Sajikol, Seoul,
January 20, 1929*
Dear folks:
The chief events this week were the opening of
Language School, a dinner at Dr. Ludlow's Thursday, and a
S.S. class party on Friday, besides the *rfival of your letters
last Tuesday.
This term at school we h&ye the second half of the
study book, "Korean for Beginners"^vAnalysis of-Mark, 3 hours;
Prayer Forms and Religious Phrases, 3 hours;■Grammar, 2 hours;
Sight Reading, 1 hour; and Expression, 1 hour.
The Korean for Beginners is as it was last term,
sentences for memorizing and writing exercises. Our study of
Mark will be very detailed, and we are to cover only four"chapters.  The written language is quite different from" the spoken,
and so the Bible would be very hard to understand without a
special study of the book forms and vocabulary. We bought very
cheap editions of Mark so we could cut out the columns (in English
it would be "lines") and paste them in a notebook and write our
comments alongside.
For our class in Prayer Forms we have a book written
by a Korean especially for the school which Is to be entirely
memorized.  In addition we have to do some composition of our
own.  The prayer forms again are as different from the ordinary
spoken language as they are in English. This is going: to be a
valuable course and a great help in preaching.
For sight reading we have volume one of Hurlburt*s
Old Testament Stories.  Mr. vi, the fine looking young man whom
we had here for dinner last fall! teaches both this and the
course in Prayer Forms.
Our Expression cl^sss uses the project method. We
work up dialogues on certain subjects.  Thi3 week we had to pair
off as merchants and customers and buy pencils. Frank Klnsler
and I did ours together.  Our next project is to induce someone
to go to the hospital who does not want to. At the close of
school Mr. Koons, who teaches it, said we might put on something
before the other classes for exhibition.
the class
100 (99)
95 (90);
in the second year class, and that with the handicap of two
small children to take care of.
On the onening day in chapel Mr. Koons gave the talk,
ueihg Prov. 25:11, R.V., "A word fitly spoken shines like a golden
apple in a network of silver". The network of silver he thought
referred to something very like the Korean straw network bag in
which fruit is commonl^ sold here.  Nothing could be more attractive than golden apples in such a silver network, he said.
The next day one of the Korean teachers gave the talk,
and I understood more of it than I have of any Korean speech before