Six Korean Leaders

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 31, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, Nos. 43, 44.

Six Korean Leaders

In "Korea in Transition," Dr. Gale tells a wonderful story of six Korean leaders whom the old emperor had locked in his criminal prison because he feared they wanted to introduce reform along Western lines. They were put in without trial, made to work hard, suffered from cold, ill treatment, vermin, and filth, and were in constant fear of execution. They had proud blood in their veins and a deadly desire for vengeance in their hearts. They hoped for escape, for the opportune moment, the keen knife and the squaring of accounts, when all unexpectedly there came into their midst the New Testament, Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress,' and some of D. L. Moody's tracts, in Chinese. Their prison was visited regularly by Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Bunker, and became first an inquiry room, then a house of prayer, then a chapel for religious exercises, then a theological hall; and when the course was completed, God let them all out of prison and set them to work. With their high social standing and superior training they became the first Christian leaders of the capital."—Bombay Guardian.