Nay, if thou lovest, feed my sheep, On desert moors astray; The charge I gave thee surely keep, Until the final day. V. Yea, if thou lovest me, thy Lord, My feeble lambs feed thou; They wander o’er the world abroad, Many lie fainting now. VI. Then never swear thou lovest me, Who loves not these of mine; Who would my true disciple be, Shall prove his love divine. CHAPTER XVII Historical Review--Korean Characteristics--Football between Japan, China and Russia--Ill-advised Movements--Unrest and Excitement--Korea Allied to Japan--Japanese in Korea--Po an Whai--Kaiwha--Railroad Extension--Japanese Protectorate--Petition to President Roosevelt--Removal of American Legation--Education in Korea--Righteous Army--True Civilization. Before making a brief review of events which have taken place during the five years that have elapsed since the previous chapters were written, let us look a little further at the character of the Korean people so that we may understand them perhaps somewhat better and judge them a little more fairly as we scan their actions in reference to the conditions that follow.[5] [5] I have to thank Mr. Homer B. Hulbert for many of these facts and dates, having refreshed my memory by frequent reference to his “History of Korea” and “The Passing of Korea.” Although through the influence of their progressive Queen the country had been opened to foreigners in 1882, and although missionaries had been there since 1884, the impression made upon the people as a whole was very slight, owing to the lack of newspapers and other means of appeal to the public, and though in the capital a few progressionists had begun to feel the need of reform, the nation as such was still in a kind of stupor under the baleful charm of the example of China, and the influence of her classics and her civilization. Shut up for long centuries in complete seclusion--even Japan had been open twenty years to the stimulating influences of the civilization of the West--still Korea in her belated “Morning Calm” slept on; while Japan had been up and catching her worms with the “Rising Sun,” and the first rude shock which startled her from this slumber and made her begin to look about was the defeat of China by her little neighbor. Coincidentally with the rapid march of political events, the Gospel was making advances with constantly increasing momentum and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty of thought and action, and to-day, stung into life by the sharp lash of adversity, Korea is awake, wide awake, to sleep no more, for her Macbeth has effectually murdered sleep.