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1Jl!1oman's <Ionference
1914
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SIXTEENTH
Annual Report
OF THE
f\OREA
·WOMAN'S CONFERENCE
OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
SEOUL
PRINTED AT THR PRANCO-KOREAN PRINTING HOUSa.
SMALL WEST GATE STREET.
CONTENTS.
. Officers and Members... ........ .......... ... ........ .......... ..... ... 2
Minutes ............... ' ....................................................... 3
REPORTS:-
Evangelistic work and day sebools on Poopyung and
Island Circuits of Seoul District, Hanna Scharpff... 7
Evangelistic work and day schools on Seoul and
Snwon Districts, Lula A. Miller ............................. 10
~1rs. Olive Hardy Lawton ............................................ 1:.3
Evangelistic work and day schools on Haiju District,
Gertrude E. Snavely ............................. _.................. 14
Evangelistic work and day-schools on Haiju District,
Mary Beiler........................................................... 17
Haiju City, Miss Barlow and Nurse Edge .................... 21
Yeng Byen City and District evangelistic work,
Olga P. Shaffer ...................................................... 23
Yeng Byen District educational and evangelistic work,
Grace L. Dillingham .............................. ,.............. 25
Yeng Byen evangelistic work, Mrs. V. H. \Vachs ........ 29
Evangelistic work on KongJuEast and West Districts,
Mrs. Alice H. Sharp ............................................. 32
Kong Ju evangelistic work, Mrs. W. C. Swearer .......... 37
Koang Hyoe Nyo Won (Woman's Hospital of Extended Grace) and Woman's'Medical Class, Drs. Hall
and Cutler .............................................................. 40
Department for Blind and Deaf, Mrs. R. S. Hall, M.D: .. 47
Evangelistic work, First Ch~rch Pyeng Yang, Mrs.
C. D. Morris ........................................................... 50
Pyeng Yang evangelistic work, Mrs. B. W. Billings .... 52
Day Schools in Pyeng Yang City and District and
evangelistic work in the First Methodist Church,
Henrietta P. Robbins ............................................. 54
Pyeng Yang District evangelistic work and Ne Mon
Kol church, Ruth E. Benedict ................................ 57
Pyeng Yang Union Academy, Emily Irene Haynes ....... 60
Seoul evangelistic work, Jessie B. Marker.................... 63
Seoul evangelistic work, Mrs. W. A. Noble ................... 65
Work among the Chlnese in Seoul, Mrs. C.S. Deming .. G6
The Bible Training Schoo], Seoul, Millie M. Albertson .. 70
Ewha Haktang, Seou1, Lulu E. Frey, Principal. .......... 72
The'Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital and Nurses
Training School, Seoul, Naomi Anderson ............... 78
Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital and Baldwin Dispensary, Mary S. Stewart. M. D ................................. 80
Appointments ......................... ; ..................................... 83
Sta tistjcs.
FIU~T COLLEGE GHADUATES
EWHA HAKTA~(;.
Officers and Members of the Korea Woman's
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, 1914Officers.
Mrs. W. C. Swearer.
President,
Mrs. C. D. Morris.
1 st Vice President,
Mrs. W. A. Noble.
2nd Vice President,
Recording Secretary, ..... . Miss Ruth E. Benedict.
Miss ~Iary Bei'ler.
Treasurer,
COl·responding Secretary,
Miss Lula A. Miner.
S ta tis tical Secretary,
Mrs. D. A. Bun~er.
nembers.
Rosetta S. Hall, M. D. ....... Mrs. MargaretBengelJ ones.
Mary ·M. Cutler, M. D.
Mrs. W. A. Noble.
Lulu E. Frey,
Mrs. Mary Harris FoIl well.
Mary R. Hillman,
11rs. D. A. Bunker.
Ethel M. Estey, ......
Mrs. E. M. Cable.
Mrs. Alice H. Sharp.
Mrs. C. D. Morris.
Lu1a A. Miller, ......
Mrs. A. L. Becker.
Henrietta P. Robbins
Mrs. F. E. C. Williams.
Mrs. W. C. Swearer.
Jessie B. Marker,
Gertrude E. Snavely;
Mrs. Corwin Taylor.
Mrs. W. C. Rufus.
Emily L Haynes,
Millie M. Albertson,
Mrs. A H. Norton.
Ora M. Tuttle, ......
Mrs. N. D. Chew.
Huldah A. Haenig.
~lrs. B. R. Lawton.
Ruth E. Benedict,
Mrs. B. W: Billings.
Mary Beiler,
Mrs. J. D. Van Buskirk.
Mrs. I. N. Miller.
Hanna Scharpif,
Mary S. Stewart, 1\1. D.
Mrs. Henry Taylor.
Aman~a Hillman, M. D.
Mrs. A. G. Anderson.
Olive F. Pye,
Mrs. C. S. Deming.
Grace L. Harmon,
Mrs!, Victor Wachs.
Grace L. Dillingham,
Mrs. Paul Grove.
A. Jeannette Walter,
Mrs. Orville Weller.
Naomi A. Anderson,
Mrs. S. A. Beck.
Blanche Bair.
Charlotte Brownlee.
Margaret 1. Hess.
Mrs. Ruby L. Krook.
MINUTES
OF THE
KOREA vVOMAN'S CONFERENC-E
The first session of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of
the Korea Woman's Conference was held on the afternoon of June 3rd, 1914, at Ewha Haktang, Seoul.
The meeting opened with the hymn, "Crown Him",
and l\liss Beiler led in prayer. Seventeen members answered to roll call.
I t was moved and seconded to proceed to tbeelection
of officers. Carried.
The following were elected for the year 1914-1915by
ballot.
President ................. Mrs. W. C. Swearer
1st Vice President ..... Mrs. C. D. Morris
2nd "
"
...... Mrs. W. A. ~oble
Recording Secretary Miss Ruth E. Benedict
Corresponding" ...... Miss Lula A. Miller
Statistical
" ...... Mrs D. A. Bunker
Treasurer ................: ..Miss Mary Beiler.
It was moved and seconded that the Reference Committee consist of six members. Carried.
The following Reference Committee was elected:Miss Lulu E. Frey
Dr. Mary Cutler
M.iss Lula A. Miller
1\1 rs. Alice Sharp
Miss l\1i11ie M. Albertson
Miss Emily 1. Haynes.
Moved that we adjourn. Carried.
Friday, June 5th, 2 P. M.
. The session opened with song and prayer, and reading of minutes.
Moved and seconded to have an Assistant Corresponding Secretary. Carried.
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~Iiss
Margaret L· Hess ",,"as elected by acclamation.
Moved and seconded that the Committee on Resolutions he appointed by the President. Carried.
Moved·-. that Miss Benedict be put on the Board of
Control of the Pyeng Yang Union Academy for a term
of two years. Seconded. Carried.
~9:v~d;that Mr. Billings bt't nominated to take Mr.
Becke.r'splace on the Board of Control of the Pyeng
Yang Uniop Academy. Seconded. Carried.
," ,.Moyed that Mr. Morris be nominated for two years
s,ervice. on tl;1.e Board of the Pyeng Yang Union Academy.
Seconded. Carried.
Moved that Miss Beiler be put on the Board of
Control of the Pyeng Yang Union Academy, as the Yeng
By~n representative for a term of two years. Seconded.
Carried.
Miss Haenig reported that there wasa debt of over
sixteen yen on last year's reports and that something
'would have tO,be done to reduce expenses.
1vloyed that the lndividual reports for 1913-1914
shall not exceed one thousand, words. Seconded. Carried.
Moved that, beginning with 1914-1915 and thereafter, one educational and one evangelistic report from
e~c~ station and one medical report from each hospital
be subnlitted. Seconded. Carried.
~19y~.d that the President appoint the Editing Committee. Seconded. Carried.
Moved to adjourn. Carried.
Monday, June 8th, 2 P. M.
The session opened with a song, and Mrs. Lawton
led in prayer. Reading of minutes.
The statistical report was presented by Mrs. Bunker
and accepted.
¥oved and seconded that the Secretary request the
committee on the new statistical blanks to make pr,ovIsion' f~r the women a~ well as the men. Carried.
, R,eport of, 1\1 iss \~. alter as Chairman of the Resolu{ions"Co~mittee was r~ad. 110ved and seconded to pass
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on each resolution, separately. Carried.
The following resolutions were adop-t:ed:
Resolved that, in case the Foreign Department decides to c10se any of the m~dical work in Korea, we request that the money which would have been used for
that purpose and the money appropriated for a new
Bible Training School building be given to Korea for the
carrying on of educational and evangelistic work.
Resolved tha t we express our thanks to Miss Barlow
and Miss Edge for the efficient service they have rendered in the evangelistic and medical work in Haiju; and to
Miss Renick for her assistance during the past year in
the Bible Training School.
Resolved that \ve express our desire for the speedy
return of ~] iss Hinman, Miss Estey, Miss Tuttle, and
Miss Robbins, "vho are home on furlough.
:Moyed and seconded that V"o'e reconsider the motion
of last year in regard to pensioning Bible Women.
Carried.
Moved and seconded to retire the Bible \Yomen at
the discretion of the worker in charge. Carried.
The President appointed the Editing COlllmittee as
[o11ows:l\.1rss
HAENIG
MISS HARMON
MISS BAIR
The [ol1owing Property Committee was recommended by the Reference Committee:MISS FREY
MISS MILLER
DR. CUTLER
The recommendation was accepted.
~J oved to adjourn. Carried.
Tuesday, June 9th. 2 P. M.
The session opened with prayer and song.
The Treasurer's report was read and accepted.
The report of the Auditing Comnlittee was read and
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accepted.
Moved and seconded that last year'~ Auditing Commi ttee be re-e1ected.
Moved that the resolution which was made in connection with the woman's medical work be omitted
from the printed minutes. Seconded. Carried'.
Moved that the \-Voman's Conference refer the settlement of the question concerning the medical work of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in Korea to
the Foreign Department of the Executive C~mmittee and
that each member of the Conference be requested to send
through the official correspondent her suggestions as to
a solution of the problem. Seconded. Unanimously
carried.
Moved that these letters be in the hands of the
Secretary by Saturday, June 13th.
The report of the Reference Committee was read and
accepted.
The Conference adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
RUTH
E.
BENEDICT,
Secretary.
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REI>ORTS
EVANGELISTl C WORK AND DAY SCHOOLS ON POOPYUNO
AND ISLAND CIRCUITS OF SEOUL DISTIUCT
HANNA SCHAI~PFF.
Looking back over the pa~t year with its days of
bappy labor for the l\laster, I feel that the hand of God
has been upon me. There have been some cloudy days
and at such times I have said, "'Who is sufficient for
these things except the Lord our God ?"
Evangelistic Work.
Bible Women:-The Island Bible Women ha\'e worked faithfully during the past year. Some change~ of appointment are necessary. The Poopyung Bible \Voman
Hatt.ie \\'as obliged to discontinue her work this spring.
Lula, a student froDI the Bible \Voman'sTraining School
will spend her summer vacation as a supply Bible \Voman. Eunice excels as a teacher of the Bible and ~lary
Pak, as an itinerant. Deborah has been brave through
persecution and Sinduc has been given special power in
working with the demon possessed. Chunsim, Lydia,
and Tabitha have been specially called to prayer; Chunsim reports the healing of a sick woman after spending
three whole nights in prayer. Lydia and Tabitha, while
holding classes on two of the islands, felt led to hold
sunrise prayer-meetings. In each church a reviyal was
the result.
My eight Bible Women have held thirty-six classes
enrolling eight hundred and forty women.
Bible Classes:-The Chemulpo Normal Class was
beld early in September. My first teaching in this class
was far trom perfect but the dear women were patient
and that gave me courage, and hope for the future.
During the winter, I held one Bible Class in ea.ch of the
eight circuits of the district. Everywhere teacher and
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students had times of blessing. ~iany of the women
confessed their sins. repented, and recei,,"ed assurance of
forgiveness. They left the class full of joy. Among the
Christians al~o several women received a special baptism
of the Holy Spirit. In some places, school girls attending the class were convicted of sin. They, too, were
conscious of forgiveJless and it was a great joy to see
them consecrate their young lives to their best Friend.
Nearly everywhere both IDen and women attended
t;he evening services and \",ere interested in the teaching
and seemed to be thankful for it, especially for the tal ks
on the keeping of the Sabbath and on temperance: The
teaching was not in vain. ;?reachers and Bible \Vomen
are still bringing good reports from thos{! places, where
these classes were held.
In one of the villages v,here we had a Bible class,
we met a young girl with a vel'y sore hand. She was
crying and said that she had not slept for ten days. The
"chim"(doctor's needle) and some filthy medicine were
the cause of all the trouble. During the class I treated
her as best I could, intending to take her with me to the
hospital when I returned home. On the lTIorning of our
departure, she came smiling into my room showing her
hand healed. Her happiness madenle thankful for the
little hospital training I had ,before coming to the field.
Soon other people came with a11 kinds of diseases. It
seemed as :though somebody had announced a dispensary
hour and all were taking advantage of the opportunity.
In May the regular Worlters' Class was held. \Ve
probab1y could not find a nlore attentive and zealous
lot of Korean women than we had in this class.
ltinerating:-Poopyung Circuit and Yung Chung
Islands were visited last fall and some churches on the
other islands during the winter. Nearly everywhere
there is increasing zeal. In only two groups we found
some discouragement because of sickness and death.
Traveling was not hard last year. Only on one trip
I decided not to go out again when the wind is strong;
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and an another, the boatmen did not know the sea route
well enough; therefore our boat stuck for severa~ hours
on a sand bar in the middle of the sea, and two days
1a ter they landed at such a bad place, that we could not
reach the boat after returning from a service in the
interior of the island. This meant dinner at eight in the
evening instead of at noon.
Day Schools.
There had to be many changes among the teachers,
because one of them \yent to Ewha Haktang to finish
the High School course. Hong Esther, a graduate of
Ewha, teaches in Kang \\'ha City and Susan Ha, daughter of my Bible \Yoman Sinduc, teaches in our ne\v
scho01 at Yun"g Hyung. The schools show good progress and five oftbem haye moved into new buildings.
In Kyotlong \"\e started a school last summer.
Its
total enrollment is already fifty-four with an average
attendance of _fifty one, altho many of these children
canle from neighboring villages.
The little heathen
children, after haying attended our school for some time,
prove to be good missionaries. I am told that they
heg their parents to attend church with them.
At both
Kyodong and Poopytmg, the schools have outgrown
the buildings and the children are obliged to use the
church. In Rang \\'ha City, the boys' and gids' schools
both occupied different sections of the church building.
The boys outgrew their part, but instead of their finding
new roon1S we were asked to nlO\'e our girls' school that
the boys might occupy the whole building. In mauy
places I1e\Y schools are being asked for.
During the fall I still taught in our Chemulpo giris'
school, but after New Years Miss Hess took oYer this
"work. 'ire are indeed grateful for this new co-worker,
who has already proved her",elf so helpful.
I am fu1I of thankfulness to the Lord for His help
during the past months and look to Him for strength
an9 guidance that I may do more eftective work in the
comlng year.
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EVANGELISTIC WORK AND DAY SCHOOLS
ON SEOUL AND 5UWON DISTRICTS.
LULA A. MILLER.
This Conference year has had something more of
trial in it than most other years in Korea have had. In
the fall the superintending of the Su won school building
...vas my trial; this spring it is a sprained arm. All
things considered, I prefer the former, for I can at least
see results. The building stands, but what good may
result from a sprained arm, I do not know.
I. Evangelistic Work.
1. Class Work:-During the year two workers'
classes of two and three weeks each have been held in
Chemulpo for the Bible women, class leaders and volunteer workers of the Suwon district and the Island circuits~ The class just closing a few days ago was the most
satisfactory of any such class yet held in Chemulpo. The
attendance and teaching force were larger and we were
able to secure Mrs. Noble, ~1r. tynn, principal of Pai
Chai, and Dr. Kang of Severance hospital to give special
lectures.
Normal classes were held in Chemulpo, Suwon, and
Yechun the same as last year. The women who were
trained .in these three classes went out two by two,
holding five day classes in all of the larger churches and
groups of the district. Nearly 5000 conversations were
held by these women with backsliqden Christians and
with the heathen.
In a conference with the ~omen a few days ago,
they told me .that in almost every instance the leaders
wa~t them to hold classes in their churches, the only
d,iscouraging feature being the inability of the women to
read the native character. Through the years, 1 ha,re
been trying to think at a way of solving this problem.
At the last District Conference I was given a place on
the program. At that time I tried to ('onvince the pastors of my need of their help. For long I have felt that
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if the native leaders would get the matter upon their
hearts they would be able to inspire the men of their circuits with so much zeal th~t the fathers and husbands
would soon be teaching their women to read. Through
this appeal for help at District Conference, some enthusi~sm was aroused, but fearing this would soon die out
and my appeal be forgotten, I wrote a letter to each
leader of the eleven circuits, asking them to send me a
report of the number of men who would promise to
teach the women of their family. All of the leaders except one have reported. with .the result that 340 men
have decided to teach their wives and daughters to read
unmun. Just how many will keep this promise I cannot
anticipate, but I feel that a beginning, at least, has been
made.
In addition to the Normal classes, I held three shorter classes, one each at Changhowon, Chungju and Yaju,
and during the Korean New Year season, I taught one
of the ~linor Prophets for Iv1 iss Albertson.
During the year I spent about three months in class
work.
2. Bible Women:-\Vhen my twelve Bible women
gathered around me for study which has just closed, I
thought t~em a little dearer than ever before and I
thought, too, that they were a wee bit finer than the
Bible women of any other "I:orker. In a closing conference held in my study, ,,,hen I asked them to tell me
some of their ex~eriences of the year ,they could bardly
wait for the.ir tnrn to speak.
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In a little dl1age where the work had been in a prosperous condition for several years, there' began to be
luany backsliders, until at last there was but one faithfl1) one left. Martha, a volunteer \vorker visiting tbe
village, called in most, if not a11, of the Christian homes.
The women told her that if a service could be held on
Sunday they would be glad to attend. Martha went to
the Bible woman Rachel, told her story, and suggested
that they go together 101' a service the fonowing Sab.
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bath. On Saturday morning they met, walked out to the
village and caned in all the Christian homes announcing
the next day's service. Six women attended and the one
faithful man left preached the sermon. Rachel said, "We
all received such great blessing that morning and we
were an so happy." So it is that our women have a
part in keeping the work together.
3. Woman's Stud~TT Course:-During the past year
many more names have been enrolled in the ~'oman's
HomeStudy Course. On the Nan Yang circujt alone there
are over forty five women 'who are using their spare
moments in this way. At Ochon a number of ,vomen
have formed a study class, meeting together for special
ipstructlon which is given them by a young woman of
that viIlage \vho hasjust graduated from a school in
Seoul.
In Chemulpo the women continue to meet in the 010
school building every Saturday afternoon. The seven
teachers are all volunteers. Among these women are
over twenty who are learning unmun.
4. Chemulpo Church:-I think it is safe to say that
the women are the life of the Chemulpo church. There
are some splendid women class leaders ann the Bible wonlan Annie is a whole host in herself. I cou~t it a grea t
privilege to have among my Korean co-workers two
such rare spirits as are my Bible woman Annie and our
pastor Vi Ik Mo. The class leaders have held ninety
tnonthly class meetings iri the different sections of the
city, and they have exhorted 11500 persons.' Many are
the good works of these Chemulpo women!
II. Day Schools.
Ourgreatest blessing in connection with the Chemul.
po school work has been the coming of Miss Margaret
Hess. She has fallen so readily into the \vork of the
school and into the life of the home that it seems impossible to he1ieve that she has been with us but five
nlonths. We ('eu]o not have chosen one better fitteo for
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the work.
The Suwon school building was finished in December
and the school nloved in to it just before Christmas. For
several years the girls have studied on the large open
porch all winter. I am glad to see them comfortably
housed. The other schools on the district are less for.
tunate. In Punwon the building which was built by the
people themselves is good and the preacher who called
to see me yesterday told me that any time the school
outgrew its present building they were ready to enlarge
it. "But," he said, "we have no equipment ...... nothing
except the children and the room." We ourselves know
that there must be improvement in the schools or they
will not be allowed to exist.
I received several mission boxes from home filled with
nice gifts for the Chemulpo schools. From the Stamford
"Korea Circle," I received a splendid Christmas box for
the Suwon school; also a special gift. for the teacher
Mary,· vvhotTI they have been supporting for several
years.
For these and other gifts and for the prayers of the
Koreans from the time of Illy accident, I feel indeed
grateful.
1\IRs. OLH-E HARDY LAWTON
As Miss Scharpff, being in charge, reports the work
of the Chemulpo circuits, it only remains for me to give
a small account of myself personally.
During the year, in company with my husband, I
have spent 106 days in the country, walking 1300 Ii and
visiting 105 groups. Have held services with the \vomen
whenever opportunity offered, examined candidates for
baptism and membership, and rendered \vhatever general service I could as th;:} women of the different groups
seemed to require or desire.
The different arrangement for the general Bible classes
this year left me opportunity for but three country
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classes with the women. The privilege of teaching in the
leaders' class at Chemulpo 'vvas new to me, which together with the fact that it closed but a few days ago,
causes it to occupy a prominent place as I think over the
work of the year. In adrlition to the leaders from our
Chemulpo and island circuits, there ,\vere a goodly number called in from Suwon district by Miss Miller; these
I met for the first time and found them a delightful, zealous group of women, but hopeless flatterers. I wondered
a bit over this. and then in a flash it all became clear to
me. These women have been used to working with !'.1iss
Miller and Miss Hillman only and, in their attempts to
declare the excellencies of these good ladies, have found
no place for moderation of speech, and are only learning
that like expressions applied to beginning missionaries
are flattery, pure and simple. But the class,--it was to
me a season of real spiritual uplift and blessing. I only
pray that some of the women may have been helped as
much as I was. It was to me also an incentive to language stuny! an ivspiration to service, and leaves me with
an increased longing to be effectiv.e under the Holy Spirit
in making known the. \-yay of salvation more perfectly.
EV ANOELISTIC WORK AND DA Y SCHOOLS
ON HAIJU DISTRICT.
GERTRUDE
E.
SNA. VEI.,Y.
After a furlough full of blessing, I was happy to return to my beloved field of labor the last \-veek of Nov ember, 1913. It was good to find that during my absence
the work had been carried on so faithfully hy my coworker, Miss Beiler. After my return, in order to facilitate the administration of the district, we felt led to
make a territorial division; she tRking the circuits west
ofHaiJu city with the city school; and I. the circtlits
east of Hai Ju city with the city evangelistic work.
I want to sound a note of praise for the way in
which God has worked tbis year. Just as Joshua saw
the Man with a drawn sword, going ahead fighting ·his
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battles, so it has seemed to me that I could see the Holy
Spirit going ahead and doing the work for me. He has
thus worked, I believe, because of the faithful intercessory friends in the homeland.
In January, a special class was held in Hai J u city
for our Bible women and leading workers who gathered
from all over the district for two week's Bible study.
Miss Beiler and I j Dined in this class, each of us teaching two hours a day. Afterward, she held her country
classes on the west and I on the east. My classes were
held at Pai~chun, Yunpaik (new name for Yunan), and
Gotmoi, the largest centers of work on the eastern part
of the district, also one in Hai J u city. In these circuit
Bible classes of a week's duration each, I taught four
hours a day, the total enrollment being 2~O. My subject
in a11 the classes was the Cross of Christ, with introductory studies on important divisions of Scripture. After
translating Mrs. Field's chart on the Cross of Christ,
aDd Miss Pohle's dispensational chart, I was enabled,
thr.ough a gift of money from Mrs. Field for Korea, to
have enough printed to supply everyone who studied
.during the winter. They were the best classes 1 have
ever had in attendance, interest. and spiritual results.
A revival was the marked feature of each class. • At the
end were happy testimonies to having entered into their
inheritance in Christ Jesus-the life more abundant.
There is always power in the Cross of Christ. One
of our greatest difficulties is to get the old women to
give up smoking their pipes after they decide to believe.
In the Hai ]u city class, every woman who smoked was
freed through the power of the Cross. Their testimony
since has been that they have no more desire for it.
In the Pllikchun class, one of our Christian ,vomen
right in the midst at the teaching arose saying the Word
of God cut so deep in her heart that she could not stand
it any longer, but had to confess. So, with sobs and
tears, she poured out everything. She had not been
attending church for over a year, but had been going to
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a sorceress to enquire how long it would be till she
should "live well." At the next session she gave a bright,
happy testimony. Another chu~ch member who was attending the Seventh Day Adventist Church and causing
much disturbance in a number of our churches by leading others away came to realize her error, made apublic
confession, and returned to us ..
During the week at Yunpaik, outside the regular
class hours for the women, I was kept busy teaching
the men who came asking for charts.
At the Gotmoi class, I was requested t.o teach men
as well as women. I consented, for it was an unusual
opportunity. You .know it is contrary to the old
Eastern custom for women to teach men. I have sometimes had the men of the place in which the class was
held come in to listen, but never before have the leading
'men as well as the women from the other churches on
the circuit gathered to attend a woman's class. A la.rge
white muslin curtain separated the men from the women in the church. I sat at the end, facing both as I
taught. At first, the men were a little inclined to show
off their knowledge but they were soon broken down
through the power of the Spirit and confessed that their
boast had been in other things than "in the Cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ."
Beside my classes, I spent three weeks and a halt in
-successful revival meetings at Haiju, Yunpaik, and
Paikchun, with Mr. Kim, a Korean evangelist, and
visited 34 of the 61 church groups in the east Haiju
.circuits where Christians were strengthened and new
believers won. I also attended one District and five
Quarterly Conferences, which were splendid opportunities 'of again becoming acquainted with .conditions in
the work.
The girls in our two day schools on the east Haiju
circuits-Yunpaik and Paikchun-have not only been
helped themselves during the winter, but heathen parents have been gathered into the Fold.
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Upon returning from my furlough, I was glad to
welcome our two independent English Wesleyan ladies
into our hOlne and work. Miss Edge has been a great
help as nurse in the new hospital of the General Board,
and Miss Barlow, especially in the city evangelistic
work. spending most of her time visiting in the homes
of Christians and following up new believers.
We were truly grateful for the mission boxes received
from Grace Church, Harrisburg; Fletcher church, Phila;
and Williamstown, Pa. We are also grateful to our
Women's Foreign Missionary Society for raising the
salaries of Bible women and day school teachers from
$50.00 to $60.00 a year, as our patrons through Dr.
Stearns had already done.
These native helpers are most earnest and faithful
and were made very happy by the increase. A new
baby organ, also received. through Dr. Stearns, has been
invaluable.
I praise God for answered prayer, guidance, the privilege of joy in His service again on the field the past six
months, and the marvelous way in which God has been
caring for His own work. Truly our Father does "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think."
EVANOELl5TIC WO~K AND DAY SCHOOLS
ON HAIJU DISTRICT.
MARY BEILER.
Haiju District has been blessed in so many ways
this last year that I would begin this report with a
hearty note at gratitude to God who has thus blessed
His own work. Needless to say all were glad to welcome Miss Snavely back again into the work in November, and none more so than her co-laborer. In order
to facilitate the administrative work, we decided between us that ~liss Snavely be responsible for Haiju
City evangelistic work and that on the East Circuits
with the schools and that I look after the city school
and evangelistic work on the West Circuits with their
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two schools. Therefore it has seemed easier to prepare
the individual reports.
The work on the West Circuits,. for the ~eason that
there are no large towns a~d the country is quite mouutainous with widely separated groups of villages, has
been the least encouraging on the District. But this
last year our hope has been strengthened and with the
sight of five new church buildings, several new groups
of believers well started, the two girls' schools in good
condition and a strong band of preachers and Bible women enthusiastically working we anticipate a fine advance in the near future.
ITI~ERATING. In the fall before :Miss Snavely'S
return, I was glad to complete my full itinerary of the
District, by spending several weeks in two of the East
Circuits, Gotmoi and Paikcbun. One interesting experience was when we stopped to distribute tracts and
small Gospels, with the help' of the cook and a col.
porteur, to a gang of over a hundred men who \vere repairing one of the main roads, and thus paying their
tax. 1\'1y itinerating has been limited this year, for thiR
spring I have been confined to Haiju city, expecting
workmen for the school building and trying to get it
started. While here I have bc;en able to give more personal attention to the school administration, doing
some visiting in the homes, and also have been studying
the language more. Hut I was glad of the opportunity
for a short run into the country several weeks ago
to attend the three 4th Quarterly Conferences on the
West, and by hearing the detailed reports was able to
get a .good idea of the Circuit work aud its hopeful
progress.
BIBLE CLASSES. In August about one third of
the large general class for church workers from all over
the District was composed of women, and we were
glad to hear one of the foreign teachers who was not
over enthusiastic about the mixed class, acknowledge
that the women answered up as well as the men, and
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in some cases better. But my own teaching did not be.
gin till January when we had a special two weeks class
in the city for particularly called women, including Bible
women, and other workers from all over the District.
I did enjoy teaching these more advanced women, and
believe it was a foretaste of what we are hoping to de.
velop in the larger country classes, when the general
intelligence is raised.
Later I taught the women's divisions of the three
genera) classes held in the centers of the three West Circuits. This was the first attempt at having the men's
and women's classes meet at the same time and place. I
taught two subjects to the women and then they studied with the men under a Korean preacher. We also joined in the morning devotional period and the evening
evangelistic services. In many ways this combination
was more interesting, tho in some features probably not
so profitable for the women's study. As renlarked before, the general uplift received in the evening evangelistic
services during these classes was cause for deep gratitude. Another gratifying feature was the improvement
over last year in the steady and regular attendance of
the members, who consequently showed deeper interest
and earnestness in the study.
DA Y SCHOOLS. The two small schools at Kang
Yung and Ong Chin arc each having a steady growth,
despite their uncomfortable quarters. In Ong Chin, I
was glad that during the Bible class there I had the
opportunity to visit in the homes of the school girls, and
to see how the school influence is working and bringing
many of the parents within the influence of the church.
We are glad to report that the Hai Ju City School
is in gen~rally good condition and all eagerly looking
forward to the fall when we expect to enter the new
building. The giris this spring have made quite a quantity
of crochet hags and bookmarks and colored drawings,
which I sent at M:rs. Harrison's request to her to be
given to those King's Heralds who turn in $ 8.00 to-
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ward their Thank-offering for the new building, thus
showing their appreciation of what is being done for
them. This spring we started the fourth grammar grade
thus completing the curriculum of a Common 8 grade
school. This necessitates an enlargement of our teach.
ing force, and so we are appealing for a full time J apanese teacher and another advance grade teacher's salary. These we must have in order to retain our standing as the highest grade girls' school in the province,
.including the Government school and all others. To
have a good building is not all that is necessary, for
the Japanese lay great stress on equipment, and the
quality of the teaching force. Then realizing the advantage and real necessity of providing an opportunity for
the graduates of our Christian primary schools on the
District to get some more education, we stHrted a little
dormitory with two rooms and a kitchen, where nine
of the advanced students have been living this year.
When the new building is complete we shall be able to
accommodate these and a few more in the present classroom building. The girls have organized a King's Daughters Circle and. in the recent revival, many were helped
to a better understanding of the Christian life. I have
also done quite a little vtsiting in the parents' homes
during the year. For Miss Barlow's services as teacher
of English and music and in visiting the homes "\ve are
truly grateful.
Our school girls were made happy at Christmas time
by the presents in the boxes from Norwalk, Conn., Aux-
iliary, and the belated ones of last year; also the packages of post cards from various friends have been made
into very popular tracts by pasting colored Korean
tracts on the address side.
For the opportunities of service this year, altho they
have been quite varied, I rejoice, and hope for more this
coming year.
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HAIJU CITY.
MISS BARLOW AND NURSE EDOE.
(WRITTEN BY MISS
BA.RLow)
Onr life since coming to Haiju has been full of interest, and we gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity to report on the work accomplished. Nurse Edge
attends all day at the hospital where, in addition to
dispensary work and the constant supervision and a
share in the training of the native nurses, she has
charge of the dispensary and general hospital accounts,
balancing these "\vith the doctor monthly. During the
year she has attended eight mid-wifery cases, accompanied by one of the native nurses and, including visits
paid afterwards to these houses to give instruction in
the after care of mother and child, she has paid seventy
out-calls. It is still difficult to persuade the women to
avail themselves of a maternity nurse's services. unless
driven to it by necessity; but those who have experienced the benefit of such care are quick to tell
others.
In July we spent two weeks at the Language Class
in Pyeng Yang, and I am able to study dai1y with a
teacher. But Nurse Edge's duties at the hospital prevent her from doing this. When we first came to Haiju,
I visi ted with each one of the class leaders and the Bible
\voman in turn, calling upon the church members, and
so became acquainted with many of the women. Since
then I have regularly visited in the homes with 1;he city
Bible woman, and our visits have included the heathen
parents of the pupils in the boys' and girls' schools,
new believers, and those who attended the services in
some cases as sight seers, but have been persuaded to
believe by this l11eans. I find that my presence can
usually get a little congregation and, needless to say, our
hearts have rejoiced to see many times the discouraged
ones back at the services, and become regular attendants
after~ards.
A t the hospital
i
have directed the special Bible
wo-
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man in her work, not only with the women who attend
each day and 'the in-patients, hut in following up the
cases who leave the hospital, sometimes visiting in their
homes, and keeping a special oversight of those w.ho become believers.
Each Friday evening I have helped in the women's
meeting~ teaching, with the assistance of one of the class
leaders, the Eunmun (natiye character) to those who
cannot read.
On Sunday afternoon, with one of the older school
girls. I have charge of the girl's new comer's class in the
Sunday School, and by means of pictures teach them
the Bible stori(,s. In this way several new scholars have
been added.
Up to last Easter, I taught Engli~h and singing in
the girls' school one hour per week each. Since then
the new graduate from Ewha having undertaken the
English teaching, I ha \re singing only. I ought to mention at this point that these regular duties were somewhat interfered with just after Chri~tmas, when I hurt
my foot and was kept a prisoner in the house for some
weeks. I employed the time in study and arrears in
letter writing.
I have arranged with the various class leaders to
visit regularly with them in their wards in turn one
each week, in addition to the other visiting. By this
means I hope to reach more of the unbelievers amongst
those whom the class leaders know ~
A little incident that occurrerl during the special services held here, made us realize something of the difficulties in connection with the Christian life of some of the
women. and I asked a Jew of the younger ones to meet
me one day, with the result that a young women's
·weekly class.meeting .has been formed, as something of
an experiment. This I feel to be in the nature of a joint
responsibility in connection with the city work, and if
it brings us into closer touch with the lives of the
younge·r women of the church, als~ to a more under-
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standing sympathy with them in their difHicultiesand
trials. we shall feel it to be more than worth while.
For continued guidance, and the constant realization of the Master's promise, "Lo, I am with you all
the days," we give thanks.
VENO 8VEN CITY AND DIST~ICT EVANGELISTIC WORK.
OLGA P. SHAFFER.
The fall work openedthe first of September with the
regular semi-annual Women's Bible Class. Therewere
enrolled 113 women, and their interest and faithfulness
in Bible study together with the earnest and enthusiastic
work of the teachers made the class ~ success.
The most important feature of this clas~ was the
givingof diplomas to the two women who were the first
to complete the six year course. This service took place
after the regular 'Nednesday evening prayer meeting
where a large crowd of people had gathered. The two
women were very proud of their large diplomas with a
picture of an open Bible at the top, and all the rest of
the class was proud of the two women. Hereafter there
will be graduates in each class
In the latter part of September I took a trip on the
Unsan Circuit. In November, in company with a good
Bible woman, I went into the remote center of the Yang
Duk district to hold a class. This was the first class
ever held out there and the experience and joy of it will
be precious to me throughout my lift!. There are not a
great many Christians there but·some very earnest ones.
Twenty-five women studied, and the eagerness and
earnestness were almost pathetic. I was greatly moved
when they pointed out a middle-aged 'woman who has
attained to the rank of class leader in the village church,
and was told that during the three nights I was sleeping in' village inns while on my journey to their to\VD,
this dear wontan had not slept at all, but had prayed
throughout tbenight hours for my safety, comfort, and
health. They. knew I had not beep well for many months
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and that the journey is a very difficult one even under
the best circumstances. Her prayers prevailed and I
was given sufficient strength for this one class at least.
It was an experience and privilege of my missionary
work that I value above all others. I long to return
again as they implored me to do, but am forced to leave
that to another. One little girl who studied in the class
is now in the girls' school in Yeng Byen and Miss Dillingham says she is very promising.
From this class I went to Pyeng Yang expecting to
help teach in the two fall classes there but was unable
to do so. In January the doctor permitt<;d me to go to
Yeng Byen for a week to instruct the Bible women and
arrange tfIeir itinerary for the month of class work over
the entire district. We had a blessed time studying the
First Epistle of Peter and praying together in preparation for the work.
I was indeed glad to be in Yeng Byen at this time to
join the other members of the station and the Korean
brethren in welcoming Mrs. Krook to Yeng Byen and
the work. The day she and Miss Dillingham arrived, a
great company of people went outside the city-gate to
meet them. As the carriage in which they rode came
winding up the mountain side, from a point above them
the men, women, and children sang "Anywhere with Jesus
I can safely~go", and I am sure it lllade the new worker's
heart go out to her newly adopted people in -great love
and longing. She will be a very great blessing and be
greatly blessed there, I am confident.
I t was necessary for me to return again to Pyeng
Yang as we have no doctor in Yeng -Byen.The workers
there were many of them sick and worn out, and needed
?-ssistance. I went over to the Girl's Academy to help
in Miss Haynes' absence and for three weeks did what I
~o~ld, but being unable to hold out any longer with this
attempt, my labors came to an end. Only those who
have,passed this way before know how hard is the trial
:qfJteavin~ a work and _people which they love and the
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disappointment in laying down a service begun. But
sometimes the flesh fails and there must come a halt for
repairs.
In March I once more visited Yeng Byen to get my
things and to say, "good-bye." The Bible women were
all returning from their class work so I heard their reports. A verbal report is al ways full of life and details
which add color and interest to the account. Some of
the women who taught were the Tithing Class women
who lived in other towns; so their reports were sent by
post.
The total number of classes held during the conference year including the Yeng Byen city classes, is 23.
There were six paid Bible women and five Tithing Cla~s
women who conducted and taught all hut three of these.
The Bible women have done good, faithtul work. Am'ong
their converts were three sorceresses led to accept the
faith by our most unlearned Bible woman Kilsie.
I have done so little this year that my report would
be unnecessary were it not for the fact that the work
went on without me and I wanted to make at least a
few comments upon it. The work of the Kingdom is the
Father's and He carries it on. When, as an instrument,
one is laid aside from service in one capacity there is ofttimes another place of usefulness. I have been lea~ning the
truth of this more and more these past few mopths as I
have 'been entering into the joy and power of the ministry of intercession, a service in which even the weakest
may take part.
YENO BYEN DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL AND
EV ANOELISTIC WORK.
GRACE
L.
DILI"INGHAM.
I wish I might be able to express in my report of the
year's work apportioned to me, something of the gratitude I feel as I look back over it. Not that my part of
the work has been all that I hoped it to be, but because
it bas succeeded so well in spite of my failures. under His
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guidance to whom it all belongs.
When Dr. and Mrs. Millet were obliged to leave us a
'year ago and Miss Shaffer in the fall, we were reduced by
half, but January brought Mrs. Krook who very quickly
found her own place in the station, and in the hearts of
the Koreans. The absence of both Mrs. Miller' and Miss
Shaffer has given Mrs. Wacbs and myself a variety of
work which prevents monotony, though it doubtless interferes with efficacy.
Of first importance, has been the erection of the new
"Campbell Memorial Girls' School." On October 25th,
the girls, sixty strong, marched from the church, where
they had been studying, singing "Onward Christian
Sgldiers," and entered the building to the music of the
surprise piano, 'which Columbia River Branch and Mrs.
Miller, made possible. Needless to say they have enjoyed
it, and their progress in music, under Mrs. Wach's' instruction, is gratifying.
The building has proved very satisfactory for our
work. To be sure, we had a'fire and two burglaries before
Christmas, but the results were not very serious in any
case.
The little dormitory, when completed, was smaller
than planned, and is already crowded to the limit with
twelve girls and the matron. As nine more girls are
promised.admission next fall, it looks as though Yeng
Byen must do still more building soon. We have added
two.years of the upper grammar school as the c1asses
advanced, and the enrollment for the year has reached
eighty-four. It takes our two "Ewha" graduate teachers, a Japanese and a Cbjnese teacher, eight periods
daily; Mrs. Wach's music; and my fifteen periods a week
of English, gymQastics, and sewing, to teach the required curriculum; Bible, extra; and then the girls have to
come Saturday morning for Japanese and Chinese. When
'trying to arrange the recitation schedule I decided that
,the Orient was hurrying us in some things.
Thef,our country day schoQls on the district all '$bow
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increased interest and attendance. Their total enrollment is 166. Nothing in all our country work seems
to me so \¥orthy our attention and support as the day
schools, for which as yet we have no separate appropriation. When it was thought that the Hui Chun Girls'
school would have to be closed, the Christians were very
much distressed for they said it was all that "vas holding the church together. This, too, in Korea, where not
many years ago a girl was not at aU worth educating!
During the Christmas week, Rev. U Soon Kim conducted some wonderfully helpful revival meetings in our
Yeng Byen church. xlany of the church members and
especially the school boys and girls were greatly blessed.
Because of the meetings our Christmas program "vas
simple, but the girls and their mothers were invited to a
tree at the school house, which the Christmas boxes
from Newburgh, N. Y., and Janesville and Sheboygan,
\Visconsin, made possible, beside sending remembrances
to each of the country pupils. \Ve are so thankful for
mission boxes!
Twelve or fifteen of our oldest girls study in the
Woman's Sunday Scho01; and the children's Sunday
School has had an attendance of from sixty to ninety
girls. They have taken a great deal of interest in bringing in new scholars.
On Saturday afternoon a. sort of Junior League and
on Sunday a meeting of the older girls are means of
lead ing our pupils in to real Christian experiences.
7\ly evangelistic work has been confined to a class of
women in Sunday School and special interest in the
Woman's Cottage Prayer-meeting. There are about
ninety women in the Sunday Schoo], and an average
attendance of twenty-five at the prayer-meetings. Altho
not yet far advanced in the Christian life, they are earnest and faithful, and unbelie\yers are being brought in.
I also made attempts to teach in the fall and the
spring Bible Classes. For the effort it required, I was
certainly rewarded by their patience and a closer ac-
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quaintance.
In September, I made a sixteen day country trip,
covering our two northernmost districts, each of which
has one of the girls' day schools.
Two of the Bible women had preceded me to the
farthest church, a four day's journey from the nearest
railroad, and started a class. Five women and one
girl walked in three miles every day to study; and the
women in and near Hui Chun Sao Mu, attended well in
spite of the fact that it was harvest time.
Not always are conditions so encouraging. On my
"\¥ay home I stopped at a little church which MiRS
Shaffer and I had thot very promising on our first visit,
and found it entirely disbanded. \Vith my landlady, I
,vent to the houses of the tOI-mer Christian women and
inyited them to a prayer-meeting that night. Eight of
them and four unbelievers, beside the little girls, came
out. I have never wanted to talk and pray in Korean
so badly before or since and, I guess, never succeeded any
better, so burdened was I for these poor, discouraged
,Yornen, who had known the better way but had given
up for lack of some one to lead them.
When the Bible women went out this spring they
were able to hold a good class there, and reported that
a number: of both men and ,\Tomen were meeting regularly
for services. The Lord doe.s \vonderfully \vatch over and
bless these little groups of Christians, who are wi thout
human 1eaders. But sometimes He needs to make use of
even the poorest, weakest human instruments to revive
weakened faith.
This spring I have made two trips to the districts
not visited in the fall. The first \vas to our strongest
church, where is one of our little day schools. This
church largely contributes to the .support of its pastor,
a Bible woman, and boys' and girls' scbools. ,Hardly a
week passes without believers being added to the
church. There had been twenty-three CODverts within
three months. This is the result of !personal wo'rk and
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constant house to house visitation on the part of the
Bible woman and others.
Mrs. Krook made her initial trip in l\1ay, an9 I felt
quite like a veteran initiating her into the joys and mysteries of country life and travel. The roads which w~re
bad, even for donkey travel, were almost impassable for
the jinricksha, empty, so we had plenty of exercise to
sharpen our appetites. VV'e found the churches all
growing and several had new church buildings which
meant a great deal of sacrifice~ In one of these places,
since our first visit to it a year ago, the few non-Christian families have all been won. The leader is a bright
young farmer \v ho has never studied except a few weeks
at different tilnes in the Bible classes, but he is willing
to give of his time and scant means to further the Kingdom. It is the faifhfulness of just such men and women
that is keeping our country churches not only living but
gro\ving.
First, then, for new buildings and the completed
task of building, I am thankful; for the growth in interest and enrollmen t in .the schools thruout the district;
for faithful, capable Christian teachers; for money enough
for immediate needs in scholarships and salaries. and
faith that more will be given as :we need; for revived
and renewed hearts in our Yeng Byen church and a
reaching out for greater blessings thruout the district,
I am truly grateful to our God, W}JO gives so richly and
beyond all we are able to ask or think.
VENa BYEN EVANOELISTIC '''ORK.
tins. YICTOR H. WACHS.
As I look back o\"er the year's work, the language
study stands out especially, since tha~ has taken a big
share of the time. I can appreciate now more fully
than two years ago a statement then made' by Mr.
Stokes, viz., "This language is not gotten on flowery
beds of ease." I might add to this, "especially with
two children in the house. "
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I made my first attempt at teaching the catechism
in the Woman's Bible Class this spring. I am glad that
none of you were in the class to see how poorly it was
done, and also glad that the Korean women are so consid.erate and appreciative of any thing we do when they
know 'we ha \Te done our best. Since there was no
American to teach who had been on the field any longer
than I bad, the feeling that I was really a part of the
class gave me a peculiar joy.
I have made a great many calls together with the
Bible woman during the winter. This to my mind is
one of the most valuable parts of a missionary's work.
There is nothing which has so impressed me with the
fact that the leq,ven of the Gospel is leavening the whole
lump as seeing how many are anxious to be numbered
among the believers but for various reasons are still
holding back. One of the homes which I remember particularly is one where the woman had been bitten very
slightly on the wrist by a dog. The skin was scarcel.v
broken and would probably have given no trouble at
all, but feeling they must do something, t.hey had a
Korean quack doctor stick big needles in to' her back. As
a result, the sore developed until it was as large as my
fist when I saw her. '. We are still hoping and praying
that a doctor may speedily come in order to relieve
many such cases.
During these spring months, I have enjoyed going
out with ~r. \Vachs on the motorcycle to the near-by
churches. "Xear-by", in the Yeng Byen District, means
not exceeding one hundred Ii, (33 miles), as the nearest
church is out thirty Ii. 1 was enabled in this way to
visit twelve of the country churches while I saw the near~st group three times. Sim Pyeng, which is one hundred
Ii from Yeng Byen is a little place of only thirteen houses,
but a very promising little church. Mr. Wachs is never
able to find the right cow-path leading to this tiny
village; so we found ourselves about five Ii from the place,
when it became so dark that we were afraid tv ride.
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Mr. Wachs started the engine several times so that they
might hear it and come out to meet us; and this the local
preacher did after we had wandered among the paddy
fields a while When the women saw that I was along,
the note of joy in their voices made my heart rejoice
that I could be that little bit of encouragement to them.
There were about fifty out to service the next morning,
most of whom are regular attendants.
I have spent one afternoon a week in the schools
teaching music and have enjoyed it immensely. I am
more than ever convinced that the Korean boys and
girls have as yet undreamed-of possibilities along this
line.
This spring, I have taken Mr. Wach's English class
while he has been busy with his other work. The fact
that the college has gone to Seoul and they are requiring more English is proving a great incentive. The
work I enjoy most is that among the boys. The happiest part of the day is when seven of them are at their
various tasks of chopping wood, carrying water, weeding in the garden, etc. The most encouraging part of
the work with the boys is the way we have seen them
grow spiritually. Over a year ago when we saw that
the older boys were beginning to feel that they were too
big to go to the children's meeting, we excused them
and organized an English class together with Scripture
reading and prayers led by the boys themselves. After
the revival last winter, they of their own accord voted
to discontinue the English. When our spring class graduated and four went to Seoul, some of our most enthusiastic ones left but the others were notlongin rising
to the occasion and we soon had as good meetings as
before. A few weeks later, our hoy doctor (a boy in
the eighth grade, who is the only doctor we have had
for the past year) when returning from Pyeng Yang,
stopped at one of our little churches and preached. He
came back so enthusiastic that the next Friday night
he asked how many boys wanted to go out every Sun-
day. Severa] ilntn~diately :.raised ·th~ir bands; . We. told
them; however, t1:~at their .chiefwQ,rk ·nowwas preparation; but: if ~wo wpqld: go out everySttnday to one of
the,four~ear-by;chl.lrches,. w~ thought ·they wou]dbe
able-tQ dQ muchj~·QQd.~ They have been dO'~rigthis work
for several weeks now withgoodresuHs. The Friday
night befor~_Icame away, they gave me another surprise
by deciding that theyougbt to take up a collection e~ery
week in order to pay the "pap kap" (price of rice) of the
boypre-acher who goes out on Sunday. Dneof the poor,.
est but mostfaithful:mothers told t:nejust tire, other day
that her boy was crying recently because he had no
stockings to wear to the meeting. Shetold him that since
.he was tired, he had better not go. But he jumped up
and went anyway~ bare-footed, leaving her standing
there· wondering where .such "yulsim" (zeal) had come
.from. I never attended better meetings than the ones we
have with the boys. Some of the older leaders in the
.chu~ch could well profit by their example.
We thank ~od for the way He has blessed the work
. during the past year and for the outlook for the coming
year.
EVANOELISTIC WORK AND DAY SCHOOLS ON KONO JU
EAS~ AND WEST DISTRICTS •
H. SHARP.
Among the many blessings we have received during
the past Jear there are two for which we feel especially
thankful to God: first, for sendirig us a co-worker in the
person of Miss Bair andi second, for the good health we
have had to do .the work committed to our care.·
. MRS. ALICE
I. BV ANGELISTIC
WO~K.
Itiner,ating. D~ringthe year yve have itinerated over
.llearly 3;11 the two ,districts twice. ,Owing to Conference
,beipg earljerl we had to cu t some places out of our -spring
.1tinera~y. .
. .The work still has its discouraging as well as encouraging features. In comparing this year's statistics
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with last we find that instead of gaining ip. numbers
we have one less. This is partly due to some leaders
who have not been faithful to the charge committed to
their :'keeping and when they went ,out took a large
number with them. Those, too, who believe simply because ot some temporal help they expect to receive soon
become discouraged when they don't see that help
forth-coming. To illustrate: I heard a woman who had
once been a believer talking to another a few days ago;
she said, "What is the use to believe'? If you cou.!d get
a position to earn some money so you could live there
might be some use but just to believe I don't see any
profit in it." Alas, she is not the only one who feels
like that, we tear. They can not see farther than the
flesh and this world.; but when we hear of those who
are wil1ing to give up every earthly comfort for Christ's
sake, these offset the former., :One such case came to our
notice last winter. It was a young widow. She married
'again and went,' as she supposed, to a Christian home
but found on reaching there het husband only was a believer and that just long enough to get his wife; then
he threw away his profession. She was distressed beyond measure. The neighbors said to her "Why do you
worry and se~m so sad? your husband has plenty, so
you do not need to trouble bver what yon want to eat
and wear." She replied; "What good does all this do
me? it does not feed nfy soul. 1 would rather have nothing in this world and have my s()ulfed than to have all
this wor'ld and my soul :starve, fot then what would I
do when I came·to die ?~'
The great problem we find among the Women is
their ignorance and lack of interest in study; in some
places there are only one or two 'who can reaCl' and although we have sent out a woman just to teach ,them,
they don't seem to have ambition to try. If their
teacher only knew what to do to awaken )nterest and
enthusiasm she would be glad.
2. Bible women. Our seven Bible women are all
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diligent in work, fervent in spirit, serving the Master
whom they love. One traveled knee deep in the snow
and had her feet frozen; as a consequence she was laid
up with sore feet for a short time. Kim Haki felt that
owing to home cares she could not continue the work;
we were sorry to lose her for she had endeared herself to
the people, but Meng ai, who has taken her place is
doing exemplary work. Willa hlld to give up the work
and Sarah now has her place.
3. Class Work. Last June after our return from
Conference we held our Bible womans' training class.
We invited in the class-leaders and school teachers; so
we had a good class and a most enjoyable time we spent
studying God's Word together. We studied Acts, Exodus. Bible Geography, and Hygiene.
In August we went to Nolmi and altho the class
was not as large as it sometimes has been, those who
came were blessed.
At the close of the Kongju class in September, we
asked who among the number were willing to give at
least one week of their time to the Lord by going out
and giving to others what they had learned; several
responded. They went out and some came back with
glowing reports and fresh enthusiasm. This is the first
time we have attempted anything of this kind but we
trust this coming year that more will be ready to respond to the call. As yet we have only a small number
in our city church who we feel are capable of teaching,
but as we are able to do more for them we trust more
will be made willing workers for the Lord.
The classes throughout the country have all been
encouraging; we have noted in many places a greater
interest in the study of the word. Several young women have expressed a desire to go to SeQul and attend
the training school.Four went up from our work last
year.
Mrs. Swearer held three classes and helped us in
one; the Bible women and volunteers held ten.
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4. Kongju Church. The work in the city church
is growing each year although we have not been' able
to give as much time to it· as we would like to. The
Bible women and class-leaders have all done their share.
to help along the work. We have had a class-leaders'
meeting several times during the year to give them encouragement, talk over the work, and get their reports.
In March, Mr. Kim, our evangelist came to us and
for ten days held revival services. The Lord greatly
blessed his efiorts, many burdened hearts found relief
when they cast themselves at the Saviour's feet. We
feel that the results of those meetings will be lasting.
Since Miss Bair came to us she has visited in· many
of the homes, taught a class in Sunday School and two
periods in the school every day; already she is making
herself generally useful.
11rs. Taylor has taught a class in the Sunday
School, led the Friday evening prayer meeting each
week, and helped in the fall and spring classes. We
nliss her this yeaT, but while we are sorry to lose her
we rejoice in the expected return of Mrs. Williams.
Mrs. Swearer has had the teachers' meeting in the
study of the Sunday School lesson when at home and
has also helped in the Kongju classes. We have missed
Mrs. VanBuskirk in the work this year.
II. DAY SCHOOLS.
The Kongju day school has been gaining in numbers
and we have now an enrollment of seventy l\1r. Yi
and his wife Ella, an Ewha girl, have been untiring in
their efforts to make the school a success. Many of the
girls gut he~p during the meeting;. they confessed to
hating their teacher and one another, to deceiving their
parents by asking Iuore money than they needed when
buying their books and then spending the rest for some
little thing they wanted for themselves.
Our school building is inadequate to meet our need.
We should have a new building and another teacher . .
The Nolmi school has increased this year both in in-
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terest and numbers. We have now about fifty little tots.
Ethel, an Ewha girl. is doing efficient work. This spring
another girl whose home is in Nolmi but who has been
~n Ewha for five years came down to become the wife of
one of the teachers in the boys' school in that place. She
is giving all her time and we feel sure with this new
addition, the work will continue to grow.
At Tung po one of our Kongju graduates is teaching
and is doing splendid work. She is beloved by all. She
has thirty girls under her care and is finding it hard to
attend to them all alone. She needs some one to help
her, but there is no one in the church that can help out
for even one hour a day; and as we have no support for
the school, feel we can not do more for it than what we
are already doing.
At Ipchang, we have a young woman who is a
graduate from the Southern Methodist School in Seoul.
After she was married she and her husband came down
here to live and she has gathered around her about
fifteen girls. We have no support for this school either
but help them out a little each month.
A new school has opened at Kang kyengie with
twenty-five girls and DOW they are pleading for help.
The young woman who is teaching is at present giving
her time. This is an important place and should have
help but what can we do with already two schools on
our hands without support? There is no reason why we
'could not have as large a school there as at Kongju if
only we had the facilities to carry it on. Is there no
onewho will pity these who are thirsting for knowledge,
and send us help? Unless we get help soon some of
these scho01s must be closed and that will be like shuting the children out of the light and dooming them to
'heathen darkness, There are other places calling for
schools through the country, but we have to say," You
must wait a little longer".
We pray that the coming year may see greater results.
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W. C. SWEA.RER.
Mrs. Sharp, who has charge of the woman's work on
the West Kongju District, will report the work in det~il
so that it only remains for me to tell of the individual
work attempted and of some personal observations
made.
During the past year, with the ex{'eption of a little
work done in the Kongju City Church and one itinerating trip of about three weeks made in company with
Mr. Swearer, all effort has been directed toward class
work and this for the reason that it seems tb be time
spent to the best advantage. When a wife itinerates
with 'her husband, he of course holds all the meetings,
which are attended by both men and women; for the
latter wish to hear their Moksa (pastor) as much as do
the former. It remains for the wife to listen to her husband's sermons two or three times a day, week after
week; beside this she talks with the women, inquiring
about their welfare and that of the church and listens
more or less resignedly to their petitions for loans, and
req uests to have their babies adopted and their older
children sent through school. Possibly they themselves
may \vant to be sent to Bible School. Talking all these
things over with them may be some comfort, and anything which can brighten their lives surely is not to be
despised, but is it time and money spent to the best advantage? If there were sufficient itinerating money,
one might travel alone and thus come in contact with
more people, but as it is, that wonld be impossible.
Thinking that teaching would be really productive
of the most good, my time has been largely spent that
way. I assisted in one class in Seoul, one in Wonju, two
in Kongju city, and one in Kang Kyengi. Beside these
the months of January and February were spent in the
country doing class work in company with Mr. Swearer.
Tlie attendance in these country classes was not large
but in each class there was something encouraging
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which made us feelthat our labor was-not in vain in the
Lord.
At the Nolmi class the women studied under difficul.
ties, for the only room that could be secured was one so
cQld that it was exceedingly uncomfortable. \Vhen it
was not in use elsewhere, a little oil heater which we
had with us helped out .. Under trying circumstances
the wODJen were very patient and assured us that they
were all right. One young woman, who was studying
for the fir.st-time, .walked three miles every morning and
generally stayed ·tothe evening meeting before going
home. One wretchedly wet, stormy morning she was
the first one there, coming in bedraggled with mud and
rain but bright and happy because she had the privilege
of studying God's word. I wondered how many women
.jn our b~loved America would consider it a privilege to
study under like conditions.
At one ()f the classes, there seemed to be no one to
heat the church; it encouraged us that the pastor of
that circuit did not consider it .beneath him, nor anything too hard, to get up at five o'c1ock on those cold
~ark mornings and make the church habitable. At that
,class one old lady had studied the catechism tin she
cpuld reciteit perfectly, but because she could not control her temper she was asked to wait a while before re.cehring baptism; whert upon we were treated to aDother display of temper for she said she had been studying hard an d was anxious to receive baptism at that
:particular time. Someare slow to 'understand the true
spirit of Chr;istianity but they are learning. The reviv. a~ meetings held each evening were well attended and
were, we believe, a blessing to many.
~
Mr. ;Kim, who. conducted revival services for ten
-days in the city of Kongju L did faithful, effi<;ient work
.~nd was used of God in helping many souls. One old
woman who did not seem capable. of ullderstanding .
. spiritual truths, so very much qf the earth, earthy had
~hc:_ ~bY8:ys, se~med, was greatly 3 wake~ed d~ring these
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meetings. The last night when she gave her testimony
she told how much l\,fr. Kim had helped her and how
much she lo\red him. He said to her, "Have you forgotten the Lord? " She replied, "Oh, no, I'm thankful to
Him, too." Mr. Kim very sensibly said, "You must love
Him better than you do nle".
It seemed then that she
did not but her life since has proved her sincerity.
Maria, the Bible woman, works earnestly and reports progress. She has been greatly troubled because
she was obliged to leave her two little children with
people who were unbeliev~rs when she has been tr~vel
ing, but recently she has been helped to get a room in
Kpngju where she can have them with her 'when she is
in from the country and where they will be under
Christian influence. She says she has nothing left to
trouble her now.
The itinerating money allowed by the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society has enabled me to take
trips in the country for class work and for this I am
grateful. The past year has been a happy one and we
go on to the coming year knowing that He, who has
given us the pri\rilege of work, will give the strength to
perform the tasks committed to our CFlre.
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KOANO H\'OE NYO WON
(WOMAN'S HOSPITAL OF EXTENDED ORACE)
and
WOMAN'S nEDICAL CLASS.
PYENO YANO.
ROSETTA S. HALL, M. D.
MARY ~1. CUTLER, M. D.
A REYIEW of the twelve months' work, beginning
May 1st. 1913, shows more accomplished than we
dared hope in the face of Dr. Hall's illness, the time Dr.
Cutler spent in over-seeing repairs on buildings, walls
and grounds and the unusable state of much of the hospital while the relaying of its six native floors and the
installing of the hot-water heating plant and the
plumbing fixtures throughout the building was in progress.
THE XON-ARRIVAL of certain fixtures leaves some of
the plumbing still unfinished BUT THE CONVENIENCE AND
LABOR-SAVING of what is done and the comfort of a
thoroughly warm building during the cold weather has
called forth expressions of gratitude intended for those
at home who provided the things and for Mr. Hylton
who so painstakingly installed them. Most of the sinks
and faucets being in place we can soon put our last ward
in order and fix up a suitable place for our laboratory
apparatus.
How CAN "183 HOSPITAL PATIENTS TREATED A TOTAL
OF 3705 DAYS AND NIGHTS," "91 OUT CALLS MADE"; "5822
DISPENSARY PATIENTS SEEN"; "5 MEDICAL STUDENJ'S, 5
NURSES, AND 5 OF THE 'HELP' UNDER INSTRCCTION"; AND •
"THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO AND PRAYERS HELD WITH
THE SAME.AS OVER 25000 PEOPLE ONCE EACH" give an
adequate idea of the year's work ?-of the recital of all
the ailments listened to; of the sufferings relieved and
efforts to mitigate those which proved unrelievable; of
the hours of hard work and anxiety, backache and loss
of sleep,· sympathy and self-denial freely bestowed by
nurses and doctors; of the drugs and instruments ordered',
invoices checked off, ointments made, poWders weighed
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and folded, capsules filled and mixtures compounded
before the thousands of prescriptions could be dispensed;
or of the physical, chemical and microscopical examinations made, dressings applied, teeth extracted, operations
performed, and children born; to say nothing of the
faithful labors of the teachers, Bible-women, cook,
laundre'3s, scruhwoman, janitor, man-of-all-work, or
the blind girls who give tnassage and attend the dispensary door where they ticket every patient's shoes when
she enters to return the same when she goes?
ALMOST EVERY DISEASE to v\~hich flesh is heir. including some very unique and rare ones, has presented itself
for treatment; and an ever increasing proportion of
cases come to us from both the Koreans and the] apanese
'with diseases peculiar t.o women. A few days ago one
of our nurses who had about eighteen months of her
training in a General Hospital in charge of an American
male doctor and lady nurse, exclaimed her surprise at
the number and variety of these cases, saying she had
never seen nor heard tell of the like before, and thought
they must be peculiar to this part of the country! She
thus artlessly confirmed our belief that but few of these
patients will go to male doctors.
AMONG OUR WARD PATIENTS have been two Japanese
ladies, four of our W. F, M. S. workers and two other
foreigners. LFlrgest number of ward patients per day,
22; largest at the dispensary, 135.
THOUGH OUR PATIENTS, due to reasons before nlentioned, have numbered less by a couple of thousand than
last year, yet our receipts are gre.ater and more than
equal the amount we receive from our \VOlnan's Foreigu
l\1issionary Society. Thus our work grows more and
more self-supporting.
62-='0' OF THE PATIENTS WERE NON-CHRISTIAN this
year, and though the proportion of these who became
Christians is nodoubt as great as last yeat", yet owing
to the absence of Bible-woman Whang chaperoning the
medical class in Seoul a third of the year the results
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for that time were not tabulated at the fi·rst M. E.
church where most of the patients are induced to attend,
it being the one nearest the hospital, but she and Biblewoman Tyang together report 88 who gave in their
narpes. as seekers, .37. becam~ probatioIlers, and 33 were
baptized. Last year there were 398 seekers, 200 probationers and 59 baptized. These women have also followe~ up our work in dispensary and hospital by making
some 1118 visits :in the homes of patients where 5095
'people were taught; .they have also conducted S. s.
classes~ cottage-prayermeetings, ·helped with 28 funerals
and sold 310 portions of Scripture and health pamphlets,
beside the many 9f the latter we sell in the consultingroom. Mrs. Tyang has held a weekly prayer-meeting for
the blind and deaf girls at their dormitory; also made a
fifteen day itinerating trip to three villages where she
held two classes of several days each, visited in the homes
andt.ook the names of 13 n~w people who promised
to Qeljeve.. The attendance at.dispensary prayers conductedby .Hel~n Hong,M.rs. Tyang, and Mrs. Whang
has nUplbered 6983, while the attenda~ce at the hospital
~()r~iJ;tg pray~rs has been 9342, and at evening prayers
3100.
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SONG
(OKPUNNIE,
"THE
HAPPIEST
GIRL IN
'KOR~A~')'iss#llwithus, receiving the daily dressing of the
.spin,al abcessadded to her list of trials, but she continues
cheerfully to help in various ways, teaching the patients
.the Gospel story which means so much to her, or to
memorize .Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer, or how to
read .and write.
33%% OF OUR PATIENTS READ AND WRITE ......... we
remember when it was but 3%. It keeps about pace with
the per cent of Christians.
OF THE CHRISTIANS a small per cent is Roman Ca th,olic, 41% is Methodist Episcopal and 57% Presby,terian. Though I understand a majority of the Presbyterian missionaries do 'not unite with us in asking their
Board to send an associate woman physician to do their
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~hare oftbis wor~ (thus making it union) yet it may be
noted that the Koreans whom we come to serve do thus'
unite in actions that speak louder than words. Last
year when we reported 50.% of our Christian patients
Presbyterian, one might have supposed it due to the
physician in charge of the Presbyterian General Hospi-~al
being on furlo and the hospital practically closed, but
though he is on duty again this year the percentage of
Presbyterian patients at our Woman's Hospital has increased; and so we and your Korean constituency continue to ask the Presbyterian Board to send out one or
more women physicians to tide over the time until .there
be a good supply of Korean women physicians. In-this
connection we are pleased to report that Mrs. Grac~
Lee, our medical assistant for the past five years has
been granted a GOVERN.:M:ENT LICENSE to ,vork as a med~
ieal practitioner; she has the honor of b~ing -the first
Korean woman thus licensed.
OUR TWO G~ADUATE NURSES, a~e faithful a~4 as indispensable as ever. Mrs. Martha Kim acts as Head Nurse
and Hospital Matron aild 11:rs. Lee assists Dr. Ha}l in
Dispensary and Ou_t~Call"vork, and together with Mis.
SusanNo ·Pak. a fo,rmer hospital assistant, has begun to
take a course in. Midwifery at the Charity Hospital.-·
OUR TWO PUPIL NURSES, beside the faithful work done
in hospital and dispensary, have won words of praise
~hile nursi~g i~: six'homes and'theirearningshaye ad~ed
to our "receipts'''. One went ,to Seoul in April to take
final' exami~ations and graduated in May. H~r place is
filled here by a nurse transferred from another Training
School.
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IN OUR PROBATIONER .RANKS we have kept three
nurses formor~ than a year because their preliminary
education had to be brought up to the standard. We
hope soon to put them int~ uniform and to advance thefu
to their rightful grade' among the pupil nurses.
BESIDE THE' CONSTANT INSTRUCTION of nurses and
pr,o,bationers in pra:etical nursing by the doctors and
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graduate nurses, almost daily class instruction under
competent teachers has been given in the Japanese language; arithmetic; penmanship; Hygiene; Anatomy and
. Physiology; and in Science, Practice and Ethics of Nursing. Five of our "Help" who give promise of nurse
"timber" attend such classes as are suitable for them.
Our nurses have also seen the work at the city Military
and Charity Hospitals where they gained much useful information.
DOCTORS AND GRADUATE NURSES HAVE TAUGHT Hygiene regularly in all the women's Bible Institutes held in
the city, and some of those taught have in turn taught
it to their country classes and report the women listening with great enthusiasm, and at once putting into
practice some of the things learned. A wide and needy
field is this for medical women. Preventive Medicine, as
it should, is becoming more and more appreciated the
world over.
OUR 5 MEDICAL STUDENTS took lessons in the J apanese language beside continuing their regular cou rse of
study until last July, and some regular lectures were
given by doctors from the Charity and Military Hospitals tbro the courtesy of Drs. Saburi and Satomura.
The students passed creditable examinations' on the
year's work.
Permission from home having come to a vail ourselves of the kind offer of the Medical School of the Government General 'to extend the privileges of tha t school
to Korean women, we ('losed, planning for the students
to go to Seoul September 1st. to continue their course
in the Government School. But during vacation two
of our best students, got the "go to America to study
medicine" fever and are teaching and studying English
in preparation. The other three and a new student
went to Seoul though the parents of three were unable
to .meet-balf their expenses, for the Government School
had fixed and partly furnished for them a dormjtory between the one occupied by the three Japanese lady phy-
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sicians connected with its hospital and the one for its
Korean pupil nurses and, tho there was little appropriated for 1913, funds were at .hand from personal
friends who had helped earlier in the year and from
whom we have promises of "more to follow" because
they believe there ought to be an ample number of
Korean women physicians, so we were able to complete
the furnishings and pay for the traveling expenses, the
chaperons, the books, and a monthly allowance of food
for those students who needed,--they understanding
however, that aU they receive for food is to be returned
as soon as they graduate and earn money, so it can be
used again to aid other women medical students.
Probably no freshman ever entered college with a
greater mixture of trepidation and courage than did
these four young women. With them we much appreciate the kind offices of Mrs. Hattori, the Christian
Japanese hidy who took post-graduate work at the
Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses, New York
City, and was given special oversight of these medical
students by Surgeon General Fugita, the broad minded
president of this institution and the general administrator
of medical work in Korea, who, with Dr. Sato, the able
Dean of the Medical School certainly have planned wisely
and conducted everything with great care. The only
complaint from our women students is their deficient
knowledge of Japanese. but their teachers speak highly
of their conduct and studiousness and encouragingly of
their progress. We were disappointed because one did
not return after the holidays .....• her brother in America
urges her to come there to finish her course ...... and another says she cannot continue because she knows too
little Japanese and can never pay back her educational
loan if she is so many years in school.
However, a Seoul young woman at her own expense,
entered the school in April; two Korean women are studying in Tokyo Woman's l\iedical College; at least four
more well educated girls whom we know are laying
definite plans tOist.udy ,m~icine; ~nd: thf!, parents o(
others ~ontinue to consult us as to the preliminary
requirements. When we remember it t00k a dozel!l ye~rs
for theiirstclass of Korean men to graduate, in me,dicine
we are ndt discouraged but. very hopeful that the near
future 'will produce a creditable l@t of Korean women
physicians.
WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE THANKS to the
missionaries and others residing in Korea for their help.
and kindnesses, financial and otherwise, as well as to
the loyal supporters of our work in the home~and and
the faithful friends who sent money by letter, picture"
cards and other useful things by parcel post, and most
generous supplies in Mission-boxes from Baltimore, Md.,
and Germantown, Philadelphia, P~nnsylvania.
~PACE FORBIDS NARRATING many touching incidents
in connection with our patients, especially some of those
who travel many weary miles to get relief from protracted suftering. Again we had more patients from a distance ·than from the city itselt,--tbe greater half come
from..vvithina radius oflOO Korean li(3li make one mile)
thet-e were scores from 200 to 400 Ii, 18 from 500 Ii and
a few f110t;B even greater distan~es. One does not have
to go to the country to preach to country people,--.
-visit out waiting-room :and wards.
AT THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL some were badly injured
ina panic among thenon.Christian part of the audience
in the church and were hrought to our hospital. One of
these ,had withstood ChristiaJ:) teaching when well and
now -was ,too .ilLto listen to "preaching" but did ,not fail
to ob$erve "Christ's teachings exemplified" jnthe care
she and others received fromstrangers,witPoJlt money
andwitbout price, and soon.after going home she began
to "believe" and now faithfullyattendscnurch.
Mayw.e be permitted ,thus to pr¢~chChri~tfor many
years to come.
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DEPARTnENT FOR BLIND AND DEAF.
PYENG YANG.
MRS. ROSETTA SHERWOOD HALL,
M. D.
This department of our work has practically made
the progress it promised last vear: three moreofthe:-deaf
boys entered the ~nd grade in Mr. Billings' Common
school. and Yi Won-syunwas promoted from 3rd to
4th year work. If they continue doing well we shall
have three blind gir1s finishing the Common. school
course at the close of this school year.
\
Won Susanna entered the Bible Training School at
Seoul and Miss Albertson is pleased with her progress. :
An Soon-goomie continues to turn the crank and
has aided thus in making many scores of .embossed
books throughout the year. She has learned to memorize many hymns and Bible verses, but cannot yet
read through her finger-tips. We are still praying that
some special arrangement may be made for the feeblenlinded whether blind, deaf, or seeing where they can
have the needed instruction. We have thought of
having some one sent to the" Ko jin zu ka " carried on
by Mr. and Mrs. Ishii near Oji, Tokyo, to receive the
necessary training ..
Last year's report spoke of the blind Miss 0 Prudence, for several years a faithful teacher here, who was
planning to gQto Japan at her own expense for further
study. In company with me, she left Pyeng Yang in
July last and; after visiting various places of interest in
her capital city and at several points on her journey,
·she spent a very happy month at the beautiful Japanese
mountain resort of U nzen where she was able to meet
expenses by giving massage. After a short visit in
Tokyo, she settled at Yokohama as a student of the language in Mrs. Van Petten's Christian school for the
.blind. Prudence and' her· teacher, 0 Kei San-the] apanese girl without hands--have enjoyed each other so
much! Prudence writes of ever}rhody's kindness :to her
;and Miss Watson writes of her, ., She is a dear, sweet
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young woman. "
Of our blind pupils in the Union High School, Pyeng
Yang, Pak El-sim was advanced to the senior grade
and Chyo,Panny :was one of :the nicest· members of the
elaSsgraduatingMarch 26th. On the 31st, she left to
join P.nidence in Japan. After a pleasant week in Seoul
Mi~s. 'Chyowenton to Japan under the kind escort
'of Mr. I. Yamagataof.theS6oul Press. Miss lIaenig of
Ewha: wrote .me, "Those of our people who saw Fanny
were well pleased with her. She is a fine young woman,
a credit to your. school." And Mr. Yamagata wrote, "I
found. to my delight that Miss' Chyo could understand
both Japanese, and English~ She behaved bravely during the l<?ng trip and I .could not help admiring her
cpurage and .patience."
Fanny joined .Prudence at Yokohama and together
they entered the Tokyo School for Blind, April 9th.
Many thanks are due to Miss Watson; also Messrs.
Yamagata, Uchida, and Yoshimoto for their kind assistance.Both hope to enter the Normal course proper
another year. In their·weekly correspondence with the
blind girls her-e" they usually write in Korean,' but sometimes in Japanese or English, and all ·by means of the
New York Point.
Altogether in Pyeng Yang, Seoul, and Japan we
have registered 48 pupils this year, of whom 14are new,
and by whom almost every mission is represented.
Again we are most grateful to all the Korean, Japanese,
and 'fore;gn teachers and principals for their help in. educating theSe: . less fortunate ones together with their
seeing and '.hearing pupils. We also much appreciate the
continued interest of Mr. T. Nakashima; he has been
most helpful in many ways. Just now, he is teaching
the deafhoys how to cultivate chrysanthemums.
As to finances, from April 1st. '13 to March 31st,
'14 we received from Mrs. Rockwell yen 1001.80 (1
yen=$.50), from the W. F. M. S., Mrs. Davey, Messrs.
Kemble, Rosemond, and others in foreign countries yen
.\JA:\l'o\L 'l'HAI:\I:\(; F()I{ TilE HU:\D
I'YE:\(~ Y.\:\G.
THE
Two
FA~NIES
"The chain of Friendship stretching far
Links days that were with days that are".
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1131.03 and from Korean patrons,Japanese, and foreigners on the field yen 555.55 which with the balance of
yen 294.98 of last year amounts to yen 2983.36. We
have expended for teachers,yen 803; for fuel,yen 236.15';
embossed books, yen 323.90; f00d, water, some clothing and equipment,dormitoryrepairs, and other dormitory expenses, yen 19:[;8.57; or a total of yen 3321.62,
which means ,we have had to expend yen 3B8.26 more
than has come for this work, and accounts for the very
low ebb of my own bank account. We do nothave to
search far to, see where it has gone to for, though almost
5UO yen more were received this year than hist, eleven of
the new pupils paying practically nothing ,have quite
eaten that up, some missionary patrons have stopped
paying for pupils they' put in the school, and beside
increased railroad expenses and other extras, we have
made qui~e extensive repairs this year. The ,Blind and
Deaf department does not own any of the buildings we
are using and we have not felt like j:luttingmuch money
into repairs; but tilne and so many new pupils have
obliged us to, si nee the dormitories we are asking for
seem little nearer than five years ago, we '~l:"egret to
report
We received our first bequest this year; it was $100
U. S. gold from,the estate of Mrs. EmelineDavey. During her life-time, also, Mrs.:Da veycontributed to our
work several times and we have· always devoted her
gifts to the text book making. \Ve have now all the
text books embos~ed that are used in the differentgrades
of the common and high school courses. but in some
cases only two copies of each, so that a number of girls
often have to study from one book. We greatly need more
gifts for this fund, The Government General generously
provides us with all the books we need embossed in
Japanese.
Some of the Koreans have helped this work quite
substantially during the past year; a few of the boys
of the Union Christian College brought a small Thanks-
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giving offering with a Deat little speech of appreciation
ot the work. At Christmas time, the Tae Chyon Tong
.:Church sent a suit of winter clothes for a deaf mute,
and Pyeng Yang 1st Methodist Church gave us a lot of
.clothing and some money. The Chinnampo Church invited the department to repeat a tri-linguai and industrial exhibition .they bad given in Pyeng Yang; they
charged a small admission fee and filled their schoolhouse three times, and from the receipts paid all the expenses, and gave us enough to support a little blind girl
fromtbeir town in school for the year. The foreign Union
Church in Pyeng Yang donated fifty yen and that in
. Seoul, seventy-five. Some from the gold-mines have remembered our needs this year; also some Japanese
friends of the work.
Miss Trissel remembered her class in foreign basketry and sent a nice lot -of ~aterial by parcel post from
U. S. A. With this exception, none of the needs as suggested in last year's report ·were supplied to us by
friends in the hOQlelands; we hope we may fare better
this year.
The greatest blessing to us and our work this year
arrived in Pye!lg Yang on February 14 in the person
of Miss F. L. Denman, an old-time school-mate from my'
native town, Liberty, New York. Miss Denman has
taken hold of the work for the blind and the deaf .with
zeal, and is a great cheer and comfort to all around.
EVANOELISTIC WORK, FIRST CHURCH, PYENO VANO.
C. D. MOURIS.
My appointment for the year was to the Ev ANGELISTIC WORK OF F,RSTCHURCH, Pyeng Yang, and
the Sunday School Work. It has been my privilege and
pleasure to attend the sessions of the Official Board
and the various committees of the church, and to teach
.in the Sunday Schools and weekly Bible Class. This
has been a year of 'much sickness, and what few calls
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have been made were to those who were ill or who had
lost loved ones.
In our SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK we have had the
weekly study class for the teachers, the short prayer
meeting before each Sunday School session, and a
monthly meeting when each teacher reported the condition of his class, And any problems which had arisen in
connection with the work. As often as practicable we
have had a meeting of the Sunday School Committee of
the four city churches, thus keeping our entire city Sunday Schoolw ork in unison. On special days, although we
meet separately in our own churches, we have practically the same programs; we use the same card system
and in every way try to keep our work together as
one. We have an Annual Spring Social in which all four
of the Sunday Schools unite, and we usually have our
Children's Day Exercises together. The Cradle Roll of
First Church now has 513 names on it. Twice a year
we have a meeting for the mothers of this Cradle Roll,
when they are instructed and exhorted, and the baJ:>ies
made happy with picture cards.
The two BIBLE WOMEN, Sadie and Unduk, have been
untiring in their work, having made 3338 calls during the year, beside teaching in some of the city and
country Bible Classes, and studying in others. The
Cradle Roll \york keeps Sadie very busy, for she calls in
the honle on each baby's birthday, and tries to make
the day a special one of blessing to the mother as well
as to the child.
There are about 700 women in First Church and
about 400 children enr.olled in its Sunday School. The
four children's Sunday Schools of the city teach about
700 children through 74 teachers:
In has been my privilege and pleasure to heJp in
part of the Bible Institute teaching and, during Miss
Haynes' illness, to help for one month in the Union
Academy for Girls.
In addition to the above, my time has been filled full
with duties which can not be tabulated, but which fall
to the lot of every evangelist's wife.
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PYENO YANO EV ANOELISTIC
WO~K.
W. BILLINGS.
How much I have appreciated the health which I
have enjoyed during the past year, can only be under.:
stood after 14 weeks of enforced rest. How little I had
valued the opportunity to serve, could perhaps be learned only through some such hard experience. When, at
Conference, I was appointed to take charge of the Bible
Institutes, which Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Morris had led
to such splendid efficiency, 1 felt utterly unable to attempt it, but with the hearty support of all the other
ladies, and the conscious presence and guidance of the
Holy Spirit, we have had a glorious cycle of Bible study.
Early in the fall, Paul and I nlade another trip to
Yeng Byen, and were very happy to meet the dear women again; some of them had walked 150 miles, over
high mountains, carrying their provisions for the ten
days and. in many cases, the little ones on their backs.
I taught I Samuel to .one class, and then took all of the
women in the afternoon for a conference on Sunday
School Teacher Training as I supposed, but I only gave
the first talk. When I review.ed that lesson, in which I
had explained that the child's actions give a clue to the'
child's mind, illustrating by a crying baby, that when it
cried there was a cause, and not al ways the same cause.
A.common sight in Korea is to see .the mother, when
the child cries, take for granted that the child is hungry
and feed it, when more often it is not hungry hut crying
because of over-eating. So in this talk I dwelt ·on this
pbase of the child's action and emphasized the need of
studying the cause of the cry, ans not always interpreting it as huhger. When I reviewed this a~d,l'ask~c1
them wha:t they had learned, one dear old soul said
";mHk." She could not remember anythingeIse, but
that had been indelibly impressed on ·her mind. I decided they needed mother's talk more than teacher's training.
This year we decid~d to have two· classes each in the
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fall and in the spring so that the country and city women could study separately. The reasons were that
the classes were getting too large to do the best work~
and a1tho~gh it would take double the teaching force
we felt it would S0011 double the attendance and efficiency, both of which have been realized to some extent
this year. The fall city class numbered one hundred and
twenty-five in contrast to about twenty-five the year
before who studied in the general class, almost none of
them in the first five graded classes, Both teachers and
scholars have testified that there were more pleasure
and profit in studying separately as their ability and
previous training were more nearly on a par.
At the Chinese New Year ,,·hen previously the
Koreans had' two or three weeks of drinking and loafing, the time ,vas well employed in a mixed Bible class
one hundred and thirty nine women and girls stUdying.
At the firs~ of the year, Pa~l and I went to Seoul to
help a little in the Women's Bible Training School. We
enjoyed the ten days at that time so much that we
went back again to meet the graduates the last of May
and finish th~ teaching of Revelation. I was very much
pleased with this class and the progress that had been
lnade during the course, judging by their ability to
study and grasp what was giv~~ them. I found that
what I had expecte.d qf the first year students ill ~irst
John was entirely beyond their comprehension. but the
seniors more than· satisfied. me in their study of Revelation. Their testimony that Re:velation was a very deep
but a very spiritual book pleas~d me very much.
The day following Eyangelist Kim's splendid revival
services, which lasted often until the wee sm~ll hours,
but left a greatly invigorated church, we began our
spring country class. This was pretty strenuous for the.
teachers, but it made it possible for saine of the country
women who studied in the class to come in for the
revival services. The attendance was good and the spirit fine; a gre~t effort was tuade to get them to stay for
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the month's Bible Institute which was begun last year,
with the result that torty seven women enrolled, more
than double last year's record. They were specially
bright young women and win make splendid Sunday
School teachers and mothers. They studied very zealously and at the close of the month wished it might have
been longer.
At the close of the Institute we had our city class
but, because of the epidemic of measles, scarcely a home
in our churches being ,vithout a victim among children
or parents, only seventy seven studied. The police reported three thousand deaths this spring from measles
alone.
Not the least enjoyable were the nine days spent in
Syen Chyun, helping the Presbyterians in their class of
six hundred and forty five women. It was a great sight
to see so many women in white gathered to study the
Word; but I was quite ready to come back to our graded classes with smaller numbers where the teacher can
know her pupils and make the impression deeper.
I am indeed grateful to the loving Father, that He
has permitted me to have this small part in these classes
where the Word that has power to transform has been
so prayerfully and faithfnlly studied.
DAY SCHOOLS IN PY8NO Y ANO CITY AND DlST~ICT AND
EV ANOELISTIC WORK IN' THE FI~ST
nETHODIST CHURCH
HENRIETTA
P.
ROBBINS.
Christian work in Korea during the past year has
made a good, healthy growth and this is particularly
true of our northern <listricts. That the Christians are
working with greater enthusiasm, giving of their time
and strength aud money, is manifested by the increase in
the church members and'school attendance, for the girls'
day schools are not one whit behind the rest of the
work. As our girls graduate from Ewha Haktat;lg and
the Girls' Union Academy, it is possible to secure more
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efficient teachers for our Primary schools and, as a result, a better grade of work. Even the Christian
parents believe in adhering to the old Korean custom of
considering the boys before the girls; consequently selfsupport in our girls' schools comes slowly. It is encouraging to see the interest which the -pastors and
-helpers take in the education of the children and were it
not for their willing help it would be difiicult to run our
schools 'withou t a larger teaching force.
In the Pyeng Yang school, we were most fortunate
in securing M:arian Kim as our head teacher. She is one
of the first graduates of our school and also of Ewha
Ifaktang. She has the combined qualifications of a
good teacher in that she commands the respect, love,
and obedience of her pupils as well as the love of her coworkers. Altogether the past year has been the most
satisfactory in the existence of our Pyeng Yang school.
The total enrollment for the year was two hundred and
twelve pupils.
Chinnampo is second on the list in size, but for
var-ious reasons there has been no increase in numbers
in the large school but a marked increase in the branch
school. The Pastor's assistant of that place is very
faithful in looking after the interests of the school. helping with the teaching as well as helping to solve the
problems. A class of seven girls graduated this spring.
We have been able to secure desks and seats for the
large school, thus getting the children off the floor and
making it possible to secure better discipline.
The growth of the Chung San school has been the
most marked, its numbers having increased to fifty and
the reason for the growth is probably twofold; first, because we have been able to secure a nice new building
commodious enough to accomodate the fifty pupils;
and, secondly, \because of the efficient work of our teacher, a young woman who recently graduated from Ewha
Haktang.
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The Pas:torat. Kang San has taken such an interest
in the Christian education for children, that he is doing
everything .inhis power to raise the standard of our
schools in that .place. Through his efforts, he has induced the parents to give one dollar for every dollar
raised by the missionary. By this means eighty dollars
has bee~ secured to be used toward seats and proper
equipmet;lt fqr the boys' and girls' schools. Also through
his efforts the small boys and girls have been pu t together
in one class, th,us making it possible for one teacher
to do the work 01 two in connection with the little
ones.
The work in the schools at Ham Chong, Sam What
PaiMe and Sin Kai are making steady growth. Those
at Chai San Po and Pong San do not show much
gr.owth. One new school with an enrolment of twenty
five little girls completes the list of our girls' day schools.
While my appointment for this year was primarily
Day Schools, yet I have tried, whenever possible, to
help in the various Bible Classes held in Pyeng Yang
City and. in the country, Early in September, I went
with l\1iss Benedict to assist her in the Bible Institute
at Chinnampo, later going on an itinerating trip
through a part of.Whang Hai province. Our experiences
were many and varied, especially our mode of travel.
The almost pathetic eagerness with which the women
gathered for evening services after a long day of hard toil
in tbe,fields made us long to give them messages which
would.encourage them along life's road and help them
to strive more earnestly for the meat which perishes not.
The great need for~ork~rs is so 'manifest that it makes
one's heart ache.
I triedt~.do what 1 could to help in three other
classes onthe West District. In every place we were
greeted by.a large number -of women who were eager
1orstudy. Then by the time the two Pyeng Yang Bible
ips~itlltes were .over, the Christmas holidays were at
band with their rush and bustle Qf preparatioq.
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Beginning with the New Year, I planned to help
Miss Albertson six weeks in the Bible School in Seoul,
but alas! on New Year's day, diptheria claimed me as a
victim; but thanks to the Doctor's good services and
the speedy use of anti-toxin, in three wl'eks I was almost as well as ever, so that in February I was able to
help in the Bible School for two weeks and again in the
spring I taught there two more weeks; also in the
spring Bible Institute in Chinnampo.
As the furlough time draws near again, it is with
mingled joy and sorrow that I make the necessary preparations for my home-going. After eleven years in this
the land of my adoption, I feel with a deeper sense than
ever before that this people is my people; their joys,
my joys; and their sorrows, my sorrows.
PYENO 'i ANO DISTRICT EVANOBLISTIC WORK AND
NE MON KOL CHURCH.
RUTH
E.
BENBDICT.
The year's work opened with a Bible Institute in
Chinnampo on September first, in which over eighty
women studied. The number of women who usually
study there is large enough to guarantee graded work
like we have in Pyeng Yang; so we started a Bible Institute 'which has twelve grades covering six years.
Miss Robbins and I ·finished the month of September by taking an itinerating trip through a part of
Whang Rai Do district holding a Bible class in the last
place, where twenty women studied. Then during October we held Bible classes in three of the large centers
on the West District the largest class hflving pfty women
enrolled and the smaI1est~ twenty-seven.
In November, I began teaching in the Union Girls'
Academy, continuing that work through March, so
that during those months my evangelistic' work was
confined to Ne Mon Kol church. The work at Ne Mon
Rol is most encouraging, for where we had only twenty
women in Sunday School and church attendance, the
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nUplper is now si~ty.
During the Christmas vacation I held a week'.s Bible
,class ~n Ppng,San. The weather was unusually cold
,~nd stormy that week, but in spite of that Jact forty
women ~tudied, some of them coming three and five
.miles ,every day. And I am glad to report that the
.work in Pong San is growing and they are proud of
their li1:.tlechurch which they have repaired so that it
is the most attractive country church which I have ever
seen.
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The last of January, aft-er all the 'preparations for
the (~Qrean) New Year were over, seven Bible Women
went to.hold special classes. They held in all twentythr~ ~lasses in which five hundred and eighty women
studied, the largest class having forty-five women enrolled and the smallest thirteen. The Bible women also did
hou/,e to house work and followed it up by evening
meetings.
After school closed in March, Miss Robbins and I
yve;n~ to Chinnampo to hold our spring Bible Institute.
One hundred and seventeen women registered and the
surprising nut11ber of one hundred and tour stl,ldied faithful,Iy all through and took their examinations.
. An itinerating trip' through the Syo Hellng Circuit
(Whang .Hai Do District) in May when I visited the
twelve gr<;>q.ps o.n that circuit!. completes the year's
work. . The largest village on the circuit has about
three hundred houses. The adversary of souls has a
firm.: grip on .that place but I hope to see his power broken and a fine large church, a girls' school and a boys'
$~h9\()1 ~stablished there, since . there is only o_ne school
()n'th~t whole circuit. There is the beginning of a girls'
schoQI and the leader comes pleading for help . saying
th~t the parents will try to raise half the salary C?f a
teacper. Another sign of gro,wtb on the circuit is the fact
tn-at tl)ey want a B~ble' wpman. Four yen; .a . t110nth towardber~sfllary has ·been·pledged and J could give them
hut four y~n more. The la;:;t
group where we stopped
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was sma1l, it having been 'started only since the New
Year. I wish that. I could give a word picture of the
room in whic'h we held our evening meeting. An unfinished 'room with part of the walls mudded and part
withjust the corn-stalk laths. Not even the door and
window frames were in. The tiny lamp giving just .a
gleam of light was typical of the spiritual light which
had begun to shine in the hearts of the people. But
it was sweet to know that God's power was just as
great as if we had met· in a grand cathedral and his
presence was especially manifested that night. The pulse
of the churches on the Whang Hai Do district has
quickened a little during the past year, but they are still ·
in great need of strong leaders to teach and help and
encourage.
As the work grows and the churches are able more
and more to help themselves, it is my desire to have the
Bible women partially supported by the Church. So
instead of having, say, three Bible women for the ten
circuits entirely supported by our funds, I want to place
one Bible women on each circuit receiving half salary
from our funds. In order to do this I need lTIOney for
at least one more Bible woman. This change will take
time, but it has already been done on three circuits.
My personal Bible woman, Yum Chi Un, was at
death's door for some weeks last fall, butGod spared her
to the work and she goes on ,with the same' sweet spirit
as ever, having the work very much at heart. She is
splendid at house to housework and is.neverphased by
opposing arguments. And she always has such a sweet
message for' the, women.' She !,las helped me with four
classes and held, four alane, beside taking a number of
trips over the work.
Of the other three Bible women under my charge, Yi
Anna, who was known as Mrs. Becker's Bible woman,
'was obliged to discontinue her work in January and
and we have not yet' found any, one to take her 'place.
Mrs. Follwell's Biblet woman has been changed from Kim
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Myeng Paik, who -became matron of the Girls' Academy,
to Chun Abbie. I have used her in my class work and
believe that she is doing good work. The third, Kim
Myeng gti, the West District Bible woman, has done
faithfully her work on three circuits and held three extra
classes for me. Of course all of these women take advantage of the Pyeng Yang Bible Institutes.
I feel that I cannot close without a few words of
thanks for the Christmas boxes sent from Syracuse, K. Y.,
and Susquehanna, Pa. And as I have been traveling
over passes and through valleys in going about frotn
group to group trying to encourage the people, I have
thought of those who made it possible by furnishing me
itinerating money and I know that they would feel more
than repaid if they could see how grateful the Christians
are for our viSIts.
PVENG V ANO UNION ACADEnV.
EMILY IRENE HAYNES.
In looking back over the year the feeling of thankfulness transcends all others. There have been hard experiences but in them the Father has been very near and
there has been blessed communion with Him.
Just befora the Christmas vacation I hec'ame ill, and
\vas unable to resume my work until the beginning of
the spring term in the middle of April. It was hard to
lie still when there was so 4much to be done but the
others of the station were so good in coming to my aid
and that of the school that it almost paid. to see how
kind people were. First, Mrs. Morris took all of my
classes and Mrs. Krook delflyed going to Yeng B yen to
care for ,me. Then Miss Snook and some of the Korean
teachers and many of the girls became ill and things
were in a serious condition. It was thought that we
would have to close the school for a time but others
came to our assistance and work went on as usual.
Miss Benedict took my rooms in the' domitory and
cared for all my dornlitory and school treasurer's work
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in addition to her teaching, Miss Shaffer helped in the
self-help department and Miss Doriss and Miss Best of
the Presbyterian mission and Mrs. Bil1ings helped in the
class rooms. I wish here to thank them all and also Dr.
Cutler for her kind care while I was in the hospit~1.
In spite of these breaks in the work we feel that it
has been a good year. In March we graduated a class
of seyenteen young women. twel\re of whom received
diplomas and fiYe, certificates. Three of the five returned for the spring term, finished their work and received
their diplOlnas. The other two were a blind girl and a
cripple. The latter will probably complete her work
later and receive her diploma but wa~ needed as teacher
too much this spring to permit ber to return at this
time. Ten of the class have been teaching this spring
term. One of them went to a hard place in southern
Korea and has done so well that they have asked for
two more of our graduates for that school.
Our self-help department has helped about fifty
students. Some of these are young women abandoned
by their husbands, some are widows, some are girls
'whose parents are not Christians and will not help
them and others whose parents are too poor to help
them. They work hard and, we believe, will appreciate
their education much more for that Nery reason. Quite
a success has been made of weaving rag rugs. We have
one small 100m which is kept busy all the time. If \ve
only had one or two more looms we could keep them
busy too and it would be very profitable. \~le are still
needing some one to take charge of this department.
Miss Dupuy of the Southern Presbyterian mission has
given just the help we need the past. few months but
now she has to return to her own mission and this
great problem ot caring for this department is again be.
fore us.
Again the dormitory bas been very crowded. The
main dormitory bas been crowded to its utmost and
forty pupils ha \re been in small Korean thatched houses
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on the compound.
It is with full hearts.that we thank the. New York
Branch.forresponding to our.appea! and ghring .us the
money for the greatly needed furnishing and equipping
of our building. Things are gradually getting completed and we-hope in a short time now to have everything
in first class shape in and about our recitation building.
It. has. to be done gradually for we learn more and more
the impossibility of U hustling the East. "
A new need has heen growing, and growing very rapidly. That is for a new building smaller than the present one, for chapel and self-help department.
The latter has 'Outgrown' theroo'mplanned for it and fills
not only that but also the. science room. While we
h 4 d no money Jor science ~quipment that room could
be used all right but now how to use the same room for
science classes with all their necessary apparatus and
fof a sewing room for thirty or more girls at the same
time when it is only twenty four feet square .is a problem. The room we use for chape~ has also to be used
as class .rooms and is so crowded at chapel titne that it
is impossible to seat the girls any way except on the
floor, thus making it impossible to have the seats and
desks so much needed for class room work.
During the' school year of 1913-14 we had 184 pupiJs enrolled of whom 55 were Methodists. This spring
term 189 have been enrolled.
At the close of the winter term in addition to the
yearly exhibit of sewitg and knitting we gave a Korean
meal to the .Korean and missionary pastors and their
wives. Everything was prepared and served by the girls
many said it was thebest Korean meal they had
ever eaten and that it showed that the girls 'were not
spoiled for home lives by attendance at the schoo1.
During the winter term Evangelist Kim conducted a
series of e'vangelistic services-in Pyeng Yang. Our girls
w,ent, each evening and received very great blessing.
Hearts were searched and with many tears confessions·
were made and forgiveness asked. The blessing recei¥ed
at that time remains with them and there is a greater
splrit of prayer 'than ever before among the girls. We
trust that they" will be, a blessing in their homes this'
summer.
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JESSIE
B.
MARKER.
I t has been a real pleasure to take up the evangelistic work in Seoul this year because we have never had
enough workers to set one aside for this work before.
In former years some of our workers had the Seoul
work in connection with large districts but perhaps
none of our work has been more neglected than this at
our very door. This is particularly true of the villages
near Seoul in most of which I found that the women had
never once attended our big class in the city.
I have attempted a good many plans trying to get
hold of the ,york, some of which have been successful.
At first I tried to visit all the villages just outside the
city. Immediately following this itinera-ry, we had our
fall class.
We have united with the Southern Methodists in
our class work and feel that it has been a great inspira_
tion and help to the women in both churches to be thus
studying together.
We had about 150 women in the fall class. It was
held in our church at Chong No. In February we held
.a Normal Class in the new Southern Methodist church
at Su Pyo. It is our plan to hold such a class each year
and to have only those women in it who are capable of
conducting smaller classes in the country.
We had 20 such classes held in the . little churches
outside the city and they were a means of great blessing
to the women in every place. Many of them said that
they had never attended a class before and that they
had enjoyed it so much that they wanted to come iuto
our large spring class in Seoul.
In these country classes the women taught in the
morning, visited the hornesin the afternoon, and helped in
the ev;;tngelistlc services at night. The Korean preachers
were very willing to help us with the evening meetings,
for in everyone of the 20 places some pastor took charge
of the evening evangelistic service.
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We heard of maay good things as a result of these
country classes, such as devil-worship being discontinued, people coming into the church, discouraged members being reclaimed and a greater. desire for study being born in all the women. At two of these places during the prayer service the Holy Spirit came upon the
people in power, convicting of sin and leading them to
make confession. They cried out before the Lord and
told how mean they had been.
At our Seoul spring class which was held in the
Southern Methodist Church at Chakol we had 200
women. This was the best class of the year. We had a
fine corps of teachers for both of our classes, a union of
the best in our own and our sister mission.
In addition to the larger classes, I have tried to organize weekly classes for Bible Study in all the churches.
These have done better in the outside churches than the
city proper. In Kong Dong Ni we had an average of
20 women studying in this class every week. We have
planned our course of study covering four years in which
we hope we can enlist the women at large in our churches to study.
My greatest d~fficulty in this class work was to get
competent teachers. My plan was to hold a training
class weekly of some selected women and to let them go
out and teach, but I did not find just the right women
outside <ormy Bible women and they could not be taken
away from their other work. I am thankful to say that
this problem is solved, for Miss Alhertson has most
gladly given me the use 9f her senior class on Friday
afternoon of each week, and next faU this work can be
started off in a systematic way.
Last fall werud a little work of this nature in a few
places where special help was needed. I took all the
Bible women with me and,we visited in the homes until
3 P; !\-L inviting ,the women at that hour to an e~angel
isticmeeting. The Bible women especially enjoyed this
kind of work and great numbers came out to -the meet-
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ing on ever,. occasion.
The thing that has distressed me most during the
year has been the lack of a real desire for study among
most of our women. They have been neglected so long
that they do not care to work as hard as they do in
most places outside Seoul.
If I am permitted to work here again next year, I
think that we can accomplish more along this line, for
some have already awakened and we know that better
things are ahead of us.
After the new class room building for Ewha is completed Miss Frey will vacate the old hospital building and
let me have it for class work and for dormitories for my
country women while they are in the city for the big
classes.
As I look over the year's work I do not feel that as
much has been accomplished as I should have liked but
the work has all been in the beginning stage. We trust
that we can tell you a better story next year.
SEOUL EV ANOELISTIC
WO~K
MRS. W. A. NOBLE.
As it has been only three months since my return
from "my aio countrie" to our beloved land of the
"Morning freshness", it almost seems superfluous for me
to write a report, but since there are those for whose
sake I would write, even tho a brief one, this is my
apology-and my report.
The days havt been filled with duties, the same great
\ possibilities and openings for work for the Master. I
have done more reconnoitering than actually being in
the full swing of work; have visited a number of the
churches and Sunday Schools; led the devotions for a
week in a Union Normal Class for women; taught nearly
two weeks in the Bible Training School for Women. and
also taught a week in the Women's Union Bible Institute. Since distances are great between most points of
our work in Seoul, it generally consumes an hour in go-
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ing and coming.
.,
I had the privilege of teaching Miss Miller's Worker's
Class in Chemulpo one morning, and rejoiced in a spleo_
did welcome and reunion with our be1ov.edPyeng Yang
p.eople for four days. Such tremendous welcomings certainly do the heart good.
It is great to be here and I thank God for the opportunity of being able to help a little in leading this responsivepeople to Him; still, when a part of one's own life
must needs be left on the other side of the great deep.
one feels -that one has a part in the fellowship of His
sufferings, and thai: His blessing 'will hover all.
WORK AMONa THE CHINESE IN SEOUL, KOREA.
MRS. C. S. DE:\H~G.
As we look back over the past year our hearts are
inll of deep gratitude for .the \vay in which God has led
us. It is just two years' since our first little Chinese service was held in the Korean Y.M.C A. and one year since
our pastor came to us. To-day we can report a church
membership oftwelve, six of whom were baptized April
12th, eleven probationers, an average atte~dance of forty, and a day school with twenty two boys and six girls.
Up to the- present tim~ Chinese have contributed yen
361.00; missionaries, yen 375.00; Koreans yen 12.00;
and yen 400.00 was received from a lady. in the :;unday
School party; making a total of yen 9!-8.
In September our pastor, Mr. Li, went to· China for
his ordination, retu~ning with his wife in Novelnber. An
installation service wa!3 held soon after ·which was attended hy representatives of all the missions.
In NONember Dr. Cbee's assistant, Mr. Chao Hyoh
Pong, left us to return to China. He was one. of ourfirst converts, and.it was his earnest desire to enter the
ministry. Before leaving us he was giving half his time
to preaching the Gospel in the Chinese. quarters. Unfortunately his parents w.ere very angry when they heard of
his conversion .and ordered him home immediat.ely.· lIe
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went, knowing that he would be the only Christian in
his village near Chefoo, and that persecution awaited
him. He asked us to pray that he might be kept faithful. Some time after his return, word was received from
him. His family were doing all in their power to make
him give up Christ. They had taken him to a temple
and beaten him when he refused to worship the idols;
in his home he was a virtual ,prisoner never being allowed Ii moment alone. All letters that came for him were
destroyed immediately, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that he could communicate with us. He
asked us to continue to pray for him, that by faithfully
bearing persecution he might be able to win his relatives.
Mr. An is another of our converts who has left us. He
was a well.educated young man of good family with an
unusually refined face for a Chinaman. His business
failed some time before he came to us, which led him to
consider the uselessness of striving to lay up money on
earth. He was groping after something which was eaduring, when he passed by our Chapel, and was led to
enter. It was not long before he found what hesought in
Christ ] esus. He. decided to enter the ministry if possible anc! dedicate his life to preaching the Gospel. Om our
recommendation he. was received into the Southern Baptist Church at Li Chow Fu. Shantung,and is now studyiag in the Theological Seminary. Li Chow Fn is his
own home: town. He had ttl come to. Korea to be converted, and is now back among his own people preparing for his lifework'. Mr. Syn, our c.liitl~se teaeher, returned to China witfl ~l!. An; since then Mr .. Li has
carried on the scbool- himself,. assisted in the afternoons
by Mr. Lu, one of our enqui~ers.
OUT school, the "-Schoo} 06 Universal Love",. ha-s
wona. good place' for itself during the· past year, in spite
of the. fact that' aU kind oi rumors wer:e spread a broad
about llS~. ClW<wen were loid that we wotllid dig out
their hearts and eyes for medliciue if theJ: came to us
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and for a long time fear kept them' away. A.few. brave
ones persisted incoming, hO'wever, and proved to. the
others·that tIle rumors "vere false. The .good behavior
and changed 'conduct of the scholars also helped to ad.;
vertisethe. schooL
:. There are~ three large guilds. in Seoul, the Central
or Commercial Guild, _the. Cantonese Guild, and ~the
East .china,. orSonthern G.uild:as it.is called. The Cen..,
iral Guild started. at the beginning of the. year to pro~
vide a good schoo, .for Chinese children .. They. engaged
two teachers. and had thirtY.. pupils. The teachers did
not know ho'w to teach. so the school is now ,no. more.
while :many of its pupils have .come to .us. Th~ South~
ern Guild tried its hand at running a school, engaging
as teacher:a man who ha'i since proved. himself ,to be
mentally . unbalance~l.. They are facing '.extinction as
their pupils are alL wanting. to come to our school. In
order,to. "save tbei~ faces" . they are. at present.negotiating with us to see. what can be.idone to unite the. two;
schools. ~We'have outgrown:·our present rented .quar.,
ters, and are looking. for __another larger buil4ing to
occupy until .we can~buy :Qr build for ourselves. A build~
ing near the present Iocality.'is under cansideration. It
will have the Chapel and school.downstairs,.and. raoms
upstairs will.beused _for a Y.M.C.A. and' night school.
The pastor .and his wife ;will live next door. .Thebui1ding is owned by the father of one of our pupils and he ~s
willing to. let.us have it .at the. same rental as our present quarters.
A delightful surprise c~me one day -during a visit. t.o
Chemulpo the b~giQnirig orApril: .Word had came that
Mrs .. Cbang-t.~wife oLthe Chinese consul;.-.was a Christian, a member af the Southern Metho<iist Mission in
Soocll'ow.., arid it ,"'as this news which c,a.used, the visit.
W.e w:an.ted~o. be;'pf.help,to Mrs. Chang., if possible. , We
found. that s~e 'was doing real inissionary. .wark. ;,She
and her husband had started a .schaot for the Chinese
children,with the help :0£ her 'brother, Mr. Chen, a fine
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young -Chrjstian fellow recently g,raduated from Soochow University.-- Theconsul, a Hanlin Degree man, was
teaching three hours a day,' and his wife three hours.
They had[:forty three pupils in their school.: a large
number of whom were girls. These girls all had bound
feet when they first came to school;bht each m~rning
Mrs; Chang took:them to her bath~oom, took off their
bandages, and bathed their feet. She had to' do it for
about ten mornings, after which the mothers ceased binding them-. Mrs. Cha-ng-visits in the homes of the Chinese
women and does aU she can to help them live better
~ives" But neraest work is the example of a Christian
wife and m other which she sets them. The Changs ana
Mr. Chen were all so delighted to hear of our little U nion Chinese Church in Seoul, and promised to spend the
following Sunday with us.
The 12th of April Was a memorable day for us
when our .first baptisms took place after one year of
waiting and testing_ Mrs. Chang's- little daughter was
the seventh' to be baptised. Her husband has become
a Christian through her infiuence,buthe is not yet
ready for baptism. ·Three weeks later our school \vas
invited to visit the sch00l at Chemu1po, and spent a
most delightful day,.
'.Every Sunday afternoon at two a little band meets
in the chapel for prayer, then two and two they go on t
with tracts· and leaflets to preach the Gospel; gathering again in· the ev.ening to report their· experiences.
It ls:only a little band, but they are in 'earnest and,
one by
their ,efforts are being blessed and .souls
are being saved. We are praying for a new building
which will honse,but school ahd -chapel, and~' Chinese
Y.~.C.A. These young workmen-have nothing to up1ift
them after work hGurs:, and' we want to provide a
place in which they can spend their evenings with.
aut.,harm 'to'-,:bQdy or souL We want a place of our
own that will be known to ev-ery Chinaman wilD 'ert..; .
ters Seoul~ arId \vhich v~riUbe a trerileridouspowet for
one-,.
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long neglect(!d people. We
}lI!liev~ 1;ha~<iod will a~swer our prayer~ if W~ faithfully
the mqst of what He ht:\$ given us already. It
ba~ be~n a gr~~t joy to watch th~ development of the
litt1~ b~(,l of Christians, and to work quietly with them.
T~y h~ v~ ~U h~cl to be~r more or less p~tty persecutipn, but ~~ Jtas ~B:de them strong and driven tbem to
the Soqr~ of all Comfort.
Dpting four mOIltqs-, 1;1lyd~ar mother, Mrs~J .S.Adams
pf Hanyang! China, has helped tbe Church by ber pres ..
ence and encourag~m~nt.
p~~ ()f our neeqs at the pr~sent time is for games
and pictures which will make the fl,lture Y.M.C.A. a.n
~ttractive place for yOllllg men to spend their evenings.
Any gift for tqis p'~rpose will be gladly received by the
writer.
m~ke
rHE
BI~LE TR~ININO
-MILLIE
l\4.
S.CHOOL, SEOUL.
~LBBRTSO.N.
Tlle ~ible rra:~~ing $c·hool s'till ~ol\tinl,les to wander
in the wilder~ess not knowing where we shall camp
next year, no't knowing how w~ sh.~ll be able to stretch
our tent 8.9 th~t ~~- cl,tn take ~tl an additional B;umb.er- of
students; nevertheless, we do know that somehow,. someWB:Y,. we sha~ ~~V~ a hlrg~r et;lrQllment thall ev:~ before.
The Korean has. ~ YV~Y of getting into an already crowd·
ed r<~om. L~st faU a, YOU:T,1g woman ~a,me without haxing
pr~viC?:usly applied; for admission, a distanc.e of 290
mile.s---.o.ve( seven mouBt~iJa:S. She, had walked- all of
th~ w.~y. Wecoq,ld not se~q her Q~c~ for $he, was not
well.
In a.dditio%,1 to thP. tWQ I<efean rooms t1sed~ as kitchen aL¥l dining 1;oom,. ~~ h~ye, had, 6.v:~ la:rg¢ rooms in
the h.o~p.i~al whi~l1 ha~e, me~ the t\VoQfo.ld. need of sl~ep ..
ipg ~.nd; liV;i~g. rooms" a134- o( cl~ss an~:l study rooms· fot'
forty fiv~ \'Xom(fn. rh~~ ha~ m~d~ th~, PJroboom of ventila..
tiop ~lqne t;n{)st d.ifficul~.
Tb,e ~'tmosp1;ler~ Qf tIw a,()~e lifC:l ba~, beel): controlled
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and kept wholesome through the faithful work and influence of the two resident teachers, Rhoda and Alberta,
who graduated with the first class.
It has been the earnest endeavor of all teachers to
impress upon the m.inds and hearts of the students their
individual responsibility in doing their utmost to bring
Korea to Christ.
The senior and junior students have taught Sunday
School classes in Seoul and surrounding districts through
the year. During the winter months they conducted
evangelistic services for women each week, and during
the spring months, taught Bible classes for Miss Marker.
Altogether they have received the names of 160 women
desiring to become Christians, taught reading to 120
women, and visited in 1202 homes.
One menlber from the graduating class of ten has
entered the Nurses Training School, and another will
remain in the school fo"r a year as-teacher.
In order to give more academic work to women having had no educational advantages before coming to the
school, and also to give music and Japanese language,
we have lengthened th6 time of the course of study to
four years.
We are more than grateful for Mrs. Van 'Buskirk's
help. Without hcr daily class work it would have been
impossible to complete the scheduled work. She has held
the love and respect of every student and led them to
earnest endeavor in study.
We are troly thankful to the other missionaries who;
even though carrying heavy work of their own, have,
through sympathy, found time to give us help in teaching. The following persons. have ta'\lght Bible books:
Miss Robbins, Mrs. Billings, Miss Miller, Rev. 0, Mrs.
Noble, and Miss Marker. Miss Renick has not only
taught in the school, ~but has been a source of help and
strength in nlany ether ways.
We have all appreciated the privilege of living near
the hospital and dispensary and have always found Dr.
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stewart and Miss Anderson ready to do all they could
for us.
The late Mrs. Gamble's gift of $10000 tog~ther
with "The Lure of Korea", a gift from Mrs. Jennie
Fowler Willing, Mrs. Geo. Heber Jones, and Miss AnnaM.
Skeer, which is now on the market in the interest of a
building for the Bible School, gives us new courage, and
we look forward in the near future to an equipped build.
ing and hope also for teachers enough to carry the
increased demands of the work.
The students no longer arise at five o'clock in the
morning to pray for a building, but instead they are
asking that like Solomon we may have wisdom in building; and we see, by faith, a spiritual place from which
shall go out messengers carrying the word of life to
those \vho otherwise would never hear of the love of
Christ who died for them, too.
EWHA HAKTANO, SEOUL.
E. FREY, PRINCIPAL.
LULU
HULDAH
A.
GRACE
HAENIG
L.
A. JEANNETTE WALTER
OL1;VE F. PVE
HARMON
CHARLOTTE BROWNLEB.
Growing is very desirable; but it brings its problems.. Much of our time in Ewha Haktang the past
year has been taken up in trying to solve the problem of
housing QUr growing family.
On my return from America, I found that Miss
Marker had already taken in as many girls as could be
accommodated. Still applications for entrance from students on thevariou's' districts were coming in, and many
of them we could not refuse, thougb we did not know
w here we could room any more. We looked over the
old hospital building and found that, by tearing down
paper partitions and putting up others, we could pro.
vide class-rooms for the preparatory and four primary
grades, two more than had been taught there the year
before.. This freed two class rooms in the main building
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which we then used for dormitories. Soon we were
again overflowing-the dining-room being. filled every
night with the girls who could not find floor space in
the rooms ast;igned them to lay their beds.
Again we began to plan as to what we could do. In
the spring, as soon as the weather would permit, the
Physical Culture classes were taken to the tennis court
and the room which we had called the Gym was divided'into hall, seven sleeping-rooms a.nd a dark room for
the girls' boxes. We were enabled by this to provide
for the overflow in the dining-room and to redeem
the two class-rooms which were much needed as we
were trying to teach all the classes of the grammar,
high school, and college grades in seven class-rooms.
Classes were taught even in the bed-rooms at the foreign
teachers.
This crowding is surely not good for the health of
the pupils and we have had much sickness. Our most
trying difficulty has been to care properly for our sick
girls. Dr. Stewart has willingly treated those that we
have sent to her, but three miles is a long distance to
take a very sick patient by the only mode of conveyance at our disposal. Dr. VanBuskirk has also been
exceedingly kind to us in times of need, and a few of
our girls have been cared for in Severance Hospital. Dr.
Hinman has been untiring in her eHort to help, but has
worked at great disadvantage. We should have a native nurse in the . school next _year, for much of Miss
Walters' time and strength has gone into caring for the
sick girls. We have had no proper place in which to
isolate our fever cases. One little organ room has been
used in emergencies. We hope to find a more suitable
place.
To enlarge our dining-room is one of our next problems. For immediate need, this may be done by taking in a small porch. We are so grateful for the land
which we were allowed to buy. adding enough to our
compound to furnish a good site tor our new class-room
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building, which is the gift of Miss Holbrook of Columbia River Branch· and is to be called the Sarah J. Simp.
son Memorial, in memory of the donor's sister. The
building is to have a 'gymnasium in the basement and
class rooms for Primary and Middle School grades on
the first and second floors, also a kindergarten and
office.
Thus our need for class-rooms is to be met; but I
fear our cry for doqnitory room must still be heard.
Our very problem of finding room is evidence of our increased opportunities for reaching the girls of Korea,
winning them for Christ, and training them in His service. How can we turn them away when no other, not
even non-Christian, schools are open to them for High
Scho'ol and College work?
Primary work opened September 1s~ both at Ewha
and in the day "Schools in connection. Eleven of these
are registered schools enrolling 557 pupils; and there
are six others with an attendance of 126. What these
day schools mean to our little churches cannot be fully
appreciated without knowing something of the way the
people are willing to sacrifice in order to keep them going. In some places they are willing to pay half of the
teacher's salary, part or all of the fuel, and something
toward f~rniture~nd supplies. All of the books are
furnished by the pupils except the Japanese text;.books
which are given by the government to registered
schools. The interest and co-operation ot the native
pastors have been' most gratifying. We are encouraged
to believe that'we 'will yet see the day in Korea ,vhen.
as great sacrifices will be made to -support the girls'
schools as \ve now see made for the boys.
The grade of these schools can only be raised by
supplying trained teachers. For these we must look to
Ewha .. We have used graduates from the government:
schools but we do not find them satisfactory, and long
for the time when we can have our own Christian girls
in all thrse schools.
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Our c,?urse of study is the one made out by the Federal Council of Missions and approved by the Educational Department. In Ewha this course is also used
in the Primary and Middle grades, covering eight years.
Above that we follow our own course which has been
sublnitted to and approved of by the Educational Department. We have tried to make it as practical as
possible. The Chinese character is taught, of course, as
it is the foundation ot the Korean language; Japanese
and English are the two foreign languages taught.
Except in the College department aU studies are taught
in the Korean language.
Our industrial work has been carried on by a
Japanese woman using the same course taught in the
government school. As yet no domestic science department has been opened unless the practical work done
daily in the kitchen and dining-room may be called
domestic science.
Kimchi making" has al ways been a
part of the year's work. This year we put away 103
toks (earthen jars the size of a barre,I) of this savory
pickle. We want, however, a real domestic science
course adapted to the needs of a Korean home, so that
our girls will make intelligent home-keepers as well as
good school teachers. The time of our foreign teachers
is so full that it is impossible for them to take up any
new line of work. If we com~up to' government requirements, we must at least attempt to do all the things
done in the government schools.
Our music department under the leadership of Mi~s
Harmon has done credit to the school. Our six p~ano
pupils have done well and have been of great assistance
to Miss Harman,' each teaching five o'rgan pupils. When
we have the piano which is Of! its way to us, the gift of
Mr. and Mrs. Kinnear of Pittsburg, we hope to develop
more music teachers. Itis often a disappointment to
the little church if the girls' day school teacher cannot
play the organ. We are ambitious that each one of
our High School graduates may know enough music to
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play hymns. Listening· toJtbe singing in o~e of our
country congregationswould:sllrely convince one of the
need.
Chorus classes' taking in the entire school have done
good work. The' music recital held in December was
much appreciated' by both foreigners and Koreans. A
little operetta, "The "Moon-Queen," was given on the
lawn on Founder's Day. Miss Walter's and Miss Pye's
Physical Culture classes added to the program and the
enjoyment of the afternoon. We ,vere fortunate in
having as guests Bishop and Mrs. Lewis and Miss
Nichols of the New England Branch, as well as our own
Bishop Harris and members of the Conference.
The climax of the year-we might say of five years'
,vork-wasthe graduating in March of our first college
class, three beautiful Christian girls. It seems to us we
can never have three better, sweeter, 'brighter girls than
this first class. 'Their help since commencement in the
school cannot be overestimated. Mr., F. H. Smith, missionary under our General Board to the Japanese, gave
us such a ,fine address; and M·rs.Helen B. Montgomery,
to whose coming we had!longlooked forward,came just
in time to be with us on Commencement Day. We greatly
appreciated her most interesting words addressed to the
men of the· audience on,Education for the Oriental Woman.: It was well received:a'nd will'give those who heard
it thought-food for many a day.
Our High School class numbered only four this year,
three of whom will be, teachers. Ther:e are J 51 in next
year's class~'. Calls for teachers are very insistent; so we
are glad for large classes.
The influence of the revival in the fall.has: been felt
throughout the year. Wi! had it in .connection with the
one held in our church under Mr,.Kim, 'our Conference
Evangelist.·' Special'meetings for the girls ·were held in
the morriing~.:by O. Mo.ksawho has .helped us for three
years in our revivals with great blessing. The King's
Daughters Circles'under Miss Walter's care have added
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much to the spiritual development of the girls. The
quiet weekly.prayer meeting of the leaders have been the
life of the circles. The chapel is still the place where the
girls love to steal a way at bed-time for a little talk with
the Master.
Their interest in the missionary society is evidence
of their de~ire to give to others the blessing of salvation
which they enjoy. Sev~ral friends from India and China,
passing through, have given the girls .delightful addresses. We hope this interest may spread, until we have
auxiliaries scattered over all our districts.
Miss Marker, after her association with thescbool
for six years, has been greatly missed. Miss Brownlee
has been added to our force and, in charge of the Kindergarten Department, has filled a longfelt need. Miss
Harmon's time has been entirely taken up by her language study and the carrying out of her plans in the
Music Department; Miss Haenig, Miss Walter, and Miss
Pye have carried together with their langnag.estudy the
heavy class work of the College with Physical Culture
and drawing throughout the grades. We wish we might
have workers enough so that the foreign teachers could
come into closer touch with the .High School girls. This
we hope may be possible when we have with us Miss
Hulbert, whose coming was delayed last year by a serious case of typhoid fever, 8'l'ld Miss Alice Appenze,lIer
who has so long looked forward to being home again in
Korea.
:We opened school in the fall with 164pupils. Bighty
six new pupils have come in through the year. A few
have had to leave because of sickness. We close the
spring term with 220 pupils and 45 children in the.
Kindergarten, making a total of 265. Of these, 94 are
day scholars, .77 are pay pupils, and 84 are schol~rship
girls. The enrolment for the entire year is 250; including the Kindergarten, it is 295. Receipts for the year are
Y1565.89.
We must not close without expressing our gratit1;1de
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KOREA. WOMA.N'S CONFERENCE
to all patrons and interested friends who have sent us
Christmas boxes, :books for our library, music books,
and other gifts, all of which have meant so mucb to us
in the work of the year. The folding organ, the gift of
personal friends, has already proved its usefulness. We
hope that all may feel. a share in the joy that comes to
us in this service for Him.
THE LILLIAN
HA~R.IS
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND THE
NURSES TRAINING SCHOOL.
NAOMI ANDERSON.
Our work at East Gate increases. of course, as the
hospital becomes known among the Koreans and we
are thankful to God for I1is help and blessings upon our
work during the past year. Comparing statistics with
last, we had double the number of patients in the same
leQgth of time from January to June and we ha ve had
more of the paying class than we had at ~rst. At one
time we had five of the very high class women who paid
two and three yen per day for their treatment. They
all said they were so glad to find ,a woman's hospital to
which they could come, for they said they could not go
to a general hospital. At first some of the old relatives
even objected to their coming to a hospital at all but
whenthey came and saw that the nurses were nice,
quiet, modest girls they gave their consent and also
told t~ir friends to come.
We try, of course, to teach the gospel to these women as we do to aU our patients, but we 'feel we must
make a special effort to win the high class women while
they are with us in the hospital for it is harder for the
.Bible women to get into their homes and they cannot go
out tocburch either because of their caste.
-Our nurses have done good work> and have been
faithful in their studies as well as in their wo,rk. There
are some changes ill our s,taff of nurses; Nurse Hope left
us and Nurse Chang, who is a graduate of our Training
Sch,ool and has been in JapaGstudyin'g since graduating
KOREA. WOMAN'S CONFERENCE
79
two years ago, has come to take her place. Three of the
girls graduated May 28th. Yi Kyungsun will continue
her work with us and Yi Lena goes to the Wonju Hospital. Yi Mary has not been placed yet but there are
plenty of places wanting her. I think it is worth telling
that Lena had an offer of thirty yen per month beside
room in a private hospital but accepted the offer from
Wonju where shc will get only ten yen beside board and
room, considering it a greater opportunity to do personal work for her Master. She said if she thought of her
body only the first offer would appeal to her, but when
she thought of working for Jesus she knew she could do
more in the Christian hospital.
The hospital Bible woman has been faithful in visiting the patients every day and looking them up in their
homes. The evangelistic work in the hospital is not all
left to the Bible woman tho,-we try to make each
nurse feel that it is her duty as well as privilege to minister to the soul as well as to the body.
The Buddhist priestess of whom we told in our report last year as a patient who ·had b;}en badly burned,
left the hospital cured as to soul and body. But she
came back soon, saying she had left the temple and
wanted to live with us and be a Christian. She had
been in the temple for thirty seven years and had no
other place to go to; so we took her in and gave her a
home. She makes herself useful in many ways in return
for her board; she washes the floors and sometimes prepares the vegetables for dinner, but we value her most
of aU for her sunny face, which is a.tonic for anyone who
sees her; and for her c1ea~ testimony of salvation. She
loves to visit with the patients andtelt them ho'w she
came to the hospital and learned of Christ; and the
patients always like to see her and are helped by her
beaming face and cheerful words. .One day she went to
Suwon to look up a brother and tell him about the
Christ she had found and one time she went with the
Bible students on one of their trips where there was a
80
KOREA~ W.OMAN'S ;CONFEB.ENCE
large Buddhist temple and talked with the priestesses
there.
Our little .blind girl who gives massage to the patients is also a sunbeam of cheerfulness, and comforts
and cheers the patients as, she treats them. She also
answers the telephone and tho' she i~ blind. can do so
many things that she is a great help to the 'hospital.
We thank God for the opportunity He has given us
the past year to "minister unto His little ones in His
Name" and we trust that He will bless our ·efforts and
give us even' greater opportunities the cODling y~ar.
We would thank aU .the friends at home who. have
given their support, and for the Christmas 'boxes full of
so many l1~eful things. The nineteen beautiful homemade quilts which came in the Zanesville box are espe;.
cially appreciated by the. pa,tients.
STATISTICAL· REPORT QF THE HOSPITAL
.No.' of patients from June 1st 1913 to May 1st 1914 .. 183
" patients Christ,ia;n....... ........ .... ...... ............ ........ 69
,',;
" . non Christian ..................................... 114
,t
who decided to becom~ Christians!.................. 39
"
"
""
"
after leaving
" hospi
tal.:. ............. ;... ...... . .. ... ............................. 11
" of hospjtal beds .......................................... ~. 18
" " nurses .......................................................... 10
',,' " vis~its mf,l,¢le by Bible woman ....................... lG39 ,
Fee.s received.~ .............. ~ .. ~ ....... ,........................... Y 611.38
."
" . for nurses on private cases ...... ..... 101.00
EAST GATE nEUICAL WORK, SEOUL
(LILLIAN HARRIS MEMORlAL HOSPITAL
AND BALDWIN D.SPENSA~Y).
. ,MARY S.STE\VART, M. D.
There h~ :been ma-rked progress along a.ll lines;:o f
our· work .. Considering that only one year has. elapsed
since our new beds; were'putup, I.hardly see. bow ·we
couln have done more. The. organization has heenperfected, giving ·to all our nurses and he]pers the work
81
that they can do and that our new laws will permit
them to do.
Early in the year all physicians. were required to
make a statement of their education and copies of their
oiplomas and deposit these documents together with
ten yen with the police. In retu'rn, all American physicians were granted licenses to practice in limited territory for fi ve years. I have Seoul only.
The cliental of our clinic has greatly changed. As
,this long'line of 10,622 passed by my table and I looked
into their faces and wrote their names in my book, I
was reminded of the travelers in the old rhyme for
"some were in rags, some in tag-s,and some in [silken]
gown". To' many of the former class, we gave not
only medicine but also a bath, improvised a dress on the
spot, and burned the filthy, vermin-filled rags. Some
cases I diagnosed as starvation and sent them to the
hospital for a few days. I wish we were able to do more
of this work.
Of the lIsilken go,wn" class, there has been an increase. Most of these cases were gynecological, but
these women came for sympathy and love, too. One of
these girls-a beautiful girl, the fourth concubine of her
master-told us that she was so unhappy! How she
wished she could escape from her'dreadful prison!
During the winter we served tea to our patients.
The patients at the Govcrnment Hospital received tobacco.
Upon all my out-calls this year,' I ,have taken a
nurse with nle, Sonle of our experiences would nlake
good 'subjects for a moving-picture show. We 'were
hastily called early one morning to go upon an obstetrical case. Nurse Lena went with me. Upon examining
the patient, we both exclaimed, "She is dead!" "Yes, we
kno\v it, but as you are the Jesus doctor you can put
new life into ber."
At the home of one of the princes, whither I was
called one Sunday morning, was a woman who had
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82
been a patient of-mine for some days. She told me she
had not slept any the night before and wanted some
sleeping-medicine. I prepared the hypodermic; bnt
when she saw me coming, shejumped ant at the windo~v, her whole retinue of servants following like a
drove of sheep. So on clown through our 286 out-calls,
I could tell you many interesting items of this work. We
have done' follow-up work-the nurse going back to
inquire and help.
At Christmas tilne we gave a dinner to 75 .of the
poorest children in the neighbo~hood. Mrs. Bnnker
helped, giving many ready-made garments. We gave
not only a dinner but baths, too, and santonine to
many. The police-with whose help these children had
been selected and invited-and a private detective
watched'us at work, our helpers burning the filthy rags
as fast as removed.
We are indebted to Dr. Fox, Mrs. Brown, and the
Young Woman's Club of Pittsburg for large boxes of
supplies. We feel that the Lord has greatly blessed us
in our wo'rk. and pray that we may' he even mare
blessed in the future.
(Since the close ofCon!erence, Dr. Stewart has sent.
us the following: " A new 'la w going into effect J uJy 9
states that if all physicians practicing medicine at this
date will present the required documents within three
months from date, ..a general license will be given. This
gives us all a better outlook than the former licenseindefinite time and territory mean greater freedom for
our work."-En.)
KORB:AWOYAN'S CONFERENCE
83
Appointments of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society Workers for
19 14- 15
BY
Bishop Harris
Seoul.
Principal of Ewha Haktang .............. Lulu E. Frey.
Day Schools ........................................ Ora M. Tuttle.
Seoul evangelistic work .....................Jessie B. Marker.
Instructor in Ewha Haktang and
Chong No evangelistic work ........... Huldah A. Haenig.
Instructor in Ew ha Haktang and Sang
Dong evangelistic work .................... AJeannette Walter
Instructor in Ewha Haktang and Sang
Dong evangelistic work ................... Olive F. Pye.
Instructor of Music at Ewha Haktang.Grace L. Harmon
Kindergarten in Ewha Haktang and
language study .............................. CharlotteBrownlee
Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital and
Bald win Dispensary ................... Mary S. Stewart M.D.
Supt. of Nurses Training School and
East Gate evangelistic work .......... Naomi Anderson.
Bible Woman's Training Schoo1.. ....... Millie M. Albertson
lnstructor in Bible Woman's Training
School ......................................... Elizabeth R. Renick.
Language study ................................ Jeannette Hulbert.
Chemulpo.
Evangelistic work in Chemulpo and
Suwon Districts ... ' .......................... Lula A. Miller
Evangelistic work and Day Schools
on Poopyung and Island Circuits of
Seoul District .................................... Hanna Scharpff.
City Day Schools and language study .. Margaret 1. Hess.
KORE~ WOMAN'S CONFERENCE
Haiju.
.
on Haiju District ........................ Gertrude E. Snavely.
Pyeng Yang.
Union Academy ..................·..
Emily Irene Haynes.
Instructor in Union Academy and
evangelistic work on Chil San
Li Circuit and Sin Chun Kol
Church ...................................... Grace L. Dillingham.
District evangelistic work and Ne
Mon Kol Church, city and district
Day Schools ..................................... Ruth E. Benedict.
Woman's Hospital and Dispensary
and Director of Department for
Blind and Deaf ......................... Rosetta S. Ba1lNt. D.
Woman's Hospital and Dispensary
. and Director of Woman's Medical
Class ......................................... Mary M. Cutler ·M.D.
o< . . . . . . .
Yeng Byen.
Evangelistic work and Day Schools on
Yeng Byen District ......................... Mary Beiler.
Evangelistic work and language study .. Ruby L. Krook.
Kong Ju.
in city and on East and West
Kongju Districts.............................. Alice H. Sharp.
City and East District Eva.ngelistic
work ..... ,......................................... Blanche R. Bair
Wonju.
Evangelistic work and Day Schools ... Ethel M. Estey.
Furlough.
Henrietta P. Robbins.
Mary R. Hillman.
Amanda F. HillmanM. D.
; ;
StatlstlcS
BibJe In=
stitutes or
Training
Classes.
Women in
tbeCburcb.
I
Scbools for
Training Bible
Women.
Year ending June ~, 1914.
for the
Vernacular and Anglo-Vernacular
Boarding Scbools.
Schools of College
Grade,
Day Schools.
MEDICAL WORK.
Kindergartens.
E
o
.!:
Names of
Stations or
Districts ..
286
I
t
746 :,:j: $36 • 2 41'
I
.
Seoul District. ..
J
Pyeng Yang..
5 3
4 1207
Yeng Byen .....
2
I
I
Yeng Byen Diet.
5
Hai In... ......
2 2
Sn Won •......
I
Won
20
58
293
75
950
10
533 1859
82
3 203
8
40
40
10
90
4
2
212
223
4
24
10
600
22
79
1046
397
440 517 660
15 312
N36
840
I
9 7 I006
*1
3
1
0
6
5
142
6
22
42
16
69
3
184$ 1 6 7 2 .5°
47
277.7 8
DI066.4 1
15
30
668
5
8
1601
636 805 1540
2 2
In.........
I
TOTAL .•... 2316
245
40 4789
273
509
4~57[ 8245
286.00
I
1.
5 0
:2
5
2
30
182
5822
91
4350
I
80
1000
136
1000
7 428 808 15 2 5 157 430
2
540
I
9
8
2
30C
5
II
179
18 85e
4
9
178
141
170
3
N5 1
In. ',' .. . ..
Kong
846 1194
J
.
,
8
10
7
8
NIl
I
18 3 8
400
101
106 7
9330
40
N= Normal Class.
5·00 J 9
i86
82
27 0
* School for Blind and Deaf,
Py~ng
22
Yang.
58
t Pl'Lls 6 not rei'istered.
i
136 .00
\
5
8
190
3
3
45
100
2549
I
i
2 1 30
1.
45
2
3 5
+P~rt~al records of Chong Dong Dispensary.
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