. Every-day life in Korea;. 6, Rev. Dr. Reid, the well-known Chinese missionary,came as the advance-guard of the AmericanMethodist Mission, South. We have a roll of honor in Korea—those whohave been summoned to a higher service and aricher life in the realm beyond the grave. Therewas Miss Anna P. Jacobsen, the trained nurse,with all the splendid fire and courage of herViking ancestry; and Hugh Brown, , full ofsturdy strength; and John W. Heron, , thesoul of fidelity and honor—one whom all hisfriends loved as strongly as a blood were members of the Northern Presbyte-
. Every-day life in Korea;. 6, Rev. Dr. Reid, the well-known Chinese missionary,came as the advance-guard of the AmericanMethodist Mission, South. We have a roll of honor in Korea—those whohave been summoned to a higher service and aricher life in the realm beyond the grave. Therewas Miss Anna P. Jacobsen, the trained nurse,with all the splendid fire and courage of herViking ancestry; and Hugh Brown, , full ofsturdy strength; and John W. Heron, , thesoul of fidelity and honor—one whom all hisfriends loved as strongly as a blood were members of the Northern Presbyte-rian Mission. There was also the AustralianPresbyterian missionary, Rev. John Henry Dav-ies, who gave the promise of becoming the bestall-round missionary in the land; and the tall,swarthy Presbyterian brother from Nova Scotia,Rev. William J. McKenzie, the successful advo-cate of native self-support; also William J. Hall,M. D., of the Northern Methodist Mission, the saint-liest man that ever crossed the shores of A Member of the Official Class. LEAVES OF MISSION HISTORY 133 There has always been a marked spirit ofcomity among the missionaries of Korea. TheMethodist and Presbyterian missions, founded atabout the same time, grew up together like twochildren. They had much the same expei-iences,and in a number of ways they united their missions coming into the field at a laterperiod imbibed the same fraternal spirit; and thewhole work has thus far been conducted along thelines of certain well-marked, though imwritten,rules of comity. While the polic} of the missionswas still in a formative state, it was impossible forall to see eye to eye, but in those days the lines ofcleavage ran nowhere near to the denominationalwalls. For instance, this was the case at the timewhen we were threatened with the transplanta-tion of the term question to Korea. Thiscontroversy originated two hundred years agobetween the Jesuit and Dominican missionariesin China. When the Protes
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