Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-26
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
 CHURCH AWAKENING
To Its Responsibilities in Korea-Re-
 lief for Overburdened Missionaries : A SeIf-Denial Offering Sunday,
 January %.

New York, Jan. 25.-The Methodist Episcopal church in the United States is awakening to the fact that she has given the men and women whom she has sent as her representatives to Ko req burdens beyond the power of hu- man beings to endure.
 Methodism began work in Korea about twenty-five years ago. During the last few years a remarkable re- vival has swept over Chosen This re- vival, with its thousands of converts, has so increased the labors of the mis- sionaries that many are breaking down under the strain. They are cry ing out for help. And yet not in ths spirit of complaint Their cry is more the utterance of such men at w. Carl Rufus of Pyeng Yang, who teaches in the Union college in that northern city, is pastor of Drew-Appenzeller Memo rial chapel, and head of circuit of six churches with over 1000 members, whose native leaders he has to guide. The students of his school were preachers in the recent ten days cam- paign which brought 4,000 converts in to the churches. The missionary, hay ing broken down under the strain, writes:
 'The school is again in session while I am lying here on my back. The hardest thing I have had to do since I
  for the rest of this term. After diet and tonic and nerve had done their best, and work and disease had won, when another acute attack brought me to face the fact that I had to give up, bawled. Pardon the baby act I wasn't man; I was sick. But think of the situation; paucity of workers; {; abundance of work; unparalleled op- portunity, right in the midst of the Pyeng Yang evangelistic campaign. Do you Wonter that l kept up as long es could, inviting leaders to come to the house to try to give them inspira tion and direction, when I was unable to walk? Do you wonder that my re- maining strength was entirely exhaust ed Tn this work, and when l had to give up, my first act was to fall in a dead faint from sheer weakness before I landed safely on my back in bed Friends in America please do not think that this Is complaint. I am content ed with my lot. I would not exchange with you, doctor, lawyer, merchant or chief. And above all please do not think 1t is a boast. I have done no more than any man would do. This is simply heart to heata talk, be- cause I wish you to see the situation as it appeals to us in Korea; especial : ly to one counting the days go by and eagerly awaiting the slow return of strength to be able to get back to his post.-Yours for Christ in Korea
 This and similar revelations of the magnitude of the work being done there is stirring the church at home to do something more than has been done. Beside the native Korean con- verts to Christianity are setting such an example of self f-sacrifice as to Stim- ulate like sacrifice among those whose missionaries are leading the Koreans to Christianity. The Korean Christians give of their time, so many hours a year, of their money, and women are even giving their wedding rings in or der that others may hear the gospel message.
 Because of all these things January 29 has been set apart as Korea day in the church.