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Collection 148 Records of the Church Missionary Society for Africa: West Indies Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 148
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Microfilmed copybooks of letters sent to missionaries in the West Indies and loose incoming correspondence from missionaries. Copybooks are indexed at the beginning of volumes. West Indies missions were intended primarily for the proselytization of enslaved peoples in the British colonies. Topics covered include missions and nineteenth-century church and missions history in Great Britain and the Caribbean.
Dates:
Created: 1819-1861
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 149 Records of Blantyre Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 149
Scope and Contents
This collection consists 2 reels of microfilm containing the Blantyre Missions Supplement (Life and work in British Central Africa, and Life and work in Nysasland), monthly, and later quarterly, journal of the Church of Scotland, detailing missions and evangelistic activities at the Blantyre station in Malawi. Microfilm reels are 35mm, positive copies.
Dates:
Created: 1888-1919
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 150 Papers of John Cennick
Collection
Identifier: CN 150
Scope and Contents
Microfilm of bound manuscript in which John Cennick recounts his missionary efforts for the Moravian church in Wiltshire, England, Dublin, and Northern Ireland. Information on John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield. On the same reel are shorter accounts of Moravian missions in Labrador in the 1770's, Persia in the 1740's, and the West Indies.
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Dates:
Created: 1740-1751
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 151 Papers of Philip Quaque
Collection
Identifier: CN 151
Scope and Contents
Complete microfilmed letters of Philip Quaque, first non-European ordained priest in the Church of England, native African and missionary to the Cape Coast (present day Ghana) for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Microfilm includes letters and other material concerning a wide variety of SPG mission efforts in North America, 1784-91, and Africa, 1817-1855. Letters describe progress in missionary work, relations with political authorities, daily life in colonial...
Dates:
Created: 1765-1855
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 152 Records of the Presbyterian Mission to American Indians
Collection
Identifier: CN 152
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 35 reels of microfilm containing nearly 14,000 letters by missionaries of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, focused on evangelizing American Indians. All letters are numbered and catalogued, and indexed by both author and tribe in the printed guide. Originals are in the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia. The letters date from 1833 to 1893.
Dates:
Created: 1833-1893
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 153 Records of Moravian Missions Among American Indians
Collection
Identifier: CN 153
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 35 reels of microfilm containing over 50,000 pages of diaries, letters, and miscellaneous records documenting the missionary work of the Moravian Missiont to American Indians. Separate indexes cover Indian and missionaries, geographic names, non-Indian nations, and topics. Originals are held in the Moravian Church Archives, Bethlehem, Pa. All microfilm reels are 35mm, positive copies.*****[The following scope and content note is extracted from the...
Dates:
Created: 1735-1900
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 154 Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: Lambeth Palace Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 154
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of about two thousand five hundred letters and eight volumes of minutes covering the formative years of the Society, 1701-1750. Later papers document the establishment of the American episcopate after the Revolution. The correspondence is primarily with clergy sent to America, but also concerns Eurasia, especially China and India. Correspondence primarily with clergy sent to America, but also concerns work in Eurasia, particularly China and India. Topics covered include...
Dates:
Created: 1679-1790
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 155 Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Collection
Identifier: CN 155
Scope and Contents
This collections consists of 27 reels of microfilm containing incoming and outgoing letters written by S.P.G. secretaries, including letters and papers from and to missionaries in the American colonies both on the North American continent and in the Caribbean from colony governors and other individuals, from SPG subscribers in England, and from churches on the European continent. Subjects documented include missions and evangelistic work.The collection consists of 27 reels of...
Dates:
Created: 1701-1786
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 156 Records of the Company for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England
Collection
Identifier: CN 156
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one reel of microfilm containing a letterbook of the Society, chartered for the purpose of evangelism among New England Indians. Concerns the company's business affairs, education of Indians, Harvard College, and translation of religious texts. Primary correspondents are the company's governors, secretaries or clerks, and treasurers, writing to Commissioners in America, who in turn paid missionaries or dispersed funds as directed. Letters describe Company business...
Dates:
Created: 1688-1761
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 157 Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: Gold Coast Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 157
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 12 reels of microfilm containg missionary reports and correspondence from S.P.G. mission stations correspondence of eighteenth century missionaries Thomas Thompson and Philip Quaque, and correspondence of the twentieth century Committee for Women's Work. Microfilmed from originals in possession of the U.S.P.G. in London.
Dates:
Created: 1753-1933
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 158 Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: Madagascar Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 158
Scope and Contents
The microfilm contains selected pages from the bound correspondence and reports series housed in the U.S.P.G. headquarters in London. It includes all missionary correspondence and reports from Madagascar, and some items concerning Mauritius and the Seychelles Islands. Letters refer to mission work, local customs, and politics. All reels are 35mm, positive copies.
Dates:
Created: 1866-1900
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 159 Records of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: South Africa
Collection
Identifier: CN 159
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 52 reels of microfilm containing correspondence and reports concerning Anglican missions in South Africa prior to diocesan organization, and concerning five dioceses: Capetown, 1847-1900; Grahamstown, 1853-1900; Natal (Maritzburg), 1853-1900; St. John's-Kaffraria, 1874-1900; and Zululand, 1866-1900. Reel 52 is a detailed index, and includes a history of S.P.G. South African work. The originals for the microfilm are in the U.S.P.G. headquarters in London.
Dates:
Created: 1819-1900
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 160 Records of the Universities Mission to Central Africa
Collection
Identifier: CN 160
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one reel of microfilm containing the printed reports of the UMCA, the first mission society operated by the high church faction of the Anglican Church, and unique among Anglican missions in that primary authority rested not with a home committee, but with a bishop Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and Dublin Universities.Originals of the reports are in the USPG office, London.
Dates:
Created: 1860-1900
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 161 Records of the Council for World Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 161
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 17,716 sheets of microfiche containing minutes, reports, candidates' papers, graphics, and correspondence with missionaries in Europe, Russia, the Americas, West Indies, Australia, the South Seas, Africa, China, India, and other areas. Also included are journals of missionaries, correspondence of David Livingstone, and material about a mission to Jewish people in London. The microfiche was filmed from originals in the Library of the School of Oriental and African...
Dates:
Created: 1775-1940
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 162 Records of the International Missionary Council/Conference of British Missionary Societies
Collection
Identifier: CN 162
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 2,587 sheets of microfiche containing correspondence and memos, chiefly 1910-1945, especially to Joseph H. Oldham and William Paton. The microfiche primarily concerns India and British Africa, but includes material about African areas under Belgium, Portuguese and French control as well. Manuscript material is correspondence and memoranda related especially to key mission figures Joseph H. Oldham (1874-1969) and William Paton (1886-1943); much printed material is...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1945
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 163 Records of the Methodist Missionary Society
Collection
Identifier: CN 163
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 70 sheets of microfiche, containing correspondence from missionaries of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. Correspondence concerns the home office, Europe, North America, West Indies, West Africa, South Africa, India, Ceylon, Burma, China, and Australasia. The seventy sheets of microfiche contain detailed inventories in typescript for a portion of the Archives of the Methodist Church, Overseas Division (also known as the Methodist Missionary Society) in England....
Dates:
Created: 1791-1931
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 164 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Small
Collection
Identifier: CN 164
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Stair Small in which she describes her missionary experiences in China between the earliest communist revolutions; includes customs, evangelizing methods, assistance of Chinese Christians in areas of central China; post-war pastoring in the U.S. The time period covered by the interviews is 1904-1980.
Elizabeth Small was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 28, 1980 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Elizabeth Small was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 28, 1980 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Dates:
Created: 1980
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 165 Records of Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies
Collection
Identifier: CN-165
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, maps, posters, etc., related to EFMA Administration and its service to its member missions.Includes documentation of persecution of Protestants in Roman Catholic Colombia, Italy and Spain; efforts to broaden American awareness of conditions; and attempts to apply pressure through the US State Dept. Persons prominently featured include EFMA's Executive Directors Clyde Taylor, Wade Coggins, and Paul McKaughan. ...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1996
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 166 Oral History Interview with Roger Walkwitz
Collection
Identifier: CN 166
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Roger Walkwitz in which he describes his early life in Wheaton, Illinois, education at Wheaton College, and experiences of 23 years in the Philippines (1958-1980) as a missionary with Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. Other topics discussed include: the influence of Gil Dodds; the 1950 Wheaton College revival; work as a teacher-coach at Bryan College; aspects of cultural, religious and political life in the Philippines, including ranslation, church planting in the tribal...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 167 Oral History Interview with Naomi Walkwitz
Collection
Identifier: CN 167
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Naomi Hildebrand Waltwitz recorded while she was on furlough, describing childhood experiences, education & marriage to Roger Walkwitz, their careers as missionaries, tribal peoples of the Philippines under Far East Gospel Crusade between 1958-1980. Topics include Filipino customs, tribal practices of Christian groups, training of singing gospel teams, education in the Christian and national schools, relationship with Roman Catholics & Philippine...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 168 Records of the American Sunday School Union
Collection
Identifier: CN 168
Scope and Contents
Correspondence records social and political history, including slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction period. Also documented is outreach to African and Native Americans, missions in Canada, China, France, Germany, Russia, India, and South America. This microfilm edition of the ASSU records, arranged in three series: (l) Correspondence and Reports, 1817-1915; (2) Administrative Records, 1817-1915; and (3) YOUTH'S PENNY GAZETTE, 1843-1860, and Catalogs, 1817-1910. Originals are housed in...
Dates:
Created: 1817-1915
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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 time...
Dates:
Created: 1981
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 170 Records of the Seminar on Measuring Missions' Effectiveness
Collection
Identifier: CN 170
Scope and Contents
Sound recordings of the Seminar on Measuring Missions' Effectiveness, held in July 1982 and sponsored by the Billy Graham Center Archives. This collection consists entirely of two presentations by Donald McGavran of the Fuller School of World Missionon measuring mission effectiveness and church growth, and subsequent discussion in response to the papers. In the morning session, his topic was "Measuring Mission Effectiveness." In the afternoon, the topic was "Church Growth: The Next Step." The...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 171 Papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby
Collection
Identifier: CN 171
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and personal papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby, missionaries in Lisbon and Santiago do Cacem, Portugal, under The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). Collection includes interviews, articles, correspondence, prayer letters, manuscript notes, and other material from the Bobbys about their mission work, including evangelism and radio broadcasting. The correspondence also includes information on various theological issues and American Christian leaders. The oral history...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 172 Records of the Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly
Collection
Identifier: CN-172
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, news releases, minutes of meetings, and other materials which describe the origins, planning, purpose, and results of the Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly (PACLA) meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya in December 1976, a gathering for evangelical African church leaders and missionaries in Nairobi, which grew out of of an informal meeting of African leaders at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization held at Lausanne, Switzerland. The bulk of this...
Dates:
Created: 1975-1978
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 173 Papers of Judson Smith
Collection
Identifier: CN 173
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings relating to the ministry of Judson Smith. Letters between Smith and his family describe his trips abroad, among them to Great Britain and Paris in 1882 (which included visits to hear Charles Spurgeon), Turkey and the World Missionary Conference (1888), and Japan and China (1898); reports to ABCFM board members also describe Smith's observations of missionary work; included among Smith's descriptions of China are those of other missions including...
Dates:
Created: 1878-1913
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 174 Papers of Lewis Tappan
Collection
Identifier: CN 174
Scope and Contents
Microfilm copy of original materials in the Library of Congress. Documents include correspondence, journals, miscellaneous materials which relate to Lewis Tappan's activities as an abolitionist leader, and business accomplishments.
Dates:
Created: 1809-1903
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 175 Papers of Benjamin Tappan
Collection
Identifier: CN 175
Scope and Contents
Microfilm copy of original materials in the Library of Congress. Correspondence, speeches, business papers, genealogical material. Documents deal mostly with Benjamin Tappan's career as jurist and U.S. Senator from Ohio. There is also information on the abolitionist movement, local and national politics, and Tappan's hobbies of mineralogy and conchology.
Dates:
Created: 1795-1900
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 176 Records of the National Prayer Congress
Collection
Identifier: CN 176
Scope and Contents
Audio tapes of 30 addresses given at the National Prayer Congress held in October 1976 in Dallas, Texas. Tapes were prepared as part of a series for radio broadcast. Topics cover both theoretical and practical aspects of prayer, including its role in evangelism, national revival, biblical teaching, and impact on the family. Speakers included Harold L. Fickett, Paul Toms, Rex Humbard, Jack McAlister, W.A. Criswell, Cliff Barrows and Billy Graham, William Richardson, Bruce Cook, James Kennedy, B....
Dates:
Created: 1976
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford
Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides an...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 178 Papers of Donald and Mary McGavran
Collection
Identifier: CN-178
Scope and Contents
The papers of Donald and Mary McGavran include correspondence (personal and business), class lectures, manuscripts of books and articles, newspaper clippings, statistics, maps, reference materials, financial records, documents gathered to study church growth in different parts of the world, photographs, audio tapes, and videos. They document a wide variety of different topics, but are particularly strong for three areas: the McGavrans' family life, their work in India as missionaries, and,...
Dates:
Created: 1906-2000
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 179 Records of Short Terms Abroad
Collection
Identifier: CN 179
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, personnel files, bulletins, newspapers, posters, publications, legal documents, photos, mailing lists, minutes of meetings, and other items pertaining to the operation of the organization, Short Terms Abroad, which brought together individuals with particular skills(such as teaching or construction) and an interested in serving as missionaries for a limited time with missions having temporary needs for those skills.
Dates:
Created: 1965-1976
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 180 Papers of Carl Armerding
Collection
Identifier: CN 180
Scope and Contents
Diaries, correspondence, scrapbook, travel documents, oral history interview, sermons and other materials documenting Carl Armerding's career and ministry, especially his work as a Bible teacher, preacher, and leader of Central American Mission.Interview topics covered include Armerding's family background, education, recollections of Billy Sunday, Gipsy Smith, Henry Ironside and Will Houghton, missions and evangelism in Honduras and the Bahamas, speaking engagements, teaching (at...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1987
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 181 Papers of Earl W. Schultz, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 181
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newsletters, promotional material, phonograph record, photographs, reports, financial records and other documents related to Earl W. Schultz's ministry with Youth For Christ.Topics covered include evangelistic work with youth, in the eastern U.S. primarily, and Hamstead, Maryland, particularly; also various YFC and other organizations' programs for young people, including rallies, conventions, contests and Bible quizzes, etc. Persons featured include various YFC...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1971
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 183 Ephemera of Paul Tournier
Collection
Identifier: CN 183-183
Scope and Contents
Two audio recordings of lectures given by Paul Tournier at Wheaton College on April 13 and 14, 1961. Topics covered include the relationship between the physical and spiritual, the role of dialogue in medical and spiritual care, human nature, philosophy, science and religion, psychology and psychiatry, and Tournier's personal life anecdotes and spiritual pilgrimage. Each tape is approximately 25 minutes.
Dates:
Created: 1961
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 184 Records of the Campus-in-the-Woods
Collection
Identifier: CN 184
Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence, cards, resumes, and mission newsletters from a group of Canadian and American students who attended an Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship summer camp, 1951, near Toronto, Canada. This collection documents an eighteen-year period of the lives of those who communicated with Lois Ottaway with information which was compiled by her for an informal, annual Campus-in-the-Woods Newsletter.
Dates:
Created: 1961-1981
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 185 Papers of Albert and Muriel Nichols
Collection
Identifier: CN 185
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photos, negatives and miscellaneous documents concerning family events and career decisions relating to the Nicholas’ missionary work in Sierra Leone. The bulk of the letters were sent to family during a two year period while the Nichols were serving as missionaries to Sierra Leone, where Albert was director of Industrial Education at Albert Academy. Topics include life in and methods of education of an urban missionary school in the 1920's, teaching industrial education at...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1952
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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 1982.
Dates:
Created: 1904-1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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 is...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 188 Papers of Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth
Collection
Identifier: CN 188
Scope and Contents
Letters, diaries, book and article manuscripts, sermon manuscripts and photographs related to Goforth's evangelistic work as a Presbyterian missionary in China, Korea and Manchuria.Includes some papers of Goforth's wife, Rosalind; reports on fleeing the Boxer Rebellion; descriptions of famine relief, attitudes about growing theological liberalism in North America, and the process of raising a family on the mission field. Persons featured include Feng Yu-hsiang, evangelist Paul...
Dates:
Created: 1888-1981
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 189 Papers of Mary Goforth Moynan
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 190 Oral History Interview with Alan Travers
Collection
Identifier: CN 190
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews with Alan Travers in which he discuess his work with Trans World Radio from 1959 to 1981, and the use of radio in missionary work. Topics discussed include: the history of TWR; technical and administrative details and policy of the organization; it's broadcasting and programming philosophy, finances, effectiveness and TWR's founder, Paul Freed; the locations of its stations throughout the world; how the staff members function in the stations and relate to the countries...
Dates:
Created: 1959-1981
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 192 Papers of Harold Lindsell
Collection
Identifier: CN 192
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, manuscripts, and other materials documenting the career and life of Lindsell as a theologian, author, speaker and editor, dating primarily from his becoming Associate Editor of Christianity Today magazine in 1964. Considerable information on: Christianity Today, Wheaton College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Westmont College, the Simon Greenleaf School of Law, and research on the inerrancy of Scripture.
Dates:
1938-1994
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 193 Records of the Washington Street Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 193
Scope and Contents
Sermon notes, minutes, financial records, reports, oral history transcript, clippings, estate descriptions, tracts on various cults and heresies, and photographs documenting the history of the Washington Street Mission in Springfield, Illinois between 1914 and 1982.Records describe tan urban mission and the effectiveness of their programs, administration, and financial activities, and a historical view of its origins in an oral history interview with Mary Brown Miller. Sermon notes...
Dates:
Created: 1916-1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 194 Papers of William H. Doane
Collection
Identifier: CN 194
Scope and Contents
Letters concerning hymn publishing and writing from Ira Sankey, Fanny Crosby, Philip P. Bliss, Philip Phillips, and Dwight L. Moody's daughter-in-law written to Doane. Includes a notebook for hymn and sermon references, Doane's will, hand- written lyrics for hymns, and a photograph of Doane, business leader, philanthropist, and hymn writer. Letters represent various details of the hymn-publishing business, including public reaction. Notebook contains words, phrases, verses and sentences...
Dates:
Created: 1872-1917
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 195 Papers of William Biederwolf
Collection
Identifier: CN 195
Scope and Contents
Sermons, speeches, scrapbooks, articles, correspondence, and other materials which document William Biederwolf's education and evangelistic activities. [NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]The collection consists mostly of scrapbooks, magazine articles, and manuscripts of Biederwolf's sermons and speeches. There are also a few letters and some miscellaneous items. They were in...
Dates:
Created: 1884-1922
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 196 Oral History Interview with Edna Louise Asher Case
Collection
Identifier: CN 196
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Edna Louise Asher Case (1905-1999), in which she discusses her aunt, Virginia Asher, who was a co-worker of Billy Sunday; she was also involved in many other evangelistic efforts. Other topics include: Case's student days at Wheaton College, and her involvement in city mission work; impressions of Mel Trotter, Billy Sunday, Helen Sunday. The time frame covered by the interview is 1905 to 1929.Edna Case was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 27,...
Dates:
Created: 1905-1929
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 197 Papers of Virginia Healey Asher
Collection
Identifier: CN-197
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, procedures for evangelistic work, two diaries, autograph book, memorial booklets, clippings, tracts and photographs relating to Virginia Healey Asher’s ministry.The collection consists of a small amount of correspondence (folder 1-1), typed instruction for the Business Women's Invitation Committee (folder 1-6), two diaries and an autograph book (folders 1-3 to 1-5). Also included is a memorial booklet to J. Wilbur Chapman and clippings or tracts of other evangelists'...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1941
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 199 Records of Whosoever Heareth, Inc.
Collection
Identifier: CN 199
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, notebooks, clippings, pamphlets, brochures, and sermon tapes related to the career of lawyer-evangelist Clift Brannon and two of the organizations he set up, Whosoever Heareth, Inc. and the Clift Brannon Evangelistic Association. Includes a copy of the data on the Soul Winner's New Testament, an edited version of the New Testament, with notes to be used for individual and group evangelism. Half the records deal with various aspects of the use...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1975
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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- China. 35
- Minutes 35
- Racism 35
- Church and state -- United States. 34
- Church development, New. 34
- Culture shock. 34
- Evangelicalism. 34
- Radio in religion -- United States. 34
- Radio in religion. 34
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Students -- Social life and customs. 34 ∧ less
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 161
- Graham, Billy, 98
- Wheaton College (Ill.). 64
- China Inland Mission. 51
- Moody Bible Institute. 50
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 48
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 43
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship. 38
- Sayers, Dorothy L. 37
- Lewis, C. S. 33
- Sunday, Billy, 32
- Africa Inland Mission. 28
- Islam 27
- Rader, Paul, 27
- Youth for Christ International. 26
- Christian and Missionary Alliance 25
- Sayers, Dorothy L. (Sayers, Dorothy Leigh) 25
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 24
- Campus Crusade for Christ International. 23
- Chung-kuo kuo min tang. 22
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 22
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 21
- National Association of Evangelicals. 21
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 20
- Moody Bible Institute 20
- Sudan Interior Mission. 20
- Henry, Carl F. H. 19
- Perkins, John, 19
- Armerding, Hudson T. 18
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 18
- Rodeheaver, Homer A. 18
- Billy Graham Center. 17
- Buswell, J. Oliver. 17
- Catholic Church 17
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 17
- Jones, Clarence W. 17
- Latin America Mission. 17
- McIntire, Carl, 16
- Taylor, Clyde W. 16
- World Council of Churches. 16
- Elliot, Jim, 15
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 15
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 15
- Ockenga, Harold John, 15
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 15
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 15
- Bright, Bill. 14
- Stam, John Cornelius, 14
- Africa Inland Church. 13
- Blanchard, Charles A. 13
- Colson, Charles W. 13
- Crawford, Percy B. 13
- Ford, Leighton. 13
- Fuller Theological Seminary. 13
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 13
- Howard, David M. 13
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 13
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. 13
- Ironside, H. A. 13
- Jesus Christ 13
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 13
- Jones, Bob, 13
- Plymouth Brethren. 13
- Smith, Oswald J. 13
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 13
- Africa Inland Mission, International. 12
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 12
- Mission Aviation Fellowship. 12
- Padilla, C. Rene. 12
- Palau, Luis, 12
- Smith, Gipsy, 12
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 12
- Assemblies of God. 11
- Barrows, Cliff. 11
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 11
- Dain, Arthur John, 11
- Dunlop, Merrill. 11
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 11
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 11
- Skinner, Tom, 11
- Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 11
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 11
- Woods, C. Stacey, 11
- Wright, J. Elwin. 11
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 10
- Glasser, Arthur F. 10
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 10
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 10
- Navigators. 10
- Nixon, Richard M. 10
- Straw, Darien A. 10
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985 10
- Torrey, R. A. 10
- Trotman, Dawson E. 10
- Williams, Charles, 10
- World Vision International. 10
- Coggins, Wade T. 9
- Columbia Bible College (S.C.) 9
- Davis, Ralph T. 9
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 9 ∧ less
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