Dear father and mother:
Sajikkol,   Seoul,
February 16,   1930.
It 'is only fifteen minutes till I must leave for foreign
church,   but I will  start how anyway.     This morningil was asked to
go to Wondong church tonight and  give a  guitar solo;  and  so after
dinner I was trying some1 hymns,  and filially selected **The Ninety
and Nine".    Whll£ I was1 practicing it,#Tyung Yong with his^oider
brother and mother came In,   bringing a hundred eggs  for me.
"I • ^hey have just left.1 It was the first time that I have
met hi3'5inother. The^ seem so extremely grateful to me,- that it
really makes'tae feel bad. But apparently the help that P.v. is
getting from you is giving the whole family hope. Pyung vong's
father died when he was young, and the family has been desperately
poor. But P.v. saved up money from his teaching and bought an ox
for his brothers tb use in farming, ^he ox soon^after got hurt
and it meant a bio: loss,   but 1?.Y.  bought another one.    With this
looking forward  to better days.     This
Seoul with *  load of twenty saoks of
H,
start thfe family seems to be
time his- brother has c'ome to
wheat to sell at ¥14 a   sack.
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Monday afternoon.   lp.it night at Wondong church there was no v
lay the  organ;  and  so I  riot  only gave a*f solo but played  for    i
^^ \ My  selection  off ^^he*'Ninety and Nine'1  turned out to   5
be unusually Suitable,   for vu mqk^a preached  from two passages,   one ^
"I am.the  good  shepherd'1,   and the other! *How  shall we escape if we
one to p
all the hymns.
neglept.   .   ?'.     And it happened   that vu moksa had a  picture of the
shepherdft finding the  sheep on the mountain side;  and'when I went by
his house  on the way to Wondong,  his  son Peter brought it out,   and1
I told him to take it alonpr =>nd  show it ahd' give an explanation of
the  song.    Apparently it has not been translated into Korean yet.   1
So everything turnedtbut   just right-,   and there was a^ggood attendance
and  they welcomed me warmlv.       il'^       :%. •■*   4  n •f
The past  week  Sin moksa'xof my country circuit came  by on       V
his way to the Choon Chun District  to hold  a week's meetings,  and I
entertained him over night.    And another day Song,   the old  local
preacher from 0 San Ni,   came in ;£or a  Visit,   and  I  took him out   to
a restaurant' for lunch.     I  invited Pyung vong and hi3 mother and_^ ^
brother for tonight,   but they  said they would not have  time.^^t^
.§even o'clock tonight  +he Wondong! and Chakyo churches are meeting at
Chakyo for% party,   and I h^ve^promised- tomeet Pyung vong at his
house and   go together. ' vesterday a  csrrd came from Kitn Won Kyung,
II young brother*  out at Koo Am NiV saying he had some business in Seoul
«nd  would be cominer up on Tuesday.     Ifhad  Just  sent him some  cloth
(which Han moksa   said  every Korean housewife was  tickled  to death to
get)   =md aibottlefof Vicks  salve,   which he had not   vetreceived.
Today I h^d  a  letter^from ^r.  Boehning of Songdo (who came out  on the
same boat with me)  asking me to spend^the week-end with him and preach
at  the Songdo foreign service next  ^Sunday.
.    Last Saturday evening I had dinner at the Woman's Bible School
as iiiss|Tinsley(s  guest.     The two newest couples of our mission and some
other young folks were there^and Mr. and Mrs.  Gerdine,  who have  just
returned  from America.    Had a-^very pleasant evening. •   ^
/On Friday I weht  to  see  the dentist at Severance Hospital  for
an examination,   and there met Dr. Hirst,  who was also having some work
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