Dear father and mother:
West Gate 2, 1-54,
January 15, 1935.
#" Yesterday we had the  firstiheavy  snow
of the winter.% So  farathis has'been thesraildest winter I have
seen in Korea-   and apparently the mildest in many years.     If
'it were like  this every winter I would not dre^d their coding.
But  surely.some"really cold weather will  followtthis big snow.
We have  saved sL  great d£al of fuel already,  and'.cit has been a
blessing to the boor pebple.    But  the dealers in wood and  coal
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no doubt have been sorry.  The wood fuel industrv must be?a
big one in the city in the winter. Acres and acres of ground
in the railroad yards near the Seoul station are biled high with
fire wood. You never saw so much in one nlace in Your life.
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'Christmas cards continue to come.   ^The
past  few days one  from Dr.  and Irsw Stephenson,   the Heilmans,
and  from Clarence Wright,  and others.    vesterday a notice came
from the Publishing House in Nashville  saying they were  out of
the book I had ordered,   but they were  sending*it direct from
the publishers.     And  this note was attached:   %lEnclose a  gift
card with words   fFrom lth£ Wesley Women's Bible Class  of Trinity
Methodist Church,   Los Angeles,   Calif.c?    I appreciate this very
much.     The book has not  comefyet,   butlwhen it does I   shall write
my thanks  to the  cl*ss. l       "    ^      '   "
.P.
ve3terday acceding +o alpromisefto Bro.
Anderson of Songdo I^went down to Songdo,   taking the 3 a.m.
train from Seoul.     It wasf^arm and nloudy, "but not  snowing when
I  left here,- but half way there it began to  snow heavily,  and at
Songdo people we'^efout  shoveling snowwoff the  streets.    Bro.
Anderson had nothing particular to  say;   just  some more about the
many possIbilitiesT,and  great'n£eds  for work in and about Songdo.
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With fifty-thousand people in.the cit^ and manv thousands more
in the  surrounding country'and himself the only man missionary'
his help!' 3 3 3ie i 3 was vex^y depressing,wand he  sometimes  felt that
if reenforcementsfwere not  sent,  he would have  to leave.. lOur
boys'   high school  there has rc;0  students and no missionary in
charge.     There oueht'to be  somebody"responsible  for keeping up
the Christian tone of the  school,   certainly,   but. I  don't know
that Iwamftlie  one  to do it."   The  field is  simply undermanned,
and we have  to get along the best we  can,   until others are  sent.
p o*v" '    £- Over against  these  needsfin-Songdo I
cannot help but  think of the  four or fitfe hundred  thousand in
Seoul,   and I  am the  oni^ Methodist missionary wholly engaged
in evangelistic work,  and  there are  only +wo  or three Presbyterian men doing that work in Seoul.     And  there are ten or twelve
thousand high  school boys in Seoul,   and  only one-person outside
of teachers especially devoting his  time  to their Christianizing
I   feel very  sorry  for Bro.  Anderson;ohe  is a  fine man,   and a
good  fundamental,-gospel preacher,   and his wife is a very  sweet
woman.     But I   cannot  say I  want  to  go to Songdo.     Perhaps I
had better keep  still and let  the Conference do what it will.
I After talking to the Korean principal  of
the  Songdo High  School,   I   came  back  to  Seoul   on +he afternoon