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March 31, igog. TH
intellect and faith in God as a kind ot
superstition.
Are you, who have labored to plant
this vine, willing to see its fruit blighted
in that way?
The authorities of the present govern
meut have shown an attitude towards
the mission' schools that is quite gratifying.
To the seven graduates at the Severance
Hospital Inst June, they gave
doctor's certificates without a special examination
and they have offered recognition
to all mission schools that, come
up to government standards in equip
menl and attainments.
The $10,000 cut in the appropriations
asked tor by our Korea Mission this
year means that little or nothing can
be done for higher education at present.
An equally pressing need is for qualified
teachers, male and female. The
Southern Presbyterian Mission is calling
lor six teachers. Even though all go
to the field this fall, a host of children
will have completed the course in the
primary schools and will be seeking high
school training before the teachers can
get a fair knowledge of the Korean language.
Each high school should have an industrial
department, where worthy students
can support themselves by their
labor. In the Pyeug Yang Academy,
? which is so important a factor in tho
great work of that section, about one-'
half of the three hundred students support
themselves through the industrial
department.
Some of the advantages of giving help
'n this way. ate, it weeds out the unworthy,
it saves money, and it develops
character. . . *
While Korea slept, she was equally
receptive to the gospel at all times, but
not so since her awakening. The influence
of. 12ft,000 anti-Christian Japanese
In the land is already felt in the dissolute
atheistic atmosphere which they are
beginning to create. The tide of opportunity
is beginning to ebb. Why not
send out and equip at c.nce the full num
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the task? What is there lacking but
the consecration? The harvest, indeed,
is plenteous, but the laborers are few;
pray ye therefore ihe Lord of the harvest,
that he send forth more laborers
into his harvest.
FOREIGN MISSION COMMITTEE
NOTES.
The February meeting of the Executive
Committee was delayed until the
nineteenth day of the month, in order to
make it possible for Rev. and Mrs. Motte
Martin to be present. These friends were
in Nashville, on their way to Africa, and
the committee was very much delighted
to have an interview with them, and to
send them on their way rejoicing. There
were various matters of great importii'liioli
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Martin to attend to, carrying with him
immediate instructions from the committee
reecived at this personal interview.
Mr. Martin and Mr. Sieg, who
was also married on February 25, were
authorized to sail from New York on February
27, and they are both now in
London, en route to their field.
The secretary reported his visit to the
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State Department in Washington in the
interest of our missionaries in Africa,
who are undergoing prosecution on the
charge of "Calumnious denunciation" of
some of the officials of the company
Kassai, in connection with their treatment
of i he natives. The secretary stated
that special instruction had been sent
by cable to our consuls in Africa to investigate
and report immediately to the
State Department. A letter to the Secretary
of State, expressing the Committee's
appreciation of his action in this
matter was adopted.
Rev. Jas. O. Reavis. D. D.t was requested
by the Committee to visit our
Ciioa Mission at liis earliest convenience.
Dr. Reavis, accompanied by Mrs.
Reavis, are now in Cuba, visiting the Mission
and will probably return about the
, middle of the present month.
A sub-committee was appointed to arrange
a basis of co-operation with the
Laymen's Missionary Movement with reference
to a proposed campaign of the
movement during the coming summe?and
fall.
The Treasurer's report showed receipts
for the month' of January of $32,441.17:
$3,967.24 as compared with January.
190S.
Dr. Jas. R Woods, of the North Kiangsu
Mission, was present and addressed
the Committee with reference to the
work in his field
The Committee adjourned to meet
again on March 9, with a special prayer
of thanksgiving for the results of the
Laymen's Convention at Birmingham.
S. H. Chester, Secretary.
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GOOD NEWS FROM KOREA.
In a recent letter front Rev. Eugene
Bell, of Kwatigju, Korea, we received the
following encouraging facts:
There are how in our mission in Korea
213 meeting places. There are 3,364
communicants; 1,362 were baptized in
twelve months, from June 30, 1907, to
June 30, 1908. The total number of catechumens
at all the stations Is 3.422.
There are 170 church buildings; 1,114 pi'nils
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patients were treated in the hospitals.
The contributions of the Korean Christ
tians of our mission last year were
$5,885, United States currency.
"We are deeply grateful," says Mr.
Bell, "for the wonderful number of annual
baptisms and the amazing liberality
of our poverty-stricken native Christians.
It is truly wonderful, when you
know that not one family in a hundred
among them has an income of more than
six dollars per month."
We trust that thn ??- -
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Korean Christians, in giving nearly 56,000
in gold last year out of their poverty fey
the Lord's work, will lead hundreds of
members in our Church at home to give
out of their abundance as liberally as
our Korean brethren. One year of such
consecrated giving would not only assure
us of a million dollars for foreign missions,
but would provide all the other
committees of the Assembly with the
full amount asked for to enable them
to supply all the needs of the work intrusted
to them.
The Lord's blessing upon the mission
in Korea is reason for gratitude upon the
part of the whole Church. All of those
who have contributed to the cause of
ioreign missions have had a part in this
great work. If we would increase our
joy as these glad tidings come in front
all over the foreign field, let us enlarge
our gifts and consecrate ourselves
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the good news comes that the vast multitude
intrusted to our Church have received
the message of salvation.
Jas. O. Reavis, Sec.
, Nashville, Tenn.