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Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935.

 Person

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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 139 Oral History Interview with Frances Rader Longino

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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

Collection 182 Papers of J. Herbert and Winnifred Kane

 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

Collection 197 Papers of Virginia Healey Asher

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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

Collection 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans

 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

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 625 Papers of Lois Gregory

 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

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 by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946.Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities of 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...
Dates: Created: 1864-1987

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Evangelistic work -- United States. 7
Church and social problems. 6
Conversion. 5
Christian education. 4
Church and social problems -- United States. 4
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City missions. 4
Fundamentalism. 4
Missionaries. 4
Women missionaries. 4
Chicago (Ill.) 3
Children. 3
Christian education -- United States. 3
Christian life. 3
Christianity and culture. 3
Church work with women -- United States. 3
Church work with women. 3
Cities and towns -- United States. 3
City missions -- United States. 3
Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 3
Missions -- China. 3
Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 3
Presbyterians. 3
Sermons, American. 3
Sex role. 3
Women in church work. 3
Belief and doubt. 2
Buddhists. 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 2
Children -- United States 2
Children -- United States -- Religious life. 2
Christian education of children. 2
Church and state. 2
Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
Church work with military personnel. 2
Church work with the working class 2
Church work with the working class -- United States. 2
Cities and towns. 2
Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Evangelistic invitations. 2
Evangelistic sermons. 2
Evangelistic work -- Boston. 2
Evangelistic work -- China. 2
Family. 2
Independent churches. 2
Indigenous church administration 2
Mass media in religion -- United States. 2
Mass media in religion. 2
Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Missions. 2
Pentecostalism -- United States. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Prohibition 2
Prohibition -- United States. 2
Religion and science. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Repentance -- Sermons. 2
Repentance. 2
Rural churches. 2
Women in church work -- United States. 2
World War, 1914-1918. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
Youth 2
African Americans -- Religious life. 1
African Americans. 1
Antismoking movement. 1
Athletes 1
Athletes -- United States 1
Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Baptism. 1
Belief and doubt -- Sermons. 1
Bible -- Sermons. 1
Bible. 1
Buddhists -- China. 1
Buddhists -- Taiwan. 1
Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 1
Catholic Church -- United States. 1
Catholic Church. 1
Chaplains, Military 1
Chaplains, Military -- United States. 1
Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
Children -- Religious life. 1
Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
Children of missionaries. 1
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
China -- History. 1
China. 1
Christian education -- China. 1
Christian education -- Philosophy. 1
Christian education -- Taiwan. 1
Christian education of children -- United States. 1
Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 1
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