Dear father and mother:
Sa jlkkol,
March 30,
Seoul,
1930.
I have just come back from the Gerdine'a where-I had
dinner after the morning service. It is only a little while
till time to start to foreign church. Again'they urged me to
come in any time *nd' say I was going to eat with them. They
are about the most hospitable and friendly people I have seen.
'    This'week Ms been exceptionally in there being two
weddings.  The first Was last Wednesday when two of the Yongsan
church members were married . mhe young, man came here to the house
twice to invite us, I being away both times, besides sending a
printed invitation. Han moksa and I went together. It was a
beautiful warm sunny day. 'After the ceremony there were about
ten cars that came to take us to the groom' s house for the
wedding feast, and I enjoyed it all *s usual.  I suppose the
family isfpretty well to do, for they have two houses opposite
each other with a rice store in front ofreach. |I was told that
the young man' s father had been saving up quitef'a large sum1 for
his son's marriage. Weddings and funerals, according to Korean
etiquette, demand an extravagant display, and all the friends and
acquaintances from far and near expect'a good time at the expense
of■the poor host. If the*7 do not have any money,ithev must borrow
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or else lose their standing
*|The second wedding was tha
in the'Supyokyo Sunday School, wh
NoBthernfMethodist girl, git was
t hope so; if not,11 don't know h
There were no nrinted invitations
the men participants in full dres
a fee. stIwas announced at the brid
I had-hoped that they were not go
it amounted to enough to pay +he
already told himfl could not help
not going to stop school •
t of one of my former students
o was married yesterday to a
reported that she has some means,
ow the affair will be paid for.
, but the church was well decorated,
£ (which had to be rented), and
e'sfhome (to which I did not go).
ing to much expense, but-I suspect
boy's tuition for a year. I had
him this year,ftbut he says he is
9 p.m. After foreign service Mrs. Hirst invited me to go
home with them for supper, saying they were having nothing but
pancakes, ?They had^Paifc Nam Suk, a professor of Chosen Christian
College, and a' friendfof one of Dr. Hirst's boys in a school in Japan
there for supper also. After pancakes and salad and milk, we sat
about the open fireplace, and I'have just now come home.
Paik Nam Suk'3 father is a well-known blind preacher, of whom
I have heard it said that he h*s memorized all the New Testamant or
perhaps most of the Bible. Mrs. Hirst said tonight she met the son
on one of her country trips wh&n he was just a small lad with a pigtail hanging clear down to the bottom of his turumaggl. He was very
much interested in her'English Bible, andjtoid her he was going to
learn to read that!some day'. She saw his intense ambition and began
teaching him English every time.? she saw him. Later he studied in
America and is now a professor of English. He is the one Mrs. Hirst
wants to translate-"Paul's Christmas 01ft Returned", as he does a
great deal of translation work for the ChristianiLiterature Society.
He is also*prlnci
the side.I He is
pal ot  a primary school, and is raising chickens on
one of our Southern Methodists-and hopes to.go to