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Dear father and mother:
Sajikkol, Seoul,
February 25, 1930
' Ohlwhat a full day this has been'. I don't mean full in the
sense of busy, so much as in the sense of«jsatisfying; because this
morning your letter, so long and so interesting, written at Long
Beach, came, with the enclosures from Nelson and my Princeton roommate, and also a Tetter from my good Princeton friend, Pll; and these
were followed a little la*er by.the delivery of one from the editor
of the California Voice.' jr  ■ fi   f  l . ■ .    f
How glad I was to know you were having such a good rest and
real holiday time at Long Beach.h Sometimes we do not realize how
much goodfa play time will do us until after we have tried it; and
then we see it was more profitable than the same, time spent in work
would have been. ..'.
By
The-account bf the **Round Table'*  sounds very enticing,
your Mentioning taking supplies with you,   I  suppose you did your own
cooking while there.    mhe news of Lionel's intended marriage ws
quite a   surprise as well as "kawkchung*1   (matter for worry) .    How can
people  spend  so much money on utterly useless platinum rings when
there are fellow bfcings  suffering and dying?    Oh,   that they could
catch a new vision'.  I Over here we  stretchy and  stretchia pitifully
small- sum trying to make a little^impact on an overwhelmingly big
task.    We claim^to be heirs of the universe while our preachers go
homeless and churches  fall1into decay and we are put to  shame before
the enemy  for lack of hard cash.    The world has its millions for war,
for education, ufor pleasures,   for luxuries,  while the church becomes
a.   beggar.    Who ii to blame?    We Christians must.be.    May God look
upon His cause and vindicate His name in all the earth,   j
The poor orphan|boy I have been helping at-our^Songdo school
graduates March 5.     I have" already sent him somewhat more  than half his
expenses  for the  year,'hoping that Dr. Hardie would  see fit to continue
his help and bear" the burden equally with me.     Bytlhe  sent twenty yen
after considerable urging by the  school,   saying that was positively all
he could  give;   so II suppose* I   shall have to considerjmoney that is not
as if it wfere,   and  see that the boy 'gets through.   .-
There is no end to worthy young people in Korea who are denied
all advantages because there is no one tohhelp.    Kim Young Whan,  a
brlriit young fellow of the village where|my teacher used to live,   is
hoping that I may help him.    He has not asked me directly,  but he told
me that he had been spending his winter doflng "jiggy1 work and &^nSin6
in wood  from the mountains;   to save  fuel,   the  famixy  Dunched up in a
few rooms,  and prevented his  studying at nigit;  and ^en he asked what
outlook there was in a life like that.    And  then there is Kim      nKyung
of Koo Am HI who feels he  is called to preach;  accepted his PJJ8J»J
work hoping to  save up enough  to  go to  school;  has Jje» Je^  °Jv°JJJp
fifteen vert a  month with no hope  for more,   so that he cen terely keep
alive,  much less lay aside anything.    He has two more ?^%£o ta*e in
hi A  school  before he  can  graduate and  enter seminary    and there  is
another young fefclow in view who can-take his Pla?e *^oo Am Ni,  ana
he lays these  facts before me and ple»ds  for a   solution,    ^h*t can I
dolbut  give him some pious words about God taking care of him and then
wonder with a  weak  sort of  faith|if help ^V^.*"^
keep ambitious    men like him on starvation salaries tnat  stifle every
hone of financial independence.