. Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . ecame the guestof Rev. Mr. Underwood, and was present with him when he organ-ized his small company of believers into a Presbyterian church. Itturned out that two members of this church were cousins of the manwhom Mr. Ross had trained for the work in Moukden. They hadbeen believers for six years. It also appeared that thirteen of thefourteen baptized members forming the church were converts eitherof that man or of another who had left Moukden earlier. But,adds Mr. Ross, what was most interesting to me was the assurancethat there were ove
. Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . ecame the guestof Rev. Mr. Underwood, and was present with him when he organ-ized his small company of believers into a Presbyterian church. Itturned out that two members of this church were cousins of the manwhom Mr. Ross had trained for the work in Moukden. They hadbeen believers for six years. It also appeared that thirteen of thefourteen baptized members forming the church were converts eitherof that man or of another who had left Moukden earlier. But,adds Mr. Ross, what was most interesting to me was the assurancethat there were over three hundred men of that class in the city whowere believers, but who for various reasons were not prepared pub-licly to join the church. The health of the Korea Mission ha^ been good, though bothMrs. Underwood and Mrs. Heron suffered seriously for a the blessing of God, both are now fully restored. The missionis now stronger in numbers, in knowledge of the field and of thelanguage, and in all the requisites for effective work, than it has. 136 KOREA. ever been before. Dr. Heron has had charge of the hospital, andhas also been employed professionally at the royal palace, and hasengaged to some extent in practice among foreigners, reporting allreceipts for this work to the treasury of the mission. Mr. and , in the early part of the year, made an extended tour inthe interior of Korea, where they found the way open for missionaryeffort so far as large numbers of the people were concerned, butthey also met with abundant proofs that the Korean officials werenot prepared to admit the preaching of the Gospel. Mr. Under-wood did not feel free, owing to this fact, to engage in direct andopen mission work, but Mrs. Underwood, as a practical physician,found abundant opportunity to heal the sick, and thus in a generalway allay suspicion, and win the confidence of the people. has, in the latter part of the year, been busily engagedin carrying a diction
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