The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-04-03
MISS Kinds
Writes Of Korean Festivity and
Gives Interesting Account
of the Results of Her Labors-
other Events.
Seoul, Korea, Asis.l
Dec. 81, 1899.

seoul, hOrea, Aele.t
Dec. 81, 1899.
My DEAR MRS. MEGUIAR:
came in from Koyong Yesterday,
the day after Christmas. l was there
nine weeks and half and feel that i
gained much in the language.
Eleven persons confessed Christ
while we were there and that made
10 most happy. l must tell you about
one man and his wife. He is the son
of the old man who keeps the mission
place where we stayed. He had been
for some years employed by the Ko-
rean Government to furnish food for
the evil spirits. He lived about :
mile from where we we're. When We
had been there a little while, he be-
gan coming, occasionally, to our little
evening family prayers, though he
never came to the church meeting
He would sometimes stay an hour or
two and ask questions, aud listened
most attentively. His wife often came
to our morning family prayers. Al
first she would hardly listen TO what
we said to her. One day, she came
and told us that her husband said
that they would come to church to-
gether some time. He came the next
day in the afternoon, and told us
that he was believing, and that he
was going to give ny the work of fur
nishlng TODD for the evil spirits. Be
fore the next Sunday, he gave 1t up
aud came TO the three services and
bought all of the New Testament that
has heen translated Sii13 Tue discipline.
He had read during the week the .sto-
ry of the Gospels which my teacher
had loaned him. At the morning
service, he and two other men and
three, boys gave their names as want
ing to become members of the mis-
sion. The wife came almost every
morning during that week, to our
prayers and always tsrried and ask
ed questions, and j could see that the
Holy Spirit was working within her,
as she was lead on from one question
to another, snd she changed SO that /
would hardly have known that
she was the same woman if had not
seen her almost everv day. / had
planned TO come away that week and
she begged me to stay till Sunday. 1
stayed aud she came to church and is
now one of Us. We went to their
home one afternoon. l minded me
of comfortable country home i'm
Americs. 1t was clean and well kept.
We had told her some time before
that we were going 10 make her Wis
it but she told us that her home was
not fit for me to go to and did not
seem to want us to go, but after she
began to believe she asked me to go.
She had Korean delicacies prepared
for me to eat, and all the neighbors
came In to see me and hear of the
Gospel, aud we spent the afternoon
with them. The whole mission plead
with me to stay over Christmas with
them and as it seemed that we were
not doing any harm, l decided to
stay. learned through my teacher
that they were going to prepare lot
of things 10 eat because of my pres
ence. felt sorry for two reasons !:
l do not enjoy Korean food and find
it difficult to make myself eat it, and
then l felt grieved to think that they
had the idea that the best way to cell
citrate our dear Lords birthday was
to feast their own stomachs. told
them that was going to be very hap
py and fast and pray. That changed
their plan, and they did likewise.
Some of the men of the mission were
in the old mans room all day pre-
pairing for the evening. They came
into the service room in the morning
and we had prayermeeIing and then
at noon 1 heard them having another
in the old mans room. When night
came on they had the place beauti-
fully decorated with cedar and Lam
terms. The Korean lanterns are of
many kinds, and they had many of
them. wrote before about the large