The "Failed" Commission

I read this on another blog recently..."Robert Thomas, the first Protestant missionary to North Korea, was killed before discipling a single convert. Many felt his life was a waste.Robert has spent years preparing for this mission. In 1865, he arrived on the coast of Korea for the first time to learn all he could about the people and their language. Lacking Korean language material, Robert handed out tracks and New Testaments in Chinese. He soon had to return to China, where his wife died the following year.In 1866, Robert armed with 500 Chinese Bibles, undertook his journey to Pyongyang, the current capital of North Korea. He was on an American Navy gunship called the General Sherman. That August, the ship sailed up the Taedong River. Robert tossed gospel tracts onto the river bank as the ship proceeded. When the ship ran aground on a sandbar, Korean soldiers on the shore believed the foreigners had hostile intentions, and set the trapped ship on fire. They slaughtered all those who came on shore. Sensing death was near, Robert held out one of his red Bible and said in Korean, “Jesus, Jesus!” The attackers cut off his head and threw it in the river.In 1891, a discovery in North Korea revealed God’s conclusion to the so-called “failed commission... (FOR REST OF ARTICLE CLICK HERE)