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United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas

 Collection
Identifier: CN 298
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School...
Dates: Created: 1946-1985

Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas

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Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
Dates: Created: 1985

Vernon W. Patterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 005
Scope and Contents Correspondence, clippings, reports, financial records, press releases, promotional material, forms, newsletters, and oral history interviews relating to Vernon W. Patterson's (1892-1991) active participation and leadership in evangelistic activities in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The papers focus particularly on his involvement in various evangelical lay organizations and other institutions and the early career of Billy Graham. The interviews were recorded on 3/4/85 and 3/5/85 and...
Dates: Created: 1900-1985

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Christian life. 2
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Church and social problems -- China. 2
Drug traffic 2
Drug traffic -- China. 2
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Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
Indigenous church administration 2
Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Leprosy -- China. 2
Leprosy. 2
Medical care 2
Medical care -- China. 2
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
Missionaries. 2
Missions -- China. 2
Missions, Medical -- China. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Opium trade 2
Opium trade -- China. 2
Rural missions -- China. 2
Rural missions. 2
Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
Tribes -- China. 2
Tribes. 2
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Bible -- Congresses. 1
Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Bible colleges 1
Bible colleges -- United States. 1
Bible. 1
Businessmen -- Religious life. 1
Businessmen. 1
CBMC contact (Periodical) 1
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
China -- History. 1
City missions -- United States. 1
City missions. 1
Communism. 1
Cooperative societies 1
Cooperative societies -- China. 1
Drug addictions 1
Drug addictions -- China. 1
Ecumenical movement. 1
Eschatology -- Sermons. 1
Eschatology. 1
Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
Evangelicalism. 1
Evangelistic work -- China. 1
Evangelistic work -- North Carolina. 1
Fundamentalism. 1
Holy Spirit -- Sermons. 1
Holy Spirit. 1
Interdenominational cooperation. 1
Journalism, Religious. 1
Laity. 1
Liberalism (Religion) 1
Liberalism (Religion) -- United States. 1
Millennialism. 1
Missionaries -- Training of. 1
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
Missions to Buddhists. 1
Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 1
Patterson, Vernon -- Sermons. 1
Presbyterian journal (Weaverville, N.C.) 1
Presbyterians -- United States. 1
Religious institutions. 1
Revivals -- Charlotte. 1
Revivals. 1
Sabbath -- Sermons. 1
Sabbath. 1
Salvation -- Sermons. 1
Salvation. 1
Sermons, American. 1
Smallpox 1
Smallpox -- China. 1
Southern Presbyterian journal. 1
United States 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- Race relations -- Sermons. 1
United States -- Race relations. 1
United States. -- History. 1
Voluntarism -- United States. 1
Voluntarism. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 1
Women 1
Women -- Religious life. 1
Women missionaries. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 1
World War, 1939-1945. 1
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