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Smith, Oswald J.

 Person

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Christianity Today Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 008
Brief Description Correspondence, memos, forms, financial reports, minutes of meetings, study papers, clippings and other records of the Evangelical Christian publishing organization. The records describe the founding of the organization to publish the magazine Christianity Today and its creation or acquisition of other publications such as Campus Life, Leadership, Leadership 100, Partnership, and Your Church. Besides material on the editing, publishing and distribution of these periodicals, the files also...
Dates: Created: Majority of material found within 1930, 1954-2002

Collection 050 Ephemera of Merrill Dunlop

 Collection
Identifier: CN 050
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, photographs, and a video recordings relating to the ministry of Merrill Dunlop (1905-2002).The oral history interviews with Merrill Dunlop cover his association with evangelist Paul Rader, early religious radio programming in Chicago, the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Youth for Christ, Christian evangelism and Christian music work. Merrill Dunlop was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 21, 1978 and June 1, 1979, at Dunlop's home in Oak Park, Illinois....
Dates: Created: 1978-1988

Collection 061 Papers of Billy and Helen Sunday

 Collection
Identifier: CN 061
Scope and Contents Microfilm edition of original documents held in Winona Lake, Indiana, including correspondence, sermons, reports, revival ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing mainly with the career of evangelist Billy Sunday from its beginning to his death and about the work of his wife Helen, who, besides acting as his general manager, was a fundamentalist leader in her own right, especially after his death. Persons featured include numerous fundamentalist figures and institutions; sermon topics cover a wide...
Dates: Created: 1882-1974

Collection 118 Ephemera of Mordecai Ham

 Collection
Identifier: CN 118
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, oral history interviews, newspaper clippings, microfilm, periodicals, photographs, sermon transcripts and notebooks. It documents in a non-comprehensive way Ham’s preaching style, some of his evangelistic meetings; his campaigns against Roman Catholics, Jews, evolution, and for the prohibition of alcohol and the racial hierarchy in the American South. There is in particular a great deal of material about the 1934 meetings in Charlotte when Billy...
Dates: Created: 1875-1983; Majority of material found within 1915-1934

Collection 189 Papers of Mary Goforth Moynan

 Collection
Identifier: CN 189
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous personal papers, an autobiography, oral history interviews and color slides relating to the ministry of Mary Goforth Moynan. Topics covered include Moynan's memories of the personalities and work of her parents, Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth; evangelistic work in China before World War II; her own career in Christian work; and her trips in 1979 to Taiwan and in 1980 to the People's Republic of China.

Dates: Created: 1918-1994

Collection 221 Ephemera of Campus Crusade for Christ

 Collection
Identifier: CN 221
Scope and Contents Ten phonograph records and one audio tape containing messages by William R. Bright, Billy Graham, Richard C. Halverson, F.J. Huegel, J. Edwin Orr, Eugenia Price, Bernard Ramm, Wilbur Smith, and others used for various aspects of CCC ministry.The ten phonograph records are approximately twenty minutes on each side and consist of talks on selected topics delivered by Bill Bright, members of the CCC Board, and other outstanding individuals, authors, professors, and missionaries. ...
Dates: Created: 1960

Collection 225 Records of the Baptista Film Mission

 Collection
Identifier: CN 225
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, newsletters, scripts, catalogs, films, and other material related to the work of the Baptista Film Mission. This collection contains much information on the beginnings of the Protestant evangelical Christian film industry. Included are films featured are evangelical and fundamentalist figures like V. Raymond Edman, Billy Graham, Henry A. Ironside, Bob Jones Jr., Paul Rader, Oswald J. Smith, and Walter Wilson and nondenominational organizations. Subjects documented...
Dates: Created: 1908-1977; Majority of material found in 1939-1963

Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association

 Collection
Identifier: CN 237
Description: Correspondence, minutes, prayer letters, audio tapes, films, and other materials documenting the work of the Slavic Gospel Association among Slavic peoples, primarily Russians. Records deal with the early career of Peter Deyneka Sr.; work of individual missionaries; long range planning for the mission; media ministry (radio, film, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union video, literature); and evangelism in Europe, North America and South America. Collection contains...
Dates: Created: 1922-2002

Collection 270 Oral History Interview with Ray Schulenburg

 Collection
Identifier: CN 270
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Roy Harvey Schulenberg (1909-2003) in which he discusses his conversion and involvement in Christian work, his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, the early days of Youth for Christ, evangelistic preaching, and city missions. Other topics discussed include: Rader’s radio ministry, Moody Memorial Church, evangelical figures who worked with or were influenced by Rader (Lance Latham, Richard Oliver, Howard Ferrin, Oswald Smith, Clarence Jones,...
Dates: Created: 1984

Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson Sr.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 285
Scope and Contents Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson’s life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson’s pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...
Dates: Created: 1919 -2001

Collection 322 Papers of Oswald J. Smith

 Collection
Identifier: CN 322
Scope and Contents Correspondence, audio tapes, hymn and poem manuscripts, lantern slides, phonograph records, negatives, photographs, tracts, posters, audio tapes, clippings, scrapbooks, etc., related to Oswald J. Smith's career as an evangelist, pastor, author and editor, hymn writer and poet, colporteur, and promoter of missions involvement. Includes material on the Smith family; his evangelistic ministry, particularly in Canada; the North American hymn publishing industry, particularly correspondence with...
Dates: Created: 1890-1986

Collection 443 Oral History Interviews with William L. Simmer

 Collection
Identifier: CN 443
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with William Leonard Simmer (1929-2015) in which he discusses his childhood, years in the United States Air Force, conversion to Christianity, education at Washington Bible College, and the development of Good News Jail and Prison ministry. Other topics discussed include: Carl Henry, Grady Wilson, and the BGEA 1960 Washington, DC, Crusade. The time period covered by the interviews is 1929 to 1991.William Leonard Simmer was interviewed by Robert Shuster on...
Dates: Created: 1991

Collection 464 Oral History Interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn

 Collection
Identifier: CN 464
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn in which she describes her family background; her conversion to Christianity; her medical training as a nurse; life at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1940s; China Inland Mission at about the same time; her call to foreign missions; her work at the CIM retirement home in Toronto; descriptions of John and Isobel Kuhn; work among the Lisu people in Thailand and Burma; translation of the Bible into the Lisu language; contacts with a former...
Dates: Created: 1992-1994

Collection 541: George Beverly Shea Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 541
Scope and Contents Correspondence, sheet music, business records, phonograph records, programs, songbooks, and other materials from Shea’s career as a soloist, radio personality, and composer. Most of the material is from the last decades of his life, especially his work with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), but the entire range of his life from the 1930s on is covered. Though representing only a fraction of Shea’s papers, it includes a rich collection of source material that Shea used in his...
Dates: 1931-2010

Evangelical speakers audio tapes.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 2
Identifier: 2005-027
Dates: 1959-1967

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 5
Identifier: 1994-031
Dates: 1960-1991

Leighton Sandys Ford oral history interviews

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-012
Dates: 2023

Religious pamphlets and postcard.

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1982-055
Dates: 1935-1947

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 14
Unprocessed Material 4
 
Subject
Evangelistic work. 13
Conversion. 10
Evangelistic work -- United States. 10
Fundamentalism. 8
Church and social problems. 7
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Bible. 6
Christian life. 6
Evangelicalism. 6
Prayer. 6
Radio in religion. 6
Belief and doubt. 5
Church and state. 5
Evangelicalism -- United States. 5
Evangelistic sermons. 5
Mass media in religion -- United States. 5
Mass media in religion. 5
Preaching. 5
Salvation. 5
Sermons, American. 5
Catholic Church. 4
Chicago (Ill.) 4
Children. 4
Church and social problems -- United States. 4
Evangelistic invitations. 4
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 4
Missionaries -- Training of. 4
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
Missionaries. 4
Missions -- Congresses. 4
Belief and doubt -- Sermons. 3
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
Bible -- Sermons. 3
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
Children -- United States 3
Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
Christian life -- Sermons. 3
Church and state -- United States. 3
Church work with youth -- United States. 3
Church work with youth. 3
City missions. 3
Conversion -- Sermons. 3
Evangelicalism -- Judaism. 3
Evangelistic work -- Canada. 3
Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 3
Faith -- Sermons. 3
Faith. 3
Family. 3
Fund raising. 3
Gospel music. 3
Gospel musicians. 3
Great Commission (Bible) 3
Hymn writers -- United States. 3
Israel. 3
Missions. 3
Prayer -- Sermons. 3
Race relations. 3
Radio in religion -- United States. 3
Religious institutions. 3
Salvation -- Sermons. 3
Second Advent 3
Second Advent -- Sermons. 3
Sin. 3
Smith, Oswald J. -- Sermons. 3
Theology 3
Women 3
Women -- Religious life. 3
African Americans. 2
Bible colleges 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 2
Children -- United States -- Religious life. 2
Christian education. 2
Christian leadership. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
Christian literature. 2
Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
Church work with military personnel. 2
Church work with the working class 2
City missions -- United States. 2
Communism. 2
Conversion -- Hymns. 2
Creation. 2
Depressions 2
Depressions -- 1929 2
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 2
Eschatology. 2
Evangelistic work -- Europe, Eastern. 2
Evangelistic work -- Hymns. 2
Evangelistic work -- Vietnam. 2
Gospel musicians -- United States. 2
Graham, Billy -- 1918-2018 -- Sermons 2
Great Commission (Bible) -- Sermons. 2
Holy Spirit. 2
Hymn writers. 2
Independent churches. 2
Interdenominational cooperation -- United States. 2
Interdenominational cooperation. 2
International relief. 2
Journalism, Religious -- United States. 2
Journalism, Religious. 2
Liberalism (Religion) 2
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