There were two problems confronting the early church in Korea which are of paramount importance. These problems were polygamy and ancestral worship. These issue has long been perplexing the missionaries of India, China, and Africa, and were the same i...
There were two problems confronting the early church in Korea which are of paramount importance. These problems were polygamy and ancestral worship. These issue has long been perplexing the missionaries of India, China, and Africa, and were the same in the middle of 1890’ missionary circle in Korea. In this paper, the first of these issue were considered, especially concerned with the discussion between W. S. Swallen and William M. Baird of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America based on their papers on that issue.