The farmer and mechanic., 1912-02-27

Iananese had taken over Korea ne
returned to this country and went
into business in his nome city OF
Toledo.
Americans Prevent Rebellion.
The missionaries say, as do the
missionary secretaries and all travel
ers who have visited Korea, that they
are observing strict neutrality. They
are insistent upon this point. II It IS
not true, and if they are fomentins
rebellion as the Japanese charge, then
they are unworthy TO serve as mis-
saonaries, for they haven't the Slight
est regard for the truth. Most
Americans put their confidence IN
the word Of the missionaries rather
than in the word Of the japanese
who charge them with political
activity Indeed, so rigid have the
missionaries been in their policy Of
onn-interference with political affairs,
that their Korean Christians have
openly charged them with sympathy
with Japan.
At the time of annexation it9swas
the missionaries who prevented the
Christians from rising in revolution
in north Korea. This is the sec
ton Of the country where the Chris
tians are strongest and Wnere the
present troubles are being witnessed.
The counsel Of the missionaries was,
The powers that be are ordained OF
God" and so they held the native
churches steady in loyalty to the new
government.
Exasperating instances Of the
Japanese determination to prove the
Koreans disloyalty are told. The
most famous preacher in Korea is
Pastor xii. Of the Central Church at
Pyeng Yang, whose fame has be-
come International He was taken
| before the police recently and eXs
amined because he had advised the
| children not to smoke the cigarettes
| with which Japan is flooding the
country The Japanese charge was
| that since the making Of cigarettes
| Is q government monopoly, to find
! fault with it is to find fault with the
government, and to find fault with
| the government is treason. There
fore. Pastor Kill was guilty Of trea-
son!
Japan Afraid Of the Church.
The one organization in Korea
| which japan fears is the Christian
| church. for it has proved the ca
| pacity Of the Koreans for selfgov-
ernment and seif-support. They not
only maintain their own churches,
but they send out their own mission
aries to other parts Of the country.
| No American money is used in the
building or support of the native
churches. These ganizations have
proved tie to bind communities to-
sether. They have promoted edu-
cation SO that now even women in
Korea have learned to read.
Recently an adroit move was made
by Japan when Christian leaders were
invited to come to Toxic as the guests
Of the Y. M. G.. A. for a conference.
The japanese government is said to
have paid the bills, although the Y
NJ. c. A. fathered the movement.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, by the way, is so ardently pro
Japanese that it is having a great
deal Of explaining to do these days
among its friends and supporters. Al
this Toxic conference, the Koreans
were advised to come out from un-
der foreign control and be independ-
ent. as are the Christians in Japan
The Koreans replied that they were
, not really under foreign control an6
. that they had no desire to dispense
with their foreign teachers and lead
|. ers. Besides" one audaciou:
Korean rejoined. ''if being free from
: foreign control makes the kind O.
Christianity you have in Japan, W.
do not want it in Korea
) The Charge of Conspiracy.
For about nine months past ther
D have been many hundreds of arrest
3 Of Koreans from north Korea on tn
S charge of being concerned in a grea
plot to murder the Governor-Gen
I eral Six thousand Koreans are nov
8 in Jail, many of them not even per
: mitted to have their Bibles witt
them. and none of them knowing tn
I charge against them. They ar
I crowded into unheated jails in
e freezing climate where they mus
9 live like animals Some have gon
y insane: many have been tortured t
9 extort confessions. q favorite metho
being to hang them up by the fee
o or the arms. Koreans point out tha
: the evident design is to destroy tn
: leaders of the Christian church, fo
t. It is the teachers. the eSangelists. tn
: pastors and the brightest young me
i who have fallen prey to the stron
of To r1yI0