Dear fathe
Kimwha, Korea,
July 28, 1936.
This is Tuesday morning, and we have just finished br
fast.  It is pouring rain.  After months of almost no rain, it
last Wednesday, and the sun has hardly appeared since.  This is
eak-
annual drenching period. But it
fields.  Those that did not have
began
the
is too late to help many of the rice
sufficient supply earlier, have not
been planted, and it is too late now to plant.  It looks very pitiful
to see so many fields lying idle
buckwheat.
Some were plowed up and planted to
As Iwrote in my last letter we were out holding an evangelistic meeting in the village called Long Forest, about twenty li from
Kimwha.  We closed there on Wednesday night. We got a good list of
new believers, some of whom seemed really seriousT One young man in
the last meeting voluntarily spoke up after the sermon while we were
doing some personalfexhortation and said they all ought to believe.
For himself, he was determined to come out regularly and believe in
earnest. He had been greatly blessed by this meeting.  I must try to
get out there at least once a month hereafter.        fl.-
A day or two before that meeting closed, two old ladies
from another church five or six li from there came and urged us to
come and hold meetings
to Kimwha on Thursday.
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The Vacation Bible School is to open the
During the week! s interval Kim Hyo Han wanted to holdfa
series of evangelistic meetings here.  From Thursday to Saturday we had
intended to rest and prepare for the series, doing visiting and announcing. But when the two grandmothers urged us to come to their village
So on Thursday mornins we left Long,-Forest.
we consented
u     |[  The little village we went to is called * Grass Plot**, a
little pla^e of not over thirty or fort^ houses, nestling among the
mountains at the head of a widening valley. One can look down to the
wide valley below, the stream that'flows out from Kimwha, and the auto
road from Kimwha to Seoul.  Long Forest is just across the stream at
the foot of the range-on the opposite side. A lovely.little stream
runs down among the rocks through the village. But it was ail dry
when we went there on account o^ the long drought. But after a day or
two of heavy rain, the water began coming down,|and everybody seemed
happy to see it.  "The wateris coming down*1 passed from lip to lip.
Before we left it was quite a lovely mountain stream.
.?  The rains did not interfere with the meetings.  In such a
little village there Is nothing to see, and it is too lonely at home;
so rain or shine the people co^e out well.  In the day we did visiting
from house to house *nd at night so many came out that we had to have
two meetings, first for the children and then for the grown people.
The church"is only a two kan little thatched roof affair, in which
thirty or forty may be crowded in. We had sixty or seventy every night.
After"supper Hyo Han went out with the trombone and played for a half
hour or so, by way of announcing the meeting.  Everyone came out and
gathered around.  Such a thing probably had never been heard in that
village before,  nien we went inside.I I usually gave a guitar solo,
and sometimes Hyo Han and I played a duet together.  The Bible woman
taught^the uchiidren songs and Bible verses and told them stories.