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Dear father and mother
ovember 25, 1930
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I  am  over at  the Womar
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Die School where the joint
Commissions on Methodist Unification are meeting, charged with
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ne office work, much to my discomfort.  I just began this
and hardly know yet what is expected, except that f am to type or
ave typed and sunerv
nave Lypea ana supervise the mimeographing of all the reports and
actions of the Commission, act as treasurer of the Commission,
order all supplies, be in the office to .answer questions, and I
don't know what else.
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The Commission has alread^ been meeting some days, and
General Conference of the new church is to meet a week from today;
and. so their work will all have to be completed
back from the country vesterdav determined that
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this week,
would feet
I   came
right
to work  on the  stories  *o  send you;   but this  is the way it  soes.
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I was so glad to find your letter at home waiting or me
when I came in from my trip. And thank you so much for the Gen.
•Von Steuben 26  stamps on the envelope.  I 1 ma peine there will not
be much likelihood of finding who threw the bomb at Trinity church.
I suppose your next letter will tell how the election came out.
You contrast my hospitality to American hospitality; but if
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jfou compare my hospitality with that of the' '-Koreans', mine would
sadly suffer. Host of the Ipreaehers brought their own bedding;
but anyway it was not cold then, and with my winter bedding and the
set I had made for country travel I can comfortably * sleep* quite a
number.  I thought that for just the few days of the Conference it
would not harm me to h*ve the doors closed at night, and anyway a
Korean house is not tight like a Western house; a remarkable lot
of wind comes in round "the sliding doors and windows, so much that
it is customary to have swinging,. shutters --or outside- windows in
•addition to the sliding ones," which can be used in very cold weather.
Theoretically I am studying language every morning, but. I
think I am not studying oftener "than I am studying.  Of oourseil.
am picking up a little -all the time, but it is not what I shalJ
examined on; the pr e s c rltoed . c our s e hag to be laboriously dug out.
That is my chief problem; but still I believe in? the end that the
natural process of learning that I am privileged to have will pay
more th°n the routine study*! The latter is a necessary evil for
those who do not have the opportunity or do not care to get it by
direct contact.
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I  was  glad  to know you had at  last  received  the package  of
embroidery  from SyenchurT.     I  wrote  to Miss Ingersonjthere  some
weeks ago* telling her that  it might be necessar^ to ask the post
office  to tr^ce  the package;   she may h°ve had  them do it.     But it
is  certainly discouraging to be  faced with a  duty*'.charge  of |9.9Q •
Do hope you' can get-the refund of $1.80 and also  sell all the things
and  get  your money back.       >*
house.   -It was the  school in which Han Tying.Yong taught I  while
before Bro.   Stokes  sent  him to Yangju,   and  the people are very