Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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 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
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
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- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 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 -- Training of. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- Tribes. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Children of missionaries. 1
- China -- History -- 1949- 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 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 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- College students. 1
- Communism -- China. 1
- Communism. 1
- Cooperative societies 1
- Cooperative societies -- China. 1
- Drug addictions 1
- Drug addictions -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missionaries' spouses. 1
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 1
- Missions -- Finance. 1
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
- Missions to Buddhists. 1
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 1
- Pentecostalism -- China. 1
- Pentecostalism. 1
- Persecution -- China. 1
- Persecution. 1
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Presbyterians -- United States. 1
- Religious institutions. 1
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 1
- Smallpox 1
- Smallpox -- China. 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.) -- Employees. 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 1 ∧ less
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