Korea by Riley Russell, M.D.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 15, 1910

Korea

By Riley Russell, M.D.

As I read the stirring appeals for men and means which are constantly made, I wonder what more can be done to stir our young people to greater activity.

We in these fields can not begin to tell of the needs; for in every direction and from every quarter we have urgent calls that we are unable to fill.

I have just finished a rapid tour among our churches, in the interest of our school; and every place I visited, the people urged me to stay longer, but I had to make the trip after the wet season and before school time.

I rode 350 li (a li is about three eighths of a mile) over cow-paths and mountain trails, walked about 75 li; and one night after the evening meeting I had about one hundred patients. They kept coming until eleven o'clock with every conceivable illness.

At one place I found a company of about thirty just out of heathenism, but rejoicing in the light of the great threefold message.

They were very anxious that some one should come and teach them; but whom can we send?

I had hoped to get away for the winter and study the language; but there is such need for a school at Soonan, and at present no one to take charge of it, that we felt our duty was very plain.

Seeing patients only in the afternoon, and making no outside calls, we ask God to help us as we try to train workers for Him and help our students to get a burden to see the work finished.

Riley Russell, M.D.