SC? £ m PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY SYLLABUS OF THE Special Lectures on Missions FOR 1907-1908 KOREA'S CHALLENGE TO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH SY THE Rev. Horace Grant Underwood, D.D. Missionary of the Presbyterian Church in Korea. The Lectures will be delivered in Miller Chapel Monday, March 23, to Friday, March 27, 1908, at 5 o’clock. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/syllabusofspecia00unde_1 LECTURE ONE. The Challenge that comes from her Unsaved Condition and her Possibilities. I. Her Needs Constitute a Challenge. Her needs as illustrated in A. Her Shamanism. B. Her Buddhism. C. Her Confucianism. D. Her absolute ignorance of spiritual realities. II. Her Potentialities Constitute a Challenge. In studying these, consider A. The People. a. Their physique. b. Their mentality. c. Their temperament. Note : Reasons why such people are a subject race, ist. A hermit nation. 2nd. Their real character unknown. 3rd. Often judged by lowest class. 4th. Korean preeminently a scholar. A soldier nation now in the ascendant. 5th. She has temporarily succumbed in the political maelstrom of the East. B. Their attitude toward their old faiths. a. Religious instinct. b. Reasoning power. c. Search for truth. C. Their ancient civilization in many points superior to their neighbors. a. Constitutional monarchy. b. Alphabet. c. Their inventions. Wood fibre paper Bell metal. Unrivalled dyes. First suspension bridge. First mortar and bomb. First iron clad. LECTURE TWO. Early Beginnings as Constituting a Challenge. I. The Winning of an Entree. To palace. To the nobility. To the people. II. The Attitude of the People. Toward foreigners. Toward our books. As influenced by their knowledge of the Chinese. As seen in their willingness to discuss religion. Manifested in their receptivity. III. The Various Political Upheavals. The man ready for the hour. The China-Japan war. Murder of the Queen. The King’s escape. The Russo-Japan war. IV. The Beginnings of Mission Work Constituted a Notable Challenge. A. The remarkable effect of the word upon unsaved readers. a. No Tosa. b. Koksan. c. White Wings. B. Baptism first converts. C. Organization first church. D. Celebration first communion service. E. First church built by natives. a. Their efforts towards its erection. b. Their primary school. c. The enlargement of the church. d. The Christianizing of the village. F. Early work in a large city. G. The lives of Christian individuals exercising a wide influ- ence upon their heathen neighbors. LECTURE THREE. The Methods Employed and the Phenomena Witnessed Constitute a Challenge. I. The Methods that Might Be Employed. First. The object to be accomplished. Negatively considered. A. Not to denationalize the people. B. Not to establish an American church. C. Not to establish our own peculiar denomination. D. Not to fill the land with foreign missionaries. E. Not to have the home church always support the native church. F. Not to have the native church always governed by the home church. Positively considered. A. To establish a self-propagating church. B. To establish a self-supporting church. C. To establish a self-governing church. D. To establish a church preeminently native. E. To make the whole nation Christian in sentiment. Second. The material on which we have to work. Third. Possible methods. II. Some methods that have been followed in other fields. III. Methods employed in Korea. A. Seven principles underlying the work. B. The carrying out of these principles. ist. 2nd. 3 rd. 4 th. The organization of the work. The training of workers. Rules for admission to church. Methods of development. IV. The phenomena that have followed. i st. 619 self-supporting chruches. 2nd. 344 schools of which 334 are self-supporting. 3rd. Contributions for good works. LECTURE FOUR. The Character of the Korean Christians and the Work They are Doing a Challenge. I. Their Character. A. Their zeal for studying the Scriptures. B. The simplicity and strength of their faith. C. Their activity in Christian work. D. Their liberality. E. Their steadfastness under persecution and temptation. IT. The Kind of Work They are Doing as Illustrated by A. The work at Haing Ju. B. At Eul Yul. C. At Tai Ku. III. The Late Revival. LECTURE FIVE. The Present Day Opportunity the World Oyer Constitutes a Challenge. All Heathendom Astir. A. Africa. B. Islam. C. South America. D. India. E. Philippines. F. Japan. G. China. II. The Present Day Opportunity in Korea as seen in A. The receptivity of the People. B. The 120,000 raw recruits. C. The Christians’ zeal for an education. D. The desire of the heathen for a Christian education. E. In their time of trouble seeking their refuge in God. F. Their attitude toward America. G. Their attitude toward your own Mission.