The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-17
which are producing marketable
wares. Tho machine shop, for tn

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which nre producing marketable
wares. The machine shop, for in-
stance, is unable to supply the demand #
for certain brading machine which 81
| it turns out. The industry and the ssS
skill shown by the student workmen ia
would seem to indicate unsuspected SR
capabilities on the part of the Korean. Il
! This establishment more nearly res s
sembled q bona fde workshop than s
any other Industrial school I recall.
The manager Of this Industrial s
school is Rev. Graham Lee, who seems us
| to be practical mechanic. In edai-N
| ton to running the Industrial school b
he is the pastor of the largest church
F! in Korea, and has charge Of forty
| country churches besides.
Like Story-Book Missions.
/ This suggests the country work that
centres in Pyeng Yang, and one pecu-S
1 liar phase Of Korean missions. The Il
church here is self-supportins New 4
i churches spring up almost III a night.
1 without ever having seen a mission -
4 airy. The Korean Christians are
! one Is expected to be an evangelist
4 Thus 1t comes to pass that by the
telling OF the news from mouth to B
mouth, the numberof believers spreads
with greater rapidity chan the miss
sionary can follow. IT seems literally
true mere lnaC tHe missionary cttn uo
keep up with the work, much less
lead it,. l:sts5s53i 85
A few days ago Dir. Wells and DR..
Sharro cks went to Wiju. a city north
OF here. which figured often In tho
war dispatches. En- route they looked 4
e in upon some country congregatlons.a
The first night, in n little village fDfsi
about 1900 Inhabitants, they found a.;
prayer meeting under way-the regn-ss
liar midweck service, swithRno less than
roo persons present. This, be t res
nemberea, was in a village where no
missionary resides. and where 10
white man visits oftener than once a.
4 quarter to il IA ss S8
& The next night they came. as unex-s
pectedly as before. upon another VII
|. lage prayer meeting. with 600 persons
in attendance. In these villages, as
in many others round about, thel5 "
!, layers. Christian and non Christiah.
! arc in the habit of gathering in the
church for morning prayers, before
: going out to tho fields for work ,sts
!, 1t seems as II religion has becon,a8
! tho very life of these people. ItHis5
certainly their supreme interest and
! pleasure. They build their own
churches with their own hands. ms
, deed, the Christian communities
- throughout Korea probably come sass5
! near communism, In their simplicity
: and fraternity and cN-operation, rs
anything known IN ta.S PreseHti u ay
{ One Man Baptizes More Than az
I Thousand
From Win henr n story that
: matches the famous incident of the
s. delegation OF Indians to ST. Louis
Z years ago. TO seal1 somebody to go
y back with them to teach them the
i white mans book. The Will Chrls-5
: tians have built themselves n comrp2-.
- x l,s,,+ met
n lshed an academy or higher school.
o Among them, however. was nobody
Q oualifed TO conduct the latter. So, Mt
q the annual meeting Of The Presbyte-
rian mission a delegation was sent
down from Will to Seoul to plead for
!. n missionary. The people agreed not
= only to give him the heartiest OF
= Welcomes and to pay all HIS eS-
- penses, but also to.proylde his snlary
y as we'll. Yet they We're sent back
g with their request denied. There are
II not enough missionaries to go around.
J. Here In Korea there IS no htnting up
" of people for the church; the people f'ie
y clg.moriAg to come in. Daring tive mission
Is yelu Just ended. one man In this region.
g Raw. O. T.. Kearns, baptized LOO tSo-
II reans, Yet t.is not made easy for I.
Korean To become n Christian. Careful
SC always lest men and women should deslNe
p 10 enter the church from unworthy mo-
IS tives, every applicant Is obliged to be-
l. come a catechtmen for mt least one yea T,
u Then he must pass Il rigid examination as
y to his character and his knowledge at
q Christian truth The missionaries ms
of pose What they say is the New Testa-
mi ment standard of conduct upon the peo-
Al pie. Every Chrlstianls required to 20 a
Is total abstainer, 10 refrain from all forms
90 Of gambling, to observe Sunday sSrlctly'
j. and to have y clean character morally.
M An offending member is promptly GUS
m ciplned
nj When It Ia considered tfat these peo-
~ pie are lust emerging from the raw nea-
a. thenism and devil worship which presiiiis
~ around them, these standards seem tfaa
tn more remarkable. Tie Korean Christians
n here go farther than their fellows ~
ed America IN the ''big cturth of lsSsne;
he Yang some8os Tie members ihhsa tolmesi
81 an anti-tobacco society, for the koreisns,
,ir men and women are confirmed smokers.
ey These people give the money they thus
IA save to the church. and two colporteurs
OF sire so supported.