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Collection 562 Papers of Roger and Mary Howes
Collection
Identifier: CN 562
Scope and Contents
Address books, articles, autograph books, birthday book, correspondence, diaries, documents, journals, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, photographs, prayer letters, scrapbooks, sermon notes, songbooks, and testimony which document the Howes' work as China Inland Mission (CIM) missionaries in China from 1925 through 1945, and their work at CIM (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship) office in Chicago and Headquarters in Philadelphia before they retired in 1965. Their correspondence...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1993
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Eleanor R. Elliott Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Jessie McDonald Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 246
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, notes, articles, photographs, and annual reports relating to Jessie McDonald's medical work in China from 1913-1952 with China Inland Mission. The documents include information on evangelistic outreach and the nature of health conditions in China. The materials also describe the political and social upheavals occurring in China during the first half of the 1900s.The correspondence by Dr. Mc Donald is supplemented by some correspondence of her co-workers...
Dates:
Created: 1907-1951
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John C. Chin Oral History Interview
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Margaret Crossett Oral History Interview
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Mary Goforth Moynan Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 189
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous personal papers, an autobiography, oral history interviews and color slides relating to the ministry of Mary Goforth Moynan. Topics covered include Moynan's memories of the personalities and work of her parents, Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth; evangelistic work in China before World War II; her own career in Christian work; and her trips in 1979 to Taiwan and in 1980 to the People's Republic of China.
Dates:
Created: 1918-1994
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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, 2001, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1886-2001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 074 Papers of Robert W. Porteous
Collection
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Evangelistic work -- China. 9
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 8
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 7
- Communism -- China. 7
- Medical care -- China. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- China -- History. 5
- China -- Religion. 5
- Christian education -- China. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Persecution -- China. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- Church development, New. 4
- Church work with women -- China. 4
- Families. 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Refugees -- China. 4
- Rural churches -- China. 4
- Social change. 4
- Boarding schools -- China. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 3
- China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912. 3
- Chinese. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Education -- China. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 3
- Hospitals -- China. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Organizational change. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Sex role -- China. 3
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges -- China. 2
- Bible colleges. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- China -- Church history -- 20th century. 2
- China -- History -- 1949- 2
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- Christian education. 2
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- Church and state -- China. 2
- Church growth -- China. 2
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- Evangelistic work. 2
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- Intercultural communication. 2
- International relief -- China. 2
- Jews -- China. 2
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- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- Women 2
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- Animism. 1
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- Bible colleges -- India. 1
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- China Inland Mission. 7
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 6
- OMF International. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 4
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 3
- Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 3
- Shuster, Robert D. 3
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 3
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 3
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 2
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 2
- Crossett, Margaret E. 2
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 2
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
- Gibb, George W. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
- American Bible Society. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Asian Theological Seminary. 1
- Bangkok Bible College (1971-) (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
- Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. 1
- Borden, William, 1887-1913. 1
- Bridgman Memorial School (Shanghai, China) 1
- Chapei Civil Assembly Center (Shanghai, China) 1
- Chin, John C. 1
- China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
- Christian School in Japan (1950-) 1
- Cooke, Allyn B. 1
- Cooke, Leila Robinson. 1
- Crossett, Vincent. 1
- Doremus School (Yokohama, Japan) 1
- Doremus, Sarah D. 1
- Doremus, Sarah Platt, 1803-1877. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Duke, Flora Nell. 1
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 1
- Ericksen, Paul. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
- Gemmell, Nina Eleanor. 1
- Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 1
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
- Goforth, Jonathan, 1859-1936. 1
- Goforth, Rosalind, 1864-1942. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Hebron School (1974-) (Ooty, India) 1
- Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
- Howes, M. R. (Mary Ruth) 1
- Howes, Mary F. 1
- Howes, Roger W. 1
- Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Lily Lytle Broadwell Hospital (Fatehpur, India) 1
- Little Flock (China) 1
- Mahabbat Hospital (Multan, Pakistan) 1
- Margaret Williamson Hospital (Shanghai, China) 1
- Marston, Sarah Hall. 1
- McDonald, Jessie, 1888-1980. 1
- Moody Bible Institute. 1
- Morrison Academy (Taiwan) 1
- Moynan, Mary Goforth. 1
- Nee, Watchman. 1
- Paddon, Beth Jaderquist. 1
- Pickard, David 1
- Porteous, Robert W. 1
- Reinhard, August H. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Sanders, J. Oswald (John Oswald), 1902-1992. 1
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
- Singapore Bible College. 1
- Smith, Oswald J. 1
- Soltau, Mabel E. 1
- Straw, Darien A. 1
- Taylor, James H., III, 1929-2009. 1
- Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905. 1
- Taylor, Maria, 1837-1870. 1
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 1
- United Fellowship for Christian Service. 1
- Wang, Leland. 1
- Woman’s Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands. 1
- World Missionary Conference. 1 ∧ less
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