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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 10, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 28.

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General Quarterly Meeting in Northern Korea

By C. L. BUTTERFIELD

C. L. BUTTERFIELD
JANUARY 2, in company with Dr. Riley Russell, it was the writer’s privilege to ride on horseback from Soonan to Sa Kwara, a distance of thirty miles, to attend a general meeting for this section. We feared a very cold trip, but the sun shone out warm enough so that the snow melted a little, and while it was harder for the ponies to travel, it was pleasant for us riding.
There were about ninety in attendance at the meeting, representing three churches and seventeen companies. Reports were read from each place, showing the condition of the churches. Some of the encouraging features of the reports were as follows: From the eighteen places only six persons were reported as being discouraged, while sixty-two new believers were reported for the past three months. About seventy are awaiting baptism. The present Sabbath-school attendance numbers more than six hundred. From ten of the eighteen places tithe was paid during the quarter, amounting to 150.05 yen. All present promised to pay tithe from this on. Sabbath-school offerings were reported from all but one place, totaling 57.22 yen; and annual offerings were reported from eight places, amounting to 97.42 yen, making 304.69 yen as the total of funds raised. These figures are much better than we have had in the past. The general quarterly meeting is proving a great help also.
God has certainly blessed the work in Korea during the past year, and our people are more firmly established in the truth than ever before. Three of our magazine workers were in attendance and gave reports of their work, which showed that they were selling from twenty to fifty of our five-sen magazines daily. That is very good, and when we consider that three years ago these same men declared that papers could never be sold in Korea, we feel to thank God for the success they are having in giving the message through the printed page. Pray for the work in Korea.