Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1918 — Growth of a Korean Church. [ARTICLE]

Growth of a Korean Church.

Sherwood Eddy in the course of his various trips to th? Far East has had opportunities of seeing some striking changes. The following is his story of the development of a Korean church: "Twenty years ago when I first went to Korea, I stopped in the little town of Pyeng Yang and visited a church, It had seven members; it met in a mud hut about ten feet square; it could, hardly be called a church. .The last Sunday I was there (1915) I saw 1,500 members filling every seat on a rainy Sunday. They were so busy that they had no time to fiear a foreigner speak. Eight hundred of them were out to prayer meeting every Wednesday night, and all of them wished to pray. Already they, have sent out forty-two branch churches. They have the membership at the home church, and that membership increased from the original membership of seven until they have sent out 30,000.”