Mrs. GEO. S. McCUNE. 
 
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 Helen B. McAfee, our Mrs. George S. Mc- 
 Cune of Syen Chyun, Korea, was born in 
 Highland, Kansas, November 24, 1872. In 
 1875 her parents moved to Parkville, Mo., 
 where she was educated, graduating from 
 Park Colleg'e in 1892. She spent one year at 
 the Western, Oxford, Ohio, graduating from 
 there 1894. Miss McAfee taught in Park 
 College Academy two years, 1895-1S97. She 
 spent several years in Colorado Springs, and 
 Phoenix, Arizona, coring for her invalid 
 mother. After Mrs. McAfee’s death in 
 February, 1903, she returned to Parkville 
 and was for one year Preceptress in Park 
 College, having charge of the young ladies, 
 especially those who were members of the 
 Park College Family. On June 14, 1904, 
 Miss McAfee was married to Mr. George S. 
 McCune. Mr. McCune also a graduate of 
 Park, had taught one year there, and after¬ 
 ward, two years in Coe Colleg’e. Cedar 
 Rapids, Iowa. At the time of their mar¬ 
 riage they were under appointment to 
 
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Korea, but were asked by the Board to 
 wait one year, because of the war between 
 Japan and Russia, which was causing a 
 very unsettled condition in Korea,—at least 
 the Board thought so. When the mission 
 found the McCunes had been asked to wait, 
 they cabled them to come on. The word 
 however, came too late, for Mr. McCune 
 had accepted a position in Coe College for 
 another year. They spent that year in Cedar 
 Rapids, Mr. .McCune teaching and Mrs. Mc¬ 
 Cune, Preceptress or “Dean of Women,” as 
 they call it in Coe. On August 16, 1905, 
 Mr. and Mrs. McCune sailed from San Fran¬ 
 cisco for Korea. They were stationed in 
 Pyeng Yang, where Mr. McCune was asso¬ 
 ciated with Mr. Baird in the Pyeng Yang 
 College and Academy. In the fall (1909) 
 they were transferred to Syen Chyun, 
 where Mr. McCune is to have charge of the 
 Hugh O’Veill, Jr. Academy and Industrial 
 Farm. Mrs. McCune’s work in Pyeng Yang 
 was among the women and children. At 
 the time she left Pyeng Yang there were 
 100 little girls under her care in the Sun¬ 
 day-school, where they had introduced 
 some of the methods used at home. 
 
 During the week she taught in the Girl’s 
 Academy, in Bible Training classes for wo¬ 
 men. when in session, also teaching music. 
 
 Mrs. McCune’s work in her new field of la- 
 
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bor is still among the women. She will 
 have charge of the women’s Sunday-school, 
 which has an attendance of seven to eight 
 hundred. This will include teaching the 
 teachers each Aveek, and a general over¬ 
 sight of the school. She has two dear lit¬ 
 tle ones of her oavh and is a most devoted 
 mother. She is an ardently enthusiastic 
 worker in the mission field. Her interest 
 in Foreign Missions, dates from her earli¬ 
 est childhood. She cannot remember the 
 time when she was not intensely interested 
 in missionaries, and missions. Truly has she 
 found her Avocation. So big is her mother 
 heart, that she embraces in her loving min¬ 
 istry the hundreds of Korean girls and avo- 
 men committed to her care, Christ’s oavh 
 little ones, in ministering to whom she is 
 ministering to the Master Himself, for hath 
 He not said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it 
 unto one of the least of these ye have done 
 it unto me.” He Avho knows of Park Col¬ 
 lege and its influence, knowing, too, the 
 name that is indissolubly connected with 
 the college, are not surprised that the man¬ 
 tle of the McAfees, has fallen upon their 
 daughter, making her one of the most 
 A r alued workers of our Board of the 
 Southwest. 
 
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Published by the 
 
 WOMAN’S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOREIGN 
 MISSIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST, 
 
 708 Odd Fellows’ Building, 
 
 Sx. Louis, Mo. 
 
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 Series of fourteen Sketches.