The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-02-15

Gently spent Sabbath here. The
church was crowded, a good many
were listening to the gospel for the
first time. At first they can hard
ly comprehend it and take it for
some fairy tale.
"Mrs. Adams and I held a five
days meeting with the women of
the Satol church ten miles from
Taiku and beside the railroad.
Thirty women were enrolled. We
studied from 9 a. m. to 4 p. N. ex-
cept about an hour for dinner and
had also en evening service. Three
women and two girls walked in al
most ten miles bringing along their
rice and lived in the church build
ing with US, only we shut off our
room at night. But the Korean
women kept studying and talking
till midnight and resumed with the
first streaks Of day light.
"Their honor of the missionaries
is quite interesting. I heard them
calling Mr.. Adams "the Adams
missionary gentleman" Gentle
man with them is next to ROYALTY.
We were grateful to see that those
women had given up smoking since
they believed. Not all do so, tor it
is hard for them when they have
been addicted to the habit nearly
all their lives. | longed for a ko-
dak picture Of the scene at meals.
The food Of Mrs. Adams and N.Y.
self not very different from what
we might have at home, but served
on the lid of our commlssary box
for a table, all having been prepar-
ed by our boy cook and kerosene
stove. He might be taken for a
girl If you saw only his hair braid
ed down his back but his real
American dart vest over his own
short white (?) jacket easily dis
tinguished him from a girl.
"Seated on the floor like our
selves the Korean women and girls
were crowded around their large
bowl of rice and pot of kimji or
chinchi. The brass bowl before
each one vas piled high and in
each an ungainly Korean spoou.
Later the water in which the rice
had been cooked was brought in
for their beverage. Before they
began, all bowed their faces to the
ground while one of their number
tfered prayer. When any one of
them did not wish all her rice she
lifted 1t IN her own spoon and put
It over into another's bowl. The
chlnchl is made of turnips, garlic
and lettuce with liberal seasoning
OF red pepper, and allowed to Grip
en-" till the odor is very disagreed.
BILE to a foreigners nostrils. It is
eaten with the fingers. How they
can eat rice and kimpji three times
a day | cannot understand. OF
course they occasionally have eggs
and chicken, and their bread which
to me Is simply awful. They ask
ed us the names of the different
dishes of which they saw us par
taking and expressed surprise that
we satisfied ourselves with SO lit
tie. But | noted often they show.
ed Christian courtesy and at night
they wished each other "peaceful
Sleep" at morning peaceful
We returned by railroad
train Monday morning. OurIeaye
taking was hard for them. One
dear soul who is said to have for
merry been possessed with a devil
put her arms around my neck and
laid her head on my shoulder much
to my dismay for | had seen too
much live stock to care for closer
contact than a necessary. We
love them but not their filth. An
other woman cried as she babe us
goodby aud another met us and
saw US off. Our visit seems to
have increased their interest in the
regular class here in the local
church, which is being enlarged to
accom- m0data tho ncrno,no