The Varieties of American Religious Experience

Abstract

When Eusurk Emsen Charr published TheGoldenMountain:TheAutobiography of a Korean Immigrant, 1895 -19S{) in 1961 he dedicated it to the American Legion (who had helped him gain American citizenship as the result of his serving in W.W.Ⅰ) and Park College, a Presbyterian affiliated university in Missouri where he took his degree. Char came to Hawaii in 1904 when he was nine to work on the sugar plantations, then went to San Francisco in 1905 working there for ten years

in low paying jobs before heading off to Park College to gain his high school diploma. His family had converted to Christianity in Korea and it was his boyhood hope to go to America, get an education and return home as a medical missionary. That was not to happen because his experiences at Park shaped his values, his world view and confirmed his desire to stay in America: "Henceforth, I lived as an American, not only on food but in life and soul.