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Dear nelen
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your sainted.mother,   for
vet
is October 23 with you
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although  the next morning has reached us already.
Can It be only two
tine,   that. £& surelit
So much has happened in that
seems longer.
-flllfl   -     I  ^ sdiglad#ou got ithroiigb. .your opera-
tion ail right. JrYoularet needed with your family
for many; years yet. -;■ It was  so. good  of you to ^take*
time to write  suchlatlong letter to me.    Really  I
don t ".see how you getsftlme Jo .do  it with such 'a
busy life.    ^ "•'     I.   ~   .     i Ift %-: ■
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j'our post car c^ with the lovely picture "']§
of Snoqualmie FallsfoaiiteftcAuguat 21st reached me— "
the morning of- Sept7 10th, less than three weeks, •
which was good time. I an glad to havefthat picture.
'It reminds me. so much of the -time thatr I stood; on ' c_ ._
the bluffs wvth you and admired the marvellous beauty
and ' strand ei
those  falls.
u . § -■   Then' about a week later came your very
Interesting letter telling all about yOursummer■ vacsc-
ion at the: cove, the boys, Mad also about your, operation.' Mot long ago father enclosed' one of 'your i %■
letters written.before the one you wrote nei.ishich
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vou must enjoy lots of good music with
so many musical friends coming in. . It was finejfchat
Clair could get that j-Ob in—the Scouts1 Camp. You
must be proud that he did so well there, and made
such 1 reputation putting up the phone line. ••
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Wm cannot butlfeel  it-is better that  she. 1¥ relies
from all  suffering now.     I   shall never  forget that
the' lasthmorning just before we left Hanford  she
repeated!fronfnembry nphilippians 4:   6,7-v h
h-afr   : ' "•-#        ^ou  said
written *"ebruary~5th.
hospital, on the 1^+*
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ybur last letter from m&mw*
She was taken ba^k^l
7th, and was n
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was
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ot|expected to live
er.
but a  few days then.    §S| said,   ''Cancer is  such a
dreadful  thing*;   did  father  call  it   cancer?    He-nev
said &at t*o me.    Si fcrote at theftime of the first
hospitalisation t^at   it was tumor..'Of course,   often
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he thought he had written;^
had not;   and at  that   time
Quid write  few  details.
his  eyes were
so bad ri
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ou also  said mother wrote you last Fall
that  she needefi an operation;   that  she had been in
great pain for two months before she "went to .see a
doctor.     That was  news  to  ne.     Biey  never,   either"%£
father  ur mother,   ever  said a thing about her not
beingpreil until  she went to the hospital.     I # think
she did  not  see a doctor until' the. day before going
to  the hospital about November 4th.     If  she was not
well forftwo^dnths before that,   fha't means it was
less  than a month after  I  left.. , ■   ~
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orn.ing Is a bright calm day and it
Is more pleasant outside in the sunshine than in the
house,   so  I  am writing on the 5brdh.     At  3 oner do     I
have not been able  to d^et  a house,   and .after building
in Seoul  I have no ^onev  to "build a^ain here*     Our
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nouseis   just  as  It was  in Seoul,   with all  the  family
but Han moksa   (Pastor Han),   who  i^my helper,   there.
Ee has  come  to  Songdo with ne.     I depend  on hin greatly,
and  it wosild be hard  to  get  on without him*    We are   :
boardins inl&he  church dormitory.
'"'■■^\$    |Sch room|is ^'xS',   the regular .size^f^r
Korean rooms,   and we   each hs.v$  one,   next  to  each ,otl^".
fhe dormitory  is built round an or>en court with eight _•..
rooms'   ienpfe and   seven room's width,   with a veranda
running ail found  facing the  court.     Under  the veranda
are  the openings  for building fire's under the  stone
floors,' by which  the roorm^are heated.     In the  court *•
irs  a   lamne   shrub,  Rose  of  3haraon,   and some  flowers,
and a pretty  stong bird" bath.     The place  is very quiet,
clean,   and attractive ••_ A tiorean house with  its massive
miliars  ahd  tile roef  curving up at the  corner-
very beautiful.     The. woodwork   is  painted  cream wi+1
naie ^reenfunder the  eaves.     Just back  of the
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fine view over the  city.
^ory  is a little hill ^ith a Jine view over the  city.
h""J ; "       The dormitory   ll.used- for aiifehurch gues
ah_c|   especially   for• C^iris11 tins  who   come   in%rom  the
country  to  study  in the winter Eloie  classes.-   We had
a good many  preachers  in from the  country the  past
week attending the union revival Meetings;  but   just
now  itjis very  quiet.
ca,    (<^wei       ickLLJ     yi ticX^.i, to LOd
week attending the un
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I: A  famouslpreachei^tfrom  |I| north was  invited
nere to  conduct  the meetings.     He was- among the very
first Iorean preachers  ordained inporea;   is now 5?^  -■
and gives all liirftime to holdlnp: special meetings now. "
Every morning from  a;JO to 6:50-^^7 he  spoke on^the
sufferings of Christ on the
or
4 he spoke  on the  Second
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0ouing of Christ,   and  then preached an hour every nigh
.That meant  about   f;ve hours  of  speaking a day.     About
two hundred ...attended  at  morning pray er meet! nee and  three
hundred|or nore at night--; file  is  practically blind;   can
see streets  close at ha;-nd,   but has  to be led by. the hand
wherever he  sroes
1Q almost imows  th^
He has read Revelation  ten thousand ti3ies.
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