The Book in a Korean Village

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 8, 1906

The Book in a Korean Village

THE following incident appears in the report of the annual meeting of the British Bible Society, held in London:—

“Mr. Ritson roused intense interest by exhibiting a copy of St. Matthew's Gospel in Korean, which he had received a fortnight ago with a letter from a missionary in Korea. This missionary wrote from a village near Songdo, where he had gone to receive fourteen Christians into the church. No missionary had ever worked in that village, but seven years ago a native Korean named Pak had bought that identical Gospel at the Songdo depot. He had kept his accounts on the back of the volume; and afterward it lay hidden in dust and dirt for five years, until it was brought out and read and lent round the village. And through the reading of that single copy of the Gospel, fourteen persons had given their hearts to the Lord Jesus Christ.”