The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-12
KOREA NEEDS
MISSIONARIES
SPEAKER URGES
Interesting Incidents of II
Years in Foreign Field Re-
lated to Conference.
MRS. CRAM CHIEF SPEAKER
Yesterdays Program Embraced
Interesting and Instructive
Numbers as Will TOday's

A splendid address by Mrs. w. G.
Cram, for seventeen years a mission
ary in Korea, featured the program
for the evening services yesterday of
the Womans Missionary Society of
the Alabama Conference. Special
music conducted by w. r. Waghorne
of the Community Service, preceded
the devotional exercises which were
conducted by Miss Esther Case who
for a number of years did missionary
work in Mexico. Miss Case chose
as the text of her remarks the
Twenty fifth psalm and made an
earnest plea for more workers in the
missionary fields.
In Mrs. Grams address, which
sparlled with a delightful humor and
showed a rich sympathy and under
standing of human nature, she out
lined the three principal branches, of
a missionary's work in foreign fields
1st, evangelistic, which included the
itinerary work, 2nd, educational, and
3rd, medical. She gave interesting
personal experiences in each one, of
the religious work among the natives,
the often amusing and sometimes
tragic experiences met within the itin-
erary work. the trips being made on
!
supplies, as the Koreans are too poor
to furnish even the most meager of
accomm modations, and the curiosity
of the natives in the personal life of
the missionary.
ON the whole they are hospitable
and are willing to receive the mission
ary and hear his message as he comes
to them asking nothing and being
willing to give alP' said Mrs. Cram
The schools are also a part of the
missionary's work for in them are
reached the children and through them
the Older ones in the home she said
and it is most important that the mis-
sionary be fully acquainted with the
native language or some very bad
errors may result in sad misunder-
standings. a missionary often has to
act as a surgeon as well, said Mrs
Cram.
She told Of one incident where her
husband vas called upon to perform
IA surgical operation on native
woman. Fortunately the woman sur
vived probably due to an unusual con-
stitution and her husband thereby
won local fame and prestige as well
as escaped with his life-according to
the older missionaries who said that
probably have been killed by the ma
tiVeS.
Korea is a land of unrest and dis
satisfaction. chatting under the woke
of Japan. Mrs. Cram said and there
are great possibilities there in the
missionary field The need of workers
is enough. Young people do not need
a vision" or cali to respond to such
urgent need to take the light of
Christianity to the dark little country
'Soon after my arrival in Korea, I
was greeted with the very interesting
news that all missionaries and foreign
ers were to be killed." Mrs Cram said.
OF course the matter was taken ND
through the American minister and
any such disturbance was quelled but
frequently and especially during the
usso-Japanese war we had troubIous
times and were in fear of losing our
heads for God does let missionaries
lose their heads, sometimes as John
the Baptist did. The natives of Korea
have peculiar remedies for their sick
if a child has convulsions, Goals of
fire are placed on his head, for another
illness a red hot needle is stuck into
the vertebrae, etc.
Mrs. Cram closed her address by
urging concentration of forces and or
ganization in spreading Christianity
and urged the people at home to give
their missionaries a barrage of earn