895, and also saw the
place where they burned her body. The Japanese minister at that time
was recalled and placed on trial for the offence, and, though he
escaped conviction, the evidence of his guilt was undoubted. It has
been estimated that in about eighteen months in 1907-'08, "12,916
Koreans, called 'insurgents' by the Japanese and patriots by their
fellow countrymen, were killed by the Mikado's soldiers and gendarmes,
only 160 of whom lost their lives." This looks more like butchery than
war. Moreover, the Japanese themselves have to admit that there were
inexcusable delays in paying for land seized from Koreans, and in view
of all the circumstances it is questionable whether the Korean hatred
or dislike of Japan will become very much less cordial than it is
to-day.

Perhaps in no country in the world has missionary work been more
successful than in Korea (there are probably 125,000 Protestants now,
while there were only 777 thirteen years ago), and I have been
interested to learn that there is absolutely no truth in the Japanese
newspaper reports that immense numbers of native Christians are
leaving the church since annexation. On the contrary, reports from all
over the country are good, and Seoul itself is just now in the midst
of a most thoroughgoing and successful Christian revival, with 1800
conversions reported during the first ten days. At a Methodist mission
school I visited this morning I found that a hundred of the native
pupils had been canvassing the town a part of three successive
afternoons with the result that they had brought in the names of 697
Koreans expressing a desire to become Christians.

Here in Korea there is no waste of energy or money through {69}
denominational divisions. Each denomination has its own sphere of
activity, preventing duplication of effort, and my general observation
has convinced me that the criticisms of foreign mission work sometimes
heard in America are based on a radical misconception of conditions.
Even the non-Christians, in the great majority of cases, speak in high
praise of the splendid work of the missionaries. A typical expression
is that found in the latest issue of the Shanghai _National Review_,
now before me, which may be expected to speak impartially. Referring
to an address by Doctor Morrison, the Peking correspondent of the
London _Times_, it says:

"Doctor Morrison eulogized the work of the missionaries and we
cannot conceive that anybody who re