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Show SHIPMENT OF IDOLS TO KOREA DENOUNCED Contract of a Philadelphia Firm Arouses .the Ire of Ministers and Missionaries. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 16. Missionaries Mission-aries and ministers In this city are, It is said, annoyed over the announced contract entered Into by a Philadelphia firm to ship Buddhist idols to Korea. They -denounced the plans as an outrage out-rage against religion and decency. Mrs. W. H. R. Corlles. a returned missionary from China, said she was appalled at the idea that people in a Christian country would consent to manufacture idols for poor, unenlightened unenlight-ened heathens to worship. |