1919 삼일운동 마페트의 메모

[평양 삼일운동 관련 마페트의 메모, 1919년 4월
3월 만세 사건 이후 주동자인 기독교인들 검거 과정에서 거의 모든 선교사를 도와주던 서기들과 집사들이나 식모들이 구금되고 매질을 당했다. 또한 교인들과 선교사들 가정 수색하면서 한국인들을 구타했다.

이때 일본인 순사와 헌병들은 주민들을 모아 놓고 '양귀'인 미국 선교사들에게 속아서 성경에도 없는 '독립'이나 '만세'를 하게 되었다고 설득하는 한편, 3,000명 기병과 3,000명의 군인을 동원해서 모든 기독교인들을 죽이겠으며, 만일 주민들이 이틀 안에 기독교인들을 도시에서 쫓아내지 않으면 주민들도 다 죽이겠다고 협박했다.

---------- 
Pyongyang, Korea 
around April 19, 1919 
[notes written hastily on thin paper describing incidents related to Japanese brutality against Koreans]
On 8th and 9th of March soldiers and police came looking for the pastor and officers of church and on 19th & 24th policemen came. Then on 4th of April the Japanese gendarmes and police came and demanded of some of the women where their husbands were. Failing to find out, they beat five women with clubs and guns, the wife of one of the Elders being beaten until the great red bruises showed all over her body. On the 16th of April under threats, the lower class people in village tore down the belfry of the church and the next day the gendarmes came to see what had been done. On the 18th the Japanese came again - and addressing the people through an interpreter, said the Christians had been deceived by the “foreign devils”, were an ignorant low down lot of people and should be driven out to go and live with the Americans who had corrupted them, that there was nothing in the Bible about “Independence” and the shouting of “Mansei”, that 3000 cavalry and 3000 soldiers were coming in to destroy all the Christians and that if the people did not drive out the Christians but continued to live together they would all be shot and killed. He ordered them to drive out the Christians under threat of being shot within two days.

마페트 가족, 평양, 1919

세 번째가 마삼락(Samuel Hugh Moffett, 1916-2015)