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1st. Sunday. Cloud and rain. Steamy.
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Song Do home. Worshipped at 東門內 Church. Rain began about 3:30 p.m. and continued far into the night. Only hope it is raining so much in other places.
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2nd. Monday. Rain. Cool.
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Song Do home. Rain all last night and rain all today.
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3rd. Tuesday. Beautiful. Hot.
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Song Do home. Between 1 and 5 a.m. we had sheets of water poured down on us. 恩姬 got scared and I couldn't sleep.
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4th. Wednesday. Cloudy. Cool.
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Song Do home. Rain from
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5th. Thursday. Cloudy. Steamy.
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Rain. last night―another fit of down pour from 2(so far as I know) to 5 a.m.
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Left Song Do with children 2:25 p.m. train for Seoul. Found all well. Rain again from 9 p.m.
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6th. Friday. Sunshine p.m. Hot.
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Seoul home. Rain has continued only about 3 weeks but the damages done to life and property all over the country are reported to be unprecedented. Our farms in 忠南, 洪川, 京畿 have suffered much.
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The 朝鮮日報社 has built a firm looking house for the paper at the cost of ￥ 100,000.00 or more for the land and the building. The latter costing more than ￥ 40,000.00 hasn't been paid for. Messrs. 申錫雨 and 崔善益, want me to lend them ￥ 10,000.00 on their joint note. They don't believe me when I tell them I have no money to spare to that extent. Why did they incur a debt at all which they couldn't well meet?
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7th. Saturday. Cloudy. Steamy.
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Seoul home. Sunshine p.m. Mailed letter and cheque600(00/100) to 致昌.
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8th. Sunday. Cloudy. Steamy.
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Seoul home. Worshipped at 宗橋 Church.
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9th. Monday. Cloudy. Steamy.
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Left Seoul 1:05 p.m. for Song Do with mother, 恩, 明, 寶, and 璋善, 琦善.
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10th. Tuesday. Cloudy a.m. Sun from 3 p.m. Steamy.
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Song Do home. Misty rain in the morning. Cloudy and steamy threatening another fit of sleet water rain but about 3:30 p.m. The dark clouds gave place to a sunny afternoon and a starry night! May our lives, racial and individual, be like this, so full of worries and anxieties and threatening storms now, to be turned into sunshine of peace and joy!
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Wife, 文姬 and 瑛姬 joined us this morning from Seoul.
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11th. Wednesday. Cloudy a.m. Sun p.m. 3 p.m. on. Hot.
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12th. Thursday. Rain. Steamy.
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Song Do home. A short but scaring thunderstorm from 8 to 9 a.m. Cleared up for the p.m.
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13th. Friday. Rain most of the morning. Steamy but not hot.
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14th. Saturday. Beautiful p.m. Hot.
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Rained from the earliest hours this a.m. to 7 in Song Do. Left Song Do 8:10 morning Express for Seoul. No rain in Seoul during last 3 days, they say.
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Returned to Song Do 7:10 p.m. Express.
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First pretty starlit blue skied night we have seen in two months.
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15th. Sunday. Sunny a.m. Hot.
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Song Do home. Very hot and steamy.
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16th. Monday. Rain from early hours a.m. Cool.
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Song Do home. Very close and hot last night. Rain from about 3 a.m. on and off most of the day.
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17th. Tuesday. Rain all morning from 2 on. Cool.
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Song Do home. Rain, rain, rain!
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This morning Mr. An Jai Hong came to see me asking me to lend ￥5,000.00 to the 朝鮮日報社, When I told him I have a dept of ￥10,000.00 on account of 彰文社 which I haven't paid and that as the Company is engaged in a law suit with uncertain future I must be prepared for any financial responsibility, he actually said: "I know all that: I want you to have a little more 苦痛 in addition to what you are having on account of the 彰文社". I didn't ask him why in the name of common sense they have incurred a debt―building a new house etc.―which they saw no way of meeting. Koreans especially the Korean young men live on vanity―making others to pay for their vanity at that.
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18th. Wednesday. Clear but cloudy. Steamy.
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明姬 began to be ill with pain on her neck. Precious child, she seemed to enjoy her holidays so much. She is one of the sweetest tempered children I have. Everybody loves her.
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19th. Thursday. Sun. Hot.
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Left Song Do 2:25 p.m. train for Seoul. Went to the station to meet Bishop Ainsworth and his wife. I met him sometime in May 1910 in Macon Ga., when he was the president of the Wesleyan College.
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20th. Friday. Sun. Very hot.
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Couldn't sleep last night on account of the great heat and bed burgs.
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Left Seoul 4:35 p.m. train for Song Do. Found 明姬 a little better.
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21st. Saturday. Sunshine. Very hot.
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Song Do home. 文姬 left Song Do for Seoul by 2:25 p.m. train.
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22nd. Sunday. Sun. Hot.
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Song Do home. Worshipped in the East Gate Church. 金鍾弼, a theologue from 關西學院 Kobe preached.
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23rd. Monday. Sun. Hot.
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Song Do home. 金忠鎭 is a teacher and the treasurer in Mrs. 金貞惠's school. I thought he was an honest man. But Miss 魚允儀 tells me that he is notoriously unreliable in financial transactions. This man is a leading man in the 東門內 Church. No use complaining at the feebleness of the Christian church when Christians, even pastors and elders are looked upon as undesirable customers and tenants because of their lack of business integrity.
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24th. Tuesday. Sun. Hot.
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Song Do home. Rain last night.
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奉 called this afternoon. He is one of the finest looking young Koreans I have seen. He was some years ago snatched out of the very jaws of the police who had him for some political offence by Miss 魚允儀. She adopted him as her son and out of her scanty earnings she enabled him to finish his education in Tokyo. I helped him to the amount of ￥200.00 or more. He has been teaching in one of the mission girl schools in 宣川. He tells me that a month ago, the 勞動組合 of 宣川 had a dispute with the missionary who has the charge of the 神聖學校 for his having given a contract to a Chinese instead of a Korean bidder.(continued next page)
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25th. Wednesday. Cloudy. Hot.
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Song Do home. Rain again morning.
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(Continued from the last page) The upshot of the quarrel was the attack on the missionaries' homes by the members of the Worker's Union, so called. They broke the windows and threw stones at Rev. Peter and his wife whose elbow was injured. Some sad but significant facts about this affair.
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1. The police not only did nothing to restrain the mob, but was caught in the very act of suborning them by the discovery that the wording of the anti-missionary bills scattered by the crowd had been written for them by the police.
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2. Worse still inspite of the fact that 宣川 has long boasted to the strongest Christian centre in Korea. The rank and file as well as the leaders of the churches did nothing to help the missionaries or stop the mob. There were four or five Korean teachers in the school but they didn't go to the aid of the Principal who was in such a distress.
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3. Worst of all, the majority of the mob was composed of the members of the churches, many of whom are officials. Too bad!
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26th. Thursday. Sun. Hot.
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With family left Song Do 2:25 p.m. for Seoul.
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27th. Friday. Sun. Hot.
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Seoul home. Rain last night.
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28th. Saturday. Sun. Hot.
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Left Seoul 8:05 a.m. train for 平壤 for the Y. Summer Conference with Mr. Cynn. Arriving at 平壤 about 4 p.m. was met by Messrs. 曹晩植 and 金東完. Went at their invitation to a restaurant(洋食堂) . The food was poor and the place dirty but we enjoyed the coffee. The owner of the restaurant spent several years in New York. Why doesn't he manage the concern with more care?
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The Conference held at 崔長老(致良) 's home on the band opposite to 浮碧樓. The river as muddy as the yellow river on account of the last rain. A great pity.
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29th. Sunday. Sun Hot.
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平壤. Gave a talk on the New Ideals of the Youth of the World and the Message of Christ at 10:30. After lunch left 平壤 per 3:13 p.m. train for Seoul.
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30th. Monday. Cloud and sun. Hot.
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Seoul home. Lunch at Y. with 恩姬, 明姬, 璋善 and 琦善. Took them to 漢江 and gave them a hour of boat riding. They seemed to enjoy it
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This morning with 恩, 明, 璋, 琦, 寶, called on Bishop and Mrs. Ainsworthe. Learned from him that my beloved Prof. W.B. Bonnell had passed away in 1912. The last time I saw him was in May 1910.
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31st. Tuesday. Sunny. Steamy hot.
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Seoul home. No sleep last night on account of heat and bedbugs.
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