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Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 215
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, directories, newsletters, brochures, photographs, book manuscripts, slides, photo albums, and other materials which document the history of the North American branch of the mission. Materials cover the origins of the mission's North American branch; its church planting, evangelistic, medical, educational, and literature work in China until the time of its expulsion in 1951; its reorganization from China Inland Mission into Overseas Missionary Fellowship; its work...
Dates: Created: 1853, 1886-1990, 1997, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-1990

Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 107
Scope and Contents

Diaries, correspondence, sermon notes, Sunday school lessons, newspaper clippings, brochures, memorial booklet, photographs, diaries, audio tapes, and glass negatives from R.A. Torrey's career as evangelist, teacher, author, and family man.

Dates: Created: 1882-1983

Small Collection 041 Records of Hwa Nan College

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Identifier: Small CN 041
Scope and Contents This collection includes a letter, several articles, and photographs, which contain information about the college or people connected with the college. The letter is dated 1930 and is by missionary Dorothea Keeney. She describes the inauguration of the college's first Chinese president, Lucy C. Wang; the school's commencement; and a wedding of one of the staff. One of the articles is by Lucy Wang and from the July 31 issue of Woman's Missionary Friend. It...
Dates: Created: 1920-1931

Small Collection 061 Papers of Charles Blanchett

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Identifier: Small CN 061
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a booklet of nine watercolor sketches illustrating a three-verse limerick written in English but lettered in a verticle stylistic Chinese script; was presented to Charles Isaac Blanchett (1875-1933) upon his arrival in Pakhoi, China (near Hong Kong), to work with the Church Missionary Society.  The booklet depicts an imaginary world in which Blanchett and his colleague, Bishop Rt. Rev. G.H. Landers (bishop of Hong Kong) are ambushed by cannibals.

Dates: Created: 1908

Small Collection 065 Papers of Joseph K. Wright

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Identifier: Small CN 065
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a letter from Joseph Kingsburg Wight, missionary to China, to his brother, William Wight, describing his sea voyage to China, the condition of Shanghai, missionary endeavors in China and the Taiping Rebellion.

Dates: Created: 1856

Small Collection 074 Papers of Robert W. Porteous

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Identifier: Small CN 074
Scope and Contents This collection contains a prayer letter by Robert Porteous describing accounts of the activities of the church in Yichun, Jianxi Province, including an intensive Bible school and conference for women, prayer meetings for several captured Christian workers, and weekly services, all taking place in the midst of troop movements by government and communist troops, which, although disruptive, did not interfere with church activities. Also included are items about military conflict and...
Dates: Created: 1928

Small Collection 075 Papers of Charles Fairclough

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Identifier: Small CN 075
Scope and Contents Ths collection contains a ten-page prayer letter from Charles Fairclough, describing a tour of mission stations in Zhejiang Province, the evidence of cultural and social upheaval in the area, an evaluation of the church in China as it emerged from persecution, reflection on the political, social and cultural developments during Fairclough's 30 years of missionary work, an overview of current developments following civil war from 1926-1928, and an evaluation of China's future.  Includes 4...
Dates: Created: 1928

Small Collection 076 Papers of Edwin W. Fisch

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Identifier: Small CN 076
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a prayer letter from Edwin William Fisch, a missionary with China Inland Mission, detailing his first days in China including descriptions of his arrival in Shanghai, the China Inland Mission compound and hospital, Shanghai street life, visits to training institutes, medical facilities, leading a worship service, travel on the Yangtze River, and the working classes.

Dates: Created: 1937

Small Collection 078 Papers of Ralph and Helen Scoville

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Identifier: Small CN 078
Scope and Contents

This collection contains three prayer letters describing Ralph and Helen Scovilles' missionary work in China; travel from Shanghai to Ningsha, Kansu Province (now Yinchuan, Gansu) and raid and 23-day occupation of Ningsha by Muslim bandits.

Dates: Created: 1928-1929

Small Collection 079 Papers of Charles Thomson

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Identifier: Small CN 079
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one prayer letter from Charles Thomson, describing progress made in evangelistic work in China, excerpts from missionaries' letters appealing for prayer, and an appeal for new missionaries.

Dates: Created: 1929

Small Collection 080 Papers of Martha Pohnert

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Identifier: Small CN 080
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one prayer letter from Martha Pohnert, a missionary with China Inland Mission, decribing Pohnert's Chinese co-workers, prayer needs, famine in the area, and the state of an outlying town damaged by soldiers.

Dates: Created: 1929

Small Collection 081 Papers of A. Bertram Lewis

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Identifier: Small CN 081
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one letter from A. Bertram Lewis, describing his work as missionary in Kiangsi Province, China, with China Inland Mission, the progress of evangelistic work, involvement of Chinese Christians in evangelism, and a Bible conference.

Dates: Created: 1937

Small Collection 082 Papers of Hannah L. Reid

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Identifier: Small CN 082
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one prayer letter from Hannah L. Reid, describing Reid's work as missionary with China Inland Mission, the illness of Reid's missionary sister, Lilias Reid, and subsequent medical treatment, death and funeral.

Dates: Created: 1934

Small Collection 084 Ephemera of Nathan Walton

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Identifier: Small CN 084
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two letters and several items related to the drowning of missionary George E. King in 1927. The letters describe the Waltons' travel as missionaries with China Inland Mission, and a Bible conference for Chinese Christians.  Also includes CIM newsletter and report which describe the treacherous raft trip made by 38 missionaries and their families who were withdrawing from the Kansu Province during which King drowned.

Dates: Created: 1927-1940

Small Collection 085 Papers of Harold and Helen Hayward

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Identifier: Small CN 085
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one prayer letter from Harold D. and Helen M. Hayward, describes the Haywards' overland travel as China Inland Mission workers with a description of the countryside and cities enroute to Xining, their assigned station, near the Tibetan border.

Dates: Created: 1926

Small Collection 086 Papers of Herbert and Minnie Flagg

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 086
Scope and Contents This collection contains two prayer letters from Herbert W. and Minnie E. Flagg, decsribing the Flaggs' work as missionaries with China Inland Mission, and political and social turmoil due to conflict between nationalist and communist forces and local robber bands, including G.M. Metcalf's being held as a hostage; Shanghai CIM compound caught in the crossfire in one instance; missionaries fleeing from the countryside; propaganda slogans; and attempts to continue work inland. Since many CIM...
Dates: Created: 1927

Small Collection 091 Ephemera of Theodore Fischbacher

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Identifier: Small CN 091
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an annotated article (written by Phyllis Thompson) about the North-West Bible Institute (NWBI) in Fengzian, Shensi Province, describing the development of the Back to Jerusalem Evangelisitc Band, which evangelized in western China, including among Muslims.  Also includes photocopies from Theodore Fischbacher's scrapbook with photographs of NWBI (1941-1947) and the Fischbacher family (1942-1944).

Dates: Created: 1941-1947

Small Collection 097 Papers of Reuben Archer Torrey, Jr.

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Identifier: Small CN 097
Scope and Contents

This collection contains pamphlets, correspondence, reports and articles created by Reuben Archer Torrey, Jr. documenting his internment by the Japanese in China, the great physical and spiritual needs of the people in South Korea following the war there, and the development of the rehabilitation program under Torrey's administration.

Dates: Created: 1942-1966

Small Collection 110 Ephemera of Helen Stam

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 110
Scope and Contents

This collection contains newspaper clippings relating to Helen Priscilla Stam, whose missionary parents, John and Betty Stam, were killed by communist soliders in China when Helen Stam was an infant. The clippings decsribe the Stam's ministry in China; their deaths; Helen Stam's rescue by local Christians; and expresses the hopes of her grandparents that she would become a missionary.

Dates: Created: 1934-1939

Small Collection 114 Ephemera of William Ekvall Simpson

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 114
Scope and Contents This collection contains a booklet of photocopies assembled by Ray Smith and a photocopy of a manuscript copied from a typed manuscript attributed to William Wallace Simpson. The booklet contains a narrative by Smith about the life and death of William E. Wallace and copies of many documents, articles and excerpts from books. The documents are mainly concerned with the investigation into the death of the two men, while the articles and excerpts also deal to some extent with Simpson's work as...
Dates: Created: 1998

Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 003
Brief Description Correspondence, proposals, reports, minutes, programs, publications brochures, budgets, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, and video tapes related to the founding, ground breaking and dedication and continuing work of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College as a research and training center in evangelism, and its ongoing activities. Includes audio and video recordings of Center-sponsored conferences (on themes including evangelism and evangelistic preaching, outreach to various...
Dates: Created: 1919-2011

Woman's Union Missionary Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 379
Brief Description Correspondence, reports, personnel files, legal documents, financial files, scrapbooks, and almost 3,000 photographs that document the activity, personnel, and ministry of the organization founded in 1860 by Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus. THe mission was intended as a vehicle for sending single women as missionaries to women in closed societies (and therefore unreachable by male missionaries) in Asia, covering their medical and educational work among orphans and women in Burma, China, India,...
Dates: Created: 1860-1983

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Missions -- China. 101
Evangelistic work. 83
Evangelistic work -- China. 76
Missionaries. 62
China -- History. 61
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Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 52
Women missionaries. 50
Communism -- China. 49
Communism. 47
Missions. 43
Women -- Religious life. 43
Children of missionaries. 42
Women 40
Missionaries -- Training of. 39
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 38
Conversion. 37
China. 32
Language in missionary work. 32
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 31
World War, 1939-1945. 29
Church and state. 28
Christian education. 27
Indigenous church administration 27
Missions, Medical. 27
Persecution. 26
Christianity and culture. 25
Evangelistic work -- United States. 25
Medical care 25
Missions -- Educational work. 24
Persecution -- China. 24
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 23
Medical care -- China. 22
Bible. 21
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 21
Indigenous church administration -- China. 20
Christian life. 19
Church and state -- China. 19
China -- History -- 1949- 18
Church and social problems. 18
Missions -- India. 18
Religious institutions. 18
Rural missions. 18
Catholic Church. 17
Evangelicalism. 17
Buddhists. 16
Fundamentalism. 16
Refugees 16
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 15
Chinese -- Missions. 15
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 15
Christian literature. 15
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 15
Tribes. 15
Chinese 14
Christian education -- China. 14
Culture shock. 14
Evangelistic work -- China -- Religion. 14
Missions -- Finance. 14
Missions -- Study and teaching. 14
Missions to Muslims. 14
Pentecostalism. 14
Presbyterians. 14
Buddhists -- China. 13
Christian leadership. 13
Missionaries' spouses. 13
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 13
Missions -- Japan. 13
Bible -- Study and teaching. 12
Boarding schools. 12
Education 12
Family. 12
Missionaries, Resignation of. 12
Missions to Buddhists. 12
Missions, Medical -- China. 12
Muslims. 12
Rural churches. 12
Sunday schools. 12
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 12
Bible -- Translating. 11
Church work with women. 11
Evangelicalism -- United States. 11
Missions -- Biblical teaching. 11
Prayer. 11
Radio in religion. 11
Refugees -- China. 11
Rural churches -- China. 11
Sex role. 11
Bible colleges 10
Boarding schools -- China. 10
Children of missionaries -- China. 10
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 10
Chinese language. 10
Christian martyrs. 10
Church development, New. 10
Church work with women -- China. 10
Evangelistic work -- China -- Description and travel. 10
Mass media in religion. 10
Missions -- Europe. 10
Missions -- Taiwan. 10
Missions -- Tibet. 10
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Names
China Inland Mission. 47
OMF International. 31
Wheaton College (Ill.) 28
Zhongguo guo min dang. 27
Moody Bible Institute. 19
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Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 14
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 14
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 13
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 11
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 10
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 9
Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905. 9
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 8
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 8
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 7
Kuhn, Isobel. 7
Kuhn, John Becker. 7
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 7
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 7
The Evangelical Alliance Mission. 7
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 6
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 6
Graham, Ruth Bell. 6
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 6
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 6
Kane, J. Herbert. 6
World Evangelical Fellowship. 6
Assemblies of God. 5
Bright, Bill. 5
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 5
Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 5
Frame, Raymond. 5
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 5
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 5
National Association of Evangelicals. 5
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 5
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 5
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 4
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 4
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 4
Far East Broadcasting Company. 4
Frame, Helen. 4
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 4
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 4
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 4
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 4
Nee, Watchman. 4
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 4
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 4
Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 4
Straw, Darien A. 4
Sudan Interior Mission. 4
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 4
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 3
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 3
Barrows, Cliff. 3
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 3
Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 3
Carlson, Robert Dean. 3
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 3
Christian Medical Society. 3
Contento, Paul A. 3
Crossett, Margaret E. 3
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 3
Evans, Robert P., 1918-2011. 3
Ford, Leighton. 3
Fuller Theological Seminary. 3
Goforth, Jonathan, 1859-1936. 3
Goforth, Rosalind, 1864-1942. 3
HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 3
Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 3
Hess, Esther N. 3
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 3
Jones, Clarence W. 3
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 3
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 3
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976. 3
Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899. 3
Nowack, Ruth Louise. 3
Prairie Bible Institute. 3
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 3
Salvation Army. 3
Sanders, J. Oswald (John Oswald), 1902-1992 3
Stott, John R. W. 3
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 3
Wang, Leland. 3
Wheaton '83 3
Woman's Union Missionary Society of America. 3
World Council of Churches. 3
World Vision International. 3
Adeney, Ruth W. 2
Africa Inland Mission. 2
Allison, Lon (Lon J.), 1952-2019. 2
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 2
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 2
American Sunday-School Union. 2
Armerding, Hudson T. 2
Armstrong, Ben (Benjamin L.), 1923-2010. 2
Association of Church Missions Committees. 2
Bartel, Loyal. 2
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