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Dear father and mother: Sajikkol, Seoul, April 12, 1931. This Sunday afternoon I have come back from morning church, have been reading the March Missionary Voice which came yesterday, and now start my letter to you before'time for foreign church. I preached this morning *t Sinsulli to about the largest congregation I have seen there. Fully seventy-five were present, not counting the babies strapped on the mothers' backs. Tonight I am to preach to the great student church in the center of the city, Choong-ang Methodist Church ("Central Church", being translated). I am taking the words, "While I was. busy here and there, he was gone,"ffrom 2 Kings 20:40, and drawing the lesson that we may lose faith while busy in church work. vong Do preached there this morning, and came back and said he had tried to prepare the way for me tonight. It is a special service for the Epworth League. One of the happiest associations and greatest blessings I have had in my life will come to a close in a few days. Yong Do's wife is coming to Seoul, andfhe has already found a house of two or three rooms outside West Gate, and will move over there. His wife's mother will be with them, and also the widow of his younger brother who just died. I think Yong Do really does not want to go, and his mother privately told us to keep him here if we could. It will be hard on him, and he will not be able to save anything. But his wife says she is afraid to be in the country away fromamedical aid when the baby is born, as she lost the last one from lack of care. Events in the case of Kim Won Kyunst took a strance turn. The schools here in^Sgoul were so crowded, they could not hold out any definite hopeslof his being atde to enter,!and we were in troubled wafeers for several d°ys. Finally someone suggested that the schools in Japan were not crowded. And so I went to the Government-General for a consultation, Bind found a sincere desire for cooperation. The official, himself a graduatefof a Methodist school in Nagasaki, Japan, telegraphed to the school in Nagasaki, and received reply that they could admit Won Kyung; and so he wrote personal letters to the principal and each of the teachers, mve Won Kyung detailed instructions, prayed with him, and asked me to write also'to^the principal. Wednesday night Won Kyung returned to the country to make final arrangements about his wife and^household goods, came back Thursday, and left here Friday morning for Jap^n.Nh I did not want to send him to Japan, but it seemed the only sure way of getting him in school. The expenses are somewhat greater than here in Korea. I gave him Y65 to pay hisgtravel, school uniform, fees, books, and one month's board. fHe is to write me immediately as to what the exact amount necessary each month will be- I 913 thinking he should stay there only one term and then transfer to some school here in the fall, transferring students is far easier than getting new students admitted; and so-although I failed this time to taet him in as a new student, I am sure there will be some place that will admit him as a transfer. Kim Kwang 0o,fthe one I was expecting to send to the Seminary went every afternoon this week to4-the hospital for examination; and yesterday the doctor sent me a report. He said he thought Kwang Oo had "a small focus of TB. in right apex. Fever is on Olive Slocum's money,
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Full text | Dear father and mother: Sajikkol, Seoul, April 12, 1931. This Sunday afternoon I have come back from morning church, have been reading the March Missionary Voice which came yesterday, and now start my letter to you before'time for foreign church. I preached this morning *t Sinsulli to about the largest congregation I have seen there. Fully seventy-five were present, not counting the babies strapped on the mothers' backs. Tonight I am to preach to the great student church in the center of the city, Choong-ang Methodist Church ("Central Church", being translated). I am taking the words, "While I was. busy here and there, he was gone,"ffrom 2 Kings 20:40, and drawing the lesson that we may lose faith while busy in church work. vong Do preached there this morning, and came back and said he had tried to prepare the way for me tonight. It is a special service for the Epworth League. One of the happiest associations and greatest blessings I have had in my life will come to a close in a few days. Yong Do's wife is coming to Seoul, andfhe has already found a house of two or three rooms outside West Gate, and will move over there. His wife's mother will be with them, and also the widow of his younger brother who just died. I think Yong Do really does not want to go, and his mother privately told us to keep him here if we could. It will be hard on him, and he will not be able to save anything. But his wife says she is afraid to be in the country away fromamedical aid when the baby is born, as she lost the last one from lack of care. Events in the case of Kim Won Kyunst took a strance turn. The schools here in^Sgoul were so crowded, they could not hold out any definite hopeslof his being atde to enter,!and we were in troubled wafeers for several d°ys. Finally someone suggested that the schools in Japan were not crowded. And so I went to the Government-General for a consultation, Bind found a sincere desire for cooperation. The official, himself a graduatefof a Methodist school in Nagasaki, Japan, telegraphed to the school in Nagasaki, and received reply that they could admit Won Kyung; and so he wrote personal letters to the principal and each of the teachers, mve Won Kyung detailed instructions, prayed with him, and asked me to write also'to^the principal. Wednesday night Won Kyung returned to the country to make final arrangements about his wife and^household goods, came back Thursday, and left here Friday morning for Jap^n.Nh I did not want to send him to Japan, but it seemed the only sure way of getting him in school. The expenses are somewhat greater than here in Korea. I gave him Y65 to pay hisgtravel, school uniform, fees, books, and one month's board. fHe is to write me immediately as to what the exact amount necessary each month will be- I 913 thinking he should stay there only one term and then transfer to some school here in the fall, transferring students is far easier than getting new students admitted; and so-although I failed this time to taet him in as a new student, I am sure there will be some place that will admit him as a transfer. Kim Kwang 0o,fthe one I was expecting to send to the Seminary went every afternoon this week to4-the hospital for examination; and yesterday the doctor sent me a report. He said he thought Kwang Oo had "a small focus of TB. in right apex. Fever is on Olive Slocum's money, |
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