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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jun 27, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 26.

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Korea

By Riley Russell, M. D.

I HAVE just been up in the northern part of Korea, where we have interests started in two places. From there I went over into Manchuria, to the barracks of the revolutionary soldiers, and bought two Manchu ponies. They were quite wild, as they had never seen any one but Chinese. I got them for eighty roobles each, the soldiers being anxious for money. I put a saddle on one, and led the other, and we went home in three and one-half days, a distance of 500 li, or 167 English miles. Of course, this is not fast riding, but if you could see a Korean road! I suppose I crossed twenty-five hills or small mountain ranges, forded a great many creeks, and ferried over rivers.
One of the horses is for Brother H. M. Lee to use in looking after the school farm. The other is for me to use in church work, as there are about fifteen churches that I can reach from Soonan by horseback.
After one day's rest, Elder C. L. Butterfield and I started out to organize a church in Chin-Cho-Dong.
Our tithe came up quite well last year, and our churches show good, healthy advancement in all branches of work, which is a source of much encouragement to us.
I have just been having studies with a blind man who has been a Christian for seventeen years, and has a good knowledge of the Bible. He desires baptism and to unite with us.
RILEY RUSSELL, M. D.