Dear father and mother:
Sajlkkol, Seoul,
October 6, 1930.
h^oday is another breathing spell, the first since I
last wrote.  The Preachers1 Institute ciosed last night, and
tomorrow I may start on'a trip throupjit the Diamond Mountains with
the A<§bury College Gospel ^eam and Robert Chung. I received a
card from one of the team *his morning, written from Fusan, saying
that one of them would come to Seoul today and would see me about the
trip, and thatfthe other two would come up tomorrow morning arid start
immediately for the Mountains.  The'trip has to be made  in between
revival meetings, Bind  we probably will notfbe gone more than a week.
&   -#I have never-seen such | rush offevents. /gFrom daybreak
prayer meeting till thefclose of the night lecture every minute was
full.  The four preacher guests I had for Conferenceiremained with
me, and I invited Ti Ho Bin of Wonsan 'in addition, -^heyth^d break fa it
and supper and slept here; every lunch time I had other guests. One
ofky guests left Saturday night 4and this|morning the rest left,
except Yi HofBin, who is staying a few days longerp ^After Conference
it was decided that Yi vong Do should leave his church and come to
Seoul to work with the Korea Sunday School Association, and just now
hells waiting for the permission of 3ro. Anderson, the presiding
elder of thw Wonsan District. <"While he is waiting, I asked him to
come here and stay from this morning on.     f      '%       -*£
He has
Ux  Yong Do reminds me somewhat of Harold Kenrick. ^^
the same fervor and spirituality and understanding^of deep things,
and as well a love of .music and poetry and nature. He found a set of
Japanese translations of Da rite; Tolstoi, Goethe >  and an Indian poet
on sale at a very low price, and bought it. vesterday he translated
several poems into Korean for me, and he read several poems by-a friend
of his in Wonsan, which were very fascinating, figurative, mystical.
I/»st night after the meeting closed he walked back here.with me, and
the night was so plea sant and the moon so bright th°t we continued on
up thetmountain and sat down among.the trees and prayed till after
midnight. He bought a Korean flute for me Saturday night.  It is a
very simple looking instrument made out ofm  bamboo stem,.tout*has a
peculiarly fascinating, wierd Oriental sound.  I had been wanting to
learn to play it so I could bring some Korean music to America.
9 p.m. So many callers that I am lust getting back to
writing now where I left off this morning. Have been to see the
Asbury team, Jand they are planning toileave on the 8:50 train
tomorrow morning. I was greatly disappointed when I found that
Robert Chung could not go with us, and I really wanted to back out
of going myself then; but I guess the boys are counting on me being
guide and interpreter, and it is necessary thst I be along.
The Stokes gave me the things you sent, and I certainly
thou gilt you were liueral.  The music book seems to be A number one.
Yi Yong Do and I spent some time going through it, and he enjoyed it
as much as I, because there were some that had been translated into
Korean, and others he knew that he would like to translate. Whin I
asked for some of those other things, I did not mean for you to buy
new things; I thought that perhaps they were not in use there, and
they would be useful here. But the caustic stick and the belt are
new, and I guess you bought a new bottle of listerine, although I