Dear father and mother:
Seoul, Korea,
April 21, 1935*
Mother so oft
giving and Christmas and Easter, as
to share some of the days' joys with
as this is Easter Sunday afternoon,
I have not had another letter from y
am expecting one any day. Yesterday
probably your letter would be among
delivery nor the second brought it.
will come on the next.
en took.special days, as Thanks-
occasions for writing, desiring
those who were not present. So,
I will start my weekly letter to you
ou since I wrote last, although I
foreign mail arrived, and I thought
the others, but neither the first
Perhaps it missed this boat and
Your spring has been the coldest you have known
in California, you say, and ours has beenithe warmest I have known in
Korea. Vegetation seems to be about two weeks ahead of normal, and
there has been almost no rain, sunny and pleasant most of the time
for reeks. Usually the springs are rainy and chilly. Today is a
fine bright day, such as American Easter church crowds would rejoice in.
||      The- streets of the city are almost blocked with
pedestrians from the four quarters of the kingdom, coming to Seoul for
the exhibition which opened yesterday, fAbout a month ago I noticed
from our hilltop the first buildings of the exhibition going up in the
old palace grounds back of the Government-SeneraI Building. You may
imagine how wonderful an exhibition can be put on in a month.  I Imagine
it is in celebration of the twenty-five years .of the present regime,
although I have heard no announcement of the purpose. The real purpose,
I shouldvthink, however, was to empty the purses of the populace* Word
goes out from the government to all local officials that +he leading
people in every locality must attend. No excuse avails*  If they have
no money, they are lent the money,  ^hen they go, and when they get
back,the debt is another -story, which I shall leave to your imagination*
So the money pours into the.Government railways, and once in Seoul the
stream continues to.pour into-the government street railways, the hotels,
and eating houses, every admission.to the fair grounds adds (or subtracts,
according to the way you look at it) thirty sen, and once inside the
grounds, I have no doubt that plenty of contrivances await to swallow
up the remainder*; At any rate;/it is one way of putting money into
circulation, even though the circulation i3.mainly in one direction.
When I see the thousands of innocent country folk thronging the treacherous ways of the cityi a great pity rises in my heart. How I wish^
there were some wayrlof their seeing the one thing worth while, the Lord
mighty to save, i* Poor helpless sheep going to the slaughter unawares.
1 l ill
p  This morning I preached at'Watermark Church,
the churchfwhere I first attended in Korea.  The Methodist churches
all over Korea and Manchuria today were keeping the day not only as
ii11er but as the fiftieth anniversary of the landing in Korea of the
first resident missionaries. You1will probably have received1 the
little magazine, Korea Graphic, giving the account of that historic
event.  They landed on Easter Sunday morning, prophetic of the veritable
spiritual resurrection that Christ was to bring to Korea.
I    '        At Watermark Church the service began with administration of the Lord's Supper, and then I gave a guitar solo,