Description:
Pastor Kim Ik Du with Korean Christians. Pastor Kim is here shown with a
group from some church where he had been holding evangelistic meetings. This
might have been anywhere in the Korean Peninsula. Mr. Kim was moderator of
the General Assembly in 1920. From then on till World War II, he was probably
the outstanding man in the Korean Presbyterian Church. The pastor of an
important church - the South Gate Church in Seoul - his real influence was as
an evangelist. During the twenties and thirties he was in constant demand
from all parts of Korea to lead evangelistic meetings. At daybreak prayer
meetings, he prayed for the sick + laid hands upon them. This became a
dominant characteristic of his meetings. There were times when the healing
emphasis was in danger of overshadowing the evangelistic emphasis which he
always tried to maintain. After WWII, he stayed on in Hwanghae Province under
the Communists. After the Inchon landing by MacArthur when the Communists
were about to retreat North, one of their last acts was to shoot Pastor Kim.