Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-03

i, Especial co;;respondcnce3
~ EoUL. l90o.-,Tust before I left
Nea Washington last summer to start
Y on this trip across the Pacific

wv HSl1l1S ION Ia SulliiiiNA ~ SOL
on this trip across the Pacific
one d OR leading bankers SAID
10 me;
L Il understand you are going out to
describe the awakening of Asia There
IS one thing i wish you would investi-
gate in practical way That is the
mission movement There are tens Of
8st thousands OF us business men Who arc
giving regularly toward the introdut-
ton Of ChristianityIamo the heather.
We want to know what our money Is
doing and whether itfwill pay us to
continue giving or not You are an
,nprejudiced observer and we should
like 10 know what you think. al
This desire to- know the truth about,
missions is not confined to our business,
mon ii ista live question to the 80, 4
100000 who belong TO our various
church organizations and to every
Sunday school and religious body
Throughout the whole United States. Il
$50 900 NATIVE CHRISTIANS.
/ am gladlto have this country as my
1iTSC ICHt #lci
Koreans arc now doing more than any
other natI2n along such lines. Our mis-
sionaries went to the japanese first,
hut korea has today. more converts
than Japan and prnportfonntciy many
times more thaniChina, which has beeil
exploited by the churches for several
generations.
Y The Christian movements one OF the
vital elements of the reorganization or
this country. A great revival is now.
taking place among the people, and
more than 10000 converts have been
added to the church within q year.
There are about 10000 native Chris
Stians. and there will be 100000 before
many months. This land has all told,
u reputation of less than 15,000,000, and
of these one in every hundred has pro-
fessed our religion. II a similar sue
cess could be had in apan that coun-
try would have 100000 Christians; If In |
China, it would have 900, and IL in
India, 300os000 or more.
You reiM.mber the wonderful work \
which was done by Edward Everett /
j1dales plan of ten times one is ten
the endless clSain principle--in which /
every one engaged to finterest2ten others
iii making the world better. The same
thing although not on numerical |
=
verted natives are different from us in
that as soon as they adopt Christian
lily they go out and try to convert their |
friends and eiEtbors.
Indeed. the mission movement is now
being pushed by the natives themselves
under the sdirectbn of our missionaries!
Native churches ire being built by ma
tive contributions in all of the cities
and there is a Korean congregation In
every large village. The Protestant
ORGANIZATIONS already mum Der some
thing like 1000 adherents, while the
Roman Catholics count 10000 Koreans.
The protestants have 500 native preach
FRS and 500 Sunday schools with about
10000 men, women and children as reg
ular attendants. There are more grown
people than children in the Sunday
schools; and all are anxious to learn |
about the new religion and what 1t |
can do for them. There are 800 self !
supporting day schools, run by the
CHURCHES, and altogether 10000 or 10000
schools last year. When it Is remem-s
bcred that the Koreans are one of the I
poorest peoples on earth, and that they
iive8from hand to mouth. these gifts are
n surprising evidence OF their faith.
THE FOREIGN MISSION BODIES
But first let me tell you about the
foreign missions which are operated
in Korea There are four, each with IL
large staff Of American or European
The Roman Catholics are
French Jesuits. They have been here
forhmore than a century and have u
fully organized church. At their head
Is a bishop, who is assisted by a largo
staff of priests and nuns, among whom
ares X dreams. The Catholics have n
cathedral in Seoul. 1t stands on a hill,
overlooking the rest of the city. and
it is by far the largest church build
ing in Korea.
The Protestant missions are all work
ing together. They have about 200 J