MISSION WORK IN COREA

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 53.

MISSION WORK IN COREA.

THE kingdom of Corea, at present the scene of a great conflict between China and Japan, has been open to missionary labor but a few years. The American Presbyterian Board began work there in 1884, and the American Methodists in 1885. There are now engaged within the kingdom, the Canadian Society, the Australian Society, the Southern Presbyterian Board, and the English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Those who labor in that field say that the work has been carried on under great difficulties, the mass of the people being suspicious and unfriendly. The most efficient means of approaching them has been through medical work. The hospital and dispensary, under the care of the Presbyterian Mission, has treated over 2,000 cases. The people are represented as desperately poor and corrupt, but, as one missionary says, all the more do they need the gospel of Jesus Christ. The recent war has added much to the difficulties of the work, and for a time there was much anxiety for the safety of the missionaries and the native Christians. But recent advices are reassuring, announcing that the missionaries and their property are for the most part under adequate protection.