The Self-Supporting Church in Korea
Seventeen years ago the first Protestant missionary arrived in Korea. The following year the first convert was baptized, and one year following the first Protestant church—Presbyterian—was organized, with twenty members. To-day Korea has over twenty thousand men and women who have cast away their idols, and worship God. The zeal and genuineness of Korean Christians in building churches and spreading and supporting the gospel is a lesson to older Christians. A peculiar feature of the work in Korea is that it is self-supporting. No missionary in Korea at the present time has a single pastorate. The majority have all the way from fifteen to thirty churches under their care, the natives carrying on the local work.