Welsh, Evan D.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
Collection
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
Collection 487 Oral History Interview with Kathryn M. Feldi
Collection
Identifier: CN 487
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi (1912-2015) in which she describes her parents, who were Africa Inland Mission workers in Tanzania; mother's conversion at a Billy Sunday campaign; her own attendance at Wheaton College; memories of Billy Graham as a college student; the Wheaton revival of 1943; favorite professors; and the effect of World War II on the Wheaton campus. The time period covered by the interviews is 1922 to 1993.Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi was...
Dates:
Created: 1993
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- Children of missionaries. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- Church and social problems -- China. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Conversion. 1
- Cooperative societies 1
- Cooperative societies -- China. 1
- Drug addictions 1
- Drug addictions -- China. 1
- Drug traffic 1
- Drug traffic -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
- Evangelistic work. 1
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 1
- Indigenous church administration 1
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 1
- Language in missionary work. 1
- Leprosy -- China. 1
- Leprosy. 1
- Medical care 1
- Medical care -- China. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of. 1
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missionaries. 1
- Missions -- China. 1
- Missions -- Tanzania. 1
- Missions, Medical -- China. 1
- Missions, Medical. 1
- Opium trade 1
- Opium trade -- China. 1
- Presbyterians. 1
- Revivals -- United States. 1
- Revivals. 1
- Rural missions -- China. 1
- Rural missions. 1
- Smallpox 1
- Smallpox -- China. 1
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 1
- Tribes -- China. 1
- Tribes. 1
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- Women missionaries. 1
- World War, 1939-1945. 1 ∧ less
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