First Korean Congress

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Excerpt from First Korean Congress: Philadelphia, 1919By rev. Dr. Floyd tomkins: My dear friends, I take it as a great honor to be permitted to be here at the opening of your Congress and to wish you in the name of Philadelphia a hearty welcome. I am sure that I can say that for the whole city, because it was here that American independence was born, here it was that the Constitution of our country was framed, and there has always gone out from Philadelphia that deep interest in those who seek, as we sought long ago, to secure national independence.I am perfectly sure that you have the sympathy and the love of all the churches of Philadelphia. I can assure you that the ministers of the Christian church and the Christian people are not only full of sympathy, but h0pe for Korea and their Republic, for whatever they may be able to do to forward her independence. Korea, let me say, is the pride of these later missionary days. There has been no country that has responded so quickly and so strongly to the appeal of missionaries as your country - not large, but great. It is one of the joys whenever we, as Christian people, meet together to talk about the missionary work which has been carried on there as a mark of wonderful success and victory in missionary effort and the devotion of the Koreans to Christ, the faithfulness of your people in holding to the reading of the Bible, their loyalty to all the principles advocated by the Great Master of Christianity and their spiritual life - all this appeals to every one who knows anything about the missionary work in Korea and in that it is the nation which stands the highest, so far as numbers are concerned, in proportion, the highest in Christianity perhaps on the face of the earth. Why, my friends, Korea is today not far from being 100 per cent a Christian land. You now face that which has been faced many times before in the history of humanity. You face discouragement and difficulty, yes, more than one obstacle and one difiiculty in working out your own salvation. I want to say to you, my dear brothers, first of all, do not be discouraged. The result may not come immediately, but it must come sooner or later.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.