The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 27, 1950 Page: 3 of 20
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Mt Man Wul Chung, Kaeaunf,
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Dear Main bare of the Graham
Methodist Church: This finds us
thoroughly enjoying ourselves in
• our work. One Of the good things,
and perhaps one of the bad as
well, about missionary work is that
H is difficult to draw the line as
to where It begins and ends. We
teach, study, and visit all day long
and spend part of the nights do-
ing the same thing. Often it is
rather difficult to find time to do
other things—at least to do them
when one wants to do them. Un-
fortunately the Koreans have had
little training regarding the value
of time, but their seal more than
makes up for this defect
As I have told you on previous
occasions, most of our work is done
with students. In Korea, students
are a special class of people who
are permitted certain privileges
and who are discriminated against
in certain ways. Since Korea is a
country with such strong tradi-
tions, wa feel that the best work
to he done in Korea is among the
youth. Here, as in America, the
youth are least affected by the
different customs and meres o 1
society. We feel that hour for hour
of instruction and dollar for dollar
of money spent on tho youth will
bring more results than the tame
amount spent on tho older genera-
tion. Of course, the older people
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are not being neglected—this is
merely a matter of emphasis and
wa have chosen at present to em-
phasise the youth. I say, at pres-
ent, because as soon as I leave
Educational work this spring an<l
Itake up Evangelistic work, then
I will have more opportunity to
work more directly with the
churches of this district, and of
course this type of work touches
people of all agea.
For the students, this the thn-;
to bo especially diligent. Student-*
who are graduating this year must
think not only about then- school
examinations, but also college and
university entrance examinations
as well. The latter are conducted
on a competitive basis. Only a cer-
tain number of students may at-
tend colleges and universities this
year no matter what their overall
quality may be. Needless to say,
competition is fierce. To mako
.matters worse, the students are
told in advance the subjects on
which they will be tested. This
practice leads to mass memorisa-
tion of certain books dealing with
the subjects about which ‘they
know they will be tested. The stu-
dents who are now in the sixth
year, that is those who will gradu-
ate this year, have already ceased
to attend school—they are too busy
studying. Their own school exam-
inations are two months away, as
are most of their entrance exam-
inations, yet some of the students
that we know personally are al^
'ready studying anywhere from
fourteen to eighteen hours a day.
I am convinced that theirs is a
kind of studying that is almost
unheard of in America. Most of
the students seem to foel that,
•'It’s now or never," for them. If
they do not make the grade now
jthen they have no more chances.
Unfortunately, also most of the
students want to attend college
but very few of them will get tho
opportunity.
Yesterday morning as we were
eating breakfast, a student camo
to the door of our house. At first
neither of us recognised him, but
when I opened the door I « uld see
that he was one of our old friend*,
He -is a sixth year boy and has been
studying eighteen* day for
the past month. His face was so
swollen' from lack of sleep that 1
had to take a good look to know
who he was. This, I hope, will
help to give you some idea of
what the students of Koran have
to face in the future. The students
are diligent, but moat of them have
no conception of what it means to
have faith in God. They are not
oppoaed to God, at least not open
lv, hot most of thorn know noth-
ing of God's rellvanee in their lives.
But we have seen some radical
changes in the lives of- some of the
'Student* that we have known even
in our comparatively short time in
Korea.
We have some very good news
about a projected work exmp for
Korea this summer. For some time
now we had been working with a
humber of committees dealing with
a work catnp. At last the site of
Ithe work camp was agreed upon.
The work ramp is to be a refuge?
The Korean government has giver,
'housing project in Taichuu Korea.
126 acres of land, the Presbyterian
'mission will loan the money for
working tools, and the Federal
Council of Churches has rontrib-
$300 toward the food budget.
The latter item had been a ques-
tion upon until quite recently. Wo
bad been going on with our plan-
ning and sending the minutes of
our committee meetings to tht
Federal Council, but until about
two weeks ago, we did not know
whether we would have any aid
or not. According to present plans
the various denominations repre-
sented in Korea are to have repre-
sentation in the work camp in pro-
portion to their numbers. We also
look forward to having representa-
tives from the Philippines and Ja-
pan. We are very optimistic about
the overall picture and we are
placing /a great deal of faith in the
good that we hope and pray will
be accomplished. This will give the
Korean youth their first real pic-
ture of interdenominational inter-
racial and international coopera-
tion among Christinas. This will be
Korea's, lint work esmp and
among the first to be held in Asia.
The first work camps in Asia were
held last yea rin Japan as yon
will perhaps remember. France/
and I have been appointed to be
the work camp directors, a posi-
tion which has already given ox
some idea of the great amount uf
work involved in getting a project
of this type into readiness In the
first place, part of the food must
be ordered from America, and that
has to be done rather early since
shipping is so uncertain. We plan
to have about forty .in, the work
camp in all in addition to visitors.
We have been rather bothered
recently with people coming to
our doors and asking for food and
clothing. Inflation continue! to
take its tole of the diminishing
purchasing power of the average
Korean’s meager wage. At first
we gave them food from our own
pantry but that practice only prov-
ed too expensive so we had to give
it up. We try as much as possible
to give them things now that we
do not need but we have just about
hit bottom there also. We give out
a lot of old clothes to the very
poor, but recently they have been
asking for food every day. The
E|.C.A. program is doing a lot of
good for Korea in helping her set
up her industry and in getting ex-
port products with which to trade,
but at the same time all of this
has tended to add to the already
inflated Korean Won. In this city
about fourteen people have starv-
ed to death in the past month that
we know of. And of course thie
is only part of the story; in the
missionary hospital here in Kao-
sung patients almost invariably
have to be given blood transfusions
before they are strong enough to
undergo operations. It seems that
the great masses of these people
live just about one step ahead of
actual starvation.
Recently we received a notice
that the Wesleyan Service Guild
of the Grahain Methodist Church
had given ua $26. Needless to say
we felt extremely happy to receive
Arthur Wefcern,
78, Dies In Obey
Hospital Saturday
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Arthur Wilborn, 78-year-old re-
tired farmer, died early Saturday
in an Olney hospital.
A long-time resident o.' Young
county, Wilborn had been in ill
health several years and bad been
confined Xa the hospi'al since
Feb. 10.
Survivors include five sons,
Ernest and Bee Wtibom. both bf
Olney; Edgar Wilborn of Devine,
Texas, and James and George
Wilborn, both of Fort Worth, and
three daughters, Mrs. Eurl Per-
kins of Olney, Mrs. Mike Ham-
monds of San Antonio and Mrs.
Ray Barr of Throckmortoji
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• THI GRAHAM LCADER, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, I9S0
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such a- gift and we would like to
!take this oppoortunity to express
to those who gave it our sincere
thanks. The Graham Methodist
Church has [given us so much al-
ready that we can never repay.
We do thank all of you for your
thoughtfulness gven though we
feel that you Have given ift more
'than we deserve.
We extend our warmest thanks
to you for all that you have done
for ua with the prayer that we
shall be able to carry on the work
of spreading the Good News. r
Sincerely yours, Lawrence and
France* Zellers.
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