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Rh Mr. Yun was widely known throughout our Church, and enjoyed the confidence of both missionaries and native Christians. Till this day in many communities the mention of his name is like the pouring forth of precious ointment.

Chyeng Choon-su. — Lest some might conclude that our gospel reaches only the low and ignorant, I will now introduce to you one of our preachers. Rev. Chyeng Choon-su.

Mr. Chyeng is a gentleman both by birth and education. From the standpoint of his fellow-countrymen, he is a gentleman of standing, though he would not have been selected as a perfect type of a good Confucianist. By the time he was twenty-five years of age he would have passed for a scholar, and it was not long thereafter before he was a graduate in all the common vices of his class, including drinking, gambling, and such sins. He went from bad to worse, till he thought it best to leave home, since there were no more people in that community whom he could "beat" for anything more. So, with little or no money, he started out for the city of Wonsan, which was a long way from his home. On the way he pawned a silver pocketknife for drink. (Some years after he became a Christian he passed this way, redeemed the knife, and preached the gospel to the innkeeper to whom he had pawned it.) When he arrived in Wonsan, he stopped at an inn, hoping to make his board by gambling or in any other way that he might be able to "beat" it. It happened that the innkeeper was a Christian, and was not long in making the fact known