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Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates:
Created: 1981
Collection 424 Oral History Interviews with Ruth L. Maxwell
Collection
Identifier: CN 424
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Collection 282 Oral History Interview with Bonnie Jo Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 282
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bonnie Jo Adelsman Adolph in which she discussses her missionary service in Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission from 1966-1974. Topics discussed include Adolph's education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, living in Taiwan during her husband's military service, reasons for choosing Sudan Interior Mission, her husband's medical work in Ethiopia, observations about Sudanese culture, the church in Sudan, and the Adolphs short term mission service...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 512 Oral History Interview with Harry L. Cox
Collection
Identifier: CN 512
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Harry Luther Cox (1906-2004) in which he describes his youth and family, conversion and spiritual growth, call to missionary work, service with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, relations with and evangelism among Muslims, tribal characteristics, Kano, language study, establishing a leprosy station, medical missions, the Magazawa and Fulani peoples, raising a family on the mission field, furloughs, death of his sons, World War II, animists, children of...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 347 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 347
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Margaret (Hollander) Long in which she discusses her conversion, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary for the Sudan Interior Mission tohgether with her husband Burt) in Niger and Nigeria from 1950 through 1984. Other topics discussed include raising a family on the mission field, development of an AWANA program for Hausa children, evangelistic activities, impressions of the French colonial system, the independence of Niger, Hamami Diori,...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh
Collection
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1982
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- Children of missionaries. 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Indigenous church administration 6
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- Muslims. 6
- Church and state. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 5
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Missions -- Nigeria. 5
- Missions to Muslims. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Animism. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Great Britain 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 4
- Muslims -- Nigeria. 4
- Tribes -- Nigeria. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Children. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 3
- Church work with women. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Family. 3
- Leprosy. 3
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 3
- Nigeria 3
- Nigeria -- History 3
- Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Animism -- Nigeria. 2
- Bible colleges 2
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- Boarding schools. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
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- Church and state -- Ethiopia. 2
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- Persecution. 2
- Religion in the public schools 2
- Religion in the public schools -- Nigeria. 2
- Sex role -- Nigeria. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Amharic language. 1
- Animism -- Ethiopia. 1
- Animism -- Liberia. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Children -- Religious life. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children. -- Niger 1
- Children. -- Niger -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 6
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 4
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 2
- Adolph, Bonnie. 1
- Awana Clubs International. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Christian Medical Society. 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Cox, Harry Luther. 1
- Diori, Hamani. 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Grigolia, Alexander, 1896-1979. 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Hursh, Douglas, 1911- 1
- Latham, Lance B. 1
- Long, Burt E. 1
- Long, Ruth M. 1
- Maxwell, Ernest. 1
- Maxwell, Freeda. 1
- Maxwell, L. E. 1
- Maxwell, Ruth Lillian, 1955- 1
- Moody Bible Institute. 1
- Narramore Christian Foundation. 1
- North Side Gospel Center (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Prairie Bible Institute. 1
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 1
- SIM (Organization) 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Wheaton Eye Clinic (Ill.) 1 ∧ less
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