Thomas, Ruth Hatcher,
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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 wiht 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. 1
- China -- History. 1
- Cooperative societies 1
- Cooperative societies -- China. 1
- Drug addictions 1
- Drug addictions -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
- Missions to Buddhists. 1
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 1
- Smallpox 1
- Smallpox -- China. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 1
- Women 1
- Women -- Religious life. 1
- Women missionaries. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 1
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