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Collection 206 Oral History Interview with John C. Chin

 Collection
Identifier: CN 206
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with John C. Chin (1911-1989) in which he discusses his childhood in China, medical training, and the Chinese Christian church; the work of China Inland Mission in Honan, Szechwan, and Yunnan provinces; the Japanese occupation of China; Nationalist and Communist parties; medical work in CIM and Presbyterian hospitals; war conditions and relocation to Taiwan;  Also discussed is his founding of the Lutheran Seminary, Taiwan; the contemporary status of Chinese Christians,...
Dates: Created: 1982

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 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman

 Collection
Identifier: CN 052
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978.

Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL.

Dates: Created: 1978

Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie

 Collection
Identifier: CN 286
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Marilyn Joy Suttie in which she describes her work as a missionary in Cameroon with the United Presbyterian Ecumenical Mission. Topics discussed include: Suttie's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College, and short-term missionary work, mainly teaching missionary children in Cameroon. Also includes information on the Cameroon church, polygamy, Muslims in Cameroon, and medical care, and other political, social, and religious issues in Africa. The time...
Dates: Created: 1984

Collection 075 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth Warner

 Collection
Identifier: CN 075
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Elizabeth Howard Warner (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood in the Canton Province of China as a daughter of missionaries, Canton Christian College where her father worked, studies and personalities at Wheaton College, her mission work among girls with Door of Hope Mission in Canton and Hong Kong, Chinese education, economic and social conditions, religion (particularly Buddhism), politics and government, the impact of China's war with Japan, and...
Dates: Created: 1978

Collection 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little

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Identifier: CN 315
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Marie Huttenlock Little (1918-2009) in which she describes her childhood in Philadelphia, training as a nurse and further education at Philadelphia School of Bible and the University of Pennsylvania; missionary service with China Inland Mission in 1947, working in Lanzhou and Wu Wei, Gansu province; return to the U.S. in 1950 to become a staff worker for Inter-Varsity. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1918-1955.Marie Little was...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett

 Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include  Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates: Created: 1984-1986

Collection 055 Papers of Otto F. Schoerner

 Collection
Identifier: CN 055
Scope and Contents

Papers of Otto Frederick Schoerner a Wheaton College alumnus and missionary with China Inland Mission in Sinkiang, Honan, and Kangsu Provinces of China from 1931-1951. Collection includes an oral history interview, correspondence, autobiography, and photographs.

Dates: Created: 1949-2006

Collection 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson

 Collection
Identifier: CN 263
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Margaret Johanna (Larson) Carlson in which she describes growing up in Ecuador as the child of missionaries, her education at Westmont and Wheaton Colleges, her nursing experience, and her missionary service with her husband at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Seminary in Hong Kong. Other topics discussed include: the founding of a HCJB radio station by her father, Reuben Larson, and her involvement in Wheaton College's HNGR Program. Individuals described...
Dates: Created: 1983

David H. Adeney Papers.

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Identifier: CN 393
Brief Description Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...
Dates: Created: 1911-1994

Collection 418 Papers of Hester H. Withey

 Collection
Identifier: CN 418
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and a manuscript, documenting the ministry of Hester Hartzell Withey, missionary with Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ International (WEC) in China and India from 1940-1985.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with Hester Withey in which she describes her parents’ and grandparents’ missionary service in Angola, her childhood in Africa and the U.S., education in South Africa, conversion, medical training,...
Dates: Created: 1989

Collection 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott

 Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates: Created: 1910-1988

L. Nelson Bell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 318
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
Dates: 1923-1973

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Missions -- China. 12
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Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
Children of missionaries. 9
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 8
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 8
Church and state. 8
Women missionaries. 8
Chinese -- Missions. 7
Chinese. 7
Indigenous church administration 7
Language in missionary work. 7
Missionaries -- Training of. 7
Missions, Medical. 7
Women 7
Women -- Religious life. 7
Buddhists -- China. 6
Buddhists. 6
China -- Religion. 6
Christianity and culture. 6
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Church development, New. 3
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Presbyterians. 3
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Christian life. 2
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Christian literature. 2
Christian martyrs -- China. 2
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Church work with children. 2
Church work with refugees -- China. 2
Church work with refugees. 2
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College students. 2
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Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
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Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 2
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 2
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
Christian Medical Society. 2
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
Crossett, Margaret E. 2
Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 2
Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 2
Nee, Watchman. 2
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 2
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 2
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 2
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 2
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 2
Adeney, Ruth W. 1
Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
American Bible Society. 1
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
Anderson, Peter. 1
Armitage, Carolyn. 1
Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
Bacon, Daniel W. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
Chandapilla, P. T. 1
Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
Chao, Calvin. 1
Chao, Jonathan. 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Chicago Evangelistic Institute. 1
Chin, John C. 1
China Graduate School of Theology. 1
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
Chinese Church Research Center. 1
Chinese Congress on World Evangelization (1976 : Hong Kong) 1
Chinese World Mission Centre. 1
Christian Communications Ltd. (Hong Kong) 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Chua, Wee Hian, 1939- 1
Chung, Derek. 1
Contento, Paul A. 1
Coptic Church. 1
Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
Crossett, Vincent. 1
Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore) 1
Door of Hope Mission. 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Dowsett, Dick. 1
Draper, Ben. 1
English Language Institute/China. 1
Evangelical China Office. 1
Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Malaysia) 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 1
First Asian Student Missionary Convention (1973 : Baguio, Philippines) 1
Frame, Raymond. 1
Friends of China Fellowship. 1
Fung, Raymond. 1
Gates, Alan Frederick, 1931- 1
George, A. K. 1
Girao, William B. 1
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 1
Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
Guinness, Henry, 1908- 1
HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
Hamilton, Pauline G. 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
Houghton, Stanley, 1881-1913. 1
Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 1
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 1
Jones, Clarence W. 1
Jones, Howard O. 1
Juarez, Leni. 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
Kirisutosha Gakusei Kai. 1
Kuhn, Isobel. 1
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