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Rh who took his household goods that he cared to move; he too took a load, while his wife strapped the baby on her back, and they started out with the two other boys walking. Across the rivers, over the mountains, and through the valleys they went, till at last they reached their new home, seventy-five miles away. That new home was in this town where I am writing this page. At that time there were very few Christians in all this part of the country. Mr. Ye is with me still, and is one of my best and most trusted helpers in the work. Since writing the above Mr. Ye has been called home. It was not my privilege to be with him at the last, as I was out in the district holding meetings when the messenger came for him. Mrs. Moose was with him almost to the last, and just before the end she asked him if he wished to leave any message for me, to which he replied: "Tell the pastor, 'The Lord is my Shepherd.'"

Yun Syen-kun. — Mr. Yun was one of the first converts to come into the Church under the ministry of Dr. C. F. Reid, founder of the mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Korea.

Mr. Yun was a low-class man, and, like nearly all of his class, ignorant and degraded. Soon after hearing the gospel he accepted it, and showed by his life and conversation that he was a new man. He took up the study of the Scriptures with such zeal and earnestness that he was soon employed as a colporteur, and continued in that work for about five years, when the Lord called him from labor to rest. He was a man of strong convictions, and one that dared to do