First fruits in Korea; a story of church beginnings in the Far East

Preface

THIS little story is fiction, but it is fiction based upon fact. A large part of the incidents have occurred much as here described. Names have been changed, incidents which occurred at widely separated places have been localized in one place, some of the characters are composite, and the binding thread of the story is largely imaginary, but an effort has been made to picture the method of the spread of the Gospel in Chosen (Korea) as the Koreans themselves have seen it, and the ideals for which the Church there stands.

The little Presbyterian Church of Korea is already sending out its foreign missionaries in every direction. One band is working to the south in the Island of Quelpart in the Yellow Sea, one man east in the city of Tokio (largely among Korean students), two northeast in the Vladivostock territory, eight north in Manchuria, one near Lake Baikal in Siberia, and four ministers and one doctor west at the town of Laiyang in Shantung, China.

A full quarter of a million Koreans now rejoice to bear the name of " Christian." There are seventeen millions of them yet to be evangelized,

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however. These are but the " first fruits." What has been done has proved that the Gospel has lost none of its power wherever men give it the right of way. May the time soon come when all this little land may be evangelized and it may be, in deed and in truth, God's " Chosen " land!

C. A. C.

Seoul, Korea,

" The Care of All the Churches.'

Baal Worship

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