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Sajikkoi, Seoul,
January- 18, 1931.
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£j last letter was written in the midst of our very  cold
It has moderated  considerably,  an$ today is really fairly
pleasant .with  the bright  sunshine;   although^it' was  snowin- heavily
this morning when I\ went .to- church,   itid has+snowed   several' times thi
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44 s^  W XV •
Thehreport.s g^ye t&e temperature?in Seoul It the lowdst as
several degrees below zero. Mr.JStokes,reported that it was 45'below
at Harbin While h§. wq's , there \ ani pthers have said it rs 50 below in
some places in. Manchuria. hi.cannot'imagine how that would feel.' There
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were many deaths in different parts of Korea, even'clear to the southern
end.
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was the coldest
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You will be  glad  to know-that Hanpoksa   is  getting- along   l
encouragingly., |Lagt Monday morning helcame to me and  seemed as
troubled  as I   ever have  seen him,  and  said he would have  to  go to
the hospital  again;   that his  gOQd  eye had  begun  to get bad. fv Mrs. %d**n
had+aiso had .another  stroke,   and hetthought  she  could not%et well.     It
was enough  to be.faced with,th.§ possibility  of blindness*and becoming
a  widower and -a   cut -in salary jwith  four children.to educate.  'fBut they
saved his eye,   and  I  am hoping: th°t bv being very careful after this
he will not have another!* tt°ck.    Mrs,. Han is  gtill bed fa st and has-
scarx3eiy,:eaten anythi^g'afor a  week.     It  see^s that  she  cannot live yery
long this way.
any  time.
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he   gets  over this  stroke,   she may have  another
The  cook's  father-in-law,p;ot well fend   she  came back da
before yesterday;   but all last-week the  children had aehard time.    With
no mother or  father to depend  on,   in the-very  coldest of the winter
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they had   to   take   overall   the. household   duties and   go  to
sa'me time.     The boy  staved  out .of  school   several days
a r*Vi ft ft       p +     +Vi p
to take  care  of
| 1 'Started   to language   sohoql  last Monday a no   find it vwry
interesting.   -Bro.   Stokes-is  teaching four hours  of Grammatical Forms,
a nd . we have Korean teacheraJ f or -Expression*  Hew Words and Phrases,
Chinese  and Korean  script,   and,Novel.     As in the  first year when I
attended,   it'is- every afternoon   five d^ys a  week  from 2:00 to 4:30.
Margaret Biliingsley  is attending three-days-a  week,   Hi s s Rosenberger,
an older worker at  the Center,   is taking a   class  or two in our third
yerfr. course,   andtMrs.   Stokes is .studying ^ith us In a   class  or two.
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did' not-1 say much,  but
ong-Do.come  back Friday night  from his meetings.
,   but I  know he must h^vefbeen very tired.     And
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note
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that4hetibroughtnfrom ^ruce-Hunt,who wag/with him in the meetings,
that thev must have-had  algood meeting.-Bruce Hunt led  the music, and-
Yi moksa'did all -the preaching,   exceptrr-two^6r three Mghts >'hen_a; wloca.j.
preaeher haloed1     They prayed/sometime^- till long a ftero midnight,   and
some were"really blessed. .,I:think I will  send y6u Bruce  s note-after
I have answered it*
Yi moksa   found a  pitifu
xxttlelwalf whoimight have•frozen
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to death ha« he not l^ken Ma* into the room with hifiU    He ®ve him
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bath a nd i some tor nis
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praying for the boy,
off: when he left the
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own clothes and kept him at the inn with him til
in vl moksa1 S grayer he aim<5£t cried; when he was
andla'aked  to be  forgiven/ for having to cast him
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