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Letter from Miss Laura SummersMrs. Wap Summers received a letter a few days ago from her daughter, Miss Laura Summers, who is now a Missionary from the North Georgia Conference in Korea, which gives an insight into some of the conditions there which will be interesting to the people here. For this reason we publish portions of the letter as follows:Songdo, Korea, Oct. 8, ’12.Winter has come and I am shiv-| ering as usual at the first cold snap. My room and study, (in fact the whole building), are I steamheated, so I will have just a j few quakes. I wish you could see how pretty and comfortable | my room is. I had a notice that my big box bad arrived, so I shall ' soon have iny own things in my own room.I am studying the language diligently. My teacher is a very | bright young man and I enjoy the study very much, j I went to my appointment for the first time Sunday. The church is Korean build, with straw roof i and mud and stick walls. The ' wall separating the men from the women comes up to about four 1 feet of the wall of the house. The preacher stands in the center j where he can see both sides but I not a Korean man sees the women. No, indeed—it would be a i scandal.I witnessed a pitiful thing to-I day. Last spring one of the j scholarship girls developed tuber-! cular glands of the throat. (It is I a disease that Orientals alone I have.) She was sent over to the hospital for an operation. When she was better she was sent home j till she could get well. The last I few days the old folks who are devil worshippers, fearing she would get so ugly that her betrothed will not take her, have decided to send her on to her mother-in-law’s house now. She i waited till to-day when her mother was away from home and ran away. She came and just begged and sobbed like her heart would break. She wanted Miss Wagner to take her back in 1 school. Her betrothed, she told . us, was a devil worshipper but be-; yond that she did not know his age, occupation or name. Now.! mind you, she is just about 12 ' years of age. To add to the hor-i ror of it all she was suffering with 1 her neck, the wound not yet heal-; ed. Of course, the devil worshippers would drive the red hot needle through it to let the ev’ spirit out before cti« married, j She knowm all the horror of devil 1 worship and her sobs were a wail, j when Miss Wagner told her there | was no money to make a place for her. I walked in just in time to hear her say, “I have prayed all night and I came to yoti for I knew your God would answer | prayers. ’ ’ Her board is only $2 | per month, so I have decided to i put some of my little tithe in her support, and help her from marrying a devil worshipper.O. mamma. I am so very happy! If I never have any more joy in the service, 1 shall feel repaid when I think that 1 am to have the joy of educating this little girl and she will not have to marry a devil worshipper.Lots of love.Laura.
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Barnesville News Gazette
Barnesville, Georgia, US
Thu, Nov 21, 1912
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