorry for her, very sorry. Enclosed is Baugh’s letter which I suggest you destroy immediately. Yes, I do have some "inkling" about the Ex. Com.’s plans. Thank you dear for all the enclosures, Esther's and all the rest. She did crash through with a nice letter and their children are doing well, nice kids. I’m happy to hear that their Sally is responding, precious kid. She’ll turn out a fine red-head yet. Mrs. Sherrard ’ s letter seems so distant and formal and so short, about all that was necessary. We weren’t the blessing to them I wish we might have been. I'm afraid that congregation is dead. I’ll be awaiting their package. Today beside the mail I was d elighted with a pack- age by Korean post from the Walter Erdmans, two from the Baughs (old clothes) and one from Edna Lawrence. I think I’ll save it and let her distribute it now that she will be here so soon. She is to be stationed in Taiku, you know. Oh yes, a package from Wood in Knoxville, too. How I love opening these packages. There are a number of items I’ll give to Kael, the young widow for her boy.

I can just anticipate her delight and gratitude. And Gertrude, how could I forget to mention my Skooks snapshot, another lovely picture of our dearest daughter, . and what a beauty it is. I’m most grateful for it. Give her my deepest thanks for it. It is the best of the kid yet. Really, she is so ma- tured. *>»» ^ ''jj *

Addresst

Harold Voelkel (Civ Presbyterian Missionary) 71 Mil Gov't Co., Det. 3 A.P.O. 6 - 1, % ?.M.

3an Francisco, California*

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Seoul* Korea, March 12 , 1947*

Dr. J. Leon Hooper,

Presbyterian Foreign Board,

156 Fifth Avenue,

New York 10, N.Y., U.S.A*

Dear Dr* Hooper,

The Emergency Exeoutive Committee is in session here, and af#er eivinr a report of activities in Andong this morning, the Ccto- mittee requested me to write you of a recent week-end ooimtry trip whioh illustrates what a significant contribution the jeeps are making to our itinerary work. Since I am teaching in the Bible Institute which is in session six days a week, the time we can give to the country visits is greatly limited. The Institute olasses meet only in the mornings on Saturdays and in the afternoons on Mondays, so we take off 3*t\ir<tey afternoon and get back in time for a class or two Monday after- noon.

Two weeks ago we started off Saturday afternoon and held our first meeting that evening in a town called Poong Gee. It happened to he the first of Maroh whioh is in many respeots Korea's 4th of July. The oommunity was in a festive mood and the church was crowded with Christians and with many un- believers who were doubtless attracted by «ie appearance of a foreigner in their town, the first sinoe before the war.

Thetloderator of the of the Presbytery was with me and on the next day, Bunday, he preached at the morning service in one ioong Gee ohuroh and I in the other. In the afternoon we rode the jeep out to a village Tai Pyung for a ^rvioe and later met with the leaders of a ohuroh in another village.

Soon Hung, for counsel and prayer. That evening we drove to Yung Ju, the county seat, where the Moderator and I each preached at different servioes. On Monday we drove to Pang Kok for a morning service and to Sung Gil for &n afternoon service. The total is seight services with seven different congregations in five communities, SO miles fr Andong station, and all of this made possible by the jeep.

It was a busy time and a strenuous time, but a d«^Shtful and rewarding experience. .Ye are preparing a sohedule that will take us to most of the hundred and more groups in our Presbytery, and look to God to water with His blessing the seed that is being sown in our Lord’s Name.

,7e hope it won't be too long before we see you in Korea, and with kindest regards to both Mrs. Hooper and yourself, I am.

Cordially yours.

Greeting from Rev. Harold Voelksl. civil i nr, •

Det. 3, 71 Military Gov»t Co! ^ssionary

A. P. 0. 6-1, Postmaster, San Francisco, California.

March 24 • An dong, Korea

and just returned/ Ih/churcirX/r?0^ ^.hQVe bsen on another trip cold; a little place 'way up in the 9 "0/hlpp9d yesterday was awfully trials the others did, but has coL f Jt W9nt thru a11

of the joy of greetings, thore was sorrow t °ondltlon* In the midst

men was forced into the JaDan«<?P» , u°°9 ^ °r °ne °** ^n9 young

absence of years everJboS^ ITlTis T retU™d- ^ V detail | I dont suppose iL boweri ^ fr0etlnS Personally and in church we visited has been started sincpCfv, °r * long bim0* ThQ next was lacking in numbers was made up in fervor.^* a SmQU Sr°Up but what

walking that distaL/t/church" and^he^ &Way Who has bcsn

liove his reply was "It lust aSted h°W hs dsoided to be-

walk that distance's g“od evidence S ^ T°

wonderfully God is working! He is bless/ sin°er°*y of his faith. How sure of blessing. 6 “ blt3SsinS and will g0 in greater m0a.

April 13* Seoul, Korea.

12,000 cts«.“r‘„,e^n%;r:f":Lafn °p“-;;r «*«»■*■*

pastor preached in Korean, with/ mission0™^ fhlnto Shrins‘ A Korean the benefit of the Army personal - a fine do lntarp™tinS in English for Before leaving Andong,' I spoke at a davbr/k I'°nstratlon of u»ity of Christ, telling them I was oonvinced that un/f I/th/// m96ting of Presbytery, repented of and confessed, God could not hi ^ hr/9 oompronlis9S were and I felt the message went home w thJ US* Th9re Was Q ^uiet will follow, but if ft doesnt they^will^f ind'+h n°rbr°k^‘ 1 trust aside. Everywhere we go it is the that G°d will sirapiy put thorn

zeal and vision, and God is using them/ P°°pl9 Wh° We tha 9nsrSy and

other day/in^Seoul, /nd/ried to 9“nS^.and thot ba<* over scenes of

Mother Swollen 55 years ago. IVhat oh/ ^ / arrival °f Fathor and

place Praise God for the fine ChH s/ ^ deV9lopnont have taken

fmo Christian testimony God has raised up here*'

April 27, Andong,

meeting in Seoul, /j/ZoMral Ts s elbl v iTt ik^ Wlth ^ oommit'fceo

a few days with a cold and sore thront Wh /U’ and thon 1 was df}layed

Assembly was to previous gattori^? nJ S “°atra8t ths Gsnsral

level of dilberation was lower, ' * °nly fswer ln numbors but the

challenge of the different itoms preLnted Th^ r°*p0nse and th®

I fait, forbidding pastors to h Id , °y took aotion* ^oly

pastorates# It seems that manv ,°a ^obs at tho samQ time as

lature while holding on to thoir^n boooine mQmbers of tho logis-

treatment* 6 t0 th°lr Past^atos, giving their churches absent

that had arrived. PStuff from America i/liko //w/0 mQny* many packaS°s I took a number of sweaters and coat- over t t othinS from a droam world, stituto and how their eyes sparkled?' r lL ° ^ gfrls in ths In-

epon a package. Thank you. and mv the f//" ySplration 9a°h time I time and strength that has 'gone into the no UP t0 y°U for a11 ^

of these things to us,- a ifbor ofl0v m /p' 0^°^ , ^ mailinE sent without request. There is smHni n parcels maY now be

and electric light bulbs, P ne°d for tow0ls# cotton cloth

Harold Voelkel, (Civ Presbyterian Missonary) 71 M.G. Go. Det 3 A.P.O. 6 - 1, % Postmaster, San Francisco, California,

Andong, March 24, 1947.

Dearest Everybody,

My, how grateful I am to you all for your letters, all of you, and I »m sorry to be so delayed in replying. I imagine this is as ling as I have ever left you go without a letter, and there is a reason. Yes, I have been on another itiner- ating trip and just returned. I wasn’t away very ling, only from Saturday noon until 1.30 this afternoon, but nevertheless it was a joy to get into the tub an* get a good bath and clean clothing. How refreshed I feel, and although tired yet there is a pep from having been out in the air. Really I marvel that I don’t take a heavy cold for the church where we worshipped yesterday morning was awfully cold, a little old place ’way up in the mountains. Getting back to this room with heat in it makes me sleepy, but I must get word off to my family, for I am so grateful to get all the good news from you. Congratulations Sally on the completed annual. I know it was a big responsibility in which you have learned much and it is an accomplishment you’ll not soon forget. I can’t wait to see a copy. Before I g et into the details of the week-end let me remind you that this will go down as a big week in Korea’s missionary annals for the 9 returning missionaries are sched- uled to arrive on Thursday. I’ll be glad to see them but each one I meet will make me lonelier for you all. What a day it will be when vou step off the boat. Glad day. And yet the unwisdom of having you come now even though the Government did grant you travel permits is abundantly evident. Fletcher and I toured vari- ous government bureaus in Seoul attempting to get some action going in the repair of these hpuses but as yet there isn’t a peep from the authorities. ^Moreover schooling would be another factor to consider for there are school^ for American youngsters, children of the military only in Seoul and Fusan and -

the military people are cleaning out fast, that is the Military Government. The tactical forces, the fighting soldiers, are remaining althoughwe hear that they are down in numerical strength too, but the Mil Gov ’t are rapidly decreasing as is seen from' our outfit here. After a batch leaves tomorrow we’ll be down to 25 men, including officers, and that all means fewer children in the school. So, we’ll just have to go on trusting and waiting, letting God take care of the de- tails of our family reunion. ***You ’ll be interested to know that Blair was given permission by the Russian Commander in the north, to whom he had written, to visit Pyeng Yang. It surprised us all, and if Blair regains his pep hew ants to make the journey, for a week, in April. Blair very kindly GAVE me his bicycle, a beautiful American bike which someone had given him. I must confess I "worked a lot" on him for it, for I wanted it for some of the pastors of our territory who have to walk ten miles each way to their churches because of the breakdown in the transportation. There are numbers of ways we can help out these days, & one particularly big satisfaction I had recently grew out of a vifcit to the M.G. kitchen in Taiku. I went through to get some hotwater far the jeep and happened to see a platter of cold cuts, thickly cut salami, left from the night before. I asked the K.P. what he was going to do with it. "Throw it out". So,

I let him throw it myw ay and I brought it up to our B.I. students, and whst a feast they had of it.’ How appreciative they are. I did the same with some old baseballs (soft balls) and bats that were about worn out, according to G.I. stan- dards. The B.I. students were d elighted to get them and they have a swell time after classes. The 1 st I heard was that they had s cheduled a game with the local electric company employees. I met the Red Cross workers in Taiku and in $ chat learned that there were some surplus items, old safety razors, blades, and a few tooth brushes, etc. I was on the receiving end there again and got enough to present all the felldws in the B.ID with a razor and all the girls with a cake of soap, a tooth brush, and tooth paste. What a handsome group we’ll have now. that reminds me to mention that two packages arrived f rom the Baughs, and in view of their former interest in Kael, the young widow, and since there were a number of thiig s suitable for Kael’s little boy, I sent both pack- ages right off to her. It requires about two months for things to arrive by the Korean parcel post from America. Two packages arrived from the Crothers Saturday morning and I took them right out to the country with me. A letter

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from J.Y. included a picture of his honerable s«]f and Hoffmans, celebrating their wedddng anniveraarv^ t t °n® the Cr°thers them to take to the country with me. In this Yune Yumr f® aTfUddy glad to have itinerated for years the people feasted 6 Yang clroult which J.Y. exclaimed "pack pal", white head, over th^ ^hi^crest ^ al“03t a11

Crothers' brow. My, what an emotional time ^v110* crowns the

tell you about it. We left Andong shortly after one Yi^Wun*^6 be®n* Let me me and Im To Hyun Chang No to go as far as Chim pB» ' Wun YunS to accompany as a Chun Do In. We drove right on to V his way to Chong Song

noon. What a crowd. How glad fhey were to see fnd a 39rvice Saturday If ter me to see them again. That's tha toT Ge 1 7£aJ a ^ it was for

whom we had for a meal oncft A u where that rich man lives

The church went through all’the trials^he (P1® P°° Jah came too.

in fine condition. One £an who lid taken V £Ut “ has corae through attending for 3 weeks. All of uflusf^out ?' *.^3 come back; has been again. In the midst of the lov there bb P£ b rh® J0y of seein6 other

fellows in a neighboring church was forced into the’ ifnn °f th® fine young returned. His widow and boy wer^ there Well we h«dT 6SS a”* and has not went, after leaving two packages of °ur service and off we

OOP.’ Out they flocked^ ^nftfon £ wire lifted in Yung Yang

steaming supper was set before us, beef soup as a te chun so 5°US^T,and4.a was preparation. I was hununv of'for* P !_s.a clluP^ 30 y°u know there

COOK. She was not well and couldn't come out S tw^o daug^ter °£ the Crothers' The attendance was great and a Zd Th®7 hfTe a boy and 3 gi^3.

normally take, so you can imagine the tim^thlf qT°U 11110 w t^e time introduction .„d p.r.on.11,, El

his greeting personally and iiyletail. All inquired of you S and all tL SJnnwe“i«d L°naries» and 1 don't suppose I've bowed so much fir a Idnl time (and breakfaatrifefhiC^* , Su?day ®°rning after a breakfast of Korean food ’

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le larlns ti® portlona of chicken. Prom the size of the drum sticks I figured

ye Jr but l?Swas°tJf be^mthbird Wh° had/°Ubtle3S ™ a™und the villager years, Duu it was th© best the woman could cet and it WOQ oil

Here again, amid all the joy, there was dlsfressf flJ Thile lalling a^ound9^*

-rf*PJa- ^iting P30?!® to the service we s^w two men car a 14ng

?n t^leir shoulders from which hung a sizable object wrapped in straw and

bv ?h!T«7 W? Wtr fc°bd ifc wa3 th9 body of an old woman, aTeggar, found froz by the road. In the afternoon we reached Chew Sill for another grand meeting the same inexpressable delight in Christ at seeing these friendsgwho had gone’ deeP waters of persecution. Old elder Chaw's wife, 73, and I were lust about speechless as we met. We took each other's hands and just looked one

th® faoe‘ "Y?s> lt3 true I'm back"; $ ''Its like a dream to see you 4.S°^in village have backslidden and others come from other villages Listen to this: there is a young felldw from village eight miles awav who has

lead hfikSght?4 the 3®fvicea» and when they asked him who preached to^iim and In reply was» No one» lfc ^ust got into my head to believe

fn i ‘ th^ £fot that he walks that distance is pretty good evidence as

the sincerity of his faith/ How wonierfully God is waking. He is blesli™ us and will go on in greater measure with greater blessing. After the meeting8 mlnfst™ still further to see Kim Chai Chul, a pastor who had to demit the

in the oon mV,?^aber ?f reas°ns. He promised to come back. At night a meeting

waytbIck?P*YeshiI'm°tuckL«H0th?rv,nifetl?s ln the oop ^ one at Wal Chun on the y oacK. yes, I'm tuckered out but rejoicing in a gracious Saviour.

Precious,

Andong March 24th, after finishing the Dearest Everybody" letter.

you^re Vgoing^to ™ ^

significant message "returned for insuffl’^^ ? envelope is that you? And a love-letter at that' And * P ntaf® * Now how c ould

March 10th. well, nv dear iai It f °°™ late’ after of

the weight of all the enclosures that Se in lov! ?">?* 1 3uPP°se» under to forgive you, just because you arTso swae? 9-letber3* But its fun my Gertrude. I love you. and PI*ecl°us. God bless

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with Jettie and thedoctor. You didn't mention7 thefr th®H dilfler at “arming! ite dish TAMALIES, or have they gone on now ^ thA I ?rderin6 their favor- beef hash? (Forgive me, darling Sbut t ^ th6 extravagance of corned you know - or if it just Sn^ickediSe^f m7 0Wn llttle twittln6

they try hamburger, then weenies on the half Jhell! 3USgest that ln turn

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my soul. 1 Sha11 be ahswering soon. It went right to

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ing they are bomb " like ° P1^ with dirt-kettles, pretend-

life I would have lived had t k v ) I visualize what a gentle, ennoblec Its the nature of ^ b°rn a WOman instead of^rute masculine,

strange iart of L an ^ ^ ^ d®ar»4 th®Y simply can't help it. The

dJ“f^co~ to ofr*r *° TfituMppee;:.br‘e3

on t know, excepting that ultimately the charm of a sweet and lovelv

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ifaitf SrCif°it n°W fb?hfc fallrs ph0ne oall3? Which of the young men’ j _ ls dt one of the faculty members? Yes, dear old Mrs1 Sellbinder

f person, and her coming is an anser to prayer. And its fun

for her, I «m s*re. Let's read the riot act to theyoung fry so theydon't

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worry the dear old lady.

That electric light bulb will come through in good order with a 11 that packing, ± know. I 've already mentioned, darling, that insurance is valueless in A.P.O. Since its only three cents for five dollars if it means anything at the Post Office, go to it, but out here, it doesn't count. A.P.O. is all of grace and it is the army postal service. The regular postal set-up in America has nothing to do with it. There is simply no way of going, about making a claim against the army post office.

Iw w ar frequently mail is blown to p ieces and insured or not insured, it makes no difference. I've w ritten to Cal and Judy Duncan telling them that the lamp was lost. I felt I ought to do it just to let them know that I wasn't indifferent to it. But there is nothing I can do about submitting a claim. I also wrote a letter of appreciation to Mrs. Ulm for wearing out her fingers in Korea's behalf. I'm sure she be happy over the news of all these gifts and what they mean to the Koreans.

My d ear what a meeting lady you are. And now with a series of devotional talks at the Knox missionary meetings. Gertrude, do you recognize yourself^ You're wonderful, really. You're breath-taking. Who would ever have visualized us in this situation, separated, the whole responsibility of the family yours, and I out here, with no prospect of the family's coming. The uncertainty of the set-up is something in itself. It leaves everything open to God's miraculous intervention. What a satisfaction just to be ’’looking unto Jesus”, without having the slightest indication of what a day may bring forth.

Gertrude, its a brilliant idea for you t o give me copies of Sally's letters and Vett speaks thankfully of having a copy of Sally's letter to me. What an insight I have into my daughter's mind and heart and I rejoice in her.

I'm so thankful that we are able to keep so close to one another through this e xcellent air-mail service. What a blessing it is. And I join heartily with you in the recognition of the preciousness of thJtdays while our four are still all together. I was interested in Vett's state- ment to the effect that "all three are agreed that Sally Lou should go to Wheaton” . Its Vett all over, I can visualize so clearly the family coun- cil. My dear, what a past master at dealing with proud parents is this man Nichols who answered your letter about a scholarship. The answer is typical, namely that the^io not give* help the first s emester, but how wise is his paragraph about the evidence tfhat Sally Lou will be ” a very excellent student. She is to be commended upon the cspendid service she is already rendering, etc. etc". I don't doubt a word of what he writes, but of course our girl will have to demonstrate her worth to receive a wchoarship, of which I have not the slightest doubt. "She will be an outstanding member of the Wheaton family" - that fellow is just the one for his job, isn't he?

I'm enclosing Crothers ' last letter. Its J.Y. all over and I chuckled through it all. He's a great old guy, but he's showing his age/ief initely . He's a character, or an "institution" as my father would say. I wrote to Hooper urging the Board to s end Crothers back. Just going around the territory renewing old friendships and felllwships would be an immense contribution. The Lord will lead in it all, I know.

My, I haven’t written to my two big men Teddy and Haba about the mountain climb. I'll get that off next. I was so glad to hear about it in their letters. That cave was something. Also the horses. And getting almost lost by taking the wrong bus. My, my, what days. Glorious days because ?re ?°4's will and in His strong and faithful arms.

Andong, March 25, 1947

Dearest Gertrude,

I just finished a letter to you least evening, and this morning one of the officers who lives upstairs nonchalantly informed me that mail had arrived last night. They are actually so thoughtless and unkind as to allow mail to remain in their room and then tell me about it so I can come up for it. You would think that they'd at least yell down that someone had brought my letters to their room. Well, as I noted on the end of my last letter it was awfully good to hear from you, and I am grateful for all the good news.

Just a few observations. Good for Jack playing baseball. I 'm proud of his making the team and I know he plays a good game. Too bad he was tuckered out afterward and I doubt not that talking late with Danny in the pup- tent laid him out. Or was it that hour's conversation with Dianne that knocked him out. Look out Jack, for these girls will upset you. Gertrude, really you don't know how unconciously humorous you are.

In referring to Mrs. Me Ghee you speak of her being quite fashionable, and also that she is not too well, adding that their one child keeps her busy. How significant that you should say that their one child keeps HER busy. What would she do (and what would many, many other women do) if she had four to take care of with her husband a long distance off J Just why men like Me Ghee and Barnhouse decide to follow the plan they do in adding so many extras to their church work, I can't see. There ftere reports that Me Ghee was resigning his church to devote all his time to Biola, but at second thought he d ecided to go on with the church. I'm sorry to hear that he doesnft appear happy. Most of these fellows are rejoicing even though overworked, like Talbot, for example. Do you get any reports about his meetings in Australia. I keep praying for him, and I'm sure he is having a great time.

My, but I'm glad to hear that there are some folks who are wishing to be remembered to me. Itw ill mean a lot to me to know who they are. I trust they are rememberMiJiging us in prayer too. Yes, Gertrude send Revexla- tion along. I'll be glad to get a look at it. And doubtless Teaching the Word of Truth will go good in Korean too when we can get paper and begin publising again.

My, my, darling, I was so pleased with this letter f rom the Board. Does this mean that they have a scholarship fund beside the generous childrens' alldwance they give missionary children. I wish you'd write me about it.

I am going to get a letter off to this Mrs. Cassatt immediately. I r emem- ber meeting her at the conference last November a year ago in the Board rooms. Why shouldn't our Skooks visit Florida and Philadelphia. But I wouldn*t plan the trip in tie summer when it ie so oppressively hot. Why notwait until Christmas vacation for that.

My dearest, what an idea this is for you to live in Berkeley; It sounds to me as if it came straight from Heaven. Of course you'd hate to leave allour friends in L.A. and Culter especially, but you would be near Bob Munger's church and there is a good school nearby, too, as I remember it. And those apartments are all equiped, with a minimum of work for the house- wives to do. Dear me, I just rejoiced when I heard of the idea; it had never occurred to me. They are small, I know, but then you will be a smaller family next year. And, my dear, you will be all ready for me to come and get you when the glad day arrives for you to come. I believe I'd make application immediately, and if there's no chance, why that will be a sure indication that it isn't the Lord's will for you to be there.

So far as I know you can have a piano there, and that's that. And that Bernkeley church is so big you would be kept busy all year addressing all

Harold Voelkel, 71 M.G. Co., D© t 3, A.P.O. -1, San Francisco, Calif.

Andong, March 29th, 1947.

Dearest Family,

How faithful you are in writing. There is never a mail without a letter from my family. There is always one and sometimes two. Thanks so very, very much. And of course it means everything to get such good news; such bright and cheering tidings of your activities. Praise God for His goodness to you, for His watch- care over you, and His prvision for each need. I enter so fully into all your doings and follow you all around to the different meetings, the picnics, the banquets, and the weekly washing. Imiss my weekly workout over the tubs, and I’m sorry Gertrude that you’ve got to do it all yourself. May the Lord give you the strength for it. These days keep rushing by. I am leading prayers in

the Bible Institute Wednesdays and Saturdays in addition to my teaching schedule and that gives me extra responsibility, so time seems to rush past quicker than ever. This is Saturday afternoon. I have just finished dinner and will start out in a couple hours to Chum Chawn, Mun Kyung, and Yong Kung on the way back.

It is a marvelously sunny day. I have the top* of the jeep down, cabriolet style, so we will be riding forth enjoying the light and brightness of the day. Things don’t stand still in the army and this week 10 enlisted men left here.

We are down to 28 and more are to leave in a day or two. The new doctor, a Jew, has been in 2 places that closed down, and his guess is (that’s all anyone can do) that this outfit won’t last much ldnger. In many ways it will be good to see this crowd go, but with the present conditions prevailing, itw ill make it a bit difficult to keep going. Without the trucks travelling back an<^forth be- tween Taiku and here there will be no food supply, no mail service, etc. Now don’t worry for I won’t starve; it will just mean that we’ll have to organize all over again. The railroad for freight service is most unreliable for stuff shipped by foreigners rarely ever reaches its destination; I was speaking with Ned over the telephone the other night. He had been to Seoul to meet Sue, only to learn that the boat was delayed and that the boat on which George is coming is also late. George is bringing a heifer with him, and how the animal will be brought down is stumping us all. It will be fun to see how it works out. March weather is here, raining and blowing on occassion, and the other day we had quite a blow. Some idea of the velocity of the wind can be gained from the fact that I had some eggs a country congregation gave me wrapped singly in newspaper uok on the outside window ledge. The wind blew the whole business all around the yard. Three packages came through the Korea mail this week, one each from the Crothers, Daisy, and an address in Oklahoma, doubtless friends of the Baughs. I took the Oklahoma things, most mens, and Daisy’s most womans’ down to the B.I. and let the students distribute it. Were they grateful. In Daisy’s package was an man’s shirt and 2 pair of socks, new, which I figured she picked out for her "old gentleman", Yi, her servant. I sent them right to him. Crothers’ things I’m holding with other until next week when Presbytery meets for the Bible women to divide all over the territory. There’s much to encourage and cheer us but there is much to grieve also. Thieving is particularly preva- lent and I am waiting now for one of the local church men to come up to be dealt with for stealing wood, good lumber from the Bible Institute. I *m sick about numbers of things. Sin Si’s daughter was married recently to an elder’s son in

iYea An, it was the man’s second marriage, his first wife died, and the ceremony was conducted according to unbelieving custom. And we hear that there is much sacrificing to ancestors among the Christians. It is all in the aftermath of the Shinto business and is symtomatic of the gremendous need for revival. The Christians recognize it too, but until the pastors lead off with a acknowledge- ment of their sins its impossible to expect the church sessions to discipline anyone.**Gertrude I sent you a letter from the father of one of the fell&ws here, a fine Christian boy. And, I learned that they published in the town newspaper a letter I had written to the boy’s father on his birthday, commend- ing the son for his fine life here. The Lord bless you and keep you. Jack, Teddy, and Haba, I’ll be getting letters off to you each one soon.

Your loving.

Andong, Monday evening, March 31, 1947.

My Darling,

Gertrude, you are faithfulness itself. Every time the truck goes to Taiku, no matter how frequently, there is always a letter from you. I left Satur- ay for the country, having heard that someone was making a trip to Taiku. and sure enough .when I returned from the country, late Sunday night, there was a letter, just one letter on ray desk, and it was from you. Yes, I said to myself, that's the letter I want, because it is from the one in this world who has the most news for me, the one who is news itself. Hew blessed I am in you, and how good of God it was to put the good sense into my head and the love in my heart for you, and the response in your heart. Will I ever forget the Saturday at the Student Volunteer meeting when I looked across the room and saw you, and then had the chat with you afterward. You had a charm, my dear, a real charm, and you still have it. You're lovely.

We had our usual busy and eventful trip to the country, the swift and happy f ellbwship, the meeting With friends after the war absences, the inquiries *bout all the other missionaries, and the request for information about the arrival of ny family. When are they coming? Yes, when are theyj We got back late last night and I was dog tired, but happy, especially happy to find your letter here and get all the good, interesting, and cheerful news. I'll wait with the details of the week-end itinerating until the weekly letter for many items will interest the other station folk to whom the letter goe s.

Now my darling, why not give in and buy the kids a red wagon if it doesn't break us up in business. We haven't given them anything like that for a long time. In fact I can » t r emember when we unloosened - mes tly because we could not afford it , I suppose. Now, now. Miss Ethel Butts thought you looked thin. I'll venture it is more than a thought. Yes, you are lighter than- when the children were born, but from your picture you looked a little under- weight. And by the way, when is that picture of my sweetheart coming out?

I have the childrens' picture, one of Sally Lou, the big one smiling, the little one, just looking sweet and pleasant, and the big one of Teddy; and the snapshot of all of you before me on my desk. But I want my wife, a lovely large one to be able to look at and admire throughout the day.

Thanks for the flower seeds. You can readily imagine to whom they'll go. I wonder if I told you how attractively Yi Wun Yung had his mad anc^ fixed up this last Pall with chrysanthemums. Beautiful. Their little home i I iieally sit- uated, and I brieve it would be fun for me to live there, or some place like it. Their boy, Yo Han (Johnny) is a dandy, spoiled but a well trained kid, and disciplined, as you can imagine from his fathers ideas about t hings.

Its a joy traveeling with Yi about the country, and I plan to speak of that more to in my next letter. About things to send you could hardly pick any- thing better than towels. They are simply not to be had. My dear, I'm sorry to have t o s ay that the Baughs sent things I'd hardly waste postage on.

I was almost ashamed to turn over to the B.I. men a packge of worn out things that they sent. Tomorrow night I am planning to treat allthe B.I. students. They are all so poor and have nothing for a party, so I'm ordering a thousand yens' worth of bread and I hpjj>a few other things. Its from the profit of my Bible selling. I made^ ^ • g i ,of 3, ooo yen this afternoon to Yi for the B.I. I've got about 6 or g^e thousand yen due me from country elders who will be in this Pr e s to «

J'JLe h p^r> -%y

^

Seoul, Sunday Afte^nQon, April 13* 1947 Dearest Family, ^ •LO' iy4/*

S'tSiSS; h"e *° *«»«

here on some odds and ends for it would not d!v fft! spending a couple days for I would have to turn right around and Jetarn to Ll^^ t0 Andon?

just ® ntinue to overwhelm me with your kindness Wel1’ Gert*ude you

iWy expected a letter when Treached SS after iust ^-"633 in. writing, i An dong, but sure 'nuff there it was andwith su h Mhams received one in

figure out how you can do it, as luch T IT! enjoyable news. I just can't

you wil t^tha.t you are all w4n" l ?2t praCe God and but since

I scarsely know where to start for°I haven 't ^iv^ Cnn +v,01^*1” y0ur activities, to Mun Gyung territory two weeks ago, anfl hfvln^t^ot Jfrna®^13 °f my trip more than the highlights, namely that the church tW?Va< SPaCe n0w for a fashionable Japanese home, and growing even tho^h th 1 l"8 "ell» meetinS in

absent as a number of the legislature Th? Iwl? + n? Pastor Kim Yung Ok is bursting its walls, and as 3fon Is t^y get permissioS ^ °h*™ i<3 J»»t *>«mt church for half a million yen on Japanesf 7d111 build a new

the large stream just beyond Chum Chawn and ^didn^kiLl'jff ln.?e middle of when Providentially an army truck in 'Government ,1.1“ we d ever Set out

came along and pushed us out. The night we met il Vnn v & blg powerful thing attendance out. Easter Sunday we limited our* ew Y +® +Uns &nd had a S00d

*»«* u”-. ti« beg,™ "hj s2;t^c!,“' ■*» K»-rpa

At Seoul here there wa* a sunrise ler vice t J°.Shri?e compou*^

mated attendanc^6f 12.000* Han KViinrr t- *v QT Sitrine with an esti^-

eral Lerch and other notables wer^ on^han^^nd^t 311(1 Bil£*n«s interpreted. Gen- Korean and American unity. At tod®” I t WaS ? flne dem°nstf ation of

Of the week for I wanted^o att^d^f Llhof f?r time the banning

to leave Wednesday in time to get the evening tlafn7* p7 1 C°Uld pnc#et 1 had evening aa d it was marred first of all bv tuf tl Jl Presby. opened Tuesday tern. The lights are very unlertain^I^uf^v0^ °f the el metrical sys-

ly it has been impossible to predit whit hS^ we ^hSSlilht ^a”*7 +°V ?nd recent- were not so good, a few candles and one w^k oil lain f^t/or ?ot- Ma*e shifts look across the room. Also, so mnv couldl^* Jt was imP°ssible to

were 13 elders present and 18 absent ns . , ® there. As I remember there arrived. Yi Wun Yung, the Foderator h d & f+W Pastors who hadn't yet

but since I could be there for only WetoesdavV^onv *ak? theday break Prayers

a long time that the pastors partilularll ahLL* * iUst ^hat* 1 had felt for matter of clearing up their fh -i + vi ^ ^iy should get darn to business on the

arounctfbe bush on whft to ne^is theSgrest .i’Fi®*11® and rather than beat

frankly and kindly that I 1 ‘°ld tSen

were cleaned up, repented and confes-eH rn* ^,,1! a1^ t_le shrlne compromises church was quiet and a hush fell over us I fe?tdth'nd C0Uld not bless us* The [was no brokfenness. I trust that thaf Sii i-if?1* ^e message went home, but the®- find that God will simply put them fside And 1 f ^ doesn't the men Si;

with the energy and zeal and vision andVnd ?rywb?re we S° itf.a the young peopli tion and encouragement. Thanks for*that Youth 3fn31nf I**1®™;, ^y» ^hat an inspira- fellows just came, a lirtenSt and I Z ^ folder* One of the

recapitulate. I arrived in Taiku Wednlld I rfIk thlngs ovar with him. Now to

the first of the new arrivals. Fy, how well ^h^looks'”1'1 me£ Gerda Ber^mat

the one who visited our home after To* l0°ks> a different person from

Helen Campbell and then Sue? PinllK Ar?h C* ^ 1 JSdna Lavrence, then I must add that they are all older 7 Ar°h CZ °w wel1 th^ a11 look» although in view of the yer s since we've all bILmsSar^ted me* 51 ^ not

lately so my first question was of my^ ISilr P r f11 but Sue had seen you

and it is one of friends and a unanimous oS* is the ^dict,

a word erfully succeesful job of caring for the ehfla9,11 that Y°u were do-

them, but they all added tfe t while you licked “ ®?d ,m*in« a bo-^e for

bell spoke of their dinner at our hole vhH thel? ' 7°U I 6d tired* The c^- family and the two C.'s for dinner T'™ If < wa® our f^ily. the Van Dyke

I'd slow down. Dear me, you ® n't’stand thlt6!1115 whef? you a11 sat. Gertrude, all your reserve you a n t stand that pace continually. You'll burn up

2.

Wednesday night Ned Adams and I left for Seoul. Unfortunately Ned had BORGOTT en to reserve berths so we had to sit up all night, or rather' doze off as much as we could. The train was 4 hours late, ar iving in Seoul at 10.30 A.M. I was fa.gr- ed out since I nad gotten up before five o’ clock Wednesday morning.

We couldn’t get our Ex Com meeting started before noon and we were at it until Saturday noon. Sat. afternoon the married Genso daughter who is here with her husband in government service gave a tea. for her parents and! it was a rounding up of the foreigners in the capitol. Genso doesn’t look well, and I’m wonder- i^S frankly if he’ll be able to stand the price. He hi g^&igh blood pressure.

The Pieters house which was to be ready was not ready and so the Taiku new arrivals and Mrs. Lampe had to keep right on going, taking night trains out of Seoul since there was no place for them to stay. Right now in this house, the Holdcrof t ’ s (known in Seoul as the Coen Billet) are the PletcheBs, Coen, Fra- zer and Scott, Canadians, and Rhodes. Six people. When Ned and I come up we sleep in a room in the cellar. The army is so slow in getting the Pieters house in order Qlga Johnson must stay with the Xutz and the Genso ’s with their daugh- ter. How amusing (?) it all is, when in these missionary houses right on the compound there are in a number of instaces ONE of icer anctfiis wife occupying the house! Missionaries huddled up, squeezed in, having to make this home and office, the pla.ce where they meet Koreans, whereas the armyhks big homes PLUS the big office down town.

My, what a blow it was to learn upon my arrival here that the Board had defi- nitely assigned the Crotter s/to the Philippines and that Daisy’s status remained unchanged. How thing* work out. I had gotten the impression from letters from America that you thought we didn’t put all the pressure we might have into our request for the Crothers, but you all know now of course tint eva*ything possi- ble was done. Now in Hooper’s letter on the Crothers was a sentence to the feffect that the Crothers didn’t particularly object to the idea of the trans- fer. So there we are, and we accept it all as God’s Providence, but we’ll miss the Crotehars greatly , of course, very greatly. I’ve been stalling the Morans along until definite word me and now I’ll have to br® k the news to them. It will seem incredible that Kwun Moksa is not coming back. I sincerely hope you’ll be able to make a trip back, a visit sometime at least.

Jack, good boy. Great, big, congratulations". I’m awfully proud of you for winning your letter in baseball. Boy, that’s swell# And I’m sure you had a lot of fun too. And you can keep it up too and win oth<r letters. Mother will a prize for you, I know'. And Teddy, congratulations to you too for

your goocjtoork in piano, in being asked to play before the Parent-Teachers organization. Boy, that 8s swell, and I’m nrgug of you.

Our Ex Com here had to do something about ixxgxfi since both the Crothers and Daisy were not returned, and the Hill3 were therefore transfer ed from Chung Ju to Andong. They ought to be here in a couple months. As yet neither George Adams or Lowe have arrived. The only word we have is that their steamer went to Shanghai and from there to other east China ports before coming here. It ought to be along any day now however.

The enclosed pictir es will give you some idea of Andong, especially of our home and the ’’lawn'1. You see the big trucks parked around. I keeping just one picture and that 8s of Yi Poke Chew and Pak Si and a big duck one of the officers shot and gave to him.

Tonight for supper I am to be the gue st of Edwin Braden who had quite a respon- sible job with the railway bureau. I met him and his wife at the tea yester- day afternoon and it was a joy to see '~im develop into such a man of parts.

What an experience growing "old" is, for there’s no doubt but what I am doing that. But what about this 88 year "young man" in St. Petersburg. Congratula- tions to father. Everj^one out here has been pleased to hear that he is in good halth and carrying on at such a fine old age. My, my, last evening I sat here in th^glow of the sunset and thought b£k over scenes in Seoul, and I tried to visualize among other things the arrival of father and mother 55 year* ago.

What chan es and what develpments, and praise God for the fine Christian tes- timony that God fo. s raised up here. This morning I attended Cheigh Yun Kv/an’s Church, a fine corgreg?t ion and a fine plant, with a tower that calls attention from all passers by. Thank Cod for this church. Pr?y for it. Lovingly,

Andong, Monday, April 7, 1947.

My Dearest,

I am so much your debtor I don’t believe 1*11 ever be able to catch up.

I have before me your letters of March 16,17,19,21, and 24th, and I haven’t given you a decent answer to any of them. What can I do but bite the dust, acknowledge my faithlessness as a eorrespondent, and ask you to forgive me.

It isn T t^adequate explanation for me to say I*ve been busy, for as occupied as my time is it will hardly compare with the rush and tumble of your daily duties. And yet you always get time to write me. Thank you for it, darling. My, what can I do to show you my gratitude? If only I could buy something for you or do some thoughtful little thing that would assure you of ray devo- tion. After all the thing for me to do is to stop protesting my devotion and get busy and write; and that’s what I'm doing now.

Its Easter Monday afternoon. Yesterday we began the day with Sunrise ser- vice and I visited 2 country churches, but I mustn’t get into that because I will be including that in my weekly letter to the family a nd friends. Just this much, that after returning from the country I learned that a surprise trip to Taiku had been made by one of the fellows who had brought back your precious two letters of the 21 and 24th and also a package. It had some of the cloth, rather spotted but most acceptable, and a nearly new pair of shoes. I’m wondering where they came from. They are not quite big enough for me and may have been a woman’s. I’ll be Interested to know where you got them.

I shouldn’t be surprised but what they find their way to Yi Wun Yung, for

I’ll certainly give them to him if he needs them. They are beautiful. In

your letter was Teddy’s Easter card; and how nice that it came on Easter Day. I have it on the wall of the room here and I 'm enjoying the Easter eggs by sight if not by taste. The colors are very bright and the Bunny is well drawn with his bushy tail. I’ll be getting a special letter off to my big

man. Speaking of candy, I felt so grateful yesterday evening when one of

the officers, one with obviously a finer background than the others came to the room with a pound box of candy, a tin of potatoe chips, and a can of orange juice. It was awfully nice of him and I more grateful for the kind- ness behind it that the gifts itself.

How your days whirl and the activities with them. Yes, I’m sure that Sally’s cold is due in most part to her run down condition due to lack of sleep and irregularity, I dare say, in eating. Now I’m proud as punch over the Annual job, of ^pourse, but is it worth it? The experience is valuable, but it would ’kfrfk&tr the further lesson of moderation in all things. High pressure programs are not usually, I should say, God’s will. The Lord Jesus was never rushed, that’s certain. He was busy as the day in Capernaum, Mark 2, shows but He was never pressed for time, and I believe Whittier's lines hold a great lesson for us, "May our ORDERED LIVES confess the beauty of f?hy truth". You speak, Gertrude, of attending the Monday morning prayer meeting more frequently. Where is it? Are women now attending the meeting at Frank Sutherlands ’ s church, or is this a meeting dear old White is c onductirg at Vermont Avenue? Now ray sweetheart, you ask if I’ve got thin clothes enough for s\imraer. Let me assure you I *ve got thin and thick clothes enough for the rest of my life, and I'm feeling very well today too. Thin clothesj Remember all those army summer clothes, that officers ’ suit of mine, the blue palm beach, and now this super-duper, double-breasted outfit in which I had the picture taken. I'm wondering when I’ll be able to wear all of them. No, dear, don’t send me any clothes. How about that suit Mrs. Haysee made for Skooks . Wouldn’t she be interested to know its destiny. I believe Mimi is taller and heavier than our Sally. By the way I saw Sung Goo, the younger of Yi Qun Chal's daughter*, who is back for a months vacation from the Masan Hospital of which Dr. Roy Smith is superintendent. Go easy, dar- light on saying how good it is for me to be teaching the Life of Christ.

Its good for me, I know, but do you realize that the sub ject a mounts to

teaching the four Gospels, and that is a huge amount of material. I »m learn- ing lots myself too for I must be ready f or t he s tudents questions. But if only I had more time to be able to prepare more adequately and get the presen- tation down more smoothly. The interruptions are terrific and the other morn- ing I just had to tell an old codger that I was busy and had to keep going. I *m interested in your comparison of Garold with Ann Gray. I got the same impress- ion myself and I’m wondering why old flhel should pick the less vivid, less per- sonable sister. But men are funny, aren’t they? They do such silly things!

But Madam, I didn’t do anything silly, believe me, when I turned my eyes and heart toward you. Maybe you did the silly thing in listening and responding. Look at the men you could have had! You might even have worked up to British citizenship by this time.’

You speak of your period being less and less regular, and I want to remark about that for that is certainly indicative of menapause, is it not, and if so it is a time when women frequently experienc^Qfsual tiredness and exhaustion. What I’m leading up to is that that condition would be added reason for slowing down the tempo of things, wouldn’t it? I’m concerned that you must do the wil- ing all by yourself and carry so much of the burden of the home on your own shoulders. What can I do? Just plead with you lovingly to ease up a bit and be careful, for it will mean so much later on to exercise care at this time.

For many it is a particularly trying time when utmost sympathy and helpfulness should be shown, and allowances made for the one doing considerable less than usual in the household. I’m sorry Gertrude that I can’t be near to help. May God make up in His own perfect and gracious way.

Now my dear, I must say a word, I hope it won’t be too many about the boy who "forced" Imogene Shroeder. Its a most unfortunate subject, and you may wish to share this part of the letter with Sally Lou. Now I’m not questioning for a moment that the boy took the initiative and possibly or probably seduced the girl, but I *d be hesitant to conclude that the boy was 100$ or 90$ or even 80$ guilty. I’d like to venture that when all the facts are out it will be found that at best, for the girl’s sake, it will be 60$ the boy*s guilt and 40$ the girl’s. It may even be found to be an equal responsibility and guilt. And for these reasons: that sort of thing just doesn’t accidentally happen. There is conversation that leads up to it, and where had their minds been for s ometime previously to their intercourse. Moreover, where did they commit their sin?

If it was in any home or building there must have been someone nearby to whom the girl could have called, and even outdoors a couple would have to be in a most unusally isolated spot to be outside earshot of someone. Moreover, the likelihood is that the girl didn’t conceive the first time they had intercourse and if they had indulged themselves a number of times it can hardly be called "forced". Now I realize, naturally enough, that the girl must pay the price and suffer the disgrace primarily. That’s always the tragic part of it, but coming from the home she did, she knew much better than to yield. I’m truly sorry for her and doubt not that it was in a moment of weakness and that having once yielded it was more difficult not to yield again, and perhaps again, but that cannot be called "forced". It would be a most interesting study to go all over the thing with the girl in order that she might see the steps by which she erred, for it is easy to be deceived again in one’s judgment. I’m curious to know if the girl got good grades in school and whether she was actively Christ- ian in her witness. I’ve discovered as a result of the interviews I’ve had with people and the larger experience of men like Bonnell of Bifth Ave. Church whose lectures we attended at Princeton, that an individual’s conduct is a pat- tern and a thing like this doesn’t just spring out of nowhere. It is always the culmination of many like-deeds of smaller dimension. I’ve always found it so with people. And moreover, in a case like this, unless the girl is confront ed with the foolish and evil steps that led up to this sin, she will continue going about say^l'he was "forced" and be that much further deceived about her weakness and need. The experience in the array with rape cases, and the charges are very numerous, is that upon investigation it almost always develops that while there may have been protestations yet they were weak and in the end the act was mutual. For a boy to have "forced" a girl absolutely against her will

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happens only rarely, exceedingly rarely. So much for that. I »m truly sorry for the girl and for the boy too. He has a big lesson to learn too.

return thi 3 bolder of the Youth for Christ visit to Holland but it has brought me an immense blessing. I took it right down to im Yimg and asked him as Moderator of the Presbytery to arrange for a YFC in our Presbytery. There is a Y.F.C meeting going on in Taiku, the big- gest one in the country, where 500 young people are gathering every Saturday 1 suggested that we have the Taiku pastor up here for a few days. By that time we could have the B.I. dormitory , ready and entertain a bunch of Young People. It is a most encouraging work, so please excuse me while I take -J® folder to show the Taiku folks and the Seoul gang. I am leaving the day after tomorrow for our April meeting.

I am certainly delighted to hear that Talbot is returning. I wonder if he broug' me a gift for naming his radio hour the B.I. Hour. I have prayed for him right along and know he will have a great story to tell. How long was he away? I won- der if he isn»t pretty nearly dead from work. I can just see Mayelle, my dear, having a perfectly gorgeous time and making everybody e]s e just as radiantly happy as he is. Its a gift, isn't it? Imagine him as a pastor. Sweetheart, you won’t be able to use those Travellers Checks as checks again, so why don’t you deposit them. They’ll be safer in t he bank. Also, it will enable us to Imow how able a financier you are, for when I left we had about #600.00 in the bank and with my added monthly amount from here plus all the gifts you ought to have at least that mu£h on hand. J 6

My dear, I won’t have you making such remarks about getting your picture taken. All that about a risk, and suffering the consequences. Never you mind. I’ll take care of that. My one stipulation was that you go to a hairdressers first and have her put a nice do on your hair. You’re what photographers call a natural , you’ve got all the desirable and attractive things in your face already. Your eyes sparkle with a flash and light that speak life and joy, and your face has a glow of holiness that none can miss. You are God’s woman, Gertrude, there’s no mistaking that, and your picture will show it. I want one, for I want you always near me, your likeness at least when I can’t have you yourself.

I don’t believe I see the wisdom of Miss Culter going to China, but she is such a yielded soul, I doubt not that she has settled the matter on her knees.

Do you think Ballentine is the man for the job? He’ll have to be a big man to be half the person Miss Culter is. What leadership and faitluiGfrBMise the Lord for her. How rich will her reward be. We owe her a big de'bS\)f gratitude and I’ll certainly send her a letter of thanks before the^;bar^a^$£ . That is a fine outline of Don Householder's, and I love his remahk (t^irTf5 he wasn’t a Christian he’d be sorely tempted to become one. That's ptffct eedingly

well.

Dear me, I've gotten so behind, having begun this letter this afternoon and in the meantime having had to stop and attend a meeting of pastors concerning ques tions the delegation from America will raise. And I've also had a session with Kim Taw Sun Si’s wife, the male nurse over some land* So the time has gone and regretable as it will be I won't be able to get off my weekly letter tonight.

Too bad, too bad, I haven't missed in a long time, and since tomorrow night is Presbytery and I leave early the next morning for Taiku, I don't know when it Yi Wun Yung has asked me to lead daybreak prayers the first morning of Presbytery and after prayer and meditation I believe the thing to do is open thw whole shrine question and everything else right before them. What the out- come will be I can’t say but I’m trusting the Lord with it. It needs to be don and no Korean, so far as I can see, can do it, and I’m gollowing what to me is God’s will in the matter. I have the deepest conviction that God will use it to revival. I want to sepak unsparingly but in deepest love and sympathy to the men. God bless you a 11, ray precious, precious ones,

Seoul, Monday Evening, April 14, 194 7.

Y.y Dearest ,

This is for you, just you, in case you are tempted to show it to others.

Last evening I got off a family letter to you, and strange as it may seem it was hard going, I mean that I just had to drive myself to get through it.

I did it out of a sense of duty. But now I turn to my sweetheart and there is all the difference in the world. Perhaps I better explain that by "fam- ily letter" I mean the epistle to the whole Korea family rather than my own dearest precious ones. And now my darling I come to you with a greeting of love and devotion.

How can I tell you the emotion in my heart. What wouldnft I do to 1 enrn the seeret into the very depth, the deepest depths of your affections. What is cf I lack, or fail to do, or do to my disadvantage? Let me quote from your let- ter to show you what I mean. You say, "I especially liked Mr. Dickson’s honest, humble way winning our hearts by his frank, IRISH loveable-

ness. HO WONDER HIS WIFE ALWAYS SPEAKS WITH SUCH AFFECTIONATE TERMS "DARLING, AND PRECIOUS" ETC." There you have it. That "Irish loveableness". In the well nigh twenty years of our wedded life, I can’t remember any reference to "German loveableness". Oh, but my he^rt is heavy. If only I had been born Scotch or Irish with loveableness. Woe is me for my ancestry. What is there left for me to do but bemoan my unloveableness . Too late for me now, I should have arranged all that by choosing Scotch or Irish parents. Or is there some- thing I can do to overcome it, my dear. My, the thrill of ALWAYS bewailed "darling" or "precious". Well, its something to work up to, a goal to strive after, a delight to yet be experienced. "Honest", "humble", "loveable", yes, what a man, what a man l And IRISH. An unbeatable combination.

Here’s another. You say that when Miss Shannon heard your name, Mrs. Voelkel, she looked "curiously" at you. She better change her looks or she won’t be a friend of mine anymore. She better look "admiringly" or "appreciatively" or some such way at you, or it simply will not do. Just wait until your pic- ture comes and then I’ll do the looking. I’ll be so glad to have it ancVto enjoy the inspiration of your presence.

My, but its good to have Mrs. Fletcher back, taking charge of things in the house here. It makes all the difference in the world. But, my dear, she is showing her age; she walks so carefully, taking each step deliberately, making sure she won’t fall. My dear, just between us? light begins to break on the matter of the Crothers. Mrs. Fletcher mentioned that when Mrs. Croth crs was asked about coming back she would give a rather undecided answer, speaking about "next" year, so apparently they were not positive about coning back to Korea and vhen Hooper put it right to them their inde- cision opened the way for the Board to decide for than. So it goes, and above all these human factors is the throne and wi 11 of God whom we can trust with the details of our lives. Hooper in his letter simply reiterated out- right the Board’s action concerning Daisy without any details. It was some- thing that was done and over with, as far as they were concerned, and that’s that. I asked Daisy to share with me any reply the Board might make as to the reason why she was being dropped.

I had liberty in praying for you this evening darling, just after supper, about six o’ckcok. That would make it about seven o’clock in the morning there wi th you. May our loving Father surround you with His tender care and blessing and give you a precious day. I love you, my precious sweetheart.

I trust you all keep well and that the Lord will fill your days with joy.

Ta iku, Korea, ^Sunday evening, April 20, 1947,

Dearest Everybody,

5SJ Blfirhho^f ofnKor"aite1s f tore just had at our Sunday evening service here in the

(Australian ^ r th°S6 present were* LamPe> Fletcher, Frazer, Lane

h,^hn! 1 I Crane, Campbell Mr. and Mrs., Blair, Gerda Betgman, Ned and Sue, /and your

' -.f S+,rVanJ’ ^ruce Hunt is also here and had made a previous engagement to preach in

the count r Ta iTT TiTT great SatherinS. the largest bv far thuse far in

five of 3 W°U larSer Were U P°SEible to put up people. As it is

are for T Te r°°T and 7°U Can imagine what the shaving facilities, etc.,

fCnL Z rl th, I1 the crov.A/in one house we have just one bathroom. Vie are here for the

tZTr ITT Assemblr- But let me go back a bit and catch up on developments. The last ? wrote you was in Seoul where I had gone for the committee meeting. I left there Tuesday evening and hoped to see George who arrived with Lowe at Chelmulpo that nr day,

lllinr TiT °V/hat ayt ,T ^ ^ 1 left ^ 1 had t0 Set aWa7 without

3 eing him. .Jhat a time the people are having with their baggage and freight. I remember

™ b Peof® insiEted th8-t my stuff had to be packed in boxes. Finely they ie t me

f Ahr I1*? Tr f?uff ln cartons and after arriving with it safely in tact in Andong I

shaje BufLv J l*\*See*e™nt was about everything had come through in such good

had lori 1 ™all2eTtheir concern. It just happnened ( my good fortune) that we

the T arrlVed and enroute to Andong. The Fletchers are staying at

her trJSks Ind he6® T'T "V Stay durin° the comfflittee meetings and as Mrs. F. opened rain* Mr. f . f h ® IT ev°™th™S 8°aKing wet. The trunks had been left out in the

was ^entionil; how TZT " T?" T thingS f°r Elsie’ fine coats and dreSE£S and sbe smLhT TTT -T Tn8B g0tt6n soaked- Also the boxes of others were terribly

a“or !o+ +h Vaiaing t1°1hear for example how the Lampe's ice box, the electric refreiger- ator got through, from all I saw it was in pretty bad shape. Fletcher drove me down to the

station with my 110 1,1, 3.0 0.1., 500 gospels, and other baggage. I arrived at tSu Tt *

midst If’ th^Cenrr«? T m rT ? to get a h°Ur and a half's sleeP* Now we are in the the Ji G f T Z, T8T \ r l TT “UCh SmaUer ^thcria» coarse « comparison with or hand ’t+ 1 + have beforG the war when the delegates from the whole country were

but h™’ + JVS S°°^ t0^efc a,l0t °f th® 2en V,h0m we haV0n't seen from before the war. My the TLTT Tv, J 9leCted Yi Ch Ik the new ocdearator, a Korean well trainea in

^ iS d°inS & £00d j ob of ^derating. This afternoon was a

etinc p6™*"'® °c |be martyrs of the church and it was an impressive occassion. The meeting lasted two full hours and told of the experiences of different ones. They chose three martyrs, _ an elder, a pastor, and a helper, one each of three clashes and gave the

to1 Jhev mde re£erence °f course to Kerb Blair, and in wishing

churi« Lloyd Henderson, got mixed up and presented as a missionary who died in Man-

isU1 ' h: TV' T°“ w00lC’ I8m SUre it wil1 be a surPrise for Tom Cook to learn that he the facll m p6rlShed la Manchuria, but it illustrates how easy it is to get confusec on J'1®* a "ord about Four last letters, for two of them went up to Andong, and hen 1 arrived here I called up by 'phone and asked them to send my mail down here again,

todSh0Hon°°i T was.t° h88r from FOU with all the good Easter data. Sally Lou's going up an blur fir+wd ’T”1"'1.6 ”9 01 ,our Lurrving up last year to get out there only to wait about T , ' 8™ 0 breakfast ready, Of course it was a breakfast worth waiting for.

l hope Sally, that you took Mother’s suggestion and mine that you have the members of the quartette call for you for it is most inconvenient for you to have to take buses and cars bL+bre;wDld r.write.F°a Gertrude that the package with the*lectric light arrived, It also . 6 , orilon skin paper and the carbon paper. Thanks for both they are very welcome

and. cannot be purchased out here. Now let me tell you the condition of things when they

_rnvea. he light you'll remember was packaged in a shoe box padded with wash cloths.

e shoe box was inside. a metal waste paper basket. Well, despite the fact that that metal waste basket was padded with pieces of cloth it was bent out of shape and a sad

• ImT?e how thjs stuff is crushed and tossed about. Fortunately the electric bulb

Wfl++ Jhi wh in S°0d S^ape and T paid U back t0 Ned wh0 had previously’ let me have a 150

living Uino^°nfmVv,r0Hm in»^°ng* The re®nt arrival is now brilliantly lighting up this 1 g room of the Herb Blair home. Please send me light bulbs, the bigger the better each

ones nre + r rv * f • P i They are simply not to be secured from army stoouroos and the Korea

- ** / terri^cally e x p e nsi v e and of no particulrr value. I plan to leave for Andong on

Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning. . &

Taiku, April 22, 191*7,

L{y Dearest,

My, what a joy this is to have a little time with you, in my thoughts -if nr,+ <

£ o°ings on. But now the G.A. is over, the missionaries have almost all lpft anH t

iflL^Ifho?, ttl3elf+V N?d AdamS is showin^ — of his piclure^f a grouf ga^ered

“n buSw ^ tde/dams\td! C®m?b!lls’ Edna Lawrence, and Gerda Be^al are

honti Sr g%4 ,,h ^ crowded household, but during the Assembly there were SEVEN additional beded there, five in one room! One night I slept in the same room with Fletcher Lamne

a^ide frnfth )> Frazer (Canadian). Imagine what shaving and bathroom facilitiefmean

ss i sss, sir *” ^ 1 r? into m*

IuH\toda£ G?°^P Crie‘ He arrived Andong at 8 this morning' so you can imagine

fv™ "^Sih+ 1!£a’ He £em?ri?ed that were quite puzzled with his plan of travelling from Seoul to Andong. He left Seoul at five in the evening last Saturday! Imagine that

fnrS'hVe latS and then alept in the JeeP 1 ^ arrived in Mun Kyung Oop in time

for church Sunday morning. Of course staid old Rhodes, routine as he is? would gafat

such a plan. I'm delayed because of a cold. I was do™ to see the doctor ?his noon and b~ SV! m? ®ul£a ^d tjold me not to drive to Andong for sulfa affects the vision. Think ol this, I took 6 sulfa and 12 other pills all at once* a total of lfi rnn«i n _

I am now a "pill box". But I feel better already and® I don't Lubt in^he ieaX If is^73 going. to fix me up in a hurry. And in the meantime I'm taking the rest in ny stride reallv

nighWnd T mustfonlf trip t0 Pyen" YanS« I took him down to thl train last

Ti,"Vt,Tand 1 uft. confess I had some misgivings, for he looked to me like a sick man Truly I wondered if he'd be able to make it. I urged Bruce to write Kathy quite frankly

Sseif^d as f avC?'miti0n Sai? f did« "itb Blair ^e I have this ^ooff

T HenrTstorief enjoyln? the ?uiet* Blair's books is a collection of

f f?!!7 4 ?T * I T sure you've enjoyed 0. Henry's things, because they are clean and

f°?d* Now my darling, listen to something that I trust you will do immediately rUrSelf consdderable amusement. "%re it possible for™ to do so

DrIIious1G^rt™d^;LnSlbetter t0 read the Story to you> A HARLEP TRAGEDY. Now my read A HmEM^RA’mY^fofc, & T? ^ the librar^ S?et a book of Oi Heniy's stories and A^d also of th^n^I+ f ’-and y0U Ta 11 roar a11 thr°ugh it and think of me.

Irish Sent T l^ow ln,, arlatUeu thought to the "precious" man with the "loveable"

i'li S'S&pprfSK/S St “ 1’ou re,d the S*°‘T- Pro“” - "u-

c°uld write, and if I could, I would put into a story the thrill it is to

k " fr°?n 5?U* 0116 Came today , the one containing the leather picture frames,

three^temf17! 'f ddlah+'f06 • thrice* a separate thanks for each of the

fi 1 + d^ighted with them. And can’t wait until I get to Andong to get the

f' ady lnto the new frames. With a covering it will be unnecessary to put you all Hrninff?Ipat "lght> to Pr°tect you from the soot that rises with the building o/the • Y really used to lay you all down to sleep, and then happily wake you up

Hof blessed^fam It /oT. “ 7°Ur f°r the day °n ^ desk> t0 be admired and adored*

lettefand "***! f 36 d^S‘ 1,11 be S°ing °ver that a bit in ny next

weekly letter and 1*11 have more information from him. As yet all I've rotten is what

dov'n tSavdhoowa+ the +a?le# Be 1?as a JeeP and trailer with him, a new one. He came dov/n today hoping to meet Lowe who is coming down with the freight, like I did. only he

wL°K^g 0n * ^eight train. Thy in the world he is doing that I can't imagiAe^r it f Tg intthe ba^age car of an express train. More thrilling^ f erLnces

to write up. ell, I got wway from the thrill of opening up the package with all the nice slSfeA/^+r3 +1?th you'ye bought for the Koreans and also the precious overalls, andPtime%^iA 1 r cognize as haying put on, taken off, and put throu^ithe wash, time

again;- It? almost like handing the children themselves. Precious d ears, Hoy; I

t hf+ lZii ^ 1 SOm? good> heart t0 heart chats with Bruce. I believe he's mellowed

thP ^Lf L; d°' and miSSen hiS br00d> ljJce 1 d0 mine- And Kathy isn,t getting near *!%*** ?lbh?r> Bruc? is a fine ^llow and God is using him here. He's rl, ° f schedule, speaking as often as five times a day. He held seven country

class of six days each in two months. Well, l could never do antyhing like that. 0^

Address. Harold Voelkel (Civ Presbyterian Mission) 71 M, G. Go., Det. 3 A.P .0. 6 - 1, % P.M., San Francisco, California.

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Dearest Everybody, Andong, Sun Eve April 27, 1947.

My, but its good to get to the typewriter in my own room and pound out a letter to you all. its been an awfully ling time away from home this trip with the Committee meeting in Seoul and the General Assembly in Taiku, and then I was delayed a few days with a cold in the throat. The army doctor gave me sulfa— diozen to eat and after getting up at 2 in the morning to maintain the schedule and drinking gallons of water, he acknowledged the stuff hadn't done my condi- x tion any good and that "it would probably clear up spontaneously.'" Its much better and I expect it to disappear soon now. It was a "dust" cold, an irri- tation of the throat from too much dust. I think I got it while going through j^the remains of the C.L.S. stock in their basement while in Seoul. The bins had -j not been dusted for years and I realized at the time that I was inhaling a lit * dust into my throat. What a contrast the General Assembly was to previous Of- gatherings; not only fewer in numbers but the general level was much lower, not A the ready response and the challenging of the different items. For one thing Kim Kwan Sik who is now in America, who was a collaborator during the war, has been made ChonflLMoo, General (or Executive) Secretary of the General Assembly at a salary of 4,(700.00 yen a month. Now of course there is no such thing in a Presbyterian set-up as a General Seecfcfcary, and yet they boted the whole thing i- through without a word. They took action, quite wisely I felt, outlawing gftarat pastors from holding political jobs. That is both at the same time. Many of the men have become Myun Chang s or members of the National Legislature, like our Ideal Andong man, and held on to their pastorates, drawing their salaries, and giving the churches absent treatment. Over fifty students of the new Seoul Seminary sent in a petition to the Assembly complaining of the teaching given by a number of the prof lessors, aecusing them o#noderism. The Assembly J appointed a committee to investigate including 2 missionaries, Rhodes and .Knox. The president of the Seminary, Song, my roommate of a year in Princeton, j is on the griddle and when I asked him about it, he replied that the 50 pr | protestors were "Communists 1" Quite an answer. Ned Adams led the devotion each morning and did an excellent job. I had to leave early from our AndQpi | Presbytery, and I heard today that Kim Yong Oak, the former old pastor

began advocating the approval of smoking by Christians before the Presbytery but was howled down by the young people. When he arose the second time Yi Wun Yung, the Moderator, denied him the right of the floor and the oldfelliw left in a huff, walking right out of the meeting.**-*-* This liquor drinking by the young felliws in the army is an awful curse, and I'm hoping that something that happened while I was in Taiku will bring some regulative action. A group of enlisted men got into a fight and one sargent decided to settle things drasti- cally by going to his room and getting his gun. He was drunk and another sar- geant who was also drunk attempted to stop him from shooting anyone and in the attempt was shot and killed himself. This happened while I was in Taiku and didn't seem to cause too much consternation. ***Whlle we were sitting at break- fast (the missionaries in Taiku plus the General Assembly delegates made such a bunch we ate at second table) in walked George Adams from Andong. He s St four that morning.' And his mission was to be on hand for Lowe who was com- ing f rom Seoul with the freight. Lowe was in a freight car. You'll remember I cam&down with the freight in a passenger train baggage car, but this time it was a freight train. And the felliw was 48 hours enroute and just about froze. He had George's, Edna Lawrenceb, and his own, and it just about filled a freight car. However, much of the stuff was medical supplies he was bring- ing for the hospital. John Talm^e had come as far a s Taiden in a neighboring car with the Southern Presbyterian^ freight. They ate array rations

f or Ihe 48 hours they were enroute and had an unforgetable experience, I'm sure. Dr. Blair left Taiku while I was there for his trip to Pyeng Yang, having se- cured permission, you'll remember from the Russian Commander for the visit. I haven't heard anything to the contrary so I take it he got off from Seoul O.K. the first missionary to get through t he Russian lines. He'll have much to

tell, I know.

2.

Yesterday, Saturday, I started out with Yi Wun Yung and 2 B.I. students for a trip to four churches, Sam Bun, An Gay, Te Suh, and Pak Kok. On the way we

met one of the local jeeps that had mail for me. My, vtfiat a mail, a wonderful

handful of letters, two from you, and among others one from J ,Y . (Crothers) and Marjorie Erman Tarbet. Thank you a million, Gertrude, for the ling, detailed, interesting, and happy letters. Praise God for all His goodness to us. I don' know anything additional that I c ould ask for than the good reports that fill your letters. How good, how very good the Lord is to us, and I rejoice in Him

with a full heart. I'll have to acknowedge I enjoyed the circular letter of

extracts. from my own letters, and I think it will help many understand the sit- uation out here more clearly. And what enclosures. Teddy, 1 '“going to get a letter off personally to you right away. Now yesterday being the 26th <f April was somebody's birthday, yes Haba's. Big man, he's give years I 'll have to save up the panks until he gets out here. I 11 be waiting to h about the party. My, what an improvement these leather frames are for the pictures of the children on my desk, the one of the four, and the one of S.L.

And now one of my wife is coming. Can you get me a little leather frame for

that too . George has a bautiful picture of Margaret in a gilt frame. Gertrude there i^ no ai/mail from Korea to China dnd your letter will have < 8° *ack

to America In fact there isn't any mail at all to anyplace excepting through the American post office in the good old U.S.A. So sorry. Now let me tell you about this wonderful letter from the Crothers telling of the Board *s reconsider at ion of the if assignment. There isn't any a ef inite word but at least they are thinking it over and I sincerely trust that the next ie t ter w ill bring wnT)j that the ooeners-up of this station will be on hand again# If that won ^ be something after all the discussion back and forth at the last Committee JeetiS because of the word from the Board that the Crothers were not coming.

Finallv we assigned the Hills here, but if the C.'s are returning the Hills,

t -imaoTnft will so back to Chung Ju. Today out in the country I took destiny hornfiidSin co^fideScHf the Lord^s leading told the People as they enquired that Kwun Moksa would probably be coming back in a couple mon h .

So there you are, don't let me down#

What a reception I had upon my return here from Taiku. Yi Poke Chew prepared

dress material and girl's clothing} Daisy's were old th ' i4na h.

child's shoes, etc. 7 and the Crothers were food, pencils, n°^e books, flash light, etc. But throughout the C's pcakages were elbow mac aronis. Several

packages of the macs, wraPPeJ^ celi°P^n®/®^ajLPopLed and i? was such so there were macrs in everything# A box oi raisi £ . The indi-

laces had an unusual sheen J How this ® ^ the YOung fellow who

I took one bundle of the material ou S y > four boys and a meagr

remained true and got a jail 0 bl yto * e the stuff. Mary Creswell's

salary as a helper and I know he'll be able to use “eIaJ“**th^ovaP to the

package had a number os girl's sweaters and c * from iS like

girls in the B.I. and how J^oh^ve a*! mustn't forget to t ell you about clothing from a dream world. Oh, yes I muscn p g ped get through seminary

Chey Sang Jin, the stout pastor whom tiking a church in

$nd then when he graduated he up and with his hide and not much

Syen Chun. Do you remember? Well, he's back, ^ his^hide^ ^ ^

more from Manchuria. All smiles 43 us"^* * d the ioas 0f his watch Yi Wun

Tori Wun and Te Suh churches when he bemoaned Here's a little contrast in Yung replied , "Having your life, be thahkful Here ..

Andong, Monday evening, April 28, 1947.

My dearest.

With the weekly letter off my chest, that is the one that makes the rounds, I can open up to you in that freedom* and joy which is impossible to any except my precious Gertrude. What a dear you are, and how beautifully you do every- thing. I have in mind now the eight packages I mentioned in the letter yester- day. My dear, how interesting it is to compare your pa ckages with the others, or rather to compare them with yours. Yours are not only neatly done but the contents show that same care and generosity. Really, some of the things the people send are hardly worth the postage, and I often feel that if they had a deep love for the Koreans they would send things more worth while. But your packages, what really presentable gifts they bring, and how useful they will be to the Koreans. Time, effort, and money have gone into them. And its just like you. I get an inspiration each time I open one of your packages. Some of your heart has gone into each one. Thank you my dearest one, and the Lord make up to you for all the time and strength that has gdne into the purchase, packin and mailing of the things. It is indeed a labor of love.

Now I turn to your letters, two of them that one of the officers gave me on the Toad to Taiku. With Yi Wun Yung I was starting out for Tori Wun territory. Really, the news letter is a good job, excellent, I should say, and it becomes news to me to read it after the passing of weeks. I hope I'm not beginning to get proud over them. I'm realizing now with the settling down of things that ' they were unusual experiences. With the arrival of the group in Taiku and George coming here it is almost like the old day s • ##Now a big congratulation to Haba, (not Harold) dear me I like Haba still, and think of my dear little man in that term. But as you write he is getting big, of course he is, growing and becoming quite the big fellow. May God bless him in the new year of his life. I pray fr you all daily, as you surely know, and each days brings its developments to eac life. Gertrude, don't be so tight on the matter of a wagon. Dear me, loosen up and buy them one. Take some of those gifts that friends give you and invest in a good wagon, nothing cheap mind you, a good, strong one for the two younger fry. I thought you would have done it ling since. We owe it to them, for they are good kids and we have spent a minimum on them, it seems to me. Go ahead, and be sure it isn't cheap, but a sturdy one. Yes, my dear I laughed to on the news of Danny's father's occupation. I can imagine that Danny finds another name for his father's job. The nature of it would make a separation of some DISTANCE desirable, although it isn't satisfactory in a family to have the father established in a separate residence. I think I'll let the d etails go, the barest generality is sufficient for me. "Dates are continuing to come and I love to accept them", you/write. Well, apparently you do love them. Gertrude, are the children getting enough to eat? I don't know, if either of the girls are with them, I'd be content, I believe, but letting them go frequen ly faring for themselves is something I'd hesitate to do. It isn't worth it,

I don't believe, and two nights in a row, with their pls$_ng outdoors after hav eaten a five o'clock supper, is something I'^think very much about before decid But I leave it with you, for I know th isn't a more devoted mother in the world than you. Its just knowing when to say "No" to the requests that come in. Tfou Avrite, "You will feel better when I tell you a lady phoned that a car would calljfor me to make that long trip to La Crescenta" . Yes, my dear If eel better, but I believe I'd feel best if you assured me that you will make no trips if the people don't call for you. Make that a rule, for people have cars and they must learn that your family responsibilities will not permit you to spend the time and energy wait inland riding on street cars. Yes, Cal and Judy are the hearted people and God will reward them f or t heir kindness. Its most thoughtful of Judy to get your watch fixed for you. I'm grateful for the news of the suit Mr. Me Glone is sending. I think I've got the fellow in mind who needs it and I'll be waiting for the package. It is kind indeed of that dear, precious old Mr. Noll to give you money for gifts for the Koreans. Bless his heart. I 'm grateful to God for the old brothers prayers. I trust I may be

more worthy of his c onfidence and prayers. I KNOW he's faithful in remembering me. I am happy indeed to know that the proofs of the photo has come, THE PHOTO your dear likeness. 1*11 be waiting for the wallet size and I *11 have it in my wallet always, but of course I'lljbe on t he aleart for the larger size to have °n my desk to remind me constantly of your swwet self. May God grant that it not be too long before we are together. Precious day. Glad to hear that Jack could take in the Spprting show" whatever that is, and I *m l&dking for his letter to tell me all about it. Dear me, Gertrude, the "personal contacts" for the Knox group, on top of everything else, as you s ay, is almost too much. Yes, indeed, I remember the lame man, the Jew, across the street with whom I had a chat oT two while watering our lawn. I recalltohen I discussed spiritual things with him that he had all kinds of difficulties, but he didn*t appreciate what I said, as I remember the discussion, that the cause of all difficulties is sin. He could N’t appreciate that. Now my dearest, it amuses me the way you say that I would be interested to know of all the people who ask about me. Yes, I certainly would be "interested", and it will justd elight me to have you mention them by name or identify them somehow. Remember that if they request you to remember them, it doesn»t get across to me to mention that "many" asked to be remembered, does it? Poor me out here wishing so hard to be r emembered and then not getting the people's names. Will you please tell the lame Jewish neighbor that it was a pleasure indeed to have him send a greeting to me throug you. Had I been invited to Kim's 10 year celebration, I'm fifraid I would have V~to remark*** had I been a sked my sentiments, that the pastorate has been too long. It hasn't been easy, I know full well, but the man has made basic mis- takes, and hasn't as yet learned the lesson he needed to know at the beginning of his ministry, that of discipline. I'm sure pleased to know how much fun Sally Lou is getting out of the quartette practise meetings. That of course will be a lot of fun. And what a coincidence that one of the fellows should be the son of Vett's Biola friends. The next time Me Gaha injects himself into the car when he shouldn't, just throw him out. Men need to be taught those things, you know. God for Ted, and his desire to send me a letter all his own, even addressing the envelope. Good boy, Ted. You can do it, I'm sure. The postal card enclosed from Helen Henderson about Berkely doesn't s ound so hope- ful, but between us, just between us, I feel it in my bones that s omething is going to turn up. It is all to the good that good old E.H. Miller is c hairman of the committee and I know "Aunt Mattie", (Mrs. E.H.) is a friend of yours, an admiring friend, as almost all are who know you. Just wait a little while and you'll hear of a cancellation that will mean that you walk right into it.

I 'm reading in the Psalms in my devotions and at a number of passages I find notations about praying for a house for you when I first came to L.A., not know ing where in the world I could get a furnished house to rent. Then 1200 W. 30 turned up. By the same passages I have a notation that a year ago I was prayi for a house for y&u, and the L&r* send Ann so that you could stay on. Now I *m writing in a third appropriation of the promise for a house for you for next year, and the LArd Jesus Who has been faithful in the past will once again prov his faithfulness, I know. Praise His Name. Praise the Lord for the request fo booklets from Montreal, May the Lord extend and bless their ministry. Now sweetheart here is your letter of April 17th, which arrived this evening. It brings the news of the congregational dinner at Vermont with yourself basking not in an relected glory, but in your own devotion to the Lord Jesus. Well, good work for the close-up, knitting. I'm sorry that I can't r emember it. I'd love to see it and will keep that in mind when we get together with the Vermont ers sometime. Good for Jack playing second base, and after all loosing by one point isn't bad. Don't feel too sad over that Jack. I'm sure you had a good time playing. Its lots of fun, isn't it? Yes, Gertrude, the Lord will work out the Mt. Hermon or substitute plan, I know. What decisions you have to make and all by youBBelf too. I'd libke to suggest that you go easy on getting thing for Korea, for there will be plenty of time for that and things are going to ge cheaper and better, and anything you buy now you'll have to carry around until you sail, and that will be sometime yet, I know. Daisy's letter from the Board just about knocked her out, I know. The Board was adamant wasn't it, and gave her no satisfaction. God will lead her, I know. Dearest, dearest love,

Seoul, Hay 7, 1947

My Dearest,

t !°MW£ letter? from irou» both waiting in Taiku when I arrived.

more deeplJ rt sSl! ? ythlng y°u ever written to ne that affected me

£ y' , seerns to me you go to the depths in an appreciation of the vparq^TT^vi our love. My heart responds in fullest gratitude to God for the y r? 'Ie Given us/ogether and the joy thar filled those years and the

a^ths r^'la“5 °f j°? f.ii lllKTln £ y25.

thin.; t£t r n "ntheart, with the kind things you say aboil nej

tnings that 1 hardly recognize as appropriate to my inconsistent 1 ifP t

i sh TS°omU?H arlsinSout of memory Hr 4hich I am sor^^o things I

of yoJ Gdrt?udeaSa^d i^0W 1 ^ grieved ^ou often- 1 am" just not worthy

w-itu e Gertrude, and it seems all the more startling to get this word from you

me *°nS H d,11ehh1! "»• »« the depth of

hearts hi nH i nu J vfln *+u 1 Praise God. It is His grace, His work in our tu?e us together in such a holy love and devotion. I have your pic-

Po t nZJ Write; is.'beautiful. It is an inspiration. I happen -

ed to open the letter containing it at the table in Taiku around which the

mark1ah^teth!’er* 1 Passed it right around for inspection. My re- mark. about the picture to then was, -There is peace in th t heart”. Yes, my

precious love, your face speaks a message of peace, God's peace. Oh how bless-

ed 1 am with a life-partner like you. How little I have appreciated you and how poorly I have shown my appreciation of life with you. Thank you for the picture. Yes, I suppose I would have urged you to give your hair a little ex- ra attention, but as you say it is "sweet simplicity"; it is you dear with the glow of God streaming from your face.

I an afraid that the rush of. each day's activity keeps ne from understanding the^ tremendous responsibility of the family's oversight, the constancy of each days load. What peal hard work it calls for, real physical energy, and quick resourcefulness too. I'm awfully sorry that I can't be in both'places, for I know I have an obligation to the children and/o you, and yet it is God's will for me to be here and we simply trust Him to compensate in His own wonderful

and blessed way for this absence from the children and you. I miss you more

than I can say, and yet my yearning for you all is not to be compared with the extra burden on you that my absence creates. The world could misunderstand our motives and condemn our actions, the breaking up of the family unity, but we look to God and trust Kim to overrule it all to His glory and the good of each one of us and we Know absolutely that he will. Unfortunately you must bear the brunt of it, and may God in His mere}' reward you that much more richly for your sacrificial labors. How precious of you never to complain or mur- mur, but not only that but on the other hand to constantly reveal such a re- joicing day by day. It is His grace, a mira cle of grace.

In Taiku I met Dr. Blair fresh from Pyeng Yang and thrilled to the depths of

my heart over his experiences there. You will be getting a mimeographed re-

■ port from his wife, but I do want to include here the fact that the Russians gave him the freedom of the city, providing him with a jeep and a Korean chauf- feur. He' visited the Seminary each da.y for five days, on the Sunday there spoke in 9 churches briefly in the morning, and in the afternoon spoke before

aa?vn?rtES pwtoS?°° £eople that had Gathered to celebrate the 40th anniver- - y f the R-VIVAL- How miraculous that he should have been there that Sun-

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71

Dearest Pamil3r,

Seoul, ITay 11, *47.

iat morning the Christian Lit. Society :is - ion's representatives and it was

It is a beautiful Spring day in the Capitol. Ve -finished our Committee business late last night and I am more than grateful for this da'1’ o* rest. Committee meetings are most exhausting I find, the constant si tt in <r around a table from morning until nigftt, day after day. But the reel endurance contest lies ahead, in. July, vh en the Deputation arrives from America to spend the month in one grand series of conferences.’ Together with the heat and the rainy season it will be almost as bad the marathon race in Boston * recently v.on by a 2T»r®,n. Inci den t ally , since that victory the street- here are filled with boys and men practicing for the next marathon race] I arri- ved here Tuesday morning on the G.I. train. How things are improving. How we have two G.I. tr ins each way daily from Pusan to Seoul entirely for Americans. There were four sleeping cars and two bagrage cars; with onlw 50 some passgngers there was plenty of room. And this is all free to us- we are guests of the government. r"’ * * -----

was reorganized. I was one of the

a historic gathering. Ham Gung was. elected president, and we hope no™* that they fen get under vay for there is a desperate ned for literature, as you can understand. But with a shcr tage of paper there isi't any immediate pros pect of tracts or books# That afternoon our EX. Com. meeting got under vav and the big item is the survey, the preparation for the Deputation's visit# mhe particular nevs for Andong was the lack of any assurance from the Cro- thers of their reappo in tment to Korea. I t><n ght sure and fed been fully expecting word that the Board had reversed its decision, but J.Y.'s letter indicted that Reishauer, theKtrea secretary was unable to persuade the Ex. Council into changing its position, and until that is done no appeal - ill reach the Bo.er : meting. It is the desire of our CoT^ here to keep'the former mi si ax members -ho are in the I'.G. here informed and we had decided a month ago to have a get-together with than. As soon as tnt was mentioned Ethel Underwood as you can readily imagine siezed upon the opportunity and made a luncheon party out of it. Cur vhole committee and everybody past L present in the mis si on was invited and we had an outdoor luncheon at the Urd er woods and the yard was beautiful, absolutely at its best. There was w apogica, xvisteia, lilacs, tulips, just everything in bloom. Even a e v roses. And Ethel served us a scrumptous lunch, aft<r which we gathered in their library for the meeting. It was like old times. Dr. Blair led devo- tions, we sang a number of 3gymns and got do?n to a discussion of the quest- ions of the future work 0f the mission, the number of workers to ask for, etc. etc. With the country divided an d the impo s si bili ty of knowing when the north will open up and when we'll, be able to etc., all these things can occupy hours of time, er, of the Salvation Army and his wife are back, war. The Hed Adams and Cmpbells stayed at Under-

reestblish medics, 1 work,

Uaj or Lord, now Caraniaion- 'They lost two sons in the

. - - - Gerda Bergman & Edna Law-

rence stayed with the Gensos in the Pieter s house. The Lutzs, young Horance Under, and the group from the Holdcro ft house made up the gather ina*. Fy, but what a lot. of thieving is going on. Relatively ny hat and coat last Ea.ll is negligible, lied was down in Pusan trying to tbace 10 boxes of groco* ies that have gone astray. He got out of his jeep turned around & in almost no. time discover ed his two cameras, ve y valuable ones, and & a brief case ”ith Korean and America Bibles were gone. Gerda Be- gman left her purse, containing her passport and fcL &EOXXXX $15.00 in the rd lroad car & upon inquiry could not find it. The Lutz lost two weeks wash which had

^ keen brought in from the line. Somebody took it from thekitchen. 7/hile tae ^oisos v:ere out one evning some boys threw some stones through windows unlocked the doors and got off wi th various items. The Seventh Day Adven- ti s . had some nocturnal visitors who specialized in new mens ' suits just fran America., Some had not even been worn. One needs to be careful]]]

JSVffssJ ns-* * cor.e months

Yang we all thought it faitaatic Ife t0 Pyeng

were fcqaxfcntoex impatient with him and secretly hoped IStJhJr Suld^t^ give him permission to t?o on medical o-ronnrto t h •*•»: £,? w3uld not over to the head chaplain to find ou /about send// /lit* wh€?.he went

for the visit to the Russian general in the norJh“g luJfa L?te^ou?d course have to go throu^i GenTl Hod^e tha ^ letter would of

chaplain told us thrt Wodge would not 2lo^ Safe 011?"™?^ Aere and the

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mission, and even thm we thought it was a ruse to «.«+ e . B per"

or to find out through Blair who the Chrfetian leaders wSe^P Y trouble for then. Moreover Blair kdn’t hom wen s v/ere 1 n P.Y. and ma,ke

Blair improved and when the day ©me for the ’ ini . ^ fs the tim.e neared

to less e Seoul Blair righ^th-Te 'li'gSS Sy'S trai"-

trip he had. It thrills us the more we think* of it ^ * a

him every privilege, asked him * at he wanted to do* =T?a ^?ssia?® accorded mi supplied a car and a Korean cfiuMeJTfor . a '.?. £>£ , 2° *’

he want ed to the six days he was there ttp ^ 0 _• + ^ ,®ee ^r1 lng 511(1 anyone for four days, spoke tTthem If the chapel n? ?odf ^ seminary every day compound to find that Koffett's house, toLy's, BairS lid fhr^iV0.^6^ old houses had been torn down. What experiences he had Ha h i?1? r 3,+ ths

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that is oomposed of refugees f rom "the'nor th^d533*01'*!^ the new church he®

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people who had known thl up^SSl fl ir fr © c°S °? ^etin-

m3eting 2 weeks a^o in P y i *. ^ Pr®ched telling than of his

with others interce eding *f or revivll115 Tf^ni n°?the to pra Y’ to Join

of the bunches of people p-rouped p round tv ip I.cou1? send you pictures

friendships. Almost dramltifellvf f ^ mi3eljnaries renewing their son strived, just in ^om tha f ^ • he “eet Eil, famous Kil moksa'S

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May 11* Seoul*

,In T^iku °n 7 myvUP h9r° 1 ”Gt Br* Blair wh0 was ba°k from

frf adorn of JTP I TS K°r0a- Ths Russi,lns gava him tho

freedom of the city where he had lived forty years, and even provided him

hauffeur. He visited the Theological Seminary speak* ing to the 174 students there, and the Womens Higher Biblo school with its 91 students. On Sunday he spoke at each of nino churches in the morn- lng, and in the afternoon addressed an opon-air gathering of over 15.000 Ohrist.lo.ns who were commemorating the 40th anniversary of the great rs~ vival of 1907, How miraculous that ho should have been thero for that occasion, for he had been an active leader in the revival, as ho has re- corded in his recent book. Gold in Korea". He spoke of what ho had witnessed at the time when the Spirit of God fell in convicting power and repentance upon great congregations of Deople. After the message it was suggested that all pray together audibly and in concert, a volume of

^hat mUSt hnV° b®311 heard a11 0Tar th0 city* For two weeks all the 50 Protestant churches of PyangYang had been meeting for daybreak

prayermeetings and at this special union gathering the offering was given for the purpose of rebuilding the First Methodist church that had burned. The Christians are calling upon God for another revival like the one that was given before. They said Dr. Blair's presence among them was lilco an angel from heaven. How marvellously God led in that visitl Yes, revival is on the way*

May 31. Andong.

This Detachment has been cut from 60 to 7 men, and in the near future there may be no one left at all. Two of our missionary homes arc now vacant, but considerable repairs will have to be made to make them ready for occupancy. Permission has been granted by General Hodge himself for the necessary rehabilitation. Its a long process and for the present all conditions indicato delay and patience in the matter of families com- ing out. George Adams and I are occupying the Adams house. We under- stand that Rev. and Mrs. Harry Hill have sailed and will soon be arriving for work in Andong.

I have good news about my books, I had 800 volumos on my list and was told all had boon burned by the Japanese. Now the word is that all standard works were given to Seoul University, and there I found a number of my books and some of the Swallons*, and I brought home a carton full* They arG letting us have them all back again.

. _ .. To my dGli&ht th(3 Board took action to print 5,000 copies eaoh of Father Swallcn's Old Testament History and the Life of Christ, for

^64.1u-0Ur. Bibl° InstitutGS# I!n surc it Will be a joy to Father to know at his ministry^ continues fruitful. I brought down from Seoul 644 gospels for distribution; they went like hotcakes. The Old and New Testa* monts created a stampede, for tho demand far exceeds the supply. It is distressing to have to toll so many that wo dont have any moro Bibles# I wrote of the groat noed for tho Scriptures to the American Biblo Society; they have printed and sent out thousands of copies to Korea, but many more thousands are desporatoly needed*

W efve just finished a groat four days of a Youth-f or-Christ con* eronce in Andong, I’m grateful to God for answered prayer. Wo had good weather, even a full moon, and from 71 churches thero were 350 young people who came* The guost speaker, who has spent eight years in America gave messages on Romans, solid sermons with the truth excellantly arranged and presented with clarity. Tho church was filled to overflowing and tho daily daybreak prayo meetings continued from 5*00 for almost two hours, with messages on the Holy Spirit. All that is needed is tho breath of God upon us in overwhelming power. And that is tho result of prayer*

Seoul, Fay 11, 1947.

My Dearest Gertrude,

I have your picture before me, precious, it is leaning against the flower vase holding tulips. Mrs. Fletcher's touch is in evidence in so marry things around the house. Darling, your love letter with its mess^ e to my heart still has me in its grip. I read it and kiss your picture, and praise God for the j cy a.nd privilege of our love. Its seven o'clock in the evening, about the time you are getting into the day, and I trust this Lord's Day will be one of blessing and fruitfulness to you.

What wo hL erful grades you .report for Sally and Jack. Sally* s were written separately on a slip of paper and I have loved just letting folks glance at it as they near the table on which I'm working. What a record, all A's. I'm sc proud of our precious Skooks, and her vork is all the mor e r em^rkable in vL ew of the tremendous schedule she is carrying. And Jack's grades are great: too. Only two B's and the rest all A's. First thing we know' he'll be having straight A's too. I must be getting separate letters off to my precious dears soon. Teddy's report disappoints, maifnly because Ms "appli- cation" and "dependability" and "courtesy" have gone down. Also "initiative in all these items he has gone back and naturally his grades in almost every subject are poore^ , very much poorer. As I say I am greatly disappointed and I s h? H be expecting to have him improve his conduct immediately and his subjects accordingly. And that Ilaba can recite, the 23rd and 1st Psalms and will soon be able to do the 121st too pleases me very, very greatly.

I got a letter from the Hills and will answering it tomorrow. I'll put in a carbon for you. The big munjay now is getting a house fixed up. The M.G. has ben awfully slow in getting one in order and <f course until they do that we cm ' t have any wife in the station. I'm curiQus to know who told you that Olga Johnson would be going to Abdong, for she is slated for Taiku and for the present is in Seoul he® use as yet there is no single woman at all here. ves, Bigger was here the other day* he i s back under the M.G.

He and Dr. Wilson, South. Presby. were starting out on a trip aroundthe country in behalf of leper work. Your reference to strawberries remind^ me of the lunch we had at the outdoor church service this morning. They had everything and it was tasty, until the hostess .took the lid off the "vege- table" box. The aroma seemed to come up and wring my nose. I'm happy to know that Fred at Burris' sent his greeting. Give him my best regards, if you will. How nice it i3 that our kind friends think of our children. How Skooks gets a trip to the mountains and^ ride to Arrowhead too. I'm cer- tainly thankful to know that the Hills are bringing a piano. It will be the first one to arrive. So many of the things the Campbells and Mrs. Larape brought, or rather thought they were*bri nging , never got on the boat. I'll have some suggestions for Harry Hill. Your reference to tie House of Hest leads me to mention that I am praying hard for your apartment at Berkeley ft ext year. May the Lord ieveal His' glcrry in providing a. home for you and the children next year. My, but I have libar ty in praying for a home for you for it seems to have been rny regular annual business each Fall. IF have so many notations in my Bible, as I ment ioned before, beside verses, prayer promises, that were fulfilled in your caning to L.A. and then in the arrange ment that brought Ann to us. God is so good to us, isn't He? How generous of the Dixons to give Jack several shirts and two pairs of cords. Praise His Name. Yes, my dear, teaching Genesis in one lesson is quite a sweep.

Cal Duncan is right bhind us, isn't he? I'm glad you could take part in the Mission's Emphasis meeting. You didn't mention the letter he auoted liber ally from. Its pretty hard to make any suggestion for the Sipybe for

thirg s to sen d Yi f 4^^ C7 ^

een

y ?aI; r lnterestlllS it is for me to see our Skooks handling those quartette heroes and bringing them the victory. Of course *

her and see the superior musical knowledge. What a gift 1, reciate

s\s rs; rss’ts?:,"4 * ‘he sh*

Praise God for th e mi ssionary service at C.O.D. end the large number of young people who volunteered. It takes me back to the KoodfdXs when I walked up the aisle myself. The other day Mrs. Pi tcher was tXliS rf expen encernYokohamd. They had visited the Gospel meeting tt^th/e o?

9 . fl oun?the G.I. s remarking ab out the "kinds" of missions* ies

Alter chatting with Mrs* F* and Gerda 3er ffma n* the G.I tqeo*iH tvia+ *

were ' good" miss ionar i es. Further comment was tha.t the G.I.'s hadn't se

53, IS e^iYlfs^ ^iCa - PreP are/themselv es

lertr"de deadest, that two hour nap Monday afternoon is wonderful news to looked refreshed in this picture. Just keep up that good "work"

itLlfeeTrf °^KCrlled "ork)* Ky’ but 1 3 great sleepiest m>ht

45 inXh -0ln ™eebln? wMch lasted from morning clear through

unt!!. 9.45 in the evening just wore me out. I took a dan bath, went rig*

a wokeSe5pWat 7 ^ Slt"He 3^is^et+h heart as with marrow and fatness"? a v.oke up at 7.45. It was the first morning in a long time that an alarm

hadn t arqused me. The men. here. in the house are eating breakfasts here t saves the trip to the capitol mess and it is a happy fellowship. I h ave become tne songster, .so to speak, leading off in the hymns, and I love Sun- day morning and the opportunity of starting up. "0 day of rest and gladness" bac3f b0.y0„ a11 311(1 those wonderful brefcfasts with the songs.

Sa t M v I" Andong 1 love t0 begin the day singing the hymns^om

V0U .Cr°pi®d for me» the hyKlns children sang and some 3°£ * sorites. My, but they axe an inspiration to my soul, and

vour^'lf th®re ,a£ e tbe memon es , and also your hand-wri ting, a message from rising them tX 1 knew"9re hymns. Its good practice laming them, memO- u T I-t increasing surprise to me how few hymhs people know bv heart. How I wish I had a good memorizes Your gifted along that line so very gifted. I wish you'd share a little with me" ’ 3

Being up here for several days, almost a week makes it impossible for me to get mail from you, but it will be there in Taiku waiting for me. There will

Xd°a Tetttllrf°r n++t0n’ r kn0W* Ple tcher men ti oned incidentally that he had a letter from Otto De Camp saying that he would not be out next Pall if XfJTL bring hisf^iiy. That ,s pretty much along t ^ I

LZ 1 e him‘ ad been speaking of comigg out and yet always stipulated

thatt he would have to be dbSe to bring the famuly. In view of armyXegula-

hi able t0 th0r 1 wrote him and asked himThether

he realized the dilemma he w-as facing. Sinoe Pletcher got this letter from

him 1 imagine there will be a reply to rry note writing for me in Taiku. Also,

aetSbnnUSlng buslness lS getting to be quite the situation. If we don't soon get houses, we m gy soon ha.ve to tel* the Board not to allow any more people to cone for we're just about bursting, at least here in Seoul/ But sud/woi is of course the last thing we want to do and the last thirg we will^X

word

Stas} ir«htoe tssrfe.5gs r? *•*'” for

A-U* >r

Andong, May 13, 1947

Dearest Dear,

Back home again, and of course word again to my precious. Your sweet picture is before me, beaming at me, bringing me the joy that only the assurance of your love and devotion can. Darling, yoif re. charming, and your look into my eyes delights my whole being. Interestingly enough, I have your picture resting ^gainst the alarm clock. Quite a combination, your lovely likeness supported by a gift from you - gift and giver. You are a dear.

I arrived with Blair and Edna Lawrence in Taiku at about 3.30 this morning, and I have about decided that I am off night trains since service on the day trains has improved so decidedly. I had a good many things to do this morning since I knew I would have tod epend on the Andong G.I. truck to get me back, and that usually takes off right after lunch. While down town in Taiku I stop- ped in at the Post Office and was told "no mail". Last week upon leaving for Seoul I requested the fellows whom I know quite well now to please hold anything that might arrive until I got back from the Capitol. Imagine my disappointment therefore in being told that there was nothing after a full week and more. Up- on my return here I saw only a letter f rom Mrq. Crothers, "Ella" now t o me, if you please; I am "Harold" now to her. I was glad to have the letter, but as you can appreciate I was looking for yours. Yours, darling, just yours. They are^the letters that count. I got busy unpacking my things and preparing for a for the roads are terribly dusty nowadays ^r^wj^h missionaries crowded

together as we are, bathing has become quite an Tt^mT* TaiT'Si had piled a number of my things which she had laundered on my desk and 'In pushing them to one side there was a pile of mail, including two precious letters from yourself. My, my, how grateful. Yes, Skooks epistle was there and Ranier’s too. Well, I just let bath and everything else go and enjoyed you fully. Oh, how grateful I am for your faithfulness in writing and the time and effort you put into your letters. Wonderful news, Gertrude. I praise God for the happy days and His gracious Providence that guards and guides you and fills the lives of all of you with so much joy. I miss you, oh how greatly I miss you. I can’t help but tell you how lonely I am for you, but your letters comfort me so greatly and provide so much to thank God for. Everything, yes everything is going so well, dear. I’m not unmindful of the load you’re carrying, or of the responsi- bility either, and yet God is richly blessing, isn’t He?

Now let me start on these precious letters.

Thanks for including Mrs.

My weekly letters often seem so trite and repititous - I mean the same thing over and over, about the same experiences only at different churches, and yet the Korea folks apparently get a lot out of them. And Eliz. De Camp’s note is dandy and the snap of the kids great. Wonderful children, aren’t they. I'm awfully glad to have the picture. How they ’ve d eveloped. And a note from Etta Frederick. My, to hear of the son being interested in hunting and fish- ing - being able to put the canoe on top of his car. When? My guess is on Sundays 1 They’ve missed life, haven’t they? Elmer sends me the original of his letters, so I had already received a copy. Yes, its nice and generous of him to invite our Skooks to visit them, and I'm sure they’ll go out of their way to make things pleasant. And it will be enjoyable for our daughter to spend a little time with her cousins. I *m not at all worried about the temp- tations, for the difference will be evident at once. Skooks will be able to make a real contribution to their home. Wait till they hear her sit down at the piano and play off some of the beautiful old hymns with lovely improvisions They’ll begin to realize what they’ve missed. And moreover, I’m quite satis- fied that Skooks can take care of herself in any discussion of the things of her faith, and do it with a charm born of her personal experience of the Lord Jesus •

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details ofhthiUnflB?Z°,HAhr’,PC>rCeS Teddy C0m6S throuSh with another letter, the

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precious epistles, Saturday avenlng and Monday morning. Isn't that^faithfulne^? for you. How can I show you my gratitude, Gertrude? why a husband ^

and suggest that you imagine you're receiving this present, gU6S

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h bri °£ 4 “s^ «■' ^.^'tSioS *

he should have had it a long time alo* * llttle man,

know it will be the consummate art-work If my Skooks ? thef“* and

ing 'to^say W“E.U ^‘UVlel- f -^SflyX^'itlrest.

whit will be next Pa P rki ? ^ d°0S Seem <*ueer’ but then, who can tell

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cWa^r 8 Precious tlme» Gertrude. One of the boys here, the fellow in

t™!l.?ed“o “ ” f°°L™3 "?hev III h-, *U but «" are being

I'., been .pter' ffi JoTKXm^uX^S

ing him away from a group of Korean mechanics whom he's grown fond of6 b£d»! k’

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beginning the day there. May it be a blessed .one for you all. *

Andong, May 16th, 1947 .

My Dearest,

Just you and I, looking into your lovely face as you smile into mine. How happy

I am to have your sweet likeness before me. It makes it so different writing to

you for you seem very near. , Thanks for your two letters that surprised me. I must confess that I had had word from you so recently I hardly felt entitled to

two when the mail came. But there they were, and the mail clerk remarked as he

handed them to me, that they were "fat" ones. Thank you my darling for every letter you send me. One was that which you had to finish by hand because the typewriter needed repairing and the other was written on the empty side of one of Delia's epistles. Let me refer to the aenclo sure s and be through with them, grateful as I am to have them. That from Montreal about the booklets; and one also from Portland about the testimony. The Higley Press ar^doing so badly in selling 900 but if pushed they would distribute very many more. I am glad to be able to see Daisy's letter to Ranier. Daisy is certainly crushed by the Board's action, and it is something to be the only one thus far rejected out right with- out any question of age or physical condition involved. Her quotation of Hold- croft to the effect of severing all affiliations with Presbyterians and the es- tablishing of a new seminary here stresses one of the strange situations here. The pastors or the rank and file of the c hurch can't be divided up so rigidly into blacks and whites, the innocent and the guilty. There are degrees of guilt and innocence, and when one sets himself up to judge both ac ts and motives of the membership of a whole church it is no easy task. A number of us are wonder- ing how it is that none of the Independent Board get out here. I think Daisy is very wise in deciding to wait on the Lord. He will make it all clear I 'm sure*

Now I came to the items that fill my soul with joy. Praise God my dear, our Lord has once more revealed His goodness and assured us of His gracious Providenc in the details of our lives. Gertrude, it was an inspired thought when you made application for a Berkeley apartment. Really it was a brilliant idea and I know God gave it to you. And the answer was "No" at first as it always is. And then comes the counsel to wait and finally the right anwer, permission for you and the boys to be there next Fall. Praise the Lord. I know you will enjoy it there, a snug, neat little place, easy to keep clean and with a group of similarly Rinded folks, and the fellowship of the First Church. Did you know Bob Munger? Both you and the boys will have a great time, and I understand the schools in Berkeley are tops. They won't be like Culter, of course, and you may wish to supplement some of the s tudies with a systematic Bible course at home, but I don t have to mention that for you are more diligent about those things than I am. My regret is that I can't enjoy that lovely apartment with you. I mustn't overemphasize my regrets, however, or it will sound as if I weren't happy to be here. You too w my heart, I'm sure, the regret is I can't be in two places at once. And 1 m con- vinced that God compensates for my absence by providing such an ideal place Berekley. And to top it off you'll be at Mt . Hermon too. If I owned that cottag "Rhoda", I wouldn't consider $12.50 a week very much rent, since it is rented only in the summer, but on the other hand that price is plenty for ONE room. I hope there are plenty blankets. Jack and Ted, I imagine, will enjoy sleeping on the porch. Just one thing, my dearest, please pardon me for mentioning it just after hearing that you are to be there, but I know you won't misunderstand my suggesting that you not load up with responsibilities as soon as you arrive.

When they discover you they'll find so many jobs that no one else can 0 find yourself working harder than if you remained in L.A. And, sweetheart, for- giv^tfor speaking of it, but I'll say it now and then let the subject alone. I m happy to know that they have daily vacation Bible School tbu-oughout the summer, and the boys will doubtless get a lot out of it, but I don t believe I d work out a three hour schedule of classes for them either. But dear me, you are such a thoughtful and wise mother and so understanding I wonder why 1 allow my- self to speak thus. I know you'll give the boys a good, thoroughly wonderful month.

1 ZOXX}^ ifke to enc°urage you, precious in the matter of packing ,

out all the things that you don't need and don't want there won't h p on ?°U ?w?ar

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there waiting for me, won't vou? But hpr« «cra-in iaf . ® ^ H be right

p°lnt 1.3 that by getting started gradually, I believe you^anTnakeTi ^without too crushing a responsibility. mat sewing machine ought to be packed farlmnl

?tPSPSn80m? klnd ^ fr0m any °f the conSregations will volSnteeJ to do i^ Let it be know to some of the pastors and they'llpick out a fellow who i Q Q ^

™:t;h0",*he 3?b ,ouidn ' 1 »• too much. Jf/iSoSi out y^"n l JhoSr

I was .sorry to hear Mary Hill speak almost as though they didn't want to ero to

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Tennessee, If I He rtte;.°be?o"eIt‘'„aseL”5L^ ?“*SXm°L

there* b^uiSi/thln it’ thfa lf th® N°rth op££3 up they wil1 naturally go back there, but until then it would seem to me that^ould find a rich ministry here

I am making it a matter of most earnest prayer that God will give us themen and ^ShSS^TS? He ?an US? mightlly f°r a -vlval. And 1 tooi le can do ^t ^th or

siiSt in 9 Mpf 1h6S* r a?y ®rnt 1 am praylnS for the outpouring of His Holy bpirlt in a blessed refreshing for the whole area. y

SrtheeTa?k^°m?^ihOW ^°U g0t thS irapression that *e were eating at the Adams.

raik^ missionaries are eating in the mess and will continue doing so un-

Underwood are worked out. In Seoul everybody (excepting thf Lut^Sc

Underwoods who are M.G. people) eats at the mess. Only brekfasts which is some- thing they are doing on t he side are eaten at home.

end ofhe^nlnT h®&| °f f?al]y ’S b6ing bothera<i with the discomfort of the with ft for } wonder what it is. You say that you haven't been bothered

left? How nhonteral mo”ths * Hadn't it cleared up a number of months before I

. ow about arranging for a date with some doctor through Wilbur Jones before you get away from L.A? The sooner the better on that. I'm fwfully LrTto hflr about it.****ltin grateful for Haba and his own writing. Whv its Leal rood w

?h^U?o;hDedfflo^e*l If Te|ir 3 l9tb-ing Jot^8miS’JL%gLeav;ryGh:Ppy:y'

the «tl° D!d® for,ttle letter with the aircorps insignia and everything. You draw the star and the wings well. That monkey is a funny guy isn't he? Were thev feed

^2 i,i0ns and b6arS th6 Way bbey w ere the last time7! took you. mat zoo Is lots of fun. Now what a letter this is from Skooks, a big, three page two-sided be MttL ^ some time to answer it. "Thank!" for this time. mi

^ahft^K gt^l ifc laber* ied» 1 thank you too for the good letter telling of

tS!,3 ^ahS and^draw^lotsl611 Pl8te“ °f ^ giPt- 1 bbab ^

ai*i S^i;Lf S“illng at me and makinS me want to see you allllhe more, lovely, lovely Gertrude. God bless and keep you. f

my

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Address: Harold Voelkel, Civ. Presby. fission, 71 M.G. Co, Det. 3,

4.P.O. 6-1, % P .M . , San Francisco, California,

(Andong, Korea, May 17, 1947,

Dearest Family,

"Poke Pi, Poke Pi", "blessed rain, blessed rain". The barley has been in urgent need of rain, and at noon the drops started. The farmers will all be grateful but in my own selfish interests I had been hoping the rain would hold off, for this is Saturday and I had planned a trip with Yi Wun Yung to Yung Duk and envir- ons this afternoon and tomorrow. With an open jeep we w ould be drenched so the plan is off and if it clears by tomorrow morning we’ll be off and plan to spend tomorrow night out at the coast town. We prefer not to spend Sunday night away from Andong for it makes it difficult to get back in time for Bible Institute on Monday. So, you are getting this letter written Saturday afternoon instead of Sunday evening. Things are moving on. Yesterday the Com. Officer announced that the Detachment was leaving the compound and moving downtown to the Japanese house where they have the offices the first of June; that they would eat there and would not be able to feed us. Which means for us that we would be required to set up housekeeping here and go to Taiku weekly for our supplies. The deal with the Gar ernment is, you’ll remember, (or rather the Government’s regulation is) that they will house and feed us. Why therefore they will not be able to add two more to the mere handful they will have is mystifying and we called up Taiku station to intercede at Headquarters there in our behalf. Its all in straighten- ing out the understanding of the regulations by those in authority. Apparently numbers of the Instructions issued in Seoul do not get down to the Provinces & these irregularities therefore occur. /This Detachment has been cut from about 60 men to 10, and by the end of the month will be down to 7. The manor is that in the not distant future there will be no one here at all. So, sooner or later we will be on our own, and as ltoig as the present exchange rate prevails we w ill be dependent upon the army to supply our needs and aside from some canned items we will have to go to Taiku for our food and they issue things once a week. You can appreciate that a weekly trip to Taiku would be a terrible waste of time & strength. But don’t be alarmed we won’t starve and some plan will be worked out. It always is. Moreover the metal beds we’ve been lent by the army are being taken away and we’ll go back to cots. Anything that even looks like army property is being gathered up.

Well, my dear, thanks for the package with the cotton cloth. Its grand material and the people just beam when I turn the things over to them. You've gotten the preparation of the packages down to an art but I’m sure it doesn’t take any less time or effort. May the Lord bis ss you for it. Also a package f rom Daisy with a number of mens’ trxousers and shirts. I took them right over to the B.IL fellows for they can all well afford to have some extra things. Thanks very much Daisy for your kindness and thoughtfulness. Everything is most gratefully re- ceived. My, what a picture this is of the De Camp quartette, Elizabeth and the 3 children. How urgent It is that we get t his situation cleared up about mission- aries’ families returning. Each time I visit Seoul I see the M.G. officers & wives come into the mess hall with their children, people for the most part who ’ve never been out of the country and we have so many held up because of the impossibility of bringing children here who were born in the country. Its another of those things that takes patience. And yet in our own case, the matter of getting these houses fixed up drags along. Both the single ladies’ house and the Crothers are empty of troops, but considerable repairs will have to be made to make them livable, and we are totally dependent upon the M.G. for it is impossible either to buy materials out here or get permission to bring it in. Workmanship is some- thing e^e too. Getting plumbers and electricians, etc. around town would, b no little task. So, for the present all conditions indicate < delay and Patience in the matter of families coming. A married couple could g0t by under toe pre sent set-up during the summer, but with winter it would be a different matter.

Jim Crothers ^enC me a letter via George who got up to Peking while his bo&t was in port and I have a picture of Jim’s children to show the local people - good looking kids. What a coincidence that Jim, bom and bred in this area should be near the Korean missionary, Yi Te Yung, who is also a local product.

Let me gather up some items of the past week. First it is very noticeable how greatly the railroad service is being improved. Both the rolling stock and the stations are being tidied up and the schedules are being more nearly maintained. The big improvement for us is the inauguration of G.I. trains, one day and one night train each way from Seoul to Pusan. I saw a diner the other day which is quite an innovation, compared with the service that was offered las; October when I first arrived. The old American efficiency is beginning to be displayed. Last evening I saw one of the U.B.Army locomotives from Europe, one of the 100 given by the U.S. to Korea, shutling around the l&cal yards. I had a fast trip up from Taiku with a G.I. on Monday. We made it in (2^) hours and made 5 stops, most of them to take pictures. Imagine the speed, and the roads. I almost got ‘'seasick'1 from the bumps. I had another of "those" exper- • iences the other day. You'll remember that before we left, prior to the war, I had a lot of old clothes that had accumulated to pass around. A few days ago I say Yi Wun Yung's nephew with the coat of the suit I was married in i Thatls just about 19 years ago, and the coat looks quite good. The handkerchief pocket is on the "wrong" side so he must have had it turned. Six years ago the nexphew was a mere boy so he must have been given it by his older brother to whom I gave a few things. What a feast we had last Friday night. All the occupants of the railroad houses in Angie are Koreans, of course, and among them are some devoted Christians who are anxious to get a separate church going there again. Some of the Pup Sang people have been holding meetings over there Friday evenings, and as a token of appreciation these R.R. folk prepared a feast for several Andong Church officers and ALL the B.I. students and faculty. George and I both went and had a huge meal including mandu kook which to me is it as far as Korean food is concerned. Where they get the Money I can't figure for there must have been 50 guests and all ate plenty. Kim Chin Haw, the pastor, wished to entertain George and I was asked along to share in the dinner. That too was swell going.

We both ate until we almost popped. In the conversation preceding the dinner, however, I'm afraid I raised a question which was exceedingly emta?assing to Kim, but the way I asked it must have convinced him that the issue rose innocent- ly enough in ray mind. I have been hearing about the "queer" sale of the land in which the Presbytery had invested some funds t o be used as endowment for needy Seminary students. I think the fund was started by George's father. At any rate land which was in the name of the juridical person of the*Jg£esby£ery ^ is now gone, and from Kim I got the story. During the war the Presbytery' decided to sell it and distribute the proceeds to the pastors and helpers according to the years of their service; Kim admitted he got ¥ 150.00, which before or dur- ing the war was a considerable sum. Quite an idea, isn't it, and naturally there is now considerable consternation among the Church people for it was a most ir- regular thing to do, to say the least. And here you have another example of what I have frequently refered to, namely, so many, many wrong things that no one tells you about, things which must be dug out. And its another of the things holding back revival, for it adds to the numerous inconsistencies which the people cannot overlook c oncerning the pastors. It is another of the items which God will have to convict the men about, and another lesson to me on the corroding effect of sin. I have good news about my books. I had 800 volumes on the list, all of which I was told the Japs burned. Word came that they took all the stand- ard works to the University in Seoul. I was over there last Monday and found a number of my books, and a number that had W.L.Swallen and Sallie Swallen in them, theological texts and childrens' stories the folks had given us. I brought a carton- full with me including a dictionary and Hodge on Romans. I had tried in vain to buy the later all over America, its out of print.

I'm awfully sorry that I'm behind in my correspondence with Teddy. Boy, your a grand letter-writer and Dad$y certainly thanks you for all your letters and all the drawings on them. I like the fancy one^ith all the colored crayons. I'm happy to see the way you like to draw. I'll get down to answering Sally's fine epistle too. Each letter from you is like a tonic. Keep up the wonderful work. I'm very, very slow in thanking Elmer and Mercy for their kind invitation to Sally to visit them when she gets to Wheaton. She'll enjoy visit there I know, and d elight in having the cousins do nice things for her. Think of our daughter in college. Yes, its true. So long for this time. The Lord richly bless you.

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Andong, Monday evening. May 19, 1947

My darling.

This is extra, sweet, just a little love note to send along since a mail is leaving tomorrow. I »ve gotten letters off to you, a personal one Friday and a family one Saturday, but I canft resist the desire to just tell you again that I love you and that you are so very, very dear to me. I find myself kissing your picture quite spontaneously, my sweetheart.

I returned from a fine trip to Yung Duk at noon and this evening the local congregation is giving a reception for George. I ^wondering what I should say when called on for I'm sure there will be speeches and I shall be expected to make some remarks. I wish I might have a quite evening all to myself. Its been sometime since I had an uninterrupted read all by myself. But these are busy days for all of us and I suppose w e all try to do too much. But the days are full and we trust God will bless our efforts to the hearts of the people and the revival of the church. I enjoyed speaking on revival both last night and this morning at Yung Duk.

Along with this letter is one to Teddy which I hope stirs the young man to diligent efforts in good deportment. My guess is that he needs a father's strong right arm as much or more than the other two boys. Yes, I 'm sure of it. May the Lord turn his young heart to Himself. He has the abili ty, no doubt about that, if he will apply himself.

Another of your packages came today, wrapped so neatly and selected so thoughtfully. You've got it down now, my dear, and I should have kept a record of the number you sent. Did you? If so I fll be interested in knowing what the total is. This morning there were four packages, 2 from J.Y. and another from a society in Tennessee that he inspired and yours.

It always gives me a kick, as you can appreciate, to open them up and dis- tribute them. I know God will raise up some to pack for you like you have packed for others, when it comes time to leave.

We've just about got it all fixed up here to keep eating with the local M.G.'s until they leave Andong. I'll wite more about it in the next weakly epistle. Fritz Cropp wants me to write an article on Gospel distribu^ohr^ but dear me when can I get the time. I'll sandwich it in somewhere. And there is Skooks young book to^freply to. Please comfort her about my d elay iryforiting.

These are marvelous days here. W-^'ve just had a heavy rain, a real down- pour for a full 24 hours and the whole outdoors is a bright green. They have taken all but one of the trucks and cars from our "lawn” and with those almond bushes a row of white the place is beginning to take on its old glory. Really it makes a enormous difference. How easy it is, and how delightful, to visualize you back, the queen of our home and of our hearts, with your artistic touch to which nature itself responds. You'll have that lawn as colorful and fragrant as ever in no time. May God has- ten the day

God bless you, precious, with health and peace and power. May He help you in the home and in your ministry and in the fellowship of your own heart. I thank Him for you.

Andong, Wednesday, May 21, 1947.

Dearest,

Your two letters came today, those of the 6th and 8th, although they are both postmarked the 10th. Well, thank you my dear, and what about the hospital with Sally Lou having a painful boil. Does this explain the pain at the tip of her spine. I hope so, and if it does, it relieves me from considerable anxiety for I don't like the idea of any vertebra complications. What a privilege it is having Jonesie to turn too. My, but he is a comfort to me, and I !m sure its a satisfaction to the family to have him for he is an understanding individual and puts one at ease so readily. I always feel better as soon as he gets reviewing a case.

Its good of the Lord to have send a kind and generous friend^ like him, isn’t it? I fm awfully sorry of course that our Skooks had to lose out on ditch day and all the rest of it, but at that there will be a whole life time of ditching to catch up on. I am glad to Jearn about your visit to Long Beach. I didn’t know that Mrs. Grubb had not been well. Had you told me about her illness^ At any rate I ’m so happy to have greetings from her and know you enjoyed a chat with her. Praise God for praying friends like her. I shall always look back upon that time of fellowship with her and Bill as a thoroughly delightful time. Didn’t we have a plea- sant visit in that home. And its thoughtful of Mrs. Baird to let you have their cabin at Mt . Hermon, isn’t it? My, how theseProvidentia^developments confirm the truth of God’s constant care. Is this^pf^ooks that Louie Talbot is sending me the prize for my suggestion of the name for the radio broadcast.

Thank you my dear for the pictures. How thankful I am for them. My, just look at my family. There’s my Jack in his scout suit. Yes, its a neat job. And there’s Haba and his red wagon. Good boy, Haba. I’m awfully glad you can have it. And the pictures taken at the zoo. We’ll appreciate having them as a record of visits there. Yes, I remember the trip to Sierra Madre and recall the particular liberty I had. But on that occassion I drove the army car, and without that you must have had quite a time finding the place. Now my dear you tell me you read HARLEM TRAGEDY and that you could see how I laughed over itj Didn’t you think it funny? Why, that’s Irish.' I roared over the thing and had Arch Campbell read it to the Taiku bunch who laughed too.

Sweetheart, how misimpressions get abroad. I can't imagine how Ranier ever got the impression that George and I are living in her house. Her's the first vacated by the G.I.'s and the four musums who are farming our land are dividing up the nights sleeping there tofwatch the place, but Geo. and I are still in the Adams house, he in the living room and I in the din- ing room. My, but I’m glad to know the leaflet is being translated. I have requested several out here to do it, but they all pass it on to someone else and it never gets done. I shall anxious await their arrival, and trust God will richly bless them. I'm so sorry you are having to write your letters by hand. I’m sure it takes ever so much longer. # So t hanks just that much more, my darling. Enclosed is a copy of a tiny article I wrote for Fritz Cropp for the American Bible Society, you need not return it. Enclosed are $5,000.00 for Jack. Chinese money. George gave it to me for him. Its worth about $.50 gold. I don’t suppose Jack ever had that much money before in his life. I’m hustling off to prayer meeting, so I’ll make this just a note. I've had a busy and a happy day today. Prayer meeting and then to bed. I don't have any trouble sleeping these days; it takes vigilance keeping to any kind of a program of sufficient rest. Dearest love to all you precious ones. May God enfold you all in His

gracious arms.

Andong, Wednesday, May 28, 1947

My dearest.

It seems like an awfully long time since I’ve written you, and it is I know.

No letters had come from you, in fact no mail for anyone in the station (the detachment I mean), and having given you all the details of the happenings here I have waited for your two good letters that arrived last night. I 'm glad they came together for had the first one come alone it would have left me anxious about the patients in the Voelkel hospital. With two letters I

get the news of their illnesses, the fever of Jack and Haba, and their improv-

ment. Glad too to hear of Skooks full recovery, but so sorry she had to miss the ditch day and especially the Catalina trip. I hope she can make that at some other time before she starts east. I hope you can make it too. Why don’t you two make a party out of it yourselves. Now that’s an idea. Really Gertrude, I !m not as thoughtless a husband as I may seem, for while I don’t sent you gifts or remembrances of any kind it isn’t because I don’t wonder every once in a while what it would be possible to please you with. I was conniving at something a few days ago but it always involves money and if I

write Skooks to join me in a conspiracy in your behalf she’s got to go to

you for money and that would let the cat out of the bag and any gift that isn’t a surprise is just your buying something for yourself. Now here’s my chance: I appeal to you two to go by yourselves or get up a party of people to take a trip to Catalina. Just get away from things and have a good time. Skooks will see that her mother has an agreeable boy friend along too. Now how about that for generoisty.

My, but I’m grateful for the as letters written by hand, dearest. Faithful sweetheart and correspondent. Oh for the day when I can tell you how thank- ful I am to you. And may God grant me the grace to show you in my life the depth of my thankfulness for you. Let’s see, didn’t Jack get a cold or some- thing else after his last trip away somewhere, up in the mountains or some- other jamboree. Apparently the kids just outdo themselves. How good of Jon- esie to make that suggestion about seeing the specialist. That’s right along the line of what I was saying in a previous letter about getting the situa- tion straightened out before Sally gets to Wheaton. Its wonderful having this friend to do all the intermediary work with doctors who know .their stuff. I hope you keep right after it. And the d ental work is going along nicely too. May I ask if Albert things he’ll get everything completed by the time you plan to leave for the north. My d ear what a Bible student you are teaching Leviticus. The Lord bless you. I’ll be grateful for the A.P.O. packages. And my dear another of your wonderful parcels came today that had beside a lot of fine cloth dozen towels. What a joy it will be to hand them out. My, but they are nice gifts. That’s a most generous thing and a loving deed for Mary to make a niece two beautiful evening dresses. I'm sorry I won’t be able to see our daughter in them. I hope you take a pic- ture of her, sweet thing. How I wish I could hear the "Surging Sea" and the "Water Sprite" and also the "Witches". My, what a lit the family will have to play for me.

Good old May ell. Swell man, good leader, fine f riend. Its a joy to know a man like that. Let's get his address darling and keep him on our mailing list. And how kind of Mrs. Burdett. Now darling if you know what q/iob it was for her to write a letter and how few she wrote you’d know of her very great interest in us. Yes, it is kind of her and Dr. Agnew to send us a gift of five dollars. Your package that came today had some bean seeds in it and 2 packages of zeenia seed. Really, I planted by first seeds during the last rain and the flowers are coming up. What fun it is to see them.

We are in the midst of the Youth for Christ conference. Grand crowd, wonder- ful spirit. I’ll be writing you fully later.

Address: Harold Voelkel, Civilian, Presbyterian Mission,

3 Det, 71 M.G. Co., A.P.O. Unit 1, % P.M., San Francisco, Calif.

««*«*«*« (Andong, Korea, May 31, 1947)

Dearest Family,

You'll notice that I put "3 Det." in front of 71 M.G. Co. up there in the address, and there is a purpose in doing so. The fellows here report that there are a num- ber of Detachments in 71 Co. and some of our mail has been going to other places before the "3 Det." address was discovered. So, as above, if you will. There mustn't be a day or an hour's delay in the arrival of your mail. We're just starv- ing for it, as you can appreciate. The one thing we can't do here is to go out &

write ourselves letters. WoulN't it be nice if we could. Well, we had a visit

from the colonel this week, the big boss from Taiku, and I thought he would come uo and give us authoritative information concerning our destiny. It happened that when he arrived (I had known him from numbers of visits to his office in Taiku) &

I inquired about the future of the outfit he simply replied that he had come up

to find that out for himself. Now that's an army reply isn't it. The point is he

has orders from Seoul to close all his detachments but he can't make up his mind about Andong; Andong has given people headaches before; He looked a£°!*?d and decided that all the army personnel, officers and men should live as well as eat in our old house, leaving George & me to continue on by ourselves in the Adams house. That means that both the girls house and the Crothers house are vacant.

As yet there is one Korean sleeping in the Crothers’ place but he is due out in a day or two. The thing to do now is to get these houses rehabilitated, but ■ what a job we're having doing that. Its been months now since we started negotiations inJ Seoul for "one" house to be fixed up in "States-side" shape & as yet there is no woM. Each month as I go to Seoul I'm given assurances by the M.G. people that they are on the job but nothing happens and until word comes from t^rethe local people can do nothing. This will help you understand the lack of o5fei%xTIWit« in army circles.* With the emptying of these houses I asked the Colonel curading the property for without guards the houses themselves would in time dis appear The old fellow was astonished by the idea. He had never heard of any such thing; Why should he guard our property? Where would he get the men to tniard it with? He didn't have any responsibility to guard it. Then I got out ^directive issued in Seoul which one of his own men had sent me which states that the army assumes the responsibility of guHBding all American property. He Spied off^he paragraph and left to "investigate", the results of which I feel confident I already know* He began welching on the idea of having to provide

army personnel to feed George and me, that is S

seven men here would required extra help, whereas the regulation da, as issu

rate I am leaving (D.V.) Tuesday ior oe u* , , hadn't thought of is

the dope on commissary application etc. Something from & ,.water point",

water This crowd drive down town and get cans ol x. time we

Inllo do that would be a terrific inconvesiance f the first timers

got thinking of our old well and it is b oc£ gettingyour gasoline in drums

get at it andthat will be a job. about gas fnd alio the weekly

which the G.I.'s bring up for us* , , t A weekly trip to Taiku would

commissary allotment is atill to e w r ^ itself out. Another item

consume a lot of precious time. But it *111 ax w equipment of this house

in connection with the Colonel amused me. The sani for which I can't

is a tent-covered latrine in t he side * a particular emphatic in his imagine the colonel would have use, and yet he was parpen

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request about us letting him have the tent. "You can get a little something fixed up for yourselves". Whether he expected us to get shovels and start dig- cine I'm sure I couldn't figure out, but what the urgency of a a little tent that * s been here from the first is, puzzled me. *** We!ve just finished a great 4 days, our Presbyter* »s YOUTH FOR CHRIST conference. Everything worked aut beau tifully and I am grateful to God for answered prayer. I'm thankful first for the weather. I had prayed that God would give us good weather, else f ew w ould be able to come. Many more have to walk that before when the buses were going. The Lord even gave us a moon, and the roads were bright as the people journeyed home after the meetings. Young people from 71 churches come, and over J>5°

The guest pastor, Myung of Taiku, Westminster graduate, is a man of parts. He is typically Presbyterian, by which I mean that he has his emotions well u?deL,C0Q~ trol and presents solid sermons. The introduction given him was typical. The 8 years he spent in America, etc. his coming out under the M.G. etc. it was all blown up to the point where anybody, no matter who he is, would be embarrassed.

Its one of the best ways I know of killing a speech or a sermon. I felt Myung did exceeding wisely, he simply got up, remarked that the introduction was QUA ha kfw" "too much", andwent on to announce that his evening discourses would be ™ S bo k°o7Ci n ? Now what about that? I was delighted for the fine truth he gave the young P^le, freed from the tear-jerking illustrations and absolute- 7 nn^tories "once upoA a time...". The church w as filled to overflowing & benches were placed outside the church forthose who couldn't get in. I was great lv blessed personally in the Daybreak prayer meetings which began at 5*. Rhey omtinued almost two hours. I led Monday morning in the preparatory series, Kim Haw Tuesday and theA Myun|4hrough Friday. The night meetings didn't get Chin Haw, ^ don't eat until dark, and we adjourned

Sref’ 5 Tuesday night it ... 11.50 before I gjt

7 which with arising at 4.30, didn't provide very much sleep. But it was

wor-th it and today I'm taking it easy, having a real rest day. How wonderfully God worked out* all* the detail!. When they got to the session where the launch- of a Presbvterv*wide Youth for Christ movement was discussed, I wondered

do, and without going into < ieta: Lis ab J^t,^ ^ tlon/ ^ went farther than

though it was my 3^|estion or ^he leaders iHlerica, and he

I explained everything to them, the meetings in Madi t^rmon

I Soldiers' Field, Chicago, etc. I wa8^mP^s^y ^?rK ^e a most Complete and Kim Chin Haw in his daybreak sermon on the Holy ei?entl v® arranged. All the addre attractive exposition. The truth was GoS truth was

ses were Scriptural and to the poin . „ needed is the breath of God upon

certainly being presented with result of grayer. I had brought 644

us in overwhelming power. And tji&i ■ _ . terrify. They w ent like

Gospels to sell to them for Retribution throughout the terrify. attribution

hotcakes. Ned let me have a huge bundle of ^ed^®R°*ing to have to tell so

^ny?1! that^to th. ^R^Som ^ts^tha

S! Japanese^ to ok away!" 'so I must get written P®™RR™df^ring the defence the^ricS Z&o ^eT^st ^^'p^tL^^eaders, ^missionaries.

Dear Vett,

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I just finished the weekly letter and after jotting down the promise to write you, I felt I better take destiny by the horns and get a note off to you immediately for like others I am bothered by that great Presbyter- ian doctrine of Procrastination. So, here goes. Many, many thanks for your letter. I’m grateful that you took time off from your vacation to let me have word from you. You certainly need a rest, and the more I take time to think of the constancy of your responsibility in caring for Father and Mother and now for Father the more I realize your need for time to get away and think your thoughts. What an exceedingly busy job its been, all the multitudinous details of those real estate transactions on top of the work of the home. Its taken great patience and resouceful- ness with little of the inspiration that comes from activity like ours on the field where one feels a sense of direct participation in God’s work. Somehow it isn’t as easy to understand the daily round of the home’s rou- tine. 'The Lord bless you for it, and make up to you for these years that have kept you so tied down to things.

I’m certainly interested in your meeting Win Drummond. His name is Winslow but at seminary he was dubbed Windy. He isn’t to be taken too seriously, and his references to Bruce Hunt and Union Sem. are typical. Drummond is himself a former Phila. School of the Bible student. His family is as con- servative as could be and he is just letting off steam. Elmer knew him at Wooster. Its awfully thoughtful, and kind, and generous of Mary to take the time and go to the exptf€ne of making our Skooks evening dresses, but I am as grateful as I can be for them. Gertrude and I praise God for our daughter, for h-Lsu devotion to Christ and her persistence in her work. And we delight in her way with people. She wins everybody. She’s had a great time at Culter and will go on to greater joys at Wheaton, I know. God has put His hand on our youngster we are sure,-

Now Vett, I must confess complete and embarrassed confusion in the matter of the Christmas package. Honestly I can’t remember receiving it. I’ve tried to be faithful in acknowledging every gift, for each one meant so much to me, just getting it, just seeing another bundle when the mail came. And numbers of them had beautiful and useful gifts. But my conscience is not completely at rest, for I did get candy, and somehow I remember your handwriting on a Christmas card, the kind enclosed in gifts. Is my face red? Thanks a million anyway. Yes, I suppose I did get it, but isn’t that a shameful way to have to reply to your kindness. Forgive me this time. A number of gifts did go down with that ship, or rather were ruined by the spray. I ought to be covered with a spray myself, oughtn’t M, for being so indifferent to your thoughtfulness.

Yes, I’ve got to keep urging Gertrude to let up a bit for her energy is boundless and her heart big with a desire to help everybody, everywhere.

I don’t see how she maintains the pace. From her letters I’m afraid I’d drop in my traces, but I think one e xplanation is that Gertrude hardly knows what tension is. Things don’t worry her like they do me, and she can go through a busy day and come to the close of it tired, of course,

But free from that sense of exhaustion that I frequently experience. Its remarkable how she has gotten through this year and what she has been able to do. I'm trusting my appeal for moderation is being given some response. Vett, what would I do if I had a wife who had no more nervous reserve than

I have? And I know missionaries who have that kind of wife. My, our home would have been a mad-house and our children would have been victims of St. Vidas dance. Gertrude's smile and chuc&e are a gift from Heaven. My, how thankful I've been for her calm. Frequently when the children have a temperature and I'm ready to go to bed because I'm sure the child has some terrific disease, I've been comforted and eased back into sanity just by some assuring word that "things will be all right in the morning ,f . That's happened over and over again.

I'm having plenty time over here to think over the matter of family sepa- rations for while I realize that probably most people at home attach a sort of glamor to the "sacrificial spirit" of the missionary who goes off without his family, I recognize that the burden and responsiblity and hard work is the wife's back home with the daily care of the family. 1 Our three boys are all boys and the load this year for Gertrude has been enormous but she has done it wonderfully well, and she has done it with the constant satisfaction that it is God's will and that in His Providence He will give the needed strength and patience.

As you can imagine the family is on my heart and mind constantly, almost momentarily, and yet as I search my heart I wouldn't be anywhere but where I am now for the world. But I believe that God has a plan for our reunion and as you say we must let circumstances and conditions have t heir part in r evealing God's will to us. I am absolutely agreed with you about the unwisdom of thinking of bringing the family out with things as they are.

These houses will not be ready for a long time to come for family occupancy, and even so transporation to Taiku, etc., with food is no little problem.

Then the matter of schooling is most uncertain. The army outfits are shrink- ing rapidly and how long the army school will last is difficult to say.

Also, if the 38 barrier goes and Korea is given any semblance of self-gov't I am not sure that there will not be trouble, at least trouble to the extent that one would wish to be able to move on if things got too hot. After the years and years of humiliating subjection the Koreans look upon freedom & self government as something altogether out of proportion -to its value. But they are so frenzied in their determination for freedom, they have talked and argued and dreamt themselves into the position that if only they have freedom, food, clothing, and everything else will drop out of the skies. Its incredible how desire warps judgment but that's the situation and they simply will not be reasoned out of it. Any attempt to reason with them will le ad them to questions one's motives. So, under the conditions with the future so unpredicable I have no thought of the family coming out.

I believe the Deputation coming out this summer may touch on the subject of furloughs for those of us without our families. The So. Presby. Deput. did. They decided on 18 months, that is after 18 mos. for those whose fami- lies are at home a visit to America would be authorized. In fact Cummings is. leaving this summer after a year. Moreover the So. Presby, decidecjAot to send any more men without their families. Also, they d ecided on a term of five years, rather than seven. But here again the Lord will guide and make His plan and will clear, and in the meantime give us the patience & wisdom to carry through. I, as you know, feel the deepest obligation to my family, and to my wife in her caring for them. I feel safe in saying there isn't a more concerned husband oui> here as far as family conciousness or responsibility £ses. But for the present I have the greatest conviction %nd peace about being here. With the passing of another yearsGod will have made His will clear, I know. For the present I am beseeching Him and besieg- ing Him for revival. May it come soon. Just a few minutes with

you Vett, via the typewriter. The Lord's very best for you.

Address* Toroid Voelk d. (Civilian i 3 Detachment 71 Y.G. Co., ******* (ScOUl,

Dearest Eveiybodjp,

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Once more in Seoul on ar. Ex* Cor . meting* before the Deputation arrives we will have vc hope to do hef or^they core, pied ci/Hf attention since v;e firs ation of all phases of tl ,.crk* all the questions that it raises

politic3.. 1 and economic factors* i nrr vou cm inline hoc difficn'

•esbyterian Mission)

.P.0. 6- Unit 1, % l.r Korea, June 8th, 1947.

"A^Lp L£'r^ /£— xj^Zf (n_

Since this1 will be the last meeting to get eve rything out o" th * -ay that As you doubtless know the big Job th-t h?s’ occu- lt met h o been the SURVEY , a complete consider- Ito been an enormous job, principally’ because are subject to the changes brought about by

For example with the inflation Son tent ly inert- ing you cai imagine how difficult it would be to figure out what the en ' .it/ of an institution is and also vhat the needs during the next five years of that

a fine trip up here. Blair and the exception of one G *J . clear was a snack b^r so we could buy We had prepared sandwiches and a most restful ride and en&led me to reached Seoul by 7 in the evening.

school or hospital wall be* Well, I ’ d a first class car all to ourselves with Chun, thn a few officers got on. There things to help out on lunch and suppu:'. a few purchases made out grand; It was c^tch up on sleep* V/e left at 11.45 and

I had to Tc- sone

wi th

Hod ..ad cone up the night before 30 the bunch here knew re were coming, and the R1 etchers had started down in their car to meet us. What would be do without cars* After a hMKK bath and a chat vlth the different ones I was ready for bed. As before Led and I occupy the basement room with the rest of the baggage

iere are some news items on that the Board had informed so she lias accepted a posi- Island. Ky guess is that here would be. Louise

De Camps have of families re- to leave here Bureau) is offer- Hospital for

On Thursday mobbing we got right down to business, various members of the mission. Vera Ingerson wrote her that she would not be equal to life out here now tion as night nurse in a psychiatic hospital on Long that job is fully as demanding as any assignment out Hay errs has resigned. The Reiners do not expect to return. The about decided to look for a church because of the impessibili ty turning. If the Board approves the plan, Dr. Blair is planning in August. The Lr.G. (through Edwin Braden who is in the Rllway ing Hov/ard hoffett a job as spperin ten dent of the Seoul Railway

one year which will enable him to get his family, auto, and household goods out. That the Board will say (Howard is on the Board now) an^what Howard will do is not yet 3m own of course. The report is that the Hills end Jean Delmarter sailer5 rune 4th, but as yet no confirmation has come. The Board usually radios sail- ings. Ye know the TTills had one sailing cancelled on very short notice.

The other evening while driving around I happened to pass three linozinccs carry- ing the Russian Delegation in session here. They were an impressive looking lot, and we are prayi ng that God will overrule tine Commission to His glory. It will wean- much an^hatevr is done the outlook, humanly speaking, is not too^ bright. If the conference fails and things go on as they are, the Koreans in th'- 3 01 5 th v-i 11 be restive under the divided condition of the county and^recedinr of any hope of an immediate independence . At a confer ns e with Gen'l Lerch last Hr i day he allowed himself to say that if the meeting with the Russians is a "success" and the 38 barrier goes down, anda Korean government is established the Russians will doubtless carry on under cover as they are in many European countries with a resultant turmoil. So success or failure there isn't particu- lar cause for rejoicing. Korea i.s the victim of her geography, being in the middle of things. In the meeting with the General the raiffoads were mentioned and he said that the transportation u thorities tell him that unless new equip- ment begins coming from America soon all that they have here will be "junk" in another year or so. I have aired y told you of the broken down condition of the buses.. The report is gaining credence that in a matter of months the American l.i liter y^ Gov’t .here will be replaced by a State Department outfit, and a. think t ;c likelihood is that wefd get a higher type of personnel. That remain to oe seen, of course, but the army's officers here for the most part have not done America too much credit. With the Joint Commission, Amer ica-Russish the Th d underground apparently decided to put on an uprisinr and all over our Pro- vince a week ago, Sunday evening, there were dan onst rations . On the hills sur- rounding Andong fires reae built and groups shout ed UAETSEI . At Yunv Duk one

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fell®" was killed and 2 injured. *At Chokori, a little market place in our eur territory just after you turn from the Yung Duk road, enroute to Yung Yang, the mob pulled do-u the police box. All the roads entering Andong were blocked -onfey and since it was market dgy, there just wasn’t any market. These sort of thiLs are vhrt riwht be expected to take place with greater frequency if the con fere nee now in Session fails, and on th either hand if it "succeeds" the Reds will doubtless put on a full-dress prorrrn of power politics. General Brow the chi. ef American delegate has been attending church services in Seoul and a comittee of missionaries are planning to see him to request the insertion of full religious freedom in my deal with the Russians. We doubt not that Brown •nd all the otha- American delegates have this, i*1 mind but we felt we ought to make sure, andthat it would strength his position to have an appeal from us.

I think I told you that at the Korean Gen’l Assembly in April a pr otest was cir- culated by the students of the Seoul Theo. Seminary citing tile modernistic te^ch- ine of one of the professors, Kim Chei Jun. A committee was appointed to myes- t c vat e which included Rhodes and Knox. They made an investigation and reported the charges as true to the Board od Directors (Korsns) oi the aerainarj . - n^t

mfu confronted Prof, with the charge and the findings. The ?rc£ Prof, admitted Ms guilt vwu said he "as sorry and that he would nov: be careful -o -t-G ch fundamentalism, assurances which the Board ?iccepted. So nov. everything is'o.Y. ' Humorous isn't it. But dov.n in the Prefcyteries the r=nk and file of l®e elder s™d pastors are boiling over at the toying of these church politicos hblv thl . It reminds inc oft he story cf the young fellow wno vas being hired by a fanner school board to teach geography "Do you teach t3^t th e world is round or flat?" ashed one of the farmers. "I can texh it either vay% re- r,ii the obliging pedagogue. News of the Ben’l Assembly m America is reoch- “I “ji wp ^re ^particularly interested in the Foreign Mission reports. In Gi^i-po.'cred fashion a "revolutionary philosphy of missions" nea^ined. ^ :.ha^ 1 3 meant by that is that missions are being liquidated ana the v/ork directed immed y by the Board in New York. This year’s ^inual report of the Board seeks the approval of the General Assembly of the dissolving c . the rhi_.ippine and cknwPrissions. The Deputations have already been to t] 2 pountr^es auve

m2 these recommendations. Since this is announced as a policy of the- Bfard there can be little doubt that the Board is at least contemplating a dissolution 4 Mssio 4 llkeirti 5. At least that is the prospect, .Aqjj very Me-

j lightful surprise the Board took action to print 5 thousand e aph of fg - B&

J 'bocks, O.T. history and the life of Christ, at a dost of muO.O,. hao Viil / P4ne start for the B.I.’s cut here. I’r; sure it will he a joy to -ather

toe to know; that Ms ministry continues fruitful. Yesterday I met and c..attod writh Kim Kun lo koksa, the correspondence course secretary ana. we are hopin.^ to bs/ablc to vet that goc ’ work started again yoon.^This mcyr.ing I : attended service in a hostel being conducted by a pastor m a for er brot . e u \ ent<r pri .in** follow whom I knew in Tokyo and v:hc did a aiiw ar work tk ■ . fc-fereat on 1 in • di nitaries around and this morning had the minister of education on the Korean qovr nnent , who i^.pens to ^ g fcij ^ c . re

forgotten his muse, but the amusing thing to fee m* wia.t t: c icial sash across his chest as an insignia of his position. K.reign do .

- „* T^'Tfi'etcha-' m-r<'’"long and introduced me to the organist and choir dir- Nt'or -Jo di superior job. T' 1 lyed well end the choir did mod credibly. ThisAs ike story. He is a grandson of the Fletcher's cook whose mother died when he vrs hern, ’rm Fletcher took him on ns expar ienm«nt A in artificial f^-din*. Thev rut him thr ou.vh school, -wjtous morning met im.for t it ' - - ti4 since veWninm, a Mg, hand some fellow, studying music in one of thr local schools. Just another of the lives spared awd blessed through M.ssionaxy endea- vor. Last night T attended the G.T. Youth rher intro duct ions were being waie and the ate you Mr. Vo elk el. Ky mother wrote

wife just spoke in cur church", row about . T . !+ .

TTcpc :efox r-cd Churcn , L.A. He invited 21c to lea^ ar.ca nn% fiiM

BUre when [*13 be up here again cn a oa'-r'y nialit* -e are hvang an awful

f or Ihr i £* t 5 ct in and af t er ward lead . x h -ard ny name, h* bur^t ri+,

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Seoul, June 10# 1947

My Precious,

I am awfully sorry to have disappointed you with no letter, no per- sonal word these days* I have been longing to write you for some days, something besides the Sunday family letter, but with the Ex*

Com. meetings morning, afternoon, and night there is just no time left* But each morning and evening, the first thing upon aris&ing and the last thing before turning in I have had your picture to

gaze on and to thank God for* You have stood as a sentinel, look-

ing down upon me as I’ve slept* I am delighted to have it, Gertrude, thank you again for it* Now I must ask you te send me a leather frame for it as you did for Sally’s and the childrens’ pictures. I hope you pick a frame with the same design. It is a brownish color with a neat gold line decorating it. Perhaps you’ll be able to re- member just Hie kind you sent* It will make a beautiful decoration for ny desk.

It is a week now since I left Taiku and just that long since hearing from you. I asked the fellows in Taiku, Cm pbell and Lowe to get the

mail for me as they called at the P.0, this week, in order that it

might not be sent up to Andong. But apparently they forgot, as men readily do, for Edna Lawrence came up for a visit bringing mail for Blair and Ned but had nothing for me* How green with entfy I was of them as I saw them opening their letters. But it will mean just that much mere of a feast when I get down there tomorrow. The committee adjourned last night, Monday, but I stayed over to catch up on things. There are always so many things to do, errands and shopping items*

At last permission has been granted by General Hodge himself, no less, for the "rehabilitation” of a house in Andong. It has been a long drawn out process and I’ll save*! he details for the Sunday letter, I know the rest of the station will be interested in how things work out here* Enclosed, my dear, are films. May I suggest thnt you keep the pictures from them separate in order that I may have them for talks on these "reoccupa tion” days. I’ll enclose two that are of no particular irterest out here. The jeep is Georges and I’m sorry the big pile of pack- ages I’m driving down to the Bible woman’s house don’t show. It was a real load. The one of the kids is a typical, not posed nor exceptiona 1, but just an ordinary mob that gathers around the jeep nowadays in almost any village. You will find one of Yi Wun Yung and Chun Kay Wun, the 2 mm that stood true. Also one of Yi and the 3rd daughter married (alread lost a son) #io is about to have another baby. The group of young fellow are B.I. students. I am keeping the one of Kim Ik Yun to send to Walter Erdman. Now, will you please send me a copy of 1. Yi and his daughter,

2. Old Kim, 3, Yi and Chun.

Tomorrow I leave D.V. for Taiku with 17 packages of Bibles, books, Gospels, etc. and 2 tires. It will take about 3 jeeps to get me to the railroad station and Ned will meet me with George’s trailer there.

We drive tje jeeps right up to the baggage car and the trailer will be backed up to the car in Taiku. Simple, isn’t it. Darling, I bought a radio. Yes, reckless, $28.50, but it works and will furnish me melo- dy, and give me short-wave broadcasts from L.A., if you please. My, if only, it could sentLyou to me, you precious. I am devoting this month's tithe to bulying seeds here so you needn’t tithe ny income this month, and my dear, the cost of the radio will not leave me much to send you.

A" <P< — y4

Jlaiku, Sunday Evening, June $0, 1947

My Darling,

I am the most blessed man in the world. The moment I arrived Friday evening, soaked after the "outdoor” ride in that "excellently air conditioned Jeep", no side curtains and the back curtain with a big hole in it, I began asking for my mail & to my delight your two letters of June 11 & 13 were here. Praise God for all the good news they contain. How happy I am for the joys of the graduation days. My, but it is a delight to look forward to answering them in detail, so I-.L11 just start at the beginning & go down the list of good things. You start out by mentioning a delay of a week, rather a whole week without mail. Now the explana- tion for that may not be too difficult. Crothers included a mimeographed note he got in a letter saying it had been picked up from the wreckage of an airplane. Apparently the plane carrying a number of my letters had crashed and one to Cro- ther-s and one to you had been "rescued" latter. Yes, as you state it is fun for me to be trying my hand at something new, the planting and watering of flowers, but it is good fun, but now since I've moved down to o ur house I’m away from the flower bed I ’ve started. Good for Jack and his sweet-peas, fr’m happy to hear of his good work. I'll be getting off a personal answer to his fine "air force" stationery note.

Gertrude, the ease with which you make these numbers of dresses for Sally makes me believe you'll be cutting out suits of clothes for me if I every need them.

How wonderfully you undertake these jobs without the least tension or flustering, just going after it & getting it done. Now about Sally's operation, possibly, at the end of the month - well, praise the Lord that good old Jonesie is around to consult and recommend to us a kindly, understanding phydcian. Dr. Blake. Just getting these things fixed up and out of the way, means they are over with & like everything else when we are in good working order we naturally keep going that way, whereas any indifference to a condition would mean its worsening and in the end bringing a serious development. A cyst is easy to remove, and once out is gone forever. Having already expressed myself on the girl's studying at Biola,

I'll not repeat, excepting to say that the days in the hospital will be a good rest. Its gotten to that staxge in hustle and bustle in the family, hasn't it, wherein we have to be operated on to get rest.' SOME PACE. Teddy is someboy to be the only one in his class to be getting a holiday because of perfect attendanne. I'll be congratulating him. But my dear his grades are not good, and if with application and the rest of it C, what could he have done and what would his grade have been had he applied himself well. It would have been straight A's. I’m sor he hasn't given better attention. I'll make a note of your address after August 1, and send mail to iMt . Hermon. I'll allow ten days or an extra one or two on top of that for things to reach the wilds of Mt . Hermon. I think what I will do will be to make carbons of even these personal notes, sending one copy (for a few days) to both 1200 VV. 30 St,, and to Mt . Hermon. My, but how kind of the Hunts to invite Jack for a week. Gertrude, how good the Lord is to us. Why its wonder- ful the compensation there is for ray being out here. Fine Christian folks like that with a lovely home and all that goes with it. I'm deeply grateful. And it is a reward to Jack for his kindly, open, noble heart, a loveable dispostion he inherited from his dear mother.

No sweetheart, I don't think the visit to the 6th grade graduation was a needless visit. Since Teddy had a part in a play, even though, it was a tiny part, it is immensely important to him and it is our entering interestedly into all his life that ties us just much more to his heart. I feel that everything our children do is important to us. Hurrah for the "heavenly blue" dress of Sally's and all the accessories. I’m glad for each part of it and our Skooks is worthy of it. It delights me to know that her cup is "running over" with joy. It is exactly the way I would have it. Praise God that it is that way. Good for Jack going to Culter, choosing to go, rather than to a Scout picnic. The boy's heart fully belongs to the Lord Jesus, I'm confident, & I rejoice in it. Yes, darling parcels r«ch me. I got one in Taiku here yesterda^^^h^ven ' t opened it yet.

^ontigue to

Address: Harola Voelkel, 3 Det. 71 G. Co., A.P.O. 6 Unit 1, P.J., San F. , 'Cal*

(Fusan, KOrea, june 15, 1947)

Dearest Everybody,

Still another address to write you from'* Its Sunday afternoon and I’m typing in a ^unset Hut, a temporary army unit whicn is being used as a library. The explanation of ray credence here is a letter. signed by General Hodge himself authorizing the "rehabilitation” of a house in Andong. In it Hodge recoo end6 that a representative of Andong station confer- with the- Command- ing General in Fup.Ji, who bosses Andong, concerning details. Hot having much contact with the Fusan churches I thought I* d sieze this opportunity of seeing the work. I- left Seoul Thursday -morning, had a restful quiet day on tnb train, an’d came down here Sautrday. I have been away from Andong for ten days now and you can imagine how longingly I saw all the fellows in Seoul opening their mail. Ey guess is that everybody is like 'a child when it com^s to mail, "Is there any for me?". Grandfathers and everybody else gets figity around raail time, and it would be con- sidered a major calamity for a letter to arrive and the person not receive i-t that. day. But the awful drought in correspondence during the days in Seoul is aiopl-y compensated by the pile of letters awaiting me in Taiku. My, what a delight it is to see them stacked up. Let me begin to refer to them. Aside from my faithful family's almost daily letters, were those from Elmer, the Crothers, & Daisy. So, heartiest congratulations to Bill upon his graduation from High School. The invitation is beautiful and I wish I could be in Fort V/ayne to see you get your diploma. You've done wonderful v/ork and you'll go right on to win honors in college. I can't help but remark on the similarity of the handwriting between Bill and hie father. The "Voelkel" looks exacts like his Dad's. Only from the "William" could I distinguish a difference. Now as for the Crothers' letter, I haven't seen anything in the packages that impressed me as being particularly for Pak, the former outside man. But I had him up and gave him a number of things, and recently gave him a special item, a fine, lea+her winter coat that Walter Erdman sent. Old Pak' s yes popped when he saw it. But I have some more things to be distributed and I'll keep him in mind. I don't remember anything that was definitely marked for him. I brought some 100 volumes from Seoul this time and Ned had several hundred. ‘All the books from the various sta- tions have not b*en sorted, but if the members of Andong station will write me permission to get their things I'll do what I can* The sooner, the better.* The Encyclopedie Brit, isn't any# thing that ought, to be too hard to find. vVhat shall we do with that if I find it. As for any- thing else, the houses, are bare. There is absolutely nothing, nothing* Both Jap and Abb rican troops were in our houses before I came and the places were ransacked, cleaned put. Thanks very much* fox the N.T. I got 40 this time as a gift. I'll be writing Stan .Vilson. 4 In fact the second 50,000 copies began ariving from America and d;he Bible Society gave me 200 to sdll '. Its quit6 a concession to ge+ copies to sell, the demand is so ^reat* I am

As for moral conditions

*I-n our territory,

so pleased that, this second allotment came through in such rapid time, in the church, let me cite you this. Now I'm writing these detal Is to you as friends of the Korean Christians in order tha+ you might anpreciat* conditions as they^as intercessors in the Chri. tians' behalf. But facts as fac^^-^This is something I got in Taiku yesterday.

,T]£p ^jnerican M.G* has been giving the Taiku^Hospitul rice and Various food articles for the

M-ee over a considerable time. ABSOLUTELY NONE of the rice or other items has reached the . It was either given to members of the staff or sold on the blackmarket and the re- ceipts given to the staff, Recently insoectors from the M.G. discovered the irregularity & thB re is much excitement as a result. Now l°t me repeat this i6 nothing to be hroa^c&s"^» is a condition I «ha re with you in confidence in order that you might more perfectly understand the tempt F ions the Koreans are facing. In all fairness to the staff it ought to be said that the terjlficj.y high cost of living makes their salaries negligible, but economic difficulties do not justify dishonesty. There are other things too. The newly arrived missionaries are asking about chapel services, but no services are held. Various excuses are given, "Many of the staff are unbelievers & would be embarrassed by a worship service", etc. etc. Irregu- larities in the distribution of cloth for sheets & nurses uniforms are reported of which therd can be but little do,ubt... ^,ut let me say again, £ trust all who read this letter to exercise greatest discretion in any, repeating these conditions. I have given you >facts for your own information* Moreover the Koreans have things in undisputed control and at. a time when the whole populace is in a frenzy for freedom and liberty -it is a poor occassiori to even suggest a return to .missionary supervision. A few weeks ago I gave you some facts on some Presbytery transactions which reflect no credit upon the group. Today you are getting a close-up on a hospital. I * co*»ld go on about some of the inner workings of the schools "that were saved but I'll &P^eyou. Enough to report that the details as the” come to us are sickening, it all adds up to th^ desperate and urgent need for ;od's work in our midst. n lon^-overdue Boara

"1

•x(l'm sorry I've got to write on both sides of the paper but this is all that is left from the supply I took with cap when X 1« ft Andong almost 2 weeks ago)

I I want to get a letter off personally to Daisy. As ~ for An dong the big excitement is the arrival of the Hills who sailed the 4th of this month. Their boat is due in Chemulpo 18. days later, tifhat a difference it will make to have a couple in the station. Je will be able to set up housekeeping,, and once a woman gets her hands on a household i know the transformation will be radical, it interests me to note the progress in that re^afa each time I visit Seoul & Taiku. Mrs. Fletche" |s presence has made over the "Coen Billet", Holdcroft's former home. This time we ate there, and tha+ is some very different from having to go down to the ®. pitol building 3 times a day for meals,, a tremendous time-saver aside from the joy of the1 fellowship, tfhat a joy to be aole to sing a hymn before eating. In Taiku, the Adams are getting their things un- packed in the Herb Blair house and this time I slept on a bed so soft I had to admit to myself I felt uneasy it was so deep-springed. I irmgine I felt like a Korean does sleeping for the first time on a spring attress. After array beds the Hollywood (that 's its' name) box-spring & beauty, rest luttrcss 8<u^: down so low I hud to have time to get acCUStoirod tc it*. But- not longl The work of the Committee this time was the finishing of the survey & completing the itinerary for the Deputation, leaving by air from New York, 21st of this* mbnth. The siirvey1 totals 27 < pages, typewritten, single-spaced, and, beau se your humble s'ervant types a bit faster than some of the 70 year old, riired members of the mission. (Rhodes actually wrote most of’ the -survey),

I was requested to. lend a hand on typing the 40 copies of the document ‘needed. <Ned there announc- t'he possession of a raimeo graphed machine &.I was a6ked to do the stenciling. Remembering from rty army experience what an exacting job stenciling is I m^de a deal with a corporal in the army to stencil the thing on his own tiipe and at the low cost of 10 dollars he finished the 2? -pages in 2 days. That's why I stayed ova* in Seoul, to 6ee the §tenciliftg job -through. The corporal volunteered this remark, "That's a thrilling ppper, may I have a copy of it?" Now how about that? Thrilling! ..ell, we hope the deputation things so. Its been the Committee ' main job all Fall* Winter, & Spring. Bow could anything as irapotta nt a6 getting the work of the cKirdh her^ going again be less than thrilling? life are having 50 copies mimeographed & 1 may be

able to get a copy to. pass around. .At least I'll have a peroaial copy to pa86 around after the dignitaries have come <x gone. Their schedule as we have tentatively arranged it is, a couple days in Seoul meeting, official? •. Four days in Taiku A Andong meeting1 Koreans & missionaries (the Andong station will come jto Taiku for a conference with them)} 5 days with a joint group in Seoul, Jethodlsts 1 Preifc vAer.ians, missionaries and Koreans, about 40 picked leaders. Methodist' deputation is coming with our Prebyte* ian Boaru people for conferences with their people). “Then confer°nces of our Board people with Kore.-ji Presbyter ian leaders, Severence, C.C.C., C.L.S., Gen' 1 Assembly, etc. etc. Then some days with the Emergency Ex'. Com. And in between a trip down to Chung. Ju and bock. The whole month of July is set aside for them. I imagine they'll be worn to a frazzle after a solid month of meetings during the heat & humidity of the rainy season. It may result in a unanimous action of the 'Bbaid' approving the: gift of an electrical rclgrlgar a tor for each station! ^ast Thu inlay was King George's birthday A the British Consul General invited us tl 1 to help him celebrate. It was the first reception I ever attended at His Majesty's Consulate & I dflfab* Very glad to be on hand for jusx this one for it was historic, I'm sure. Everybody from Gen' 1 Hodge down, of r-mk, in the-U.S. arrny^wae on Hand, andto IqIF' color A excitement to the party, the Russian bi,; 6hots attending the Jftint Commission were on hand. True. to form the ranking General, Shtikov, didn't pass through ih.e.- Consulate And enter the garden from the side, he came right from his car to the garden & i:, happened td be stand-in* ther® so he up & shook hands with me. Could it be that he thought a fellow with the nane of Voelkel was the British Consul? Never*. What a type these Huskies ure. Whether it is prejudice or not, we can hardly say, but afterward as we discussed these Hussions among ourselves the unanimous opinion is that they are a tough, hard-looking group. The laisxon of fiber, a young major, was most, affable & hearty but the re'st were gruif. They are all hefty, barrel chs st*ed, beefiest «r type, f.hat a contrast to the smooth, suave English Consul. It amused the raissl onaries to see the leaders of ^11 .shades of political parties, XiXYi Sung Man, Kim Koo, Kim KU Sik, and all the res + of them shaking hands & bhatting with other in happiest amiability. One Leftist who has been shot at nine, times, I understood, was smiling broadly — if them. I was grateful to be able to meet the. Russian priest. He sp^ke English & I

could do. Before we parted ~ . . T

he is not accustomed to extempore prayer A prayed the Lord's prayer, ^nroute to Taiku I had 20 pieces of baggage & 2 Jeep tires, and going to Andong it looks as though I 11 h 3

to help fill the trailer. The *:.G. has a surplus of hospit, 1 tents ^ we* are ^

country evangelism. wlay. God ^ive us. churches iri many , msny villages //.ere i being preached now. r

Monday Morning, June 30, 1947

Dearest,

I !m just carrying on from where I left off last night, I decided to get to bed in good time. In order to save the washing of sheets for Sue I am staying over in the B , I , dorm in a room next to Dr. Blair and Lowe, and last night as I was feady to turn in 2 young officers. West Pointers turned up to share the room with me. They were all ready to turn in too, but some of the rum-dums down the hall got hold of them, soon the glasses were clicking, and the hilarity started. I figured I wanted to get to sleep and not be disturbed by them when they came in so I iroved across the hall to the room of an officer whose wife had just arrived from the states and who hadnft "off icially" moved out yet.

I am glad to hear of your purchases of sheets, pillow cases, shoes etc., at Bucky 1 How grateful I am that you have the wherewithal. God certainly is meeting our needs. And all the fresh fruit you are having. I miss that out here. We don't get any fruit to speak of although for breakfast we have juices and on occassion fresh California sn&gjuuc* oranges that give*j us our required citrous ration.

Sue just succeeded in reaching Seoul by Phone and learned that the Hills will take the day train down today. I awaiting to have the brakes on the jeep fixed and hope to start to Andong right after lunch so I won't see them here but they will be starting up tomorrow and I'll be there (D.V.) to meet them and welcome them. What historic days these are. New arrivals must keep on the move these days for there is no room for them to stay in either Seoul or Taiku, all the houses are so crowded. Did I tell you Yang Sib rought me a mess of fresh peas from the seeds you sent and Pak Si (Yi Poke Chew) brought up some fresh carrots from your seeds. Yes, my dear how generous people are, Mrs. Rough with $10.00, Ranier $5.00. I must say in all frankness I'm disappointed in Sis' $2.00. Honestly nothing would make more of an impression than that stingy amount. Sis knows better than that.

It indicates how tight a grip material things have on her. About Vett and her thinking you t oo serious, I don't believe I follow her at all. As I remember I didn't refer to that statement at all in the letter I sent her. You are com- pletely right in insisting that one can not be too "serious" in spiritual matters. What I'm afraid Vett's remark amounts too is that your spiritual standard is too high for the children. They would like us to iu have the children go to movies and do "other things" which to them are acceptable. Your conduct of the home and the standards you have set please me no end. Praise God for your ex- ample and leadership of the home. Thank you for Talbot's books. I already had ^of them but they are w elcome and I can use them. Forgive me for asking but did you pay for them? He gave me copies of these and several others one day when I w as up seeing him. Now what about this wonderful correspondence. How nice of Swigart of Huntingon to reply to our circular letter. Business has a tight grip on him but his heart shows the influence of his boyhood training.

His father was a Brethren pastor you'll remember. I more than enjoyed hearing from Mrs. Hunter of Altoona, formerly of Alexandria, Penna. We'll welcome the things from Va. And precious Jack's Scripture examination, 96^, and Ted's list of Scripture references. I treasure them. My dear this Elementary Program of Culter seems like a recital of Sally's. She just about did it allj Daisy's letter still shows the awful keeness of her disappointment. A fine letter came from Bob and Ila telling me of their happy evening at Culter. It was a joy to hear from someene outside the family of the family's accomplishments. Thank the Lord for it. We are blessed, dearest, in our children. And the beautiful letter from Mary Mills of the Dohnavur Fellowship. I started reading Gold Cord. It is the work of a Spirit filled life. By the way I preached yesterday afternoon here in the service held by the missionaries. Ella Sharrocks and the lady from Seoul who had been to Andong were there. I spoke on Sorrow for Sin from 2 Cor. 7:10 and I felt greatest liberty. I trust the Lcr d spoke to hearts. Last Satur- day brought Elmer's letter with "smiles" over my references to Modernism in the Seoul s emi nary. Your letter also came giving the details of the graduation din- ner, Skooks "formal" & her most appropriate verse at the dinner, the extra cost of having the school motto larger, i.e. the cost of putting Christ first. Precious precious days, and precious letters. God is so very, very good. Praise Him

Andong, June 25, 1947.

Dearest Gertrude,

I trust the Lord is blessing you, resting you, helping you, cheering you, and just making everything alright. I bifeve I can understand in a very real way the experiences you are passing through these days for my exper- iences are similar. With the departure of the Detachment, many rearrangements are necessary, as you can appreciate. It happens that the stove left in the Adams house has gone on the blink, smoking out the kitchen each time we start a fire. The local G. 0., just a few days before leaving, had the Baugh's stove brought up from the Girls » house where it had been heating water, and spent 700 yen on getting it cleaned and repaired. So, since that stove, in such good condition, is in our house, it seemed wise and in fact necessary for George and me to do our cooking here. Kim Si, the Adams' cook is cooking for us, for Pak Si has taken some days off, and I'll give you thedetails of the windfall that came to them when the outfit left. Everybody estimates that Yi Poke Chew is now rich. But we'll wait & see. He got just about every thing.

The army left on Monday about 10 o'clock in the morning and I commenced moving my stuff down here. It was raining and that made the move anything but easy, and moreover, this house was filthy and that wasn't pleasant. But darling,

I can't tell you what it meant for me to get down again into our home without having the army around. I must confess ray heart was moved and it seemed that I was fully returning to Korea. Thus far it has been so unnatural to have these outsiders defiling our home, and to get back again to quiet and sanctity was moving to my soul. You would laugh at our primitive housekeeping, but I think I'll save thedetails of that for my weekly letter for all the rest of the station will be interested in hearing about it.

I mustn't forget to let you know that a whole additional bunch of padakges have comqd'rom you with this wonderful cloth. I'm sorry to report that the bulb you enclosed in a p allege of oatmeal was completely smashed and the broken glass, some of it so fine, is all mixed up with the oatmeal and it would be risky to eat it. The other bulbs came through in good order. The best way is just to wrap them up in clothing & put them in the middle of the bundle and they&ll come through O.K. They are shipped as it from the factory ii^cartons and make the grade easily. Old J.Y. has been writing to people about sending clothing and a number of packages arrived from Detroit. And, after months & months packages have begun to arrive addressed to the Koreans through the Korean post office. I ought to state that this last bunch from you was through the Koream P.0.

Well, here I am dear, I'm slewing, studying, and doing all my work in our bed room, & what a big, bright room it is. Many of the Koreans, now that the army has departed are beginning to come up to see us. They've been scared with all the soldiers around* Yesterday Yang Si appeared in our kitchen &

I had fun with her. I feighted surprise, enough to fall over about, & it amused her and Kim Si. Yang Si was interested to see the kitche, the first time she had been in it since before the war when she left. What memories crowded back into her mind. She had brought some peas from the seeds I'd given her and today George & I enjoyed the peas. Then Yang Si kept looking around the house and when she came into the bedroom I took your big picture from off my desk and showed it to her. It was too muqh for her. She melted into tears, and I almost wept at seeing her weep. My dear, how much more lonely seems in this house without you and the precious children.

The Hills are scheduled to have arrived yesterday and I've been trying to reach Pitcher by 'phone in Seoul to find out if they arrived. Don't laugh but we have a direct phone to Taiky M.G., andthrough them to Seoul and any- where in the country, of course. I just called Sue by 'phone, we can call

directly from house to house. The M.G.'s left their haass 'phone in the house for us, and left some fine food. I'll tell you about the guests our first, Yi & wife, & Qun Ong Yun Bible woman.

George is leaving for Seoul this afternoon & will take this letter with him. We are now down to a restricted service on mail, only when we go after it ourselves. It will involve quite a delay. I haven't had any word from you for over a week, and your receipt of word from me will be dlcw ed up accordingly. But keep writing, darling. I hardly need say that to you. Day after tomorrow, Friday after supper I'll get off to Taiku (D.V.) in order to be there early Saturday morning when I get the second installment on my Sleeping Sickness and Typhoid innocula tions. Sine© George will be in Seoul, I believe I'll wait over Sunday, and while there, of course I'll get the mail. Welcome, welcome.

I’ve just wasted more time trying to get Seoul but without avail. I could hear Mrs. Fletcher answering the 'phone but she eouldnit hear me, so its no use. I just called Arch Campbell in Taiku & he'll trying to reach them from there, it is that much nearer, and then he'll call me back.

There you have it my dearest, a little round xxf of the news. Dearest, dearest love to yoySLll. I'll answer all the mail that is waiting for me in Taiku when I reach there Saturday.

Lovingly,

Address: Harold Voelkel, Civilian Presbyterian Mission,

99 M. G. Group, A.P.O. 6 - Unit 1, % P.M., San Francisco, Gal .

. „ . J ****** (Taiku, Sunday June 30, 1947)

Dearest Everybody, '

What an eventful week this has been. It serves to stress the lack of perma- ne*?Ce*In the situation out here. Brekafast was scheduled at 5.30 last Monday and after arriving at the mess hall in good time it was announced that the meal would be delayed beoause the cooks did not turn up.* Moreover it was rainy, quite hard, and it was apparent that the Detachment wouldn*t get off ax early as they had hoped. What an experience it was seeing them leave.

They were allowed 3 trucks in which to load everything for Taiku and of the million odds and ends only a certain number, obviously, would be loaded. Of the rest it was fascinating entertainment to see who could steal the most valuable items. George and I organized with half a dozen Koreans guarding the various roads to stop and search all strangers carrying anything away, and it was emabarrassing, although necessary, for us to relieve a number of hangers on who, after attaching themself es to something, would start off.

The M.G. had employed a whole batch of people, few of whom could be entirely trusted, and we had to keep a watchful eye on them for many of the things either belonged to the houses or would be necessary to us in keeping on.

Pak Si who had engratiated herself into the well wishes of the Commanding Officer came in for a wind fall. That family got so many things the word among the Koreans is that they are rich. I didn’t begrudge them a thing for they did not receive any retiring alldwance from any of the missionary households like the other servants and moreover he has not been in on the land division, the use of it, accorded the four former outside men. I am sorry to have to say that in their receiving they went beyond mormal expec- tations and propreity and took away lumber and other things which decency would hardly approve their taking. Also, the day after the departure. Poke Chew came up and reported Pak Si as sick and asked for some days off, which proved to be a deliberate lie for Pak Si worked harder the next days than usual washing blankets and other things the army gave them. I saw her myse and have that to confront Poke Chew about. The army left us a very accepta- ble quantity of meat and provisions in the icebox, tender beef, pork chops, hamburger, and a chicken. Googe and I decided to celebrate our setting up of housekeeping by having guests and it won’t be hard for you to guess whom. Yes, Yi Won Yung and his wife. Adams’ Kim Si, working as Pak Si’s substitut did that chicken up delectably. It simply melted in one’s mouth. The table had no cloth on it, and in the absence of dishes we had to serve the potato© and vegetables in the pots they were looked in. But that didn’t affect the taste and added to the fun. In the afternoon I had been down at the church looking for Qun Ok Yon the Bible woman, and apparently when she heard the Yi’s were invited for dinner, decided I was looking for her to invite her & appeared accordingly about 7 o’clock all dressed in her best after we had finished our dinner. But there was plenty left so we served her a generous plate. After I drove the 3 guests for a little drive in the cool of the evening. Really it was delightful. It happened to be swing day and every- body was outdoors. A high swing had been erected in the church yard where a thousand people gathered, I’m sure, to atgraiBBULfcggfcn witness the various demonstrations of strength and skill. I saw two fellows see what they could do in gaining altitude but both got dizzy before accomplishing any height. George left the next day for Seoul but I was not given an opportunity for loneliness for I got a ’phone call (the G.I.’s left in the ’phone that con- nects me directly with Taiku) which I couldn’t understand but from the oper- ator got the news that two "women" would come to spend the night in Andong & would arrive in time for "chow". Well, that was something, so I told the cook that we better wait to see who the guests would be and actually have them on hand before beginning the dinner. One was Ella Sharrocks & the other an advisor in the Educational Department on tour of Bchools & hospita I had a good dinner for them and put them to roost in the Adams ’ house. I

had moved down to our own house, that is I had started to move. vu, wnat a mess the house was in for a day or two. Other visitors had burned up

?en' which.ffieans Counter Intelligence Corps fellows They didn t object to my telling the Koreans of their visit so I don't* imagine it will be violating any military secrets to let you know that they are planning to have a few men live in Andong. Recently they caught some smugglers of opium operating in Taiku & it is now suspected that the Russians are smuggiing arms in through an underground that operates through Andong. In fact these C. I. C. fellows were looking at our houses with hungry eyes. One is expecting to bring his family out Sc would appreciate an American type home;

«Vho wouldn ' t? Great restlessness continues on the part of the Koreans, and they all seem to feel that an outbreak is imminent. A local police official was up & in talking things over with him he used the word "Nang Pei” in connec tion with the Communistic activies, MI »m baffled". I felt it was significant for him with all his pdice Sc guns to admit that. The point is they're fright- ened. Today here in Taiku the tactical forces (the fighting U.S. soldiers)are alerted and are out in jeeps, armed, patroling the roads because of inside information that the Rightists Sc Leftists are going to take it out on each other today or tomorrow. I was planning to return to Andong tomorrow but will have to await the green 1 ight from the authorities here. I am down here for the second innoculation of encephalitus ( sleeping sickness) four cases of which have proved fatal to Americans. I drove down in a driving rain in that open jeep but kept reasonably dry with 2 raincoats and rubber pancho. Friday at noon I had a visit from two officers & their wives from Taiku who came to begin an examination of our house with a view to beginning repairs. Estimates and considerable d etail will be necessary but with General Hodge's g£iature things are beginning to move. The Crothers will be interested to know that last Sunday after the service in Pup Sang their former cook Kim came up to me, the first time I had met her. She wept as we shook hands. Its always over- whelming to meet these with whom we've been so intimately associated. She is living in Yung Chawn Oop making a home for her grandson who is in high school there. Her daughter and son-in-law live out in the country where he has a church. Last Sunday afternoon was historic for we started the reorganization of the Angie Church. The plan is to meet Sunday afternoons & evenings separa- tely in the Bible Institute building and thereby establish a sort of identity for if they keep on at Pup Sang it will be difficult to get funds together Sc delegate leadership while a part of the parent congregation. The plan is to build a church costing 300,000 yen. How does th%t sound in contrast with pre war. Money is cheap but there are plenty poor. I had Crothers ' former out- side man Pak up recently Sc gave them a bundle of things that made him beam. He's a grateful soul and its fun doing things for him. Recently packages cam with a lot of worn womens 1 shoes in them. So since most of the girls at the B.I. are going around barefooted I decided to take all the shoes over there Sc let them choose a pair each. Leather dhoes, mind you. How their eyes popped There were about 18 pairs for 10 girls to ahoose from. I left the room while they chose so# they'd have plenty freedom and each emegged with "that" smile.

I think I've told you that the transmission on the jeep is worn, as are the transmissions of almost all other army jeeps, and it is frequently difficult to go from high to middle or low when shifting. Anyone who knows what this means will understand the significance of having the brakes go bad 1h on such a car. To be going up a hill and find it impossible to get into middle or low and in the meantime be unk) le to apply the brakes would result in the car s imply rolling backwards downfiill. The point is one day last week the brakes on my jeep suddenly went out. What to do? I looked up the Korean who had formerly worked in the M.G. motor pool and his diagnoses was a leak- age in the hydrolic brake fluid. And of course it is impossible to get the fluid in Andong. So, like the other local auto people he improvised and made brake fluid out of castor oil and alcohoih which we secured down at the Govern ment hospital. It got me down here alright, but I am to take the jeep out to the local motor pool for new fluid and a brake check-up tomorrow. That's why I'm having to stay over. Do you see the delays we encounter. , Lovingly,

Civilian Presbyterian Mission

Harold Voelkel:

99 M. G* Group,

A.P.O* 6 Unit 1

% P.M. San Franoisco, California

Andong, Saturday, July 5, 1947*

Dear John and Ella,

Thanks so much for all your letters* I appreciate your keeping me informed of the goings-on at your end, and I want to reply now particularly to your letter of June 11th* I 'm certainly interested to have the news about the "little slip" telling of the delay of a letter because of a drash. I fve often wondered if there were any crashes in the Air Mail outfit. Gertrude also remarked that she got a later letter first about the time of your receiving the "slip", so I supposed the earlier letter was hi|ld up by the crash. I have your letter authorizing me to get your books and we'll hold them up until further instructions, as you request* It is anawful job digging out any one individual's books. There are thousands of volumes and many of them have no name, so you Just keep on sorting and sorting until you reach one identified and then put it in the rack for him*

Just when we'll get to the bottom of the pile is unpredictable. We'll be awaiting the hair-clippers* I'm certainly in agreement with you in your reactions to the New Life Fellowship (or Movement) Booklet*

I'll be interested in hearing whether Hallie Covington saw Mackay*

From all that Otto experienced trying to get to him I doubt if she got very far, but then women can do things with a man that a man can't* Isn't that so? But my guess is that Hallie nor anyone else can budge the Board. From all I see the Board is adamant in its decisions in this "rehabilitation" era* Have you seen the last set of Board le> tters with the announcement of the new set-up, the appoint- ment of "Field Administrators" and a Restoration Committee* The Restor- ation Committee is to be composed of "qualified missionaries and nationals", elected BY THE BOARD. So there goes our mission* In other words brother and sister, the old ways of doing things are gone and we shall have bery little to say regard the new ways* "Our's . is not to question why, our's is but to do - or"Cgo to the Philippines* ) John, I've prayed and labored, but my guess is your destined to the •Philippines. I fm hoping against hope that something happens that changes the plan, and I believe fully that God can do it, but my notion is that the Board has fully made up its mind and could not readily make any change because it would establish a precedent to change numbers! of other decisions that to me are equally drastic. Thanks many, many timeB for the Korean N.T.'s* We can use them all profitably. Yes,

Kang Oo Gun, the squint-eyed fellow is the pastor In Yung Duk Oop, doing an excellent work* It Is chamee manso but of course he has a house-cleaning to do for he together with Kim Oo Eel went to the police station when Chey Yung Quan was held there and urged him to yield on the matter of the shrine. The railroad was never extended north from Pohand although the road bed was about completed, that is the/Lirt piled up* No rails were laid* A13^those gold mines are closed* My, what a trip I had up there* The road to Chung Yang is the worst by far in the whole territory* And the Jeep on that trip v/as in its loweat efficiency! It was a miserable trip from the t ranspcr tation standpoint but fruit- iul otherwise* I can't tell you about a coal mine at the head waters of the Nakdong. The hills everywhere I think are considerably more ?ar© due to the need of ~

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very expensive. Yes, I. read the biography of Finney, "Man of Like Passions 11 about six years ago, and have been over it since, I was a great challenge to. me. This about covers the questions in your letter so I'll go on now to the May

without s,* ci.l p.ral.slon, the Lo-O's nr, bast for you in alJ^thinga.

LATE NEWS FROM KOREA

(Paragraphs from letters from Dr. William N. Blair, now in Taegu,

Korea. He has been a missionary in Korea more than 40 years.)

HIt looks as tho God is answering our prayers for a real revival that will re- unite the church in South Korea and prepare it for this new day. A remarkable series of meetings was held in Taegu in November and December. The one for pastors and church leaders under the direction of the General Assembly ms wonderfully helpful. From 1100 to 1200 attended the Presbytery revival the week of December 2nd. All the churches are crowded and the people are eager to share in the great evangelistic cam- paign planned.

’’More than a thousand young men and women crowded into the First Church in Jan- uary for a week of * Youth for Christ* meetings. Several who were not Christians de- cided to believe. The young people went from house to house preaching and inviting people to the meetings.

"We are very happy over the fact that we were able to open the Bible Institute formally on February 12th with more than 90 students, about half of them women, en- rolled. For a while it looked as if we would not be able to repair the almost com- pletely wrecked building because it would require almost 300,000 yen for repairs and 70,000 yen for running expenses, and there was little money for this purpose. How- ever, the principal of the Institute, 0 Chongduk, proved to be a man of remarkable faith and courage, and he, almost alone, raised 210,000 yen and the rooms were re- paired.

"Because of lack of funds it was impossible to heat the building properly at first but the joy of being able to study the Bible again seemed to make the students forget the cold. They even insisted on holding prayers in the unheated chapel at 5:30 in the morning.

"God answered our prayers in the matter of providing heat for the building later also. We had only 105 yen and this would not buy one load of wood. A Chris- tian friend heard of the need and gave Principal 0 7000 yen so the wood was bought.

"March 1st was Korean Independence Day. A popular public meeting was held in the Town Hall in the afternoon. The hall was crowded with 2500 people. I talked 10 minutes, being one of six speakers. I told them how much we Americans wish to see the country united and free. I warned them that the division of the country cannot be corrected by force, but that if they are patient and united they will get what they desire. No American soldiers were on guard that day. Everything was left to the Korean soldiers and police. However, it was a very orderly meeting.

"I the pleasant experience of preaching a few weeks ago to a large group of TJ.S. Army men at Camp Skipworth south of Taegu. At the close of the meeting they invited me to return that evening and talk on my early experiences in Korea,

"A revival service in the West Church added 237 new believers to its member- ship. I preached to 1000 people there one Sunday.

"I spoke at the recently formed Young People’s Evangelistic Association meet- ing one night. We had a grand meeting with 400 present.

"The good news has just come to me that permission has been granted me by the Russian government in North Korea to visit my home in Pyongyang. I have been hoping and praying for this opportunity."

(Dr. Blair’s book "Gold in Korea" on his experiences as a missionary, may be obtained from the Board of Foreign Missions, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10, N.Y., price 75 cents postpaid.)

April 4, 1947

Greeting from Rev* Harold Voelkel, Presbyterian Missionary 71 Military Govrt Co., Detachment 3.

6-1, Postmaster, San Francisco.

January 19, 1947. - Andong, Korea*

Your good letters continue to come thru and I am feasting on all the good news. ' e are blessed with exceedingly kind friends. God encouraged me greatly in my prayer life this weeks Pastor Ye, head of the Bible Institute and Moderator of Presbycepr, has had a time getting support from the churches, for the

people simply do not have money; I found he hadnt had any salary for som6tim6 ( it is Only 300 yen a month, at a time when rice is 1,200 yen a bushel) and there are 3 children at hom6* At the rate of 15 to 1, I havent any money to give* So I took it to God in prayer. Within a day or two the commanding officer said he could let me have some extra grain for distribution, ndo you know of any worthy family? ''Did I? TVhat a testimony to trust God in everything! When I gave it to Ye, he ask6d,

’ Isnt there a needier family than we?'' He’s a spiritual giant and yet he is so natural about things, busy holding Bible classes out in the little country churches to whioh he frequently has to walk.

These are great days, for the Andong Bible Conference is on. Its good to see the Christians from the country again, so hearty and cordial in their greet- ing. The guest speaker. Pastor Han from the north is a praying man, fearless in his denunciation of sin and fervent in his exaltation of the Lord Jesus. I spoke five times on Repentance and prayed for God to enable me to preach that message in love. We had good attendanoe in spite of rainy weather.

Jan. 26 - Its a oold day, but my heart is warm as I turn my thots to you all# I preached down in the prison today; an exc6llant congregation, of course, but they were attentive# The Bible Society has sent scripture portions to all prisons for

distribution# I was surprised how well th9 prisoners sang!

How many opportunities the church now has for evangelism! In the local High school for boys, out of 600 a group of 30 students are meeting for Christian fellow- ship# The Youth for Christ is enthusiastic with big plans for work. About a

thousand Korean soldiers are to come here for training; its a great challenge#

At the service this morning I was told there were 30 new believers, converts during the Conference# The mestings stirrod us all# An offering of 120^000 yon, which despite inflation is a lot of money, is to bo used to send evangelists out to preach in villages where churches are closed during the war. Women gave their wedding rings, watches and ornaments. I am impressed with the appearance of the ccng: ©gabion and tho'.oi.dor is good too. j^ttual Is being built up in the worship sim'xiai* ho our American church service. Its noticeable to see in all this thG result of years of training in missionary homes and institutions# They are doing a g.jod job In distribution of charity bundles, and I want to have the country churches, as wol?.P share in the bounty that is coming.

Every day I am teaching in the Bible Institute; 25 men and 8 women studying in the Sunday School rooms at the ohuroh# I’m enjoying teaching the Life of Christ, a tremendous subject#

Feb. 2. Seoul, Korea.

The winter in Andong has been moderate but it is bitter cold here, and I am grateful for the big winter army overcoat that a generous Supply officer let me have. I dont know what I’d do without it. The heating situation is serious for laok of fuel. What a ride we had up hero by plane! '.We climbed 10,000 ft# to keep above a solid bank of clouds.

I had a shook when I visited Sovorance Hospital. I had heard about it but the sight was depressing in the extreme. No electricity, unpainted walls, every- thing in bad repair# The wards were pitiable, the patients being oared for by relatives with food prepared on charcoal burners. It isnt easy for tho management these days with shortages of everything,— another manifestation of tho suffering of the people as a result of the war# Things are desperato; thieves are bold# I saw a government car with two windows broken; those shatter— proof windows arc tough, but the consciences of some of the people aro toughor#

We hoar thGrc are about forty now ohurch groups in Sooul, mostly pooplo from tho north,- refugees®

Feb® 9. Andong, Horo I am back again aftor two wcoks absence, and what full an\ eventful days they have boon$ Your letters send mo to my knees in gratitude to God for His wonderful kindness* Thoro is so much to praise God for® I never folt hotter in my life®

You recall that tho Mission bought a jeop for oach of tho four Prosbytcrian stations, *• grade A® jeeps purchased at highest prioe® On* Fob® 1st, I went down to got tho Andong j6op, but it wouldnt budgo® ,uftcr a day’s delay I got it start- ed,- #505, and a day lator Ned Adams drove off with # 503® It was bitter cold and oach morning as we wont to broakfast at tho mess hall, there was watchful waiting to sog If tho jeeps would start* They did l We wore thru tho Committee

business and ready to start south on Friday, Oh, what roads and what temperature!

I was cold not mcroly to the bono but to tho marrowl As we got into the mountains

tho rooont snow added real beauty to tho scone* Both cars wore loaded with

Sunday school supplies just out from America® On Saturday wo wore off in good timo® With the high Mun-kyung pass in front of us® How thankful we were for the 4-whoel drive, for as we made tho ascent the snow and ice on the road wasHioker and our wheels began to spin® Do you recall thoso precipitous drops from that road? Tho special drive got us up and over, and thon what a view! Soon wo wero in the next town with a crowd all about us® Wo met tho Christians, sold them some SoS® literature, had prayer with them, and learned that their church build-* Ing was sold during the wnr and thoy are now mooting in a former Japanese homo# Thon on together until Nod turned off for Taiku, and I kept on toward Andong* We’ve made plans for visits in tho joop to a number of places whero ohurohGS disappeared during tho war and are again springing into life, Chrisitans begging for help® Its most encouraging, thoro are real signs of life and tho pooplo are eager®

Feb® 22® I have had my first trip to the country in my jeep* Tho ongino works beautifully and wg had no mishaps except that tho radiator froze, it was so cold® Pastor Ye, two older s and I started out Sat® noon driving East® We stopped at a place where it happened to bo Market day, and what a crowd! I asked if they wanted to buy a most valuable Book, for only 5 yon® It w<*s unanimous, thoy did} in a matter of minutes all the gospels I had wore gone, snatched out of my hands® Spending tho night in an inn at Chung-song, we had a service in the ohurch which is in a dreadful condition, tho result of disuso during tho war when tho people woro forbidden to meet and the congregation was scattered® Tho few who arc now mooting are too poor to repair it®

March 10 - You will notico the change in my address® Tho Company at Andong has officially been deactivated and made a detachment, half tho men being sent else whore® Tho commanding officer told mo that ho oxpocts one house and pro- bably two to bo vacant® So all we have to do is to get thorn ready® We have tho good word that 13 missionaries are returning this month, among them George Adams for Andong® Th0 opportunities are groat and thoy will all have plonty to do®

Poor Korea is restless and weary without knowing whioh way to turn® But hor real need is spiritual, peace with (Jod® Koop praying®

Sent by Mrs® Harold Voolkel, 1200 West 30th St®, Los Angeles 7 California®

1200 Wo 30th St.,

Los Angeles 7 Calif# June 19, 1947,

Dear Friends t

With this news letter from Harold, I feel I must send you a per- sonal word from the family. In spite of the difficulties of this separa- tion, God has wonderfully met our every need and given all-sufficient grace day . by day# We marvel at the way He has sustained, turning trials into testimonies of His faithfulness, and causing His joy to be our strength# We have hoped that by this time there would be some definite word of a soon return to Korea, but as yet permits are not granted to children of missionaries, so our part is to wait with patience until that day comes. God is able to open doors and we are waiting upon Him in this as in everything#

We have enjoyed unusually good health all year with almost no illness at all, and the children are growing steadily and always bubbling over with energy and vigor. They make this a very lively household and there have been busy, happy times for us all. Little Harold who is five years old now, can hardly wait his turn to start school, and is learning to repeat four psalms at home. Teddy has completed 2nd grade, and loves to write to his ^ Daddy, his left hand working so fast to keep up to his active little mind. His fingers have learned to trip over the piano keys, too, and it was a happy moment for his mother when he played in his first recital at school. Jack is ready for 8th grade and has done good work in his lessons and in music; he’s our chief entertainer with jolly jokes and is my right hand helper in running errands. Sally Lou was graduated from Culter Academy on June 17th with honors, playing a piano solo at the commencement exercises. As Editor of the school Annual she has worked hard this year, and we are delighted with the fine Christian testimony it gives. She looks forward eagerly to entering Wheaton College this Fall#

^ The time for us to be moving on has come, a step in the right direction, for we expect to leave the end of July and locate in Berkeley this Fall. For the month of August we shall be enjoying the Bible Con- ferences and outdoor activities in Mt. Hermon, California, and after September 1st our new address will be

2918 D. Regent St., Berkeley 5 California.

That is one of the fine missionary cottages we are fortunate to have until the time when we can sail for Korea.

He led them forth by the right way... so He bringeth them unto their desired haven. ,f Psalm 107 j 7,30.

Sincerely yours in Him,

Gertrude Swallen Voelkel

Greeting from Rev. Harold Voelkel, civilian missionary Det« 3, 71 Military Govft Co.

A* P* °* 6-1» Postmaster, San Francisco, California.

March 24. Indong, Korea

and l„R+°" f at8Pul d 901 for y°ur letters. I have been on another trip

ooldfa UtSrS?‘ °hUr^ Wh9r9 W9 worshiPP9d yesterday was awfully

trial A* It pla°L Way up in ths Obtains. It went thru all the A*® bh® °*hars dfd» but hns oorne thru in fine condition. In the midst he joy of greetings, there was sorrow too, for one of the fine young men was forced into the Japanese army and has not returned. After my absence of years everybody wants to do his greeting personally and in detail j I dont suppose I've bowed so much for a long time. The next church we visited has been started since the war} a fmall group but^hat was lacking in numbers was made up in fervor.

a ^0Un^ man a Ullage eight miles away who has been alking that distance to church, and when asked how he decided to be-

wilAhit ^-Piy "A U JUSt SOt int° my head t0 b9li9TO in Jesus” To walk that distance is good evidence of the sincerety of his faith How

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April 13* Seoul, Korea.

1? non ®a8ts^4sunris9 LS9rvi" here was an open-air gathering of some 12,000 Christians on the hilltop of the former Shinto Shrine. A Korean

the benefit°if thn A01-6*"' missionary interpreting in English for

Befnn ? 1 A Army per sonel,- a fins demonstration of unity of Christ.

tellinv th And°nS* 1 spoks at a dayhneak prayer meeting of Presbytery, telling them I was convinced that until all the shrine compromises were

InFl ffltfth oonf6SS9d* G°d could not bless us. There was a quiet hush

wA f A V We h0m9' bUt th9rG WaS no br9k™99s. I trust that

aside 1F°W’ bx 1 °eSnt th9y Wl11 find that God wiU simply Pub

* Everywhere we go it is the young people who have the energy and zeal and vision, and God is using them*

.. - Lost. evening I sat here at sunset and thot back over scenes of

MothI /qw®111 S®°ul* and tri0d to visualize the arrival of Father and „ „th p^16? 55 years ago. What changes and development have taken place Praise God for the fine Christian testimony God has raised up her ef

April 27, Andong*

m—M-AlV06? 9 tiDe aWay from homo this trip, with the committee meeting in Seoul, and General Assembly in Taiku, and then I was delayed

As* A* 9 °°ld and S°r9 throat* ,Vhat a contrast the General

level if Itlhrr P!‘9Vi°US ?a' thorinSsJ " not only fewer in numbers but the level of dilberation was lower} there was not the ready re*ponse and the

challenge of the different items presented. They took action, wisely I felt, forbidding pastors to hold political jobs at the same time as pastorates. It seems that many pastors havo become members of the lagis-

treatment! 6 H° S °" b° th°ir Past°ratos, giving their churches abfent

hn!Tat * r°oePbI°» 1 had Up°n my r9turn» with tho many, many packages that had arrived. Stuff from America is like clothing from a dream world!

stitute^n^how th ^VeaterS Qnd 9oatp OV0r to tho girls in the Biblo In- stitute and how their eyes sparkled! I get an inspiration each time I

open a package. Thank you, and may the Lord make up to you for all tho

time and strength that has gone into the purchase, packing and ma li^

Z taS* t0 A" a lab°r °f l0V0* A11 A-P-°- parcels may now be

svsts u spoolai neod for towoL'

May 11* Seoul.

In Taiku on my way up hero I met Dr. Blair who was just back from a five day trip to Pyeng Yang, in north Korea. The Russians gave him thG freedom of the city where he had lived forty years, and even provided him a car and a Korean chauffeur. He visited the Theological Seminary speak** ing to the 174 students there, and the Womens Higher Biblo school with its 91 students* On Sunday he spoke at each of nine churches in the morn- ing, and in the afternoon addressed an opon-air gathering of over 15*000 Christians who were commemorating the 40th anniversary of the great re- vival of 1907. How miraculous that ho should have been there for that occasion, for he had been an active leader in the revival, as he has re- corded in his recent book, ,TGold in Korea”. He spoke of what he had witnessed at the time whon the Spirit of God fell in convicting power and repentance upon great congregations of Deople. After the message it was suggested that all pray together audibly and in concert, a volume of voices that must have been heard all over the city. For two weeks all the 50 Protestant churches of PyengYang had been meeting for daybreak praycrmeetings and at this special union gathering the offering was given for the purpose of rebuilding the First Methodist church that had burned. The Christians are calling upon God for another revival like the one that was given before. They said Dr. Blair* s presence among them was like on angel from heaven. How marvellously God led in that visitl Yes, revival is on the way.

May 31. Andong.

This Detachment has been cut from 60 to 7 men, and in the near future there may be no ona left at all. Two of our missionary homes arc now vacant, but considerable repairs will have to be made to make them ready for occupancy. Permission has been granted by General Hodge himself for the necessary rehabilitation. Its a long process and for the present all conditions indicate delay and patience in the matter of families com- ing out. George Adams and I are occupying the Adams house. We under- stand that Rev. and Mrs. Harry Hill have sailed and will soon bG arriving for work in Andong.

I have good news about my books. I had 800 volumos on my list and was told all had been burned by the Japanese. Now the word is that all standard works were given to Seoul University, and there I found a number of my books and some of the Swallens*, and I brought home a carton full. They are letting us have them all back again.

To my delight the Board took action to print 5,000 copies each of Father Swallcn’s Old Testament History and the Life of Christ, for use in our Bible Institutes. I*m sure it will be a joy to Father to know that his ministry continues fruitful. I brought down from Seoul 644 gospels for distribution) they went like hotcakes. The Old and N ew Testa- ments created a stampede, for the demand far exceeds the supply. It is distressing to have to toll so many that we dont have any more Bibles. I wrote of thG groat need for the ScripturGs to the American Bible Society $ they have printed and sent out thousands of copies to Korea, but many more thousands are desperately needed.

We*ve just finished a great four days of a Youth-f or-Christ con- ference in Andong. I*m grateful to God for answered prayer. We had good weather, even a full moon, and from 71 churches there were 350 young peoplG who came. The guest speaker, who has spent 6ight years in America gav3 messages on Romans, solid sermons with the truth excellantly arranged and presented with clarity. The church was filled to overflowing and the daily daybreak praycrmeetings continued from 5|00 for almost two hours 9 with messages on the Holy Spirit. All that is needed is the breath of God upon us in overwhelming power. And that is the result of prayer.