Author: Bruce Hunt, William Blair
Publisher: Banner of Truth, 1977
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In 1977 the Trust published this remarkable account of the first 60 years or so of the modern church in Korea (mainly North Korea). William Blair (1876–1970), in his first term of missionary service, was at the centre of the great revival of 1907, and his account of this and the events leading up to it forms the first part of the book. Blair includes a thrilling description of how the gospel first came to Korea.
The account is then taken up by his son-in-law, Bruce Hunt (1903–92) — born in Pyengyang, now the capital of North Korea — who shows how the revival was followed by a baptism of suffering under the Japanese and Communists. During his forty-eight years of missionary service in Korea, Hunt personally knew many of the Korean Christian martyrs.
This new edition of The Korean Pentecost has been completely re-typeset, and includes fifteen additional illustrations.
Source: publisher’s website
Contents
PART 1 The Korean Pentecost and Other Experiences
Introduction by Bruce F. Hunt
- First Impressions
- Korea’s Preparation for the Gospel
- How the Gospel Came to North Korea
- Pyengyang
- Beginning to Preach
- Caring for the Churches
- Anju
- The Church’s Testing
- The Pyengyang Class
- The Korean Pentecost
- The Results
PART 2 The Sufferings of the Korean Church
- The Background to the Sufferings During Japanese Occupation, 1910–1945
- Five of the Faithful unto Death
- The Witness of Evangelist Kim Yoonsup
- The Struggle with Communism
- Three Martyrs: Sohn Yangoon and His Two Sons
Epilogue
LKL says:
A fascinating first-hand account of the growth of the Presbyterian church in Korea, told by one of the key missionaries. The climax of the account, by William Blair, is the Pyongyang Revival of 1907, in which the attendees at a bible study conference experienced a deep spiritual transformation. The book also contains an account of the difficulties of the church firstly under Japanese colonial rule particularly in relation to the enforced shintoism and then under the early years of communism in the North of Korea.
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