THE following is taken from a letter by H. G. Underwood to the Occident; it shows what the gospel is doing in Corea, and the kind of missionary field it is:— Just now I am in Japan having some printing done, and as I have passed through this land and seen the happy, cheerful dispositions of the Japanese, I have felt that indeed the Coreans need the gospel. How many are there of them? is a question right to the point and that should be answered. In Corea the native census is taken once in three years. A yearly house-tax is levied over the whole land, and once in three years the magistrate of each district must report to Seoul the number of houses in his district, that the amount of house-tax to be paid into the government treasury may be known. It is thus to the interest of the magistrate to send a true report, and it is said that the last calculation was based upon this official report, reckoning an average of five persons to each house, and giving a return of twelve millions of people. To all these how many missionaries are there?—Reckoning all, men and their wives, with all the new ones just arrived or on their way, there are just twenty-five, or about one to every 500,000 people. Corea has now been open since 1882. In 1884 the first Protestant missionary was sent, and yet at the end of 1889 there are now only twenty-five in the whole land, of whom almost a half came within the last thirteen months. Now what has been done? We bless the Lord that the results have been far in advance of all that we could expect or hope for, and not in any way in proportion to the paucity of the laborers. In the Presbyterian Church at the end of the first year our first convert had not been seen. We had come to sow seed, and had hardly dared expect to see fruits so soon. Japan had to wait six or seven years for the first results. In July of the second year, however, the Lord permitted us to see the first convert baptized. At the end of the third year our numbers were about twenty. Steadily they increased, their interest grew, the members were zealous, and at the close of the next year there was a revival, and before the year ended the little band was almost sixty. Another year of steady progress was granted to us, and to-day the company numbers over a hundred baptized Christians, besides over half as many more who have applied for baptism, and profess themselves Christians, but have been urged to acquaint themselves more fully with God's word. And this takes no account of the numbers about whom word is continually reaching us from distant parts of the country, who, having received the printed word, send and tell us of their faith in the "one God and the Father of us all," and in his Son Jesus Christ.