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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 22, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 8.

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New Mission Station in Korea

By C. L. BUTTERFIELD

C. L. BUTTERFIELD
AFTER spending much time in looking for a suitable location for a mission station in southern Korea, Keizan was selected, and an acre of land was purchased Aug. 29, 1911, the anniversary of the annexation of Korea by Japan.
Brother and Sister R. C. Wangerin moved to Keizan at once, pitched their tent, which without the center is twenty-eight feet square, and began a series of meetings. They had to live in half of the tent, while using the other half for the services. Meetings were held every night for over a month, and about twenty persons took their stand for the truth.
October 23 work was begun on the house. The writer took oversight of the building, employing Korean and Chinese carpenters and masons. A good, substantial one-story house, twenty-six by thirty-four feet, containing four large rooms, closet, pantry, and two porches, has now been completed, and stands as a memorial to the truth, in front of the great Kyong San Mountain, at the head of a large valley, where it can be seen from thousands of homes.
Before the house was completed, the weather became very cold, and living in the tent was anything but pleasant. Brother Wangerin moved into the house on November 19. The tent was taken down November 26, leaving us with no place to hold meetings. A suitable building could not be obtained, as there was none large enough, so we decided to build a large Korean house on one corner of the mission property. In this our native workers can live, and, by opening the doors, we have an L-shaped room, nine by forty-five feet, in which meetings can be held.
Our workers at this station are now comfortably located in a densely populated territory. Brother and Sister Wangerin, with their little child, are the only Americans in the place; and as they and their native helpers endeavor to hold up the banner of the third angel's message, we bespeak for them the prayers of God's people, that they may win many souls to Christ in this, their new field of labor.
Seoul.