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Collection 421 Oral History Interviews with Arthur F. Glasser

 Collection
Identifier: CN 421
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Arthur Frederick Glasser (1914-2009) in which he discusses his family background; conversion to Christianity at a Keswick conference; his education at Moody Bible Institute and Faith Seminary in Wilmington, DE; service as a chaplain during World War II; marriage, work with Dawson Trotman and the Navigators; service as a missionary in China with China Inland Mission; the Communist revolution in China; the 1951 Bournemouth conference to determine CIM's future; and...
Dates: Created: 1989-1998

Collection 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie

 Collection
Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess

 Collection
Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates: Created: 1982

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 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett

 Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates: Created: 1984-1986

Collection 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins

 Collection
Identifier: CN 312
Scope and Contents Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
Dates: Created: 1970-1985

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

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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Evangelistic work. 7
Missionaries -- Training of. 7
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
Children of missionaries. 6
Communism -- China. 6
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Missions -- China. 6
Women missionaries. 6
China -- History. 5
Christian education. 5
Christianity and culture. 5
Church and state. 5
Evangelistic work -- China. 5
Indigenous church administration 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 4
Church development, New. 4
Family. 4
Language in missionary work. 4
Medical care 4
Religious institutions. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Buddhists -- China. 3
Buddhists. 3
Catholic Church. 3
Christian education -- China. 3
Church and social problems. 3
Church and state -- China. 3
Culture shock. 3
Education 3
Fundamentalism. 3
Indigenous church administration -- China. 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missions -- Finance. 3
Missions -- Study and teaching. 3
Missions -- Taiwan. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Missions. 3
Presbyterians. 3
Refugees 3
Refugees -- China. 3
Rural churches. 3
Rural missions. 3
Theology 3
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
Tribes. 3
Animism. 2
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
Bible. 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
China -- History -- 1949- 2
China -- Social life and customs. 2
China. 2
Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
Christian leadership. 2
Christian life. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
Christian literature. 2
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
College students. 2
Conversion. 2
Crime and criminals 2
Crime and criminals -- China. 2
Ecumenical movement. 2
Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Medical care -- China. 2
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Persecution. 2
Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
Presbyterian Church. 2
Racism. 2
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
Superstition. 2
Theological seminaries. 2
Worship (Christian) 2
African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
African Americans. 1
Ancestor worship. 1
Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
Animism -- Zimbabwe. 1
Anti-communist movements. 1
Authors and publishers -- United States. 1
Authors and publishers. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 1
Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
Catholic Church -- United States. 1
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Names
China Inland Mission. 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) 5
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
Kane, J. Herbert. 3
OMF International. 3
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Straw, Darien A. 3
Zhongguo guo min dang. 3
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 2
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 2
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 2
Crossett, Margaret E. 2
Crossett, Vincent. 2
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 2
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 2
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 2
World Council of Churches. 2
Africa Evangelical Fellowship. 1
Aldrich, Willard. 1
Barrington College. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
Booth-Clibborn, Catherine, 1860-1955. 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Coray, Edward A. 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
Fuller Theological Seminary. 1
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 1
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
Hall, John F., 1906-1984. 1
Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 1
Hawkins, Diane W. 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Hess, Esther N. 1
Hess, Lawrence. 1
Hess, Lyndon. 1
Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 1
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
Jesson, Daniel J. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 1
LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
LeBar, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1910- 1
League of Evangelical Students. 1
Leedy, John W. 1
Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 1
Moody Bible Institute. 1
Mortenson, Vernon. 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 1
Nee, Watchman. 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 1
Nowack, Ruth Louise. 1
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 1
Page, Isaac. 1
Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 1
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
Stern, David H., 1935- 1
Stott, John R. W. 1
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
Suttie, Mary Elizabeth. 1
Suttie, Melvin. 1
Taylor University (Upland, Ind.) 1
Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
Trotman, Dawson E. 1
Vaus, Jim. 1
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. 1
World Vision International. 1
World Wide Pictures, Inc. 1
Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976. 1
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