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Hess, Esther N.

 Person

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 232 Papers of Esther Hess

 Collection
Identifier: CN 232-232
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs, and articles relating to Esther Hess's missionary work as a nurse in China with China Inland Mission from 1931 to 1945. The materials not only document Hess's missionary career, but also the Sino-Japanese war and her confinement to a Japanese internment camp from 1942-1945.

Dates: Created: 1931-1959; Majority of material found in 1931-1941

Collection 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie

 Collection
Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 632 Papers of William H. Nowack

 Collection
Identifier: CN 632
Scope and Contents

Prayer letters, publications, sermons notes of Nowack documenting William H. Nowack’s work as an independent Christian missionary in the United States (Tennessee) and China (Honan) over a period of four decades.

Dates: Created: 1903-1980

Esther Hess teaching packet.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1984-014
Dates: 1982

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 3
Unprocessed Material 1
 
Subject
Evangelistic work -- China. 3
Evangelistic work. 3
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
China -- History. 2
Communism -- China. 2
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Communism. 2
Conversion -- Christianity. 2
Missions. 2
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
Women missionaries. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
Children of missionaries. 1
China -- History -- 1949- 1
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
China. 1
Church and state -- China. 1
Church and state. 1
Church development, New. 1
Church work with military personnel -- China. 1
Church work with military personnel. 1
Church work with students -- China. 1
Church work with students. 1
Church work with women -- China. 1
Church work with women. 1
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
College students -- United States. 1
College students. 1
Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 1
Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
Holy Spirit. 1
Internment camps -- China. 1
Internment camps. 1
Medical care 1
Medical care -- China. 1
Medical education 1
Medical education -- China. 1
Missionaries -- Training of. 1
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 1
Missionaries' spouses. 1
Missionaries, Resignation of. 1
Missionaries. 1
Missions -- Asia. 1
Missions -- Educational work. 1
Missions -- Finance. 1
Missions -- United States. 1
Missions, Medical -- China. 1
Missions, Medical. 1
Pentecostalism -- China. 1
Pentecostalism. 1
Persecution -- China. 1
Persecution. 1
Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 1
Presbyterian Church. 1
Presbyterians -- United States. 1
Presbyterians. 1
Prisoners of war 1
Prisoners of war -- China. 1
Religious institutions. 1
Rural missions -- China. 1
Rural missions. 1
Theological seminaries -- United States. 1
Theological seminaries. 1
Theology 1
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 1
Theology -- Study and teaching -- United States. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 1
Women 1
Women -- Religious life. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 1
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