KEYNOTE— May the Korea Movement mean as much 
 for the spiritual uplift of the Church in America as it 
 means for the financial uplift of the Church in Korea . 
 
 KOREA 
 
 TEN 
 
 Outstanding and Compelling 
 
 FACTS 
 
 The Korea 
 
 Quarter -Centennial Commission 
 
 Bishop Earl Cranston, President 
 Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks Bishop M. C. Harris 
 Vice-Presidents 
 
 George Heber Jones, Executive Secretary 
 Dillon Bronson F. H. Sheets 
 Secretaries 
 
 James Monroe Buckley 
 R. F. Raymond 
 
 C. E. Welch 
 Frank L. Brown 
 Charles Gibson 
 John F. Goucher 
 George Clarke Peck 
 J. Sumner Stone 
 Allan MacRossie 
 
 D. F. Pierce 
 Charles Parkhurst 
 Robert E. Jones 
 J. J. Wallace 
 C. M. Levister 
 J. H. Potts 
 
 A. B. Leonard 
 Hanford Crawford 
 T. D. Collins 
 Frank A. Horne 
 G. W. F. Swartzell 
 George P. Eckman 
 Albert J. Nast 
 Charles M. Stuart 
 Lynn H. Hough 
 Freeman D. Bovard 
 Levi Gilbert 
 Claudius B. Spencer 
 L. H. Pierce 
 Stephen J. Herben 
 William Downey 
 
KOREA— TEN OUTSTANDING TACTS. 
 
 The Korea Quarter-Centennial Commission calls 
 the attention of the Church to the remarkable 
 history of our Mission in Korea and the time- 
 liness of the Movement to place our Mission Sta- 
 tions in that country on the basis of immediate 
 efficiency. The following ten outstanding and 
 compelling facts indicate the urgency. 
 
 TACT ONE. Korea is to-day one of the very 
 ripest of our mission fields. A national mass 
 movement into the Faith is under way and, if 
 taken advantage of, promises to result in the 
 speedy evangelization of the people. The total 
 Christian population in Korea in 1910 was ap- 
 proximately two hundred and fifty thousand, 
 being an average of more than one convert an 
 hour for every hour of the day and night since 
 the first missionary set foot on Korean soil 
 twenty-five years ago. 
 
 FACT TWO. Korea has passed through a re- 
 markable revival resulting in a wonderful deep- 
 ening of the spiritual life of the Church. Fol- 
 lowing this revival the Christians during 1910 
 conducted a great evangelistic campaign which 
 carried the gospel message to a million Koreans 
 and brought thousands of converts into living 
 relationship with our Saviour. 
 
 FACT THREE. During the month of October, 
 1910, a determined effort was made to capture 
 Seoul, the capital, a city of 200,000, for Christ. 
 The city was divided into fourteen parishes and 
 a band of fifty volunteer workers in each one of 
 these parishes visited every house, once a day 
 for six days in succession, talking with the peo- 
 ple and inviting them to come to Christ. Every 
 
theater and public hall was hired for the entire 
 month, thus securing a monopoly of the public 
 meeting facilities of the city. A column a day 
 in each one of the six daily newspapers was se- 
 cured and filled with information about our Lord 
 and His Kingdom. As a result of this work dur- 
 ing the first two weeks of October 7,000 residents 
 of Seoul gave in their names as desirous of be- 
 coming followers of our Lord. 
 
 FACT FOUR It is proposed to follow this 
 campaign with a thorough canvass of the prov- 
 inces, strong teams of workers spending two 
 weeks simultaneously in each of the thirteen pro- 
 vincial capitals. This will be followed bj f the 
 simultaneous campaign in each of the 330 county 
 seats, through which bands of workers will spread 
 into all the remaining towns and hamlets of the 
 country, thus by a concerted effort reaching 
 every Korean home in the peninsula. 
 
 FACT FIVE. By agreements with other mis- 
 sions Methodism has now become directly respon- 
 sible for the evangelization of territory in Korea 
 containing more than three million people, a num- 
 ber almost equal to the entire membership of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. In 
 this vast parish we now have, including physi- 
 cians and educators, twenty men at work, being 
 one foreign missionary for 150,000 of the popu- 
 lation, which would be equivalent to locating one 
 Christian leader in a city the size of Denver, 
 Colorado. 
 
 FACT SIX. Within the short period of 
 twenty-five years our Church in Korea has grown 
 to a total of over sixty thousand members and 
 probationers. Stations where foreign mission- 
 aries reside have been opened at six important 
 
centers. An Annual Conference has been organ- 
 ized with thirty-four ministerial members and 
 twenty-one probationers and the Conference in- 
 cludes seven Districts with over four hundred 
 organized congregations and more than one thou- 
 sand preaching places. The Quarter-Centennial 
 year was signalized by the first appointment to 
 the District Superintendency of a Korean minis- 
 ter and the sending of a Korean missionary, sup- 
 ported by the Korean Churches, to work among 
 the Koreans in China. 
 
 FACT SEVEN. In the educational work main- 
 tained by our Church in Korea there are 172 
 schools with 6,083 pupils in attendance. There 
 are 183 theological students receiving systematic 
 training and in connection with the work of the 
 Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society there are 
 schools for the training of Bible women and 
 nurses, and for the education of the blind and 
 of deaf-mutes. 
 
 FACT EIGHT. During the past year 30,000 
 sick and afflicted persons have been cared for by 
 our physicians. Since the opening of our Mission 
 over five hundred thousand patients have been 
 treated in our hospitals. It is planned to erect 
 new hospitals at five of our interior mission sta- 
 tions. A sum of $50,000 will erect all these hos- 
 pitals and will insure Christian medical relief to 
 an average of at least fifty thousand Koreans 
 annually for the next thirty years. There are 
 men in Methodism who could give this $50,000 
 and thus be instrumental in not only relieving 
 annually the pain and suffering of a population 
 equal to that of a large city, but be the means 
 of bringing multiplied thousands of souls out of 
 darkness into the light of our Lord. 
 
FACT NINE. In order to meet the present 
 emergency and provide for the imperatively nec- 
 essary equipment, the Mission calls for a rein- 
 forcement of twenty-three new men and for 
 funds to erect buildings for school, medical, evan- 
 gelistic, and residential purposes. Of the ripe- 
 ness of Korea for evangelization and the time- 
 liness of movements looking to the placing of all 
 Mission Stations there on the basis of full effi- 
 ciency competent observers like Dr. John R. 
 Mott, Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks, Dr. J. 
 Wilbur Chapman, Hon. William J. Bryan, Mr. 
 John B. Sleman, founder of the Laymen's Mis- 
 sionary Movement, and Dr. J. F. Goucher, with 
 many others, have borne full and convincing tes- 
 timony. 
 
 FACT TEN. By formal action of the General 
 Conference, the Board of Bishops, the General 
 Committee, and the Board of Foreign Missions, 
 the Church celebrates in 1910-11 the Quarter- 
 Centennial of the founding of the Mission. The 
 Korea Quarter-Centennial Movement therefore 
 has full official endorsement. The Korea Com- 
 mission, approved by the Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions, now issues a call to the Churches to con- 
 tribute the sum of $300,000 additional to their 
 regular offering for Foreign Missions, for the 
 purpose of sending an adequate number of mis- 
 sionaries to gather in the harvest thus providen- 
 tially before us, of placing our school and hos- 
 pital work on the basis of efficiency and provid- 
 ing houses in which our missionaries may live. 
 
 It is thought that this can be done by finding 
 100 gifts of $1,000 each; 1,000 gifts of $100 each, 
 and 2,000 gifts of $50 each, from individual 
 donors or churches. Larger or smaller gifts will 
 be most gratefully received, but it is desired that 
 
the canvass shall be so conducted that it will 
 not divert money from the regular collection of 
 the Board. 
 
 Send all contributions to Homer Eaton, Treas- 
 urer, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, as a special 
 gift for the Korea Quarter-Centennial Fund. 
 Proper vouchers will be furnished the pastors for 
 all amounts thus forwarded. For further infor- 
 mation address the secretaires. 
 
 On behalf of the Korea Commission, 
 
 Earl Cranston, 
 
 President. 
 
 M. C. Harris, 
 
 Bishop of Korea. 
 
 A. B. Leonard, 
 
 Corresponding Secretary Board 
 of Foreign Missions. 
 
 George Heber Jones, 
 
 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, 
 Executive Secretary. 
 
 F. H. SnEETS, 
 
 57 Washington St., Chicago. 
 
 Dillon Bronson, 
 
 25 Park St., Brookline, Mass. 
 Secretaries.