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First Arrival--First Impressions--The City of Seoul--Korean Houses--Mission Homes--Personnel of Mission in 1888--Beginnings of Work--Difficulties in Attaining the Language--Korean Religions--Palace Women--First Interview with Palace Women--Entertainment Given in my Honor by President of Foreign Office--The Interdict--Confidence Exhibited by Government in Protestant Missionaries--The "Baby Riots"--Babies Reported to Have Been Eaten at Foreign Legations--Restoring Confidence--The Signal--First Invitation to Palace 1

The Palaces--The Stone Dogs--The Fire God's Defeat--The Summer Pleasure House--Royal Reception Hall--Court Dress of Noblemen--First Impression of the King--Appearance of the Queen--The Queen's Troubles--The Queen's Coup d'?tat--The Verb Endings--The Queen's Generosity--Stone Fight--Gifts--The Quaga--Poukhan--Its Impregnability--Picturesque Surroundings of Seoul--Pioneer Work--Progress of Work--The Queen's Wedding Gift--Our Wedding--Opposition to my Going to the Interior--My Chair--The Chair Coolies 20

We Start on our Wedding Journey--Songdo--Guards at our Gates--Crossing the Tai-tong--Difficulties in Finding an Inn--Korean Launderings--An Old Man Seeks to be Rid of Sin--Mob at an Inn--A Ruffian Bursts Open my Door--Fight in the Inn Yard--Pat Defies the Crowd--Convenience of Top-Knots--A Magistrate Refuses to Shelter Us--The "Captain" to the Rescue--Pack-ponies--We Lay a Deep Scheme--Torch Bearers--A Mountain Hamlet--Tiger Traps--Tigers--A Band of Thirty Conspire to Attack us--Guns Used by Native Hunters--A Tiger Story 38

Leaving Kangai--We Choose a Short Cut--Much Goitre in the Mountains--A Deserted Village--The Jericho Road--We are Attacked by Robbers--A Struggle in the Inn Yard--Odds too Great--Our Attendants are Seized and Carried Off--The Kind Inn-Keeper--Inopportune Patients--A Race for Life--A City of Refuge--A Beautiful Custom--Safe at Last--The Magistrate Turns Out to be an Old Friend--The Charge to the Hunters 60

The Mission in 1893--"The Shelter"--Opening of Japanese War--Seoul Populace Panic Stricken--Dr. and Mrs. Hall in Pyeng Yang--Heroic Conduct of Native Christians--Condition of Pyeng Yang after the War--Dr. Hall's Death--Preaching the Gospel at the Palace--The Queen Seeks to Strengthen Friendly Relations with Europeans--Her Majesty's Generosity--A Little Child at the Palace--The Slaves of the Ring--A Christmas Tree at the Palace--The Queen's Beneficent Plans--The Post-office Emeute of 1884--A Haunted Palace--The Murder of Kim Oh Kiun 106

Mr. McKenzie--The First Church Built by Natives--Mr. McKenzie's Sickness--His Death--Warning to New Missionaries--The Tonghaks--Mr. Underwood's Trip to Sorai in Summer--Native Churches--Our Use of Helpers--Christians in Seoul Build their Own Church--Epidemic of Cholera--Unhygienic Practices--Unsanitary Condition of City 123

Difficulty of Enforcing Quarantine Regulations--Greedy Officials "Eat" Relief Funds--Americans Stand Alone to Face the Foe--The Emergency Cholera Hospital--The Inspection Officers--We Decide to Use the "Shelter"--A Pathetic Case--The Jesus Man--Gratitude of the Koreans--The New Church--The Murder of the Queen--Testimony of Foreigners--The Official Report 136

The Palace after the Murder--Panic--Attitude of Foreign Legations--The King's Life in Hourly Danger--Noble Refugees--Americans on Guard--Mistakes of the New Government--Objectionable Sumptuary Laws--A Plan to Rescue the King--One Night at the Palace--Forcing an Entrance--Our Little Drama--Escape of General Yun 153

Customs Centering around the Top-Knot--Christians Sacrificing Their Top-Knots--A Cruel Blow--Beginning of Christian Work in Koksan--A Pathetic Appeal--People Baptize Themselves--Hard-Hearted Cho--The King's Escape--People Rally Round Him--Two Americans in the Interior--In the Midst of a Mob--Mob Fury--Korea in the Arms of Russia--Celebrating the King's Birthday--Patriotic Hymns--Lord's Prayer in Korean 167

A Korean Christian Starts Work in Haing Ju--Changed Lives of Believers--A Reformed Saloon-Keeper--The Conversion of a Sorceress--Best of Friends--A Pleasant Night on the Water--Evidence of Christian Living--Our Visit in Sorai--A Korean Woman's Work--How a King Acts at Times--Applicants for Baptism--Two Tonghaks--In a Strait betwixt Two--Midnight Alarms--Miss Jacobson's Death 183

Our Mission to Japan--Spies--One Korean Summer--The Queen's Funeral--The Procession--The Burial by Starlight--The Independents--The Pusaings--The Independents Crushed 201

Itineration Incidents--Kaiwha--Christian Evidences--Buying Christian Books instead of an Office--Seed Sowing--Moxa's Boy in the Well--Kugungers Again--Pung Chung--Pyeng Yang--The Needs of the Women 216

Another Itineration--Christians in Eul Yul--A Ride in an Ox-Cart--Keeping the Cow in the Kitchen--Ox-Carts and Mountain Roads--The Island of White Wing--A Midnight Meeting--Thanksgiving Day in Sorai--The Circular Orders--New Testament Finished--All in the Day's Work--The Korean Noble--Meetings of the Nobility 237

Furloughs--Chong Dong Church--Romanists in Whang Hai--Missionaries to the Rescue--Romanists Annoy and Hinder the Judge--Results--Interview between Governor and Priest--The Inspector's Report--Women's Work in Hai Ju--Death of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Miller 254

Historical Review--Korean Characteristics--Football between Japan, China and Russia--Ill-advised Movements--Unrest and Excitement--Korea Allied to Japan--Japanese in Korea--Po an Whai--Kaiwha--Railroad Extension--Japanese Protectorate--Petition to President Roosevelt--Removal of American Legation--Education in Korea--Righteous Army--True Civilization 272

Present Status of Missions--Wonderful Progress--Education for Girls--Medical Missions--Denominational Comity--Christianity Spreading--Individuals at Work--Christian Heroes--Character of Korean Christians--How the Work Grows--Christian Influence--Training Classes--Circuit Work--Statistics--Rapid Extension--Evangelistic Work--Joy and Triumph--The Nation being Evangelized 300

Pentecostal Blessing--Special Meetings--Prayer Answered--Confession of Sin--Revival in Schools--Great Meetings--Bible Study--Effects of Blessings--Transforming Power--Holy Spirit Revival--Comparative Statement of Growth--Features of the Great Work--Union of Christians in Korea 335

CITY OF SEOUL Opposite page 1

MAIN ENTRANCE TO PALACE " " 10

KOREAN OFFICIAL IN CHAIR " " 16

KOREAN STONE DOG IN FRONT OF PALACE GATES " " 20

THE KING OF KOREA " " 24

THE GREAT MARKET AT CHEENJU " " 32

SURROUNDINGS OF SEOUL " " 32

A STREET CROWD " " 36

TAI-TONG RIVER " " 44

FERRY BOAT " " 44

METHOD OF IRONING " " 48

PRINCE YU CHAI SOON, COUSIN OF KING " " 60

HIGH KOREAN OFFICIAL, KIM YAN SIK " " 60

CARRIER OX " " 64

THE OX-CART OR TALGOOGY " " 64

A KOREAN VILLAGE " " 68

A BUTCHER SHOP " " 82

BASKET SHOP " " 82

PLEASURE HOUSE " " 90

GATE IN THE WALL OF NAMHAN " " 98

HOUSE USED BY MISSIONARIES ON TOP OF NAMHAN " " 104

DESERTED ROYAL DINING HALL " " 112

MR. CHAY CHO SI " " 120

ELDER YANG AND FAMILY " " 120

PARTY STARTING OUT IN MORNING FROM THATCHED INN " " 124

CHURCH AT SORAI " " 124

THE THREE STAGES OF MAN IN KOREA " " 128

THE ROUND GATE, SEOUL " " 146

A KOREAN TOP-KNOT " " 166

RUSSIAN LEGATION HOUSE " " 172

INDEPENDENCE ARCH " " 172

KOREAN WOMEN AT WORK " " 188

SCHOOL BOYS " " 192

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