Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935.
Person
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Wyzenbeek Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 040
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Chicago manufacturer and inventor, Andrew Wyzenbeek, who was very active as a layman in evangelistic work. Among other topics he discusses his early life in Holland, New York City, and Iowa at the turn of the century; his travels in Central and South America; his acquaintance with Billy Sunday, Paul Rader, and Peter Deyneka; the beginnings of the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle; and the beginning of Paul Rader's radio ministry. The collection also contains a folder with...
Dates:
Created: 1978
Billy and Helen Sunday Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: CN 029
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, bulletins, counselor training materials, promotional pieces, correspondence, audio tapes, photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, films and other materials gathered by the Archives from varied sources, all of which relate to the Billy and/or Helen Sunday lives and evangelistic ministry. These records had no existence as a unit until they were put together by the Archives staff. Hence they are called "ephemera" as opposed to a collection of Billy and Helen Sunday materials...
Dates:
Created: 1907-1989
Billy and Helen Sunday Papers Microfilm
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
Billy Sunday Bible.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2015-025
Dates:
1917
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Sunday Campaign Music and the Old Time Religion Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 041
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one audio recording, mostly of American Gospel music. Side 1 includes songs sung by Billy Sunday co-workers, Virginia Healey Asher and Homer Rodeheaver with the choir from the 1917 Billy Sunday revival campaign in New York City. Side 2 includes Dr. Russell Conwell telling his famous "Acres of Diamonds" story and a song by evangelist Gypsy Smith, among others.Side 1 - BILLY SUNDAY CAMPAIGN MUSIC1. Sail On -- New York Tabernacle Chorus...
Dates:
Created: Undated
Billy Sunday McKeesport (PA) campaign materials.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2017-041
Dates:
1912
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Sunday photo.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2022-036
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Billy Sunday sermons scrapbook.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2013-003
Dates:
1915
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Booklet about Billy Sunday.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2003-045
Dates:
1915
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Boston Billy Sunday Evangelistic Campaign Committee picture
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2024-019
Dates:
1917
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Carl Armerding Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 180
Scope and Contents
Diaries, correspondence, scrapbook, travel documents, oral history interview, sermons and other materials documenting Carl Armerding's career and ministry, especially his work as a Bible teacher, preacher, and leader of Central American Mission.Interview topics covered include Armerding's family background, education, recollections of Billy Sunday, Gipsy Smith, Henry Ironside and Will Houghton, missions and evangelism in Honduras and the Bahamas, speaking engagements, teaching...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Carl Armerding Papers
Charlotte Evangelistic Campaigns Research Project Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 295
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, questionnaires, audio tapes, sermon transcripts, and other documents gathered by Dr. Ivan Fahs during a research project into twentieth century evangelistic meetings held in Charlotte, NC, by J. Wilbur Chapman, Billy Sunday, Mordecai Ham, Billy Graham, and Leighton Ford, spanning 1915-1983. The materials contained in this collection consist of the data Fahs gathered plus notes and aids, such as lists of events, which he and his students made up. Materials include copies...
Dates:
Created: 1915-1983
Dan D. Crawford Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 604
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Dan Duvall Crawford in which he discusses his parents, Percy and Ruth (Duvall) Crawford; Percy Crawford’s evangelistic ministry at meetings, through radio and television programming; and the camps his father founded. Other topics discussed include Crawford’s experiences at Pine Brook Camp as a child; Pine Brook Praises and Young People’s Church of the Air; Percy Crawford’s relationship with Billy...
Dates:
Created: 2004
Edna Louise Asher Case Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 196
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Edna Louise Asher Case (1905-1999), in which she discusses her aunt, Virginia Asher, who was a co-worker of Billy Sunday; she was also involved in many other evangelistic efforts. Other topics include: Case's student days at Wheaton College, and her involvement in city mission work; impressions of Mel Trotter, Billy Sunday, Helen Sunday. The time frame covered by the interview is 1905 to 1929.Edna Case was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 27,...
Dates:
Created: 1905-1929
Elizabeth Evans Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 279
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Morrell Evans (1899-1976) in which she discusses her childhood; education at Wheaton College; work with J. Elwin Wright; her Christian education activities; the development of the New England Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the World Evangelical Fellowship; and her work as a missionary in Taiwan. The time period covered by the interviews is 1899-1976.Elizabeth Evans was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 8,...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1985
Everett Mitchell Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 140
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Everett Mitchell (1898-1990) who as a teenager sang invitation songs at Billy Sunday evangelistic campaigns. Other topics discussed include: Mitchell's background, music and radio career, musical training, Billy and Helen Sunday, evangelistic work in Chicago, Gipsy Smith, Homer Rodeheaver, other evangelists, career as a war correspondent during the Korean War, religious use of radio, evangelistic rallies and crusade music. The time period covered by the intervew...
Dates:
Created: 1989-1980
Everett Mitchell Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-014
Scope and Contents
The Everett Mitchell Collection contains a variety of material relating to this early radio pioneer and agricultural broadcaster. The collection spans the years from 1910 to 1985 with the bulk of the material falling into the years 1940 to 1960. Mitchell was a well established broadcaster by the 1940s, thus the collection focuses on his "mature" years.The collection contains subject files on a variety of topics, photographs, and non print media including audio and video cassettes...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1960
Found in:
Special Collections
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Everett Mitchell Papers
Frances Rader Longino Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 139
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Frances Rader Longino (1909-1996) in which she recounts memories of evangelists Billy Sunday, Mel Trotter, Homer Rodeheaver, and her uncle, Paul Rader. Other topics include: city mission work and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Pacific Garden Mission, Winona Lake, and Cedar Lake Conference Grounds. Also included are reminiscences of Rader's reaction to Aimee Semple Mc Pherson, the formation of Scripture Press, Billy Graham's early preaching and crusades, and some...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Gipsy Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 109
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings, audio tapes and phonograph records of Smith singing hymns, and photographs. Newspaper clippings are about meetings held by Smith in Denver, Colorado (1909) and with Billy Sunday in Boston, Massachusetts (1935); included are extended excerpts from both men's sermons.This collection consists of newspaper clipping of Smith's 1909 evangelistic meetings in Denver (folder 1-16), scrapbook pages (folders 1-1 through 1-13) containing newspaper reports about Smith's...
Dates:
Created: 1909-1935
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Gipsy Smith Collection
Henry W. Stough Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 106
Scope and Contents
Evangelistic campaign materials, correspondence, an autobiographical manuscript, microfilm of clippings scrapbooks, scrapbook, sermons, sermon notebooks, and photographs relating to the evangelistic career of Stough.Sermon notes, autobiographical manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, a microfilmed scrapbook of Stough's 1915 campaigns in Altoona and Lancaster (Pennsylvania), sermon notebooks, and a xeroxed copy of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and pamphlets from the 1916...
Dates:
Created: 1911-1939
Homer Hammontree papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 1991-023
Dates:
1907-1966
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Homer Rodeheaver Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 130
Scope and Contents
Audio tapes, newspaper clippings, phonograph records and photographs relating to the musical career and ministry of Homer Rodeheaver. This collection consists mostly of materials from the Homer A. Rodeheaver Company, a publisher of gospel music. There are several different types of order blanks and promotional materials. One newspaper clipping from 1937 refers to his appearance on a CBS radio affiliate playing his trombone. Other items include two issues of Rodeheaver's Musical News which...
Dates:
Created: 1916-1939
Independent Weekly issue with Billy Sunday article.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1980-106
Dates:
1915
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ivan Fahs evangelistic campaign project records.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2020-014
Dates:
1982-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
J. Herbert and Winnifred Kane Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 182
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and curriculum material from James Herbert Kane and Winnifred Mary (Shepherd) Kane's missiology courses, and three oral history interviews. Materials document the Kanes' missionary work in China and Dr. Kane's teaching in the U.S. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1932 to 1950.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1987
J. Palmer Muntz Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 108
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, a book manuscript, a film script, tapes of sermons and speeches, and other items which describe Muntz's early career as director of the Winona Lake Bible Conference, the early development of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the criticism it received, the careers of Billy Sunday and other evangelists. There are also several sermons on Christian prophecy and evangelism to the Jewish people. Topics covered include information on Palmer's career...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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J. Palmer Muntz Papers
Jack Wyrtzen Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN-446
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, audio tapes and video tapes relating to the ministry of Jack Wyrtzen.Series: Audio TapesTape 1 to Tape 7: Oral history interviews with Jack Wyrtzen in which he describes his parents, childhood, early influences, conversion, relations with other Christian leaders, development of the Word of Life Fellowship, radio and television work and youth work. The time period covered by the...
Dates:
Created: 1991
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Jack Wyrtzen Papers
John A. Huffman, Sr., Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 389
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, correspondence, films, negatives, photographs, and radio programs which document the life and ministry of John A. Huffman, Sr. The materials cover his presidency of the Winona Lake School of Theology dealing mainly with the work of the students and faculty. There are some materials on the relationship of the School with Fuller Theological Seminary, films about Islam, the WLST tour of Israel and over two dozen radio programs of Great Moments with the Master and...
Dates:
Created: 1934-1988
John E. Phillips Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 488
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, letters, newspaper clipping, a booklet and other materials, relating mainly to John E. Phillips' work as a missionary with the Sudan Interior Mission among the Kambatta people of Ethiopia (1932-1937) and among the Dinka people of Sudan (1938-1949). There is also some information on his involvement in other ministries, such as Ambassadors for Christ and the Allentown Rescue Mission.
Dates:
Created: 1926-2003
Kathryn M. Feldi Oral History Interview
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
Lois Gregory Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 625
Scope and Contents
Class papers and notes, correspondence, hymns, manuscript, post cards, sermon notes, and thesis documenting the ministry of Lois Vashti Gregory, American Methodist evangelist and teacher of Christian values to young people. Her ministry not only included preaching to adults but also teaching young people, especially children, in Christian ethics and living a morally pure life. Gregory was particularly active in the northeast region of the United States.
Dates:
Created: 1887-1961; Majority of material found in 1902-1961
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Lois Gregory Papers
Melvin E. Trotter Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 047
Scope and Contents
Sermons, personal memorabilia, audio tape of Trotter's preaching, negatives, photographs, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, and correspondence related to Trotter's ministry as an evangelist and in rescue mission work. Collection combines Trotter's papers and the City Rescue Mission's records, including invitations to speak, responses to invitations from Trotter to speak at the mission, an abstract of a deed, requests for funds, testimonials to the good work of the mission, reports from...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1972
Merrill Dunlop Collection
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
Milan B. Williams Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 601
Scope and Contents
Clippings, correspondence, miscellaneous documents, and photographs which document the life and ministry of Milan B. Williams. The materials cover his life as a state legislator in Kansas and his evangelistic work.
Dates:
Created: 1874-1941; Majority of material found in 1892-1941
Moody Church Records
Collection
Identifier: CN-330
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started in 1864 by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946. Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities in the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents such...
Dates:
Created: 1864-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Moody Church Records
Mordecai Ham Collection
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
Paul Beckwith papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2006-037
Dates:
1930-1975
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Paul P. Stough Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Paul P. Stough Papers
Phonograph record including Aimee Semple McPherson and Billy Sunday.
Unprocessed Material — loose: 2
Identifier: 1979-104
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Rolland and Thelma Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 683
Scope and Contents
Newsletters, prayer letters, fund-raising and promotional material, donor correspondence, pamphlets, blueprints, maps, personal correspondence, programs, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, radio program scripts, and photographs relating to the Rolland and Thelma Smith’s missionary work among the Cree First Nations in Alberta, Canada (1945-1960). The collection also contains camp meeting itineraries, newspaper clippings, financial reports, brochures and directories relating to Sebring...
Dates:
Created: 1942-2000
Ruth M. Thomas Oral History Interview
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
Virginia Healey Asher Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 197
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, procedures for evangelistic work, two diaries, autograph book, memorial booklets, clippings, tracts and photographs relating to Virginia Healey Asher’s ministry.The collection consists of a small amount of correspondence (folder 1-1), typed instruction for the Business Women's Invitation Committee (folder 1-6), two diaries and an autograph book (folders 1-3 to 1-5). Also included is a memorial booklet to J. Wilbur Chapman and clippings or tracts of other...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1941
Washington Street Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 193
Scope and Contents
Sermon notes, minutes, financial records, reports, oral history transcript, clippings, estate descriptions, tracts on various cults and heresies, and photographs documenting the history of the Washington Street Mission in Springfield, Illinois between 1914 and 1982.Records describe tan urban mission and the effectiveness of their programs, administration, and financial activities, and a historical view of its origins in an oral history interview with Mary Brown Miller. Sermon...
Dates:
Created: 1916-1982
William B. Riley Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 095
Scope and Contents
Films, including a home movie, microfilm of scrapbooks, notebooks, clippings, and sermons of William Bell Riley, noted Fundamentalist, Baptist minister, theologian,and founder and president of of Northwestern Bible School in Minnesota.
Dates:
Created: 1903-1945
William Biederwolf Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 195
Scope and Contents
Sermons, speeches, scrapbooks, articles, correspondence, and other materials which document William Biederwolf's education and evangelistic activities. [NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]The collection consists mostly of scrapbooks, magazine articles, and manuscripts of Biederwolf's sermons and speeches. There are also a few letters and some miscellaneous items. They were...
Dates:
Created: 1884-1922
Additional filters:
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- Collection 34
- Unprocessed Material 11
- Subject
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 25
- Conversion -- Christianity. 14
- Evangelistic sermons. 14
- Fundamentalism. 13
- Sermons, American. 13
- Church and social problems -- United States. 10
- Cities and towns -- United States. 9
- City missions -- United States. 8
- Preaching. 8
- Prohibition -- United States. 8
- Women -- Religious life. 8
- Evangelistic invitations. 7
- Evangelistic work -- Illinois -- Chicago. 7
- Evangelistic work -- Songs and music. 7
- Gospel musicians -- United States. 7
- Radio in religion -- United States. 7
- Religious institutions. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 6
- Belief and doubt -- Sermons. 5
- Bible -- Sermons. 5
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 5
- Christian life. 5
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 5
- Evangelistic work -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 5
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 5
- Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. 5
- Salvation -- Christianity -- Sermons. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Catholic Church -- United States. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Church and state -- United States. 4
- Conversion -- Sermons. 4
- Forgiveness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Gospel music. 4
- Hymns, English -- United States. 4
- Marriage. 4
- Mass media in religion -- United States. 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Music -- United States. 4
- Repentance -- Sermons. 4
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935 -- Sermons. Selections. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- 1920s 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 3
- Christian education -- United States. 3
- Christian life -- Sermons. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Church work with the working class -- United States. 3
- Church work with women -- United States. 3
- Church work with youth -- United States. 3
- Conversion -- Christianity -- Hymns. 3
- Death -- Sermons. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 3
- Faith -- Hymns. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Prohibitionists -- United States. 3
- Race relations. 3
- Radio broadcasting -- United States. 3
- Salvation -- Christianity -- Hymns. 3
- Second Advent -- Sermons. 3
- Temperance -- Sermons. 3
- Theological seminaries -- United States. 3
- Winona Lake (Ind.) 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Baptism. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Inspiration. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Biederwolf, William E. (William Edward), 1867-1939 -- Sermons. Selections. 2
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Evangelicalism. 2
- Charlotte (N.C.) 2
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 2
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Christian education of children. 2
- Christian education, Outdoor. 2
- Christian life -- Hymns. 2
- Christian literature -- Publishing -- United States. 2
- Christian stewardship. 2
- Christian vacation schools. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Sermons. 2
- Church and social problems -- Sermons. 2
- Church architecture -- United States. 2
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
- Church work with the poor -- United States. 2
- City missions -- Illinois -- Chicago. 2
- Communism. 2
- Creation -- Biblical teaching. 2
- Dispensationalism -- Sermons. 2
- Divorce. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Eschatology. 2
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Judaism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kansas. 2 ∧ less
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