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...like the stamina and spunk of these people," wrote Mrs. Lois Dean, of Washington, D.C. last week in a letter containing her contribution to the rebuilding of Pastor Ye Yun-Ho's church in Seoul. "Thanks a million for the good news that he is safe; we had been inquiring about him through the YMCA," was the way another reader...
Since my Letter of Nov. 20, telling of Pastor Ye's troubles with the Communists in Korea and the war damage to his church-hospital, we have been receiving TIME-readers' contributions toward a fund for repairing the damage. Some had given money to Presbyterian Ye when TIME first told about his efforts to organize his first parish in 1948 among the swarms of poor children living in packing cases in Seoul's city dump. Others, hearing about him for the first time, wanted to help...
Last June, when the Communists invaded the city, a group of South Koreans forceably carried off Pastor Ye under the impression that he was a Red guerrilla. By the time they realized their mistake, the Communists were in full control of Seoul and Ye could not get back. For over three months he waited anxiously in Pusan...
Last week, a friend in the U.S. heard from Ye at last. His wife and baby were both alive. He wrote : "Our church and1 the hospital building were damaged approximately 60%. They said church had been used as an office of Communists . . . And many Communist soldiers stayed in our hospital...
...this letter Ye made a watercolor sketch of what had happened to his church and hospital. It is reproduced here...