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has been described in full by other
writers, suffice it to say that it was
the largest held under the attspices
of the Southern Presbyterian Church
this year, not excepting Montreat.
The Training School for Christian
Workers was attended by more than
a hundred people regularly, and prob
ably three hundred people attended
frequently enough to get great benefit
from it. The School of Missions for
Men and Women was an unusual bless
ing to the whole Valley. About three
hundred and fifty laymen were pres
ent on the first day and probably one
hundred and fifty women. The oc
casion of so many men coming to
gether was a special gathering of lay
men from L>exington Presbytery, led
by C. R. Caldwell, chairman. On Fri
day, Foreign Missioin Day, Dr. Eg
bert Smith made two addresses, two
beautiful pageants were given, one in
? he open air on the green grass in
front of the hotel. It was an inspir
ing sight to see four or five hundred
people assembled in a semi-circle lis
tening ith rapt attention to char
acters in this dramatic missionary
presentation. There were probably
seven hundred people who got a real
missionary message on this day. It
dosed with a beautiful stereopticon
lecture on Missions and Stewardship
by Wade C. Smith, "Greensboro, N.
('. He was one of the star speakers
(iuring this week. His chart talks on
Stewardship and Missions made a deep
impression upon all those who heard
him.
It is the general concensus of
opinion that Massanetta Springs Sum
mer Bible Conference should by all
means be made permanent. The lo
cation is ideal. It is thought that the
Synod will make a great mistake if
it does not take the property over for
summer Conference work.
At this writing one cannot tell
whether or not it has been a finan
cial success, but indications are that
all expenses will be paid and t'hat
there will be no deficit.
YOUNG PKOPliE'S.
(Continued from page 10)
lie sent on request). Quite a number
or the alumnae and present, students
?r the Assembly's Training School
were present at the Conference and
in a twilight service gave a program
which effectively portrayed "The
Spirit of A. T. S."
Perhaps the attitude of those at
tending this Conference can best be
shown in the oath of allegiance taken
l>y delegates each day at the open
meeting: "In the name of Jesus
t'hrist we are here to know the right,
to live the truth, to follow Christ the
King." The Findings Committee,
consisting of one representative from
'?ach clan, offered the following reso
lutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
We, the members of the Second
Young People's Conference of the Sy
nod of Virginia at Massanetta Springs,
July 25-31, 1922, offer the follow
ing:
I. Resolved, That because of what
'he Morning Wattch has meant to us
here, that each member of this Con
ference continue to have a definite
time each day for personal prayer
and Bible study.
II. Resolved that group co-opera
tion is the best means of promoting
efficiency in the Church work by
young people.
III. Resolved that Young People's
Organizations should be offered a
definite part in preparing and super
viBing the local church budget.
IV. Resolved that the local church
should offer to the young people every
opportunity to develop the four-fold
life, physically, mentally, socially and
religiously.
V. Resolved that the Synod of Vir
ginia be urged to arrange for an an
nual Young People's Conference at
Massanetta Springs, Virginia.
"WOMAN'S WORK.
(Continued from page 7)
joyed the honor of his honorable call
ing.
To-day I have come several miles
to spend two days with one of my
new groups, and it is the first timo
1 have ever spent the night here, so
more than usual pains have been
taken to have everything in readiness
for the moksa, as a minister is called
in Korea.
I was met at the railway station
by the whole school, which has just
begun in this little group. There were
twenty-six boys, ranging from little
seven-year-old lads in dirty clothes
and with dirtier faces to sedate and
dignified fifteen-year-old married men,
in wonderful cerise-colored coats, top
knots and little yellow straw hats
looking like inverted flower-pots and
held on by strings tied under the
chin. They were lined up according
to size, and as I came near all bowed
very gravely and very low to the hon
orable preacher. Then each school
boy grabbed up a package and we
started for the church about a mile
away. I led in my drab and sober
American clothes, but strung out be
hind me was a long string of Korean
boys looking like the spectrum with
their white socked feet on one edge
ancfi their yellow faces, black eyes
and hair on the other. Between were
cerise, blue, purple, green, white and
near white, according to the color
fancy of the wearer of each suit. We
must have looked like some gayly
patched serpent as we wound in and
out through the rice fields.
As soon as I arrived at the village
there was as much to do and excite
ment as though the Japanese inspec
tor of chickens had arrived in all hia
epauletted and polished sword splen
dor. The leading question was, "Is
the moksa's room ready?" and I was
not allowed to go there until a breath
less little boy brought the news that
all was well.
What follows Is in nowise a criti
cism of the reception I received, for
I was given their best and I appre
ciated the love that prompted the
gift. But a description of it will
show you what it means to he a Ko
rean and to itinerate in Korea. 1
had this room all to myself, as far
as I could see, though morning found
me suspicious of this fact, but I know
the room had been cleaned out to
make ready for me, yet this is what
remained: One large box, larger than
a trunk; on this two large and one
small jars and various small articles,
such as a Bible, a comb, a wooden
paddle and other odds and ends. On
a pole shelf around three sides of
the room were the following: One
half gourd, full of the family sewing,
one basket, a larger basket, one large
cotton pad, a clothes' box, a box full
of tools for making straw shoes, a
basket of dishes, one pipe, a large
bundle of hemp fiber, another box
and other small articles. On the walls
a lot of bottles, some silk thread on
a reel, a suit of clothes and an iron
skillet used in ironing.
The room itself was eight feet
square and six feet high, made with
untouched mud walls and celling,
while the floor was of mud covered
with mats. All my country itinerat
ing outfit was there, and I still had
room to eat and entertain guests. I
did not see what went out of the
room, but from much experience I
know that the host felt that he had
given, me a practically empty room.
True, there are homes better than
this, but among the poor there are
many that are much worse. This was
a good average Korean room and in
rooms just like it or not so good
full 16,000,000 out of the 17,000,000
Koreans live and die.
There was not a single window in
the room, but two paper-covered
doors let in a pale and sickly light
on a bright day, for the roof must
extend far out over the wall so the
heavy rains will not wash them away.
There was constant dust from the
mud walls and floor which collected
in the cobweb festooned ceiling which
gently sifted down when for any rea
son the house shook a little or a
breeze came in at a seldom opened
door. The floor in these homes is
the bed, and no covering is used save
in the severest weather, while the
only preparation for bed consists in
taking ofT one's hat and loosening
one's belt.
But I found a Bible in this room
and that is a candle set large and
bright. The owner took joy and pride
in giving up his room to the preach
er. while for those two nights he and
his family slept out among the neigh
bors, so that I might be entertained.
Two months ago I could have offered
a stolid Korean a good sum of money
for the privilege of staying in this
room one night and he would have
shut the door in my face, no matter
what my need may have been. But
Christ has come into this mud-walled
village to stay, hence the change. Yes
terday over thirty walked six miles
to the place where I was preaching
and back before dinner in order to
see the moksa and make sure he
would come to their village on the
next day.
The leaven of the gospel is at work
here, and soon these cluttered homes
will be cleaner, less congested; soon
Christ-filled mothers will see to it
that their children are clean, and that
there is in this village a "little room"
that the moksa can call his own when
he comes to visit the church.
I thank God for the chance of shar
ing in the hospitality of this humble
home, for in being there I know, by
the power of the Spirit I will be able
in time to clean accumulated furni
ture of centuries of heathenism out
of hearts that have long resisted His
pleading voice and prepare in this
Korean village a room for the Moksa
of all moksas, for I know the King
in His beauty will not hesitate to
enter these homes and hearts and
there take up His permanent abode.
Kwang-Ju, Korea.
MISSOURI SYNODIC A L.
The twelfth annual meeting of Mis
souri Synodical will be held In Colum
bia, Mo., October 4th to Cth, inclu
sive.
On Wednesday afternoon, preced
ing the opening session, there will be
a Conference for Secretaries of
Causes.
The program will be. in large
measure, a repetition of the Wo
man's Summer School of Missions, at
Montreat. Mrs. C. S. Shawhan of Mo
bile, Ala., "our Parliamentarian," will
conduct a class in parliamentary law;
Mrs. Hazen Smith, one of the new
secretaries of the Louisville office, will
speak on Life Enlistment; our own
secretary of Young People's work,
Mrs. Wm. P. Borland, of Kansas City,
will teach the Mission Study Class,
in her own original and attractive
manner, using "Unfinished Tasks" as
text-book. It would be well for all
who expect to attend the meeting to
read the book in advance.
These outstanding' features, in con
nection with addresses by pastors and
missionaries, a series of Bible studies
and other good things are indicative
of the best meeting we have ever
had.
Look for announcement concerning
registration later. ...
EVA M. CAVERS,
Publicity Committee.
LAYMEN'S WORK.
(Continued from page 7)
Some of the Achievements.
But what have ministers done?
Still the question arises, are minis
ters good for something, or just good?
Suppose there had been no sons of
ministers.
Would we have the telegraph lines
of the world ? or even a Thomas A.
Edison, who as a telegraph boy be
gan his wonderful life, giving the
world the many things without which
it would fare badly? Was it not the
telegraph lines given us by S. F. B.
Morse, a minister's son, which awoke
Edison and started him on his mar
velous career? Would we have the
great ocean cables given us by an
other minister's son? Would the
news of Europe each day be spread
on our supper tables? If it had not
been for the bold John Hanocck, and
sons of other preachers, would wh
have the United States of America?
Would there be any Methodist
church if it had not been for two
sons of a preacher in Epworth rec
tory? Who can measure the fruits
of this influential Church. The great
hymns of comfort and courage and
battle and warfare are with us be
cause of a son of a minister. Would
there have been any soul-winning,
soul-stirring, soul-saving evangelism
in the churches?
More than half of our best books
were given us by sons of ministers.
More than half of our college and
university presidents are sons or
grandsons of ministers. How would
the world fare without Tennyson's
"In Memorium" or Wesley's "Jesus
Lover of My Soul," or so many things
which have become a part of the best
ideas and ideals of the world. If
there is a black sheep sometimes, like
Judas Iscariot among the twelve dis
ciples, the facts stand out that a min
ister's son has thirty times' more
chance to succeed than the ordinary
boy. ? The Dearborn Independent.
SUNDAY SCHOOL^
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ballat, and met him with the bold and
defiant question, "Should such a man
as I flee?' He had God on his side,
so he did not fear what man could do
to him.
"So the wall was finished .... in
fifty and two days." Their enemies
were right, when "they perceived that
this work was wrought of our God."
God is always ready to work with
and for those who pray and watch and
work.
We see subjectively, not objec
tively, what we are capable of seeing
not what there is to be seen. It is
not wonderful that we make so many
bad guesses at truth. ? Selected.
To the man who has learned the se
cret of the love of God in Christ,
death has only the uncertainty of a
glorious adventure. ? Selected.
God made the first man after a
divine original, and after a divine or
iginal, too, He made the first home.
? J. B. Brown.
The guilt of evil words Is not with
him only who speaks them. Whoso
listens to evil is an accomplice in it.
? Pusey. ' ?