Dear father:
Marketville, Yellow Sea
Province, December^2, 193
|   I have just arrived in this place for the District Conference
of Pyung Chun district. It is about thirty-eight miles northeast of
Songdo.| We closed our meetings in fhe little country village near Korang-
po, about twenty-five miles south of Songdo,last night. After breakfast
and family prayers, we got our load into the car and came back to Songdo,
taking the pastor and Bible woman to Koranpo on the way. We got into
Songdo about 13:30, and had j_unch with Miss Bertha Smith, and then got
started right away for this place.        |  ||
I ran in to the dormitory for a fewfminutes, and was handed
your letter of November 9. Among the mail alsofwere two rolls from you,
the magazines which you mentioned sending, I suppose, but I did net have
time to open them, nor would I have time to look at them here; and so I
left them in mv room. vou mention sending a box of preserves. They will
be received by the man in charge of the dormitory when they come, even
if I am not there, That ^eant a good deal of trouble to you, and I do
surely appreciate your doing it. vou will thank Mrs. Milier very sincerely for me, I know. Are they having any more prosperous times now?
Vour eyes must be much better to stand reading proof all day
and then letter writing at night.  I am glad to know they are improved.
As it is now December, I have been thinking about your seeing the book
in its finished form at this time.  I am anxiously waiting to see
did not know they set each size type separately. Is it done with
type machine like the newspapers? It is very considerate of you
reword it so as to avoid much resetting of type in correcting the
it.  I
a lino-
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errors.
Nelson's letter about his trip to Oklahoma was very interesting as well as surprising.  I had not kno^n he was taking a trip, and even
if I had kno^n, I would never have thought 4f its being in that part of
the country. He flits about here andfthere about as much as I do. The
of the Stewardship Institute at Santa Ana sounds as if
tine.  Some one has^taken aflot of pains to make slides
I am glad you had a pleasant visit with the Akers.  I
enjoyed very much my stay with them. They are so hospitable. I was
pleased to know your talk wasfso well received.
program you sent
It would be very
for the occasion
Speaking of your compliments, reminds me of something Miss
Bertha Smith told me on thB road coming here this afternoon.  She said
that the Sunday School superintendent, of East gate church In Songdo last
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Wednesday nlgtot in speaking of the -*h«& chapter of ?Malachi and of the
sins of the priests referred to me, saying he liked me very much. The
reasonfwas that I always said ves whenever asked to do anything.  If I
were asked for a guitar solo, I would say, Why, yes, 1*11fbe glad to.
If I were asked for a sermon, I would say, We 1, now I have a promise
somewhere ilse for that time, but can't we arrange a date later on? but
never said No.  Some people always said they were so busy and made one
excuse and another, and would not do anything. So he liked me, and when
I died, if he could not be there, he would send a telegram. This last
statement may need some explanation. At funerals and weddings, it is
always a prominent part of the ritual to re^d letters and telegrams from
all the friends, the more the better. t0 sen<*  a telegram would be a
mark of close friendship.
The other day we saw in the paper that Ell moksa, who was in
Songdo in October, died suddenly while holding a meeting last Tuesday.
I understand it was on the platform that he suddenly collapsed. He had