A modern pioneer in Korea : the life story of Henry GAppenzeller . e threewarring states were fused into one kingdom ofKorai, Buddhism had become the faith of the massof people. From Quelpart Island to the EverWhite Mountains, Korea gained religious as wellas political unity. Diuing this period of a thousand yeara of Bud-dhisms establishment and expansion, Korea enjoyedher most brilliant era of prosperity. Those monu-ments of skilled labor, in the cutting and rearingof stone tablets, pagodas, astrononaical observa-tories and other structures, the ruins of which HtterKorean cities, colossal ima
A modern pioneer in Korea : the life story of Henry GAppenzeller . e threewarring states were fused into one kingdom ofKorai, Buddhism had become the faith of the massof people. From Quelpart Island to the EverWhite Mountains, Korea gained religious as wellas political unity. Diuing this period of a thousand yeara of Bud-dhisms establishment and expansion, Korea enjoyedher most brilliant era of prosperity. Those monu-ments of skilled labor, in the cutting and rearingof stone tablets, pagodas, astrononaical observa-tories and other structures, the ruins of which HtterKorean cities, colossal images, carved out of graniteand still rearing their imposing forms above theforest that covers the overgrown debris of whatwere once monasteries, temples and cities, showwhat the Koreans could do when in the full strengthof faith and the energy of belief. The almostutter absence of artistic memorials after the fallof Buddhism and the devastations of hostile armiesin ruthless invasions from Tartary, China and Japanhave left the country scraped so bare, that travel-. Mans Korea—Realities of Life 33 lers of to-day doubt and wonder whether they everexisted. Contemporary records, however, are richin their testimony as to Koreas former prosperityand comparatively high grade of debt to Korea, in the gifts of peace and theloot of war, is written large. Nevertheless the pride, insolence and intrigueof priests at coiut, when the state religion of Koreaexisted for parasites to fatten upon, invited revolu-tion and disastrous overthrow at the hands of arevolting general. After a brief civil war, in 1392,Buddhism was supplanted as the religion of thecourt and put under disgrace and ban. Thoughsome writers view this change as a national upris-ing worthy of aU praise, it is none the less a factthat the common people of Korea, deprived of theirpastors, were left as sheep without a religious experience of no nation more thanof Korea illustrates more strikingly th
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