New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-21
ZEAL OF MISSIONARIES IN coREA.
Reasons Why It Is Net To Be Condemned
Hastily.
70 the Editor o. The Tribune.

70 the Editor % The Tribune
Sir. A news telegram from WASHINGTON 5e+.s
March 16 IN your paper this morning, mentions
The refusal of missionaries IN Northern Corea 10
SEND away thei- women and children on the Gin
crnat x ADDS that this attitude OF missionaries
Is familiar TO the state Department in connection
with Oriental countries and that the department
has used every effort 10 induce these Jealous rer-
sons" TO repair TO place o. safety.
The casual reader OF these remarks IS not led 10
suspect that Il is a dilemma with horns which
has confronted the missionaries in thu neIghbor-
hood OF P.ng-yang or that the extreme gravity
has been realized OF decision not 70 60 away on
the invitation OF United States officials IN fact
the heading. zeal Eots Up AIIssionariez'' raich.
lead some 10 tbi-k that the only obstacle TO their
leaving their posts Is Objectionable Il not blind
zeal Allow me 10 mention another obstacle 10
their acceptance OF the escort 50 cordially proHered
by the officials OF oar government
North OF Seoul. in Corea, with central stations
az Pirg-larg and yYonsan and three or foLr other
towns and with sub-stations extending as far north
as Win. are about forty missionaries. men and
women, sent out by Tho Presbyterian Omitted
States and also Canadian and the Methodist Epis-
ccpal CNOrth and SOUTH mission boards. They
have charge OF a considerable plant, which is the
property OF lie American churches, confded as
Trust 20 their ca-e, and which includes about
twenty-five schools some OF them boarding schools
and t1-ee hospitals. besides dispersaries In the
sbsenca Of CLesterleIds among themselves the Co
Eeans OF that Wild north country, now tIllug with
japanese troops. have learned TO look at the mis-
sionarias somewhat models OF proper conduct
and about for thousand Of the people have become
Christians, and regard the missionaries as their
natural recourse FOR sympathy ard advice. The
missionaries Intimately know the people CT the
country ard they love many q them as their
Tor "a mother manhood and watch its growth 81 any
nuinaL being without being b0uul 20 him by re-
chuTchE - CO., 20 ~ oe ~ ~ ~ = 80
Ser appears would be sescrti9l- Moreover, il
s..Nuic cause something Ike "a panic among tho
NoItan Witnesses % cLCh q Eosty Hight Such ac-
lion might lead thousands 10 abandon home. prop
t.y ana business, without present reason but with
irre1arahle loss.
Such a summons FOR the missionaries 10 take
refuge on ship az way S. like uItmatum with
snort time lllEtt. Tor the ship cannot await the
-e4s1iely winding Up OF business enterprises How
~ the relations laboroLzIy developed during vears2
y hat Or the schools? shall the girls The board
- SCHOOLS oe abandoned by The women 20 whom
they were coufded with fuI trust bv their parerts
~ Distant Villages? What Cf the hospitals? Can
Nle women doctors and nurses leave the bedridden
further aHxietieso
We laud 10 the skies minister OF a devoted
.olaL Nho gives "a lie 10 the core OF lepers, with
6test fi-k o. contracting loathsOu1e disease. How
neHe We Characterize pastors teachers doctors
s-o hospital nurses who should Gee fron a town
dance neslera or yellow fever appears? But tie
nv vi y. Slch an ei1lemic are not greater than
10 ~ fis5lnie on the North COrean horizon
fellow cift,o~ es cflIclse without understanding
S.-ts Common sense f,ls 5-,9-- -,l,ov, -, ,,-,t
rraf lave 81 - tnrQwn crushing respone ibflites
osy Sl- may bring. The r.~rf,lg--e7 80 49,, %
- q CIGAR n nv ,scgs solved between two whiffs
c1n men ana women SO placed - -. l5 = me-
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