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x     For the first time I cannot add *and mother*1.  Last?
Monday your note written the day she left us came just as I was
-ready to maiixmy letter. h^Then a feV/ days later icame the one telling
about- the fun'eral -service.  Thank you so muchlfor writing in such
detail.  There are several things I want to ask however. You did not
say where the burial w?s, but I suppose it was at the place-we looked
a-N-near Whlttier. § I wonder how many ca!rs were iin the procession.  Did
you drive your car? How did you govthrough the streets in Los Angeles--
I mean what was the route? ' I feltfthat I ""Was reading about the rites
for the president of the United States*' How I do appreciate the wonderful expressions of love "from so many -people.  It was certainly a
surprise to know that anyone was thinking of me on that occasion.  That
card Mr&. Anderson wrote goes beyond my power to express'. And today
I had a letter from Miss Ahlemeyer ih San Pedro expressing sympathy.
She said Bro. 'Ahlemeyer read a notice about mother*s death in '!The
Voice'*, which|was the first she knew of it.  I suppose that is their
church paper.  It is just a month today, 'and how often I have thought
of mother andj you. Although it is late, I wanted to write a few lines,
anyway, to1 you tonight.  I trust you have found the truth of the words •
~that '*we do not sorrow as those who have no hope" ♦ Readjustment will
be hard, but God and your many friends will hislp you through. ,1 was
glad to know you were' expecting .to take1 up the teaching of the ciasss
again the Sunday afte^ you were writing.
I May 1, Wednesday. Here it has been two days already since I beg^n
this letter.  It seems impo,ssible!to get any time apart for writing.3
I have stayed away from several sessions of "the Gonferenpe on purpose
to get a quiet time,^and always someone comes in. Yesterday from early
morning tillJeleven at night some one or. more were in the room wltji me.
This Conference-|. is a joint sesslon_-of -the three annual conferences, and
there will not be another one for two yeara, as the last General Conference- decided to hold Conference onlv every other^year. Yet purposely
very little business has been brought -up. "The features oftthe Conference
are revival and commemoration "of the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival
in Korea of the first resident missionaries., The district superintendents
gave their, report©, fthe committee on appointments has had^its hands full,
and that is about all*  Eachfmorning and afternoon Bro. Brannon preached
and each night Dr. Billings,, principal of the Seminary, preached.  The
Conference will probably close this afternoon.  I am to be appointed to*
Songdo, so you may address your letters there he~rea~fter, although I do
not know what my address will be.  If you write ,!Songdo Higher Common
School'1 on the envelope, there ought to be no trouble in delivery.  Han
moksaT s son and daughters and the cook will remain at this house, so any
letters tha+ come here can be forwardedtail right. Han moksa and his wife
expect to go with me.
do not know where we shall live, but Han moksa
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will _prababiy go-do-n to Sonsdo to -find at least a temporary house,
are several big missionary houses standing vacant, but they are useless
kn mjY     it wouidfcost more to furnish one of them than to "build a new
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