Show Civic Officials Trying to I h Sorcery Sor ery in Korea It 11 Is counted significant of oC conditions In III the Nut cast by leaders In the Christian churches and ns ItS Indicative of oC the tho en tn enlightenment that has hns come conic to the tho east eastern ern era peoples that sonic some of or the grosser forms of ot Idolatry and ami superstition ire aro giving place tu more reasonable forms forma of ot sometimes or at m and to I Christianity In Korea lort there hits has ha been admit action taken Inkell against forms orals of or orI I Idol worship which have littee been for or ages I unmolested A report of ot this action tins has Just been received at ul the of or the tho I Presbyterian hoard board of or foreign missions lolI Scorn from one 1110 of ot the representatives of or Him bitt organization III In Korea The Tile report comes front from rom Seoul the principal city ell and tutu Is In part as OR follows rollow Several times In hi the last tow fow years yen rs someone f ome ne has been beun appointed chief of ot police here who was ashamed of or the prevailing superstition ant Idolatry anti and who understood by h force torce to 10 abolish It II Mutants or sorceresses were for forbidden bidden to tn perform their heir Incantations or III to 10 heat beat their gongs Kong as Is IH It their lr wont when endeavoring tu to drive tho the evil spirits out of at the thu sick Hick Hut the ollice of ot chief ehler of at police like i all other political appointments In III Ko Jo Korea Forca I Irea rea rca Is short and amid uncertain A oman nun might alight begin such n a campaign und timid be before before fore rore It was attn well teli under way att another would have tile his hl l place perhaps a n man sho had bud no Hi objection to spirit worship Then rhen the and pansus would faille come out of their hitting hiding places and the Iho sound of or the gongs anti and cymbals would once onre moru moro be he heard Last summer waiting for or a II atrain train trout III In a ii I village not Hut far grimm from Seoul the Presbyterian lre missionary ml heard ono one Korean say to 10 another This Is III a n dreadful state of or affairs My Iy brother brotherIs Is very ver sick timid and although I have tried to get let a 1 no one will corno comae for tor fear of fir being arrested and tint lint punished so soI I suppose thelle Is nothing for tOl It hut to 1 1 let lei the Ih poor ioor pOll I fellow the die In February of oC this year one olle Shin held the office of chief of or police pollee OltI lie he vigorous conduct J Jera campaign against ors era Policemen were Sent ih the all sent ert in tho ho city to 0 I tear down the Iho to alt ull lr H y t Pictures most of uC them being lero u sorcerers anti and female remae Us Ug on rested by hy the score sO ro II a lit Palace Lady Om Onn mother molher kings youngest son like all iii Ihl t ci th en of ot Korea lorea Om has lute been lieen J nn an ur ardi ardel of or the thu u WOr spirits r a and nd 1 a r tang taint went often to tho the rrt n r Inu U PU suit with th her Even this pau Ilala c e l i to ron was arrested amid coked that lulL till nit practising the th tn up u me and many lieu lied fro f II a K homes It Wits was recently toli hJ 0 on b seems seem good authority that t I number of or sorcerers o II s e a 11 ath I th thi city Jail last sPrIng ere en ea WI Va In hI lImit heard this report I nothing hart had been said salu about 15 Sa M patters papers but the lie III Ih I as Informal t I i 7 marked a u me things art are done Jone by I government which the Ine rr are re n t allowed to report It wa was I that thoU the tho sorcerers rs that were been bee II carrying on their execute J I work in at cret eret and alit t e the authorities felt tell tha that thai nil example had hall 1111 to 10 tie bo made maj Of or them order that others might know that In ha the new nelV laws must bo be obeyed and Confucian 1 ll temples have no not ben bea nn affected by these new rules III In II largo large village culled called Sm Stan Ka 13 Rat on the tho river ten tell U It from roam Beau Seim was n Ii formerly used rl is a II a tern tem tile pie to Kwan Kong the KI gait of or TIme The l lols and anti War pictures had hall bc n ed ell eu by hy time the police anti and tho tie house sool vacant Time The templo temple uis ws built man many years yeats eatH ago no by hy a It man named Sun SIn Wh was advised to erect It by a s 8 who h said that lint the tho mans son Soil 1 e cover from an un Illness H thereby thenh The bo bay did recover 1111 Is now ants no grown t man hood honl but the Ito tins hns now b been tn turned over oCr by b Mr Ir Shin to a It lit 0 r m pany patty of oC Christians who wor hll hi tn Ill tie village tinder under tIm tho leadership of o a ret col named Chun Hoston Tron |