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rauwna,   Korea,
July 13,,1939.
Dear Father:   .    t - ■ s .. , t
^our very interesting letter of June 25 came two
or three days ago.  But in it I was very much disturbed to
hear of your increasing trouble and the inability of the
doctor to help you.  Even if nothing much could be done, it
would at| least relieve the suspense if the doctor could
refer to medical history and find similar cases;-but not
even to have an idea of what is wrong ofc of what the^cause
may be is especially trying.  It surely can not be anything
very serious while you feel perfectly well.   I
3y the enclosed bulletin - see Don Householder J
has a D.D. degree. You did say where he got the degree, but
I suppose from Asbury, as you added the fact on the inside
of th§ bulletin that he had made a trip to Asbury.  The ,|
message on the back written by Bro. shuier, '•once your pastor
and still your brother*1 saying that Trinity was legally without afpastor waslvery mystifying; but as you did not say anything in your letter aboU'tffdt, I judged it meant nothing:more
than a sort of twilight zone in the midst of uniting the two
(or three) 'Methodisms. 'The^Conference vou mentioned meeting
in iiOn&SBeach was a district c inference; or was it the first
annual conference of the newly created Conference of Southern
California?.
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Our parsonagefis nine kan, three wide and three
which is as +o sizelordiaarv for a Korean house, but
as to shape very unusual. .But the plan is my own invention,
and more satisfactory than anything I have seen.  It also
receives praise from evergone who sees it.  There is no
waste space, so that although the house is no+ large it is
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verv  comfortable  for a  family  not  too  larce.     vfith the  south
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side   showing in the olcture,   almost  ail windows,
we getfthe|ffull  benefit  o'f the winter  sun,  while in  summer
it  does not  shine  in at ail.     And witu   kitchen and  pantry
in the rear,   no room has both sides  exposed to the cold  of
winter.     As  to the objetc onfthe righ4- hand  of the picture,
I   should have  explained  tl.?.t   it was  the  chimney,   detached
from the house  so as not to run through, the tile roof.     It
serves  the hot  floors  of the two living rooms  on the  south
side,     ""he  south windows are ail double;   that  is,   glass windows
swims'outward*   and soapered windows within slide.     Over  the
grill work  isepaper,   as  you supposed.   #The glass windows   (I
do not have at hand a  copiy  of that!: picture right now,   so  cannot
be positive,   bu#am pretty  sure)  are the  simple horizontal
bars appearing on either  side of the  grill work and easily
taken to be a^part  of the wall of thefhouse.     The  glass does
not  ahow.     fhi paper Windows. ser^e aa  shades,   and when we want
the  sun,   but wish to keep  out  cold air or rain or wind,   the
>aper windows are  pushed  to either  side in their  grooves and
the class windows drawn shut.     Pictures of the other buildings
(except  the Bible woman's house,   which-is   Just  an ordinary a
Korean house)  were 3ent  to the Outlook,   and you|should   see  tr
if the^r appear  there.     I would have  sent them to you first h
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