Dear father and mother:
SaJlkkol,   Seoul,
March 9,   1930.
Was  so sorry to hear about mother's bad cold in the letter
that came last Wednesday,   and do hope it Ismail  gone now.    Was a
little  fearful about the advisability of your taking|up the teaching
of your class again this month.     It is now the  second Sunday here,
although it is Saturday' night" withi&rou.     I   shall be  glad when I hear
about it andkknow it hasfbrought no  setback in your improvement.
f The Oriental MissioriaryfSociety has been holding Annual
Conference  this week,'and I went  over Friday night.     A man and his
wife  from Pasadena have' been with them,' and' he has been giving the
sermons every night,  and perhaps also leading the early morning pfayer
meetings.     I^told them about Bud Robinson's preaching in our church".
Of course*they knew him,  and they also know 3ro.|Shuler.    A missionary
from China whom I met there told me he subscribed for Bro.  Shuler's
magazine.
I  The C.M.S. has a   really fine building with quite a   spacious
auditorium,   which was well  filled.     The  slnging^was accompanied with
an orchestra  of Koreans  and missionaries,   violins,   trombone,   cornet,
guitar,   tambourine,  and organ;  and everybody seemed to  sing with
zest. *Thev ushered me up to the platform as  soon as I  came.     I really
enjoyed the evening,   and was  sorry I  could not have  p:one often.
IS
^our pack&geo-of  sugared walnuts has not yet  come,   but as it
[lust' a month now  since' you  said it was mailed,   it will probably
you the cards were received,
He   is making  good use  of
come within a day or two.     I  thinkl'I  told
and I  turned them over to Han Pvung von&.
s^hem in the Wondong Suhday School.    He was  glad to know you had
^eceivedtthe  shoes "all right-! I  asked about how many one could make
in a day,-and he  said he could make  four pairs,   but he had an uncle
who was exceptionally expert at it who could make ten pairs and make
them  so well that they  sold  for ten 3en a pair.
Y ^he Christian family with which Pyung vong has been boarding
is moving far away to the  east  side  of the city-where it would be
impracticable for*P.vh  to  go.    The people who areumoving in are not
Christians,   and  so P.v.  does not'want to  stay.    Ke has a   chance to
live with members of Wondong church,   but. they ask nineteen yen a  month,
which, is three yen more than hefis paying now;  and  so he says he has
declined.     Thev  said" they got twenty yen from other  students,   but   since
they knew him they would' charge less,     "lie reason he  gets his present
room and board  for onlv sixteen is that the room is only half a kan.
If he  cannot  find a   suitable place,   I am thinking pf offering him three
yen a  month more   (¥28)   so he can be with the Wondong people.    He does
not   spend a  cent more than necessary,   so I  think we can afford to
make this concession.    After he came 'out of the prison,   I  felt  so
sorry  for him that I  insisted  that he buy an'overcoat,  but he refused.
I   found out recently that-he "does his  own washing and mending,   and he
always walks everywhere to save  street ear fa re«
.    The newspapers  still report  cries of "Mansei" at different
schools over the country,' but I  think they have quite  generally got
back to normal routine'a era in,   and I   suppose this disturbance ha s
about  spent  itself.     I  ttiittk you need not:fear a rebellion,   fqr as you
know I
oreans are not allowed to ownfany weapons,  and .the leading
Koreans are thoroughly aware  of their helplessness.     Their only^hope
seems to-be  in China,   which has as  one  of its announced  objectives