p. 16 | The Spreading Fire in Korea

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1907

The Spreading Fire in Korea

THE religious awakening in north Korea continues, and many marked conversions are recorded. In Pyeng Yang, a sorceress, who had practised her art of deception for many years, has believed and given up her former occupation. A man eighty years old, who, by reason of his lineage and age, was the recognized head of the Confucians in that part of the country, had a son who has long been a Christian and a church leader. The old gentleman had steadfastly refused to accept the gospel, but now his conversion and acknowledgment that he had been wrong all these years is a joy to the Christians and a dismay to the Confusianists. The hundreds of conversions are not due to the sudden impulse of excited emotions, but are deliberate decisions after careful consideration.— Selected.