Dear Father:
Kimwha, Korea,
December 7, 1936.
vour two letters mailed at Kobe were waiting at our
Suchuili house when I went up there last Thursday.  I was verv
glad to hear from you.  Now I
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hall
be looking forward to one
from Honolulu.  I was very sorry you did not get the chest.  I
imagine the trouble was that H^o Han was waiting for word from
me as to the date of vour sailing, whereas I thought he would
send it as soon as it was ready and let lit wait at the N.V.K.
office at Kobe.  I have written to him for details, although I
have a letter from him written about Nov. 14 saying he had sent
it; just when he did not say.  As soon as I hear from him, I
expect to send information to the N.V.K. office asking if they
cannot put it on their next boat and deliver it in Los Angeles
free of charge, considering the circumstances.  If that cannot
be done, I think the best plan will be to have a missionary of
our board (with whom I am acquainted) in Kobe store it for a
while until someone from Korea sails for Los Angeles.
f The account of ^our remaining hours in Nagasaki was
very interesting. vou made a better job of sigh4- seeing than if
I had been trying to pilot ^ou.  The visit in Nagasaki was a very
pleasant and not* unprofitable one, since you got to see some of
e Mission work.  Too bad vou found it chi
IIv on the boat
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had no inconvenience from the weather on my return.  The trains
now are really toofhot for comfort.  From the list of your small
expenditures in Kobe, I Judge the boat company pa id If or your
hotel accommodations. You apparently had no trouble finding the
shopping street that we visited.  Sorry thev handled your suitcase
so roughly.  If the Trinitv folks find 'out one was worn out, they
may give you another one '"when you make your next trip.
Besides your letters to me, there were three or four
for you, which I have returned to Rosemead. But one was from
Tom Bunn marked for me to open it if you had left; so I did.  I
find it is mainly about the money for a ^moving picture machine''.
Me is correct in thinking that he did not give me money for that,
but said only that he would find the money for it later whenever
I wanted it» But what he did give me money for was a stereoptican,
$50.  It was a personal check, so from his letter I imagine it was
his own money; but I had been thinking he got contributions from
the young people's Sunday School classes for it. However, now,
sijjce it seems nothing can be found in the Orient, I suggest that
you take it from my account in Rosemead and buy a ba loot icon and
make use of it for your talks as long as you need to, and then
you can turn it over to me.  That ought to meet with Tom's approval.
Not long ago someone said to me one reason for the slower
growth of the church in recent years was that the church did not
do so many things to attract attention as it used to.  In the early
days and up to the Centenary there were tent meetings and lantern
slide' shows and something going on most of the time.  Since then
just the regular services In the churches ^or the most part.  There
is something in that, I think.  Bu+ one reason why less is done
now is that the wrokers are fewer and the appropriations so low
there is nothing to do ahything with.  The women seem to have plenty
of money, especially the last few years- **a
Miss Beaird told me she