The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-06-11
EVANGELISM IN KOREA
Rev. Chaftin Gives Interesting Ac-
count of His Labors.

The following interesting letter
addressed to Mr.. George Boyce, of
University Park is published with
his permission:
Seoul, Korea, April 7, 1914.-My
dear Brother Boyce: l want to write
you an account of an evangelistic
trip | took in the country. On the
yearly morn of March %, Mr.. Chat
Chang Noa, pastor of the city church
es, called at our home for me to at
tend the funeral of young man who
had died. He had died from a dis.
ease called Tochil which is something
like tuberculosis of the lungs, only
a person may live longer with it. 1t
is a very common disease among the
Koreans.
From the home where the funeral
was held, we made our way to the
Han Kang river, where we took a
small sailboat for trip of about 100
lee or 80 miles down in the country.
There were two Koreans and myself
in the company. On country trip
we are compelled to take our cot
bedding, food and cooking utensils
with US. Everything is quite differ
ent here than in the home land. The
Korean boats are quite different from
ours and are handled by men skilled
in the Korean art. The two men at
the stern of the boat sang in Korean
fashion as the boat was made to
glide down the river. The day was
dark and cloudy, with now and then
bright rays from the sun in his cir.
cult, which made it much more pleas.
ant.
The mountain and river scenes
were emblems of the handiwork OF
God. To our left we noticed Kor
can bodybuilding establishment. Tru-
ly the Koreans are skilled hewers OF
wood as well as of stone.
AS we were some little distance on
our journey it seemed as though we
had prospects or promise of such
time as Apostle Paul had at Miletus.
The wind blew gale and the river
was very rough. We had only gone
about 60 lee or 20 miles when the
bOatmen set sail for shore. We decid.
ed to walk overland the ten lee to a
little village called Yam Yang and let
the boatmen bring our baggage later.
We left the boat about p. m. and
walked until about $50 when we
reached "Choo mack" or inn, where
we put up for the night. We were
somewhat tired and lay ourselves
down to rest on the floor until near
the evening meal. After the evening"
meal, the Korean preacher and d
had a good feast with the Scriptures
on Holiness and the second coming
of Jesus, while my Korean cook was
trying to rest with his head on a
wooden block pillow about four inch
es square. Ten o'clock came and ii
was time to retire for the night. Our
baggage had not come so we went to
bed like the Koreans, on the we'll
heated floor | wrapped myself in
my coat and lay, down to rest. In
about an hour we heard the sound
of voices and knew our baggage had
come. Four of us slept in a little
Kan or Korean room eight feet
square.
The next morning when we were
ready for the new days work, we
found we were compelled to walk 40
lee or 13 miles to the place where
our meetings were to be held. Ill
would be quite interesting to you to
see us on a trip in the villages. The
wind was blowing hard 50 we chang
ed our course and came to Kimpo,
small village located in beautiful
spot. We arrived here in time to
prepare something to eat We were
kindly invited into the room of col.
porter of Chrictian literature. | wish
to take few moments of your time
and say that there are so many things
which remind us of the time and PEG,
pie when and among whom Jesus
lived. The salutations are interest
ing, Have you come in peace? Go In
peace. Live in peace" and so on. The
sandals which they wear are made
of rice straw and their apparel in
general is so suggestive of Bible pic
lures. Their manner of blowing with
one OK and such a crude plow and
the grinding at the mills, also the
old fashioned way of drawing water
can't help but suggest to us the stor-
les of the Bible of similar instances.
We had good crowds at the special
services that evening. | preached in
Korean from Heb. 1914, God blessed
his truth. 1t has been said that
There is no field where greater priv.
ileges or greater freedom is granted |
III thC esooPCi tIdh III iNOi
ca" We are given every opportuni. |
ty of preaching the whole counsel al |
God without fear or favor. Hearts |
are open and hungry. The next
we walked little over three !
miles to Poolowree where our tent |
it to be held. 1t was some |
what difficult to find a good location |
to pitch our tent. We find that the |
devil opposes the work of God here |
as he does in the home land or any |
other land. There were only two |
Christian homes here and after much |
time spent in searching for a place
we found a man who was not a
Christian, who gave us permission to
pitch our tent upon his land. This |
was a new sight to the Koreans, so
Of course we had a great crowd of !
lockers on. The meeting through
out was attended with great inter
est and from $50 to 400 people listen.
I'd to the precious truths of the Bible
night after night as they were pre-