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September 15, 1909. THE PRESBYTER]
Venable, who arrived in November. He has done
brilliant work on the language, and from his arrival
lias done a great work in the educational line, principally
in the way of teaching the teachers through
the medium of English, and general oversight of the
school. There are three native teachers.
The girls' school numbers forty of as bright, interesting
a lot of girls as one could find in the
country. The native teacher is a young woman, a
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assistance as Mrs. Preston is able to render. They
are temporarily housed in a small native building. The
Mission is calling for $4,000 for a Girls' Boarding
School here, half of which is needed at once, and a
single lady is needed to take charge.
At Lhunju, also, the educational outlook is very
bright. Rev. and Mrs. J. S. Nisbet, mature and experienced
educators, have now acquired the language,
and are doing splendid team work at that
place. About a hundred boys are enrolled, which
number could be trebled were there room to put
them. However, work has been started on a $4,000
academy. A well known elder at home has subscribed
$10,000 for a college to be located there.
The Girls' School there is in charge of Miss Xellie
B. Rankin?a worker of whom we are proud, and
one of the best linguists in the Mission?with an
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started on a building, a boarding school, to cost $4,000.
A friend of Miss Rankin's, not a member of our
Church, recently contributed $2,500 to this school. The
Second Church, Petersburg, Ya., has Contributed liberally
to the equipment.
At Kxvangju, our newest station, there has been a
rapid development in education. Miss Graham and
her thirty girls are wreathed in smiles over a recent
gift of $5,000 for a Girls' Hoarding School?the only
Christian school for girls among more than a million
people! But what are we going to do for the
boys? The school was started last year and has an
enrollment of fifty. For an academy building $4,(XX)
is needed, half of it now, and the Mission is urgently
calling for an educational man, a college graduate,
preferably, with some experience, to take up this
work.
Jt is with keen regret that we can report nothing
definite as yet in sight for Kunsan. The local church
has a flourishing little primary school for boys, selfsupported,
but as v.et the Mission Academy is struggling
along with a handful of boys in a make-shift
building with no equipment, with which it is, of
course, impossible either to draw or to hold the boys.
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so long by Mrs. Hull, is a particularly encouraging
work, and should have a building at once. Miss Dvsart
is assisting the school', but another single lady is needed
there also. .
It is needless to add that there is no more powerful
evangelistic arm than our educational work. . Out
of these schools are L>niiiL? the men ami wnmen whr?
are to he the leaders in the Church. We believe
that it is of vital moment to the Church that their education
shall he Christian. The thirst for the new
learning manifested hy Koreans of all ages and the
\ sacrifices they are willing to make to obtain it, are at
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once pathetic and inspiring; pathetic, in that their
extreme poverty makes it impossible for them, unaided,
to obtain it; and inspiring, because no nation
can furnish brighter, or more appreciative pupils.
Even the adults are pressing into night schools to
pick up what scraps of learning they may.
God bless them. These poor people are generously
and nobly supporting all the evangelistic work, and
we ask them to do it for their own good. But in
the educational and the medical work our love for
them can find vent, and we all want to do the square
thing by them. Under the new regime, our schools
will not be granted a permit if they fall below the prescribed
standard. As an American Presbyterian I
would be ashamed to offer our constituency less than
that offered in the heathen government schools. The
government is liberal with us; shall we not set the
pace in education, and make it all count for Christ?
Mokpo. Korea.
ENTERTAINING THE MINISTER.
Many a minister's influence is limited by fancies on
the part of the good housewife that he must have extra
food. The fact is that he does not need extra food, and
generally does not want it. Oftentimes he would rather
not have it. Is this an enigma? Let us solve it by
illustrations.
One of the parishioners is Mrs. A?. The pastor has
three congregations, two of which are ten or twelve
miles distant. He decides to spend Monday ii^ pastoral
work in one of these. He visits three or four
families before noon. He has three or four places for
the afternoon. 1 le is near the home of Mrs. A. He is.
hungry: she would delight to have him eat there.
"But no: If I go in there, she will keep me in the
parlor two hours, while a chicken is being caught and
cooked. I would like a little inwl and enhhair^ hut I
can not spare two hours pi time." And the pastor
labors all day without food. If only he could have
shared the common, usual meal of the family?!
Mr. W?. lives near one of these country churches.
His wife never cooks a special meal for the minister,
hut welcomes him to whatever is on the table. It is
11 o'clock on Saturday night. The pastor has preached
twice that day and has driven twenty-five miles
in the rain since supper. Mr. I>?'s house is dark.
The pastor taps on the window-pane. "Is there any
occupant in your spare room?" "Xo sir." "All
right. I'll see you in the morning," The pastor puts
his horse in the stable, delighted at such sensible hosnitalitv.
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for the first time at breakfast. And the congregation
has a much better sermon because the pastor felt
free to accept the unceremonious entertainment.
Mrs. C. lives three miles from the manse. She
has three grown daughters, all of them apparently
indifferent to their salvation. Every time the pastor
calls the daughters run to the kitchen and serve up a
delicious meal. But he fails to find an opportunity
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^irls today. Let us eat dinner at eleven, reach their
house at one and leave at three. We will assure them
that we have eaten dinner and can not stay for supper.
Surely we can do something spiritually for them."
The plan was carried out. but, alas! The kitchen
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