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,