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A Modern Pioneer in Korea : the Life Story of Henry G. Appenzeller TNRY G. 4PPENZELLER A MODERN ILLIAM ELLIO 12, 67 7 IE CANADIAN KHOX COLLEGE TOROHTO PRESENTED TO THE CANADIAN SCHOOL OF MISSIONS with the COMPLIMENTS OF DR. JT. LOVELL 1-JURRAY K/. / A MODERN PIONEER IN KOREA By WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, D.D..L.H.D. A Modern Pioneer in Korea The life story of Henry G. Appenzeller. Illus trated, I2mo, cloth, net $1.25. This life is another stirring chapter in the record of modern missionary heroism. Dr. Griffis has woven a most picturesque and interesting background of Korean land scape, life and history. It is a book that will win interest in missionary effort and inspire the younger generation with a desire to emulate Appenzeller s example. A Maker of the New Orient Samuel Robbins Brown, pioneer educator in China, America and Japan. The story of his life and work. Illustrated, cloth, net $1.25. "Dr. Griffis has rendered a valuable service in telling the story of so eminent and faithful a life, and doing it with so fine an appreciation in a style graphic and interesting." Christian Intelligencer. Verbeck of Japan : A CITIZEN OF NO COUNTRY A life story of Foundation Work inaugurated by Guido Fridolin Verbeck. Illustrated. I2mo, cloth, $1.50. "This biography shows a citizen of the world, a man of patrician birth and scholarly culture, preaching the princi ples of righteousness in six languages; writing in as many more, and directing the affairs of the Sunrise Kingdom in the council chamber of the poor, and the confidant of the Mikado." The Interior. A MODERN PIONEER IN KOREA THE LIFE STORY OF HENRY G. APPENZELLER WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS, D.D., L.H.D. " Author of Verbeck of Japan," "Korea the Hermit Nation." "Somewhere else that atom s force Moves the light-poised universe." NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO Fleming H. Revell Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH CAVfN UlftAftV KNOX COLLEGI TOtONTO Copyright, 1912, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 123 North Wabash Ave. Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street HENRY GERHART APPENZELLER, 1901. TO THE LOYAL DAUGHTER Hlice IRebecca FIRST BORN OF AMERICAN CHRISTIAN CHILDREN IN THE LAND OF MORNING SPLENDOUR Preface of Korea built himself as a APPENZELLERliving stone into Christian Cho-sen. The coming of a live, typical, American Chris tian in 1885, into the mysterious secrecy of an inhospitable hermit kingdom, the abode of cruelty, oppression, mental darkness, ignorance and disease, was like an invincible sunbeam. Bold as a lion, tender as a woman, aflame with zeal for the Master, yet able to work and live with all sorts and condi tions of men, he won steady success. As traveller, explorer, teacher, organiser, evangelist and Bible translator, his labors were manifold, while his temper was ever sweet. His seventeen years of service were crowned with success. His greatness in the hour of death tallied with the unselfish victories of his life. He died while saving others. It is no pious panegyric that his friend and correspondent, who knew him from the time of his arrival in Korea, has tried to write; but, against a background of reality, to show what Appenzeller and his fellow workers under God achieved. Appen zeller found Korea in pagan barbarism. He left the Land of Morning Calm worthy of its name, full of hope, promise and attainment. He lived 7 8 Preface and toiled for the Christian Cho-sen of to-day. Hence the larger part of this book is devoted to the country and to the people whom he loved and for whom he gladly died. A man of system and scrupulous regard for both exact facts and general truth, this servant of Christ of high ideals and master of details kept, from his youth up, journals, note and common-place books, copies of important documents and letters; and to these I have had unstinted access from the widow and daughter of this missionary pioneer. Scores of correspondents also have enabled me to make my story trustworthy and authentic, as well as " vivid and interesting. To these and to the help " meet and loyal daughter, do I make my grateful recognition. May John Milton s hope be fulfilled in this book, in that "life unto life" shall, in this case, mean that the story of Appenzeller, who died too soon, shall stimulate others to still nobler consecration and achievements. And this, " Through the dear might Of Him who walked the wave." W. E. G. ITHACA, N. Y, Contents PAGB Introductory 13 I. God s Korea Morning Splendour .... 18 II. Man s Korea Realities of Life 30 III. The Hermit s Doors Forced Open. ... 42 IV. The Methodists and the Appenzellers . 52 V. A Christian Soldier s Training 6 1 VI. Korea as a Topic Lure or Chill?. ... 75 VII. The Great Decision 85 VIII. Voyages and First Impressions 92 IX. Inside a Korean House 104 X. New Seed in Old Soil 115 XI. The Leadership of a Little Child 125 XII. On Horseback Old Korean Capitals. 133 XIII. In the North Ping Yang, the Boat City 144 XIV. Housekeeping Fun, Fact and Fancy. 153 XV. Prospecting for Gospel Treasure 164 XVI. The Monopoly of Letters 172 XVII. Mastering the Language 182 XVIII. In Time of Pestilence 193 XIX. School and Church 201 XX. On First Furlough Home 213 XXI. A Pioneer of Civilisation 224 XXII. The World of the Imaginary 236 XXIII. Yoke Fellows in the Gospel 244 XXIV. Second Visit Home 253 XXV. "He Saved Others" 267 XXVI. The Whitening Harvest 281 XXVII. The Wind of the Spirit 286 9 Illustrations TO PACE PAGE Henry Gerhart Appenzeller, 1901 Frontispiece Miryek, or Colossal Image 33 Putting the Gloss on Father s Coat 39 Memorial to Queen Min 53 Bride going to Her Husband s Home 83 Making the Roof Thatch 83 Korean Children and Nurses 109 Girls are Girls All Over the World 131 Four Generations of Christians 131 Northern Roof Hat going to Church 147 Methodist Mission Station, Kongju 169 Printing Block. Enmun Alphabet Sheet 189 Appenzeller and His Students, 1887 2 7 The First Christian (M. E.) Church Edifice.. 211 Art Work of Old Korea 221 New Year s Offering to the Spirits 243 Shop in Northern Korea. Age and Youth ... 249 A Government School, 1910 267 Introductory BEGAN to pray for Korea on the morning of I March 2, 1871. As an educational pioneer in Japan the first to live as a guest in the far interior I had spent the night previous with my escort of fifteen two-sworded knights at Tsuruga, whence one looks across the sea to Korea. As we emerged into the road leading to Fukui, our party stopped before the great Shinto temple, at which the Empress Jingu, who lives in Japanese tradition, as "the conqueror of Korea" and her son, the war-god Hachiman, were worshipped. Three of my guardsmen stopped, bowed reverently, clapped their hands together and worshipped. "Idolatry" or not, I was touched by this simple act of piety, as they understood it, and looking westward over the water towards Korea, my heart went out to the one living and true God, in the hope that this land lying to the westward, might soon be blessed with the gospel. Studying the Land of Morning Splendour through Japanese and European sources of information, I began on my arrival home in America, in 1874, besides making it a subject of daily prayer, to write and lecture on Korea, the Hermit Nation, and at Washington 13 14 A Modern Pioneer in Korea to urge Congressional committees to secure by treaty the peaceful opening of the country. In 1881, 1882, and 1885, books treating of Korea were published. Yet in those days it was, as a lady said to me, like talking about a "strange seashell," picked up from an unknown strand in the far Orient. My neighbour and friend in Boston, Phillips Brooks, used to say that foreign missions were "the last of the heroisms" and so he preached. My friend and correspondent Appenzeller illus trated in his life and final hour Bishop Brooks thesis. I have endeavoured to tell the story of his work among the people whom he loved. It is not panegyric, but reality that I offer. Appen zeller was a hero, but he hated cant and sham. Hence I have shown the country and the people, as well as the worker. I have left out the word "heathen," because this term is neither in the Hebrew, nor the Greek of the original scriptures, nor, strictly speaking, in the Revised Version. In the languages of Europe itself once a mission field, the word was and is a term of contempt, and such a feeling toward the Koreans was the last in|the breast of this man, their friend and lover. Even when in ripest knowledge of the natives and he was, both as a scholar and a preacher, ever in living contact with the people Appenzeller, while he hated what marred and ruined both their bodies and souls, was ever affectionate to them as human beings. He felt about the Koreans as he " did about his own countrymen. We should be Introductory 15 ashamed of what some Americans do, but never ashamed of being Americans" was a famous say ing of his. He loved much and honoured many things in their character and civilisation, while despising and abhorring, with a hatred born of his love of holiness, whatever degraded them or his own countrymen both common sinners before God, and in need of the same grace.
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