Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 105 Oral History Interview with Paul D. Votaw
Collection
Identifier: CN 105
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul Dean Votaw (1917-2007) in which he describes his childhood; education at Wheaton College, Dallas Seminary, and Princeton Seminary; and missionary activities in Syria and Lebanon. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1917-1954.Reverend Paul Votaw was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 4, 1980, at the Graham Center offices in Wheaton. The first ten minutes of the interview are barely decipherable due to technical difficulties. The...
Dates:
Created: 1980
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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- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Rural missions -- China. 3
- 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
- Church and state. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Indigenous church administration 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Medical care 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 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
- Arab-Israeli conflict. 1
- Arabs. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Syria. 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- China -- History -- 1949- 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- Church and state -- China. 1
- Church and state -- Lebanon. 1
- Church and state -- Syria. 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
- Ecumenical movement. 1
- Education 1
- Education -- Israel. 1
- Education -- Lebanon. 1
- Education -- Syria. 1
- English language 1
- English language -- Foreign speakers. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Lebanon. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Syria. 1
- Jewish-Arab relations. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missionaries' spouses. 1
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 1
- Missions -- Congresses. 1
- Missions -- Educational work. 1
- Missions -- Finance. 1
- Missions -- Lebanon. 1
- Missions -- Syria. 1
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
- Missions to Buddhists. 1
- Missions to Muslims. 1
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 1
- Muslims -- Lebanon. 1
- Muslims -- Syria. 1
- Muslims. 1
- Palestine 1
- Palestine -- History 1
- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948. 1
- Pentecostalism -- China. 1
- Pentecostalism. 1
- Persecution -- China. 1 ∧ less
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