A few years ago, I planned to work as a TESOL teacher in my retirement.
Having obtained the certificate, I waited. My first enquirer was a Korean who went on to get his PhD and is now on a pastoral team back in his own country. He was the first of many Christian brothers I met doing theology or defence studies at Aberdeen University.
They subsequently invited my wife and I to visit them in their homes. One of them is pastoring a small church in Japan, having completed a doctorate here on Samuel Rutherford. One of my friends, who is now lecturing at a Bible seminary in Tanzania, did his doctoral studies on John Ross, the pioneer Scottish missionary to Manchuria, who is regarded by Korean Christians as the father of the thriving Korean church. I had never heard of this man and so would like to give an outline of his life and work to the wider evangelical public. He deserves to be remembered along with Hudson Taylor, Jonathan Goforth, Karl Gutzlaff, Robert Morrison, and William Burns, other pioneers in East Asia whose seed sowing has now borne fruit in China and South Korea.
