ABSTRACT
INDEPENDENCE (Continued) “IN our opinion this Proclamation will stand on a plane of exaltation with our own Declaration of Independence” said the Los Angeles Times commenting editorially on the Korean Independence Proclamation. “Let us listen to the voice of Son Byung-hL It is the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness…. May God grant a mad world the grace to stop and listen to that voice.”1 “The whole plan had a loftiness and sober dignity of thought and speech, in which some fine old strain of Confucianism mingled with rich and fervent Biblical phraseology,” said Sidney Greenbie in a magazine article on the Korean Independence Movement.” It was one of the most remarkable revolutions in history-and one which might well put any Christian nation to shame. The instructions issued should be immortal in the annals of revolt.”*
The conduct of the thirty-three signers of the Proclamation was truly worthy of these commendations. Two of their members were sent to Shanghai the day before the Proclamation was issued to carry the news to the outside world. Pastor Kil was late in arriving from 1 Editorial, “The Dignity of Life,” Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1919. * Sidney Greenbie, “Korea Asserts Herself,” Asia, September, 1919, pp. 921-926.
