ongdo,  November 4,   1935-
Dear  father:
back  from
e finished a short
n Songdo while he
ill leave Monday,
re and two children.
*Irs. Moore and tw-
department of the
I suppose.
in Korea,
stations,
Nov. 16.
Bishop Moore is coning to Songdo first upon his arrival
not getting' off at Seoul.  From here he will go to the other
and then hold a meeting .of'all the missionaries in Seoul on
r expect to see him in Seoul.- \ f  |
u . k  The reason I cannot be in Songdo during his visit is that
I have a revival meeting in'one of the^country churches in the district,
with a pastor who has been wanting me to come for a long time.  The
meeting is' to start next Friday evening and close the following Thursday.
I     '.Saturday afternoon I took the 2:15" train to: Red Pass, but
got off at the station before, only about two miles from' the church,
and went to the famous hot springs fherelfor a bath.  It
c
ost
only
fifteen sen in the best place'. And with no' facilities in Songdo, that
is, at this dormitory, for' a bath, I thought it was a good opportunity
while I was on my way1 to the church. . After the bath I walked to the
It was well that I did not go earlier.  It was almost six
parsonage'.
o'clock  then,   and Yi moksa had not yet  come in from  the rice  fields
which he  oversees  for the church.  ; mhe Korean Methodist Church has  some
Iand  as an  endowment,  which  it has put  in^ri moksa * s   cafe.
It
':      i   The rice is all  cut now and the threshing- is  going on.
is  almost kimchi making time also,   so  everyone  is very busy.     When  I
came in at noon to Songdo theicabbage" fields near the dormitory were a
scene  of great activity. " Many people busy  cutting the heads,   and  others
piling them on  carts,   which were lined  up along the roadside,   and  others
pulling' the ioaded  carts away with a-great deal of clatter.      f
if As  I drew near^the parsonage at' RedjpPass drops  of rain began
to  fail,  and  they   came .faster and  faster .until  it  settledjinto ^regular
drizfcl'e which  lasted all night and  almost  till  evening o^n Sunday.     The
pastor had counted  on making one of his  other churches while I was there
to hold the  services   in Red Pass.     But  the  path  to  the particular  church
he had  scheduled!lies along the rice  field banks,   and when it rains  is
more  slippery than  ice. fO'nce before when it rained he made the trip
anyway-,   and  when he  got  fherekfound- the  people already  gathered and  in
the midst  of  the  service,   thinking it would be  impossible -for him to
come.     So this  time he did not  go.l||3ut  I  took the  two  services at Red
Pa s 3 anyway.     In the moirniroral3out "twenty-five were present  and  in the
evei&na about twenty.
nose
at a distance  could not  come
rj,
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and 'the other with a straw .cape for protection.  There were never any
Sunday School teachers more faithful than those' two.
hese days, when I am/in the city, nearly every afternoon