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une 2
1936.
Dear father: .
V
esterday I came upIto Seoulland found your letter of
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May 23-24 here.  It was unusually long-- three pages-- andff&ll of
eventful items.  Chiefly was the" news"of Uncle Ralph's death.  From
your recent letters I had begun to think he would not get well, but
I had no idea he was.so near the end. He must have had much less
pain than Mother did.  I am glad, as you}*sald,you were, that they
got alot next to Mother's at Rose Hills. How little anyone thought
that it would be so, and so so soon.  Those are certainly two graves
that will be opened with triumph and glory on the return of Christ*
It was fine that you did notSfaii to make'your regular Sunday afternoon visit with the Hamlin^athe day before he died.
Then there was the news of Mrs. Beasley's death in Helen's
letter which you enclosed.  I remember the family, the children
especially, from my visit in Seattle in 1913- Another surprise was
the news that Leon and family were moving to Rosemead. How interested
Aunt Fannie would have been if she and pother were still living.  I
had the San Bernardino address that Helen had sent, and one time on
taking Mother there for a meeting I looked up the place, but was told
he had moved away.
The news about the ''Margaret Peters Memorial Church*1 was
also a big surprise.  It waalmighty good of the women of her Circle
to think of doing such a thing.  The thought has come to|me that as
we are about to build at Kimwha, and as it is a good town and needs
I might add that gift to what we have already subscribed
a good church, I
and add a hundred dollars ofjmy own, the money that I thought of using
to buy a stove for Mothe
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nd mak
he new building as good as
possible.  As Mother declined to accept the stove saying it would
build a church in Horea, I have always felt that I should put that
much money Into a church sometime. We seem unable to find a lot for
the churSh nearer the center of town
It Is all too expensive or not
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for sale or in such large sections that we could not buy it.
present location is large enough and on high ground, and very good
for the church, except that it i
It wi
a
ittle too far to one end of town
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robablv end in our building on the present site
*e c
annot
do much now before the rainy season; and so we shall have to begin
sometime later, after the rains.  There are two seasons for building
in Korea; first, in the spring as soon as it gets warm and before the
heavy rains, and second, in the fall, after the rains and before
freezing weather comes.
The letter from Mr. York was very interesting. He about
convinced me also that lantern!slides would be most satisfactory.
When I saw Lionel's movies, it was in his own house and at the apartment, where of course the number of guests was small and all sat close
to the screen. As Mr. ¥ork says, they would not be satisfactory seen
at a distance, and hence eould not be used for large audiences.  I
have heard about the frei^iters, and they seem to be very good; but I
did not know how one!could find out about them. But not stopping at
Honolulu is a drawba
to your plans.  In
yesterday, I noticed that Miss Clara Howard of Songdo is sailing on
the Talyo Maru from Los Angeles Aug. 17; and so you will have one
ack, an* perhaps you could not fit their schedule
the Missionary Bulletin from Nashville which came