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Presbyterian Heritage Sunday, May 19, 2002 Witness the Good News: Our Mission Heritage in Korea The Tates and the PCUS in Korea Lewis Boyd Tate (1862-1929), the first Southern Presbyterian (PCUS) to apply for service in Korea, was among those inspired by the Underwoods' example. During his thirty-three years as an evangelist in the Chonju area, he founded sixty-seven churches and meeting places and baptized hundreds of converts. Dr. Mattie Ingold Tate (detail). Click photo for enlargement In 1905 he married Dr. Mattie Ingold, the second physician to serve the PCUS mission, who had arrived in Chonju in 1897. Specializing in the treatment of women and children, she cared for over 2,000 patients in one six-month period. After her marriage, Dr. Tate gave up practicing medicine except in emergencies. She preferred instead to travel the countryside with Korean assistants teaching basic Christian doctrine, the Bible, hygiene, and child care. The Tates retired from the mission in 1928 after Lewis suffered a heart attack. "Every patient received a tract and the children picture cards, on which my teacher had written Bible verses....The medical work I regard merely as an evangelizing agency which is only an aid, and always subordinate to, the evangelical work." (Mattie Ingold, 1899)   Introduction Part 1: The First Presbyterian Missionaries in Korea Part 2: The Tates and the PCUS in Korea Part 3: Educational Efforts in Korea Part 4: Ecumenical Efforts and the Korean Church   Bibliography   Heritage Sunday 2002 Main Page

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