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lkorea 1Jl!1oman's <Ionference 1914 ~.~ '~40'~ '1\' vt\(P SIXTEENTH Annual Report OF THE f\OREA ·WOMAN'S CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SEOUL PRINTED AT THR PRANCO-KOREAN PRINTING HOUSa. SMALL WEST GATE STREET. CONTENTS. . Officers and Members... ........ .......... ... ........ .......... ..... ... 2 Minutes ............... ' ....................................................... 3 REPORTS:- Evangelistic work and day sebools on Poopyung and Island Circuits of Seoul District, Hanna Scharpff... 7 Evangelistic work and day schools on Seoul and Snwon Districts, Lula A. Miller ............................. 10 ~1rs. Olive Hardy Lawton ............................................ 1:.3 Evangelistic work and day schools on Haiju District, Gertrude E. Snavely ............................. _.................. 14 Evangelistic work and day-schools on Haiju District, Mary Beiler........................................................... 17 Haiju City, Miss Barlow and Nurse Edge .................... 21 Yeng Byen City and District evangelistic work, Olga P. Shaffer ...................................................... 23 Yeng Byen District educational and evangelistic work, Grace L. Dillingham .............................. ,.............. 25 Yeng Byen evangelistic work, Mrs. V. H. \Vachs ........ 29 Evangelistic work on KongJuEast and West Districts, Mrs. Alice H. Sharp ............................................. 32 Kong Ju evangelistic work, Mrs. W. C. Swearer .......... 37 Koang Hyoe Nyo Won (Woman's Hospital of Extended Grace) and Woman's'Medical Class, Drs. Hall and Cutler .............................................................. 40 Department for Blind and Deaf, Mrs. R. S. Hall, M.D: .. 47 Evangelistic work, First Ch~rch Pyeng Yang, Mrs. C. D. Morris ........................................................... 50 Pyeng Yang evangelistic work, Mrs. B. W. Billings .... 52 Day Schools in Pyeng Yang City and District and evangelistic work in the First Methodist Church, Henrietta P. Robbins ............................................. 54 Pyeng Yang District evangelistic work and Ne Mon Kol church, Ruth E. Benedict ................................ 57 Pyeng Yang Union Academy, Emily Irene Haynes ....... 60 Seoul evangelistic work, Jessie B. Marker.................... 63 Seoul evangelistic work, Mrs. W. A. Noble ................... 65 Work among the Chlnese in Seoul, Mrs. C.S. Deming .. G6 The Bible Training Schoo], Seoul, Millie M. Albertson .. 70 Ewha Haktang, Seou1, Lulu E. Frey, Principal. .......... 72 The'Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital and Nurses Training School, Seoul, Naomi Anderson ............... 78 Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital and Baldwin Dispensary, Mary S. Stewart. M. D ................................. 80 Appointments ......................... ; ..................................... 83 Sta tistjcs. FIU~T COLLEGE GHADUATES EWHA HAKTA~(;. Officers and Members of the Korea Woman's Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1914Officers. Mrs. W. C. Swearer. President, Mrs. C. D. Morris. 1 st Vice President, Mrs. W. A. Noble. 2nd Vice President, Recording Secretary, ..... . Miss Ruth E. Benedict. Miss ~Iary Bei'ler. Treasurer, COl·responding Secretary, Miss Lula A. Miner. S ta tis tical Secretary, Mrs. D. A. Bun~er. nembers. Rosetta S. Hall, M. D. ....... Mrs. MargaretBengelJ ones. Mary ·M. Cutler, M. D. Mrs. W. A. Noble. Lulu E. Frey, Mrs. Mary Harris FoIl well. Mary R. Hillman, 11rs. D. A. Bunker. Ethel M. Estey, ...... Mrs. E. M. Cable. Mrs. Alice H. Sharp. Mrs. C. D. Morris. Lu1a A. Miller, ...... Mrs. A. L. Becker. Henrietta P. Robbins Mrs. F. E. C. Williams. Mrs. W. C. Swearer. Jessie B. Marker, Gertrude E. Snavely; Mrs. Corwin Taylor. Mrs. W. C. Rufus. Emily L Haynes, Millie M. Albertson, Mrs. A H. Norton. Ora M. Tuttle, ...... Mrs. N. D. Chew. Huldah A. Haenig. ~lrs. B. R. Lawton. Ruth E. Benedict, Mrs. B. W: Billings. Mary Beiler, Mrs. J. D. Van Buskirk. Mrs. I. N. Miller. Hanna Scharpif, Mary S. Stewart, 1\1. D. Mrs. Henry Taylor. Aman~a Hillman, M. D. Mrs. A. G. Anderson. Olive F. Pye, Mrs. C. S. Deming. Grace L. Harmon, Mrs!, Victor Wachs. Grace L. Dillingham, Mrs. Paul Grove. A. Jeannette Walter, Mrs. Orville Weller. Naomi A. Anderson, Mrs. S. A. Beck. Blanche Bair. Charlotte Brownlee. Margaret 1. Hess. Mrs. Ruby L. Krook. MINUTES OF THE KOREA vVOMAN'S CONFERENC-E The first session of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Korea Woman's Conference was held on the afternoon of June 3rd, 1914, at Ewha Haktang, Seoul. The meeting opened with the hymn, "Crown Him", and l\liss Beiler led in prayer. Seventeen members answered to roll call. I t was moved and seconded to proceed to tbeelection of officers. Carried. The following were elected for the year 1914-1915by ballot. President ................. Mrs. W. C. Swearer 1st Vice President ..... Mrs. C. D. Morris 2nd " " ...... Mrs. W. A. ~oble Recording Secretary Miss Ruth E. Benedict Corresponding" ...... Miss Lula A. Miller Statistical " ...... Mrs D. A. Bunker Treasurer ................: ..Miss Mary Beiler. It was moved and seconded that the Reference Committee consist of six members. Carried. The following Reference Committee was elected:Miss Lulu E. Frey Dr. Mary Cutler M.iss Lula A. Miller 1\1 rs. Alice Sharp Miss l\1i11ie M. Albertson Miss Emily 1. Haynes. Moved that we adjourn. Carried. Friday, June 5th, 2 P. M. . The session opened with song and prayer, and reading of minutes. Moved and seconded to have an Assistant Corresponding Secretary. Carried. 4 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE ~Iiss Margaret L· Hess ",,"as elected by acclamation. Moved and seconded that the Committee on Resolutions he appointed by the President. Carried. Moved·-. that Miss Benedict be put on the Board of Control of the Pyeng Yang Union Academy for a term of two years. Seconded. Carried. ~9:v~d;that Mr. Billings bt't nominated to take Mr. Becke.r'splace on the Board of Control of the Pyeng Yang Uniop Academy. Seconded. Carried. ," ,.Moyed that Mr. Morris be nominated for two years s,ervice. on tl;1.e Board of the Pyeng Yang Union Academy. Seconded. Carried. Moved that Miss Beiler be put on the Board of Control of the Pyeng Yang Union Academy, as the Yeng By~n representative for a term of two years. Seconded. Carried. Miss Haenig reported that there wasa debt of over sixteen yen on last year's reports and that something 'would have tO,be done to reduce expenses. 1vloyed that the lndividual reports for 1913-1914 shall not exceed one thousand, words. Seconded. Carried. Moved that, beginning with 1914-1915 and thereafter, one educational and one evangelistic report from e~c~ station and one medical report from each hospital be subnlitted. Seconded. Carried. ~19y~.d that the President appoint the Editing Committee. Seconded. Carried. Moved to adjourn. Carried. Monday, June 8th, 2 P. M. The session opened with a song, and Mrs. Lawton led in prayer. Reading of minutes. The statistical report was presented by Mrs. Bunker and accepted. ¥oved and seconded that the Secretary request the committee on the new statistical blanks to make pr,ovIsion' f~r the women a~ well as the men. Carried. , R,eport of, 1\1 iss \~. alter as Chairman of the Resolu{ions"Co~mittee was r~ad. 110ved and seconded to pass KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 5 on each resolution, separately. Carried. The following resolutions were adop-t:ed: Resolved that, in case the Foreign Department decides to c10se any of the m~dical work in Korea, we request that the money which would have been used for that purpose and the money appropriated for a new Bible Training School building be given to Korea for the carrying on of educational and evangelistic work. Resolved tha t we express our thanks to Miss Barlow and Miss Edge for the efficient service they have rendered in the evangelistic and medical work in Haiju; and to Miss Renick for her assistance during the past year in the Bible Training School. Resolved that \ve express our desire for the speedy return of ~] iss Hinman, Miss Estey, Miss Tuttle, and Miss Robbins, "vho are home on furlough. :Moyed and seconded that V"o'e reconsider the motion of last year in regard to pensioning Bible Women. Carried. Moved and seconded to retire the Bible \Yomen at the discretion of the worker in charge. Carried. The President appointed the Editing COlllmittee as [o11ows:l\.1rss HAENIG MISS HARMON MISS BAIR The [ol1owing Property Committee was recommended by the Reference Committee:MISS FREY MISS MILLER DR. CUTLER The recommendation was accepted. ~J oved to adjourn. Carried. Tuesday, June 9th. 2 P. M. The session opened with prayer and song. The Treasurer's report was read and accepted. The report of the Auditing Comnlittee was read and 6 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE accepted. Moved and seconded that last year'~ Auditing Commi ttee be re-e1ected. Moved that the resolution which was made in connection with the woman's medical work be omitted from the printed minutes. Seconded. Carried'. Moved that the \-Voman's Conference refer the settlement of the question concerning the medical work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society in Korea to the Foreign Department of the Executive C~mmittee and that each member of the Conference be requested to send through the official correspondent her suggestions as to a solution of the problem. Seconded. Unanimously carried. Moved that these letters be in the hands of the Secretary by Saturday, June 13th. The report of the Reference Committee was read and accepted. The Conference adjourned. Respectfully submitted, RUTH E. BENEDICT, Secretary. KOREA WOMAN'S CONFEKEN,CE 7 REI>ORTS EVANGELISTl C WORK AND DAY SCHOOLS ON POOPYUNO AND ISLAND CIRCUITS OF SEOUL DISTIUCT HANNA SCHAI~PFF. Looking back over the pa~t year with its days of bappy labor for the l\laster, I feel that the hand of God has been upon me. There have been some cloudy days and at such times I have said, "'Who is sufficient for these things except the Lord our God ?" Evangelistic Work. Bible Women:-The Island Bible Women ha\'e worked faithfully during the past year. Some change~ of appointment are necessary. The Poopyung Bible \Voman Hatt.ie \\'as obliged to discontinue her work this spring. Lula, a student froDI the Bible \Voman'sTraining School will spend her summer vacation as a supply Bible \Voman. Eunice excels as a teacher of the Bible and ~lary Pak, as an itinerant. Deborah has been brave through persecution and Sinduc has been given special power in working with the demon possessed. Chunsim, Lydia, and Tabitha have been specially called to prayer; Chunsim reports the healing of a sick woman after spending three whole nights in prayer. Lydia and Tabitha, while holding classes on two of the islands, felt led to hold sunrise prayer-meetings. In each church a reviyal was the result. My eight Bible Women have held thirty-six classes enrolling eight hundred and forty women. Bible Classes:-The Chemulpo Normal Class was beld early in September. My first teaching in this class was far trom perfect but the dear women were patient and that gave me courage, and hope for the future. During the winter, I held one Bible Class in ea.ch of the eight circuits of the district. Everywhere teacher and • 8 KOREA WOMAN'S CO!,\FERENCE students had times of blessing. ~iany of the women confessed their sins. repented, and recei,,"ed assurance of forgiveness. They left the class full of joy. Among the Christians al~o several women received a special baptism of the Holy Spirit. In some places, school girls attending the class were convicted of sin. They, too, were conscious of forgiveJless and it was a great joy to see them consecrate their young lives to their best Friend. Nearly everywhere both IDen and women attended t;he evening services and \",ere interested in the teaching and seemed to be thankful for it, especially for the tal ks on the keeping of the Sabbath and on temperance: The teaching was not in vain. ;?reachers and Bible \Vomen are still bringing good reports from thos{! places, where these classes were held. In one of the villages v,here we had a Bible class, we met a young girl with a vel'y sore hand. She was crying and said that she had not slept for ten days. The "chim"(doctor's needle) and some filthy medicine were the cause of all the trouble. During the class I treated her as best I could, intending to take her with me to the hospital when I returned home. On the lTIorning of our departure, she came smiling into my room showing her hand healed. Her happiness madenle thankful for the little hospital training I had ,before coming to the field. Soon other people came with a11 kinds of diseases. It seemed as :though somebody had announced a dispensary hour and all were taking advantage of the opportunity. In May the regular Worlters' Class was held. \Ve probab1y could not find a nlore attentive and zealous lot of Korean women than we had in this class. ltinerating:-Poopyung Circuit and Yung Chung Islands were visited last fall and some churches on the other islands during the winter. Nearly everywhere there is increasing zeal. In only two groups we found some discouragement because of sickness and death. Traveling was not hard last year. Only on one trip I decided not to go out again when the wind is strong; • KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 9 and an another, the boatmen did not know the sea route well enough; therefore our boat stuck for severa~ hours on a sand bar in the middle of the sea, and two days 1a ter they landed at such a bad place, that we could not reach the boat after returning from a service in the interior of the island. This meant dinner at eight in the evening instead of at noon. Day Schools. There had to be many changes among the teachers, because one of them \yent to Ewha Haktang to finish the High School course. Hong Esther, a graduate of Ewha, teaches in Kang \\'ha City and Susan Ha, daughter of my Bible \Yoman Sinduc, teaches in our ne\v scho01 at Yun"g Hyung. The schools show good progress and five oftbem haye moved into new buildings. In Kyotlong \"\e started a school last summer. Its total enrollment is already fifty-four with an average attendance of _fifty one, altho many of these children canle from neighboring villages. The little heathen children, after haying attended our school for some time, prove to be good missionaries. I am told that they heg their parents to attend church with them. At both Kyodong and Poopytmg, the schools have outgrown the buildings and the children are obliged to use the church. In Rang \\'ha City, the boys' and gids' schools both occupied different sections of the church building. The boys outgrew their part, but instead of their finding new roon1S we were asked to nlO\'e our girls' school that the boys might occupy the whole building. In mauy places I1e\Y schools are being asked for. During the fall I still taught in our Chemulpo giris' school, but after New Years Miss Hess took oYer this "work. 'ire are indeed grateful for this new co-worker, who has already proved her",elf so helpful. I am fu1I of thankfulness to the Lord for His help during the past months and look to Him for strength an9 guidance that I may do more eftective work in the comlng year. 10 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE • EVANGELISTIC WORK AND DAY SCHOOLS ON SEOUL AND 5UWON DISTRICTS. LULA A. MILLER. This Conference year has had something more of trial in it than most other years in Korea have had. In the fall the superintending of the Su won school building ...vas my trial; this spring it is a sprained arm. All things considered, I prefer the former, for I can at least see results. The building stands, but what good may result from a sprained arm, I do not know. I. Evangelistic Work. 1. Class Work:-During the year two workers' classes of two and three weeks each have been held in Chemulpo for the Bible women, class leaders and volunteer workers of the Suwon district and the Island circuits~ The class just closing a few days ago was the most satisfactory of any such class yet held in Chemulpo. The attendance and teaching force were larger and we were able to secure Mrs. Noble, ~1r. tynn, principal of Pai Chai, and Dr. Kang of Severance hospital to give special lectures. Normal classes were held in Chemulpo, Suwon, and Yechun the same as last year. The women who were trained .in these three classes went out two by two, holding five day classes in all of the larger churches and groups of the district. Nearly 5000 conversations were held by these women with backsliqden Christians and with the heathen. In a conference with the ~omen a few days ago, they told me .that in almost every instance the leaders wa~t them to hold classes in their churches, the only d,iscouraging feature being the inability of the women to read the native character. Through the years, 1 ha,re been trying to think at a way of solving this problem. At the last District Conference I was given a place on the program. At that time I tried to ('onvince the pastors of my need of their help. For long I have felt that KOREA WOMAN'S COl'FERENCE 11 if the native leaders would get the matter upon their hearts they would be able to inspire the men of their circuits with so much zeal th~t the fathers and husbands would soon be teaching their women to read. Through this appeal for help at District Conference, some enthusi~sm was aroused, but fearing this would soon die out and my appeal be forgotten, I wrote a letter to each leader of the eleven circuits, asking them to send me a report of the number of men who would promise to teach the women of their family. All of the leaders except one have reported. with .the result that 340 men have decided to teach their wives and daughters to read unmun. Just how many will keep this promise I cannot anticipate, but I feel that a beginning, at least, has been made. In addition to the Normal classes, I held three shorter classes, one each at Changhowon, Chungju and Yaju, and during the Korean New Year season, I taught one of the ~linor Prophets for Iv1 iss Albertson. During the year I spent about three months in class work. 2. Bible Women:-\Vhen my twelve Bible women gathered around me for study which has just closed, I thought t~em a little dearer than ever before and I thought, too, that they were a wee bit finer than the Bible women of any other "I:orker. In a closing conference held in my study, ,,,hen I asked them to tell me some of their ex~eriences of the year ,they could bardly wait for the.ir tnrn to speak. . In a little dl1age where the work had been in a prosperous condition for several years, there' began to be luany backsliders, until at last there was but one faithfl1) one left. Martha, a volunteer \vorker visiting tbe village, called in most, if not a11, of the Christian homes. The women told her that if a service could be held on Sunday they would be glad to attend. Martha went to the Bible woman Rachel, told her story, and suggested that they go together 101' a service the fonowing Sab. 1:! KOREA WO~rAN'S CONFEHENCE bath. On Saturday morning they met, walked out to the village and caned in all the Christian homes announcing the next day's service. Six women attended and the one faithful man left preached the sermon. Rachel said, "We all received such great blessing that morning and we were an so happy." So it is that our women have a part in keeping the work together. 3. Woman's Stud~TT Course:-During the past year many more names have been enrolled in the ~'oman's HomeStudy Course. On the Nan Yang circujt alone there are over forty five women 'who are using their spare moments in this way. At Ochon a number of ,vomen have formed a study class, meeting together for special ipstructlon which is given them by a young woman of that viIlage \vho hasjust graduated from a school in Seoul. In Chemulpo the women continue to meet in the 010 school building every Saturday afternoon. The seven teachers are all volunteers. Among these women are over twenty who are learning unmun. 4. Chemulpo Church:-I think it is safe to say that the women are the life of the Chemulpo church. There are some splendid women class leaders ann the Bible wonlan Annie is a whole host in herself. I cou~t it a grea t privilege to have among my Korean co-workers two such rare spirits as are my Bible woman Annie and our pastor Vi Ik Mo. The class leaders have held ninety tnonthly class meetings iri the different sections of the city, and they have exhorted 11500 persons.' Many are the good works of these Chemulpo women! II. Day Schools. Ourgreatest blessing in connection with the Chemul. po school work has been the coming of Miss Margaret Hess. She has fallen so readily into the \vork of the school and into the life of the home that it seems impossible to he1ieve that she has been with us but five nlonths. We ('eu]o not have chosen one better fitteo for KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE ·13 the work. The Suwon school building was finished in December and the school nloved in to it just before Christmas. For several years the girls have studied on the large open porch all winter. I am glad to see them comfortably housed. The other schools on the district are less for. tunate. In Punwon the building which was built by the people themselves is good and the preacher who called to see me yesterday told me that any time the school outgrew its present building they were ready to enlarge it. "But," he said, "we have no equipment ...... nothing except the children and the room." We ourselves know that there must be improvement in the schools or they will not be allowed to exist. I received several mission boxes from home filled with nice gifts for the Chemulpo schools. From the Stamford "Korea Circle," I received a splendid Christmas box for the Suwon school; also a special gift. for the teacher Mary,· vvhotTI they have been supporting for several years. For these and other gifts and for the prayers of the Koreans from the time of Illy accident, I feel indeed grateful. 1\IRs. OLH-E HARDY LAWTON As Miss Scharpff, being in charge, reports the work of the Chemulpo circuits, it only remains for me to give a small account of myself personally. During the year, in company with my husband, I have spent 106 days in the country, walking 1300 Ii and visiting 105 groups. Have held services with the \vomen whenever opportunity offered, examined candidates for baptism and membership, and rendered \vhatever general service I could as th;:} women of the different groups seemed to require or desire. The different arrangement for the general Bible classes this year left me opportunity for but three country 14 . KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE classes with the women. The privilege of teaching in the leaders' class at Chemulpo 'vvas new to me, which together with the fact that it closed but a few days ago, causes it to occupy a prominent place as I think over the work of the year. In adrlition to the leaders from our Chemulpo and island circuits, there ,\vere a goodly number called in from Suwon district by Miss Miller; these I met for the first time and found them a delightful, zealous group of women, but hopeless flatterers. I wondered a bit over this. and then in a flash it all became clear to me. These women have been used to working with !'.1iss Miller and Miss Hillman only and, in their attempts to declare the excellencies of these good ladies, have found no place for moderation of speech, and are only learning that like expressions applied to beginning missionaries are flattery, pure and simple. But the class,--it was to me a season of real spiritual uplift and blessing. I only pray that some of the women may have been helped as much as I was. It was to me also an incentive to language stuny! an ivspiration to service, and leaves me with an increased longing to be effectiv.e under the Holy Spirit in making known the. \-yay of salvation more perfectly. EV ANOELISTIC WORK AND DA Y SCHOOLS ON HAIJU DISTRICT. GERTRUDE E. SNA. VEI.,Y. After a furlough full of blessing, I was happy to return to my beloved field of labor the last \-veek of Nov ember, 1913. It was good to find that during my absence the work had been carried on so faithfully hy my coworker, Miss Beiler. After my return, in order to facilitate the administration of the district, we felt led to make a territorial division; she tRking the circuits west ofHaiJu city with the city school; and I. the circtlits east of Hai Ju city with the city evangelistic work. I want to sound a note of praise for the way in which God has worked tbis year. Just as Joshua saw the Man with a drawn sword, going ahead fighting ·his KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 15 battles, so it has seemed to me that I could see the Holy Spirit going ahead and doing the work for me. He has thus worked, I believe, because of the faithful intercessory friends in the homeland. In January, a special class was held in Hai J u city for our Bible women and leading workers who gathered from all over the district for two week's Bible study. Miss Beiler and I j Dined in this class, each of us teaching two hours a day. Afterward, she held her country classes on the west and I on the east. My classes were held at Pai~chun, Yunpaik (new name for Yunan), and Gotmoi, the largest centers of work on the eastern part of the district, also one in Hai J u city. In these circuit Bible classes of a week's duration each, I taught four hours a day, the total enrollment being 2~O. My subject in a11 the classes was the Cross of Christ, with introductory studies on important divisions of Scripture. After translating Mrs. Field's chart on the Cross of Christ, aDd Miss Pohle's dispensational chart, I was enabled, thr.ough a gift of money from Mrs. Field for Korea, to have enough printed to supply everyone who studied .during the winter. They were the best classes 1 have ever had in attendance, interest. and spiritual results. A revival was the marked feature of each class. • At the end were happy testimonies to having entered into their inheritance in Christ Jesus-the life more abundant. There is always power in the Cross of Christ. One of our greatest difficulties is to get the old women to give up smoking their pipes after they decide to believe. In the Hai ]u city class, every woman who smoked was freed through the power of the Cross. Their testimony since has been that they have no more desire for it. In the Pllikchun class, one of our Christian ,vomen right in the midst at the teaching arose saying the Word of God cut so deep in her heart that she could not stand it any longer, but had to confess. So, with sobs and tears, she poured out everything. She had not been attending church for over a year, but had been going to 16 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE a sorceress to enquire how long it would be till she should "live well." At the next session she gave a bright, happy testimony. Another chu~ch member who was attending the Seventh Day Adventist Church and causing much disturbance in a number of our churches by leading others away came to realize her error, made apublic confession, and returned to us .. During the week at Yunpaik, outside the regular class hours for the women, I was kept busy teaching the men who came asking for charts. At the Gotmoi class, I was requested t.o teach men as well as women. I consented, for it was an unusual opportunity. You .know it is contrary to the old Eastern custom for women to teach men. I have sometimes had the men of the place in which the class was held come in to listen, but never before have the leading 'men as well as the women from the other churches on the circuit gathered to attend a woman's class. A la.rge white muslin curtain separated the men from the women in the church. I sat at the end, facing both as I taught. At first, the men were a little inclined to show off their knowledge but they were soon broken down through the power of the Spirit and confessed that their boast had been in other things than "in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." Beside my classes, I spent three weeks and a halt in -successful revival meetings at Haiju, Yunpaik, and Paikchun, with Mr. Kim, a Korean evangelist, and visited 34 of the 61 church groups in the east Haiju .circuits where Christians were strengthened and new believers won. I also attended one District and five Quarterly Conferences, which were splendid opportunities 'of again becoming acquainted with .conditions in the work. The girls in our two day schools on the east Haiju circuits-Yunpaik and Paikchun-have not only been helped themselves during the winter, but heathen parents have been gathered into the Fold. KOR'EA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 17 Upon returning from my furlough, I was glad to welcome our two independent English Wesleyan ladies into our hOlne and work. Miss Edge has been a great help as nurse in the new hospital of the General Board, and Miss Barlow, especially in the city evangelistic work. spending most of her time visiting in the homes of Christians and following up new believers. We were truly grateful for the mission boxes received from Grace Church, Harrisburg; Fletcher church, Phila; and Williamstown, Pa. We are also grateful to our Women's Foreign Missionary Society for raising the salaries of Bible women and day school teachers from $50.00 to $60.00 a year, as our patrons through Dr. Stearns had already done. These native helpers are most earnest and faithful and were made very happy by the increase. A new baby organ, also received. through Dr. Stearns, has been invaluable. I praise God for answered prayer, guidance, the privilege of joy in His service again on the field the past six months, and the marvelous way in which God has been caring for His own work. Truly our Father does "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." EVANOELl5TIC WO~K AND DAY SCHOOLS ON HAIJU DISTRICT. MARY BEILER. Haiju District has been blessed in so many ways this last year that I would begin this report with a hearty note at gratitude to God who has thus blessed His own work. Needless to say all were glad to welcome Miss Snavely back again into the work in November, and none more so than her co-laborer. In order to facilitate the administrative work, we decided between us that ~liss Snavely be responsible for Haiju City evangelistic work and that on the East Circuits with the schools and that I look after the city school and evangelistic work on the West Circuits with their 18 • KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE two schools. Therefore it has seemed easier to prepare the individual reports. The work on the West Circuits,. for the ~eason that there are no large towns a~d the country is quite mouutainous with widely separated groups of villages, has been the least encouraging on the District. But this last year our hope has been strengthened and with the sight of five new church buildings, several new groups of believers well started, the two girls' schools in good condition and a strong band of preachers and Bible women enthusiastically working we anticipate a fine advance in the near future. ITI~ERATING. In the fall before :Miss Snavely'S return, I was glad to complete my full itinerary of the District, by spending several weeks in two of the East Circuits, Gotmoi and Paikcbun. One interesting experience was when we stopped to distribute tracts and small Gospels, with the help' of the cook and a col. porteur, to a gang of over a hundred men who \vere repairing one of the main roads, and thus paying their tax. 1\'1y itinerating has been limited this year, for thiR spring I have been confined to Haiju city, expecting workmen for the school building and trying to get it started. While here I have bc;en able to give more personal attention to the school administration, doing some visiting in the homes, and also have been studying the language more. Hut I was glad of the opportunity for a short run into the country several weeks ago to attend the three 4th Quarterly Conferences on the West, and by hearing the detailed reports was able to get a .good idea of the Circuit work aud its hopeful progress. BIBLE CLASSES. In August about one third of the large general class for church workers from all over the District was composed of women, and we were glad to hear one of the foreign teachers who was not over enthusiastic about the mixed class, acknowledge that the women answered up as well as the men, and KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 19 in some cases better. But my own teaching did not be. gin till January when we had a special two weeks class in the city for particularly called women, including Bible women, and other workers from all over the District. I did enjoy teaching these more advanced women, and believe it was a foretaste of what we are hoping to de. velop in the larger country classes, when the general intelligence is raised. Later I taught the women's divisions of the three genera) classes held in the centers of the three West Circuits. This was the first attempt at having the men's and women's classes meet at the same time and place. I taught two subjects to the women and then they studied with the men under a Korean preacher. We also joined in the morning devotional period and the evening evangelistic services. In many ways this combination was more interesting, tho in some features probably not so profitable for the women's study. As renlarked before, the general uplift received in the evening evangelistic services during these classes was cause for deep gratitude. Another gratifying feature was the improvement over last year in the steady and regular attendance of the members, who consequently showed deeper interest and earnestness in the study. DA Y SCHOOLS. The two small schools at Kang Yung and Ong Chin arc each having a steady growth, despite their uncomfortable quarters. In Ong Chin, I was glad that during the Bible class there I had the opportunity to visit in the homes of the school girls, and to see how the school influence is working and bringing many of the parents within the influence of the church. We are glad to report that the Hai Ju City School is in gen~rally good condition and all eagerly looking forward to the fall when we expect to enter the new building. The giris this spring have made quite a quantity of crochet hags and bookmarks and colored drawings, which I sent at M:rs. Harrison's request to her to be given to those King's Heralds who turn in $ 8.00 to- 20 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE ward their Thank-offering for the new building, thus showing their appreciation of what is being done for them. This spring we started the fourth grammar grade thus completing the curriculum of a Common 8 grade school. This necessitates an enlargement of our teach. ing force, and so we are appealing for a full time J apanese teacher and another advance grade teacher's salary. These we must have in order to retain our standing as the highest grade girls' school in the province, .including the Government school and all others. To have a good building is not all that is necessary, for the Japanese lay great stress on equipment, and the quality of the teaching force. Then realizing the advantage and real necessity of providing an opportunity for the graduates of our Christian primary schools on the District to get some more education, we stHrted a little dormitory with two rooms and a kitchen, where nine of the advanced students have been living this year. When the new building is complete we shall be able to accommodate these and a few more in the present classroom building. The girls have organized a King's Daughters Circle and. in the recent revival, many were helped to a better understanding of the Christian life. I have also done quite a little vtsiting in the parents' homes during the year. For Miss Barlow's services as teacher of English and music and in visiting the homes "\ve are truly grateful. Our school girls were made happy at Christmas time by the presents in the boxes from Norwalk, Conn., Aux- iliary, and the belated ones of last year; also the packages of post cards from various friends have been made into very popular tracts by pasting colored Korean tracts on the address side. For the opportunities of service this year, altho they have been quite varied, I rejoice, and hope for more this coming year. KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 21 HAIJU CITY. MISS BARLOW AND NURSE EDOE. (WRITTEN BY MISS BA.RLow) Onr life since coming to Haiju has been full of interest, and we gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity to report on the work accomplished. Nurse Edge attends all day at the hospital where, in addition to dispensary work and the constant supervision and a share in the training of the native nurses, she has charge of the dispensary and general hospital accounts, balancing these "\vith the doctor monthly. During the year she has attended eight mid-wifery cases, accompanied by one of the native nurses and, including visits paid afterwards to these houses to give instruction in the after care of mother and child, she has paid seventy out-calls. It is still difficult to persuade the women to avail themselves of a maternity nurse's services. unless driven to it by necessity; but those who have experienced the benefit of such care are quick to tell others. In July we spent two weeks at the Language Class in Pyeng Yang, and I am able to study dai1y with a teacher. But Nurse Edge's duties at the hospital prevent her from doing this. When we first came to Haiju, I visi ted with each one of the class leaders and the Bible \voman in turn, calling upon the church members, and so became acquainted with many of the women. Since then I have regularly visited in the homes with 1;he city Bible woman, and our visits have included the heathen parents of the pupils in the boys' and girls' schools, new believers, and those who attended the services in some cases as sight seers, but have been persuaded to believe by this l11eans. I find that my presence can usually get a little congregation and, needless to say, our hearts have rejoiced to see many times the discouraged ones back at the services, and become regular attendants after~ards. A t the hospital i have directed the special Bible wo- 22 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFER&NCE man in her work, not only with the women who attend each day and 'the in-patients, hut in following up the cases who leave the hospital, sometimes visiting in their homes, and keeping a special oversight of those w.ho become believers. Each Friday evening I have helped in the women's meeting~ teaching, with the assistance of one of the class leaders, the Eunmun (natiye character) to those who cannot read. On Sunday afternoon, with one of the older school girls. I have charge of the girl's new comer's class in the Sunday School, and by means of pictures teach them the Bible stori(,s. In this way several new scholars have been added. Up to last Easter, I taught Engli~h and singing in the girls' school one hour per week each. Since then the new graduate from Ewha having undertaken the English teaching, I ha \re singing only. I ought to mention at this point that these regular duties were somewhat interfered with just after Chri~tmas, when I hurt my foot and was kept a prisoner in the house for some weeks. I employed the time in study and arrears in letter writing. I have arranged with the various class leaders to visit regularly with them in their wards in turn one each week, in addition to the other visiting. By this means I hope to reach more of the unbelievers amongst those whom the class leaders know ~ A little incident that occurrerl during the special services held here, made us realize something of the difficulties in connection with the Christian life of some of the women. and I asked a Jew of the younger ones to meet me one day, with the result that a young women's ·weekly class.meeting .has been formed, as something of an experiment. This I feel to be in the nature of a joint responsibility in connection with the city work, and if it brings us into closer touch with the lives of the younge·r women of the church, als~ to a more under- KOREA WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 23 standing sympathy with them in their difHicultiesand trials. we shall feel it to be more than worth while. For continued guidance, and the constant realization of the Master's promise, "Lo, I am with you all the days," we give thanks. VENO 8VEN CITY AND DIST~ICT EVANGELISTIC WORK. OLGA P. SHAFFER. The fall work openedthe first of September with the regular semi-annual Women's Bible Class. Therewere enrolled 113 women, and their interest and faithfulness in Bible study together with the earnest and enthusiastic work of the teachers made the class ~ success. The most important feature of this clas~ was the givingof diplomas to the two women who were the first to complete the six year course. This service took place after the regular 'Nednesday evening prayer meeting where a large crowd of people had gathered. The two women were very proud of their large diplomas with a picture of an open Bible at the top, and all the rest of the class was proud of the two women. Hereafter there will be graduates in each class In the latter part of September I took a trip on the Unsan Circuit. In November, in company with a good Bible woman, I went into the remote center of the Yang Duk district to hold a class. This was the first class ever held out there and the experience and joy of it will be precious to me throughout my lift!. There are not a great many Christians there but·some very earnest ones. Twenty-five women studied, and the eagerness and earnestness were almost pathetic. I was greatly moved when they pointed out a middle-aged 'woman who has attained to the rank of class leader in the village church, and was told that during the three nights I was sleeping in' village inns while on my journey to their to\VD, this dear wontan had not slept at all, but had prayed throughout tbenight hours for my safety, comfort, and health. They. knew I had not beep well for many months 24 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE and that the journey is a very difficult one even under the best circumstances. Her prayers prevailed and I was given sufficient strength for this one class at least. It was an experience and privilege of my missionary work that I value above all others. I long to return again as they implored me to do, but am forced to leave that to another. One little girl who studied in the class is now in the girls' school in Yeng Byen and Miss Dillingham says she is very promising. From this class I went to Pyeng Yang expecting to help teach in the two fall classes there but was unable to do so. In January the doctor permitt<;d me to go to Yeng Byen for a week to instruct the Bible women and arrange tfIeir itinerary for the month of class work over the entire district. We had a blessed time studying the First Epistle of Peter and praying together in preparation for the work. I was indeed glad to be in Yeng Byen at this time to join the other members of the station and the Korean brethren in welcoming Mrs. Krook to Yeng Byen and the work. The day she and Miss Dillingham arrived, a great company of people went outside the city-gate to meet them. As the carriage in which they rode came winding up the mountain side, from a point above them the men, women, and children sang "Anywhere with Jesus I can safely~go", and I am sure it lllade the new worker's heart go out to her newly adopted people in -great love and longing. She will be a very great blessing and be greatly blessed there, I am confident. I t was necessary for me to return again to Pyeng Yang as we have no doctor in Yeng -Byen.The workers there were many of them sick and worn out, and needed ?-ssistance. I went over to the Girl's Academy to help in Miss Haynes' absence and for three weeks did what I ~o~ld, but being unable to hold out any longer with this attempt, my labors came to an end. Only those who have,passed this way before know how hard is the trial :qfJteavin~ a work and _people which they love and the KOREA WOMAN'S, CONFERENCE 25 disappointment in laying down a service begun. But sometimes the flesh fails and there must come a halt for repairs. In March I once more visited Yeng Byen to get my things and to say, "good-bye." The Bible women were all returning from their class work so I heard their reports. A verbal report is al ways full of life and details which add color and interest to the account. Some of the women who taught were the Tithing Class women who lived in other towns; so their reports were sent by post. The total number of classes held during the conference year including the Yeng Byen city classes, is 23. There were six paid Bible women and five Tithing Cla~s women who conducted and taught all hut three of these. The Bible women have done good, faithtul work. Am'ong their converts were three sorceresses led to accept the faith by our most unlearned Bible woman Kilsie. I have done so little this year that my report would be unnecessary were it not for the fact that the work went on without me and I wanted to make at least a few comments upon it. The work of the Kingdom is the Father's and He carries it on. When, as an instrument, one is laid aside from service in one capacity there is ofttimes another place of usefulness. I have been lea~ning the truth of this more and more these past few mopths as I have 'been entering into the joy and power of the ministry of intercession, a service in which even the weakest may take part. YENO BYEN DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL AND EV ANOELISTIC WORK. GRACE L. DILI"INGHAM. I wish I might be able to express in my report of the year's work apportioned to me, something of the gratitude I feel as I look back over it. Not that my part of the work has been all that I hoped it to be, but because it bas succeeded so well in spite of my failures. under His 26 KORHA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE guidance to whom it all belongs. When Dr. and Mrs. Millet were obliged to leave us a 'year ago and Miss Shaffer in the fall, we were reduced by half, but January brought Mrs. Krook who very quickly found her own place in the station, and in the hearts of the Koreans. The absence of both Mrs. Miller' and Miss Shaffer has given Mrs. Wacbs and myself a variety of work which prevents monotony, though it doubtless interferes with efficacy. Of first importance, has been the erection of the new "Campbell Memorial Girls' School." On October 25th, the girls, sixty strong, marched from the church, where they had been studying, singing "Onward Christian Sgldiers," and entered the building to the music of the surprise piano, 'which Columbia River Branch and Mrs. Miller, made possible. Needless to say they have enjoyed it, and their progress in music, under Mrs. Wach's' instruction, is gratifying. The building has proved very satisfactory for our work. To be sure, we had a'fire and two burglaries before Christmas, but the results were not very serious in any case. The little dormitory, when completed, was smaller than planned, and is already crowded to the limit with twelve girls and the matron. As nine more girls are promised.admission next fall, it looks as though Yeng Byen must do still more building soon. We have added two.years of the upper grammar school as the c1asses advanced, and the enrollment for the year has reached eighty-four. It takes our two "Ewha" graduate teachers, a Japanese and a Cbjnese teacher, eight periods daily; Mrs. Wach's music; and my fifteen periods a week of English, gymQastics, and sewing, to teach the required curriculum; Bible, extra; and then the girls have to come Saturday morning for Japanese and Chinese. When 'trying to arrange the recitation schedule I decided that ,the Orient was hurrying us in some things. Thef,our country day schoQls on the district all '$bow KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 27 increased interest and attendance. Their total enrollment is 166. Nothing in all our country work seems to me so \¥orthy our attention and support as the day schools, for which as yet we have no separate appropriation. When it was thought that the Hui Chun Girls' school would have to be closed, the Christians were very much distressed for they said it was all that "vas holding the church together. This, too, in Korea, where not many years ago a girl was not at aU worth educating! During the Christmas week, Rev. U Soon Kim conducted some wonderfully helpful revival meetings in our Yeng Byen church. xlany of the church members and especially the school boys and girls were greatly blessed. Because of the meetings our Christmas program "vas simple, but the girls and their mothers were invited to a tree at the school house, which the Christmas boxes from Newburgh, N. Y., and Janesville and Sheboygan, \Visconsin, made possible, beside sending remembrances to each of the country pupils. \Ve are so thankful for mission boxes! Twelve or fifteen of our oldest girls study in the Woman's Sunday Scho01; and the children's Sunday School has had an attendance of from sixty to ninety girls. They have taken a great deal of interest in bringing in new scholars. On Saturday afternoon a. sort of Junior League and on Sunday a meeting of the older girls are means of lead ing our pupils in to real Christian experiences. 7\ly evangelistic work has been confined to a class of women in Sunday School and special interest in the Woman's Cottage Prayer-meeting. There are about ninety women in the Sunday Schoo], and an average attendance of twenty-five at the prayer-meetings. Altho not yet far advanced in the Christian life, they are earnest and faithful, and unbelie\yers are being brought in. I also made attempts to teach in the fall and the spring Bible Classes. For the effort it required, I was certainly rewarded by their patience and a closer ac- 28 KOREA WOMA~'S CON'FERE;NC$ quaintance. In September, I made a sixteen day country trip, covering our two northernmost districts, each of which has one of the girls' day schools. Two of the Bible women had preceded me to the farthest church, a four day's journey from the nearest railroad, and started a class. Five women and one girl walked in three miles every day to study; and the women in and near Hui Chun Sao Mu, attended well in spite of the fact that it was harvest time. Not always are conditions so encouraging. On my "\¥ay home I stopped at a little church which MiRS Shaffer and I had thot very promising on our first visit, and found it entirely disbanded. \Vith my landlady, I ,vent to the houses of the tOI-mer Christian women and inyited them to a prayer-meeting that night. Eight of them and four unbelievers, beside the little girls, came out. I have never wanted to talk and pray in Korean so badly before or since and, I guess, never succeeded any better, so burdened was I for these poor, discouraged ,Yornen, who had known the better way but had given up for lack of some one to lead them. When the Bible women went out this spring they were able to hold a good class there, and reported that a number: of both men and ,\Tomen were meeting regularly for services. The Lord doe.s \vonderfully \vatch over and bless these little groups of Christians, who are wi thout human 1eaders. But sometimes He needs to make use of even the poorest, weakest human instruments to revive weakened faith. This spring I have made two trips to the districts not visited in the fall. The first \vas to our strongest church, where is one of our little day schools. This church largely contributes to the .support of its pastor, a Bible woman, and boys' and girls' scbools. ,Hardly a week passes without believers being added to the church. There had been twenty-three CODverts within three months. This is the result of !personal wo'rk and KOREA 'VOMAN'S CONFERENCE 29 constant house to house visitation on the part of the Bible woman and others. Mrs. Krook made her initial trip in l\1ay, an9 I felt quite like a veteran initiating her into the joys and mysteries of country life and travel. The roads which w~re bad, even for donkey travel, were almost impassable for the jinricksha, empty, so we had plenty of exercise to sharpen our appetites. VV'e found the churches all growing and several had new church buildings which meant a great deal of sacrifice~ In one of these places, since our first visit to it a year ago, the few non-Christian families have all been won. The leader is a bright young farmer \v ho has never studied except a few weeks at different tilnes in the Bible classes, but he is willing to give of his time and scant means to further the Kingdom. It is the faifhfulness of just such men and women that is keeping our country churches not only living but gro\ving. First, then, for new buildings and the completed task of building, I am thankful; for the growth in interest and enrollmen t in .the schools thruout the district; for faithful, capable Christian teachers; for money enough for immediate needs in scholarships and salaries. and faith that more will be given as :we need; for revived and renewed hearts in our Yeng Byen church and a reaching out for greater blessings thruout the district, I am truly grateful to our God, W}JO gives so richly and beyond all we are able to ask or think. VENa BYEN EVANOELISTIC '''ORK. tins. YICTOR H. WACHS. As I look back o\"er the year's work, the language study stands out especially, since tha~ has taken a big share of the time. I can appreciate now more fully than two years ago a statement then made' by Mr. Stokes, viz., "This language is not gotten on flowery beds of ease." I might add to this, "especially with two children in the house. " 30 KOREA 'VOMAN'S CONFERENCE I made my first attempt at teaching the catechism in the Woman's Bible Class this spring. I am glad that none of you were in the class to see how poorly it was done, and also glad that the Korean women are so consid.erate and appreciative of any thing we do when they know 'we ha \Te done our best. Since there was no American to teach who had been on the field any longer than I bad, the feeling that I was really a part of the class gave me a peculiar joy. I have made a great many calls together with the Bible woman during the winter. This to my mind is one of the most valuable parts of a missionary's work. There is nothing which has so impressed me with the fact that the leq,ven of the Gospel is leavening the whole lump as seeing how many are anxious to be numbered among the believers but for various reasons are still holding back. One of the homes which I remember particularly is one where the woman had been bitten very slightly on the wrist by a dog. The skin was scarcel.v broken and would probably have given no trouble at all, but feeling they must do something, t.hey had a Korean quack doctor stick big needles in to' her back. As a result, the sore developed until it was as large as my fist when I saw her. '. We are still hoping and praying that a doctor may speedily come in order to relieve many such cases. During these spring months, I have enjoyed going out with ~r. \Vachs on the motorcycle to the near-by churches. "Xear-by", in the Yeng Byen District, means not exceeding one hundred Ii, (33 miles), as the nearest church is out thirty Ii. 1 was enabled in this way to visit twelve of the country churches while I saw the near~st group three times. Sim Pyeng, which is one hundred Ii from Yeng Byen is a little place of only thirteen houses, but a very promising little church. Mr. Wachs is never able to find the right cow-path leading to this tiny village; so we found ourselves about five Ii from the place, when it became so dark that we were afraid tv ride. KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE ~1 Mr. Wachs started the engine several times so that they might hear it and come out to meet us; and this the local preacher did after we had wandered among the paddy fields a while When the women saw that I was along, the note of joy in their voices made my heart rejoice that I could be that little bit of encouragement to them. There were about fifty out to service the next morning, most of whom are regular attendants. I have spent one afternoon a week in the schools teaching music and have enjoyed it immensely. I am more than ever convinced that the Korean boys and girls have as yet undreamed-of possibilities along this line. This spring, I have taken Mr. Wach's English class while he has been busy with his other work. The fact that the college has gone to Seoul and they are requiring more English is proving a great incentive. The work I enjoy most is that among the boys. The happiest part of the day is when seven of them are at their various tasks of chopping wood, carrying water, weeding in the garden, etc. The most encouraging part of the work with the boys is the way we have seen them grow spiritually. Over a year ago when we saw that the older boys were beginning to feel that they were too big to go to the children's meeting, we excused them and organized an English class together with Scripture reading and prayers led by the boys themselves. After the revival last winter, they of their own accord voted to discontinue the English. When our spring class graduated and four went to Seoul, some of our most enthusiastic ones left but the others were notlongin rising to the occasion and we soon had as good meetings as before. A few weeks later, our hoy doctor (a boy in the eighth grade, who is the only doctor we have had for the past year) when returning from Pyeng Yang, stopped at one of our little churches and preached. He came back so enthusiastic that the next Friday night he asked how many boys wanted to go out every Sun- day. Severa] ilntn~diately :.raised ·th~ir bands; . We. told them; however, t1:~at their .chiefwQ,rk ·nowwas preparation; but: if ~wo wpqld: go out everySttnday to one of the,four~ear-by;chl.lrches,. w~ thought ·they wou]dbe able-tQ dQ muchj~·QQd.~ They have been dO'~rigthis work for several weeks now withgoodresuHs. The Friday night befor~_Icame away, they gave me another surprise by deciding that theyougbt to take up a collection e~ery week in order to pay the "pap kap" (price of rice) of the boypre-acher who goes out on Sunday. Dneof the poor,. est but mostfaithful:mothers told t:nejust tire, other day that her boy was crying recently because he had no stockings to wear to the meeting. Shetold him that since .he was tired, he had better not go. But he jumped up and went anyway~ bare-footed, leaving her standing there· wondering where .such "yulsim" (zeal) had come .from. I never attended better meetings than the ones we have with the boys. Some of the older leaders in the .chu~ch could well profit by their example. We thank ~od for the way He has blessed the work . during the past year and for the outlook for the coming year. EVANOELISTIC WORK AND DAY SCHOOLS ON KONO JU EAS~ AND WEST DISTRICTS • H. SHARP. Among the many blessings we have received during the past Jear there are two for which we feel especially thankful to God: first, for sendirig us a co-worker in the person of Miss Bair andi second, for the good health we have had to do .the work committed to our care.· . MRS. ALICE I. BV ANGELISTIC WO~K. Itiner,ating. D~ringthe year yve have itinerated over .llearly 3;11 the two ,districts twice. ,Owing to Conference ,beipg earljerl we had to cu t some places out of our -spring .1tinera~y. . . .The work still has its discouraging as well as encouraging features. In comparing this year's statistics 1. -"""--'---.- BIBLE \r()MA~ THAISI~G CL.\~:-', Ko~(;]l.' (page 3-t) ':\'1ISS BROWNLEE, ASSISTA~T hlNDERGAUTNER A~D SOME OF THEIR HAPPY Pl·PILS. (page j2) . ;\E\\" RECITATION BI1ILDI,\I;. ST(lI>R:\T~ A'\II FACI'LTY l':\Jl):'\ ACADE~IY, I'YI-::'\I; \'.\"1; (plige ('1) KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 33 with last we find that instead of gaining ip. numbers we have one less. This is partly due to some leaders who have not been faithful to the charge committed to their :'keeping and when they went ,out took a large number with them. Those, too, who believe simply because ot some temporal help they expect to receive soon become discouraged when they don't see that help forth-coming. To illustrate: I heard a woman who had once been a believer talking to another a few days ago; she said, "What is the use to believe'? If you cou.!d get a position to earn some money so you could live there might be some use but just to believe I don't see any profit in it." Alas, she is not the only one who feels like that, we tear. They can not see farther than the flesh and this world.; but when we hear of those who are wil1ing to give up every earthly comfort for Christ's sake, these offset the former., :One such case came to our notice last winter. It was a young widow. She married 'again and went,' as she supposed, to a Christian home but found on reaching there het husband only was a believer and that just long enough to get his wife; then he threw away his profession. She was distressed beyond measure. The neighbors said to her "Why do you worry and se~m so sad? your husband has plenty, so you do not need to trouble bver what yon want to eat and wear." She replied; "What good does all this do me? it does not feed nfy soul. 1 would rather have nothing in this world and have my s()ulfed than to have all this wor'ld and my soul :starve, fot then what would I do when I came·to die ?~' The great problem we find among the Women is their ignorance and lack of interest in study; in some places there are only one or two 'who can reaCl' and although we have sent out a woman just to teach ,them, they don't seem to have ambition to try. If their teacher only knew what to do to awaken )nterest and enthusiasm she would be glad. 2. Bible women. Our seven Bible women are all 34 KOREA WOM.AN'S CONFERENCE diligent in work, fervent in spirit, serving the Master whom they love. One traveled knee deep in the snow and had her feet frozen; as a consequence she was laid up with sore feet for a short time. Kim Haki felt that owing to home cares she could not continue the work; we were sorry to lose her for she had endeared herself to the people, but Meng ai, who has taken her place is doing exemplary work. Willa hlld to give up the work and Sarah now has her place. 3. Class Work. Last June after our return from Conference we held our Bible womans' training class. We invited in the class-leaders and school teachers; so we had a good class and a most enjoyable time we spent studying God's Word together. We studied Acts, Exodus. Bible Geography, and Hygiene. In August we went to Nolmi and altho the class was not as large as it sometimes has been, those who came were blessed. At the close of the Kongju class in September, we asked who among the number were willing to give at least one week of their time to the Lord by going out and giving to others what they had learned; several responded. They went out and some came back with glowing reports and fresh enthusiasm. This is the first time we have attempted anything of this kind but we trust this coming year that more will be ready to respond to the call. As yet we have only a small number in our city church who we feel are capable of teaching, but as we are able to do more for them we trust more will be made willing workers for the Lord. The classes throughout the country have all been encouraging; we have noted in many places a greater interest in the study of the word. Several young women have expressed a desire to go to SeQul and attend the training school.Four went up from our work last year. Mrs. Swearer held three classes and helped us in one; the Bible women and volunteers held ten. KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE- 35 4. Kongju Church. The work in the city church is growing each year although we have not been' able to give as much time to it· as we would like to. The Bible women and class-leaders have all done their share. to help along the work. We have had a class-leaders' meeting several times during the year to give them encouragement, talk over the work, and get their reports. In March, Mr. Kim, our evangelist came to us and for ten days held revival services. The Lord greatly blessed his efiorts, many burdened hearts found relief when they cast themselves at the Saviour's feet. We feel that the results of those meetings will be lasting. Since Miss Bair came to us she has visited in· many of the homes, taught a class in Sunday School and two periods in the school every day; already she is making herself generally useful. 11rs. Taylor has taught a class in the Sunday School, led the Friday evening prayer meeting each week, and helped in the fall and spring classes. We nliss her this yeaT, but while we are sorry to lose her we rejoice in the expected return of Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Swearer has had the teachers' meeting in the study of the Sunday School lesson when at home and has also helped in the Kongju classes. We have missed Mrs. VanBuskirk in the work this year. II. DAY SCHOOLS. The Kongju day school has been gaining in numbers and we have now an enrollment of seventy l\1r. Yi and his wife Ella, an Ewha girl, have been untiring in their efforts to make the school a success. Many of the girls gut he~p during the meeting;. they confessed to hating their teacher and one another, to deceiving their parents by asking Iuore money than they needed when buying their books and then spending the rest for some little thing they wanted for themselves. Our school building is inadequate to meet our need. We should have a new building and another teacher . . The Nolmi school has increased this year both in in- 36 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE terest and numbers. We have now about fifty little tots. Ethel, an Ewha girl. is doing efficient work. This spring another girl whose home is in Nolmi but who has been ~n Ewha for five years came down to become the wife of one of the teachers in the boys' school in that place. She is giving all her time and we feel sure with this new addition, the work will continue to grow. At Tung po one of our Kongju graduates is teaching and is doing splendid work. She is beloved by all. She has thirty girls under her care and is finding it hard to attend to them all alone. She needs some one to help her, but there is no one in the church that can help out for even one hour a day; and as we have no support for the school, feel we can not do more for it than what we are already doing. At Ipchang, we have a young woman who is a graduate from the Southern Methodist School in Seoul. After she was married she and her husband came down here to live and she has gathered around her about fifteen girls. We have no support for this school either but help them out a little each month. A new school has opened at Kang kyengie with twenty-five girls and DOW they are pleading for help. The young woman who is teaching is at present giving her time. This is an important place and should have help but what can we do with already two schools on our hands without support? There is no reason why we 'could not have as large a school there as at Kongju if only we had the facilities to carry it on. Is there no onewho will pity these who are thirsting for knowledge, and send us help? Unless we get help soon some of these scho01s must be closed and that will be like shuting the children out of the light and dooming them to 'heathen darkness, There are other places calling for schools through the country, but we have to say," You must wait a little longer". We pray that the coming year may see greater results. KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 37 KONOJU EV ANOELISTIC WORK. W. C. SWEA.RER. Mrs. Sharp, who has charge of the woman's work on the West Kongju District, will report the work in det~il so that it only remains for me to tell of the individual work attempted and of some personal observations made. During the past year, with the ex{'eption of a little work done in the Kongju City Church and one itinerating trip of about three weeks made in company with Mr. Swearer, all effort has been directed toward class work and this for the reason that it seems tb be time spent to the best advantage. When a wife itinerates with 'her husband, he of course holds all the meetings, which are attended by both men and women; for the latter wish to hear their Moksa (pastor) as much as do the former. It remains for the wife to listen to her husband's sermons two or three times a day, week after week; beside this she talks with the women, inquiring about their welfare and that of the church and listens more or less resignedly to their petitions for loans, and req uests to have their babies adopted and their older children sent through school. Possibly they themselves may \vant to be sent to Bible School. Talking all these things over with them may be some comfort, and anything which can brighten their lives surely is not to be despised, but is it time and money spent to the best advantage? If there were sufficient itinerating money, one might travel alone and thus come in contact with more people, but as it is, that wonld be impossible. Thinking that teaching would be really productive of the most good, my time has been largely spent that way. I assisted in one class in Seoul, one in Wonju, two in Kongju city, and one in Kang Kyengi. Beside these the months of January and February were spent in the country doing class work in company with Mr. Swearer. Tlie attendance in these country classes was not large but in each class there was something encouraging MRS. 38 ~QRE~ WOMAN'S CONFERENCE which made us feelthat our labor was-not in vain in the Lord. At the Nolmi class the women studied under difficul. ties, for the only room that could be secured was one so cQld that it was exceedingly uncomfortable. \Vhen it was not in use elsewhere, a little oil heater which we had with us helped out .. Under trying circumstances the wODJen were very patient and assured us that they were all right. One young woman, who was studying for the fir.st-time, .walked three miles every morning and generally stayed ·tothe evening meeting before going home. One wretchedly wet, stormy morning she was the first one there, coming in bedraggled with mud and rain but bright and happy because she had the privilege of studying God's word. I wondered how many women .jn our b~loved America would consider it a privilege to study under like conditions. At one ()f the classes, there seemed to be no one to heat the church; it encouraged us that the pastor of that circuit did not consider it .beneath him, nor anything too hard, to get up at five o'c1ock on those cold ~ark mornings and make the church habitable. At that ,class one old lady had studied the catechism tin she cpuld reciteit perfectly, but because she could not control her temper she was asked to wait a while before re.cehring baptism; whert upon we were treated to aDother display of temper for she said she had been studying hard an d was anxious to receive baptism at that :particular time. Someare slow to 'understand the true spirit of Chr;istianity but they are learning. The reviv. a~ meetings held each evening were well attended and were, we believe, a blessing to many. ~ Mr. ;Kim, who. conducted revival services for ten -days in the city of Kongju L did faithful, effi<;ient work .~nd was used of God in helping many souls. One old woman who did not seem capable. of ullderstanding . . spiritual truths, so very much qf the earth, earthy had ~hc:_ ~bY8:ys, se~med, was greatly 3 wake~ed d~ring these KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 39 meetings. The last night when she gave her testimony she told how much l\,fr. Kim had helped her and how much she lo\red him. He said to her, "Have you forgotten the Lord? " She replied, "Oh, no, I'm thankful to Him, too." Mr. Kim very sensibly said, "You must love Him better than you do nle". It seemed then that she did not but her life since has proved her sincerity. Maria, the Bible woman, works earnestly and reports progress. She has been greatly troubled because she was obliged to leave her two little children with people who were unbeliev~rs when she has been tr~vel ing, but recently she has been helped to get a room in Kpngju where she can have them with her 'when she is in from the country and where they will be under Christian influence. She says she has nothing left to trouble her now. The itinerating money allowed by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society has enabled me to take trips in the country for class work and for this I am grateful. The past year has been a happy one and we go on to the coming year knowing that He, who has given us the pri\rilege of work, will give the strength to perform the tasks committed to our CFlre. 40 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE KOANO H\'OE NYO WON (WOMAN'S HOSPITAL OF EXTENDED ORACE) and WOMAN'S nEDICAL CLASS. PYENO YANO. ROSETTA S. HALL, M. D. MARY ~1. CUTLER, M. D. A REYIEW of the twelve months' work, beginning May 1st. 1913, shows more accomplished than we dared hope in the face of Dr. Hall's illness, the time Dr. Cutler spent in over-seeing repairs on buildings, walls and grounds and the unusable state of much of the hospital while the relaying of its six native floors and the installing of the hot-water heating plant and the plumbing fixtures throughout the building was in progress. THE XON-ARRIVAL of certain fixtures leaves some of the plumbing still unfinished BUT THE CONVENIENCE AND LABOR-SAVING of what is done and the comfort of a thoroughly warm building during the cold weather has called forth expressions of gratitude intended for those at home who provided the things and for Mr. Hylton who so painstakingly installed them. Most of the sinks and faucets being in place we can soon put our last ward in order and fix up a suitable place for our laboratory apparatus. How CAN "183 HOSPITAL PATIENTS TREATED A TOTAL OF 3705 DAYS AND NIGHTS," "91 OUT CALLS MADE"; "5822 DISPENSARY PATIENTS SEEN"; "5 MEDICAL STUDENJ'S, 5 NURSES, AND 5 OF THE 'HELP' UNDER INSTRCCTION"; AND • "THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO AND PRAYERS HELD WITH THE SAME.AS OVER 25000 PEOPLE ONCE EACH" give an adequate idea of the year's work ?-of the recital of all the ailments listened to; of the sufferings relieved and efforts to mitigate those which proved unrelievable; of the hours of hard work and anxiety, backache and loss of sleep,· sympathy and self-denial freely bestowed by nurses and doctors; of the drugs and instruments ordered', invoices checked off, ointments made, poWders weighed KOREA "\VOMAN'S CONFERENCE 41 and folded, capsules filled and mixtures compounded before the thousands of prescriptions could be dispensed; or of the physical, chemical and microscopical examinations made, dressings applied, teeth extracted, operations performed, and children born; to say nothing of the faithful labors of the teachers, Bible-women, cook, laundre'3s, scruhwoman, janitor, man-of-all-work, or the blind girls who give tnassage and attend the dispensary door where they ticket every patient's shoes when she enters to return the same when she goes? ALMOST EVERY DISEASE to v\~hich flesh is heir. including some very unique and rare ones, has presented itself for treatment; and an ever increasing proportion of cases come to us from both the Koreans and the] apanese 'with diseases peculiar t.o women. A few days ago one of our nurses who had about eighteen months of her training in a General Hospital in charge of an American male doctor and lady nurse, exclaimed her surprise at the number and variety of these cases, saying she had never seen nor heard tell of the like before, and thought they must be peculiar to this part of the country! She thus artlessly confirmed our belief that but few of these patients will go to male doctors. AMONG OUR WARD PATIENTS have been two Japanese ladies, four of our W. F, M. S. workers and two other foreigners. LFlrgest number of ward patients per day, 22; largest at the dispensary, 135. THOUGH OUR PATIENTS, due to reasons before nlentioned, have numbered less by a couple of thousand than last year, yet our receipts are gre.ater and more than equal the amount we receive from our \VOlnan's Foreigu l\1issionary Society. Thus our work grows more and more self-supporting. 62-='0' OF THE PATIENTS WERE NON-CHRISTIAN this year, and though the proportion of these who became Christians is nodoubt as great as last yeat", yet owing to the absence of Bible-woman Whang chaperoning the medical class in Seoul a third of the year the results 42 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE for that time were not tabulated at the fi·rst M. E. church where most of the patients are induced to attend, it being the one nearest the hospital, but she and Biblewoman Tyang together report 88 who gave in their narpes. as seekers, .37. becam~ probatioIlers, and 33 were baptized. Last year there were 398 seekers, 200 probationers and 59 baptized. These women have also followe~ up our work in dispensary and hospital by making some 1118 visits :in the homes of patients where 5095 'people were taught; .they have also conducted S. s. classes~ cottage-prayermeetings, ·helped with 28 funerals and sold 310 portions of Scripture and health pamphlets, beside the many 9f the latter we sell in the consultingroom. Mrs. Tyang has held a weekly prayer-meeting for the blind and deaf girls at their dormitory; also made a fifteen day itinerating trip to three villages where she held two classes of several days each, visited in the homes andt.ook the names of 13 n~w people who promised to Qeljeve.. The attendance at.dispensary prayers conductedby .Hel~n Hong,M.rs. Tyang, and Mrs. Whang has nUplbered 6983, while the attenda~ce at the hospital ~()r~iJ;tg pray~rs has been 9342, and at evening prayers 3100. ANNA SONG (OKPUNNIE, "THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN 'KOR~A~')'iss#llwithus, receiving the daily dressing of the .spin,al abcessadded to her list of trials, but she continues cheerfully to help in various ways, teaching the patients .the Gospel story which means so much to her, or to memorize .Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer, or how to read .and write. 33%% OF OUR PATIENTS READ AND WRITE ......... we remember when it was but 3%. It keeps about pace with the per cent of Christians. OF THE CHRISTIANS a small per cent is Roman Ca th,olic, 41% is Methodist Episcopal and 57% Presby,terian. Though I understand a majority of the Presbyterian missionaries do 'not unite with us in asking their Board to send an associate woman physician to do their Jt~ ,rr - ~.'", 66.... I ..... ,....- .~ 1'.- .... .~. . "'.~ ... ,'1""""_-~ ''!f. ...... . . . .. , . -. ... ..... / ..... ~,~:~~ 2 ~URSES. COR~EIH~U FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER. 4 MEDICAL AND 4 SURGICAL PATIE~TS ASD 3 MOTHERS WITH 3 NEW-BORN BAHES "OUR 5 l\IEDICAL STCDEKTS" A~D THREE MORE l!\ I'REPARATIO~ <"y0~~ ~ I ;;;';' ....... 2 e. 3 DR. CUTLER, NuRSING STAFF AND CONVALESCING PATIENTS KOREA: WOMA~'S CO~FERENCE 43 . " ~hare oftbis wor~ (thus making it union) yet it may be noted that the Koreans whom we come to serve do thus' unite in actions that speak louder than words. Last year when we reported 50.% of our Christian patients Presbyterian, one might have supposed it due to the physician in charge of the Presbyterian General Hospi-~al being on furlo and the hospital practically closed, but though he is on duty again this year the percentage of Presbyterian patients at our Woman's Hospital has increased; and so we and your Korean constituency continue to ask the Presbyterian Board to send out one or more women physicians to tide over the time until .there be a good supply of Korean women physicians. In-this connection we are pleased to report that Mrs. Grac~ Lee, our medical assistant for the past five years has been granted a GOVERN.:M:ENT LICENSE to ,vork as a med~ ieal practitioner; she has the honor of b~ing -the first Korean woman thus licensed. OUR TWO G~ADUATE NURSES, a~e faithful a~4 as indispensable as ever. Mrs. Martha Kim acts as Head Nurse and Hospital Matron aild 11:rs. Lee assists Dr. Ha}l in Dispensary and Ou_t~Call"vork, and together with Mis. SusanNo ·Pak. a fo,rmer hospital assistant, has begun to take a course in. Midwifery at the Charity Hospital.-· OUR TWO PUPIL NURSES, beside the faithful work done in hospital and dispensary, have won words of praise ~hile nursi~g i~: six'homes and'theirearningshaye ad~ed to our "receipts'''. One went ,to Seoul in April to take final' exami~ations and graduated in May. H~r place is filled here by a nurse transferred from another Training School. '. I , IN OUR PROBATIONER .RANKS we have kept three nurses formor~ than a year because their preliminary education had to be brought up to the standard. We hope soon to put them int~ uniform and to advance thefu to their rightful grade' among the pupil nurses. BESIDE THE' CONSTANT INSTRUCTION of nurses and pr,o,bationers in pra:etical nursing by the doctors and • J ••• 44 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE graduate nurses, almost daily class instruction under competent teachers has been given in the Japanese language; arithmetic; penmanship; Hygiene; Anatomy and . Physiology; and in Science, Practice and Ethics of Nursing. Five of our "Help" who give promise of nurse "timber" attend such classes as are suitable for them. Our nurses have also seen the work at the city Military and Charity Hospitals where they gained much useful information. DOCTORS AND GRADUATE NURSES HAVE TAUGHT Hygiene regularly in all the women's Bible Institutes held in the city, and some of those taught have in turn taught it to their country classes and report the women listening with great enthusiasm, and at once putting into practice some of the things learned. A wide and needy field is this for medical women. Preventive Medicine, as it should, is becoming more and more appreciated the world over. OUR 5 MEDICAL STUDENTS took lessons in the J apanese language beside continuing their regular cou rse of study until last July, and some regular lectures were given by doctors from the Charity and Military Hospitals tbro the courtesy of Drs. Saburi and Satomura. The students passed creditable examinations' on the year's work. Permission from home having come to a vail ourselves of the kind offer of the Medical School of the Government General 'to extend the privileges of tha t school to Korean women, we ('losed, planning for the students to go to Seoul September 1st. to continue their course in the Government School. But during vacation two of our best students, got the "go to America to study medicine" fever and are teaching and studying English in preparation. The other three and a new student went to Seoul though the parents of three were unable to .meet-balf their expenses, for the Government School had fixed and partly furnished for them a dormjtory between the one occupied by the three Japanese lady phy- · KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 45 sicians connected with its hospital and the one for its Korean pupil nurses and, tho there was little appropriated for 1913, funds were at .hand from personal friends who had helped earlier in the year and from whom we have promises of "more to follow" because they believe there ought to be an ample number of Korean women physicians, so we were able to complete the furnishings and pay for the traveling expenses, the chaperons, the books, and a monthly allowance of food for those students who needed,--they understanding however, that aU they receive for food is to be returned as soon as they graduate and earn money, so it can be used again to aid other women medical students. Probably no freshman ever entered college with a greater mixture of trepidation and courage than did these four young women. With them we much appreciate the kind offices of Mrs. Hattori, the Christian Japanese hidy who took post-graduate work at the Bellevue Hospital Training School for Nurses, New York City, and was given special oversight of these medical students by Surgeon General Fugita, the broad minded president of this institution and the general administrator of medical work in Korea, who, with Dr. Sato, the able Dean of the Medical School certainly have planned wisely and conducted everything with great care. The only complaint from our women students is their deficient knowledge of Japanese. but their teachers speak highly of their conduct and studiousness and encouragingly of their progress. We were disappointed because one did not return after the holidays .....• her brother in America urges her to come there to finish her course ...... and another says she cannot continue because she knows too little Japanese and can never pay back her educational loan if she is so many years in school. However, a Seoul young woman at her own expense, entered the school in April; two Korean women are studying in Tokyo Woman's l\iedical College; at least four more well educated girls whom we know are laying definite plans tOist.udy ,m~icine; ~nd: thf!, parents o( others ~ontinue to consult us as to the preliminary requirements. When we remember it t00k a dozel!l ye~rs for theiirstclass of Korean men to graduate, in me,dicine we are ndt discouraged but. very hopeful that the near future 'will produce a creditable l@t of Korean women physicians. WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE THANKS to the missionaries and others residing in Korea for their help. and kindnesses, financial and otherwise, as well as to the loyal supporters of our work in the home~and and the faithful friends who sent money by letter, picture" cards and other useful things by parcel post, and most generous supplies in Mission-boxes from Baltimore, Md., and Germantown, Philadelphia, P~nnsylvania. ~PACE FORBIDS NARRATING many touching incidents in connection with our patients, especially some of those who travel many weary miles to get relief from protracted suftering. Again we had more patients from a distance ·than from the city itselt,--tbe greater half come from..vvithina radius oflOO Korean li(3li make one mile) thet-e were scores from 200 to 400 Ii, 18 from 500 Ii and a few f110t;B even greater distan~es. One does not have to go to the country to preach to country people,--. -visit out waiting-room :and wards. AT THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL some were badly injured ina panic among thenon.Christian part of the audience in the church and were hrought to our hospital. One of these ,had withstood ChristiaJ:) teaching when well and now -was ,too .ilLto listen to "preaching" but did ,not fail to ob$erve "Christ's teachings exemplified" jnthe care she and others received fromstrangers,witPoJlt money andwitbout price, and soon.after going home she began to "believe" and now faithfullyattendscnurch. Mayw.e be permitted ,thus to pr¢~chChri~tfor many years to come. KOREA 'WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 47 DEPARTnENT FOR BLIND AND DEAF. PYENG YANG. MRS. ROSETTA SHERWOOD HALL, M. D. This department of our work has practically made the progress it promised last vear: three moreofthe:-deaf boys entered the ~nd grade in Mr. Billings' Common school. and Yi Won-syunwas promoted from 3rd to 4th year work. If they continue doing well we shall have three blind gir1s finishing the Common. school course at the close of this school year. \ Won Susanna entered the Bible Training School at Seoul and Miss Albertson is pleased with her progress. : An Soon-goomie continues to turn the crank and has aided thus in making many scores of .embossed books throughout the year. She has learned to memorize many hymns and Bible verses, but cannot yet read through her finger-tips. We are still praying that some special arrangement may be made for the feeblenlinded whether blind, deaf, or seeing where they can have the needed instruction. We have thought of having some one sent to the" Ko jin zu ka " carried on by Mr. and Mrs. Ishii near Oji, Tokyo, to receive the necessary training .. Last year's report spoke of the blind Miss 0 Prudence, for several years a faithful teacher here, who was planning to gQto Japan at her own expense for further study. In company with me, she left Pyeng Yang in July last and; after visiting various places of interest in her capital city and at several points on her journey, ·she spent a very happy month at the beautiful Japanese mountain resort of U nzen where she was able to meet expenses by giving massage. After a short visit in Tokyo, she settled at Yokohama as a student of the language in Mrs. Van Petten's Christian school for the .blind. Prudence and' her· teacher, 0 Kei San-the] apanese girl without hands--have enjoyed each other so much! Prudence writes of ever}rhody's kindness :to her ;and Miss Watson writes of her, ., She is a dear, sweet 48 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE young woman. " Of our blind pupils in the Union High School, Pyeng Yang, Pak El-sim was advanced to the senior grade and Chyo,Panny :was one of :the nicest· members of the elaSsgraduatingMarch 26th. On the 31st, she left to join P.nidence in Japan. After a pleasant week in Seoul Mi~s. 'Chyowenton to Japan under the kind escort 'of Mr. I. Yamagataof.theS6oul Press. Miss lIaenig of Ewha: wrote .me, "Those of our people who saw Fanny were well pleased with her. She is a fine young woman, a credit to your. school." And Mr. Yamagata wrote, "I found. to my delight that Miss' Chyo could understand both Japanese, and English~ She behaved bravely during the l<?ng trip and I .could not help admiring her cpurage and .patience." Fanny joined .Prudence at Yokohama and together they entered the Tokyo School for Blind, April 9th. Many thanks are due to Miss Watson; also Messrs. Yamagata, Uchida, and Yoshimoto for their kind assistance.Both hope to enter the Normal course proper another year. In their·weekly correspondence with the blind girls her-e" they usually write in Korean,' but sometimes in Japanese or English, and all ·by means of the New York Point. Altogether in Pyeng Yang, Seoul, and Japan we have registered 48 pupils this year, of whom 14are new, and by whom almost every mission is represented. Again we are most grateful to all the Korean, Japanese, and 'fore;gn teachers and principals for their help in. educating theSe: . less fortunate ones together with their seeing and '.hearing pupils. We also much appreciate the continued interest of Mr. T. Nakashima; he has been most helpful in many ways. Just now, he is teaching the deafhoys how to cultivate chrysanthemums. As to finances, from April 1st. '13 to March 31st, '14 we received from Mrs. Rockwell yen 1001.80 (1 yen=$.50), from the W. F. M. S., Mrs. Davey, Messrs. Kemble, Rosemond, and others in foreign countries yen .\JA:\l'o\L 'l'HAI:\I:\(; F()I{ TilE HU:\D I'YE:\(~ Y.\:\G. THE Two FA~NIES "The chain of Friendship stretching far Links days that were with days that are". 'KOREA WOMA.N'S CONFERENCE 49 1131.03 and from Korean patrons,Japanese, and foreigners on the field yen 555.55 which with the balance of yen 294.98 of last year amounts to yen 2983.36. We have expended for teachers,yen 803; for fuel,yen 236.15'; embossed books, yen 323.90; f00d, water, some clothing and equipment,dormitoryrepairs, and other dormitory expenses, yen 19:[;8.57; or a total of yen 3321.62, which means ,we have had to expend yen 3B8.26 more than has come for this work, and accounts for the very low ebb of my own bank account. We do nothave to search far to, see where it has gone to for, though almost 5UO yen more were received this year than hist, eleven of the new pupils paying practically nothing ,have quite eaten that up, some missionary patrons have stopped paying for pupils they' put in the school, and beside increased railroad expenses and other extras, we have made qui~e extensive repairs this year. The ,Blind and Deaf department does not own any of the buildings we are using and we have not felt like j:luttingmuch money into repairs; but tilne and so many new pupils have obliged us to, si nee the dormitories we are asking for seem little nearer than five years ago, we '~l:"egret to report We received our first bequest this year; it was $100 U. S. gold from,the estate of Mrs. EmelineDavey. During her life-time, also, Mrs.:Da veycontributed to our work several times and we have· always devoted her gifts to the text book making. \Ve have now all the text books embos~ed that are used in the differentgrades of the common and high school courses. but in some cases only two copies of each, so that a number of girls often have to study from one book. We greatly need more gifts for this fund, The Government General generously provides us with all the books we need embossed in Japanese. Some of the Koreans have helped this work quite substantially during the past year; a few of the boys of the Union Christian College brought a small Thanks- 50 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE giving offering with a Deat little speech of appreciation ot the work. At Christmas time, the Tae Chyon Tong .:Church sent a suit of winter clothes for a deaf mute, and Pyeng Yang 1st Methodist Church gave us a lot of .clothing and some money. The Chinnampo Church invited the department to repeat a tri-linguai and industrial exhibition .they bad given in Pyeng Yang; they charged a small admission fee and filled their schoolhouse three times, and from the receipts paid all the expenses, and gave us enough to support a little blind girl fromtbeir town in school for the year. The foreign Union Church in Pyeng Yang donated fifty yen and that in . Seoul, seventy-five. Some from the gold-mines have remembered our needs this year; also some Japanese friends of the work. Miss Trissel remembered her class in foreign basketry and sent a nice lot -of ~aterial by parcel post from U. S. A. With this exception, none of the needs as suggested in last year's report ·were supplied to us by friends in the hOQlelands; we hope we may fare better this year. The greatest blessing to us and our work this year arrived in Pye!lg Yang on February 14 in the person of Miss F. L. Denman, an old-time school-mate from my' native town, Liberty, New York. Miss Denman has taken hold of the work for the blind and the deaf .with zeal, and is a great cheer and comfort to all around. EVANOELISTIC WORK, FIRST CHURCH, PYENO VANO. C. D. MOURIS. My appointment for the year was to the Ev ANGELISTIC WORK OF F,RSTCHURCH, Pyeng Yang, and the Sunday School Work. It has been my privilege and pleasure to attend the sessions of the Official Board and the various committees of the church, and to teach .in the Sunday Schools and weekly Bible Class. This has been a year of 'much sickness, and what few calls MRS. KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 51 have been made were to those who were ill or who had lost loved ones. In our SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK we have had the weekly study class for the teachers, the short prayer meeting before each Sunday School session, and a monthly meeting when each teacher reported the condition of his class, And any problems which had arisen in connection with the work. As often as practicable we have had a meeting of the Sunday School Committee of the four city churches, thus keeping our entire city Sunday Schoolw ork in unison. On special days, although we meet separately in our own churches, we have practically the same programs; we use the same card system and in every way try to keep our work together as one. We have an Annual Spring Social in which all four of the Sunday Schools unite, and we usually have our Children's Day Exercises together. The Cradle Roll of First Church now has 513 names on it. Twice a year we have a meeting for the mothers of this Cradle Roll, when they are instructed and exhorted, and the baJ:>ies made happy with picture cards. The two BIBLE WOMEN, Sadie and Unduk, have been untiring in their work, having made 3338 calls during the year, beside teaching in some of the city and country Bible Classes, and studying in others. The Cradle Roll \york keeps Sadie very busy, for she calls in the honle on each baby's birthday, and tries to make the day a special one of blessing to the mother as well as to the child. There are about 700 women in First Church and about 400 children enr.olled in its Sunday School. The four children's Sunday Schools of the city teach about 700 children through 74 teachers: In has been my privilege and pleasure to heJp in part of the Bible Institute teaching and, during Miss Haynes' illness, to help for one month in the Union Academy for Girls. In addition to the above, my time has been filled full with duties which can not be tabulated, but which fall to the lot of every evangelist's wife. 52 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE PYENO YANO EV ANOELISTIC WO~K. W. BILLINGS. How much I have appreciated the health which I have enjoyed during the past year, can only be under.: stood after 14 weeks of enforced rest. How little I had valued the opportunity to serve, could perhaps be learned only through some such hard experience. When, at Conference, I was appointed to take charge of the Bible Institutes, which Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Morris had led to such splendid efficiency, 1 felt utterly unable to attempt it, but with the hearty support of all the other ladies, and the conscious presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we have had a glorious cycle of Bible study. Early in the fall, Paul and I nlade another trip to Yeng Byen, and were very happy to meet the dear women again; some of them had walked 150 miles, over high mountains, carrying their provisions for the ten days and. in many cases, the little ones on their backs. I taught I Samuel to .one class, and then took all of the women in the afternoon for a conference on Sunday School Teacher Training as I supposed, but I only gave the first talk. When I review.ed that lesson, in which I had explained that the child's actions give a clue to the' child's mind, illustrating by a crying baby, that when it cried there was a cause, and not al ways the same cause. A.common sight in Korea is to see .the mother, when the child cries, take for granted that the child is hungry and feed it, when more often it is not hungry hut crying because of over-eating. So in this talk I dwelt ·on this pbase of the child's action and emphasized the need of studying the cause of the cry, ans not always interpreting it as huhger. When I reviewed this a~d,l'ask~c1 them wha:t they had learned, one dear old soul said ";mHk." She could not remember anythingeIse, but that had been indelibly impressed on ·her mind. I decided they needed mother's talk more than teacher's training. This year we decid~d to have two· classes each in the MRS. B. KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 53 fall and in the spring so that the country and city women could study separately. The reasons were that the classes were getting too large to do the best work~ and a1tho~gh it would take double the teaching force we felt it would S0011 double the attendance and efficiency, both of which have been realized to some extent this year. The fall city class numbered one hundred and twenty-five in contrast to about twenty-five the year before who studied in the general class, almost none of them in the first five graded classes, Both teachers and scholars have testified that there were more pleasure and profit in studying separately as their ability and previous training were more nearly on a par. At the Chinese New Year ,,·hen previously the Koreans had' two or three weeks of drinking and loafing, the time ,vas well employed in a mixed Bible class one hundred and thirty nine women and girls stUdying. At the firs~ of the year, Pa~l and I went to Seoul to help a little in the Women's Bible Training School. We enjoyed the ten days at that time so much that we went back again to meet the graduates the last of May and finish th~ teaching of Revelation. I was very much pleased with this class and the progress that had been lnade during the course, judging by their ability to study and grasp what was giv~~ them. I found that what I had expecte.d qf the first year students ill ~irst John was entirely beyond their comprehension. but the seniors more than· satisfied. me in their study of Revelation. Their testimony that Re:velation was a very deep but a very spiritual book pleas~d me very much. The day following Eyangelist Kim's splendid revival services, which lasted often until the wee sm~ll hours, but left a greatly invigorated church, we began our spring country class. This was pretty strenuous for the. teachers, but it made it possible for saine of the country women who studied in the class to come in for the revival services. The attendance was good and the spirit fine; a gre~t effort was tuade to get them to stay for 54 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE the month's Bible Institute which was begun last year, with the result that torty seven women enrolled, more than double last year's record. They were specially bright young women and win make splendid Sunday School teachers and mothers. They studied very zealously and at the close of the month wished it might have been longer. At the close of the Institute we had our city class but, because of the epidemic of measles, scarcely a home in our churches being ,vithout a victim among children or parents, only seventy seven studied. The police reported three thousand deaths this spring from measles alone. Not the least enjoyable were the nine days spent in Syen Chyun, helping the Presbyterians in their class of six hundred and forty five women. It was a great sight to see so many women in white gathered to study the Word; but I was quite ready to come back to our graded classes with smaller numbers where the teacher can know her pupils and make the impression deeper. I am indeed grateful to the loving Father, that He has permitted me to have this small part in these classes where the Word that has power to transform has been so prayerfully and faithfnlly studied. DAY SCHOOLS IN PY8NO Y ANO CITY AND DlST~ICT AND EV ANOELISTIC WORK IN' THE FI~ST nETHODIST CHURCH HENRIETTA P. ROBBINS. Christian work in Korea during the past year has made a good, healthy growth and this is particularly true of our northern <listricts. That the Christians are working with greater enthusiasm, giving of their time and strength aud money, is manifested by the increase in the church members and'school attendance, for the girls' day schools are not one whit behind the rest of the work. As our girls graduate from Ewha Haktat;lg and the Girls' Union Academy, it is possible to secure more KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 55 efficient teachers for our Primary schools and, as a result, a better grade of work. Even the Christian parents believe in adhering to the old Korean custom of considering the boys before the girls; consequently selfsupport in our girls' schools comes slowly. It is encouraging to see the interest which the -pastors and -helpers take in the education of the children and were it not for their willing help it would be difiicult to run our schools 'withou t a larger teaching force. In the Pyeng Yang school, we were most fortunate in securing M:arian Kim as our head teacher. She is one of the first graduates of our school and also of Ewha Ifaktang. She has the combined qualifications of a good teacher in that she commands the respect, love, and obedience of her pupils as well as the love of her coworkers. Altogether the past year has been the most satisfactory in the existence of our Pyeng Yang school. The total enrollment for the year was two hundred and twelve pupils. Chinnampo is second on the list in size, but for var-ious reasons there has been no increase in numbers in the large school but a marked increase in the branch school. The Pastor's assistant of that place is very faithful in looking after the interests of the school. helping with the teaching as well as helping to solve the problems. A class of seven girls graduated this spring. We have been able to secure desks and seats for the large school, thus getting the children off the floor and making it possible to secure better discipline. The growth of the Chung San school has been the most marked, its numbers having increased to fifty and the reason for the growth is probably twofold; first, because we have been able to secure a nice new building commodious enough to accomodate the fifty pupils; and, secondly, \because of the efficient work of our teacher, a young woman who recently graduated from Ewha Haktang. . , . ;56 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE The Pas:torat. Kang San has taken such an interest in the Christian education for children, that he is doing everything .inhis power to raise the standard of our schools in that .place. Through his efforts, he has induced the parents to give one dollar for every dollar raised by the missionary. By this means eighty dollars has bee~ secured to be used toward seats and proper equipmet;lt fqr the boys' and girls' schools. Also through his efforts the small boys and girls have been pu t together in one class, th,us making it possible for one teacher to do the work 01 two in connection with the little ones. The work in the schools at Ham Chong, Sam What PaiMe and Sin Kai are making steady growth. Those at Chai San Po and Pong San do not show much gr.owth. One new school with an enrolment of twenty five little girls completes the list of our girls' day schools. While my appointment for this year was primarily Day Schools, yet I have tried, whenever possible, to help in the various Bible Classes held in Pyeng Yang City and. in the country, Early in September, I went with l\1iss Benedict to assist her in the Bible Institute at Chinnampo, later going on an itinerating trip through a part of.Whang Hai province. Our experiences were many and varied, especially our mode of travel. The almost pathetic eagerness with which the women gathered for evening services after a long day of hard toil in tbe,fields made us long to give them messages which would.encourage them along life's road and help them to strive more earnestly for the meat which perishes not. The great need for~ork~rs is so 'manifest that it makes one's heart ache. I triedt~.do what 1 could to help in three other classes onthe West District. In every place we were greeted by.a large number -of women who were eager 1orstudy. Then by the time the two Pyeng Yang Bible ips~itlltes were .over, the Christmas holidays were at band with their rush and bustle Qf preparatioq. KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 57 Beginning with the New Year, I planned to help Miss Albertson six weeks in the Bible School in Seoul, but alas! on New Year's day, diptheria claimed me as a victim; but thanks to the Doctor's good services and the speedy use of anti-toxin, in three wl'eks I was almost as well as ever, so that in February I was able to help in the Bible School for two weeks and again in the spring I taught there two more weeks; also in the spring Bible Institute in Chinnampo. As the furlough time draws near again, it is with mingled joy and sorrow that I make the necessary preparations for my home-going. After eleven years in this the land of my adoption, I feel with a deeper sense than ever before that this people is my people; their joys, my joys; and their sorrows, my sorrows. PYENO 'i ANO DISTRICT EVANOBLISTIC WORK AND NE MON KOL CHURCH. RUTH E. BENBDICT. The year's work opened with a Bible Institute in Chinnampo on September first, in which over eighty women studied. The number of women who usually study there is large enough to guarantee graded work like we have in Pyeng Yang; so we started a Bible Institute 'which has twelve grades covering six years. Miss Robbins and I ·finished the month of September by taking an itinerating trip through a part of Whang Rai Do district holding a Bible class in the last place, where twenty women studied. Then during October we held Bible classes in three of the large centers on the West District the largest class hflving pfty women enrolled and the smaI1est~ twenty-seven. In November, I began teaching in the Union Girls' Academy, continuing that work through March, so that during those months my evangelistic' work was confined to Ne Mon Kol church. The work at Ne Mon Rol is most encouraging, for where we had only twenty women in Sunday School and church attendance, the KO~E~ WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 58 nUplper is now si~ty. During the Christmas vacation I held a week'.s Bible ,class ~n Ppng,San. The weather was unusually cold ,~nd stormy that week, but in spite of that Jact forty women ~tudied, some of them coming three and five .miles ,every day. And I am glad to report that the .work in Pong San is growing and they are proud of their li1:.tlechurch which they have repaired so that it is the most attractive country church which I have ever seen. '. The last of January, aft-er all the 'preparations for the (~Qrean) New Year were over, seven Bible Women went to.hold special classes. They held in all twentythr~ ~lasses in which five hundred and eighty women studied, the largest class having forty-five women enrolled and the smallest thirteen. The Bible women also did hou/,e to house work and followed it up by evening meetings. After school closed in March, Miss Robbins and I yve;n~ to Chinnampo to hold our spring Bible Institute. One hundred and seventeen women registered and the surprising nut11ber of one hundred and tour stl,ldied faithful,Iy all through and took their examinations. . An itinerating trip' through the Syo Hellng Circuit (Whang .Hai Do District) in May when I visited the twelve gr<;>q.ps o.n that circuit!. completes the year's work. . The largest village on the circuit has about three hundred houses. The adversary of souls has a firm.: grip on .that place but I hope to see his power broken and a fine large church, a girls' school and a boys' $~h9\()1 ~stablished there, since . there is only o_ne school ()n'th~t whole circuit. There is the beginning of a girls' schoQI and the leader comes pleading for help . saying th~t the parents will try to raise half the salary C?f a teacper. Another sign of gro,wtb on the circuit is the fact tn-at tl)ey want a B~ble' wpman. Four yen; .a . t110nth towardber~sfllary has ·been·pledged and J could give them hut four y~n more. The la;:;t group where we stopped . " KOREA WOMA.N'S ,CONFERENCE 59 was sma1l, it having been 'started only since the New Year. I wish that. I could give a word picture of the room in whic'h we held our evening meeting. An unfinished 'room with part of the walls mudded and part withjust the corn-stalk laths. Not even the door and window frames were in. The tiny lamp giving just .a gleam of light was typical of the spiritual light which had begun to shine in the hearts of the people. But it was sweet to know that God's power was just as great as if we had met· in a grand cathedral and his presence was especially manifested that night. The pulse of the churches on the Whang Hai Do district has quickened a little during the past year, but they are still · in great need of strong leaders to teach and help and encourage. As the work grows and the churches are able more and more to help themselves, it is my desire to have the Bible women partially supported by the Church. So instead of having, say, three Bible women for the ten circuits entirely supported by our funds, I want to place one Bible women on each circuit receiving half salary from our funds. In order to do this I need lTIOney for at least one more Bible woman. This change will take time, but it has already been done on three circuits. My personal Bible woman, Yum Chi Un, was at death's door for some weeks last fall, butGod spared her to the work and she goes on ,with the same' sweet spirit as ever, having the work very much at heart. She is splendid at house to housework and is.neverphased by opposing arguments. And she always has such a sweet message for' the, women.' She !,las helped me with four classes and held, four alane, beside taking a number of trips over the work. Of the other three Bible women under my charge, Yi Anna, who was known as Mrs. Becker's Bible woman, 'was obliged to discontinue her work in January and and we have not yet' found any, one to take her 'place. Mrs. Follwell's Biblet woman has been changed from Kim 60 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE Myeng Paik, who -became matron of the Girls' Academy, to Chun Abbie. I have used her in my class work and believe that she is doing good work. The third, Kim Myeng gti, the West District Bible woman, has done faithfully her work on three circuits and held three extra classes for me. Of course all of these women take advantage of the Pyeng Yang Bible Institutes. I feel that I cannot close without a few words of thanks for the Christmas boxes sent from Syracuse, K. Y., and Susquehanna, Pa. And as I have been traveling over passes and through valleys in going about frotn group to group trying to encourage the people, I have thought of those who made it possible by furnishing me itinerating money and I know that they would feel more than repaid if they could see how grateful the Christians are for our viSIts. PVENG V ANO UNION ACADEnV. EMILY IRENE HAYNES. In looking back over the year the feeling of thankfulness transcends all others. There have been hard experiences but in them the Father has been very near and there has been blessed communion with Him. Just befora the Christmas vacation I hec'ame ill, and \vas unable to resume my work until the beginning of the spring term in the middle of April. It was hard to lie still when there was so 4much to be done but the others of the station were so good in coming to my aid and that of the school that it almost paid. to see how kind people were. First, Mrs. Morris took all of my classes and Mrs. Krook delflyed going to Yeng B yen to care for ,me. Then Miss Snook and some of the Korean teachers and many of the girls became ill and things were in a serious condition. It was thought that we would have to close the school for a time but others came to our assistance and work went on as usual. Miss Benedict took my rooms in the' domitory and cared for all my dornlitory and school treasurer's work KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 61 in addition to her teaching, Miss Shaffer helped in the self-help department and Miss Doriss and Miss Best of the Presbyterian mission and Mrs. Bil1ings helped in the class rooms. I wish here to thank them all and also Dr. Cutler for her kind care while I was in the hospit~1. In spite of these breaks in the work we feel that it has been a good year. In March we graduated a class of seyenteen young women. twel\re of whom received diplomas and fiYe, certificates. Three of the five returned for the spring term, finished their work and received their diplOlnas. The other two were a blind girl and a cripple. The latter will probably complete her work later and receive her diploma but wa~ needed as teacher too much this spring to permit ber to return at this time. Ten of the class have been teaching this spring term. One of them went to a hard place in southern Korea and has done so well that they have asked for two more of our graduates for that school. Our self-help department has helped about fifty students. Some of these are young women abandoned by their husbands, some are widows, some are girls 'whose parents are not Christians and will not help them and others whose parents are too poor to help them. They work hard and, we believe, will appreciate their education much more for that Nery reason. Quite a success has been made of weaving rag rugs. We have one small 100m which is kept busy all the time. If \ve only had one or two more looms we could keep them busy too and it would be very profitable. \~le are still needing some one to take charge of this department. Miss Dupuy of the Southern Presbyterian mission has given just the help we need the past. few months but now she has to return to her own mission and this great problem ot caring for this department is again be. fore us. Again the dormitory bas been very crowded. The main dormitory bas been crowded to its utmost and forty pupils ha \re been in small Korean thatched houses 63 KOREA WOMA:N~SCONFERENCE . on the compound. It is with full hearts.that we thank the. New York Branch.forresponding to our.appea! and ghring .us the money for the greatly needed furnishing and equipping of our building. Things are gradually getting completed and we-hope in a short time now to have everything in first class shape in and about our recitation building. It. has. to be done gradually for we learn more and more the impossibility of U hustling the East. " A new need has heen growing, and growing very rapidly. That is for a new building smaller than the present one, for chapel and self-help department. The latter has 'Outgrown' theroo'mplanned for it and fills not only that but also the. science room. While we h 4 d no money Jor science ~quipment that room could be used all right but now how to use the same room for science classes with all their necessary apparatus and fof a sewing room for thirty or more girls at the same time when it is only twenty four feet square .is a problem. The room we use for chape~ has also to be used as class .rooms and is so crowded at chapel titne that it is impossible to seat the girls any way except on the floor, thus making it impossible to have the seats and desks so much needed for class room work. During the' school year of 1913-14 we had 184 pupiJs enrolled of whom 55 were Methodists. This spring term 189 have been enrolled. At the close of the winter term in addition to the yearly exhibit of sewitg and knitting we gave a Korean meal to the .Korean and missionary pastors and their wives. Everything was prepared and served by the girls many said it was thebest Korean meal they had ever eaten and that it showed that the girls 'were not spoiled for home lives by attendance at the schoo1. During the winter term Evangelist Kim conducted a series of e'vangelistic services-in Pyeng Yang. Our girls w,ent, each evening and received very great blessing. Hearts were searched and with many tears confessions· were made and forgiveness asked. The blessing recei¥ed at that time remains with them and there is a greater splrit of prayer 'than ever before among the girls. We trust that they" will be, a blessing in their homes this' summer. and KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 63 SEOUL EVANGELISTIC WORK JESSIE B. MARKER. I t has been a real pleasure to take up the evangelistic work in Seoul this year because we have never had enough workers to set one aside for this work before. In former years some of our workers had the Seoul work in connection with large districts but perhaps none of our work has been more neglected than this at our very door. This is particularly true of the villages near Seoul in most of which I found that the women had never once attended our big class in the city. I have attempted a good many plans trying to get hold of the ,york, some of which have been successful. At first I tried to visit all the villages just outside the city. Immediately following this itinera-ry, we had our fall class. We have united with the Southern Methodists in our class work and feel that it has been a great inspira_ tion and help to the women in both churches to be thus studying together. We had about 150 women in the fall class. It was held in our church at Chong No. In February we held .a Normal Class in the new Southern Methodist church at Su Pyo. It is our plan to hold such a class each year and to have only those women in it who are capable of conducting smaller classes in the country. We had 20 such classes held in the . little churches outside the city and they were a means of great blessing to the women in every place. Many of them said that they had never attended a class before and that they had enjoyed it so much that they wanted to come iuto our large spring class in Seoul. In these country classes the women taught in the morning, visited the hornesin the afternoon, and helped in the ev;;tngelistlc services at night. The Korean preachers were very willing to help us with the evening meetings, for in everyone of the 20 places some pastor took charge of the evening evangelistic service. 64 . KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENC~ We heard of maay good things as a result of these country classes, such as devil-worship being discontinued, people coming into the church, discouraged members being reclaimed and a greater. desire for study being born in all the women. At two of these places during the prayer service the Holy Spirit came upon the people in power, convicting of sin and leading them to make confession. They cried out before the Lord and told how mean they had been. At our Seoul spring class which was held in the Southern Methodist Church at Chakol we had 200 women. This was the best class of the year. We had a fine corps of teachers for both of our classes, a union of the best in our own and our sister mission. In addition to the larger classes, I have tried to organize weekly classes for Bible Study in all the churches. These have done better in the outside churches than the city proper. In Kong Dong Ni we had an average of 20 women studying in this class every week. We have planned our course of study covering four years in which we hope we can enlist the women at large in our churches to study. My greatest d~fficulty in this class work was to get competent teachers. My plan was to hold a training class weekly of some selected women and to let them go out and teach, but I did not find just the right women outside <ormy Bible women and they could not be taken away from their other work. I am thankful to say that this problem is solved, for Miss Alhertson has most gladly given me the use 9f her senior class on Friday afternoon of each week, and next faU this work can be started off in a systematic way. Last fall werud a little work of this nature in a few places where special help was needed. I took all the Bible women with me and,we visited in the homes until 3 P; !\-L inviting ,the women at that hour to an e~angel isticmeeting. The Bible women especially enjoyed this kind of work and great numbers came out to -the meet- KOREA WOMAN'S cONFERENCE 65 ing on ever,. occasion. The thing that has distressed me most during the year has been the lack of a real desire for study among most of our women. They have been neglected so long that they do not care to work as hard as they do in most places outside Seoul. If I am permitted to work here again next year, I think that we can accomplish more along this line, for some have already awakened and we know that better things are ahead of us. After the new class room building for Ewha is completed Miss Frey will vacate the old hospital building and let me have it for class work and for dormitories for my country women while they are in the city for the big classes. As I look over the year's work I do not feel that as much has been accomplished as I should have liked but the work has all been in the beginning stage. We trust that we can tell you a better story next year. SEOUL EV ANOELISTIC WO~K MRS. W. A. NOBLE. As it has been only three months since my return from "my aio countrie" to our beloved land of the "Morning freshness", it almost seems superfluous for me to write a report, but since there are those for whose sake I would write, even tho a brief one, this is my apology-and my report. The days havt been filled with duties, the same great \ possibilities and openings for work for the Master. I have done more reconnoitering than actually being in the full swing of work; have visited a number of the churches and Sunday Schools; led the devotions for a week in a Union Normal Class for women; taught nearly two weeks in the Bible Training School for Women. and also taught a week in the Women's Union Bible Institute. Since distances are great between most points of our work in Seoul, it generally consumes an hour in go- 66 KOREA. WOMAi'!'S CONFERENCE' ing and coming. ., I had the privilege of teaching Miss Miller's Worker's Class in Chemulpo one morning, and rejoiced in a spleo_ did welcome and reunion with our be1ov.edPyeng Yang p.eople for four days. Such tremendous welcomings certainly do the heart good. It is great to be here and I thank God for the opportunity of being able to help a little in leading this responsivepeople to Him; still, when a part of one's own life must needs be left on the other side of the great deep. one feels -that one has a part in the fellowship of His sufferings, and thai: His blessing 'will hover all. WORK AMONa THE CHINESE IN SEOUL, KOREA. MRS. C. S. DE:\H~G. As we look back over the past year our hearts are inll of deep gratitude for .the \vay in which God has led us. It is just two years' since our first little Chinese service was held in the Korean Y.M.C A. and one year since our pastor came to us. To-day we can report a church membership oftwelve, six of whom were baptized April 12th, eleven probationers, an average atte~dance of forty, and a day school with twenty two boys and six girls. Up to the- present tim~ Chinese have contributed yen 361.00; missionaries, yen 375.00; Koreans yen 12.00; and yen 400.00 was received from a lady. in the :;unday School party; making a total of yen 9!-8. In September our pastor, Mr. Li, went to· China for his ordination, retu~ning with his wife in Novelnber. An installation service wa!3 held soon after ·which was attended hy representatives of all the missions. In NONember Dr. Cbee's assistant, Mr. Chao Hyoh Pong, left us to return to China. He was one. of ourfirst converts, and.it was his earnest desire to enter the ministry. Before leaving us he was giving half his time to preaching the Gospel in the Chinese. quarters. Unfortunately his parents w.ere very angry when they heard of his conversion .and ordered him home immediat.ely.· lIe KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCB 67 went, knowing that he would be the only Christian in his village near Chefoo, and that persecution awaited him. He asked us to pray that he might be kept faithful. Some time after his return, word was received from him. His family were doing all in their power to make him give up Christ. They had taken him to a temple and beaten him when he refused to worship the idols; in his home he was a virtual ,prisoner never being allowed Ii moment alone. All letters that came for him were destroyed immediately, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that he could communicate with us. He asked us to continue to pray for him, that by faithfully bearing persecution he might be able to win his relatives. Mr. An is another of our converts who has left us. He was a well.educated young man of good family with an unusually refined face for a Chinaman. His business failed some time before he came to us, which led him to consider the uselessness of striving to lay up money on earth. He was groping after something which was eaduring, when he passed by our Chapel, and was led to enter. It was not long before he found what hesought in Christ ] esus. He. decided to enter the ministry if possible anc! dedicate his life to preaching the Gospel. Om our recommendation he. was received into the Southern Baptist Church at Li Chow Fu. Shantung,and is now studyiag in the Theological Seminary. Li Chow Fn is his own home: town. He had ttl come to. Korea to be converted, and is now back among his own people preparing for his lifework'. Mr. Syn, our c.liitl~se teaeher, returned to China witfl ~l!. An; since then Mr .. Li has carried on the scbool- himself,. assisted in the afternoons by Mr. Lu, one of our enqui~ers. OUT school, the "-Schoo} 06 Universal Love",. ha-s wona. good place' for itself during the· past year, in spite of the. fact that' aU kind oi rumors wer:e spread a broad about llS~. ClW<wen were loid that we wotllid dig out their hearts and eyes for medliciue if theJ: came to us 68 KOREA WOMAN'S ·CONFERENCE and for a long time fear kept them' away. A.few. brave ones persisted incoming, hO'wever, and proved to. the others·that tIle rumors "vere false. The .good behavior and changed 'conduct of the scholars also helped to ad.; vertisethe. schooL :. There are~ three large guilds. in Seoul, the Central or Commercial Guild, _the. Cantonese Guild, and ~the East .china,. orSonthern G.uild:as it.is called. The Cen.., iral Guild started. at the beginning of the. year to pro~ vide a good schoo, .for Chinese children .. They. engaged two teachers. and had thirtY.. pupils. The teachers did not know ho'w to teach. so the school is now ,no. more. while :many of its pupils have .come to .us. Th~ South~ ern Guild tried its hand at running a school, engaging as teacher:a man who ha'i since proved. himself ,to be mentally . unbalance~l.. They are facing '.extinction as their pupils are alL wanting. to come to our school. In order,to. "save tbei~ faces" . they are. at present.negotiating with us to see. what can be.idone to unite the. two; schools. ~We'have outgrown:·our present rented .quar., ters, and are looking. for __another larger buil4ing to occupy until .we can~buy :Qr build for ourselves. A build~ ing near the present Iocality.'is under cansideration. It will have the Chapel and school.downstairs,.and. raoms upstairs will.beused _for a Y.M.C.A. and' night school. The pastor .and his wife ;will live next door. .Thebui1ding is owned by the father of one of our pupils and he ~s willing to. let.us have it .at the. same rental as our present quarters. A delightful surprise c~me one day -during a visit. t.o Chemulpo the b~giQnirig orApril: .Word had came that Mrs .. Cbang-t.~wife oLthe Chinese consul;.-.was a Christian, a member af the Southern Metho<iist Mission in Soocll'ow.., arid it ,"'as this news which c,a.used, the visit. W.e w:an.ted~o. be;'pf.help,to Mrs. Chang., if possible. , We found. that s~e 'was doing real inissionary. .wark. ;,She and her husband had started a .schaot for the Chinese children,with the help :0£ her 'brother, Mr. Chen, a fine KOREA WOMAN'S' CONFERENCE 69 young -Chrjstian fellow recently g,raduated from Soochow University.-- Theconsul, a Hanlin Degree man, was teaching three hours a day,' and his wife three hours. They had[:forty three pupils in their school.: a large number of whom were girls. These girls all had bound feet when they first came to school;bht each m~rning Mrs; Chang took:them to her bath~oom, took off their bandages, and bathed their feet. She had to' do it for about ten mornings, after which the mothers ceased binding them-. Mrs. Cha-ng-visits in the homes of the Chinese women and does aU she can to help them live better ~ives" But neraest work is the example of a Christian wife and m other which she sets them. The Changs ana Mr. Chen were all so delighted to hear of our little U nion Chinese Church in Seoul, and promised to spend the following Sunday with us. The 12th of April Was a memorable day for us when our .first baptisms took place after one year of waiting and testing_ Mrs. Chang's- little daughter was the seventh' to be baptised. Her husband has become a Christian through her infiuence,buthe is not yet ready for baptism. ·Three weeks later our school \vas invited to visit the sch00l at Chemu1po, and spent a most delightful day,. '.Every Sunday afternoon at two a little band meets in the chapel for prayer, then two and two they go on t with tracts· and leaflets to preach the Gospel; gathering again in· the ev.ening to report their· experiences. It ls:only a little band, but they are in 'earnest and, one by their ,efforts are being blessed and .souls are being saved. We are praying for a new building which will honse,but school ahd -chapel, and~' Chinese Y.~.C.A. These young workmen-have nothing to up1ift them after work hGurs:, and' we want to provide a place in which they can spend their evenings with. aut.,harm 'to'-,:bQdy or souL We want a place of our own that will be known to ev-ery Chinaman wilD 'ert..; . ters Seoul~ arId \vhich v~riUbe a trerileridouspowet for one-,. ~OREA WOMAN~ 70 rigllteplJsIless among the~~ CONFERENCE long neglect(!d people. We }lI!liev~ 1;ha~<iod will a~swer our prayer~ if W~ faithfully the mqst of what He ht:\$ given us already. It ba~ be~n a gr~~t joy to watch th~ development of the litt1~ b~(,l of Christians, and to work quietly with them. T~y h~ v~ ~U h~cl to be~r more or less p~tty persecutipn, but ~~ Jtas ~B:de them strong and driven tbem to the Soqr~ of all Comfort. Dpting four mOIltqs-, 1;1lyd~ar mother, Mrs~J .S.Adams pf Hanyang! China, has helped tbe Church by ber pres .. ence and encourag~m~nt. p~~ ()f our neeqs at the pr~sent time is for games and pictures which will make the fl,lture Y.M.C.A. a.n ~ttractive place for yOllllg men to spend their evenings. Any gift for tqis p'~rpose will be gladly received by the writer. m~ke rHE BI~LE TR~ININO -MILLIE l\4. S.CHOOL, SEOUL. ~LBBRTSO.N. Tlle ~ible rra:~~ing $c·hool s'till ~ol\tinl,les to wander in the wilder~ess not knowing where we shall camp next year, no't knowing how w~ sh.~ll be able to stretch our tent 8.9 th~t ~~- cl,tn take ~tl an additional B;umb.er- of students; nevertheless, we do know that somehow,. someWB:Y,. we sha~ ~~V~ a hlrg~r et;lrQllment thall ev:~ before. The Korean has. ~ YV~Y of getting into an already crowd· ed r<~om. L~st faU a, YOU:T,1g woman ~a,me without haxing pr~viC?:usly applied; for admission, a distanc.e of 290 mile.s---.o.ve( seven mouBt~iJa:S. She, had walked- all of th~ w.~y. Wecoq,ld not se~q her Q~c~ for $he, was not well. In a.dditio%,1 to thP. tWQ I<efean rooms t1sed~ as kitchen aL¥l dining 1;oom,. ~~ h~ye, had, 6.v:~ la:rg¢ rooms in the h.o~p.i~al whi~l1 ha~e, me~ the t\VoQfo.ld. need of sl~ep .. ipg ~.nd; liV;i~g. rooms" a134- o( cl~ss an~:l study rooms· fot' forty fiv~ \'Xom(fn. rh~~ ha~ m~d~ th~, PJroboom of ventila.. tiop ~lqne t;n{)st d.ifficul~. Tb,e ~'tmosp1;ler~ Qf tIw a,()~e lifC:l ba~, beel): controlled KOREA WOMAN'S. CONFERENCE 71 and kept wholesome through the faithful work and influence of the two resident teachers, Rhoda and Alberta, who graduated with the first class. It has been the earnest endeavor of all teachers to impress upon the m.inds and hearts of the students their individual responsibility in doing their utmost to bring Korea to Christ. The senior and junior students have taught Sunday School classes in Seoul and surrounding districts through the year. During the winter months they conducted evangelistic services for women each week, and during the spring months, taught Bible classes for Miss Marker. Altogether they have received the names of 160 women desiring to become Christians, taught reading to 120 women, and visited in 1202 homes. One menlber from the graduating class of ten has entered the Nurses Training School, and another will remain in the school fo"r a year as-teacher. In order to give more academic work to women having had no educational advantages before coming to the school, and also to give music and Japanese language, we have lengthened th6 time of the course of study to four years. We are more than grateful for Mrs. Van 'Buskirk's help. Without hcr daily class work it would have been impossible to complete the scheduled work. She has held the love and respect of every student and led them to earnest endeavor in study. We are troly thankful to the other missionaries who; even though carrying heavy work of their own, have, through sympathy, found time to give us help in teaching. The following persons. have ta'\lght Bible books: Miss Robbins, Mrs. Billings, Miss Miller, Rev. 0, Mrs. Noble, and Miss Marker. Miss Renick has not only taught in the school, ~but has been a source of help and strength in nlany ether ways. We have all appreciated the privilege of living near the hospital and dispensary and have always found Dr. 72 KOREA WOMAN'S-CONFERENCE stewart and Miss Anderson ready to do all they could for us. The late Mrs. Gamble's gift of $10000 tog~ther with "The Lure of Korea", a gift from Mrs. Jennie Fowler Willing, Mrs. Geo. Heber Jones, and Miss AnnaM. Skeer, which is now on the market in the interest of a building for the Bible School, gives us new courage, and we look forward in the near future to an equipped build. ing and hope also for teachers enough to carry the increased demands of the work. The students no longer arise at five o'clock in the morning to pray for a building, but instead they are asking that like Solomon we may have wisdom in building; and we see, by faith, a spiritual place from which shall go out messengers carrying the word of life to those \vho otherwise would never hear of the love of Christ who died for them, too. EWHA HAKTANO, SEOUL. E. FREY, PRINCIPAL. LULU HULDAH A. GRACE HAENIG L. A. JEANNETTE WALTER OL1;VE F. PVE HARMON CHARLOTTE BROWNLEB. Growing is very desirable; but it brings its problems.. Much of our time in Ewha Haktang the past year has been taken up in trying to solve the problem of housing QUr growing family. On my return from America, I found that Miss Marker had already taken in as many girls as could be accommodated. Still applications for entrance from students on thevariou's' districts were coming in, and many of them we could not refuse, thougb we did not know w here we could room any more. We looked over the old hospital building and found that, by tearing down paper partitions and putting up others, we could pro. vide class-rooms for the preparatory and four primary grades, two more than had been taught there the year before.. This freed two class rooms in the main building KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 73 which we then used for dormitories. Soon we were again overflowing-the dining-room being. filled every night with the girls who could not find floor space in the rooms ast;igned them to lay their beds. Again we began to plan as to what we could do. In the spring, as soon as the weather would permit, the Physical Culture classes were taken to the tennis court and the room which we had called the Gym was divided'into hall, seven sleeping-rooms a.nd a dark room for the girls' boxes. We were enabled by this to provide for the overflow in the dining-room and to redeem the two class-rooms which were much needed as we were trying to teach all the classes of the grammar, high school, and college grades in seven class-rooms. Classes were taught even in the bed-rooms at the foreign teachers. This crowding is surely not good for the health of the pupils and we have had much sickness. Our most trying difficulty has been to care properly for our sick girls. Dr. Stewart has willingly treated those that we have sent to her, but three miles is a long distance to take a very sick patient by the only mode of conveyance at our disposal. Dr. VanBuskirk has also been exceedingly kind to us in times of need, and a few of our girls have been cared for in Severance Hospital. Dr. Hinman has been untiring in her eHort to help, but has worked at great disadvantage. We should have a native nurse in the . school next _year, for much of Miss Walters' time and strength has gone into caring for the sick girls. We have had no proper place in which to isolate our fever cases. One little organ room has been used in emergencies. We hope to find a more suitable place. To enlarge our dining-room is one of our next problems. For immediate need, this may be done by taking in a small porch. We are so grateful for the land which we were allowed to buy. adding enough to our compound to furnish a good site tor our new class-room 74 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE building, which is the gift of Miss Holbrook of Columbia River Branch· and is to be called the Sarah J. Simp. son Memorial, in memory of the donor's sister. The building is to have a 'gymnasium in the basement and class rooms for Primary and Middle School grades on the first and second floors, also a kindergarten and office. Thus our need for class-rooms is to be met; but I fear our cry for doqnitory room must still be heard. Our very problem of finding room is evidence of our increased opportunities for reaching the girls of Korea, winning them for Christ, and training them in His service. How can we turn them away when no other, not even non-Christian, schools are open to them for High Scho'ol and College work? Primary work opened September 1s~ both at Ewha and in the day "Schools in connection. Eleven of these are registered schools enrolling 557 pupils; and there are six others with an attendance of 126. What these day schools mean to our little churches cannot be fully appreciated without knowing something of the way the people are willing to sacrifice in order to keep them going. In some places they are willing to pay half of the teacher's salary, part or all of the fuel, and something toward f~rniture~nd supplies. All of the books are furnished by the pupils except the Japanese text;.books which are given by the government to registered schools. The interest and co-operation ot the native pastors have been' most gratifying. We are encouraged to believe that'we 'will yet see the day in Korea ,vhen. as great sacrifices will be made to -support the girls' schools as \ve now see made for the boys. The grade of these schools can only be raised by supplying trained teachers. For these we must look to Ewha .. We have used graduates from the government: schools but we do not find them satisfactory, and long for the time when we can have our own Christian girls in all thrse schools. KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 75 Our c,?urse of study is the one made out by the Federal Council of Missions and approved by the Educational Department. In Ewha this course is also used in the Primary and Middle grades, covering eight years. Above that we follow our own course which has been sublnitted to and approved of by the Educational Department. We have tried to make it as practical as possible. The Chinese character is taught, of course, as it is the foundation ot the Korean language; Japanese and English are the two foreign languages taught. Except in the College department aU studies are taught in the Korean language. Our industrial work has been carried on by a Japanese woman using the same course taught in the government school. As yet no domestic science department has been opened unless the practical work done daily in the kitchen and dining-room may be called domestic science. Kimchi making" has al ways been a part of the year's work. This year we put away 103 toks (earthen jars the size of a barre,I) of this savory pickle. We want, however, a real domestic science course adapted to the needs of a Korean home, so that our girls will make intelligent home-keepers as well as good school teachers. The time of our foreign teachers is so full that it is impossible for them to take up any new line of work. If we com~up to' government requirements, we must at least attempt to do all the things done in the government schools. Our music department under the leadership of Mi~s Harmon has done credit to the school. Our six p~ano pupils have done well and have been of great assistance to Miss Harman,' each teaching five o'rgan pupils. When we have the piano which is Of! its way to us, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kinnear of Pittsburg, we hope to develop more music teachers. Itis often a disappointment to the little church if the girls' day school teacher cannot play the organ. We are ambitious that each one of our High School graduates may know enough music to II 76 K-OREA: WOMAN'-S CONFERENCE play hymns. Listening· toJtbe singing in o~e of our country congregationswould:sllrely convince one of the need. Chorus classes' taking in the entire school have done good work. The' music recital held in December was much appreciated' by both foreigners and Koreans. A little operetta, "The "Moon-Queen," was given on the lawn on Founder's Day. Miss Walter's and Miss Pye's Physical Culture classes added to the program and the enjoyment of the afternoon. We ,vere fortunate in having as guests Bishop and Mrs. Lewis and Miss Nichols of the New England Branch, as well as our own Bishop Harris and members of the Conference. The climax of the year-we might say of five years' ,vork-wasthe graduating in March of our first college class, three beautiful Christian girls. It seems to us we can never have three better, sweeter, 'brighter girls than this first class. 'Their help since commencement in the school cannot be overestimated. Mr., F. H. Smith, missionary under our General Board to the Japanese, gave us such a ,fine address; and M·rs.Helen B. Montgomery, to whose coming we had!longlooked forward,came just in time to be with us on Commencement Day. We greatly appreciated her most interesting words addressed to the men of the· audience on,Education for the Oriental Woman.: It was well received:a'nd will'give those who heard it thought-food for many a day. Our High School class numbered only four this year, three of whom will be, teachers. Ther:e are J 51 in next year's class~'. Calls for teachers are very insistent; so we are glad for large classes. The influence of the revival in the fall.has: been felt throughout the year. Wi! had it in .connection with the one held in our church under Mr,.Kim, 'our Conference Evangelist.·' Special'meetings for the girls ·were held in the morriing~.:by O. Mo.ksawho has .helped us for three years in our revivals with great blessing. The King's Daughters Circles'under Miss Walter's care have added KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 77 much to the spiritual development of the girls. The quiet weekly.prayer meeting of the leaders have been the life of the circles. The chapel is still the place where the girls love to steal a way at bed-time for a little talk with the Master. Their interest in the missionary society is evidence of their de~ire to give to others the blessing of salvation which they enjoy. Sev~ral friends from India and China, passing through, have given the girls .delightful addresses. We hope this interest may spread, until we have auxiliaries scattered over all our districts. Miss Marker, after her association with thescbool for six years, has been greatly missed. Miss Brownlee has been added to our force and, in charge of the Kindergarten Department, has filled a longfelt need. Miss Harmon's time has been entirely taken up by her language study and the carrying out of her plans in the Music Department; Miss Haenig, Miss Walter, and Miss Pye have carried together with their langnag.estudy the heavy class work of the College with Physical Culture and drawing throughout the grades. We wish we might have workers enough so that the foreign teachers could come into closer touch with the .High School girls. This we hope may be possible when we have with us Miss Hulbert, whose coming was delayed last year by a serious case of typhoid fever, 8'l'ld Miss Alice Appenze,lIer who has so long looked forward to being home again in Korea. :We opened school in the fall with 164pupils. Bighty six new pupils have come in through the year. A few have had to leave because of sickness. We close the spring term with 220 pupils and 45 children in the. Kindergarten, making a total of 265. Of these, 94 are day scholars, .77 are pay pupils, and 84 are schol~rship girls. The enrolment for the entire year is 250; including the Kindergarten, it is 295. Receipts for the year are Y1565.89. We must not close without expressing our gratit1;1de 78 KOREA. WOMA.N'S CONFERENCE to all patrons and interested friends who have sent us Christmas boxes, :books for our library, music books, and other gifts, all of which have meant so mucb to us in the work of the year. The folding organ, the gift of personal friends, has already proved its usefulness. We hope that all may feel. a share in the joy that comes to us in this service for Him. THE LILLIAN HA~R.IS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND THE NURSES TRAINING SCHOOL. NAOMI ANDERSON. Our work at East Gate increases. of course, as the hospital becomes known among the Koreans and we are thankful to God for I1is help and blessings upon our work during the past year. Comparing statistics with last, we had double the number of patients in the same leQgth of time from January to June and we ha ve had more of the paying class than we had at ~rst. At one time we had five of the very high class women who paid two and three yen per day for their treatment. They all said they were so glad to find ,a woman's hospital to which they could come, for they said they could not go to a general hospital. At first some of the old relatives even objected to their coming to a hospital at all but whenthey came and saw that the nurses were nice, quiet, modest girls they gave their consent and also told t~ir friends to come. We try, of course, to teach the gospel to these women as we do to aU our patients, but we 'feel we must make a special effort to win the high class women while they are with us in the hospital for it is harder for the .Bible women to get into their homes and they cannot go out tocburch either because of their caste. -Our nurses have done good work> and have been faithful in their studies as well as in their wo,rk. There are some changes ill our s,taff of nurses; Nurse Hope left us and Nurse Chang, who is a graduate of our Training Sch,ool and has been in JapaGstudyin'g since graduating KOREA. WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 79 two years ago, has come to take her place. Three of the girls graduated May 28th. Yi Kyungsun will continue her work with us and Yi Lena goes to the Wonju Hospital. Yi Mary has not been placed yet but there are plenty of places wanting her. I think it is worth telling that Lena had an offer of thirty yen per month beside room in a private hospital but accepted the offer from Wonju where shc will get only ten yen beside board and room, considering it a greater opportunity to do personal work for her Master. She said if she thought of her body only the first offer would appeal to her, but when she thought of working for Jesus she knew she could do more in the Christian hospital. The hospital Bible woman has been faithful in visiting the patients every day and looking them up in their homes. The evangelistic work in the hospital is not all left to the Bible woman tho,-we try to make each nurse feel that it is her duty as well as privilege to minister to the soul as well as to the body. The Buddhist priestess of whom we told in our report last year as a patient who ·had b;}en badly burned, left the hospital cured as to soul and body. But she came back soon, saying she had left the temple and wanted to live with us and be a Christian. She had been in the temple for thirty seven years and had no other place to go to; so we took her in and gave her a home. She makes herself useful in many ways in return for her board; she washes the floors and sometimes prepares the vegetables for dinner, but we value her most of aU for her sunny face, which is a.tonic for anyone who sees her; and for her c1ea~ testimony of salvation. She loves to visit with the patients andtelt them ho'w she came to the hospital and learned of Christ; and the patients always like to see her and are helped by her beaming face and cheerful words. .One day she went to Suwon to look up a brother and tell him about the Christ she had found and one time she went with the Bible students on one of their trips where there was a 80 KOREA~ W.OMAN'S ;CONFEB.ENCE large Buddhist temple and talked with the priestesses there. Our little .blind girl who gives massage to the patients is also a sunbeam of cheerfulness, and comforts and cheers the patients as, she treats them. She also answers the telephone and tho' she i~ blind. can do so many things that she is a great help to the 'hospital. We thank God for the opportunity He has given us the past year to "minister unto His little ones in His Name" and we trust that He will bless our ·efforts and give us even' greater opportunities the cODling y~ar. We would thank aU .the friends at home who. have given their support, and for the Christmas 'boxes full of so many l1~eful things. The nineteen beautiful homemade quilts which came in the Zanesville box are espe;. cially appreciated by the. pa,tients. STATISTICAL· REPORT QF THE HOSPITAL .No.' of patients from June 1st 1913 to May 1st 1914 .. 183 " patients Christ,ia;n....... ........ .... ...... ............ ........ 69 ,',; " . non Christian ..................................... 114 ,t who decided to becom~ Christians!.................. 39 " " "" " after leaving " hospi tal.:. ............. ;... ...... . .. ... ............................. 11 " of hospjtal beds .......................................... ~. 18 " " nurses .......................................................... 10 ',,' " vis~its mf,l,¢le by Bible woman ....................... lG39 , Fee.s received.~ .............. ~ .. ~ ....... ,........................... Y 611.38 ." " . for nurses on private cases ...... ..... 101.00 EAST GATE nEUICAL WORK, SEOUL (LILLIAN HARRIS MEMORlAL HOSPITAL AND BALDWIN D.SPENSA~Y). . ,MARY S.STE\VART, M. D. There h~ :been ma-rked progress along a.ll lines;:o f our· work .. Considering that only one year has. elapsed since our new beds; were'putup, I.hardly see. bow ·we couln have done more. The. organization has heenperfected, giving ·to all our nurses and he]pers the work KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE 81 that they can do and that our new laws will permit them to do. Early in the year all physicians. were required to make a statement of their education and copies of their oiplomas and deposit these documents together with ten yen with the police. In retu'rn, all American physicians were granted licenses to practice in limited territory for fi ve years. I have Seoul only. The cliental of our clinic has greatly changed. As ,this long'line of 10,622 passed by my table and I looked into their faces and wrote their names in my book, I was reminded of the travelers in the old rhyme for "some were in rags, some in tag-s,and some in [silken] gown". To' many of the former class, we gave not only medicine but also a bath, improvised a dress on the spot, and burned the filthy, vermin-filled rags. Some cases I diagnosed as starvation and sent them to the hospital for a few days. I wish we were able to do more of this work. Of the lIsilken go,wn" class, there has been an increase. Most of these cases were gynecological, but these women came for sympathy and love, too. One of these girls-a beautiful girl, the fourth concubine of her master-told us that she was so unhappy! How she wished she could escape from her'dreadful prison! During the winter we served tea to our patients. The patients at the Govcrnment Hospital received tobacco. Upon all my out-calls this year,' I ,have taken a nurse with nle, Sonle of our experiences would nlake good 'subjects for a moving-picture show. We 'were hastily called early one morning to go upon an obstetrical case. Nurse Lena went with me. Upon examining the patient, we both exclaimed, "She is dead!" "Yes, we kno\v it, but as you are the Jesus doctor you can put new life into ber." At the home of one of the princes, whither I was called one Sunday morning, was a woman who had I I ~3I I i~rmmmli~~I)~i~ijll!~ II 9002 05441 1534 82 KOREA WOMAN'S CONFERENCE been a patient of-mine for some days. She told me she had not slept any the night before and wanted some sleeping-medicine. I prepared the hypodermic; bnt when she saw me coming, shejumped ant at the windo~v, her whole retinue of servants following like a drove of sheep. So on clown through our 286 out-calls, I could tell you many interesting items of this work. We have done' follow-up work-the nurse going back to inquire and help. At Christmas tilne we gave a dinner to 75 .of the poorest children in the neighbo~hood. Mrs. Bnnker helped, giving many ready-made garments. We gave not only a dinner but baths, too, and santonine to many. The police-with whose help these children had been selected and invited-and a private detective watched'us at work, our helpers burning the filthy rags as fast as removed. We are indebted to Dr. Fox, Mrs. Brown, and the Young Woman's Club of Pittsburg for large boxes of supplies. We feel that the Lord has greatly blessed us in our wo'rk. and pray that we may' he even mare blessed in the future. (Since the close ofCon!erence, Dr. Stewart has sent. us the following: " A new 'la w going into effect J uJy 9 states that if all physicians practicing medicine at this date will present the required documents within three months from date, ..a general license will be given. This gives us all a better outlook than the former licenseindefinite time and territory mean greater freedom for our work."-En.) KORB:AWOYAN'S CONFERENCE 83 Appointments of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Workers for 19 14- 15 BY Bishop Harris Seoul. Principal of Ewha Haktang .............. Lulu E. Frey. Day Schools ........................................ Ora M. Tuttle. Seoul evangelistic work .....................Jessie B. Marker. Instructor in Ewha Haktang and Chong No evangelistic work ........... Huldah A. Haenig. Instructor in Ew ha Haktang and Sang Dong evangelistic work .................... AJeannette Walter Instructor in Ewha Haktang and Sang Dong evangelistic work ................... Olive F. Pye. Instructor of Music at Ewha Haktang.Grace L. Harmon Kindergarten in Ewha Haktang and language study .............................. CharlotteBrownlee Lillian Harris Memorial Hospital and Bald win Dispensary ................... Mary S. Stewart M.D. Supt. of Nurses Training School and East Gate evangelistic work .......... Naomi Anderson. Bible Woman's Training Schoo1.. ....... Millie M. Albertson lnstructor in Bible Woman's Training School ......................................... Elizabeth R. Renick. Language study ................................ Jeannette Hulbert. Chemulpo. Evangelistic work in Chemulpo and Suwon Districts ... ' .......................... Lula A. Miller Evangelistic work and Day Schools on Poopyung and Island Circuits of Seoul District .................................... Hanna Scharpff. City Day Schools and language study .. Margaret 1. Hess. KORE~ WOMAN'S CONFERENCE Haiju. Evangelistic work and Day Schools . on Haiju District ........................ Gertrude E. Snavely. Pyeng Yang. Union Academy ..................·.. Emily Irene Haynes. Instructor in Union Academy and evangelistic work on Chil San Li Circuit and Sin Chun Kol Church ...................................... Grace L. Dillingham. District evangelistic work and Ne Mon Kol Church, city and district Day Schools ..................................... Ruth E. Benedict. Woman's Hospital and Dispensary and Director of Department for Blind and Deaf ......................... Rosetta S. Ba1lNt. D. Woman's Hospital and Dispensary . and Director of Woman's Medical Class ......................................... Mary M. Cutler ·M.D. o< . . . . . . . Yeng Byen. Evangelistic work and Day Schools on Yeng Byen District ......................... Mary Beiler. Evangelistic work and language study .. Ruby L. Krook. Kong Ju. Evangelistic work and Day Schools in city and on East and West Kongju Districts.............................. Alice H. Sharp. City and East District Eva.ngelistic work ..... ,......................................... Blanche R. Bair Wonju. Evangelistic work and Day Schools ... Ethel M. Estey. Furlough. Henrietta P. Robbins. Mary R. Hillman. Amanda F. HillmanM. D. ; ; StatlstlcS BibJe In= stitutes or Training Classes. Women in tbeCburcb. I Scbools for Training Bible Women. Year ending June ~, 1914. for the Vernacular and Anglo-Vernacular Boarding Scbools. Schools of College Grade, Day Schools. MEDICAL WORK. Kindergartens. E o .!: Names of Stations or Districts .. 286 I t 746 :,:j: $36 • 2 41' I . Seoul District. .. J Pyeng Yang.. 5 3 4 1207 Yeng Byen ..... 2 I I Yeng Byen Diet. 5 Hai In... ...... 2 2 Sn Won •...... I Won 20 58 293 75 950 10 533 1859 82 3 203 8 40 40 10 90 4 2 212 223 4 24 10 600 22 79 1046 397 440 517 660 15 312 N36 840 I 9 7 I006 *1 3 1 0 6 5 142 6 22 42 16 69 3 184$ 1 6 7 2 .5° 47 277.7 8 DI066.4 1 15 30 668 5 8 1601 636 805 1540 2 2 In......... I TOTAL .•... 2316 245 40 4789 273 509 4~57[ 8245 286.00 I 1. 5 0 :2 5 2 30 182 5822 91 4350 I 80 1000 136 1000 7 428 808 15 2 5 157 430 2 540 I 9 8 2 30C 5 II 179 18 85e 4 9 178 141 170 3 N5 1 In. ',' .. . .. Kong 846 1194 J . , 8 10 7 8 NIl I 18 3 8 400 101 106 7 9330 40 N= Normal Class. 5·00 J 9 i86 82 27 0 * School for Blind and Deaf, Py~ng 22 Yang. 58 t Pl'Lls 6 not rei'istered. i 136 .00 \ 5 8 190 3 3 45 100 2549 I i 2 1 30 1. 45 2 3 5 +P~rt~al records of Chong Dong Dispensary. 1;3 IS 4 48 365 r6444 377 i I 39. 2 4[ 866·99