Pyengyang

— “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church,” and the first Protestant missionary to enter Korea, gave his life on the banks of the Taidong River. A Scotch Presbyterian, Rev. Mr. Thomas, was a colporteur of the Scotch Bible Society, and in 1865, he came to Pyengyang on the “General Sherman.” This ill-fated vessel approached the Korean shores in September, and despite numerous warnings sailed up the Taidong River as far as Pyengyang.