Progressive Korea

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Aug 2, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 31.

Progressive Korea

Progressive Korea.—There is no more beautiful sight in any land than that of a Christian home. In Korea there are twice as many as there were last year; homes where morning and evening father and mother gather children and servants about the family altar to offer to the God of nations homage and prayer in the name of His Son; homes where the dread demons of the heathen abodes have been cast to the moles and the bats, and Christ, and the Bible, and song, and love, and hope, and better things have taken their place. We have been in and out of these homes and have found them clean and neat and tidy. Wife-beating, a universal practise in Korean homes, has been banished. One wife told in a prayer-meeting of the changed behavior of her husband toward her. “No more drunkenness and hard, unkind words and low, vile talk. We eat at the same table, at the same time, and out of the same dishes.”—Missionary Review.

“Mem-Sahib, Mem-Sahib!” It was the voice of little Abdul calling to me from his cot. I had just tucked him away into his little bed; tucked, not only the blankets, but the mosquito netting, all down in tightly around him; for here in Calcutta, even in midwinter, the mosquitoes are very troublesome; and I had just stepped back into the bath-room for a moment. As I went to him, he pulled the netting and reached up his little brown arms to draw me close down to him, and whispered:—