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3uchulli, Seoul, Korea,
lav 25, 19
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Dear father:
on Sunday,
went out to
see because
us out to a
we got back
After a trip to Kimwha and Youngpyung (Everlasting
Peace) I am back again at home.  A week ago Saturday night Han
moksa and I went together to Kimwha.  A large delegation from
•the church was at the station to meet us, and we had good services
On Monday the local preachers and Bible woman and I
call.  There were four or five families we wanted to
they were not present on Sunday. But someone started
house ten 11 (three miles) from town, and by the time
it was the middle of the afternoon and we were too
tired to do anything more. Of course I should want to visit there
some time, but on that one day we might have spent our time better
visiting places in town.  The home was that of a local preacher %
whom Han moksa knows well who has moved Where from Choon ehun.
It is in a village of 200 hous-s, and is the only Christian home.
I should like to get a church started there, as long as we have
a good Christian family to start with.  A village of 200 houses
(1000 people) should be able to support a church of their own.
The local preacher was not at home; had made a trip to Choonchun;
was not expected back till -hat afternoon or the next day. But
we saw the son, and th^wife.  As it was lunch time, they served
us big bowls of mook, a jelly made of a kind of beans and seasoned
with pepper, salt, sesame, and finely chopped vegetables.
This
was
w     the r^irst time since myllsick spell that I had
attempted anything so strenuous, and I was rather surprised that
I stood it so well. There were no hills to amount to anything on
the road, but even so a. six miles' walk is a test of strength.  I
was only a little extra tired; otherwise I noticed no effects.
On Tuesday morning we left Kimwha for Youngpyung.  Inter
mitten*, showers were falling, which would have made it hard to
do anything in Kimwha, but on the way to Youngpyung we were not
rained on.  There was a change at Chulwon to the main line train,
and again at Chungok (Perfect Valley) to the bus. At the latter
place we had an hour or two to wait, and found a nice new hotel
where we ordered lunch.
several years since I was at Everlasting
to go again.  The bus is still poled across
old boat, and the picturesque cliffs and
but in the river we saw a number of men
the gravel for gold.  Since the value of gold has gone up
rivers In Korea are being gone over again. There seems
considerable yield from the streams about Youngpyung; and
circuit is a fair-sized gold mine. %
It had been
Peace, and I was glad
the river on 4he same
valleys are
washing
all the
to be a
in that
+he same;
Youngpyung also showed some changes. One or two nice
new buildings were put up, the grounds about the church have been
Improved, and down by the stream a new irrigation ditch has been
built, lined neatly with cobblestones. Nearly everyone in town
went aut and joined in the work. They carried the stones up from
the stream for a sen or a sen and a half a load.  Even the women
made thirty or forty sen a day.  This will make rice fields out
of much of the land below the town.  The value of the land has
gone up amazingly. Mr. Pak, Han moksa's good friend with whom