general council archives guide to holdings related to west china medical missions

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General Council Archives Guide to Holdings Related to West China Medical Missions (1800–1950)

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Contents Introduction ..........................................................................................................................3

Purpose of the Guide ................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Archives Overview ................................................................................................................................................................... 3

The United Church of Canada ........................................................................................................................................... 3 The United Church of Canada Archival Network ............................................................................................................. 3

Note re: Methodist and Presbyterian Records ........................................................................................................................... 3 Arrangement of the Guide......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Record Restrictions ................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Administrative History of West China Medical Missions ......................................................................5 History: United Church of Canada Missionary Work ............................................................................................................... 5

West China Missions ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 Medical Work ................................................................................................................................................................... 6

The Records ..........................................................................................................................8 Fonds ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 8

The United Church of Canada ........................................................................................................................................... 8 FONDS 502: UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA BOARD OF OVERSEAS MISSIONS FONDS. -- 1910-1965 .. 8

SERIES 4/RECORDS RELATING TO CHINA. -- 1910-1965 ........................................................................ 8 SERIES 4/Subseries 1: RECORDS RELATING TO WEST CHINA. –1910-1965.......................................... 8 SECTION I: PAPERS OF THE BOARD OF OVERSEAS MISSIONS ASSOCIATE SECRETARY RELATING TO WEST CHINA (1925-1952) .................................................................................................. 9 SECTION II: WEST CHINA UNION UNIVERSITY (1926-1954) ............................................................. 136 SECTION III: MINUTES OF THE MISSION COUNCILS (1929-1949) AND WEST CHINA UNION UNIVERSITY BODIES (1910-1950) ........................................................................................................... 144

FONDS 503: UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA BOARD OF WORLD MISSION FONDS. -- 1880-1976 ...... 144 SERIES 6/PAMPHLETS AND DOCUMENTS RE CHINA. -- 1888-1969 ................................................. 144

FONDS 505: UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY FONDS. -- 1886-1972, predominant 1925-1962. -- 35 m of textual records; photographs ........................................................................ 147

SERIES 5/RECORDS RELATING TO WEST CHINA. -- 1925-1952 ........................................................ 148 FONDS 500: UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GENERAL COUNCIL FONDS-- 1925-present .................... 171

SERIES 1\ RECORDS OF MEETINGS OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL. -- 1925-1982 ............................ 171 SERIES 2\ MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE AND SUB-EXECUTIVE. -- 1925-1990 ............................ 173

Methodist Church (Canada) .......................................................................................................................................... 176 FONDS 14: METHODIST CHURCH (CANADA) MISSIONARY SOCIETY FONDS. -- [ca. 1851]-1950 ...... 176

SERIES 3/ RECORDS RE FOREIGN MISSIONS. -- 1888-1950 ................................................................ 176 SERIES 3/ Subseries 1: WEST CHINA MISSION COLLECTION. -- 1891-19312 .................................... 176 SERIES 3/ Subseries 2: WEST CHINA UNION UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. -- 1896-1950 ................. 189

FONDS 15: METHODIST CHURCH (CANADA) WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY FONDS. -- 1880-1927 .............................................................................................................................................................................. 192

Appendix B: Woman’s Missionary Society, 2. West China Mission ............................................................ 193 Personal Papers ..................................................................................................................................................................... 195

FONDS 3133: CECIL MAGEE HOFFMAN FONDS. -- 1908-1979 ........................................................................... 195 FONDS 3184: ERNEST BLACK STRUTHERS FONDS. -- 1912-1973 ..................................................................... 195 FONDS 3190: CHARLES W. SERVICE FONDS. -- 1930 .......................................................................................... 201 FONDS 3200: WILLIAM JOHN SHERIDAN FONDS. -- 1912-1935 ........................................................................ 201 FONDS 3256: EDWIN NELSON MEUSER FONDS. -- 1917-1950 ........................................................................... 202 FONDS 3295: ASHLEY WOODWARD LINDSAY FONDS. -- 1939-1950 .............................................................. 203 FONDS 3304: LESLIE AND JEAN KILBORN FONDS. -- 1911-1967 ...................................................................... 205 FONDS 3323: S. MABEL MCKINLEY FONDS. -- 1910-1937 .................................................................................. 206 FONDS 3381: RALPH HAYWARD FONDS. -- 1933-1949 ....................................................................................... 207 FONDS 3468: HARRISON J. MULLETT FONDS. -- 1927-1955............................................................................... 212 FONDS 3598: SIMPSON FAMILY FONDS. -- 1911-1959 ........................................................................................ 213

Biographical Files ................................................................................................................................................................. 214 Photographs .......................................................................................................................................................................... 215 Audio-Visual Materials ......................................................................................................................................................... 220 Near-Print and Print Publications.......................................................................................................................................... 221 Lists of Known Missionaries in West China ......................................................................................................................... 225

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Introduction

Purpose of the Guide This guide of all records pertaining to West China Medical Missions of The United Church of Canada and the Methodist Church (Canada) has been created as part of the “History of Western Medicine in China Project,” made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation. The United Church has partnered with archives around the world to perform research on, organize, and make accessible any records pertaining to Medical Missions in West China from 1800 to 1950.

Archives Overview The United Church of Canada The United Church of Canada is the largest Protestant denomination in Canada. The United Church was inaugurated June 10, 1925 in Toronto, Ontario, when the Methodist Church, Canada, the Congregational Union of Canada, and 70 percent of the Presbyterian Church in Canada entered into an organic union. Joining as well was the small General Council of Union Churches, centred highly in Western Canada. Impetus for the union arose out of the concerns for serving the vast Canadian Northwest and in the desire for better overseas missions. The agreement between these different traditions is found in the Basis of Union. Since 1925, other smaller groups of churches and individual congregations have joined The United Church of Canada so that there are approximately 3,200 United Churches in Canada today.

The United Church of Canada Archival Network There are nine United Church Archives across Canada to manage the historical records of the United Church and earlier Methodist and Presbyterian churches:

General Council Archives (Toronto, ON) Newfoundland and Labrador Conference Archives (St. John’s, NL) Maritime Conference Archives (Sackville, NB) Montreal and Ottawa Conference Archives (Lachine, QC) Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario (Winnipeg, MB) Saskatchewan Conference (Saskatoon, SK) Alberta and Northwest Conference Archives (Edmonton, AB) The Bob Stewart Archives, British Columbia Conference (Vancouver, BC) All Native Circle Conference (Winnipeg, MB)

All records pertaining to West China Medical Missions are predominantly found in the General Council Archives (Toronto, ON). Other United Church records re missions may be available in Conference Archives. An archives directory is located on the United Church of Canada Website (www.united-church.ca); please contact individual archives for further information.

Note re: Methodist and Presbyterian Records West China missions were initially operated by The Methodist Church of Canada and Presbyterian Church in Canada before the 1925 union creating The United Church of Canada. Many of the national office records of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches pre-1925 became legal property of The United Church of Canada Archives as a result of the 1925 church union property division. The majority of records relating to the Methodist Church missions are lodged with the General Council Archives in Toronto. The post-1925 records of missions which remained part of the continuing Presbyterian Church in Canada after the establishment of the United Church are held in The Presbyterian Church in Canada, Archives and Records Office (Toronto, Ontario).

Arrangement of the Guide This guide is a complete overview of all known holdings pertaining to West China medical missions (1800–1950) in The United Church of Canada General Council Archives. Descriptions include name of fonds; list of relevant series; extent of holdings; inclusive dates of records followed by predominant dates in brackets; availability of finding aid.

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Records in this guide are listed at varying levels (Fonds, Series, Item). The entries are prepared following the Rules for Archival Description, an archival standard which provides varying levels of description to give a general overview of the creating body, or a more specific idea of what type of records are listed in each section. The guide is divided into sections based on fonds (all records pertaining to a certain creating body). Examples of creating bodies within the United Church include the Board of Overseas Missions or the Woman’s Missionary Society. Fonds descriptions include an administrative history or biographical sketch, scope and content notes, relevant accession numbers, finding aid number and file lists. The administrative history and biographical sketch are histories of the creating body, and the administration of the records themselves. It is beneficial to first review the administrative history and biographical sketch to fully understand the mandate, functional responsibility, predecessor bodies, administrative structure and other information pertaining to the records. Furthermore, each fonds is described at either a series, file or item level. A series is a group of records created based on a certain function, activity or subject. File lists provide a more detailed description of what items or records are in a file (for example: Women’s Missionary Society: minutes, Correspondence: Board Secretaries). The descriptions for this guide may vary slightly from descriptions in our archival database, as they include additional information regarding Medical Missions specifically. Most records in finding aids which are unrelated to Medical Missions have been omitted.

Record Restrictions The United Church of Canada is committed to protecting the privacy or personal information of parties who might be involved with its records. Personal information is collected, used, maintained and disclosed in compliance with The United Church of Canada Privacy Policy and applicable federal and provincial privacy legislation. Any records that contain personal information, or are declared sensitive in nature are restricted in accordance with these legal requirements.

Some restrictions on access are put in place by The United Church of Canada Archives. These restrictions are placed either by the donor, by considerations of personal privacy or conservation, or by specific policies; e.g., Confidential Records/Personnel Records policies of the United Church. In some cases, these records can be reviewed with the written permission of the person or administrative body responsible for the creation of the records. Committee Records are closed for 3 years. Personnel and pension files are closed for 75 years after the last date in a file. In the archives, for collections of records that may contain personal information but are too large to be verified, users must sign a research agreement informing them that they are liable for any misuse of personal information found in the records. Additionally, Copyright matters are subject to the provisions of Canada’s Copyright Act.

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Administrative History of West China Medical Missions

History: United Church of Canada Missionary Work In 1925, a union between the Methodist, Congregationalist and two-thirds of the Presbyterian churches in Canada amalgamated to create The United Church of Canada through an act of parliament. The United Church of Canada took over responsibility for Methodist and Presbyterian Missions in China through the newly formed Board of Foreign Missions of the United Church of Canada (1926). This board was the continuation of the Canada Congregational Foreign Mission Society, the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church (Canada), and the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. It was renamed the Board of Overseas Missions in 1944. In 1962, the work was taken over by the newly constituted Board of World Missions.

Missionary work in China was carried out with the cooperation of the Woman’s Missionary Society of each church, which participated in the Union and joined together to form the Woman’s Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada in 1925. Work in West China was also carried out by the Church of Christ in China Szechuan Synod. Organized in 1922, it brought together several separate churches and received cooperation from 16 Western missionary organizations. The West China Mission was the largest mission of the United Church of Canada.

West China Missions The Canadian Methodist Mission (C.M.M.) in West China began in 1891. The original party of missionaries consisted of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Virgil C. Hart, veterans of missionary work in China under the Methodist Episcopal Church, U.S., their daughter, Miss Stella Hart (later Mrs. Hare), Dr. and Mrs. Omar L. Kilborn, Rev. and Mrs. G.E. Hartwell and Dr. and Mrs. David W. Stevenson.1 The group landed at Shanghai on November 3, 1891, remaining there throughout the winter. In mid- February, they left for the interior, arriving at Chengtu, the capital of Szechwan, on May 21, 1892. Mrs. Stevenson was at the time Mrs. Brown, the first missionary of the Woman’s Missionary Society to be sent to China.

The first reinforcements, Rev. James Endicott and his wife and Dr. H.M. Hare, arrived in Chengtu in the spring of 1894. They were accompanied by Miss Sara C. Bracbill and Dr. Retta Gifford (later, the second Mrs. Kilborn) sent out by the Women’s Missionary Society (W.M.S.). In 1896, Dr. and Mrs. W.E. Smith joined the group in Chengtu.

The mission grew slowly at first; by 1901, there were only 19 missionaries under the General Board and Woman’s Missionary Society together. In 1917, there were 177 missionaries of the West China Mission, 75 men, 67 married women, and 35 single women; of those, 21 were medical doctors, fifteen men and six women.2 The total number of missionaries through the years fluctuates throughout the many reports found in the General Council Archives.

The mission began with one station in Chengtu, where the first party arrived in spring of 1892. In 1894, the mission was extended and Kiating Station opened 100 miles to the South. By 1905, the Mission was strong enough to open another city and in that year, the mission opened in Junghsien and Jenshow. In 1907, Penghsien and Tzeliutsing were added, and in 1908, Luchow. In 1910, after having completed negotiations with the London Mission, (by which the C.M.M. took over their work in Szechwan,) the mission established at Chungking. In 1911, Chungchow was opened, and in 1913, Fowchow. Three stations, Chengtu, Kiating and Chungking were occupied in common with other missions.3 In addition to the 10 central stations, the Mission worked with some 81 outstations. These were cities, towns and villages without resident missionaries, but mostly with resident Chinese workers, and, like the seven cities mentioned above, were the exclusive responsibility of the C.M.M.

By 1920, the population in the territory of the C.M.M. was estimated at 10 to 14 million.4 The first convert was baptized in 1896, and schools were opened shortly after arriving. In 1904, Mr. J.L. Stewart was appointed, for the first time, solely to educational work. In 1906 the West China Educational Union was organized; the object and work was the “development in West China, under the direction of the Mission and Ecclesiastical bodies, of a

1 The Methodist Church (Canada). Our West China Mission. Canada: 1920, p. 29. 2 Ibid. Our West China Mission. Canada: 1920, p. 31. 3 Ibid. Our West China Mission. Canada: 1920, p. 33. 4 Ibid. Our West China Mission. Canada: 1920, p. 33.

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complete and properly co-ordinated system of Christian education, parallel to the system of the Chinese Government, but with such deviations from it as from time to time seem necessary.” In 1910, the West China Union University was launched at Chengtu, formed by the union in effort of four Missions, the Methodist Episcopal Church, U.S., the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Committee, the Friends Missionary Society and the Canadian Methodist Mission. The University gave courses in arts, science, medicine (including dentistry), pharmacy and theology.

Missionaries in West China faced many trials and upheavals throughout the years; causing missionaries to flee and rebuild many times. Age, deaths (often sudden and sometimes violent), ill health and the Depression combined to reduce the numbers and seriously affected the scope and efficacy of the work. The cost of living and the cost of keeping foreign staff employed was an ongoing problem. The constant civil war followed by the Japanese invasion and the communist take-over caused many evacuations which often resulted in the permanent loss of mission personnel and thus added to the attrition referred to above.

Shortly after Missionaries arrived in China, in 1895, the Mission was forced to evacuate Shanghai because of anti-foreign riots. In 1896, they were back again in Chengtu. In 1900, the Mission again had to withdraw to the coast because of the Boxer outbreak, but returned again in autumn of 1901. In 1911, the mission evacuated once again because of the disturbed conditions during the Revolution and again in 1927 because of anti-Christian and anti-foreign opposition. During the Sino-Japanese War of World War II, some mission centers were severely bombed. Lives were lost and church property destructed.5 Throughout all of this destruction, missionaries continued on with their work with what resources they could find.

By 1950, the situation in China was growing increasingly challenging for Missionaries as the government of Chiang Kai-shek was overthrown and China became a Communist state. Communists began to take over mission universities, hospitals and churches, and missionaries began to move to safer areas. Nevertheless, most mission activity (mainly education and medical work), continued on although with reduced attendance, and great economic difficulty. At this time, it was impossible to secure entry visas for new missionaries, but it was felt by the Board that Missions could continue and thrive once diplomatic relations were made between Canada and the new regime.6 All missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society had applied for exit permits at this time.7 In 1951 it was clear that foreign missionaries were being branded as agents of Western Imperialism, and propaganda began to make it advisable to withdraw.8 The Church of Christ in China became financially self-supporting from January 1, 1951. Thus, all property was transferred to them. Most schools and hospitals had come under Government direction. West China Union University became a National university.

In 1952, action was taken by the Board of Overseas Missions Executive and the Executive Committee of the Woman’s Missionary Society to close the three China Missions and recall all missionaries to Canada. The decision was made after the Government of China urged all Chinese Church organizations to (1) advise the missionaries cooperating with them to return to their homes, and (2) to refuse to accept any financial assistance from outside China. By the end of the year, it was reported in the Woman’s Missionary Society report to General Council that all United Church of Canada Missionaries had returned to Canada.9 Many missionaries were transferred to other overseas missions.

Medical Work Emphasis was laid on medical mission work from the beginning as it was felt by the Board, and by the Woman’s Missionary Society that medical work was a vital and essential part of missionary propaganda. In the beginning, very few Western-style medicinal practices were used in China. The pioneering party of 1891 included four men, two of whom were doctors and two ministers.10 As more missionary doctors arrived, they spread out to various

5 United Church of Canada. Woman’s Missionary Society Annual Reports. “Board of Foreign Missions: Annual Report.” 1944: p. 241. 6 Ibid. Record of Proceedings. “The Board of Overseas Missions: Report.” 1950: p. 388. 7 Ibid. Record of Proceedings. “The Woman’s Missionary Society: Report.” 1950: p. 153. 8 Ibid. Yearbook. “The Board of Overseas Missions: Report.” 1951: p. 171. 9 Ibid. Woman’s Missionary Society Annual Reports. “Board of Overseas Missions: Annual Report.” 1952: p. 151. 10 The Methodist Church (Canada). Our West China Mission. Canada: 1920, p. 38.

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central stations and outstations. Towards the end of 1908, the first nurses arrived in China. By 1920, the mission had twenty-one doctors, men and women, working in eleven hospitals, in ten central stations. Over 40,000 individual patients were attended to annually, including out-patients, in-patients, and patients visited in their homes. In addition to hospital and medical clinic work, nurses and doctors were involved in public health initiatives, such as Baby Welfare Clinics, visits to nearby jails, and teaching health procedures at Middle Schools (with inspection of the pupils).11

As with the mission field in general, development in the medical field was marred by the many riots and revolutions the Missionaries had to endure. Many buildings were lost, and the medical missions had to re-build many times. Lack of proper equipment, the expense of equipment and medical supplies, as well as the taxation on buildings and land hampered work and development. As remarked in many Annual Reports of the Board of Overseas Missions, and the Woman’s Missionary Society, another issue always felt was understaffing and the lack of balance between foreign missionary supervision, and adequate Chinese Christian staff. It was realized fairly early on that the most effective and significant thing the medical missionaries could do was to maintain a few hospitals at a high level of efficiency so that the Chinese who received their training there could carry out into their own work with the high standard of medical practice to which they had been introduced in mission hospitals and schools.12 In 1914, the Medical Faculty of West China Union University was formed (see above), and a first class of medical students began. As it developed, it also held courses in dentistry, pharmacy and nursing. The campus held the Union Hospital, a Women’s Hospital (run by the Woman’s Missionary Society), an Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, a dispensary, an obstetrics and gynaecology department, a T.B. Sanatorium, a Leper Hospital, and other areas related to medical education. At the time, the only Dental College in China was at West China Union. As the University developed, doctors, nurses and other specialists began to graduate and take up work at various stations in Western China. In 1920, the first four men graduated from medicine, and in 1921, Whang Tien-Chi was the first graduate in Dentistry. In 1932, Miss Yo Yi-ch’en was the first woman to graduate from Medicine.13 In the year 1941-42 about 600 men and women were receiving medical and dental training on the Chengtu campus.14 The University was constantly evolving and developing to suit various needs.

Throughout the years, the Chinese began to adopt a Western style of medicine. Eventually, there was a desire to take control over the standardization of medical work and education. It was remarked in the Annual Report of the Board of Overseas Missions in 1945 that the Chinese Government had plans for a nation-wide medical service which would include training centres, both in Universities and hospitals. The high standard that the Missionaries had rendered was recognized by the Chinese, and they wished to incorporate those standards into their general plan.15 Overall, the hospitals continued to function in cooperation with Missionaries, until they were completely taken over by the Communist regime and missionaries returned home in 1952. Remnants of West China Medical Missions of the United Church still live on, as many of the hospitals and universities in China today had their beginnings with this mission.

11 Ibid. Woman’ s Missionary Society Annual Reports. “Board of Overseas Missions: Annual Report.” 1945: p. 252. 12 Ibid. Record of Proceedings. “Board of Overseas Missions: Annual Report.” 1946: p. 433. 13 West China Union University. “The West China Union University” 1939: p. 11. 14 West China Union University. “West China Union University” 1942: p. 11. 15 Ibid. Record of Proceedings. “Board of Overseas Missions: Annual Report.” 1946: p. 432.

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The Records

Fonds The United Church of Canada

FONDS 502: UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA BOARD OF OVERSEAS MISSIONS FONDS. -- 1910-1965, predominant 1925-1961. -- 17 m of textual records; 890 photographs

Administrative History: Organized in 1926, the Board of Foreign Missions was the continuation of the Canada Congregational Foreign Mission Society, the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church (Canada), and the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. It was renamed the Board of Overseas Missions in 1944. In 1962, its work was taken over by the newly constituted Board of World Mission.

Finding Aid: See Series Descriptions.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of the following series: minutes and general correspondence of the Board Secretaries, 1925-1961; records relating to Angola, 1925-1961; records relating to British Guiana, 1925-1927; records relating to China, 1910-1965; records relating to Central India, 1925-1961; and records relating to Korea, 1924-1961.

SERIES 4/RECORDS RELATING TO CHINA. -- 1910-1965, predominant 1925-1952. -- 8.3 m of textual records

Administrative History: The United Church of Canada took responsibility for Methodist and Presbyterian missions in China after 1925. The work was carried out with the cooperation of the Woman's Missionary Society and with the growing Church of Christ in China. The missions carried out educational, medical and evangelistic work throughout this period characterized by anti-foreign agitation, Japanese invasion and civil war. Missionary activity continued until 1952 when the last missionaries left after the establishment of the new Communist government in China.

Finding Aid: See subseries descriptions. Accession #: 1983.047C; 1983.008C; 1983.045C; 1983.046C; 1983.072C.

Scope and Content: Series consists of the following subseries: papers of the associate secretary relating to West China; Church of Christ in China records, 1929-1957; records of the Honan Mission, 1912-1952; records relating to South China, 1925-1953; and records re China in general and of inter-church bodies.

SERIES 4/Subseries 1: RECORDS RELATING TO WEST CHINA. –1910-1965, predominant 1925-1952.—3 m of textual records.

Administrative History: The West China Mission was the largest mission of the United Church of Canada.

This Mission was established as a Methodist mission in 1891, and transferred to The United Church of Canada in 1925. In 1926 there were some 90 names on the mission roll. Apart from 11 single women, teachers in the Canadian school for missionaries’ children or nurses in the Board of Foreign Missions; hospitals, the others were all couples with children. Age, deaths, often sudden, sometimes violent, ill health and the Depression combined to reduce the numbers and seriously affected the scope and efficacy of the work. The constant civil war followed by the Japanese invasion and the communist take-over caused many evacuations which often resulted in the permanent loss of mission personnel and thus added to the attrition referred to above. When it became clear that, in spite of earlier hopes, work under the Communist regime would be impossible, the Board, in 1951, ordered the few remaining missionaries home.

Finding Aid: 158 Accession #: 1983.047C

See also: For a list of Known Missionaries sent by the General Board 1890-1950 (from Finding Aid 158), see Lists of Known Missionaries on page 235 of this guide.

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Scope and Content: Subseries consists of Section I: Papers of the Board of Overseas Missions Associate Secretary relating to West China, which consists of correspondence, reports, and documents from the Board Secretaries and the missionaries dealing with medical, educational and evangelistic work and matters of finance, property, mission staffing and conditions and the Mission Press, 1925-1952; Section II: West China Union University which consists of correspondence, reports and minutes of various committees of West China Union University, 1926-1954; and Section III: Minutes of the Mission Councils (1929-1949) and West China Union University Bodies (1910-1950).

SECTION I: PAPERS OF THE BOARD OF OVERSEAS MISSIONS ASSOCIATE SECRETARY RELATING TO WEST CHINA (1925-1952)

During the period 1925-1952, the mission was served by three Mission secretaries: Mortimore, Bell and Veals, with Hibbard acting during Bell’s furloughs. The Board Secretaries were Endicott, Arnup and Gallagher. In this collection the Secretarial Files give a comprehensive view of what the mission was trying to accomplish in Szechwan, the methods, the institutions and the problems. They also cover a good deal of routine relating to missionary health and logistics, property, mission finances, scholarship students, communications between stations on the field, travel, mail services between the field and home base. There is also considerable comment on the relations of the mission with the Synod of the Chinese Church.

The files of correspondence between the Board Secretaries and individual missionaries cover institutions, projects or special types of work of particular concern to the individual. The writers also deal with personal affairs and make comment on the general situation.

Schools of all grades and hospitals, established by the earlier Methodist Mission in the major towns of the various Districts of the Synod of the Chinese Church, were carried on. In some areas Primary schools have been established in outlying districts also. However over the years the problem of providing adequate missionary supervision and Chinese Christian staff resulted in all of the primary and many of the middle schools being closed or transferred, usually by sale to Chinese secular management.

In general the hospitals continued to function until they were taken over by the Communist regime. However, the same problem of foreign missionary supervision and adequate Chinese Christian staff was troublesome. A few reports of various hospitals for the years 1931-1939 can be found in box 14.

The Mission Press was an important part of the work of the mission. One or two missionaries and a staff of Chinese Christians produced, either by original writing or translation, a body of Christian Literature which was used extensively by missions other than that of the UCC. This was especially true in the days of the Japanese occupation of the rest of China.

The mission also had a Business Agency which handled the freight and other business of the mission as well as for the individual missionaries. In conjunction with the Agency there was also a Home which provided accommodation for outstation missionaries in Chungking for business or medical reasons and also for those passing through at the time of furlough or return from furlough.

VOLUME I: 1925-1935

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date(s) 1983.047C 1-1 Correspondence- Endicott with Mortimore, Secretary of West China

Mission: - Sept 23: From Mortimore: Conditions in China, non-opening of Chungking Middle School, Missionaries en route to stations: Pincock, Birks, Smith, Burwell, Harris, Elson, Bridgeman (Jean Bridgeman ill), Edmonds. South China Conditions becoming normal. - Oct 15: Ichang least disturbed, continued journey to Chungchow, Morgan meeting Chinese Pastors, Seeking $1,200 for girls’ school, Chinese gateman and neighbours prevented looting of compound, no serious loss at upper medical compound, havoc in bungalows in Chungking, bad anti foreign feeling in Fowchow, Boys’ Middle School staying closed, Fowchow missionaries must live down leaving although there was no alternative, Glad

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Leonard and Pound not on field at the time, Dr. Djao stood loyally with the missionaries, Strong feeling church should be thoroughly Chinese but missionaries are still wanted, must wait to see how Customs conference goes before deciding on mission future. Courage of Chinese Christian leaders. Missionaries to put in claims for losses?, temporary help from fell missionaries, board donated bell in Chungking church tower, Chinese political situation, feel missionary parties should proceed from Canada, arrival of Annis. - Oct 31: Slow progress to Chengtu due to disorganized sailings; Peter and Elson will go direct to Kiating; Veals and Woulds had hard time in Luchow; had to fall back on food stores not able to buy locally, lacked medical attention, strain great; new hospital set up in Luchow, Dr. Williams in charge, Veals has opened school, more property needed - Nov 19: Notes on Mission Executive Minutes: personnel matters, property crisis, language study, indemnities for personal losses, wisdom of holding annual council in dangerous times, dental boils, school for missionary children, Dr. Leslie Kilborn health, Medical College Building - Nov 28: Death of Mrs. Endicott, sparling ill. - Dec 12: Health: Kilborn, Sparling; council arrangements; notes on Council minutes; Jim Endicott station; Soper’s machinery and the industrial school; China (missionary children) School Board; no outfit allowance for short-term workers; contributions to China N.C.C.; Arrivals: Plewman, Self, Bowyer - Dec 19: From Endicott: Name of Mission; council meeting of those who can get there; Kilborn suffered rifle wound; Dr. Retta Gifford Kilborn to work under WMS; Scholarship for Mr. Shao - Dec 21: From Mortimore: Handling of Warnshuis Memorial, Harrison Memorial Fund Regulations, Making partial use of architects plans for Medical and Dental buildings; too grandiose and prices rising; conditions in West China quiet; arrivals: Mullet, Nichols, Irish; Movement of missionaries from Chungking to stations.

1983.047C 1-2 Valuation of Mission Property as of March 19; detailed reports by stations of churches, schools, hospitals and residences.

Mar 19, 1925

1983.047C 1-3 Reports: Mrs. F.F. Allen, C.W. Batdorf, K.J. Beaton 1925

1983.047C 1-4 Correspondence- Endicott with Mortimore, Secretary Mission (Jan- June, 1926): - Jan 11: Endicott: Board undertakes to pay up to 50% of individual missionary losses. Matter of seeking indemnity as mission to be studies. - Jan 13: Mortimore: Four cables undated because of delays in transmission; Plan to convene Mission Council in spite of political and military uncertainties; comments on Executive Minutes: communications with home constituency, possibility of West China missionary paper; council and board relationships; necessity of easily available water supply; grant in aid to Union Medical School; probably permanent replacement of Brown on Educational Union by Chinese, Mr. Feng; Brown now earmarked as Dean of Faculty of Education after furlough; Batdorf furlough; Model Settlement site; Jim Endicott, language facility; regulations regarding schools supported by foreign contributions; voting procedures for delegates to General Council; health: Mrs. Rackham, Mrs. Hugh Taylor, Geraldine Hartwell; Language study: Miss Graham, Self and Bowyer; school teachers: Caldwell and Gould - Jan 25: ---: Jean Bridgeman’s condition; world furlough; anti-Christian activities and means of dealing with them; Would and Morgan; Medical Dental Building; Differing views on extrality; Notes on Council Minutes: property and finance; use of extra income earned on exchange rate.

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- Jan 27: ---: Establishment and distribution of Mission Paper; travel by boat. - Feb 13: ---: Notes on minutes of Council; Jones’ survey: Dr. Kelly, representative to home board; Miss Bruce and Miss Beaton; Literature department under O. Jolliffe and Mr. & Mrs. Kitchen; Church Union in East China; visit of Rev. A.R. Kepler brings new interest in Union; Need 2 doctors partly so that Crawford can do Health Education; Sale of Kiating property; Health: Elson; Furlough: Miss Hartwell; Dr. Liu’s post graduate studies; Health: David Hibbard, H.G. Brown’s relationships to mission; local station committees’ resolutions to be published in Executive minutes; Health: Annis; use of unused maintenance balances by Executive; “West China Tidings”; Chungking hospital to retain maintenance balances; furlough regulations; suggestion of missionary prayer list; emergency expenses; Bridgeman emergency furlough; Shao Wen Roh to visit Canada; Order of Elders; Chinese should have more say in type of church buildings; Sparlings to take charge of Model Settlement work; proposed sale of Hai-O-Tse property; teachers’ salaries left with District Education Committee; referendum to be taken on extrality; travel expenses; house for Pen Chi Lin, superintendent Press; help to British from American community summer of 1925; personnel matters; indemnities - Feb 18-19: Resolution: re: Situation in China passed by a Conference of Executive Officers, Members and Missionaries on Furlough of Canadian Missionary Societies held in Toronto - Feb 21: Mortimore: Stationing and furloughs: Edmunds, Batdorf, Carscallen, Miss Bedford, Soper, Beaton, Crawford; council appointment of University Graduates; various grants of money: Medical School, support for educational Union, student loans, rent from mission property; revised constitution of the Literature Department; Health Education for Dr. Yuan; dental services, Chungking; Government registrations of Middle Schools; invitation to Honan mission to visit W. China; applications for Chungking bungalow; Relationship of A.J. Brace to “Y”; appeal for Conference maintenance grant increase; estimates; disciplinary questions; Morrison withdrawal; stationing Metrong of Chungking school; Medical School, principal’s residence; Forward Movement Committee discontinued; New workers wanted; plant estimates; completion of Luchow Hospital; transfer grant for Jenshow. - Feb 24: 1) Williams, T.H. (M.D.): Report on health problems at Luchow; money needed for Luchow hospital building; loss because of interruption in building; rival armies fighting in the locality 2) Beach, J: President of Union University: request to government education authorities on behalf of Hsiao Hsuan - Mar 5: Cable re: Council Actions - Mar 9: To Commissioner of Immigration, Hong Kong, on behalf of Dr. T.C. Whang and Shiao Shuan (sic). - Mar 20: Indemnities; Shiao Shuan and Dr. Whang’s visas; acknowledgement of field correspondence by Board office requested; delegates to general council; ministerial, Stewart and Walker (reserves, Johns and Brace): Lay, Miss M. Coon, Dr. R.G. Kilborn; Hibbard made corresponding member of Mission Executive as he knows mission finances; Quentin property gift; travel expenses for ministerial delegates to Annual conference; controversy over application of college money to Luchow hospital - Mar 24: Endicott: Board actions; returning missionaries listed Elson furlough; brace leave of absence; reinforcement: school matron to be sought, Arnold Vokes, M.D. appointed; no replacement for Miss Ross; actions concerning Union University; resolution of Feb 18-19 confirmed; Harrison Memorial Fund regulations

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- Mar 27: Canadian Union brings cut to missionary funds; Morrison return; Brace to SVM; comment on items in Mar. 24 letter - Mar 31: Mortimore: Arrangements for Dr. Whang and Mr. Shiao - Apr 8: 1) Endicott: Safeguarding properties in case extrality is ended 2) Mortimore: Scholarship for Mary Sibley; Brown resigns from WCCEW; comments on Executive minutes of Apr 5; temporary WMS use and future of Junghsien house; Dr. Liu acting superintendent of Junghsien hospital; opinion still divided on extrality; teachers’ salaries; divided opinion on compulsory chapel; to Shanghai as representative to China NCC; delegates for general: Dr. Wilford, with Mrs. Hoffman as reserve; death of Pastor Tan. Health: Miss Harris, Mrs. Taylor, Edmunds’ child, Political conditions Luchow. - Apr 27: Arnup: Delays and doubts of others re: “West China Tidings” - Apr 23: Agreement: Sale of General Society House, Junghsien, to WMS - Mar 14: Hibbard: Health: Annis; cost of Middle School, Chengtu; deficit due to exchange rate; Junghsien House; Carscallen; financial report delay; explanations of some amounts in tentative financial report. -May 15: Mortimore: Lay participation in Annual Conference; ministers terms to be lengthened; churches in districts to have more authority over preachers and salaries; missionaries’ proposal to become non-voting members of conference opposed by Chinese pastors; five men ordained; fixed sum grants to districts very salutary; NCCC meeting postponed so sat with its executive; Whang and Shiao travel documents O.K.; personnel movements. - Jun 1: ---: Conversations re: Church of Christ in China with Kepler; NCC Executive discussed extrality and withdrawal of CIM from membership; murder of Mrs. Sibley; reports on various stations visited. - Jun 24: ---: Hibbard: Crawford children return to Canada; registration of Quentin land gifts; removal and sale of old Middle School dormitory [see file 6 for Vinden’s letter]; Street widening in Chengtu will affect property; fighting in West China - Jul 4: Mortimore: Cable re: evacuation of women and children

1983.047C 1-5 Correspondence- Endicott to Mortimore (July- December): - Jul 3: Mortimore: Mr. Sibley carrying on; comments on Executive minutes of July 1; Miss Beaton’s travel; Furloughs: Burwell and Swann; statement re: conditions, want permission to send families home; Shantung wants dentist; cost of living; (copies of consular notices to British and American missionaries concerning Red Lantern Society activities near routes to hills). - Jul 5: ---: Claims for losses during summer 1925; circumstances of looting; cable sent requesting Board not to send women and children back to China, particularly Mrs. Mortimore, with extra reasons stated; disappointed at home reaction to “West China Tidings”; confusion over funds for furnishing Canadian School and Chinese doctors’ salaries; Sibley murder; officials on lookout for secret societies; confidential conversation between consul and missionary representatives - Jul 7: Mortimore: Elson summer trip to Kobe - Jul 13-16: Arnup: Relaying field information to missionaries on furlough - Jul 17: Mortimore: Cable received authorizing home going of women and children at discretion of Mission Executive; cable sent in reassurance; some missionaries are summering as usual; consular warning on summer resorts, but reports are quiet - Aug 4, 11: Arnup: Field information to missionaries on furlough - Aug 10: Beaton: Enclosing report of Committee on use of Alexander Sutherland memorial Church, Chengtu; wonderful plant but no staff or social service work as no money. - Aug 14: Mortimore: News from General Council; Endicott moderator;

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mailing list for “Tidings”; no need for jealousy toward “Tidings”; criticism of missionary contributions to established church periodicals; missionaries get discouraged that material sent is not used; can station reports be used; ASM program as outlined could be used to disarm criticism of church. - Aug 17: ---: Walker, Acting under-secretary External Affairs- advice re: withdrawal of missionaries - Aug 26: Mortimore: New Mission Board set-up; death of Agnew child; Reed family health improving; red tape re: handing over deeds of Shiao Shih Tze Church; Elson expected back in fall; Tennant to Peking to work in eye diseases; Bowles’ and Small’ children suffer dog bites. - Report on history of Siao Shih Tze church, Chungking - Sept 7: ---: no dentist available for Shantung; missionaries return to stations; conditions not much changes - Sept 10: ---: British gunboats at Wahnsien; no untoward happening yet; rumours about Hangkow; delays in arrival of Baynes-Vokes party; copy of consular notice covering letter - Sept 11: ---: Comments on Council Executive Minutes; mostly personnel: Tennant, Elson, Sibley, Hartwell; suggest Flood be hired to keep books during Hibbard furlough; Wilford; Chungchow hospital matters; Robert Irish to Kobe school; Wallace furlough; Miss Bruce to Canadian School, Chengtu; Anderson family return; Luchow medical work; regulation time for going on furlough; regulations re: travel within China; no repercussions from Wahnsien; notes on special Executive meeting; personnel: Annis, Bell, Elson; Emergency plans in view of political conditions; health: Mrs. Sellery, Dorothy Small - Sept 17: Arnup: Sailings cancelled for China missionaries - Sept 21: Mortimore: (to local committees:) advice re: possible evacuation - Oct 2: ---: Explanation of cables re: conditions; request that men be sent, women and children to stay in Canada; Early furloughs in case of trouble; consular actions. - Oct 4-8: Sparling: (G.W.S.)- paper on student agitation at West China Union University - Oct 12: ---: Cable requesting nurses to come, but school teachers not to come; financial and staff problems at Chengtu and Chungking Canadian schools; Walmsley part time school, part time mission accounts; Simpson early health furlough; political conditions; Luchow and East District, Penghsien on the whole quiet; 80% of WCUU students back at class. - Oct 13: Arnup: Board actions, Furloughs, early returns granted: Henderson, Taylor, Birks, Bowles, Bedford, Reed, Veals, Wallace, Harris, Haddock, Hartwell, Frier, Kitchen, Hibbard; 1927 furloughs: Abrey, Service, Haddock, Carscallen, Swann; other personnel matters: Batstone, Wilson, Wallace, Abrey, post graduate studies: Kelly, Would, Hoffman, Jones, Bridgeman, Cox, Elson, Quentin, Batsdorf; Miss Bruce to Chengtu Canadian School; Furlough leaving time set; Quentin chapel donation; approval of financing of ASM program; rents from mission property may supplement grants; permanent office building for mission secretary postponed; support for China missionaries in present conditions; urge Pharmacy Department at WCCU; Property matters; indemnity for personal losses due to troubles; “West China Tidings” approved; Moderatorial visit to field mooted; estimates granted; Arnup to care for former Methodist and Congregational fields. - Oct 15: Arnup: Problem of men returning to West China either from Shanghai or Canada; personnel: Miss McIntosh, Miss Batstone, Meuser and Johns. - Oct 18: Mortimore: Consular pressure led to early furloughs and large return of women and children; criteria for order of departure; more British

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gunboats might produce quiet or provoke incident; conditions quiet but unsettled - Oct 20: Arnup: Simpsons furlough, work and living conditions - Oct 28: Mortimore: Glad of permission for “Tidings”; disappointed no men and nurses coming from Canada; Moderatorial visit welcome; travels of furlough party; notes on Executive minutes: Swann, Veals, Simpson; Teacher for Chungking?; James furlough in view of situation and intention to marry; Jolliffe to Penghsien; applications to remain on field; need for local committee to stand on who should evacuate and who stay; boycott re: disgrace at Wahnsien; students joined boycott, Union University and Middle School closed; lack of servants frustrating - Nov 4: Arnup: Announcement of “Tidings” in New Outlook; send copies of printed annual reports; death of Agnew child; arrival of returnees; death of Elizabeth Wilson. - Nov 17: Mortimore: Consolidation of Methodist missionary community in Chengtu; servants back; WCCU and WCUMS back to schedule, though reduced in numbers; warring factions and different views among them; dates of Moderator Endicott’s visit in relation to Council and Conference; Doctor for Fowchow; Tennant; Canadian schools: Graham to Chungking, Taylor to Chengtu; Birks’ indemnity claims; general conditions Penghsien, Jenshow, Kiating, Junghsien, Tzeliutsing, Luchow - Nov 24: Arnup: Will look into difficulty of cashing Missionary Society draft; personnel: Elson, Hartwell; Medical policy and Chungchow; Bruce; Comment on letters and cables received; Moderator’s trip; station reports necessary for preparation of report for Annual Board. - Dec 1: Arnup: Nurses did not return because of taking other appointments; return to station of wives and children, Frier, Burwell, Smith; Chungking becoming normal; keeping in touch with furlough missionaries; death: Dr. Ewan; Ewan’s daughter would like to go to West China. - Dec 27: Arnup: Hartwell child allowance; Chungking Hospital completion; Mrs. Wolfendon appointment; furloughs approved. - Oct 28: Mortimore: Moderator’s dates; station reports ordered for December 31; necessity of Board approval for early furlough except in emergencies; owing to interruptions in wire services discretionary powers necessary; losses for looting paid; information not yet in hand re: transfer of grant from Teachers’ Residence to Luchow Hospital; executive minute notes: personnel: Wilford, Birks, Rackham and Bowyer; Chengtu end of province peaceful; Luchow more influenced by southern propaganda; some fighting at Luchow compound; Globe accounts of China troubles

1983.047C 1-6 Murder of Mrs. Sibley- Accounts of murder from various sources 1926

1983.047C 1-7 Cables- Sept 1926- Jan1927: concerning evacuation of personnel needs 1926-1927

1983.047C 1-8 Meetings of Special Committee of West China Mission: Sept 27, 28, and October 11

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1983.047C 1-9 Board with various Missionaries: May 30: Allan: Tzeliutsing: local political condition; hospital services and finances; indigenization of hospitals; numbers down in both hospitals and schools because less foreign money available; WMS bible school; Exchange rates; family news - Jul 22- Sept 30: Arnup to Bayne: Conditions in China - Nov 12, 21, 19, Dec 8: Bayne- Shanghai- political conditions and family matters - Oct 27: 1) Birks- Effect of conditions on missionaries nerves; Fowchow; strain tending to “mild shell shock.” 2) Arnup: Acknowledgement; news of Birks’ family

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- Jun 15, Jul 1: Bowles: Chengtu- Publication of West China Tidings - Sept 19, 21: Frier: Chungking: Speed of evacuation on three counts: Boycott, demonstration, movement of war lords; 4th count, advice from consul - Sept 24: ---: Some staying after all as conditions improve; Chungking review of Reviews - Nov 6: ---: Return to station of wives and children, Frier, Burwell, Smith; consular advice not clear; Death of Mrs. D. Yuan - Sept: 1) Austin and Endicott- safety of James Endicott and wife Mary (Austin), 2) Arnup and Harris: Similar to above - Apr 26: Jolliffe- Chengtu- Self-support to Chinese church; lay influence; Whang and Shiao abroad; lack program of Christian literature; proposal that missionaries should give up vote in Conference. - Aug 20: ---: Policy, program of literature in church needed; inter-denominational literature work; finances - Sept 27: ---: Pros and cons in political situation - Feb 1: Hoffman: Tzeliutsing- mission should spend more time on direct evangelism - Apr 27: ---: Relationship of foreign grants and self-support - Oct 14: ---: self-support and foreign money; place of educational work - Oct 11: Reed: Canadian Methodist Mission Press- WCCU troubles - Jul 7: Simpson: Fowchow- Confusion of 1926 differs from that of 1920 only in degree; Bolshevism and anti-foreign feeling; Polygamy amongst the generals; 14th army; mission must take new factors into account in planning; optimism not enough; too much money in church buildings; hospital building as in S. China good. - Mar 20: Smith, W.E.- Tzeliutsing- trying to get products of middle school and theological department out to teach in rural areas; self-support; Chinese say they could do without schools and hospitals. - Oct 10: Soper- Chengtu- General conditions and paper on WCCU agitation. - Sept 17: Wilford- Suifu- re: passage to China and travel to Suifu - Feb 10: Willmott- Jenshow- Mrs. Geyer’s visit explained; translation of Sharman’s Jesus in the Records - Apr 16: Endicott- acknowledgement

1983.047C 1-10 1926 Finances: 1926-27 Estimates; lists of losses, 1925, for individual missionaries; statement on looting at Chungking; Letter from Hibbard on mission property; report on increased cost of living.

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1983.047C 1-11 “The Daily Lyre” July 26- Jan 4, 1927: Extracts from Chinese press made by a Chinese student concerning day to day affairs. [Note: “The Daily Lyre” moved to West China Pamphlets- amalgamated with other issues of “Daily Lyre” (see pamphlets-social and political)]

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1983.047C 1-11a Council and Executive Minutes 1926

1983.047C 1-12 Stationing, Furloughs and Evacuation- plans for employment of refugee missionaries; Gandier and Endicott present; evacuation lists (April)

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1983.047C 1-13 Correspondence: Rev J Arnup, Board, with Rev. K. Beaton, Secretary (West China Mission in Shanghai): - Mar 11: Beaton: Comment on various moves by missionaries: Lindsay, Kilborn, Walmsley, Albertson; move Canadian school to Canadian Academy, Kobe; some parents also go to Japan; in light of Kankow agreement, Mortimore, Wilford, Sparling, Small and Dickinson stayed in Chengtu; political confusion and anti-foreign, anti-Christian campaign; Jolliffe, Bell, Smith, and Sheridan in Chungking. - Mar 14: Arnup: Acknowledging news of some missionaries, requesting

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news of others. - Apr 15: Beaton: Missionary sailings; explanations of early furloughs; Bowyer, Smith, Gould, Small, Vokes, Taylor, Self; most missionaries in Shanghai putting in time at language study. - Apr 23: --- Endicott insisted on large grant for church; Finances: gateman, Szechwan language teachers; Canadian School teachers and matrons; medical, dental work estimates: each station mentioned; Educational work estimates; controversy over closing schools; our mission does not believe red element will triumph. - Apr 25: --- En route to Japan to confer with Rev. P. Price (East Tokyo, Social Service); political comment; Chiang Kai Shek; Even some missionaries favour strong arm tactics; notes on interviews with the British and U.S. consuls about re-entering Szechwan. - Jun 10: --- Views of various groups on devolution.

1983.047C 1-14 Correspondence- Rev. J. Arnup, with Rev. Gerald Bell, Secretary of West China Mission in Shanghai (Bell moved from Chungking to Shanghai in April): 1) - Feb 10: Bell: Chungking- Mission group recommends furloughs: Haddock, Harris, Frier, Edmonds, McAmmond, Burwell, Willmott, Sellery; some older workers to remain; some have already left for Ichang; Jolliffe and Bell remain; policy now to concentrate all men in Chungking for later decision as to who remains; conditions in interior indicate complete evacuation advisable; situation quiet in Chungking but may not remain so. 2) Arnup: (To Batdorf in Canada) - Problem of future employment and furlough status. 3) Batdorf- (same as above to Arnup) - May 9: Bell: 1) Cable re: Chengtu University; 2) Illness of Smith child; permission for travel into interior impossible to obtain; Quotes Dye of Baptist Mission: Law has given place to a quid pro quo existence; great strain living in interior; “Ren Shin” raised questions for future; improvement in behaviour of military on campus; General Liu’s changed attitude to foreigners and the general situation. - May 20: --- Disruption of mail and cable services; this no excuse for Board not getting word to relatives; political and military comment - May 27: Arnup: Appreciation of newsletters; possibility of publishing paper in Shanghai discussed; Smith family health crisis; Word on returnees: Abrey, Birks, Sellery, Brace, Bowles, Brown, Would, Annis, Elson, Kelly, Stewart, Jones, Xoc; Death of Dickinson child. - Jun 3: Bell: Dickenson furlough; no word from men in Chengtu, bad news may be delayed; nationalist armies moving steadily toward Peking and events related to this. - Jun 17: --- Letter, May 19, from Chengtu most recent; Chinese nurse in charge details looting at Luchow hospital - Jun 24: --- Smith child’s health; China Newsletter being published in Toronto; looting at Fowchow and Luchow; No news from Chengtu. - Jun 27: Arnup: More returnees: Bayne, Smith, Would, Batdorf - Jul 1: Bell: Delayed communications from Chengtu; confused situation re: mission treasurer-ship; Mortimore empowered to adjust estimates as necessary - Jul 15: Arnup: Acknowledgement of Bell, Jun 17 - Jul 16: Endicott: Changes re: finances must be okayed by Board or Executive; no telegraphic communications with Szechwan - Jul 18: Bell: Szechwan fighting not as bad as feared; Crawford furlough; China Newsletter acknowledged - Aug 11: --- Death of second Dickinson child; cable and letter to Chengtu but news may be delayed; request Dickinson furlough; payment to Chinese

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recorder; Salaries for China men to Korea and Japan. - n.d.: Report from Missionaries in Shanghai: Nature of present political situation and background as related to Christian opportunity; problem of return of missionaries: relations of missionaries and Home Board with British authorities; Chinese assumption of leadership roles; some missionaries should remain in Shanghai in readiness to return to West China; even Shanghai presence a strength to Chinese colleagues; relief should be sent to Chengtu men. - Aug 22: Arnup: Dickinson family further health problems; Mrs. Mortimore’s health; Crawford health furlough authorized. - Aug 25: Bell: 1) Reasons for Mrs. Bell’s return to Canada (1926); request for short furlough if unable to return to interior 2) Problems of staff if way opens to return to interior; of six men in Orient only two could move immediately; Bell and Rackham; some works should be held in readiness to return to China: Bridgeman, Cox, Hoffman, Jones, Quentin, Simpson, Walker, Batdorf; For Chengtu: Bayne, Johns, Kelly, Meuser, Brown, Stewart - Aug 26: --- Requests raise in children’s allowances; What about families if men return to Szechwan?; Miss Graham seconded to Canadian Academy, Kobe - Sept 22: --- Health: Dickinson, Mortimore; Emergency Language School; Authority of Council Executive; Hartwell, Rackham and Bell may use Japanese boats to get up Yangtze; Albertson suggested to replace Morgan as Mission Accountant so that Morgan can make investigatory trip. - Sept 28: --- Leaving for interior taking supplies for hospitals, regarded by business men as insane. - Oct 1: --- Travel on the Yangtze; consular attitude - Oct 7: --- Greatest problems of Hankow, currency and lack of food - Oct 9: --- Methods of various shipping companies for getting past brigades - Oct 10: --- River police first out to meet ship to pick up their share of opium; bandit activities along the river; general conditions very quiet; activities of foreign shipping companies - Oct 16: --- “Pidgin” cargo; adventure with bandits - Nov 18: --- Position of British Consul vis-à-vis missionaries; Hartwell and Rackham arrived in Chengtu; Mortimore expected in Chungking.

1983.047C 1-15 ---: Shanghai Newsletters (1927): Information from interior of China quoting missionaries and Chinese colleagues.

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1983.047C 1-16 Correspondence re: Emergency Language School 1927

1983.047C 1-17 Correspondence- Rev. J. Arnup, Secretary, Board and Rev. R.O. Jolliffe, Missionary: - May 25: Jolliffe- Request for daughters to re-join parents in Shanghai at own expenses; does not want furlough; can continue literature work in Shanghai - Jun 9: ---(To other China missionaries, copy to Arnup): British Consul says way to interior absolutely closed; news from missionaries and Chinese gives a very grim pictures; boats are said to be going through directly to Chungking; no rule of thumb applicable to all families; U.S. Missionaries starting a school for their children in Shanghai; no knowing when return will be possible; refer to letter May 25; problem of divided families should have been faced in Council’ (To Arnup, P.S. Hold action on Jolliffe family in abeyance). - Jun 24: --- 1) Discussion of foregoing 2) Arrival of Alice and Grace Jolliffe in Shanghai; Bell wishes to go into Chungking in hopes of sending Dickinson out; shipping companies refused passage; does not want to use British gunboat; return to Szechuan still

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problematic; for present trying by published letters to keep missionary point of view before Chinese churches. - Aug 23: --- 1) Ask Board to assume share of deficit of Emergency School of Chinese Studies; at first Canadian missionaries steered clear but not have 15 out of 116 enrolled; statement of finances of school. 2) Arnup: Not all correspondence you requested concerning evacuation in files; sending what is; your statement to home church being published; study on Christ’s attitude to foreigners - Sept 6: --- Agree not good to go on gunboat; regret business men getting back before missionaries. - Sept 9: Jolliffe: Differing future plans for families of Rackham, Plewman, Morgan, Best, Jolliffe, Mullett, Brown, Cunningham, Agnew, Bowyer, Endicott and Self - Sept 29: --- (To British consul): Notice of Hartwell, Bell and Rackham leaving for West China; plans for limited number of men only (British Consul’s reply: upset) - Sept 30: --- Comments on Consul’s attitude; business men allowed; test to see if missionaries allowed; interprets Arnup, Sept. 6 as go ahead on return to interior; other British missions abiding by consular advice; Americans bypass their consuls easily; British Consul’s have high moral view of their responsibility; cannot afford to quarrel with them; necessary for missionaries to have instructions from Home Board in view of Consular “advice”; individual actions may have repercussions on other missions; British government decidedly opposed to missionaries entering West China. (Copy of Consular letter to Rackham, Bell and Hartwell). - Oct 7: --- Recommend Nicholl be allowed to take nursing position, Peking. - Oct 22: --- Executive decides to let Beaton, Soper, Morgan, Plewman, Hoffman, Jones and Allan to go up river; no word yet from Bell party; city fathers ask to put road through Chengtu hospital property; delaying tactics indicated; Mortimore’s letter unduly optimistic; Americans can get passes from Chinese government; our men crawl back like criminals; evacuation period has changed thinking of men; no longer content to be administrative top dogs; word from Pastor Kan; NCC memorandum re: return of missionaries; word that bell et al. went forward by ordinary unescorted boat; M.E. men ordered by Bishop to wait for gunboat escort. - Nov 1: Arnup: Very divergent views about attitude of consuls expressed at board meeting; resolution showed board prepared to share responsibility for actions taken on field. - Nov 9: Walker (Acting Secretary of State, External Affairs): Missionary Societies should urge members to comply if general evacuation ordered. - Nov 10: Armstrong (Secretary, Board to Walker): Cable information from Szechuan missionaries indicates conditions improved - Nov 15: Jolliffe: Mission Executive did not exceed Authority in making a recommendation re: self, going into Szechwan; need new mission financial arrangements; Jolliffe temporary treasurer - Nov 23: Arnup: Affirmative action necessary before a missionary be returned to China; immediate future calls for fewer men who show special qualities; responsibility for choice rests with Mission to guide Board; acknowledge various communications; will accommodate Chengtu people with delay; Rev. S.F. Gan’s letter; authorization of Jolliffe as treasurer; return of missionaries to Szechuan and accounts.

1983.047C 1-18 Devolution: State of devolution of women’s work, literature and press, education and pastoral work, medical Statements presented and discussion; wishes of Chinese church, relation of Council and Conference; comparison of situation in Japan; autonomy of church and relationship of schools and hospitals to church.

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1983.047C 1-19 Correspondence: Mr. and Mrs. Bowyer (Missionaries) with Rev. J. Arnup (Board Secretary), concerning return of Mrs. Bowyer to Shanghai at her own expense.

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1983.047C 1-20 ---: Rev. Mr. F. Dickinson with Rev. J. Arnup: Concerning death of two children and illness of a third; house rent; conditions in Chengtu; apple growing; request for heifers in calf; Christianity in the University; athletics; spirit of young women in college (Arnup, Acknowledgement) ---: To Walmsley: Importance of Canadian School in relation to return of missionaries; letter of Wu Hen Chiu, secretary of Educational Association of Mission; Desire for return of missionaries

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1983.047C 1-21 ---: Rev. and Rev. S.H. Frier (Business Agent, West China Canadian Mission): Copy of consular instructions for concentration and evacuation of missionaries

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1983.047C 1-22 ---: Frier to Pratt, Consul: would like more detail as to reasons for evacuation; Chinese girls left in dormitories by their parents, hospitals busy as ever; opposed concentration ---: To Board: Request authorization for signing cheques, Vokes’ freight ---: Jones: Movements of other missionaries in the province; Bell, Mortimore, Robertson, Stubbs, Hoffman, Allan, Plewman, Jolliffe, Morgan; American missionaries in Chungking; no evidence of thievery in mission houses; quiet trip from Shanghai; massacre of Communists last year; general roundup of Communists; Communists were at bottom of anti-foreign movement; Consul Blunt wants only a limited number of foreigners in the interior of province; consents to three WMS ladies returning and living in interior, particularly doctors; all angles of return of missionaries discussed; news of friends in Chungking; school operating with reduced numbers; seven taxes on freight; prospects for reopening work; travel on the Yangtze, Bandits. - Finances: financial reports

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1983.047C 1-23 Account of Dinner of WCCU, Meeting in Shanghai: Speeches: Robertson, History of WCCU, Franklin and Endicott, faith in China and Missionaries

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1983.047C 1-24 Addresses to Council of West China Mission, Shanghai: Endicott: Financial situation of new United Church, with special reference to missions; general feeling of unity; relations with mother churches; devolution, retirement age, relationship of evangelistic and institutional work; treatment of native workers; should have one council, not two ---: Gandier: Changed missionary situation; races can no longer operate separately; missionaries’ special responsibility; Christian individuals must seek to lay foundations of new social and political structures; mission in Honan. ---: Dr. D. Willard Lyan, YMCA, Shanghai- Functions of the missionary in the Coming Days; problems basically not administrative but spiritual; legacy good and bad of past; anticipate Chinese leadership desires; must avoid patronizing attitude; must curb tendency to activism; importance of personal relationship; discovery and encouragement of leadership; should become experimenters (discussion followed) ---: Dr. MacRae: Greetings from S. China Mission; Discussion re: political conditions, development of church, development of Christian leadership ---: Mrs. Gandier: Greetings

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1983.047C 1-25 Proposed visit of moderator to West China, March: Pros and Cons; message to Chunking urging evacuation; Address of Liu Dze; informal delegate from Chinese Church

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1983.047C 1-26 Statements regarding present situation in China; Dr. F.C. Stephenson, secretary, mission education, Dr. A.L. Warshuis, IMC

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1983.047C 1-27 Correspondence- Rev W.J. Mortimore (Secretary, West China Mission) with Rev. J. Arnup (Board): - Jan 6: Arnup: Engineers transit for Gordon R. Jones; Miss James furlough travel; board budgeted last year’s appropriations plus salaries for additional personnel, tentative not guaranteed; need estimate figures two years in advance. - Jan 20: --- cables received re: evacuation; arrival of Irish family - Feb 4: Mortimore: Difficult to keep abreast of work as Walmsley not yet familiar with Hibbard’s work; request for secretary turned down; incident in Junghsien operating room sparked off public repercussions; tenant moved to Chengtu; Newssheets for information of missionaries enclosed; council of January 27 cancelled because of Hankow situation; contradictory rumours; women and children evacuated; details of evacuation parties; two marriages: James to Bowyer, Speers to Smith; legal difficulties overcome; further evacuations; Willmott to Chengtu; General den and Liu promise protection but they might not survive; many missionaries would welcome end of extra-territoriality, but business folks and other opposed; increasing British and American pressure on nationals to leave; this suggests their governments want unhampered hands; CMS has been ordered out by their society; comments on Executive minutes: Sutherland Memorial Parsonage Sale: Li Min Liang for further training; Council probably at Shanghai; support for Christian daily; Dr. Liu’s house (Cable: Affleck, British Consul, re; Hankow and evacuation) - Feb 8: Arnup: Meeting of Sub-Executive of Board, WMS and all West China furlough missionaries. Confirm authority for evacuation of mission. Some cables must have miscarries; mistake re: Miss Nicholls; discuss transfer of grant to Luchow hospital with Endicott (Minutes of Meeting) - Feb 19: Mortimore: Few missionaries left in Chengtu; consul and missionaries in Chungking urge Chengtu five to go there; regret Endicott will not get to W. China; Consul at Chungking says dominion government has written Home Society to get missionaries out - Mar 11: --- [p. 1 missing]: trying to put more responsibility for handling finances on Chinese Church organization; should be thinking of a future self-supporting church and schools. - Mar 17: Arnup: No letters or cables received; glad WCCU running fairly smoothly; everyone waits further news. - n.d.: Paper, Why We Did Not Leave Chengtu - Mar, Apr 15: List of Locations of West China Missionaries - Apr 2: Mortimore: Chungking men staying; sale of Sutherland memorial parsonage - Apr 21: Arnup: Concerning missionaries in Canada; Batdorf, Walker, Would, Brown, Taylor, Annis, McIntosh, Service; payment of evacuation costs; Llewellyn Hall, residence for Missionary Children; [letter 2]; scholarship for service; Carscallen doctorate; Moderator’s cable; day of prayer for China set - May 4: --- Acknowledgment of previous correspondence and gratitude for those who stay; glad of tennis game; UCC treasurer authorized to finance evacuation from borrowings -May 6: --- Chinese workers doing best to carry on; evacuation of five seriously discussed; river travel more dangerous than staying; salary arrangements for separated families; districts financially provided -May 19: --- Expense saved by routing cables via Shanghai; possible interruption of mail service; good spirit in Chungking Conference; committees half lay, half ministerial (UCCM News, May 21, May 27) - Jun 7: --- Renting Lao Kwan Miao property; appointment of Shur Lung Kwang to Jenshow; early furlough for Dickinson; schools affected by cut in

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estimates; authority to readjust grants necessary; salaries, exchange rates, direct payments to families in Canada; looting of Luchow houses but communists ousted; believe staying justified and hope soon other men may return; arrangements for surety of correspondence. - Jun 27: Arnup: News of Bayne, Batdorf, Smith, Jolliffe, Would, Annis, Elson, Brown, Taylor, Kelly, Stewart - Jul 2: Mortimore: Mission safe looted at Luchow; Kiating hospital cleared of soldiers, must reopen in small way; losses to West China Mission - n.d.: Executive Committee of UCC Mission: Statement re: General Situation. For information of British Consul and Home Board Officers. - n.d.: Resolution regarding Devolution: Board Resolution re: deputation to the Orient. Report from Shanghai Committee. - Jul 19: Mortimore (to Rev. A.E. Armstrong) - Recap of what is in preceding letters (to Rev. R. Laird); financial matters. - Aug 17: Arnup: Dickinson furlough - Aug 29: 1) Dye: Impressions upon return to Szechuan more river traffic near Chungking; less anti-foreign epithets; customs examinations stricter all along the river; lack of kerosene; atmosphere friendlier near Chengtu; warm welcome from people of all sorts; missionaries in Chengtu glad of Dye’s return; greater responsibility on Chinese side; stepped right back into class work; city church congregation larger than before; soldiers better behaved; university has real standing. 2) Arnup: (to missionaries in Canada): Problems of future as missionaries raised. - Sept 10: Mortimore: Not in favour of men taking immediate furlough; hope they will return soon; wire sent to Shanghai on this; money from sale of Keo Teo Hang applies to Sze Sheng Tze parsonage; political conditions; having had burden of responsibility Chinese workers better appreciate contribution of missionaries. - Sept 26: --- Urges Board to send men back. Missionaries needed to sort out Chinese problems in eastern part of field. Hibbard to Chengtu for financial matters would release Morgan for Chungking; Bridgeman if in Chungking could itinerate and possibly get back property to Fowchow; want Williams and Walker in Luchow to get military off property; other names and places; suggest meeting in Chengtu for drawing up estimates and review of work; consul allowing British to reside in Chungking. - n.d.: Paper: Are Missionaries Wanted in China? - Oct 8: Arnup: Shanghai cables: Albertson to replace Morgan: Bell, Rackham and Hartwell to interior; seek permission for return of furlough men: Nicholls to Peking; Hoffman and Jones returning soon - Oct 10: Mortimore: Stationing for Hartwell, Bell, Rackham; no need for delay of second party, particularly doctors; Williams, Allen, Plewman, Jolliffe; renting Beh Yun Gai property; street widening expenses to mission; guild work may be suspended till Quentin’s return; “Double Tenth” seems peaceful. - Oct 20: Arnup: Comment on Board Actions re: China; personnel matters; wide range of views on conditions and prospects for return of missionaries; secretary instructed to write West China Conference asking numbers and classification of men needed; salaries; insurance on Szechuan property; evacuation expenses; payment or non-payment of Chungking taxes; property estimates; study of salaries brought in and to be put into effect gradually; methods of applying cuts; indemnity for losses; devolution; estimates; invitations to missionaries to return to the field; WMS proposes to support all women workers in West China and Korean - Nov 25: --- Salary matters; McIntosh in N.Y. hospital; Imeson resignation; return authorized: Allan, Beaton, Hoffman, Jones, Morgan, Plewman, Soper;

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Jolliffe appointed assistant treasurer; $250 for Shanghai language school; leave of absence: Frier, Bedford; no men to be sent without specific recommendation from China; illness of Kitchen. - Dec 5: Arnup: Cables from Shanghai - Dec 29: Mortimore: Tour of stations; Chungchow quiet; Christian anxious for missionary return; Fowchow, military still in mission houses; Dr. Chao has good contacts with military but urges no immediate action to get houses back; still an undercurrent of communism; WMS girls’ school occupied by government school; friction in Chungchow and Fowchow in the churched needed a bit of missionary oil; Chungking Christian leaders showed great resourcefulness in crisis; Church conference and conferences of medical and educational workers to be held; Hoffman and Allan remained in Luchow to be on hand when military moved out of mission houses; Pastor Shia suffered great losses in Fushun; Christmas in Tzeliutsing; Junghsien, here and everywhere Christians ask when missionaries will return.

1983.047C 2-28 Correspondence- Arnup, Board with Mortimore and Bell (Secretaries, West China Mission): - Feb 4: Mortimore: Minutes of council sent; reports from medical and educational conferences to follow; church conference to meet Feb. 9; will take up numbers and kinds of missionaries at that time; Beaton should return to Canada; Mortimore family affairs and need for furlough; request Hibbard return for finance; Bell to take over job of Secretary - Feb 10: Sparling or Plewman: An account of Mission Press during and after the evacuation period. - Feb 21: Arnup: Acknowledgement of Dec. 29 letter; Shanghai cables: Mrs. Endicott and children; Mrs. H.D. Brown and children to Canada; Dr. Brown, Dr. and Mrs. Cunningham, Mr. Endicott to Chengtu; Mortimore and Beaton furloughs granted. - Feb 22: Jolliffe: To Elson explaining reasons why his request to return was being refused; conditions in education - Feb 23: 1) Mortimore: Methods of cashing cheques in Shanghai and Szechuan in relation to exchange rates 2) Bell: Council Talks: “My Impressions of the Past Year…” valuable in bringing “Chengtu mind” and “Shanghai mind” to common approach; serious discussion about the return of missionaries in light of present situation; however, one, fifth of mission force felt it could name no names; in process of devolution medical and educational work must come under Church conference; urgency of getting more “unpaid” laymen into Conference; comments on council minutes: personnel: idea of 9 months furlough for men on field three years without family; Bell and Morgan furloughs; executive needs funds to help chapels with street widening costs; request separation of Secretary-Treasurer job; reasons for wanting one term each, Oxford and Cambridge for Hsiao Wen Roh; mission Press matters; small invited to join mission; insurance on freight; post graduate study for Chang Min Djuin; both Canadian schools will be needed when families return; use of Beh Yuin Gai property by Blind School; sale of Lao Kuan Miao property; in favour of organic union of WMS and BFM; special appropriations for entertainment of Chinese officials; missionaries’ salaries; disposal of unused balances; request that home payments be not subject to exchange rates; request that Mrs. Jones return to Chungking; invitations to return; rents for separated families; special grant for agricultural materials for Dickinson requested; comment on estimates. - Mar 7: --- Beaton making good progress but glad to be incommunicado - Mar 8: Mortimore: Winding up work on accounts; explanation of choice of Bell as acting secretary-treasurer; conference wants missionaries- some immediately- cable request: Hibbard Dr. Lindsay and another doctor, two

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pastors also needed for itinerating; British consul keeps mission to quota of 20 men, one wife, three WMS; definitely no children; expecting Mullett, Best, Hibbard, and Angew as replacements; three houses available for missionary use in Luchow. - Apr 3: Arnup: Mortimore, Beaton furloughs confirmed; Bell’s appointment deferred to Board meeting; West China Consultative Committee’s response to cables [see Mortimore, Mar. 8]; Educational missionaries in difficult situation; appointments in Canada: Carscallen, Stewart, Annis, C.J. Jolliffe - Apr 9: Bell: Hospital grants; state of Fowchow hospital fabric; Williams to medical college; representation on University Senate; personnel: Albertson, Best and family; New consul General (British) more liberal, gives new quota of 24 and 2 on special university quota and has asked for frequent consultation with missionaries; way may open for women; Chinese attitude to British has changed; Hibbard to meet Mortimore in Shanghai for briefing; property insurance, Chungking and Luchow; Hope board may let some men come immediately; new roads out of Chengtu in spite of upheaval; Dickinson and Sparling departure delayed waiting return of Union College V. Pres. - Apr 18: Nicholls: To continue at Peking; Penghsien property; schooling for returning missionary children; urgent need of men now; exchange rates on individual payments; personal finances: Small, Jolliffe; further postponement of departure of Mortimore, Sparling, Dickinson; military still on campus; political-military rumblings -n.d. West China Mission Executive: Memo to Board on return of missionaries to the interior - General Statements re: Return of Missionaries from Canada - Apr 21: Arnup: Acknowledgement of Council Minutes - Apr 28: Board Actions; resignations accepted: Abrey, Annis, Tennant, Would, Elson; leave of absence: Stewart, Carscallen, Quentin, Vokes; self not to continue; Brown furlough studies; registration of Union University with government; return of R.O. Jolliffe family to Canada; 1929 furloughs: Cunningham, Hartwell, R.O. Jolliffe, Rackham, Robertson, Morgan, Best; 1930 Allen; Small to be taken on mission force; post-graduate study for Chang Min Djuin; Dr. Whang supported in Canada by group of dentists; Education of mission children, Miss Graham; Special appropriation to cover official entertainment; unused balances and plant appropriations; post-graduate studies: Dickinson, Sparling; Mrs. Jones allowed to return to Chungking; special grant for agricultural materials for Dickinson; discretionary powers given to Board Sub-Executive on timing of departure of missionaries slated to return to China; Board will carry its own insurance on foreign property; Bell appointment confirmed; Defer action on separating work of Secretary and Treasurer of mission; total estimate - Apr 30: Conference with British Consul General, Chungking: Memo by Sparling, Mortimore, Kilborn and Jones; missionaries with work in Chungking may bring families; not included in totally quota allowed; listing of UCC missionaries to be allowed into interior - May 1: Arnup: Comment on Board Actions - May 24: Bell: Impressions of Chinese attitudes of missionaries gathered on trip through Kiating, Junghsien, Tzeliutsing; first two want missionaries for moral support and in medical work; Tzeliutsing made no comment; Boys’ boarding schools in all three places a real problem; before evacuation nationalist and radical attitudes had produced strong feeling against teaching of religion; such courses now eliminated or modified; Chinese Christians gave no leadership; Can Canadian missionaries get back in?; think teachers do not want missionaries just now; patronage in hands of principals; missionaries desired changes but they came too quickly general wanted

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Junghsien house. - May 25: ---: United Church financial situation; a cut would be a real hardship; commissioners to general council elected by mail ballot; comment on delayed return of men to China and problem faced by men in educational work; individual reports for 1927 not available; statistics worthless; Li Min Liang to study agriculture; income from Brine pipes to go to upkeep of hospital at Tzeliutsing; mission Press to operate in Chungking; Hubbard’s presence urgently required; wall for Chungking Foreign Cemetery; WMS should have a plot: minute no. 42 is presumably a request for a holiday travel allowance; deficit in Union Middle School; three day holiday for capture of Peking; explanations of debasement of coinage in relation to funds of mission and missionaries, particularly Beaton and Kelly - Jun 13: ---: Mail delays due to Wanhsien fighting; Morgan health problems, furlough recommended; political-military movements; arrivals: Agnew family Chengtu; Mullet, Hsiao Wen Roh, Dr. Hwan, Mrs. Dzen Chungking; Best expected to bring freight for hospital. - Jun 22: ---: Comment on Board minutes; with Morgan gone hope to both Bridgeman and Taylor may be sent; Question of Medical expenses in new situation; fighting and looting at Fowchow and other military affairs; currency situation; list of resignations stunning; difficult job to get Chinese to understand Western financing - Jul 6: Ingram (Secretary, Saskatchewan Conference): Resolution of appreciation of West China missionaries and Christians - Jul 12: 1) Arnup: Cable re: Mrs. Hoffman’s cancer operation 2) Bowyer: Voting for General Council Commissioners - Jul 16: Bell: Proposed use of Beh Yuin Gai property by School for Blind; Dr. Hwang and Mr. Hsiao renting mission houses; Rev. S.F. Kan West China Methodist representation on NCC; two fires; proposed agreement re: school for Blind through Associated Christian Charities, Chengtu. - Jul 24: ---: Departure of Hoffman; need replacement; Bests, Wilford, Mullett arrived; heat and drought; politics. - Aug 9: ---: Hoffman replacement sought; new UCC manual ignores upheaval in church organization in China and uses pejorative words, cf, heathenism; mission secretary treasurer matter again discussed; military situation; drought; general Liu’s proclamation re: mission property and missionaries; education of missionary children; Irish family plans; Luchow house loaned to CIM; Saskatchewan accolade to laudatory; Sibley marriage - Sept 10: ---: Personnel: Hoffman, Service, Haddock, Bridgeman to join Allan in Luchow; education of missionary children; taxes up to 1940 demanded don land at Penghsien, urge sale of property; tenant requests his travel allowance be used to support a medical student; missionaries returning from quiet holidays at summer resorts - Oct 1: ---: Fengtu chap: Cunningham to attend China Medical association; Cunningham study plans; white ants in mission house; Wilford furlough; Brown staying temporarily so that Chang can have a year of study; optimism in University and Middle school; letters from Chinese pastors describing their work; Jolliffe distributing booklets from Press in Jenshow and Kiating districts; four big military leaders have private meeting; arrivals: Williams, Bowyer, Nicholls, McNaughton; Luchow property still held by military - Oct 13: Arnup: Executive actions; separation of work of Mission Secretary and Treasurer; Shiao and Whang impressions; agreed to rental property to School for Blind; proceeds of sale of Gou Tou Hang house to refer to Board; Kiao Kwan Miao property sale; teacher for missionary children; Mrs. Bowyer’s travel expenses; redistribution of secretarial responsibilities in Board office, West China in Dr. Endicott’s portfolio. - Oct 29: Bell: New safe for Luchow; printing of mission currency; repairs

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on old mission property of Kiating; Dickinson’s dairy project needs rethinking; reimbursement to University for Albertson’s services to mission; movements of missionaries: Lindsay, Kilborn, Plewman, Mullett, Endicott; Bell trip to stations outlined; reorganization of mission and church work committee making progress. - Nov 23: Endicott: Teacher of Chungking with support; Irish family to stay in Japan; Sale of Penghsien property - Dec 19: Hibbard: On being made treasurer of the mission; appreciation of Arnup; teacher for Chungking; Health: Rackham, Bowyer, Small; Luchow personal property losses; military situation not very good; reorganization of work committee’s work to be circulated to all missionaries - Dec 31: Bell: Report on travels through Li Shi Djan, Shih Ma Chang and state of church; general situation at Luchow, property and work; Fushon in low state; Tzeliutsing property repairs; missionaries would be welcome; exoneration of Dr. Fuh; Wei Yuan Property; Junghsien: School in poor state, hospital has good reputation; street widening affects mission buildings; Jenshow: Dr. Liu advocates municipally funded hospital run by mission, school-church relationships improving; Rev. Lin Pin Chi’s mental and physical collapse; new hostilities in Chungking area; anti-Christian demonstration at Junghsien on Christmas day; one impression from trip is continuing need of missionary leadership for the present; also serious loss if stations continue without medical missionary - List of West China Missionaries: addresses and relationship with board - Details of plans for return of missionaries To West China - Financial Statements

1983.047C 2-29 Minutes of Mission Council Jan 25- Feb 22, 1928

1983.047C 2-30 Correspondence: Rev. E. Hibbard (Mission Accountant and Secretary at Shanghai with Board):[ references in these letters to the movements of missionaries will not be included below as they are largely covered by letters in file 28] - Mar 17: Hibbard: Insurance on property; possibility of Board insurance plans; types of coverage - Apr 12: --- Transfer of accounts from Mortimore and Albertson; anti-foreign feeling in Shanghai and Hankow diminished; debased coinage and rising prices; Chengtu; appointment of Derry, new British Consul General - Apr 19: --- Fowchow safe combination lost; communications with Szechuan uncertain; signature changes for mission accounts - May 3: --- Williams’ report on Peking situation; NCC scheme for reorganization to be submitted to missionaries in Canada - May 9: --- Fighting near Tsinan; various items of news about mission stations - May 10: --- Shipping difficulties; exchange rates and sale of drafts - May 24: --- Reckoning of salaries apart from children’s allowances; attitude of Board on return of wives and children to interior; cable threatening legal action re: Evelyn Taylor, living with Morgan’s - Jun 1: --- Accounts - Jun 14: --- Vacation allowance; uncertainty about personal future plans; health situation suggests men get sick without wives to look after them - Jul 27: --- Arnup: Cables received - Aug 10: --- Hibbard: Description of journey to Chengtu; exorbitant and frequent tax levies on freight en route; education of missionary children; political-military situation; salary problems for divided families; NCC payment should be levied on all three China missions - Aug 24, 31: --- Bowyer: missionary movements

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- Audited Financial Statement - Apr 1, 1926- Dec 31, 1928: Financial Report

1983.047C 2-31 Correspondence with West China Missionaries: A.S. Allen, Beaton, Cunningham, Dickinson, Jolliffe (R.O.), Jones, Longley, Walmsley, Meuser, Morgan, (Lovegreen). Walmsley, McAmmond: Allen and Finance: Application for service - Beaton: Health problems in relation to furlough timing - Cunningham: High praise of Peking Chinese medical men; Seoul also getting well trained Koreans; provision must be made for medical scholarships for West China doctors. - Dickinson: Situation very peaceful; general Den’s visit to fruit nursery; football match between staff and students; urges missionary return while climate still favourable - Jolliffe, R.O.: Comment on board standing behind missionaries; sharing experiences at Council brought new point of view; China now has a church; disgruntled pastors may take advantage of unsettled conditions; needs funds to prepare and produce Christian literature; strong condemnation of Board’s proposal to send back to the field a doctor who was divorced. - Jones: impressions on return to Chungking; massacre of Communists in Chungking, Mar. 31; optimism about future; Blunt, British Consul in Chungking, willing for limited return under some restrictions. - Longley: Arrival; impressions; difficulty cashing cheque - Meuser: Information on course in pharmacy in W. China; would return alone if absolutely necessary; will stay in Saskatoon if Board so advises. - Arnup: Remain Saskatoon one year as no pharmacist has been requested yet - Meuser: Decision to remain in Canada until 1930 - Morgan: Comment on conditions and need for elasticity; travel up the Yangtse; Anti-Christian posters in Ichang; concerning the necessity for early furloughs for health reasons; explanation of Evelyn Taylor, daughter of H.D. Taylor; administered sacrament at Ko Kai Lo church; new consul’s attitude; (Hibbard’s recapitulation of Taylor situation); Morgan home for health reasons. - Lovegreen, American Baptist Mission, Kiating- report on looting of bungalows at Omei - Walmsley: study at Columbia - McAmmond: impressions on return travel

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1983.047C 2-32 Losses from Looting: Resolution on demanding reparation, Board responsibility; individual missionaries’ lists of lost goods; mission responsibility for supplying basic furniture suggested

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1983.047C 2-33 Missionary Annual Reports: F.F. Allan, H.D. Brown, Longley, Plewman (Press Situation), Rackham, Paper, W.E. Smith, Critique of mission and church in China

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1983.047C 2-34 West China News Notes: Excerpts from letters and minutes circulated to evacuees

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1983.047C 2-35 Report of Dr. A.R. Kepler, Church of Christ in China 1928

1983.047C 2-36 Correspondence- Endicott and Arnup with Bell and Hibbard: - Jan 4: Bell: British Consul Handley on restrictions on travel and residence in West China - Feb 11: 1) --- Three solid weeks of meetings: Council and Church Conference. Comments [17pp] on Council minutes 2) Hibbard: Finances, Chinese Conference, Education, Special forms of work, Sundries, Szechuan Christian Council, Missionaries’ medical expenses, travel, repairs, salaries

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- Feb 14: --- Chengtu hospital indebtedness; new safeguards against overrunning grants - Feb 27: Bell: Cable re: personnel desired; McAmmond’s losses at Fowchow; local conditions; University and school quiet; trouble at Press - Mar 9: --- Beh Yuin Hisen Gai lease to school for blind; special grant for Chengtu hospital - Mar 12: Hibbard: Comment on financial report - Apr 3: ---: Comment on Mission Executive minutes; Plewman, Thompson furloughs; Blind School buildings; army evacuation at Luchow; Longley and Hwa appointed educational secretaries; Chengtu housing and necessary repairs; problem of housing Chinese doctors; other repairs; NCC members to be elected by Chinese Churches; lay superannuation; salaries; payment to Chinese made by Chinese treasurer; Hartwell, Neave, Rackham itinerating - Apr 10: Barker to Endicott: Bradley Smith bequest - Apr 13: Endicott: Cable re: non receipt of Financial Statement; insurance to be underwritten by Board; receipts declining; UCC deficit; reduction in missionary staff or cuts in salary; teacher for Chungking school - Apr 16: Hibbard: Cabled year’s expenditures - May 6: --- Immediate furlough for Soper; property register sheet, Chungking; financial matters; Penghsien tax problem; full year’s grant 1927 paid out; middle schools and cooperation with other missions; full possession again of Chengtu hospital; Allan’s hernia; troubles at Press; problems re: hospital finances - Apr 26: Endicott: Board actions: separation of secretary-treasurer jobs; Furloughs: Agnew, Albertson, F.F. Allan, Best, H.D. Brown, Soper, R.O. Jolliffe; post-grad studies: Cunningham, Bell, Rackham, Small, H.D. Robertson, Chan Hsaio Li, Rev. S.F Gan; Bell as special worker among government schools, Crawford for Public Health; Allowances for separated families; Doctorates for missionaries; Arnup to visit fields; 13 missionaries to return in fall; contribution to Church of Christ in China to cover all three missions; Chungking hospital building; Chengtu hospital debt; approve attitude of mission; council re: looting losses; resignations: Batstone, Carscallen, Sellery, Vokes 2) More board actions; scholarships: Charlotte Small, George Plewman; reinforcements if salary can be found outside budget; Dr. S. Allen appointed; furloughs and extensions of furlough; Bowles and Smith to seek home charges for one year; aid for students heading for mission field. - May 4: Hibbard: WCCU asks possession of deeds to land (UCC and other missions) held by mission - May 7: Endicott: Arnup’s visit to field; General UCC finances force mission cuts; special appeals authorized; salaries to be paid at current exchange rate; savings by exchange on other funds to revert to Board; possibility of missionaries travelling 2nd class; reasons for financial problems in Canada - May 18: Hibbard: Orders issued by Chinese Educational Bureau at Nanking - Jun 3: --- Comment on Executive minutes; return of McIntosh; insurance on buildings; cost of medical attention; Chungking hospital, builder, contracts, etc.; Jones’ problem over wall and demand for payment; Irish family health; living quarters for nurses and Chinese doctors; currency exchange; general situation; illness of Brown children; Soper, Wilford and Small leave on furlough. - Jun 10: --- Arrangements for Arnup’s visit; marriage of Miss Graham vacancy in Chengtu school which has 15 pupils; insurance coverage; property matters; list of properties insured in China (2nd letter); welcome to Arnup and plans.

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- Jun 26: Hibbard and Endicott- Printing of Endicott’s letters for distribution; manual not yet received; warning on careful use of mission funds; Szechuan Christian Council meetings; discussion of conference and council reorganization; Chinese unwillingness to take responsibility disappointing; no information on cost of Chungking hospital.

1983.047C 2-37 ---: --- Possession of deeds; financial matters, rates of pay, buildings; West China Council Executive Minutes Explanation; accountants department: re-loaning a man to help in Chunking Press, stationing families at Luchow, Junghsien No.2. House and WMS, Dr. Arnup’s itinerary, etc.; treasurer report; Military training in schools considered; Passing of Dr. Armstrong; Loan of a Foreigner to Chungking Press, Long Hwei Djen chapel purchase, use of dental receipts to build dental office Chungking, etc.; Actions for: Rev. E.H. Morran, Rev. N.E. Bowles, Mr. E.W. Edmonds, W.J. Mortimore, etc.; notes of minutes of executive committee; minutes concerning Chungking Hospital; copy of estimate for finishing Chungking hospital; loss of R.C. Armstrong; minutes of Executive, summary for Dr. Endicott;

1983.047C 2-38 Correspondence: Rev. E. Hibbard re: insurance on mission property: lists of properties

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1983.047C 2-39 ---: Gordon R. Jones, Canadian Mission Business Agency, Chungking- shipping instructions

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1983.047C 2-40 ---: R.O. Jolliffe, Rev. W.J. Mortimore, missionaries: Jolliffe- West China mission task in China not yet done; Roman Catholics and small sects going strong; distribution of workers; missionary reinforcements needed; reduced scale of maintenance harmful to work. -Mortimore to Jolliffe: Reasons for resignation; financial arrangements

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1983.047C 2-41 ---: T.E. Plewman, Dr. L.G. Kilborn: Plewman: An account of the difficulties at the Canadian Methodist Mission Press and Peng Chi Ling’s part in it; Kilborn: Medical reports on Batstone, Taylor, Kitchen, Morgan, need more doctors; Soper: furlough for medical treatment

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1983.047C 2-42 ---: Dr. E.C. Wilford, Missionary: leave of absence; purchase of practice; financial arrangements

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1983.047C 2-43 ---: Dr. A.S. Allen: appointment and arrangements 1929

1983.047C 2-44 Missionary Reports: General Statements- Morgan, Bell, R.O. Jolliffe, Survey of Mission Schools: Longley and Hwa; Mission Press: Plewman; Personal Reports: Hoffman, Longley, F.F. Allan, Walmsley, McIntosh, Bridgeman, Bowyer, Hartwell, Haddock, Neave, W.E. Smith, J.G. Endicott; Impressions of Canada: Shiao and Whang

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1983.047C 2-45 Correspondence: Rev. A.R Kepler (Church of Christ in China), Rev. E.C. Lobenstine (NCC China), Rev. Donald McGillivray (Christian Literature Society): Kepler: Arranging dates in Toronto, Lobenstine: Concerning Christian Literature; McGillivray: need of and prospects for Christian Literature; some Honan news; part of church in Formosa would prefer relationship with United Church of Canada.

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1983.047C 3-46 Correspondence- Endicott to Hibbard (Jan- Apr): Endicott- private funds for Chang and Gan; UCC Deficit; Gan semi-deputation work; John Cecil Ross appointed; Edmonds return certain; Quentin possible; Wallace installed at Victoria College - Minutes: Joint Session, BFM and WMS councils - appeal for new workers - Hibbard: United Conference successful; conference cannot station missionaries, can pass on character; Gan and Chang preparations for travel; Arnup’s travel; drop in silver Market. - Feb 24: --- Arnup in Ichang; death of Mrs. Hoffman - Mar 8-12: --- Illness and death of Dr. Service

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- Mar 12: --- Comment on council executive; Brown wants daughter sent out; Luchow chapel: Penghsien repairs; Chungking city wall matter settled; Exchange of property at with WMS at Luchow; no place for Frier; Agnew allowed 1 class travel. - Mar 19: 1) --- Explanation of 1929 Financial Statement; 2) Comments on Council Minutes: Appeal for re-appointment of Swann - Mar 22: Endicott: Death of Service; no surgeon available; deaths in Canadian Church

1983.047C 3-47 Correspondence- Endicott-Hibbard (May- Dec): - May 3: Endicott: Board actions: escape of Bridgeman; Wilford to replace Service; Bell appointed mission secretary; other personnel matters: Morgan, Small, Johns, Meuser, Swann, Beaton, H.D. Brown, Soper, Bowles, (special support secured for Gan and Chang), Irish, Thompson, Allan, Hoffman; return to field: Irish, Albertson, Agnew, F.F. Allen; support for Mrs. Service and children; missionaries asked to travel 2nd class 1930 and 31; Llewellyn Hall; Scholarships for missionary children; salaries for matrons at Canadian schools; representation on WCUU Board of Governors; policy: military training in schools; Chengtu Union Middle School, Christian Press, Conference organization; property; coordination of hospital work in Chengtu; more property affairs. - May 13: Hibbard: Work program reduced to limit; Bridgeman escape; new organization working fairly well; YMCA property struggle; comment on Executive minutes, mostly repairs; religious teaching in schools forbidden; Union University should take over Union Middle School; Provisional Hospital Board for Chengtu needs co-ordinated board at home. - Jun 10: --- Murder of Stubbs of Friends’ Mission; General Hsiang trying to protect foreigners; comment on Executive minutes: Changes at Fowchow, Baptists possible contribution to Canadian school, Brecken Fund for higher education for theological students, Hospital finances, Housing for Brace. - Jun 17: Endicott: Swann remains in Trinidad; Meuser must decide on return by October Executive meeting; Health: Madame’s Soper and Burwell; return of Johns doubtful - Jun 30: Hibbard: Expecting Ross, Collier, McLeod in fall; Stubbs’ murderers execute; walls and gates for campus nearly finished - Jul 25: Endicott: Reports by Irish on conditions in Szechuan reassuring; Johns’ resignation; Neave for Canadian School matron - Aug 19: Hibbard: Meuser or replacement; trouble at university after Stubbs’ murder; Shu Wa Kai school quarrel is among the Chinese; letters enclosed from Longley and Sparling describing troubles. - Aug 24: --- University station improved; Shu Wa Kai very difficult; religious instruction in schools; enclosed; Sparling and Longley letters - Sept 12: --- Consular letter about conditions; Shu Wa Kai affair still not settled; similar case in Kiating, so closed school and cancelled grant; comment on Executive minutes: property, repairs, etc. - Sept 13: Endicott: Marriage of Ross; Meuser; Retrenchment likely; cables received - Oct 1: Hibbard: Convenient for legal matters if Hibbard could be made notary public. - Oct 21: --- 1) Drought; Communist activity; Kiating dispute; work in general going well; escort for new missionaries; Haddock health; registration of property; date and place of Chinese Conference; government action against communism in schools. 2) Small’s actions during evacuation unwise so some feeling in university against his return; could use him in Chungking; enclosed copy of letter re: Small from University Graduates (Sept 30) - Nov 1: --- Please send Manual for each missionary; arrivals: Colliers,

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Coutts, Brown and McLeod; Communist uprising at Hangchow short; general things are quiet. - Nov 4: --- Resignation of H.D. Taylor (enclosures on this follow); Assignment for Small; Hoffman child’s scholarship; lump sum grant for Pastoral work needs watching; danger of confiscation by the military if property transferred to Chinese church; Separate building at A.S.M. church for women’s work; other property matters; escort for party to Chengtu; Rackham’s at Chunking; military tax on properties; title deeds stolen from Luchow safe 1927 makes mission vulnerable; necessity of power of attorney under seal and notarial attestation; health, Mrs. Jones. - Nov 20: Endicott: Discussion of notary public matter during Hibbard furlough - Nov 27: Hibbard: Notary public matter; copy of Consular letter on same and form - Dec 15: Endicott: Grant to Williams for losses, 1927, with list

1983.047C 3-48 Endicott-Bell (Secretary of Mission) (Nov- Dec): Bell: Arrival Shanghai; Commissions for missionaries; Hartwell’s future relation to mission - Nov 20: Endicott: Executive committee actions: personnel, Frier, Small, Meuser, Johns; Approval of principle of WCUU postgraduate scholarships; evacuation losses; buildings for university; demand for title deeds; appointment of Stanway; new missionaries listed; postgraduate expenses: Wilford, Agnew; children’s scholarships: Jolliffe, Wilford; part pension for Parker (LMS); medical work criticized by representative of League of Nations; reports to home constituency; resolution of Home and Foreign Boards re: cuts; economies - Nov 21: --- Fuller treatment of items above - Dec 5: --- Jones’ return to Canada; Lena Taylor willing to return to China; Small’s salary the responsibility of Board of Governors of WCCU - Dec 20: --- Hoffman’s son scholarship granted; Taylor’s return to Canada

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1983.047C 3-49 Hibbard on finances: letters, estimates, and financial statement 1930

1983.047C 3-50 Correspondence with individual missionaries: Allan: Furlough study; problems of hospital administration, - Bell: (on furlough) disastrous future effects of cuts; - Bridgeman: account of capture and release; agricultural work worthwhile; - Dickinson: Visitors’ interest in agricultural work; General Den’s co-operation in an orchard; urgent need for young blood in mission; weakness of church, schools, hospitals; school problems and tax problems; - Hoffman: Anti-foreign actions less; - Longley: Account of troubles on campus after death of Stubbs; - Morgan: Commendation of Dr. Djang; travel back to station; impression of conditions; - Rackham: Impression of School for missionaries on furlough at Cornell; travel back to station; - Reed: Kiating problems both schools and church; general future policy; - Service: Need for reinforcements, particularly in medical and surgical fields; want Meuser for Pharmacy; Morgan’s return’; (Armstrong: reply: letter of condolence to Mrs. Service); - Small: upkeep and repairs at university, anniversary speeches by generals; religious instruction in schools; - Soper: leave of absence for family health reasons; Thompson: post-graduate work or dental tools; dental health of missionaries; Veals: account of campaign in Chungchow presbytery.

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1983.047C 3-51 Missionary Reports: Best, Crawford, Edmonds, Hartwell, Hoffman, Kilborn, Longley, McIntosh, Morgan, Neave, Nicholls, Reed, Revelle, Sparling, Smith, (W.E. and Ada B.) Thompson, Veals, Walmsley

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1983.047C 3-52 Correspondence: Dr. E.C Wilford, Missionary: decision to return, sale of practice, Sir Joseph Flavelle’s financial guarantee, gift from friend of Sr. Service

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1983.047C 3-53 Losses of Missionaries due to Evacuation: Longley, Veals, Would, Bridgeman, McAmmond

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1983.047C 3-54 Capture of Rev. C.A. Bridgeman: Bridgeman: Brief reference to experience; praise of various Chinese; McAmmond: account of reactions in Fowchow; letters: Irish, Hibbard, McAmmond.

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1983.047C 3-55 Medical reports on missionaries: Mrs. Jones, Taylor 1930

1983.047C 3-56 Statement of Board of Foreign Missions on Devolution: Morgan, Bell, Jolliffe

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1983.047C 3-57 Minutes of First United Conference of West China Mission of United Church of Canada

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1983.047C 3-58 Correspondence- Endicott-Bell (Secretary of West China Mission): - Jan 5: Endicott: Dentist chairs and freight - Jan 9: Bell: Personnel: Johns, Stanway, Taylor; comment on Executive minutes: housing for Chinese University staff; support for Union Middle School; salaries of Dr. Fuh and Dr. Liu - Jan 24: --- H.D. Taylor resignation; Miss Taylor’s request to return to field; Small’s return; Fire at Medical College, Chengtu; Jones back at Mission Business Agency - Feb 2: Endicott: Taylor resignation; Chengtu Medical work and clinical education; Union Middle School - Feb 10: Bell: Missionaries’ contribution to colleagues in Miss Taylor not to return; comment on Council: repair fund; co-ordination of work of various mission hospitals; [see also WCUU files]; commemoration of Dr. Service in Medical Dental Building; Allan representative to BFM meetings; Small as agent for freight for all missions; School at Luchow; Mrs. Jones’ medical expenses; need for housing for Chinese staff at WCUU; Theology no longer recognized department; McAmmond to supervise building at Fowchow; registration of hospitals required; Hong Kong sanatorium; new stress on rural work; WCUU finances; Frier’s future; handbook regulations on council; Dental Medical building financing; Hsiah’s land exchange; properties: Shiang Dze Gai, Penghsien; small chapel for university; balances to be put in General Plant Fund; Chinese doctor’s house, Junghsien; appeal for new workers; local campaign for Chunking hospital; Hoffman boy’s scholarship; scholarships for Neave children; Evacuation claims; dormitory for Men’s hospital, Chengtu; suggested use for Chungchow property. - Mar 18: --- Increases in contributions for W. Canada; Executive minutes: medical attention for mission families; improved roads; military rumblings; drought and rising prices; advance tax requests; tithers; loss of Jenshow property situated on Temple land - Mar 20: --- Brecken Fund administration and unfair actions of Conference toward men in training - Mar 28: Endicott: Finances better; grateful for West China contribution to Western Canada; no new man except Stanway; looking forward to amalgamation of WMS and BFM in medical work; Personnel: Hartwell, Frier, Soper, Smith. - Apr 4: Bell: Total contribution for Western Canada; conditions peaceful through Generals pushing each other round. - Apr 6: Executive Minutes: Wall at Small’s house; financial help for preacher’s son; redesign Pihsien Middle School; Allan’s plans for post-graduate study at Peking Union Medical College; Mrs. Jones’ medical expenses’ house repairs; Penghsien for Bridgeman; Furloughs: Plewman,

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Nicholls, Best Albertson. - Apr 16: Missionary Contributions; FMB meetings; WCUU April 23 minutes; conference minutes; lists of missing children and next of kin. - Apr 27: Endicott- 1) Board Meeting; deposit funds in Shanghai for property; exchange on drafts; Chinese Christian Educational Association; Awards to missionary children; reinforcements; appointments: C.M. Hoffman, Spooner, Stanway; Sympathy for Rev. M.P. Smith; retirements: Frier, Hartwell, Soper, H.D. Taylor; rent allowance for Mrs. Meuser; extended furloughs: Agnew, Burwell; Irish return approved; full council annually; Canadian School constitution; WCUU Constitution; Chengtu’s hospitals’ board; personnel: Best, Plewman, Nicholls, Albertson, Morgan, Veals; Rural Evangelism; Property matters (from Council and Executive minutes); General Canadian Church Matters, 2) General account of board meeting - Apr 29: --- Further comment on items in letter 1, Apr 27; bill re: Canadian children born abroad - Apr 30: Bell: Problem of Dr. Yoh at Kiating; house repairs and prices; letter re: Dr. Yoh enclosed - May 13: --- Beginning of settlement of Kiating problem; Board being set up for hospital; orphanage run by Chinese philanthropist; boarding school reopened. - Jun 1: --- Further problem at Kiating; hope full estimates granted; joint medical policy desirable; Girls’ and Boys’ middle school registered as one school; WMS school crowded; Soper resignation and need for new men in evangelism. - Jun 2: --- Addition of new names to code book. - Jun 8: --- Repairs, praise of Dr. Liu at Junghsien; more property matters - Jun 12: --- Scholarship for Dr. S.Y. Chow; property matters - Jun 15: --- McNaughton burned; concerning reports - Jun 22: Endicott: McIntosh appointed, Neill probable; report on scholarship student Chang; Brecken Fund; Go Gai Lo property sale; SVM meeting; Annual Conference, spirit good; copy of Brecken’s letter re: fund - Jun 25: --- Desperate situation in Maritimes - Jun 26: --- Kiating situation - Jun 28: Bell: McNaughton’s death; Harris overburdened; Rural Evangelism; Fowchow hospital extensions; Grant for Chinese Christian Educational Association under discussion; holidays; price of rice - Jul 2: --- Health forces Ross’ return; medical situation in W. China serious - Jul 8: --- Joy at new nurses - Jul 10: --- Mrs. Ross’s condition - Jul 30: --- Death of McGillivray, Honan; proposal to employ Mrs. Loh to assist Miss Harris, Chungking, on basis of a foreign worker; rice still rising.

1983.047C 3-59 Correspondence- Endicott-Bell (Secretary: West China Mission (Aug- Dec): 1) - Aug 7: Bell: Nurse problem; travel by “tourist class”; testimonies: Miss Guh Dzi Pei, Mr. H.S. Yang, Dr. C.S. Fuh, Mr. L.S. Lin, Mrs. Dzen, Dr. T.C. Hwang; 2) Canadian Mission Business Agency: Letter re: taxes, etc.; price list; Chengtu cost of living, Jan 1930- Sept 1931 - Sept 17: Endicott: 1) Employing Mrs. Loh 2) Tourist class travel; Dzao and Chen - Sept 18: Bell: Mrs. Loh not available; medical cooperation with WMS; Mrs. Ross’s condition; repairs Chungking; Registration of WMS school; hospital equipment; health problems of Veal’s child; Lease of Kiating property; contributions to home church; details of Chungking hospital completion; past difficulties; use of full gold grant. - Sept 23: --- Statement on exchange rates; children at home, past losses,

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general living costs, personal money going to keep work up, etc. - Sept 25: Endicott: Irish returning without family; not seeking new missionaries; Nicholls’ furlough plans; Fred Taylor not to go to Thompsons; Best, Agnew and Albertson to WCUU Board meeting in N.Y. - Sept 26: --- Ross health situation improved - Oct 5: --- Vokes wishes to return; M.P. Smith’s operation; Third term salary [See file 63, Hibbard, Oct 9] - Oct 11: Bell: Chungking hospital estimates; Japan’s occupation of Manchuria; Evangelistic travels. - Oct 14: Endicott: Sub-Executive: Financial contribution from W. China; Vokes’ reappointment; tourist class authorized; M.P. Smith; Third term salary; China flood relief; Mr. and Mrs. Irish; reports on Mrs. Ross and Fred Taylor. - Nov 5: --- 1) Regrets Loh unavailable; no news on Mrs. Ross; Quentin’s probable return; need for serious consideration of Chungking hospital building costs. 2) response to Bell - Nov 9: --- Response to Bell (Oct 11) [See file 63, Hibbard, November 11] - Nov 18: Bell: Comment on Endicott, Sept 17; China missionaries aware of necessity for economy; itinerating on foot; tensions at Chungking for two years and Sheridan’s dissatisfactions. - Nov 19: --- Codebook revisions; arrivals in Chungking: Allan, Meuser, Irish, Stanway, Spooner, McIntosh, Foster - Dec 16: --- Return of Vokes and other prospects for help in hospital situation; Dr. Liu’s need for sabbatical and Junghsien situation; Agnew needed as soon as possible; more dollar contributions; exchange rates; uncertainty re: Dr. Shao’s scholarship. - Dec 19: Endicott: Election of Mission Representatives with rights to General Council (Moore, T.A. Official notification above) - Dec 31: Reappointments: Vokes, Quentin; defer Agnew return; general information on missionary related conferences; flood and famine relief; correlated program for colleges in China; resolutions re: Manchuria and Disarmament conference.

1983.047C 3-60 Appeal from W. China Mission for new workers 1931

1983.047C 3-61 Report of Death of Dr. Stubbs 1931

1983.047C 3-62 Constitution of Canadian Schools 1931

1983.047C 3-63 Hibbard (Treasurer of West China Mission): Feb 11: Estimates; exchange rates; laity into conference. - Mar 31: ---: Accounts mailed; criticisms of new system of accounts; Junghsien property deeds and the WMS involvement; mission currency; insurance - Apr 29: Endicott: Board actions in finance concerning West China - Apr 30: ---: Comment on foregoing; church finances worse than last year - May 4: Hibbard: Unused Plant balances; Soper’s withdrawal; political conditions - May 14: ---: Method of payment of Pension Fund assessments - Jun 17: ---: Property deeds and property registration - Jun 24: ---: Beaton’s accounts - Oct 9: ---: Vokes’ return; property matters; teachers for Canadian schools; foreigners find Tzeliutsing difficult place for Chinese Conference; Shanghai deposit - Nov 17: ---: Executive minutes: Property: Union in medical work may mean wider union with WMS; Conference to be at Tzeliutsing; more

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property matters; CNCC team for Kiating; fire destroyed Goucher School, Chengtu -Financial Statements.

1983.047C 3-64 Correspondence with Missionaries: Cunningham, Dr. Gladys, Chengtu: Anti-Japanese parade; Obstetrical work; plural wives; well-baby clinic and need for same; special demonstration for mothers; need replacement for Dr. Retta Kilborn - Edmonds, Tzeliutsing: needs hospital and station - Jones, Chungking- Death of McNaughton; Quotations from death bed letters - Rackham, Chungking: Account of McNaughton’s funeral; Deaths: Pastor Wang, Mr. Wei, Pastor Yang. - Robertson, Chengtu: Japanese in Manchuria - Small, Chengtu: Personal troubles at WCUU over; great welcome; contact with students; work on buildings - Smith, M.P. Hamilton (Endicott- Regrets over illness; news of board); life in sanatorium; operation soon. - Veals, Chungking: Appreciation from Endicott - Wilford, Chengtu: Medical cases; taxes on medical shipments; received F.A.C.S.; Address by Oxford professor of the I.P.R. Request for scholarship for Muriel - Endicott: Scholarship granted; future policy on scholarships and Llewellyn Hall; no doctor or nurse available; need stories on missionary experiences - Martin: Concerning sale of practice - Williams, Chengtu: Better road travel; mention of lay members of conference [See Bell, Aug 7, File 39]; system of fixing salaries to be changed; tenure of workers; medical situations on stations; doctors and nurses needed; Miss Taylor not suitable; educational missionaries moving into straight evangelism; Meuser will be welcome; hospitals need business managers; a day’s work.

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1983.047C 3-65 ---: Dr. Vokes (former missionary): concerning return to West China 1931

1983.047C 3-66 Report of the United Church of Canada West China Mission and statistical report

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1983.047C 3-67 Reports of work by missionaries (I): Allan, A.S.; Allan, F.F.; Bridgeman; Brown; Cunningham; Edmonds; Endicott, J.G.; Hartwell; Hoffman; Jolliffe, C.J.P; Jolliffe, R.O.; Kilborn; Longley; McAmmond; Morgan.

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1983.047C 3-68 Reports of work by missionaries II: Neave, Rackham, Reed, Revelle, Sheridan, Sibley, Smith, Sparling, Veals, Walker, Walmsley, Wilford

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1983.047C 3-69 Chinese Christian Literature: Important Sayings of Jesus from Luke, (YeasooYiao Yan); Map of area of Jesus’ teachings.

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1983.047C 3-70 Correspondence concerning Brecken Memorial Fund 1931

1983.047C 3-71 Correspondence concerning Mr. Chang Hsiao Li: Scholarship student at University of Toronto

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1983.047C 4-72 Correspondence- Endicott-Bell (Secretary Mission Council): Jan 5: Endicott: General Canadian Conditions; SVM Conference, Buffalo; Koo and Jabavoo in Toronto; Home Missions Conference of N. America in Toronto; Foreign Missions Conference in Atlanta - Jan 6: Bell: Agnew delay; Chinese feeling over Manchurian situation; worker’s conference; national Christian Council of China - Jan 11: Endicott: Comment on bell letter [Nov 18, 1931] - Jan 12: 1) --- Concerning Scholarship student, Chang; 2) Bell: Miss Dale’s return; salaries; Quentin’s arrival - Jan 23: Endicott: Teachers for Canadian Schools; sale of properties [Bell,

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Nov 17]; Vokes’ return doubtful - Feb 6: 1) Bell: Savings in travel to Council by bus, chair and on foot; Anti-Christian demonstration at time of conference; membership in conference; self-support in Chinese church; laymen concerned, but assume wealth of missionaries; Sheridan’s illness; comment on council actions; personnel matters; property matters; joint medical work with WMS; move toward one UCC council; religious education; work funds for missionaries; theological school; post-graduate study for Dr. Chao Shu Yuan; Jim Endicott and English teaching; Divided families; furlough study for Mullett and Williams; purchase of truck for mission use; Middle School agricultural experiment; Canadian school teachers needed. 2) Appeal for New Workers - Feb 8: Hibbard- Joint Council’s resolution re: disarmament (Endicott to R.B. Bennet and answer) - Feb 11: Bell: Death of Lady Flavelle; Chungking teacher request; status of missionaries at General Council at UCC; Japanese at Shanghai - Feb 15: Endicott: Cut of 10% in salaries and children’s allowances; 15% cut on appropriations; reinforcements in light of financial situation. - Feb 18: --- confirmation of property actions - Feb 19: 1) Bell: Word of cut arriving after conference and council creates serious situation; effect on work and personnel; 2) Endicott: General China Personnel Situation - Mar 7: 1) Bell: Comments on Executive actions; property; Chang’s return to WCUU; Thompson has cancerous growth. 2) Executive action on Thompson; Mulletts’ postpone furlough - Mar 8: 1) Endicott: Concerning Thompson 2) to Norma Thompson - Mar 9: Bell: Comment on Endicott’s letters; Thompson’s travel arrangements - Mar 11: --- Riddell remaining at Canadian School in Chungking; Vokes’ delay; Chinese youth upset over Japanese in Shanghai’ Chinese troops not fighting Japanese or Communists - Mar 14: --- Peking diagnosis of Thompson cancer; fire of Penghsien; Copy of Wilford letter on Thompson’s condition

1983.047C 4-73 Correspondence- Endicott-Bell (Secretary Mission Council, Apr- Dec): Apr 4: 1) Bell: Effect of financial cuts; question of use of exchange; furloughs deferred: Mullet, Bowyer, Endicott; unnerving incidence; property; Beaton’s accounts; death of Fallis; Sheridan’s illness’ cable on above items. 2) Endicott: Cable re: grant; letter [1] no exchange allowed; estimates from field in relation to new workers; letter [2] resolution to Prime Minister. - Apr 11: Bell: possible use of air mail; Hickling of Canadian school has operation, wives filling in; Sheridan not at work yet; difficulties in Chungking hospital: Directors versus medical staff; Hsiao Shi Dzi church pushing self-support in all branches of work, may want control of hospital. - Apr 16: Endicott: 1) General report on Board Meeting 2) Matters relating to W. China; furlough and other movements of West China missionaries; Chinese visitors; Canadian school and its teachers; Shanghai exchange balances; dairy barn; Chungking hospital; other property matters; 40th anniversary of W. China Mission. 3) UCC Mission Board finances - Apr 19: --- 1) Further comment on April 15 2) Further on board meeting, particularly finances - May 9: Bell: Needs of field for new workers and money must be stated or a dereliction of trust; feels W. China borne more than its share of reduction compared to other missions; some property matters - May 10: --- cable and action of Sub-Executive on Mission Executive actions 54, 134, 145

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- May 23: 1) --- Acceptance of cuts; preference of Dr. Cecil Hoffman as younger man; leave decision on others to Board; Chungking nurses’ residence; disallowance of Shanghai exchange; death of Williams’ child en route home; Hickling’s health, also Mrs. Bell; illegal freight taxes; military sowing to splendid harvest for communists. 2) Endicott: Personnel: Charlie Williams, J.L. Stewart, J.C. Ross, J.E. Thompson, Mullett, Bowyer, Endicott; medical matter; Llewellyn Hall; famine relief - Jun 6: Bell: Pleased over new recruits; comment on executive minutes: Tzeliutsing street widening: 5 mission children bitten by mad dog; Chungking building; possible ways of reducing expenditure; NCC rural work school - Jun 7: --- basis of union for BFM and WMS council - Jun 12: Arnup: Comment on West China Mission reports - Jun 15: Bell: Basis of Union BFM and WMS councils; WMS fears; Brace and the Christian Literature Society; need for clinical hospital at Medical College and Beech’s interference; discussion of general hospital needs and Chinese Church. - Jun 25: --- comment on executive minutes; building of Luchow Primary School: Stanway’s stationing; Haddock to complete 20 years of service - Jul 4: Endicott: Cable on nurses’ residence - Jul 14: --- 1) Further reductions in appropriations; fields left to decide means of reduction; 2) Cannot allow use of Shanghai deposit; 3) Sub-Executive: Deaths: Gandier, Mrs. D.R. McKenzie, Mrs. Foster Hilliards; Agnew to China, Swann to Trinidad; Canadian Schools; property; no rent allowance; allocation of cuts. - Jul 27: Bell: Reaction to new cut and suggested means of meeting it; Fowchow and Jenshow doing well in self-support; Cholera reports; future plans of leave of absence people - Sept 6: --- 1) Executive delayed owing to illness in families, Sparling, Brown, Allan, Hibbard; Mrs. Amost of CIM dead of Cholera; Immunization for all UCC personnel and servants; Agnew early arrival awaited; difficulties at WCUU over registration because of alumni; absence of President and Vice-president about to leave; praise for Beech’s skilful handling of the situation 2) 40th Anniversary memento in preparation; repeat of health and deaths in other letter; thoughts on future of graduates of Christian schools other medical and technical; facts behind sites purchased by missionaries; bell will probably go to Church of Christ conference - Sept 13: --- Property; Church of Christ Conference; Cholera immunization; 25% cut worked out on salaries, not yet final on other appropriations; booklet, “These Forty Years” - Sept 15: --- No piano teacher required - Sept 17: Endicott: Cabled sailings of Nicholls, Hoffman’s, Dunkin, Plewman, Albertson; Bests’ sailing postponed - Sept 20: Bell: Perturbed Agnew and Best names not in cable, non-teacher for Canadian school; Mrs. Stanway’s appendix. - Sept 22: Arnup: Death of Dr. Thompson - Oct 4: Hibbard: Comment on Executive minutes: extended term needs longer furlough for rest; Bowyer and Mullett request consideration on date of departure; Canadian School teachers and payment of Miss Hickling; Machinery in Medical building; Mrs. A.S. Allen’s health; some military disturbance; Chao for Canada; internal currency exchange favourable; WCUU and Middle School enrolment; prices rising. - Nov 5: --- Canadian census and vexed problem of Canadian nationality (copy of letter from British Consul, Oct. 12) concerning Canadian

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nationality - Nov 14: Endicott: Sub-executive’s action; general: laymen’s report: furlough: appropriations: scholarships for foreign students; Agnew, Albertson return; no financial relief in sight. - Nov 17: --- Travel to London to Methodist Union Celebration; appreciation of Chengtu Canadian School; general council’s affirmation of missions; meeting of WCUU Board in Toronto; partial reports from Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry; conditions in Canada, particularly on Home Mission Fields. - Nov 27: Hibbard: fighting serious but slowing down; bad time at other stations; hospital in Chengtu full; travel party got through with little trouble. - Dec 2: --- report on conditions during military activities; refugees in schools; Canadian school teacher? Agnew delay unfair. - Dec 10: Endicott: Laymen’s report, Pearl Buck and the Christian Century; Honours for Agnew; Oxford Group; Best’s return; unification of medical work. - Dec 13: --- Plans for unification - Dec 17: --- work on appraisal report; “These Forty Years”; joint dinner by WCUU and Victoria Boards; further cuts - Dec 22: Arnup “These Forty Years”

1983.047C 4-74 Correspondence- Endicott-Hibbard (Treasurer of West China Mission): - Jan 12: Hibbard: Contributions to Missionary Fund from men on field - Feb 10: --- Estimates sent; deficiency in Chinese salaries and pressure towards self-support; grant to NCC of China; Shanghai funds; good conference - Feb 29: Endicott: Receipt of contribution, unsure of exact intention; relation of contribution to further salary cut - Mar 3: Hibbard: Comment on Annual Financial Statement; application of cut after beginning of financial year raises problems - Apr 7: --- Property lists sent - Apr 18: Jones: Extract of letter on import taxes - List of unused plant balances (1931) - Estimates (1932) - Mission Fire Insurance (1932-1933) - Jul 14: Endicott: Concerning approved payments - Jul 20: Hibbard: Late news of cut in 1932 embarrassing although self-support stimulated; conference finance committee good for education of Chinese; Szechuan transportation improvements - n.d.: Hickling to Hibbard: Salary tangle - Financial Statement + explanations - List of Unused Plant Balances - Revised Annual Statement

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1983.047C 4-75 Hibbard-Hoffman: Hoffman: Describes fighting, damage, negotiations with Luchow

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1983.047C 4-76 Correspondence with individual Missionaries: - Allan, F.F. Chungking: travel by chair; necessity of attending conference; Chungking hospital personnel and property; Peiping a good experience; estimates for equipment; - Austin (Jim Endicott’s father-in-law) from Endicott re: Jim’s postponed furlough and salary cut; - Bowyer, Kwanhsien: Personal news; cholera epidemic; - Burwell (copies to 7 others), from Endicott: new cut in salary; - Collier, Penghsien: After a time with Kilborns now in own home; Spooner engagement; language study, scientific reading; contact with Chinese; begin University teaching next year;

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- Crawford, Chengtu: Itinerating in Eastern part of work; war conditions; criticism of layman’s Fact Finding Commission; Dr. Chao’s scholarship; illness of Constance Walmsley; need another High School Teacher; (Endicott response); - Cunningham, Chengtu: General surgery cases, gunshot wounds, accidents; eye, ear, nose and throat work; illness of Walker baby, brought in from country by rickshaw; mission should have a car; travel to conference, bus, chair, and on foot; impression of conference; need for more foreign pastors and doctors; short term medical workers not advised; union medical work; political climate; - Hoffman, Luchow: Military upheaval; bombs; casualties; no way of evacuating; asked to be intermediaries; fierce shelling (Endicott response); - Kilborn, Chengtu- delay of Dr. and Mrs. Best serious for medical teaching; home medical board too particular; Mrs. Best’s mental state not serious; both Bests urgently needed; University has record registration; one out of three middle school applicants of middle school accepted; - Jolliffe, R.O., Chengtu: Endicott’s statement superb; apologies for “These Forty Years”; not sufficient data on field for history; Laymen’s Commission had no historical perspective, too academic; effects of such reports on work, 1921-22 Educational Report; personal credo, especially on mission; work on Sunday school lessons and tracts; local military action (Endicott, response, particularly Laymen’s report); - Kitchen, Chengtu: Work of Press; Sunday school leaflets and gospel tracts successful; health tracts and other booklets; now little commercial printing done, though fully busy with Christian literature, so less profit; Mrs. Kitchen does the illustration work; - McAmmond, Fowchow: future of work looks rosy with New Church; description of Chinese style church; opening ceremonies; - Meuser, Chengtu: Cholera epidemic; vaccination drive; growth of hospital for men; planning of firmer financing. - Jan 26: Morgan, Fowchow: Birth of a Chinese baby related to social conditions; wife nursing Chinese woman in Morgan home reaches new circle of Chinese; McAmmond and the building of the new church; Christian groups in outstations loyal but paralyzed, hold of the past strong; workers in a different case but need missionary direction and encouragement. - Apr 23: ---: Itinerating with Veals in Chungchow area, workers discouraged: Fowchow anxious to increase self-support; political atmosphere; socializing with Chinese; Dr. Dzao, superintendent of hospital vaccinating children in public school; Endicott-Mullett (Father of missionary)- postponement of furlough; -Neave (Chengtu): Council and conference; financial cuts (Endicott response); military troubles in Chengtu; some work slowed or redirected; account of “district Bible school in Fighting Zone” (Endicott, response); - Quentin, Kiating: description of conditions under fighting, (Endicott’s response); - Reed, Kiating: Glad Quentin in Kiating; school needs bolstering; part of work reshipment of freight for interior missionaries; church is weak; guild never a church-building factor; unprepared for swing to emphasis on rural evangelism; short on evangelistic missionaries; 95% of population illiterate; hospital situation; - Revelle, Luchow: Civil war, air raids, casualties, property damage, refugees; 487th civil war since 1911; hospital equipment; evangelism in hospital (Endicott response); - Sheridan, Chungking: To Bell: Discussion of medical salaries, work tours motivation, provision for sabbatical, To Endicott: Types of medical work; convalescing in Tzeliutsing; lack of continuity in medical staff in 9 stations

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other than Chengtu; suggested plan to provide continuity; spiritual needs if work to grow; appeal for funds for Chungking hospital equipment; - Sparling, Chengtu: Request for permission for Mrs. Sparling and daughters to return early to Canada and for a rent allowance (Endicott, permission granted, rent refused); - Smith, Tzeliutsing: Salary problems at hospital; Chines nurses give away medicines free; fees for out-patient service; interesting patients; sports news; - Veals, Chungking: Itinerating war zone; types of meeting; individual Chinese Christians; self-support pledges; District schools; CF; CIM and UCC, devotion.; - Wilford, Chengtu: Thompson’s illness; Fire at Penghsien; request for Radium and better x-ray; To Flavelle: sent report of Union hospitals; Cholera epidemic; total of 53 doctors graduated since Medical College opened; return to China justified; To Endicott: 25 copies of union hospitals report sent; Men’s hospital ahead over last year; Cholera ward; (same as Flavelle letter); Four missionary children enter U of T Medical Faculty; P.S. High handed methods of military; Union Medical Work; health; education; - Williams, Manitoba: News of cut disheartening; doctors; order no speaking engagements; wants news of China and Missionaries.

1983.047C 4-77 Correspondence- Dickinson, missionary with Endicott, Arnup and Others: Asks purchase and shipment of pedigree hens to improve Chinese poultry stock; news of other university activity, sports; silkworms; letters from students; wheat seed, apple trees, bull calf, rabbits; farm service questionnaire must be translated into Chinese so that Chinese workers can carry it out; blows his top over lack of mission publicity in church papers; wants to introduce “Mao Li Tze” fruit in Canada; anti-hog cholera serum; straight evangelism also; suggestion of small groups of visitors to less known places; future employment of graduates; work goes on somehow in spite of depleted forces and money; in spite of cuts, missionaries have to help “causes”; supply bulletins on rural work for workers; benefit to work of returned scholarship students. - Oct 8: Civil war looming; “budgrafting of citrus fruits”; persimmons. - Nov 19: Story of Liu Pei Uin and the fruit orchard; young bull needed for pure bred herd. - Nov 29: McAmmond’s agricultural venture; civil war effects on campus; appraisal committee’s comment on cattle improvement.

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1983.047C 4-78 Correspondence- Endicott with Walmsley, Principal of Canadian School in Chengtu: 1) Growth of school: 15 in 1930, 52 in 1932; 42 of these children of Canadian mission; need music teacher, school to pay salary, board to pay travel; teaching at University; examination papers from Ontario Department of Education. 2) Revised constitution of Canadian Schools; teacher’s contract.

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1983.047C 4-79 Dr. Wallace Crawford on West China Council on Health Education 1932

1983.047C 4-80 Rev. K.J. Beaton’s Accounts: Clearing up of debts left behind in China 1932

1983.047C 4-81 Reports: Medical Union, Medical Work in Tzeliutsing: Medical union report deals with proposals for a union of all medical work in Chengtu; Tzeliutsing report is a local report.

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1983.047C 4-82 Annual Report of West China Mission; Statistical Report; Report of West China Conference Forecast of Press Work

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1983.047C 4-83 Reports of Work by Missionaries: Allan, F.F.; Allen, A.S. and Haddock; Brace; Bridgeman; Brown; Crawford; Cunningham; Edmond, E.W. and L.W.; Endicott; Hartwell; Hoffman; Kilborn; Jolliffe, C.J.P.; Longley; McAmmond; Morgan; Neave; Rackham; Reed; Revelle; Sibley; Smith;

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Sparling; Speers, Veals; Walker; Williams. 1983.047C 4-84 Correspondence- Vokes (Former missionary) with Endicott: Vokes desires

to return to China, board is unable to finance. 1932

1983.047C 4-85 Correspondence- Wilford, concerning Oil Springs, Ontario (Medical Practice): Dr. Martin sold his practice to Wilford who in turn sold Lewis before completing payment; Lewis did not keep up payments to Martin who threatened court action; Sir J. Flavelle willing to help settlement; in letter no.3 Wilford makes same comment as Kilborn on Mrs. Best; Mrs. Wilford’s teaching load; personal finances.

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1983.047C 4-86 Correspondence- Endicott and Arnup with Bell (Secretary of Mission): - Jan 7: 1) Endicott: 15% further salary cut; if furloughs go through as approved further cut on work budget; request West China Mission Executive make statement on Appraisal Commission Report for Board Meeting; 2) Bell: Comment on and criticism of Appraisal and Commission Report, especially Press pre-release; Buddhism and ordinary folk; fighting in Kiating; Chengtu still quiet; Council and Conference postponed indefinitely; news of personnel. - Statement of Hospital Board - Jan 16: Endicott: Account of Conference held in Toronto to study Appraisal Report; theological tone of discussion; Pearl Buck’s review of Appraisal Report - Jan 19: Bell: Bowyer’s leaving date; Chao’s post-graduate study; military conditions; Agnew delay - Feb 3: --- 1) Mrs. Jolliffe and Grace’s return to Canada; financing of Chao in Canada; all business being referred to executive of Council and Conference; trouble with Dr. Li Ni Min in Chungking 2) Bell: “Re-thinking Missions” under study by local groups; criticism of “For Sinners Only”; cooperative medical plan suggests that all WMS medical workers be under BFM - Feb 7: Bell: 1) No council this year; comment on executive minutes; committee to draw up statement on “Re-Thinking Missions”; clinical hospital for Medical Dental College approved in principle; need for doctor conversant with West China conditions on Home Medical Board; future of the work in the light of reduced staff and funds, and no new recruits; Chungchow school repairs. 2) (To Arnup): Arrival of Albertson and chickens; workers conference at Coast encouraging; returned from coast via other stations; reaction of Chinese boy from Amoy to Szechuan conditions; military activity. - Feb 13: Endicott: 1) Death of Chown; health of Mrs. Best; Chao travel granted; Jolliffe travel costs; church financial conditions worse than ever; series of cables; 2) Bell: Dr. Best urgently needed; Agnew delay disturbing; Chengtu hospitals board wants a similar board set up at home; “These Forty Years”; Smith quoted on hospital work. - Feb 20: Endicott: Sub-committee actions; Mrs. R.O. Jolliffe; Dr. S.Y. Chao; Jubilee of Japan Mission; Rev. J.B. Hunter replaces Rev. W.T.G. Brown on Board of Missions - Mar 1: Bell: Most children returning from school in Canada un-accompanied by parents; comment on actions of Executive of Council; Reed transferred to Tzeliutsing leaving Quentin alone in Kiating; Bell and Hibbard furloughs; Friction in Chungking, missionaries and Chinese Christians involved; possibility of a Senior High School in cooperation with the Friends’ Mission in Chungking; comment on Endicott’s letter of Jan 16 on Appraisal Report and Pearl Buck; funds for Model Barn. - Mar 9: ---: Criticism of Reisner on Agricultural Missions; appreciation of military life; D.D. for R.O. Jolliffe; motor road to Chungking completed; army movements;

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- R.O. Jolliffe’s degree - Mar 20: --- Further cuts a shock - Endicott: Financial situation outlined - Mar 27: Bell: Comment on Executive minutes; military trying to get hold of mission property in Jenshow, urge sale of house; ordination service for two men at ASM church; Communist success in Szechuan may be a rumour; non-Christians mediating between Christians in Union University dispute; motor road speeds travel between Chengtu and Chungking. - Mar 30: Arnup: Acknowledgement of letters - Apr 4: Bell: Gratitude for exchange benefit on salaries; application of cuts to allowances of children in Canada; some progress in Union University government registration - Apr 10: Endicott: Minutes of Annual Meeting of Board; reference to many items in Bell’s letters to date -Comment on actions concerning West China [note pp. 2,3,]; reinforcements - Apr 13: Bell: Problems in preparing Annual Report of Mission; military situation; general report on various stations; the church at home - Apr 26: --- Comment on actions of Mission Executive; renting house in Chungking; wall for Brace house; reinforcements: dental, evangelistic; necessity of greater funding for University departments than churches can give; inquiries as to Rockefeller Foundation - Apr 28: Endicott: West China arrivals; Dr. Maxwell on Chunking hospitals and West China medical work; Dr. Lu has TB; Bests to sail July 15; Jolliffe’s D.D.; birth of Spooner son; death of Henry T. Hodgkin - May 10: Bell: McGowan, teacher for Canadian School; UCC financial situation; calamity if further reductions in staff; if stations closed, loss of property to military inevitable; behaviour of military; situation tense. - May 12: Endicott: Sub-Executive meeting; retrenchment to be taken in full consultation with mission councils; appointments to SCM Conference and Missionary Education Committee; Dr. Kelly appointed to medical board as consultant on West China; appeal for dentist; Williams’ post-graduate studies; concerning Chungking hospitals proposals; children’s allowances in Canada; sale of Jenshow property approved. - May 13: Bell: Death of Allen baby; military press gangs; general Den’s gift towards hen house; military occupation of mission houses. - May 15: Endicott: Acknowledgement of letters - May 17: Bell: Severe fighting; men servants terrified of being impressed; men cannot harvest wheat. - Paper concerning erection of central clinical hospital adjacent to dental/medical college, WCUU.

1983.047C 4-87 Correspondence- Endicott and Arnup with Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jun- Dec): - Jun 3: Endicott: Reisner’s remarks; Jolliffe’s D.D. Chancellor Wallace’s serious illness; on the publication and editing of General annual report; Armstrong will use personal reports; Mrs. Jolliffe and the Literature Department - Jun 6: Bell: Comment on Executive minutes; Financial matters including exchange on salaries; Longley invited back; hope to produce policy report; military disturbance slightly improved; first air mail plane; pool for payment for Cholera vaccine; request appointment of P. Gordon Anderson, dentist. -Standing Medical Services Committee Appeal - Jun 27: --- Maxwell’s opinion on clinical hospital ignores church’s position; Quentin paying for renovations of Beh Tah Gai church; problems over Senior High School move to Chungking; agreements must be between missions and churches, not with an individual; comment on statement on West China Mission; renewed fighting and “pressing”; travel curtailed.

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- Jul 5: --- Cannot support even needed dentist within the budget; excellence of Longley’s report; need for seminary separate from University; Longley’s and others’ departure delayed by military situation; Bell’s furlough not necessary. - Jul 10: --- Further delay for Longley et al; Chengtu situation tense. - Jul 20: --- Longley party away; military matters - Jul 31: 1) --- Death of F.F. Allan; urgent need for replacement; possibility of retaining Mrs. Allan in work of hospital 2) Endicott: recap of cables - Aug 1: Bell: Suggest one of former doctors replacement for Allan in tricky Chungking situation - Aug 2: --- Military action in province; more doctor’s names put forward; Mrs. Allan may stay on - Sept 11: --- Chungking medical situation in relation to medical work on other stations; new building at Chungchow; university enrolment; military affairs. - Sept 15: Endicott: Sub-executive actions; if doctor found, charge travel and salary to R.P. MacKay fund; J.G. Endicott furlough study; financial support for Chao; WMS grant to cooperative work cut; UCC finances; Allan death; young doctor preferred over former China hand; Mackay Fund conditions; glad to welcome Dr. Chao; news of Szechwan earthquake; furlough needs - Sept 26: Bell: 1) UCC Property Forms too elaborate for West China field; University finally registered; enrolment and quality of students; policy spying for “Reds” on campus; good student, Ngai His Yu in prison - Mrs. Allan’s plans; Canadian School staff affected by furloughs; Jones’ furlough for 1932; in view of vacancies in other varieties of work, Press must dispense with Bowyer’ note on statement to Board. 2) Statement to Board of Foreign Missions re: West China Mission - Oct 20: Endicott: UCC finances; Mrs. Allan’s future; Dr. Ralph Hayward appointed; Health of Dr. Lu in sanatorium; commendation of Dr. Chao - Oct 23: --- Sub-Executive: J.G. Endicott at SCM Conference; West China Mission and the Church of Christ in China; appointment of Hayward; Chungchow church - Oct 26: --- Salary adjustments: Mullett, Bowyer and Endicott - Nov 7: Hibbard: Travel arrangements for Hayward; Mrs. Allan’s future; earthquake report exaggerated; anxiety about next years’ furloughs; want word on appropriation before council meeting; Chungking Hospital staff housing; loss of half-bred cattle; military matters; Mrs. Kitchen’s operations - Nov 10: --- Arrangements for William Small’s return to Canada; trouble for missionary children with Canadian immigration - Nov 12: Bell (From Chungking): Hope to travel with Hayward to Chengtu; Chungking problems; enmity of Dr. Li and Mr. Mao; military situation and evaluation of urban and rural attitudes to “Reds”; medical cooperation with Methodist episcopal Mission in Chungking; carbon copy of full account of Chungking troubles - Nov 27: Endicott: Bowyer study grant; salary adjustments; return of Small; Jones’ furlough; travel gift for Miss McGowan; article on WCUU - Dec 8: Hibbard: Haddock furlough for health reasons; Hartwell to accompany and take furlough; sale of building material, Chiang Chia Teo; possibility of flying to council; employment of Miss Dunkin for Mrs. Lindsay; loss of property at Weichow through flood; Mrs. Kitchen improved. - Dec 20: Bell: Time saved in flying from Chungking to Chengtu; Neil Bell has TB; Donald Walker’s eye condition; Mrs. Lindsay recovering from operation; Mrs. McAmmond’s health improved; work going well in Fowchow and Chungchow districts; mission cooperation in Chungking medical work.

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1983.047C 4-88 Correspondence: Endicott with Hibbard (Treasurer, West China Mission): - Feb 28: Hibbard: Estimates passed by Mission Executive; strict oversight on Conference spending; reductions: missionary teachers, lower primary schools, Union Middle school; loss of efficiency and building maintenance in hospitals; Press also reduced; travel costs: children, furloughs, Canadian School teachers; house repairs. - Mar 29: Endicott: Exchange on missionaries’ salaries okayed - Apr 21: Hibbard: Hickling’s appears in salary; future problems if cuts continue; University Board meeting over, quiet reigns -May 19: --- Gratitude that exchange is granted; exchange rates between Shanghai and West China; Fighting around Chengtu - Oct 4: --- Drop in Szechuan dollar exchange works hardship; work partly supported by unused balances; work must be cut if no increase in appropriation; salaries paid to Oct. 1 - Nov 15: Endicott: Sympathies with field; balances should not exist unless on property account - Dec 4: Hibbard: Regulations re: marriage of foreigners in China and accompanying official correspondence. - Estimates, Financial Statement

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1983.047C 4-89 Evaluation of Property 1933

1983.047C 4-90 Correspondence: Wilford Practice at Oil Springs, Ontario: Final settlement, with Sir J. Flavelle assisting [see file 85] (Oct 7): Wilford’s reputation as surgeon, operations performed; account of installation of Bandit Suppression C-in C

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1983.047C 4-91 Correspondence- Endicott/Arnup with Dickinson (Missionary): Located material sent for publication 1931; the rest of this correspondence is concerned with various agricultural experiments; some lively asides on Chinese life, soldiers on campus, activities of other missionaries; Answer’s Reisner’s criticism of agricultural missions; references to Re-Thinking Missions. - Jun 19: Letter from Donnithorne, C.I.M. on military and political situation - Letter from Dickinson on military and political and situation; Rinderpest epidemic.

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1983.047C 4-92 Correspondence- Individual Missionaries, I: Allan, F.F. Chungking: Hospital work and attendant problems; Re-Thinking Missions; “For Sinners Only”; finances, personal and church; - Best, Chengtu: Improvisations in medical work: - Brace, Chengtu: Quaker influence in YMCA; YMCA work; marriage of son: - Brown, Chengtu: Exchange on salary received; daughter’s return to Canada; political-military situation, some students look to Japan; students interest in immediate social conditions; “Pressing” of men into army U.S.W.; - Collier, Chengtu: work in Chemistry and Biochemistry; hopes for the future; present classroom and staff conditions; - Crawford, Chengtu: Re-Thinking Missions; Dr. Chao’s change of places;’ needs of medical work; Anti-Christian activity in Chengtu; standing Medical Services Committee report; mission truck would save transportation costs and time; ambulance has paid off; airmail service; -Haddock, Kiating: Objects to proposed transfer of nurses to WMS; WMS insistence on Training School; equalization of salaries of single women; - Hartwell, Chengtu: Various incidents re: missionaries and work; - - Hoffman, (Cecil), Chengtu: Language study and work; asks grant from West China Missionaries’ Donations to Assist Candidates; (Endicott Answer);

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- Kitchen, Chengtu: Introducing Dr. James L. Maxwell Leprosy in Szechwan; need best urgently due to sickness of other doctors; capitalize on Agnew publicity to get and send new dentist; (Endicott; Maxwell’s suggestions for clinical work; council’s paper on Laymen’s Foreign Mission Inquiry); - Longley, Chengtu: travel plans; air mail service; - Morgan, Fowchow: Articles on Dr. Dzao and Dzao’s program in Canada; Dzao’s character; itinerating in the district; tracts distributed; talks in schools.

1983.047C 4-93 ---: II: Reed, Kiating: Criticism of publicity to University and medical work; fruits of colleges not much; need training for practical rural evangelism; church not ready for self-support; how long will be possible to support foreigners? Not enough Chinese workers; still work goes well; (Endicott’s reply, reports from elsewhere contradictory; Reed’s hopes for future discussed) Accounts of Conditions in Kiating (Jul 11); - Smith, Ada, Speers, Tzeliutsing: Illness and recovery of Dr. W.E. Smith; - Smith, W.E. Tzeliutsing: Illness and recovery; agreement with Reed that college trained become urban; realize no new men this fall, but hope for young man soon; evangelistic itinerating; value of medical work; - Sheridan, Chungking: Employment of Chinese doctors in hospital; Allan’s death; Comparison financial situation, Canada and West China; Personnel: Hayward, W.E. and Ada B. Smith, Cecil Hoffman, Mrs. Allan; military affairs; - Sparling, Chungking: Effect on salary cuts from top of deductions and expenses for children at home; (Endicott, Board response); tribute to former missionaries at WCUU; senate meeting described; copy of grant of government registration; - Veals, Chungking: Effect of salary cuts on top of deductions and expenses for children at home; (Endicott, Board response); tribute of former missionaries at WCUU; senate meeting described; copy of grant of government registration; - Vokes, Dungannon, Ontario: Willing to return (Endicott, refusal); Walker, Penghsien: sympathy with Board; rumours of war; letter in answer to queries of Baker in New Toronto (Endicott, response); Walmsley, Chengtu: Things military; family matters; Chinese Davis Cup champion; thesis; - Wilford, Chengtu: Medical matters; Oil Spring’s practice; military affairs; hospital; Peterson’s questionnaire re: medical work and reply; (Arnup, secretary acknowledgement); requests former West China doctor as replacement for F.F. Allan; general medical situation; circular letter on year’s work; mimeographed on sheets printed on other side on general mission work; - Williams, Chengtu: Need supply of radium for China.

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1983.047C 4-94 National Christian Council of China: message to cooperating missions; resume of biennial meeting, Sungkiang, May 3-11

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1983.047C 4-95 Reports of work by Missionaries, and General Report: Allen, A.A.; Collier, Edmonds, E.W. and L.W.; Hoffman, A.C.; Longley; McAmmond; Morgan; Neave; Quentin; Rackham; Reed; Revelle; Sibley; Smith, A.B. and W.E.; Sparling; Veals, General Report.

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1983.047C 4-96 Article, Vichert: “A Canadian Dairy Experiment in West China” 1933

1983.047C 4-97 West China Council on Health Education: Annual Meeting 1933

1983.047C 4-98 Plans for West China Union Hospital: Sheridan letter, brochure 1933

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1983.047C 5-99 Correspondence- Endicott-Bell (Secretary, West China Mission, Jan- Jun): - Jan 6: Bell: relationship of Mission and Chinese Methodist Church with Church of Christ in China; difficulties in church at Chungking; repairs and property; improvement in Mrs. Kitchen’s condition and expense of treatment; health of Walter’s son, Donald’s’ other health matters. - Jan 12: Endicott: Home financial situation relation to appropriations and furloughs; return of Miss Bedford; hope finances will improve. - Jan 20: Bell: Miss Bedford’s return; probable loss of Walker; news on furloughs received joyfully - Feb 22: --- Critique of Council Meeting; Synod meeting clarified situation in Chungking; Dr. Li Ni Min defeated; contacts with older Chinese Churches helpful to Szechuan men; comment on minutes of Council; many of the minutes refer to routine property and personnel matters; #21- Return of Simpson desired by Chinese, #31- Dental situation, Chengtu, #41, 44, 46: Canadian School staffing; #49: injustice to missionary widows; #50: Medical Union; Chungking, Bell nominated chief Administrator; #51: Birds for Dickinson; #53: Business agency; #54: Purchase of bungalows; #58: truck for mission use; #60: synod only every two years; #63: Veals to Primary Schools Conference, #65: Discontinue Chinese Educational Strategy; #73: Proposed ordination of Bell and Veals; #76: Longley and Bridgeman to study lay training; #80: Quentin property gift; #83: rural parish and lay leadership; #102: seed selection, sericulture; #104: Provision of theological magazine for preachers and evangelists; #113: Irish rent allowance; #127: Missionary children in Canada; #151: West China Mission being short-changed; #157: Complications re: request for reinforcements and return of Bedford; #258: Fowchow hospital; statement on postponing of Furloughs. - Mar 7: --- Bedford’s sailing; furlough dating; Bridgeman furlough; Scholarship for Mr. Men; return to Canada for Mrs. Small and Jack; teacher for Canadian school; Mrs. Walker’s operation - Mar 12: Endicott: Comment on Bell’s letters - Apr 9: Bell: Health: Mrs. Anderson, Neil Bell; Bells may have to return to Canada; property matters; Dr. Lindsay’s health. - Apr 18: Endicott: 1) General letter on board meeting; 2) General board meeting to page 3; appointment of Rev. Robert L. Bacon, approval of search for dentist and teacher for Canadian school; Bowyer severance from mission; Endicott extension of furlough; commission to West China under study; ordination of Veals and Bell approved by Board. - Apr 20: --- Board actions concerning West China, personnel: Walker Bedford, Allan, Irish, J.G. Endicott, Longley, Mullett, Williams, Neave, W.E. Smith; general furlough policy; invitations to return after furlough: Haddock, Hartwell, Harris, Revelle, Walker, Jones, Brown, Bridgeman, ordination of Veals and Bell approved; property matters; agricultural work; resolution on Bowyer; West China Conference of Churches working Szechuan; resolution: death Allan, illness of Haddock; appropriations. - Apr 28: --- Rural missions discussed at Board; appointment of ordained man to Africa urged by other missions, made possible by cut on their budgets, 2) coordination of work with other missions. - Apr 30: Bell: 1) Acknowledgement of Board news; death of little Homer Brown; operation for Neil Bell; Disturbing growth of WCUU Medical-Dental faculty budget; vicious circle of expansion students, teachers equipment; suggest number admitted be limited; too dependent on mission; most graduates seek better salaries elsewhere; training and retention of Chinese teaching staff a priority; responsibility of cooperating missions; responsibility of Board of Founders. 2) Discussion of union, organic or otherwise with representatives of other

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missions; need to study South Indian union; no sense opening up talks unless other denominations serious. - May 1: --- Endicott: Model Dairy Barn fund available - May 7: Bell: Anderson’s move to Chengtu; Chungking left without a foreign dentist; property matters; scholarships for rural leaders to Bible schools; medical expenses; Chinese document - May 29: --- Dickinson’s child’s health; Chungking Middle School troubles; Small not available for building outside of Chengtu; special training at Cornell for rural missions; McIntosh furlough for family reasons; recovery of Neil Bell and Gwen Kitchen. - Jun 8: Endicott: Appointment of Hayward fiancée; administration of wills of people who die on the field; Mabel Money teacher for Canadian school; actions of other field matters. - Jun 11: --- Answer to Bell of Apr 30 - Jun 12: Bell: Endicott not criticized for handling of West China affairs [see Bell, Jan. 20, #151]; rural work; situation of Mrs. Allan, (Endicott, Apr 28, not extant) - Jun 13: --- Chungking Middle School troubles and involvement of local district of the church - Jun 15: --- Canadian school staffing; Ontario Department of education examinations; various health matters. - Jun 29: --- Executive actions; retirement of Miss Nicholls and need for replacement; early furlough for Mrs. Dickinson; retirement of Bowyer; Personnel: Miss MacIntosh; Miss Dunkin’s stationing; Harmony Hall, staff residence renovations; allowance for work of Mrs. F.F. Allen; staffing Canadian school; Chungking Union Medical work; boarding school; church situation in Chungking.

1983.047C 5-100 Correspondence- Endicott-Bell (Secretary, West China Mission): - Jul 14: Endicott: 1) Personnel: Neil Bell, Nicholls, Bedford, Irish, Mrs. J.E. Thompson, Miss Money; 2) WCUU Board Meeting in Oxford; presentation of Canadian Mission case; meeting in London, England re_ general union in work in West China. - Jul 18: --- Sheridan’s desire to adopt child - Jul 20: Bell: Canadian school salaries; report by Irish on church and school mess, and interference of generals; personnel: Neil Bell, Mrs. Rackham - Jul 26: Endicott: 1) Appointment of Crabbe; medical expenses Brown and Walker; personnel: Haddock, Irish; visit of J. Preston Maxwell of Peiping, 2) Effect of WCUU on West China budget; Dr. Crabbe at odds with Medical Committee - Aug 13: Bell: Possible government grant for WCUU; Mullett’s degree; partial settlement of Chungking church-school mess; floods - Sept 1: --- Executive minutes notes: Chungking mess, running water for Agency Home, Mission nursing situation, special course for rural workers, mission truck idea dropped, political-military news - Sept 14: 1) Endicott: Endicott’s Board’s representative to Executive General Council; Crabbe withdraws; dentist to be sought; Allan allowance. 2) Bell: Baptists pleased with Endicott’s speech at Oxford; without Crabbe situation in Dental College serious; Sheridan option; Chungking mess still pending; need for consultation with representatives from outside Chengtu; Rackham operation; request WMS to help out in nursing station; Crawford loaned to Chungking to supervise moving of hospital across river and general reorganization of work; annual medical examinations; Junghsien boarding school troubles point need to examine mission and church policy re: middle school; “Reds” gaining ground; government move to discourage large increase in university population. - Oct 1: Endicott: Sailings: Mullett, Bacon, Eggleton, Jolliffe plus chickens

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for Dickinson; advance notices of homeward bound missionaries to Vancouver necessary; Rev. A.D. McIntosh extricated some missionary boys from Immigration; foreign affairs vs. immigration; Allan allowance; no satisfactory dentist or nurse found; General Council showed confidence in missionaries; Bell/Veals ordination, interesting questions raised, but ordination ordered; ordination of women referred to presbyteries; deputation work heavy. - Oct 2: Bell: Quentin purchase of Guild property has raised financial problems; personnel: Nicholls, Rackham; Medical Union, Chungking, difficulties; Jolliffe to NCCRE as delegate from all Szechuan churches. - Oct 20: Endicott: Personnel: Harris, Longley, McIntosh, Revelle; deaths; heavy deputation work; Africa disaster; no increase in M. and M.; church schools in Canada in trouble - Nov 11: Hibbard: Comment on Executive; Jim Endicott interpreter for Dr. Eddy; WMS second Wellwood to Chungking hospital; electricity plant; expenses for Dr. Weigle; new start at Chungking middle school - Nov 14: Endicott: No financial help available for Quentin purchase; must have council action on whole Kiating situation - Nov 15: --- representatives to various bodies; Africa famine fund; Armstrong not to visit West China; children’s allowances; Bell/Veals ordination; post-graduate studies: Mr. Meng Tsi Min, Dr. Revelle; Mrs. Longley remains in Canada; grant for Kiating property. - Nov 23: Hibbard: Neave engagement makes difficulty for Canadian school - Nov 26: Bell: Uneasy about own ordination in view of uncertain future; trip with Dr. Cunningham to all stations between Jungshow and Chungchow boost to medical work; Cunningham sees need for missionary doctors for outstations; report on church, hospitals, schools in Jenshow, Kiating (sale of property now in use would supply funds for repair of Wuentin purchase); Junghsien (Bible school for members and workers, Miss McRae’s schools for women, success of Dr. Y.T. Liu, school problems); Tzeliutsing (Independent Church problem); Luchow, (Hospital and church, Hoffman itinerating); Chungking (impact of Eddy, school matter settled); Chungchow, Fowchow (school for laymen, converted colonel, man with two wives, new hospital wing); position of mission secretary in new organization; personnel: Neave, McAmmond - Dec 12: --- Work healthy; influence of Oxford group; notes on Executive minutes; early health furlough for Veals family; new matron for Canadian school urgent; Brace furlough postponed; property matters; Mrs. Small and Jack return to Canada - Dec 14: --- Sheridan’s letter on Veals children enclosed; church and hospital property will eventually be turned over to Chinese; problems, present and future concerning missionaries’ houses; need for policy on retirement allowances for Chinese; women missionaries’ salaries. - Dec 21: --- Possibility of Bedford for Canadian school; no deeds extant for some of Kiating property; partial financing of repairs on Guild; repercussions to mission proposal to sell property at Go Gai Lou, Chungking; scholarship for Meng Si Min; purchase of bungalows.

1983.047C 5-101 Correspondence: Endicott- Hibbard (Treasurer, West China Mission): - Jan 2: Hibbard: Salary of Mrs. Allan; travel, William Small; Health: Donald Walker, Haddock - Feb 23: --- Explanation of financial report; use of accumulated funds to offset cuts - Feb 26: --- Method of handling wills on field; insurance - Mar 24: --- Unused plant balances; special events - Apr 13: Endicott: To Whitehead on administration of wills - Apr 17: Whitehead: Advice on foregoing

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- May 2: --- Wills referred to Sub-executive Committee; safe arrival of workers - 1) Financial Statements; 2) Financial Reports

1983.047C 5-102 Correspondence and documents re: Missionary Co-operation, West China: Correspondence with various mission secretaries leading to a meeting in London, England of missions with work in West China; Bell’s letters giving background, Mar 27, Mar 19, Apr 30, specifically on lack of MEM participation in present union affairs and attitudes of other missions - Apr 24: Minutes of Informal Conference on Cooperation in West China, held in N.Y. - Jun 29: Account of Informal Conference, Friends House, London, England

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1983.047C 5-103 Correspondence- Endicott-Bell: Union in Chungking medical work 1934

1983.047C 5-104 ---: Endicott, Jones, Veals, Reed (Missionaries): Jones and Veals: Purchase of bungalow, Reed: Ordination of Veals and Bell

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1983.047C 5-105 Sparling and Robertson on scholarship for Mr. Meng Si Ming 1934

1983.047C 5-106 ---: Endicott, with Jolliffe, Williams, Dickinson, Sparling and Plewman: Jolliffe: Relations of Mission Press with various other missions- the Tract Society, NCC, NCCRE, etc.; hope for better future cooperation; Weigle’s visit; - Williams: Dental candidate described; suggestion that Dr. Fahrni contribute a couple of years to West China; - Dickinson: Poultry and promotion by pictures; stories to accompany pictures; rescue of student Djoe; anti-hog cholera vaccine; cow’s performance; - Sparling: Covering letter for pictures of theological students and ministers; - Plewman: family matters, critical of Llewellyn Hall; Bethel band of Chinese evangelists did good work; politics and military movements.

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1983.047C 5-107 Reports of work by Missionaries and General West China Mission: Allen, Collier; Cunningham, E.R.; Edmonds, E.W. and L.M.; Hoffman; Jolliffe, C.J.P.; Kilborn; Meuser; Morgan; Neave; Reed; Revelle; Sibley; Sparling; Smith, Ada B. and W.E.; Veals, (School for lay workers, Fowchow); West China Mission Report

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1983.047C 5-108 Resignation of J.A. Walker: Medical reports and resignation 1934

1983.047C 5-109 Joint Publicity Committee (WMS, BFM), Statistical Report 1934

1983.047C 5-110 Correspondence: Endicott-Bell (Secretary West China Mission, Jan- Apr): - Jan 14: Bell: Crawford moved to Chungking; banking with Hibbard goes on furlough; political/military situation; McAmmond added to ordination panel; Kiating property scheme; difficulties of union work with MEM - Jan 18: --- Cable-request for Bedford - Jan 19: --- Bedford appointment; need appropriations information for planning; military situation and its effect on university people; furloughs: Lindsay, Sheridan - Jan 21: Endicott: 1) Bell’s future; 2) Finances down; reserves depleted; Bedford alerted; China-conditions- Sherwood Eddy’s visit - Feb 4: --- 1) Veals and Small home leave approved; 2) Board Sub-Executive: China actions; furloughs approved: Anderson, Hoffman, Hibbard, Kilborn, Lindsay, McAmmond, Neave, Sheridan, Sibley, Smith; post-graduate studies, Bridgeman; property sales; scholarship Meng Si Min; resignation of Jennie Neave; appointment Bedford; Brace extension; 3) Bell: Political and military news; executive considered evacuation measures; no panic in mission

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- Feb 5: Bell: Furlough timing adjustment; MEM hospital request unreasonable; to cooperate with Church of Christ in China in weekly newspaper; costs of medical care for mission members; Billy Jolliffe’s return; furlough dates: Brace, Dickinson, Kitchen, Hibbard; furlough study: Lindsay, Hoffman, Hibbard, Kilborn, Anderson, Sheridan, Neave; sale of Tzeliutsing property; university requests return of Bayne; other missions falling down on university replacements; property: Chungking middle school, hospital; mission property general, teacher, housing and dairy barn; urgent repairs of white ant damage; problem of union with MEM in medical work in Chungking; policy: additions to pastoral staff, primary schools, higher and junior schools; reopening medical work at Penghsien; Szechuan Christian Council; request visitation from home church, moderatorial tour of all fields, new doctors need two months in Chengtu to observe tropical medicine; stationing a matter of plugging furlough holes. - Feb 6: Endicott: 1) Comment on items in Bell, Jan 14; 2) Property items must wait Executive of General Council actions; Bedford appointment; various minor personnel actions; Brace furlough adjustment; deplores tendency of missionaries returning via Europe; 50th Anniversary of Union plans; Press blowing up China situation - Feb 7: 1) --- Thoughts on turning over church and institution properties to Chinese; missionary residences separate problem; 2) Bell: Covering letter for list of missionaries; rumours of war. - Feb 8: Endicott: Thoughts on pensions and gratuities for Chinese workers - Feb 11: 1) --- Bedford to nursing, Haddock offers for matron; 2) Bell: Purchase of truck in case of evacuation; Kiating wants Hayward; Rindepest inoculations; Purltry replacement; sale of Go Gai Lou property; Medical Union in Chungking with MEM; Hope Armstrong and Honan missionary will visit; sale of Wu Tong Chang and Li Gia Chang property; “Friends of Reunion”; Shift in emphasis in educational work, government regulations more stringent; special class for prospective teachers, care in choosing candidates; must stress primary evangelistic work; furloughs: Jolliffe and Neave; replacements and lack of same from other missions in union work; Surgery important in medical field; Veals ordained; Sibley’s remain until Bridgeman’s arrive. - Feb 18: Bell: Received authority for ordination; loss of Dr. Liu - Feb 25: Endicott: Finances serious; foreign department cut; reserves very low - Mar 6: Bell: Cover for 1934 report; army movements; Mrs. Bell’s operation - Mar 13: --- Some furlough expenses omitted from estimates; Bell ordination to proceed; army movements; Mrs. Bell recovering; Mrs. Neave appendix. - Mar 18: Endicott: Board will confirm any special action in light of situation; Sherwood Eddy alarmist - Mar 22: Bell: Correction of Unused Plant Balances; regret no scholarship for Meng; Discussion of cooperation and union postponed; probationer’s retiring allowance; Dr. Fuh; Miss Haddock; Hugh Taylor’s death. - Mar 28: Endicott: Dental scholarship - Apr 1: Bell: Registration of repairs on Quentin purchase; refusal to rent outside of mission circles; Chungking old hospital renovation; “Mission Truck” account, by renting hope to write off some of purchase price; cancel arrangement for mission truck to carry parcel post; property of His Pu; Anderson’s year sojourn in Chengtu; Dr. Lu’s funeral. - Apr 2: --- Haddock wanted as matron of Canadian School - Apr 6: --- Military situation - Apr 9: --- Special committee formed to watch Bell; evacuation need with

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authority to act; Haddock wanted by school opening; Chungking property- buy or rent; compulsory military training at university; Quentin property grant. - Apr 10: --- Discussion with MEM men, Cartwright and Gowdy re: union and cooperation – Chengtu and Chungking hospitals; chapter and verses on MEM past failures; WCUU also discussed; postscript, Crawford notified Bell union talks suspended. - Apr 15: Endicott: 1) General items of Board Meeting; 2) West China items 1-35 routine endorsement of matters referred to in correspondence above; general finances, appropriations, etc. - Apr 16: --- 1) Analysis of amounts received by various UCC fields and staff needs presented to Board; recommendation to Finance Committee and Finance Committee report; Committee on policy set up; 2) Further comment on Board meeting; Dr. Chao’s speech; Walker resignation; appeal for new workers; possibles: Hart, Owens, Jenner; no scholarship for Meng; case of Brace and YMCA - Apr 19: Bell: Military action; evacuation of women by plane; contradictory information; effect on uncertainty on work; further exodus of women and children; military preparations in Chengtu - Apr 21: Hibbard- (From Shanghai): News from West China re: evacuation - Apr 25: Bell: Urgent need for Chao in Chungking; more on Chengtu situation; matriculation papers to Chungking or Chengtu? Situation very serious; consular advice; government advice; military situation - Apr 30: Endicott: Response to West China situation; Chao sailing soon from Vancouver; Haddock date note set

1983.047C 5-111 Correspondence- Endicott-Bell (Secretary, West China Mission, May 1- Aug 15): - May 1: Bell: Greetings to 10th Anniversary Celebration; Ontario matriculation in Chengtu; military situation unchanged. - May 10: Endicott: 1) Mrs. Bridgeman, health delays return; Revelle TB doubtful; Kiating compound walls and gateway; 2) Sailings: Chao Haddock, Owen appointed to evangelistic work; 3) Agree mission truck use restricted; military drill at university; 4) Sub-executive items on West China; conditions; Owen and fiancée appointment; property; finances; 5) program for Board Committee on Policy - May 13: Bell: Hsaio plans; Chao’s return; Owen appointment boost to primary evangelistic work; Chinese colleagues not yet ready to take over; evacuated families to return only if Mission Executive permits; military situation; Collier proposes resignation owing to financial stress; Collier too good to lose - May 23: --- Need for strengthening evangelistic work; Walker resignation owing to health; General Assembly of Church of Christ in China should work through Missions; Board stand on appeals from non-denominational and independent missionaries; military conditions, particularly Penghsien - Jun 3: --- Return of evacuees and general conditions; personal expenses of evacuee families; Tzeliutsing road widening and hospital repairs; Pashan property; Stanway operation; electric wiring of Senior Middle School, Chungking - Jun 8: --- Cable, birth of Agnew daughter - Jun 13: --- 1) Newspapers unreliable; cable re: Miss Pen, Ho fiancée, received; Agnew mother and child well; truck invaluable in view of government control of public if conditions permits; general military situation, relationship of Szechuan to Central Government; New Life Movement and Chiang Kai Shek; closing of American Oriental Bank in Shanghai and losses to missionaries and WCUU; maybe some Boxer indemnity money available for Medical/Dental Department; Wilford and

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Best doctors for Mm. Chiang; 2) Revelle: Health and photography; Mrs. Bridgeman’s health; Weigle and Miao’s conference on training for ministry, lay workers, etc.; must have ministry suitable for both higher and lower grade ministry; two schools needed for these groups; University School of Religion does not answer needs because of restrictions; Anomaly that Christian university has no single building for religion; recommendation for small plant for training church leaders; Weigle and Chiang spoke at WCUU graduation; Lifan bombed in effort to wipe out Reds. - Jun 27: Endicott: 1) Meeting of policy committee; Secretaries consult on reductions of appropriations; possible help from WMS; field should study joint BFM and WMS responsibilities; 2) Reds; Japan; Chiang Kai Shek; Kiangyu; Dr. Jenner; 10th Anniversary at Maple Leaf Gardens; personnel: Lindsay, Wellwood, Brace - Jun 28: --- Collier’s finances - Jun 29: --- Special Board Meeting to discuss allocation of cuts; reduction of staff probable - Jun 9: Bell: Executive actions; money for Dental Clinic; record drawn up of union projects in Szechuan; Union School run by Yang of Friends’ Society in financial and other trouble; Chiang’s relationship with mission - Jul 30: --- Mail difficulties; effects of cuts: suggested reductions, salary cuts, reduction of staff; comparison of North China Col.; criticism of BFM in union matters voiced in Shanghai; Chiang’s in Collier bungalow at Omei; Large military academy built nearby; draft of suggestions re: finances to executive. - Aug 12: --- Cover for enclosed statement; air mail service now regular; payment in lieu of government tearing down wall for bricks; suggested use of exchange on Plant Funds for furlough expenses. -Statement of BFM on proposed cuts for 1936 - Aug 16: --- Collier tangle may be O.K. by the end of the year; Endicott resignation as Secretary would be blow to WC mission; comparison of foreign staff ration in N. China with W. China; Chiang recruiting Christians to work under him; Dr. Ding Hsiang Chin to Jenshow hospitals - Aug 15: --- Exchange of airmail stamps

1983.047C 5-112 Correspondence- Endicott-Bell (Secretary, West China Mission, Sept- Dec): Sept 5: Bell: 1) [cable] furlough expense; equal percentage cuts based on 1926 appropriations suggested; Harris needed at Chungking; 2) Needs of Canadian school; Mrs. Allan to return with daughters to Canada; language study for doctors; mission medical policy; comment on statement re: cuts (see File 111); without Miss Harris no adequate nursing supervision for Chungking hospital. - Sept 14: Endicott: 1) Board meeting; report of Policy Committee, discussion and adoption with amendments and related actions; resolutions re: Oliver, Davis, Forbes, Spotton; West China personnel: Bridgeman, Owen, Campbell: property items; 2) Financial arrangements West China Mission; hope to send Campbell; further comment on Policy Committee Report and action on it. - Sept 16: --- 1) Reasons for continuing Policy Committee, goes much deeper than finances; 2) Work of New Policy Committee - Sept 18: Bell: Receipt of cables (above); adjustment of furloughs and consequent expenses; must consult Council re: missionaries returning from furlough; problems of staffing Union Dental Department, and clinic because other missions do not contribute staff; Campbell appointment to be reviewed; Rev. R.R. Service, Shanghai, dying. - Sept 26: --- Hope Baptists may supply man for dental college; Plewman to Lifan to begin work anew; more air service available

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- Oct 7: Endicott 1) Harris sailed; home church mission activity; 2) few legacies so may have over expended in 1935 - Oct 20: Bell: Death of Mrs. T.H. Williams; problems with air mail to Canada; praise for Board actions; (Cables re: Mrs. Williams) - Oct 22: Endicott: 1) Finances; attitudes of home church; Baptists on field should press their own board for dentist; next to UCC Baptists carrying heaviest load at WCUU - Oct 23: --- Financial losses at WCUU and position of Dr. Beech; costs of women’s unit not being shared proportionately - Nov 5: --- Deaths in various missions; Finance Committee unease; WMS makes grant to BFM; Zion Church, Vancouver, offers Hartwell support. - Nov 7-9: Bell: (cables), Personnel: Bedford, Brown, Hartwell, McIntosh, Owens, Irish. - Nov 15: --- Discussion of financial crisis at Council; resignations of all missionaries on table; Anderson, Bridgeman, Revelle and Reed not to return; explanations; WCUU asked to seek dentist from other mission boards; Owen needed as new blood; military movements - Nov 19: Endicott- (secretary); Requested missionaries sailings Dec 14; Mrs. William’s death; airmail stamps received. - Nov 23: Bell: Brown appointed to Chengtu; fine spirit at Council and Synod meetings; self-support being pushed; student loan fund discontinued; Brace should return to specific UCC work; Canadian school; Policy on educational work, closing some schools but not abandoning religious education of children; Junior Middle Schools without missionaries useless; Educational men in Synod did nothing; time to revise composition of Synod lay representation; would like to take over Jenshow as agricultural centre; negotiations with WMS re: Bedford; opinion on Revelle as missionary; surgery is drawing card for hospitals; Allen in Kiating A1 and hospital very good; Revelle dislikes surgery, is poor administrator; Withdrawal of Plant Funds at Shanghai would endanger present slim budget; staff residence costs; ordination of Veals and Bell; proposed Union Theological Training schools; New Synod regulation on retiring allowances; property in relation to church; stationing of missionaries; adjustment of times of departure and arrival of Smith and Sheridan; dental clinic solution; sale of Ho Gia Chang property; Allen furlough dates and plans; hospital administration; brace medical treatment en route home; no extension of term for Edmonds; if money found outside budget scholarship for Hwang would be good; William’s family care problem; closing out of Household Supplies Department of Business Agency; Canadian School curriculum and teachers; portrait for Hart College building; “Teacher of Discipline and Physical Training” instead of “military instructor”; evacuation emergency expenses; water cisterns on campus; comments on estimates. - Nov 25: Arnup: Policy Committee statement comes from WMS and BFM; viewed all work as single unit; missionaries’ investigators not investigates. -Statement and Questionnaire - Nov 26: 1) Endicott: Receipt of Brown cable; notification of sending 2nd copy of above statement; 2) Bell: O. Jolliffe has typhus; military situation better; 3) Bell: Acknowledgement of letters October 22, 23; WMS taking over some BFM work; Bridgeman non-return; Communists; Bedford - Dec 10: Endicott: Account of Western trip; fear less income than originally expected; reactions of ministers and lay people; fighting further cuts by Finance Committee; sailings: Brown, Hartwell, McIntosh, Irish, Owens; Revelle uneasy about suggestions for surgery training; Bedford withdraws - Dec 12: Bell: Glad of new returnees; Jolliffe recovering; street-widening expenses. - Dec 18: Endicott: Bridgeman’s return to China; Re: Revelle and Anderson;

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Pressure on Baptist Board can come only from Baptist missionaries on field; Hart and Jenner appointments must be considered by the Mission Executive; special donation for Jones - Dec 27: --- Personnel: Allen, Quentin, Hoffman; compound walls; Bedford resignation; reports on recommendations on: Anderson, Bridgeman, Revelle; special support for Jones - Dec 30: --- Brace health proposal referred to Medical Board; death of Revelle’s mother; Mrs. Arnup unwell; Mrs. H.D. Taylor appointed WMS Foreign Secretary; Jolliffe’s health, Bridgeman’s return plans

1983.047C 5-113 Correspondence: Endicott-Hibbard/Bell (Treasurer): Jan 14: Hibbard: Changing signatures for Bell take-over - Higher grants for pastoral work and other financial estimates explained; furlough plans; sundry financial papers including Estimates and Financial statement

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1983.047C 5-114 Statement to the Board of Foreign Missions, UCC, from The West China Mission on Proposed Cut in Grants for the Year 1936: Statistical Report

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1983.047C 5-115 Articles on Agreement for Uniting of the Two Mission Hospitals in Chungking: Also correspondence concerning cooperation with the M.E. Mission; Bell, Edwards (Correspondence secretary, M.E. Board, Latimer [M.E. Chungking], Cartwright and Baker, M.E., N.Y.)

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1983.047C 5-116 Correspondence: Endicott-Sparling re: Training of ministers and plans for New Theological School: [This correspondence begins in 1934 after the problem was brought to Council and Synod] questionnaire; setting up special classes; summary of opinions from questionnaire; report on special classes; Autumn, 1934 - January: Visit of Weigle and Miao to Szechuan expected; further report on special class; Sparling to go to conference at Kuling on ministerial training; conference with Weigle and Miao successful; account of graduation exercises at College of Religion - Jul 1: Background of Theological Training, situation in education changed; old men challenged; Bible School closed; College of Religion set up; Religion in Arts course under other names allowed; need for both higher and lower educated clergy; analysis of questionnaire answers and discussion at conference with Weigle and Miao, report on Kuling conference; plans resulting from study and Sparling’s intention to study at Yale.

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1983.047C 5-117 Exchange of Cables and reports on critical situation in West China Apr, 1935

1983.047C 5-118 Correspondence: Endicott with Missionaries: Best: two articles; letter on housing in Toronto for missionary children; - Brace: General family, mission and military/political information; treatment for arthritis; - Collier: how cuts have affected Collier and Spooner finances; - Crawford: setting up medical supervision of missionaries on field; problems in hospital work union with M.E. Mission in Chungking; - Hayward: general letter; - Hoffman: Criticism of M.E. Mission policy in medical work; pressures of Chinese on Chinese staff; - Endicott/Jolliffe: Cooperation and union in West China; ordination of Bell; Christian Literature, publication and distribution; - Kitchen: Postponement of furlough for family reasons; red menace; Mrs. Kitchen busy with illustrations; Communist currency; military situation since Chiang; Press to continue; letter from Chiang of the N. China Press, possible move to Szechuan; - Lindsay: furlough travels and activities; Endicott on UCC share at WCUU; - McAmmond/Endicott: gift from Fowchow;

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- Neave: furlough, retirement, family problems; three missionaries murdered; - Revelle: non-return; - Robertson: scholarship for Mr. Mung Ssu Min requested; - Smith: presence of Chaings, reform in the air, New Life movement, political and military rumours, hospital evangelist appointed; outstations visited; work in Tzeliutsing; summer holiday clinic for Chinese; need for pastoral missionary; opposes closing of schools; possibility of sharing hospital work with government; Liu proposed to modernize city; - [Author Unknown]: floods in Szechuan and other general matters.

1983.047C 5-119 Correspondence: Endicott/Dickinson: Matters agricultural interspersed with military and political information; attempts to get Hog cholera serum through Canadian government; introduction of Mao Li Tsi to B.C.; comment on Sherwood Eddy and dangers of “flying visitors”; Chiang Kai Shek; not in agreement with Reisner’s theory; reaction of Chinese to Japan; furlough plans; optimism about future

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1983.047C 5-120 Re: Dr. Samuel T. Lu- studying in Canada and deceased in Hamilton, Ontario.

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1983.047C 5-121 Report of Work by Missionaries: Allen; Cunningham; Collier or Spooner; Edmonds; Jolliffe; Longley; Meuser; Morgan (including School for Lay Workers); Reed; Sparling; Smith, A.B.S. and W.E.; Veals, Bell Report of Church, Report of Mission; Report of Chengtu Joint Local Committee.

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VOLUME II: 1936-1943

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date(s) 1983.047C 6-122 Correspondence: Endicott-Bell (Secretary and Acting Treasurer of

Mission: - Jan 7: Bell: Bridgeman to Junghsien, Longley to Fowchow; Jim Endicott’s work in Chungking Middle School; request from Lu Dzo Fuh, Reconstruction Commissioner for Jim’s services; staff residences at hospital; mission policy. - Jan: Endicott: Call for revised estimates to meet falling revenues and for material for propaganda - Jan 20: --- Bissell Fund - Jan 31: 1) Bell: Cannot balance books without Home Order statements; arrivals: Brown, Owen; Hartwell and McIntosh to stations; non-return of Revelle and Anderson; McAmmond and Neave pensions; clarification of resignation and retirement procedures needed; Jenner and Hart wanted; Chinese leaders questionnaire; brief comment on Executive; 2) Endicott: Comment on Policy Committee meeting; Sub-Committee on medical work, cultivation of missionary spirit in home church, etc. - Feb 7: Bell: To prepare report on policy with Miss Harrison of W.M.S.; support of Canadian school; Chinese work suffers when missionary wives absent from home; - Feb 12: Endicott: Possibility of special support outside budget for dentist at WCUU - Feb 15: --- Sub-Executive actions - Feb 17: --- Jim Endicott stays at Middle School till’ summer; D.D. for Irish; finances still below need though nation’s finances improved; however heavier taxation - Mar 11: --- Received cable accepting dentist, now awaiting word from Lindsay - Mar 13: Bell: Financial Statement late because of Toronto office dilatory; Chao’s expenses; exchange rates; agree to appointment of dentist - Mar 18: --- Bissell Fund; comment on Financial Statement corrections;

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Canadian School staffing problems and responsibility of Mission and Board; conditions of special employment of Dentist; - Mar 20: --- Further corrections to Financial Statement. - Apr 6: --- Insurance on Mission property - Apr 2: --- Representation at General Council; exchange rates and adjustment of costs of hospital; difficulties with Vancouver Post Office over air mail to Chungking; new air service to Chengtu - Apr 7: Endicott: Sub-Executive: Personnel: McAmmond, Neave, W.E. and A.S. Smith, Williams; Shannon retirement; Jenner appointment; Hart to Emmanuel College; No. 5 house wiring approved; Farewell party for Dr. And Mrs. Fred Stephenson - Apr 27: --- Revised financial statement; Canadian school matters wait talk with Walmsley; conditions of service of new dentist must be clarified - May 4: --- Need immediate action on dentist - May 7: Bell: Plewman to literature meeting in Shanghai; hearty support for Campbell (dentist) appointment; Death of Lih Liang Len; relative military quiet but some famine conditions; high prices of foodstuffs - May 22: --- Explanation of confusion over Campbell appointment; pay increases for Chinese workers necessary; under mission grants, other needs come before dentist; history of WCUU; - May 27: --- 1) Brace’s travel expenses; 2) Some field misunderstanding over appointment of dentist; Chengtu radio station completed, planning English news broadcasts; tribute to forerunners in mission; - Jun 9: --- Problems of dormitory work; suggest Mr. and Mrs. Li Min Liang be asked to assist in dormitory; Questions raised by Collier articles; church or non-church; Collier’s own period of adjustment; Brown not frustrated by present work; Mrs. Zen’s reputation; influence of mission seen in mission graduates in government positions; possible loss of sub-executive letter; - Jun 25: --- Closer cooperation with other mission churches in production of Christian literature; closure of Jenshow Middle School; other Middle Schools under government pressure; WCUU graduation ceremonies; effect of South China military situation in Szechuan province; Cunningham party robbed on way to Omei; Endicott grandchild appendectomy; - Jun 26: --- contribution to Stephenson fund; appendectomies, Stephen Endicott, Homer Brown

1983.047C 6-123 Correspondence: Endicott-Bell (Secretary and Acting Treasurer, Jul- Dec): - Jul 6: Bell: Recommend sale of Jenshow school; armed robbery at Omei and protection now provided; recover: Stephen Endicott and Brown; (Cable request re: Jenshow as above); copy of letter from Mills, British Consul, action on Omei robbery; enclosed Cunningham account of armed robbery at Omei; - Jul 7: --- Furlough travel: Madame’s C.J.P. Jolliffe, F.F. Allan, Quentin and families and Billy Jolliffe; advance notice in hopes of avoiding Canadian immigration trouble; - Jul 13: Endicott: personnel movements: Jenner, Anderson, Campbell; permission to sell Jenshow school; returning to field: Kilborn, Hoffman, Hibbard, Lindsay, Sheridan, Jones and Longley; - Aug 28: Arnup: Department of Immigration; concerning children in homecoming party; - Sept 3: Blair: Department of Immigration; concerning children in homecoming party; - Aug 29: Bell/Arnup: Cables re: drowning of youngest Rackham and oldest Collier children; Birth of Collier daughter; - Aug 31: Bell: Account of drowning, salvage of bodies and funeral; death of two Japanese newsmen in mob attack; - Sept 4: --- Rentals for mission houses; Forbes visit will be welcome;

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advisable to hold Council in 1937; educational work in outstations under government attack; some schools closed; - Sept 21: Endicott: Board meeting: resolutions re: deaths and retirements in the mission; personnel: Mrs. F.A. Allan, A.J. Brace, T.H. Williams, Hibbard; Dickinson special agricultural contribution appeal approved; furlough 1937: Bell, Collier, Cunningham, Edmonds, C.J.P. Jolliffe, R.O. Jolliffe, Kitchen, McIntosh, Meuser, Morgan, Quentin, Rackham, Robertson, Small, Wilford, Reed; Abnormal furlough expenses from property funds; request for public school teacher; special repairs to mission buildings; WCUU maintenance grant; report of WCUU; report of policy committee, general for all fields, specific for each field; proposed retirement of Endicott; if accepted Board would carry on with only two secretaries; other general items; - Sept 22: Bell: Dr. Fuh’s retirement brings recap of whole question of the principle of retirement allowances; Jolliffe laid it on the line to Fuh; Fuh threatens legal action; may be a mess, but must fight. - Sept 29: Endicott: Minor financial matters; report of resolutions committee: Mrs. Williams, Rackham and Collier children, McAmmond, Neave, W.E. and A.S. Smith, Anderson, Revelle - Oct 6: --- General Council; Endicott retirement; Mission Night and Dr. Sun’s presentation; general council appointments; newspapers on Japan versus Chiang. - Oct 2: Bell: Concerning dangers of medical union with M.E.M; - Oct 22: --- Forbes’ visit valuable as eye opener to differences of fields; other fields view Campbell appointment as favouritism, not knowing special arrangement; showed Frobes various aspects of mission and church life; visit of Dr. Francis Wei; new police control of WCUU campus great improvement; returnees: Hibbard, Lindsay, Kilborn; new arrivals: Campbell, Jenner; revised list of missionaries; regret Endicott’s resignation; - Oct 31: --- Street widening; repair of well; costs of medical care for missionaries in relation to reduced grants for hospitals; Union Theological College; comment on General Council and Endicott retirement, etc.; Mrs. Collier has T.B.; Plewman not well; - Nov 4: --- Mrs. Hockin injured in attack on bus, Quentin and Vicherts uninjured but Vichert’s servant killed; - Nov 26: --- Lawsuit brought against Synod by Dr. Fuh; - Dec 15: --- Request information on probable grant before Council, Jan 11, 1937; two day joint Council with WMS; hope for One Council before too long; judge decides against Dr. Fuh; statistical report material for 1936 was lost by Press; health: Plewman, Rackham children, Bell; Union Middle School: Foreign Staff: Default in grants by MEM and Baptists; no money probably from defaulters; suggest WCUU board of Governors make direct grant re: middle school from special grants; - Dec 26: --- City celebrates release of Generalissimo by Chang Hsueh Hsueh Liang; latter in close contact with Communists; English broadcast from Sian: “Jesus, first great revolutionist”; effects of Sian coup; expense of Kiating property deeds.

1983.047C 6-124 Reply to Policy Committee Questionnaire 1936 1983.047C 6-125 Correspondence: Endicott with Missionaries: Best: Tidying up Dr. Lu’s

(deceased) accounts; - Kitchen: Christmas greeting folder of West China Mission; - Morgan (Fowchow): Work of Dr. Dai in Fengtu; Fowchow Lay Workers’ School; group itinerating; Women’s Hospital complete but grant, owing to exchange, not quite enough; Pa Shan building; Fowchow fire; Fowchow and Chungchow areas having bad time with bandits; new military commander, Fowchow;

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- Neave: Retirement and pension, future plans; Reed (Tzeliutsing): Evangelistic efforts- some different approaches; loss of Li Liang Luen; need for pastoral missionaries; Junghsien hospital mess because of Dr. Chang’s double life; comment on Campbell appointment; Smith retirement and retirement age; work going well; - Revelle: Internship; setting up in practice; pension? - Wilford: proposes Anderson try Cheeloo; hospital favoured by government officials and Chiangs; Health: O. Jolliffe, Cora Kilborn; Council Executive elections; enclosed letter from Robert and Anna Young in Kiating; operations: Betty Wood (Baptist); Stephen Endicott, Homer Brown; feels home medical committee to casual, remiss case of Brown.

1983.047C 6-126 Statement on Union Theological College: with Endicott’s Reactions 1936 1983.047C 6-127 Correspondence: Endicott-Collier, missionary: Two articles on the aim of

missions; should not be published but go to Board Policy Committee 1936

1983.047C 6-128 ---: Endicott with Missionaries: Hibbard: Marriages in foreign countries by British subjects; - Jenner: Allowances, pension; - Williams: Family matters, return to China and travel costs

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1983.047C 6-129 ---: Endicott-Dickinson, Missionary: Study at Aberystwyth; trying to get a bull and heifers from King’s ranch in Canada; some political comment.

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1983.047C 6-130 Medical Reports on Missionaries submitted by Dr. W. Crawford 1936 1983.047C 6-131 Annual Reports: Bridgeman, Brown, Cunningham, Edmonds (E.W. &

L.M.); Hartwell, Hoffman, Jolliffe, C.J.P., Longley, Rackham, Reed; report of West China Mission

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1983.047C 6-132 Financial Statements 1936 1983.047C 6-133 Basis of Union with WMS and BFM Councils 1936 1983.047C 6-134 Correspondence: Endicott/Arnup-Bell (Secretary and later Hibbard, acting

secretary): - Feb 3: Bell: Council Comment; WMS and BFM Council Union passed; better cooperation at all points; Synod Chinese want foreign worker in every district; Dr. Fuh’s claim to sit in Synod rejected by Synod; appropriations; reregistering of deeds; funding of Union Senior Middle School; dormitory supervision; vicious circle of expansion and cost cutting in Junghsien school, also Tzeliutsing and Chungking; hope for Bryce visit; IMC meeting in Hangchow, 1938; regulations re: responsibility and authority in hospitals posted; Canadian school staff; discussion of efficiency of work on and withdrawal from some stations; money released by closing of primary schools; grant for Union Theological College outside budget; property ownership at Tzeliutsing church; not in favour of reviving West China Educational Union; household supply department to be continued; permission sought for appeal for funds for motor truck for itinerating; committee to study purchase of boat; establishment of Council Relations Committee; ways and means to enable dentist Hwang to do post graduate work abroad this year; Ross not wanted; home Medical Board criticized, especially for dental costs; Fushun and Jenshow property sales; Penghsien medical work; Chungking medical union; Chungking Middle School; Press has received no grants for several years, should not continue that way; various problems re: missionary children’s finances; necessity of knowing furlough missionary plans by January; split families; fewer furloughs for next four years; heavy losses in pastoral missionaries; medical staff also depleted; Joint Council comments; books for Chinese pastors; assistance for bands for evangelistic work; paramedical training for Chinese pastors; Chungchow branch dispensaries; move toward Union in literature work; drought and famine; river traffic at standstill; furlough travel plans; - Feb 9: Hibbard: Replacing lost deeds; Campbell’s support;

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- Feb 15: Bell: Old code book used in William’s cable; furlough housing; list of friends of West China Missionaries for notification purposes; - Feb 17: Hibbard: Executive comments; insurance payments; - Mar 2: Bell: Executive comments, repair expenses, furniture removals; regret Dr. Chao’s withdrawal from Chungking hospital; - Mar 9: Hibbard: Re-registering deeds; no written title to Si Shen Tsi property; - Apr 7: --- Dr. Lechler to help at Chengtu hospital; purchase of Swann/Sparling bungalow; Wolfendale fits; Owen in Chengtu till fall; Penghsien orphanage proposal; model Settlement building for Union Theological College; R.O. Jolliffe fraternal delegate to CC; Szechuan hopes for share in Chinese delegation to Hangchow World Conference; repairs, Luchow, Penghsien; Brown new editor of News; house rentals; - Apr 9: Hibbard: full account of re-registration of deeds; report of December 16, 1936 meeting of Mission Representatives on re-registering of deeds; with consular pronouncements; - n.d.: Arnup: Acknowledgement of letter of Apr 9; - Apr 9: Endicott: Famine relief; appropriations and finances generally; Hart to go forward for Evangelism if medically fit; Doctor to be sent if available; Neave’s pension; Arnup to Hangchow meeting; new secretarial division of territory; - May 5: Hibbard: (First part of letter sent to New Outlook); Executive minutes; Authority in property matters; Bridgeman’s projects; possible enrolment of lay workers in Theological schools; all men on field carrying more than one job; clear titles must be recorded; other property matters; coronation of George VI on the radio; Rackham departure; - May 19: Arnup: Medical Union with MEM; - Jun 8: Hibbard: Various property and personnel matters; Campbell to teach part time; arrangements for Dr. Hwang and family; climatic conditions; Bridgeman’s work; - Jun 29: --- Property: Jenshow school, Chengtu dormitories; use of mission property at Hsiao Peh Kai by Chinese church and safeguards; Union Theological College curriculum, students and buildings; difficulty of getting government compensation for land; use of missionary houses by Chinese staff; Penghsien hospital land rents; departures: Wilford, McGown, Gladys Plewman for Canada; others off to hills; some rain but little prospect for crops; Jim Endicott wanted by International Famine Relief Commission as liaison; - Jul 6: Arnup: Executive minutes; death of Youngest Collier child; Stinson replaces Hart as new missionary; since no medico available, to see one more evangelist this year; C.J.P. Jolliffe’s retirement; personnel: Dickinson, Willmott, Cunningham, Hwang, Sibley, MacLeod; famine relief; - Aug 17: --- Sparling, Stinson, Veals all head in Canada, Walmsleys, Willmotts, and two Canadian school teachers held in Japan until travel situation clears; - Aug 19: Hibbard: Provincial Board of Education asks WCUU to take in refugee students; travel problems for returnees; WCUU accused of harbouring Japanese spies; famine, war and small bank failures; funds from W.E. Smith; sailings for Jolliffe and Collier; some feeling that cuts on children’s allowances should be restored; letter enclosed from British Consulate, Chungking; - Sept 19: --- Conditions in Chengtu; rising prices; river travel; Americans ordered out by Consul, advised to stay by mission boards; Alternative routes for West China travel; Canadian school opened with scratch staff; Nanking and Ginling negotiating to bring seniors to Chengtu; famine relief; providing industrial work for refugees may be a future headache; sending money via

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Toronto for son (in Germany) of Chinese lady; no news from Honan; Szechuan troops moving against Japanese; Press in difficult position for lack of stock and no means of distribution; no news of missionaries expected back; opening of Theological College; Hospitals facing shortage of drugs; - Oct 5: --- Comment on Council Executive minutes; transfer of women workers to WMS; Honan Missionaries and Japanese advance; Collier return journey and health problems outlined; rental of property to Theological college; routine medical examinations; repairs; possible sale of property; Dr. Laird’s trip; proposed property holding body for CC; salary via Yunnan; request return to field for Sparling, Dickinson, Veals, MacLeod, Crawford; pressure of refugee students; may be possible for Crawford to drive from Shanghai to Chengtu; mail services irregular; - Oct 7: --- Pensions in relation to transfer of women to WMS; those transferring must honour all WMS regulations; those who do not to terminate at end of next regular furlough; - Oct 10: --- Cable: travel safety, [see questions on back]; - Oct 13: --- Travel routes and expenses; “Japan” party setting out; Laird’s plans; Crawford’s car; WMS transfer problems; Tsinan medical students and housing; Freight held in bond till river opens; - Oct 6: --- Fire damage in house at Junghsien; - Oct 26: --- WMS transfer and pensions; - Nov 6: Arnup: WMS pension matter; Faris of Honan in South China; South China missionaries looking toward Szechuan; Collier’s health and future; property sales and future transfer of other property to CC; salaries and finances in relation to home church and to special China situation; appeal on air network; “Japan” party embarrassed Board by sailing without consultation; returning to field: Sparling, Dickinson, MacLeod, Harris, Virgo, Millar; executive attitude to China good; proposed solution of WMS transfer; - Nov 10: --- Hibbard: Dr. Laird, Extension of dispensary at Chungchow; program for lay leaders; Stanley Jones visit, Jim Endicott interpreter; attitude to Japan and UCC missionaries; Wolfendale cottage to WMS; appeals for Special Projects; Chungking Middle School; property sales; housing Chinese staff from outside universities; Chungking hospital water supply; repairs; travel routes for returning missionaries referred to association; mission treasures in Shanghai; various routes discussed; Japanese advances; postal and freight routes; problems of transfer of nurses to WMS, term of service, housing, personal feelings; WMS recruiting and training slows recruiting of women for medical work; Joint Council and Joint Local Committees should do away with separateness of WMS and GB; waiting return of MacLeod and McIntosh; is more famine relief money available; relief work still urgent; low prices preachers/teachers hard hit; related to problem of self-support pressed by Synod; government wanting University Hospital unit for front; Collier’s salary and travel; - Nov 21: --- Collier’s travel and expenses; plans in Szechuan for Dr. Laird; Chungking now capital; Ginling College sending students; housing problems at university in view of refugee pressures; Ginling requests permission to put up temporary buildings; opening mechanics school; Walmsley/Willmott party; mail still coming through Shanghai though enclosed by Japanese; - Dec 6: --- Mail safer through Hong Kong; Laird’s arrival and program; Walmsley/Willmott party arrival; payment of Canadian School teachers; mail service by clipper; travel for missionaries not impossible; furloughs: Plewman, Best; - Dec 14: Arnup: Comment on letter of Nov 10, and minutes; special gifts; property sales; WMS transfer; University housing; Collier’s safe arrival; resignation of M. McIntosh; Macleod, Veals, Allen, Crawford, Stinson,

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expecting to return; immediate travel route discussed; famine funds campaign; Broadfoot of South China; Grace Smith Memorial Fund.

1983.047C 6-135 Correspondence: Endicott/Arnup with Missionaries: Collier: travel information; - Cunningham: travel from China; study plans, - Endicott: financing of furlough studies, mission medical examiners in Vancouver; - Hartwell: Tzeliutsing hospital conditions; epidemics, vaccinations, staff illness; Easter services; famine, people eating white clay, children deserted and thrown away; day to day life; Christian individuals; - Hoffman: Importance of an organized church in mission work; more important than medical-educational; theological education too high for rural work; rural distrust so-called “higher class”; self-support gone, Christianity regarded as foreign religion; famine relief; - Arnup: hope new Theological School will answer some of the problem; - Jolliffe, R.O.; Endicott’s retirement; Forbes on visit surprised at self-supporting nature of institutional work; Press receives money from other missions; CLS good but prefers to work within the church; questionnaire on Christian literature; Chinese jubilation over Chiang Kai Shek’s release; - Irish: Anderson’s belongings; Stanley Jones; Evangelistic campaign; church active under Rev. Din.; social work; ping pong contest; beginning of Public Health Safety; - Arnup: comment; - Morgan: travel en route to Canada; work in Fowchow; - Neave: pension: - Spooner: extension work of Chemistry department; furlough study plans; New Outlook should have designated correspondence on each field; student work needs discussed; article from “Onward”; - Veals: return to China; travel plans; Walmsley/Willmott travel; deputation expense; Stinson going; - Arnup: comment; - Walmsley: Canadian school new plan; high school work; description of trip to Kobe, Japan to Szechuan; - Willmott, E.: Sharman’s “Jesus as Teacher”; sojourn in Japan rewarding; news notes cover Japan experiences, travelling in China; - Willmott, K: furlough year travels; activities sojourn in Japan and return to China.

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1983.047C 6-136 Correspondence: Endicott/Arnup with Dickinson (Agriculturalist) : Writing thesis on Szechuan at Aberystwyth; social anthropology at LSE; cultivating people in U.S. for money; deputation work in Canada; offers of various kinds of livestock; YPU Sackville contribute toward Beatty barn equipment; family matters; latest conditions against a modern missionary Noah’s Ark sailing from Vancouver

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1983.047C 6-137 Correspondence: Arnup/Sparling (Missionary): Sparlings stopped in Vancouver, taking speaking engagements; living quarters; Stinson’s; (Arnup newspaper misrepresentation of Scott of Korea); support for Chengtu Theological College; plans for return to China; from Hong Kong to general situation

1937

1983.047C 6-138 Correspondence: Arnup/Stinson, Missionary: Stopped in Vancouver; living arrangements, temporary work at Kispiox; life at Kispiox; return to China.

1983.047C 6-139 Correspondence: Rev. Roy E. Webster, new appointee: Release by congregation and hospital to go to China; plans for departure; delay due to China war situation

1937

1983.047C 6-140 General Report and Reports of Work by Missionaries: General Report by Hibbard; Bacon, Best, Bridgeman, Brown, H.G., Brown, M., Campbell, Endicott, Harris, Hayward, Hartwell, Hoffmann, A.M., Hoffman, C.M.,

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Jenner, Kitchen, Longley, McIntosh, Owen, Plewman, Sparling, E., Sparling, G., Williams, Radio Newssheets, statistical report

1983.047C 6-141 Famine conditions, statement of appeal: letters from various missionaries describing conditions; resolution of Council on use of Famine funds; UCC Press releases; lists of donors

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1983.047C 6-142 Statement re: Harrison Fund by W.E. Sibley 1937 1983.047C 6-143 Valuation of Mission Property 1937 1983.047C 6-144 Estimates, Financial Statements: Hibbard: Letter explaining estimates,

estimates and financial statements 1937

1983.047C 7-145 Correspondence: Arnup/Hibbard (Acting Secretary, Mission): - Dec 20: Hibbard: Japan in China; air-mail a necessity; Famine Fund instalment; Nanking University’s moving difficulties; Laird’s visit; financial finagling; Scholarship wanted for agri-man; Spooner birth; - Jan 2: --- Difficulty in housing refugee university students and staff; disposition of land of Model Settlement; settlement of Radio Bureau expropriation of land; arrival of ladies, Sparling/Dickinson by air, men and baggage coming on by truck; travel in Indo-China; more on necessity of airmail; need all old hands to return, no reason for not sending new, travel cost not much more by new routes; WMS insistence on Training School for nurse applicants barrier in recruiting; - Jan 10: 1) --- Joint Executive urge sending of new and old missionaries; McIntosh replacement urgent; Shipment from Canada to Japan sharply criticized; poor Chinese contributing to war relief; travel notes; 2) Arnup: Appropriations as of 1937 up to April 26; appointment of Outerbridge and Hillard; post graduate grant for Mrs. Wilford; Medical: Collier, Edmonds; Furlough: Dunkin, Irish, Spooner, Stanway, Plewman, Best, property items.; 3) Arnup: Questions: medical/dental set-up in W. China in light of Edmond’s heavy furlough dental bill; - Jan 18: Arnup: Sparling/Dickinson arrival and travel route noted; Sailings: Veals, MacLeod and four WMS ladies; Crawford, Allen, Stinson; $4,000 excess accounted for by famine fund; postal methods; to consult OAC on scholarship; - Jan 31: --- 1) Recap of letters sent since Nov. 6 [see file 134], Nov 9: WMS and BFM support of medical workers; Nov 22: Agnew transmission; Nov 22: Single women’s pensions; Dec 2: Fire at Junghsien; Dec 14: 1 [see file 134], 2: Freight bills for Walmsley and Canadian schools; Dec 21: Joy Wallace for scholarship; Jan 11 and Jan 18: see above, salary and other payments; 2) Acknowledgement of letters Jan 2 and 11; airmail; funds for Chengtu Middle School - Feb 18: Hibbard: Comment on Joint Executive; Medical Union affairs; grants to Synod in relation to self-support; Education: people want primary schools- some help from government; medical work becoming more expensive-poorer patients dearer, drugs; refugee work and famine fund; Collier’s return; indication of mission property as British to avoid bombing discussed; Theological College should demand physical examinations; model settlement land; Forward Movement money; Special objects outside general mission funds listed; Wu Han National University to use Kiating buildings; need financial provision for bomb shelters; mission to handle tax request for hospitals; property: Di Mu Miao, Chungking and Wu Li Hao, Tzeliutsing; scholarships for our men; Tzeliutsing hospital under Sheridan; Albertson’s work and health; no need for resolution on cooperation; criticism of Bothwell D.D.S. as most expensive dentist in Toronto; replacement for Plewman; Veals to Chungking, but Jenshow vacant; estimates incomplete owing to lack of information from Canada; Walmsley freight covers Veals and Canadian school; middle school grant; - Mar 7: --- Medical Union scheme and grants from two boards need

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clarification; board criticism of W. China dental care; - Mar 8: Arnup: Lower estimates welcome; agreement on BFM nurses good; hope to visit China; small payments; - Mar 21: --- Various personnel matters; examination of papers for Canadian School agreement to use famine funds and Albertson furlough; - Mar 22: Hibbard: Various minor items, mail, arrivals; etc.; Visit of Moffats of Weston; Cressy here to set up an organization to look after religious life in schools; International Red Cross sending medical supplies to Chungking, will help hospitals; hospital for war refugees in Chungking meeting need; happier relations between WMS girls’ and BFM boys’ school; Nanking University final dispositions at Model Settlement; arrival of Steel and Gormley; - Apr 5: --- Advantages of Joint-Executive; still some items need separate handling; Big plan for Sharman type bible study reduced; Stinson in city as no language school; Veals still held up with baggage; control of Penghsien hospital; problem of moving freight held up in Shanghai; Jenner health; taking no responsibility for orphans sent up river; church should not support further study for Tsao; help for Dr. Kao at Chungchow; travel and Baggage; Dunking not to return; - Apr 9: Arnup: Finances-cuts; adjustments of children’s allowances at university age; supergifts; - Apr 27: Hibbard: Cable: Arrivals: Allen, Crawford, Veals and Stinson; - Apr 30: Arnup: Appointment of three missionaries; appropriation; - May 2: --- General appropriations; West China items; Missionaries’ return; Furloughs and other personnel matters; addresses by Bell, Jolliffe, and Morgan; more personnel items, cultivation of the home church; special projects; letter from Madame Chiang Kai Shek; Laird’s report on visit to fields; amendment of dental regulations; - May 9: 1) --- Recommend that Meuser return in fall without canvassing for funds for Pharmacy Building; Albertson Affair; 2) Comment on how cuts were made; advantageous to West China; Comment on all items concerning West China; Collier leave extended; Outerbridge, Hilliard and Webster appointed; general items 2) Hibbard: Problems connected with Model Settlement; Assistance to Dr. Pi to attend Madras Conference; assistance of Mr. Dzen to accompany CCC secretaries visiting the districts; University housing problems; Dr. Cressy’s plans; freight via Haiphong and Yunnanfu—170 pieces; arrangement with WMS for continuing refugee work and girls’ school; directions for packing for freighting, routes discussed; possibility of Dr. E. Struthers to W. China; muddle over payment for land appropriated for Radio Station; Theological College; travels and payments: Spooner, Willmott, Walmsley; - May 12: Arnup: Cressy a convert of West China; Mr. Fong to go to Madras; Arnup, Tucker, and Outerbridge will go; Stanway’s arrival; Jenner’s health; $4,000 grant for Chungchow hospital; - May 17: Hibbard: Aftermath of famine in Tzeliutsing; payment for special building to house ether from Hankow; filtration plant for hospital; union in medical work to facilitate clinical training urgent now with outside medical schools moving in—government will be involved; hospitals board resurrected and given authority; properties of various bodies to be put at service of hospitals board; Wu Han University to continue at Kiating; freighting costs; Dickinson shipping baby panda. - May 25: --- Dunkin resignation; money found for Theological College by cuts elsewhere; Salary for Chinese pastor from Nanking as visitor to districts; repairs; possibility of going ahead with agricultural self-help school at Jenshow; Dr. Hayward’s clinic; Grace Smith memorial fund; Jenner’s health and marriage, language school and observation in Chengtu hospital;

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new people should arrive in time for Language school; agreement on buildings with Theological College; comment on freight and routes; Canadian school swimming pool, theft of trophies; - Jun 4: Arnup: Meusers to return in October; visit from Dr. Lin, President, Cheeloo University; Cheeloo may relocate in Szechuan; - Jun 5: Hibbard: Cable: Arrival of Allen Dickinson, Stinson; - Jun 6: --- Meuser return advisable; Albertson and WCUU books; Albertson had inadequate assistance, health and work suffered; new system now installed; Albertson working on back accounts; blame 1) University and 2) Albertson; mission insists Alberston not return unless wife accompanies; general rules that split families a mistake; - Jun 17: 1) --- Nanking University definitely wants Jenshow plant; plan for use of school property at Ya Er Dong, Chungking; union medical work in Chengtu; WCUU staff depleted by CIM resignations; New government regulation puts missionaries as founds back in control of schools; some preachers drawing principal’s salaries too; public health work; Brown and pi; down-river people and mission houses; Chungking girls’ and boys’ schools; regulations concerning marriages of Canadians in China; delegates to Madras, funds may prevent attendance; 2) Arnup: Comment on hospitals board [See Hibbard, May 17]; comment on items in Mission Executive Minutes; tentative sailings listed.

1983.047C 7-146 Correspondence: Arnup/Armstrong-Hibbard/Bell (Secretary of Mission): - Jul 1: Hibbard: Closing of drain; help from West China Mission for Honan; repairs; more accommodation needed for dormitory head; hospitals organization and repairs to men’s hospital; provision for language study for new missionaries; Nanking and Ginling Universities taking over work on Jenshow; travel, Best, Dunking; - Contract: United Hospitals of Associate Universities in Chengtu; - Jul 14: Arnup: Comment on Hibbard’s letters; Meuser; WCUU Board of Governors; Query re: hospital board; some minor financial items; July receipt of contract (above); Nanking might pay more rent at Jenshow; Theological School of Nanking and Dr. Price moving to Chengtu; - Oct 11: Hibbard: Money for residence for dormitory proctor; Dunkin’s health condition not known; cannot wait for action on hospitals board; cannot withdraw from Theological College; missionary travels; general actions of Joint Executive; purchase of land for outstations; repairs; Japanese raids; - Oct 17: Armstrong: Moffat heaters stored at Humewood apartments; Payment to Collier, Dunkin, Meuser and others; dental payments for Smalls through WCUU Board of Governors; - Oct 28: --- Abridgement of West China addresses to Board; Collier finances, Dunkin; Bissell Trust only $125 this year; Mrs. Service’s donation to men’s hospital; - Nov 11: --- Confusion over Mrs. Edmond’s appointment; - Nov 13: Bell: Account of trip back to Szechuan with other missionaries; Japanese bombing. - Nov 14: --- House to assist refugees; possibility of Church of Christ in China moving offices to Sutherland Memorial Church, Chengtu; might use YMCA; major repairs in house in Press compound; Haddock health; plans for summer Bible School; Question of identifying mission property against bombing; first air raid Nov 8; some people building dugouts; Thanksgiving at Canadian School; - Nov 23: Armstrong: Moffat Jenshow purchase allowed; want information for route for Arnup and Mrs. Taylor; - Dec 5: --- Cable: Death of Walmsley’s father; - Dec 8: United Church China Emergency Relief Fund;

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- Dec 12: --- Mailing routes; Arnup replacing Rowell as full member on WCUU Board; Hoffmann application for furlough housing; - Dec 17: Bell: Visit to Nanking Agricultural school now in Jenshow; it is doing good extension work; Miss Ho of Ginling anxious to start work for rural women; Japanese bombing; determination of Chinese government; - Dec 26: --- Cable: Cunningham, Reed and Wilford arrived; - Dec 30: Armstrong: Lady Hosie’s “Brave New China”; Hilliard’s pictures in St. James-Bond; West China Calendars for Distributions; - Open letter to Friends of China from the Gentry of Szechuan province

1983.047C 7-147 Correspondence: Arnup/Dickinson (Agricultural Missionary): Rape of Nanking; Chinese army action; Madame Chiang’s herd and dairy farm problems’ Wheat seed surplus and government ignorance; scholarship urged for Li Min Liang; poultry disease; finances sought from Foundations and wealthy individuals; tribute to Dr. Joseph Taylor; placements of students; cooperation with Nanking Rural Leader’s school; panda shipment to N.Y. Transportation and housing of Madame’s herd.

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1983.047C 7-148 Correspondence: Arnup/Jolliffe/Plewman (Mission President): Importance of Press when all other Christian presses under Japanese censorship; plans for future of the work and offer of retirement, but possible return to China on voluntary basis.

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1983.047C 7-149 ---: Arnup/Sparling, Theological College: Difficulties over entrance qualifications; helpers taken on without sufficient scholastic background; statement to WCUU board of Governors by Mr. Anderson; uncertainty about future support; minutes of College executive back to 1936, prospectus

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1983.047C 7-150 ---: E.W. Edmonds return to China and Death at Sea: Account of travel across Canada and excess baggage problems; cables re: death; extract from log of Empress of Russia; family waited in Shanghai to join later party; WMS not willing to appoint Mrs. Edmonds

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1983.047C 7-151 ---: Walmsley, Canadian School: Some comment on China after a year’s absence: work at the school; departmental exams; freight charges; Cowley, registrar, makes arrangement for recommendation in lieu of examination

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1983.047C 7-152 ---: Arnup with Individual Missionaries: Campbell: criticism of standards of dental clinical work in Chengtu, doing little language study, resignation offered; - Collier: attendance of American Society of Biological Chemists; living arrangements; - Crawford: Travel information; description of travel Hong Kong to Chengtu; - Cunningham: assistance on the field and on furlough for mission wives engaged in mission work or wishing to study; - Dunkin: letters concerning arrival in Vancouver and arrangement for travel; - Lindsay: maple seeds; - Meuser: plans for return to China; funds for Pharmacy Building; Mrs. Meuser offers to remain in Canada if Days can be sent instead; - Sparling: travel routes; China conditions; - Stinson: Leaving Kispiox Indian work; Lively description of events en route from Vancouver to Chengtu; - Veals: Impressions of Japan and occupied China; Hong Kong badly crowded; Hong Kong shipping not up to Shanghai; news from Szechuan; plans; - Webster: Birth of son; designation service; plans for travel; - Willmott: military training for Chinese students; Committees, discussion groups (Causes of war, Records of Life of Jesus, YMCA); Chinese war spirit determined; mail routed through Hong Kong; air raid; death of Liu Hsiang causes happiness; Canadian nickel going to Japan; life in Chengtu;

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- Arnup: centrality of spiritual life 1983.047C 7-153 Report of Work of Mission: Individual Reports: General report prepared by

Bell; Bacon (also, article on Wu Han University); Bridgeman; Edmonds; Boys’ School Tzeliutsing; Hartwell; Hayward; Hoffman; Longley; Owen; Plewman; Veals

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1983.047C 7-154 Arnup: Article: War and Missions in the Far East 1938 1983.047C 7-155 Estimates and Financial Statements 1938

1983.047C 7-156 Correspondence: Armstrong/Arnup/Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jan- Jul): - Jan 11: Bell: only indirect word of Arnup party or of returning missionaries; hope Arnup stay not too short; Chinese determination in war situation; raids; - Jan 12: --- Mail routes; Jolliffe party delayed; influx of people to Szechuan raises prices, especially building materials; refugee hostel under Wellwood doing good work; continuing flow of people; church has done much for them; great opportunities for work; Nanking Agricultural Department in Jenshow; - Jan 19: --- Women and children arrived safely; bombing at Luchow and Chungking; visit of Feng Yu Hsiang, the “Christian General”; - Feb 10: Armstrong: Executive actions touching Collier, Brace; release of money; Missionary deaths; Arnup itinerary; - Feb 18: Bell: Post Madras meetings; Dr. Arnup’s presence at Council; request for money from emergency fund for pastors and hospitals; Colliers and Spooners wanted back; sorry about bill of expense on calendars; - Feb 23: --- Arnup had busy two weeks; council had to be sandwiched between meetings of Synod; Chinese Synod seemed distracted; cost of living pressing hard; Madame Chiang asks for release of Jim Endicott for New Life Movement which is made up of Christians, Kuomintang and Communists; Mrs. Edmonds’ appointment, work commended; possibility of setting up Business Agency in Junming; Jenners pneumothorax; Theological College and Model Settlement Land; moving of schools if bombing becomes heavy; Endicott to stay at Boys’ Middle School until furlough; no funds for extension of middle school; Medical grants; need better check on health of missionary staff; desire to hire well trained refugee nurses till’ new foreign nurses available; better policy for scholarships needed; New Press worker not required; need to get WMS to change on compulsory Training School year for nurses; protest bombing; Land for Kiating hospital; pensions for servants and missionaries; Albertson; Matron for Canadian School; Mrs. Hsieh and Yoh for visit abroad; buildings at Tzeliutsing hospital; secretarial visits to field desirable; reinforcements; property; - Mar 1: Armstrong: Mail routes; salary increase for Chinese pastors; business agency in Kunming; Birtch first set on list for appointment; no deficit this year; request letter on need for relief from Madame Chiang; optimistic comment on European political situation; publishing House holding Canadian school funds; - Mar 15: Bell: Opportunities for Theological school and housing for staff and building needed; receipt of $3,000 for pastors; new houses for Theological professor and medical man on Model Settlement land; Luchow nurses’ residence; Church of Christ in China offices to remain in Shanghai; NCC office now in Chengtu; New Christians newspaper planned; second giant panda en route to N.Y. zoo; bombing at Ichang; - Mar 16: 1) Armstrong: Relief fund money for hospitals and pastors; Flavelle’s death and funeral; General finances; four million fund drive to open in 1940; Emmanuel College students’ pamphlet distributed; Kepler expected in Canada; appointment of Birtch; Collier resignation; travel routes information wanted; arrangements for meeting and sending off missionaries

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at Vancouver; Kunming agency; 2) Bell: MacLeod leave of absence approved by Executive; Transfer of grant for Luchow primary school to houses; Kunming business agency; - Apr 4: Bell: Wants Arnup view of other fields; MacLeod’s departure; MacLeod’s view of Chungking hospital not applicable to other hospitals; possible scholarship candidates for Emmanuel; addition to dental clinic; Kunming transportation; list of supergifts sent last year; Sharp criticism of Rose Terlin, WSCF; problems at dental clinic; preparations against air raids.; - Scheme for Combined Mission and Red Cross Business Agency in Kunming; - Apr 12: Armstrong: MacLeod leave; Death of Stinson’s mother; have applied for refund from WCUU Board of Governors; Mrs. Edmonds’ appointment under discussion; - May 3: Bell: Travel for Li found by Szechuan Reconstruction Agency; Brace’s debts; Tzeliutsing and Junghsien schools; only snag: Board and Mission differ on size of enrolment; Mrs. Bridgeman’s work remarkable; snag in purchase of coal/coke burning truck; Haiphong-Kunming route best; - May 12: --- Bombing at Chungking and Chengtu; special grant for second truck requested; Chungchow hospital extension; Theological College wall; Canadian school being moved; University request to build staff residence at Hart College; dormitory oversight a headache; Embargo on war materials to Japan; Haddock’s superannuation; - May 17: 1) Arnup: Concern for China missionaries; Personnel: Irish, Albertson, Edmonds; possibility of Endicott visit to field; Collier resignation; United Hospital Board approved; Scholarships; WMS does assist nurses with expense of Training School year; Kunming proposition; appropriations; WMS backs off on finance for Joint Medical Committee; war materials embargo not dealt with; day appointed provisionally; 2) Bell: Small missionary exodus to Omei; government pressure on inessential Chinese to leave Chengtu; no pressure on foreigners; school ordered out from Tzeliutsing; advised Mrs. Edmonds not to accompany school; applications for sue of empty Canadian school property; - Jun 3: Bell: 1) Use of Canadian school; building materials not available; new bungalow for mission without charge; house for Chinese physician; request for building of University dormitory repeated and again turned down; 2) Cables urge Canadian government protest bombing, all missionaries safe; - Jun 14: --- Account of bombing of Chengtu and Chungking; - Jun 16: 1) Arnup/Brewing: Telegram to Ottawa protesting bombing; 2) Bell: comment on cables, objects to “endangering live and property”’ Allen to engage well qualified Chinese nurses; - Jun 27: 1) Bell: Mrs. Edmonds not right for Canadian school; must have relief man for Allen; scholarship plans for Li; safe housing for Canadian school under discussion; dissatisfaction with WMS participation in Joint Executive; urging Sparling to delay buildings for Theological School; 2) Bell: Further on Li scholarship; bombing property losses; refutes Japanese Consul, Shanghai and Chengtu bombing, and quotes his letter; 3) Arnup: Response to field requests: war material embargo, matron for Canadian school, property, truck purchase, Li scholarship, appointment of Lee and Day.

1983.047C 7-157 Correspondence: Arnup-Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jul- Dec): - Jul 1: Bell: Money for Li forthcoming from government; Walmsley agreed Edmonds not suitable matron; Day appointment; Brown’s trip to Shensi; - Jul 27: --- Trip to Gaoshihti; Li’s scholarship; Irish on Canadian charge; Albertson return; death of Mrs. Fred Stephenson; thanks for action on

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bombing, also Day’s appointment; no further word on Kunming agency; Deane’s coming without appointment crazy; plans for locating Canadian school in Jenshow; some oppose move; problems in transfer of university deeds; Dickinson’s dairy money, rate of exchange, import taxes, theft of Meuser’s drugs; - Aug 9: Arnup: Heavy schedule; Canadian school; Wilford in Chungking; Li scholarship; relationships in Joint Executive disturbing; Mrs. Bell’s article; travel plans for Day and Birtch; WMS field attitude to new recruits; MacLeod resignation; property; Albertson.; - Sept 7: Bell: 1) Doctrinal basis for Constitution of Theological College: Claims for bomb damage; discussion of wisdom of sending families back to China in light of European situation; Kiating property sale hassle; WMS-GB relations improved; Canadian school arrangements in Jenshow and Chengtu; explanation of Brown’s Shensi trip; Church of Christ in China to work among tribes, may move headquarters to Sutherland Memorial Church; weakness in Church of Christ in China Organization; 2) cables: travel movements; - Oct 5: --- Description of Luchow devastation, with map; what can be salvaged; plans for immediate reestablishment of medical work; church handling refugees and wounded; local government and military worse than useless; - Oct 6: --- Import of charcoal burning tracks difficult; transport problems, accidents, moonlight bombing - Oct 11: --- Bombing of Tzeliutsing; Jenner’s health; emergency repairs; transportation problems outlined; Bob McClure’s criticisms unwarranted; Dickinson’s dairy barn money; - Oct 13: Arnup: Secretary- acknowledgement; - Oct 21: Bell: 1) Honan missionaries out; they would be welcome in Szechuan; more on transportation; 2) no point in marking buildings, Japanese bombing indiscriminate; more on transportation and McClure; - Oct 23: --- Road travel and accident; Tzeliutsing property damage; rebuilding of hospital postponed; Stinson and Edmonds living arrangement; women and children arrived from Canada; Spooner coping with difficult freight transportation problems; Hibbard has amoebic dysentery; Godfrey is contact for Dickinson money; - Oct 16: McClure: Notions re: use of Honan Missionaries in W. China; - Nov 6: Bell: mail routes and times; Mitchell family welcome; Mrs. Mitchell, M.D. could relieve Outerbridge as Canadian School doctor; Jenshow housing situation; school needs some financial help to cover move; Miss Gwei’s salary; Christmas travel for children a personal expense; have held of bombing claims on account of possible repercussions to Japan mission, but no longer; expense of bomb shelters; Chengtu raid; joint transportation committee; McClure again; further problems; health administration scheme; no point in marking buildings; Ketcheson not wanted; decision on Albertson.; - Nov 13: Arnup: Western speaking trip; death of brother; Bell’s letters read; Copland definitely, Knight possible for W. China from Honan; no maple seeds for Madame Chiang; - Nov 18: Bell: Financial help for preachers; prices; Union Transportation Committee action; death of C.Y. Cheng, General Secretary Church of Christ in China; cooperation with Djang’s team in tribes work; invited to meeting of mission representatives in Shanghai; death of Rev. G.E. Forbes and Dr. A.R. Morse; - Nov 23: Arnup: Application for bomb damage; Pastor’s relief approved; Copeland appointment; Kiating replacement funds; Quentin out to raise more; comment on property matters; government support of tribes

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evangelism; possible discontinuance of union medical work with WMS; Mitchell (Honan) to go to Kunming for transportation work; finances; McClure needs furlough; Copeland en route with Madam Chiang’s maple seeds; Dickinson money to be sent; cable address; Albertson; - Dec 7: Bell: 1) Pinch hitting for Hibbard who is in hospital for tests; air raid shelters; memorial chapel in Chungking hospital (Harris); Dr. Ainslee to Chungking; Bowery suggested as Business Manager, Chungking hospital; Allen must have help; Honan people; cannot accept Kepler invitation to Shanghai meeting; purchase of station wagon; ask for Mrs. Allan for matron of Canadian school; grant sought for Luchow medical work; Furlough list; 2) Hibbard O.K. now; problem of evangelization in wartime; Dickinson’s frustrations could be solved by practical work in Jenshow; 3) Arnup: Emergency fund almost exhausted; grants from plant fund; Albertson case deferred; Mrs. Allan applies for Canadian school; - Dec 27: 1) Armstrong: Honan Missionaries for West China; generalities; Suma speech; 2) Arnup: Comment on Bell’s letters: bombing, cost of living, charcoal burning trucks; Kepler protests necessity of mission councils and boards; hospital and other boards should be advisory; Mrs. Allan approved subject to medical examination; discuss North China Christian Rural Service Union with Copeland; 2) Arnup: Status of Albertson case.

1983.047C 7-158 West China Missions Directory 1939 1983.047C 7-159 A Course of Study in Chinese Language (Missionary Training School,

Chengtu) 1939

1983.047C 7-160 Correspondence: Arnup with Missionaries: Albertson: re: return to China; - Allen: stamp collections help hospital; war conditions; an account of the bombing of Chungking; now FRCS(C); load at hospital too heavy; administrator needed; drug supply difficult; hospital extension; Knight suggested as administrator; - Bacon: Wartime conditions in Kiating; accident to younger child with locally produced medicine; bombing of Kiating, failure of Red Cross, Canadian scrap iron; relief from Chungking and New Life Movement; elder child has pyelitis; - Brown, Homer: Bible school’s; Industrial Cooperative wool spinning training combined with Bible teaching; Cooperatives without Christianity will fail; training of leaders; use of public health nurse; local funds sought; family and personnel; - Brown, Muriel: new churches planned; more on spinning venture; - Brown, Isabel: request for support in application to WMS for tribes research; - Crawford: Trip to Chungking, experience of raid in Chungking, Chengtu raid described, Crows broadcast to Japan; - Edmonds: air raid shelter; bombing of Tzeliutsing; Men’s Hospital Wing destroyed; Hartwell’s behaviour; general conditions; loss of preserved fruit store; further details re: mission property and personnel; cleaning up; - Endicott: air raids, Chungking and Luchow; - Harris: bombing at Kiating and Omei; - Hartwell: cleaning up after the bombing, Tzeliutsing; newsletter; - Jones: bombing of Luchow; list of goods prohibited for import; - Hoffman, Jones, Endicott: bombing of Luchow; - Kitchen: dinner with Marshal Feng in Hsiang; Feng’s conversion as a young man; paid tribute to missionaries at university; bombing of Chungking; United prayer service including Buddhists; tribes work and Chinese giving; Chinese morale; - Lindsay, Alice: backbiting at the University; - Rackham: general work account should replace various work categories for accounts; bible school work and how it is carried out in various outstations;

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family; Fang Dzen Gai girls’ school now in Penghsien; - Reed: bombing of Tzeliutsing; - Stinson/Reed: personnel and property after bombing; Tzeliutsing; - Spooner: furlough studies; planning for return; additional study grant requested; university matters; freight problems in Hong Kong; need of representative in Hong Kong to oil that machinery; advises Shanghai rather than Hong Kong for Stanway; Dr. Reichelt’s institute for training workers; instructions re: mail for West China; - Willmott, Katherine: thoughts on Japanese Christians; Canadian School in Jenshow, conditions; three boys biked back to Chengtu for Thanksgiving; air raid; - Willmott, Earl: Chengtu bombings; religious and social interests on campus; Sharman’s “Jesus as Teacher”; study seminars and groups; Chinese, Japanese and “New Orthodoxy”; Communists performing well in Northwest; English howlers; - Open letter to Christian Youth in Canada: signed by many missionaries appeals for them to act to stop export of war materials and to boycott Japanese goods, etc.; - China Information Centre (Chungking): Chungking’s Agony, May 4 Raid; relief work; people carrying on; consular and foreign property damaged

1983.047C 7-161 Correspondence: Arnup with Dickinson (Agriculturalist): Madame Chiang’s herd; support from Madame for other agricultural work; asked to be Agricultural Advisor to New Life Movement; Meuser’s pharmacy plans progressing; improved breeding stories; maple seeds for Madame Chiang; Dickinson fund (Maritimes)

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1983.047C 7-162 West China Union Theological College: Armstrong-Sparling; Theological College report 1939, January; Minutes of Board of Management meeting; covering letter for minutes; Anderson- re: funds; new buildings needed; Sparling on future of college; extension of service to rural churches; building plans; agreement between Theological College and Mission for use of Model Settlement Buildings; war interrupts building operation; effect of bombing on students on examination time; Arnup: Fundraising difficult, Report, November 1939. [Hereafter, Theological College material is filed in West China Union University Files]

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1983.047C 7-163 Report of Work by Missionaries: Brown, Edmonds, Jolliffe, Reed, statistical report

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1983.047C 7-164 Correspondence: Arnup-Hibbard (Treasurer of Mission): estimates and financial reports

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1983.047C 8-165 Correspondence: Arnup-Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jan- Jun): Bell: Problems will arise if Church of Christ in China given power to move missionaries; available Honan missionaries; business manager for Chungking hospital urgent necessity; extension of scholarship for Li Min Liang; Dickinson’s future work; Drought, rising prices and effect on estimates; Canadian school holidays ; - Jan 5: Arnup: SVM Convention; Mrs. Allan for Canadian School; Boyd, Mathieson, McHattie from Honan to Szechuan; travel cost accounts desirable; book on West China; McHattie suitable for hospital; - Jan 9: --- Hibbard’s improvement; Fahs address at Nanking Board of Governors and the opportunity in West China; Dickinson’s future work; - Feb 10: Bell: Pressure of work during holiday; Albertson case; continuation of comment on Kepler’s suggestion re: Church of Christ in China with powers, especially in relation to border Tribes work; - Feb 12: --- Comment on minutes; Copeland slated for Hoffman’s work in Luchow; Outerbridge’s language time; Quentin’s plans vague; rebuilding men’s ward; nursing school at Tzeliutsing; Mrs. Edmond’s future; help for Chinese workers to attend meetings distant from home; Press and the

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question of supplying cheap literature—opportunity; Endicott may be teaching English instead of working with New Life Movement, complications with Madame; Hoffman to Kiating hospital; language students to continue for year; Air raids will resume with better weather; estimates; Boards generosity appreciated; permanent relocation of Chungking Girl’s School desirable; teacher for Canadian School; Dickinson’s work; criticism of Dickinson’s unpredictability; quality of nurses needed outlined; replacements needed for evangelistic work; - Feb 13: 1) Arnup: Opinion of Kepler’s Missions Cooperating Council; position of Honan missionaries in West China; loss of Laid immeasurable; Li Min Liang scholarship; medical missionaries on furlough corresponding members of Medical Board; Ho Keo, Junghsien property sale; 2) Bell: (date and heading cut off to lighten for air mail); describes Dental Clinic fire, Feb 19 and damage; - Feb 27: Bell/Harris: Joint FMB and WMS statement on reasons for request for increased grants. - Mar 5: --- Mrs. Bridgeman to be Director of Interdenominational Women’s Institute in Junghsien; transfer of Honan workers discussed in detail; mission children to Home in Oshawa; dental clinic; visit of Kepler and Tsui and fireworks over Tribes work; discussion of Missions’ Cooperating Council; Mrs. Allan’s travel; Albertson’s return; transfer of Dr. M. Forster to West China; - Mar 8: --- Discussion of Press work with Kepler and Tsui brings some financial aid; rise in paper prices predicted; Plewman’s return to China. - Mar 9: Arnup: Board policy on Missions Cooperating Council; Li Min Liang, Emmanuel scholarship; statistics needed; Endicott to University; church budget will be balanced; U.C. Observer special missions number; Dorothy McKenzie; - Mar 19: Armstrong: Missions Cooperating Council; tribes work; Copeland’s work; Hibbard to finance Honan people in West China; - Mar 27: Bell: Stationing of Dr. M. Forster raised whole matter of WMS relations with general medical work; Missions Cooperating council; Bell appointment to WCUU Board; relationship of WCUU and its men to other mission work; Copeland for Kiating; Wuhan University group in Kiating; Kiating hospital house-building mess; exchange rates and jump in princes very hard on Chinese with fixed salaries; small rice riots. - Apr 2: Armstrong: Dental clinic fire; McClure arrival; Chengtu, Honan, incident; King and Struthers; - Apr 4: Arnup: Missions Cooperating Council; Tribes work; church finances; Death of Mrs. Thomas Moore; Bell’s pressure of work - Apr 13: Armstrong: [cable] Sharpe to India; Meuser’s money; - Apr 22: Hibbard: High payments for medical goods; personnel: Haddock, Hayward, Mullet; need for clarification on financial arrangements for Honan missionaries; teacher for Canadian school; - Apr 30: Arnup: Change in name of Board; finances; reports; Li Min Liang; teacher for Canadian School; Plewmans’ status; staggering furloughs; public health contract; missionary staff; West China cooperative work; postgraduate grant for Hoffman; general West China appropriations and general finances; Press overlooked; - May 8: 1) Bell: Mrs. Allan’s arrival; Honan personnel: Dinwoody, Preston; repairs to hospital; Mr. Hoffman; Albertson’s future work; Dickinson’s future still up in the air; WMS hospital fire; responsibility for insurance for hospitals under United Hospitals Board; prices rising; Chinese ask for exchange; success of Junghsien evangelistic workers’ conference; funds to refit Honan missionaries; Honan “outport allowance” may be source of embarrassment; 2) Arnup: Comment on Bell’s letters April 9, Mar 27 and

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others; stationing of Dr. Forster; lawsuit against Allen; ties between mission and university need strengthening; Bruce Copeland’s critical letter and stationing; Mrs. Edmond’s future; Dickinson’s work; qualifications of missionary nurses; Women’s Hospital, Chungking, fire opens possibility of restudy of situation; - Mar 13: Bell: 1) Comment on Arnup’s letters; Mar 9, 18, Apr 4, and 15; Tribes work at Lifan discontinued, partly because impossible to dovetail with Djang’s grandiose scheme; 2) Missions Cooperating Council; Copeland, Djang and Tribes work; Chinese victory; - Jun 3: --- Bombing of Fowchow, Chengtu and Chungking; Dickinson’s work; - Jun 17: --- Glad of exchange; cannot alleviate worker’s distress; relief on children’s allowances appreciated; Chengtu hospital situation under discussion; The Mission Press and cooperation with other missions; Chungking bombing and damage; some want Canadian School back in Chengtu, Walmsley opposed; this is a matter for the Mission Executive not the School Board; war in Europe; - Jun 22: --- Emergency grants for repairs; permission sought for electricity to replace oil lamps in Fowchow and Tzeliutsing; better air raid shelters for Fowchow; appointment of Preston and Stewart; adjustment of Honan and West China budgets; Theological College growing rapidly, asking for Model Settlement funds to complete building; - Jun 29: Arnup: Exchange between Shanghai and Chengtu allowed; work funds for Honan missionaries in West China chargeable to Honan budget; hospitals to reckon costs of purchase abroad to 2 to 1; hospitals; Albertson; Dickinson; war’s effect on other missions; airmail routes now in question

1983.047C 8-166 Correspondence- Arnup-Bell (Mission Secretary, Jul- Dec): - Jul 1: Bell: Effect of French Collapse on China situation; Hong Kong evacuation and travel problems; money a serious problem; Chungking losses by bombing and safety arrangements; famine relief funds; suggest central fund to even up costs of appeals for help; Chungking hospitals; problems of cooperation; Swarthmore and Madras Conferences and Dr. Kepler; Miss Sharpe on route to India; Albertson’s struggles with baggage; cost of living; medical accounts; waiting for word on Britain-Japan controversy; - Aug 2: Armstrong: General comment; arrival in San Francisco of Wilford and McIntosh; - Aug 9: 1) Best: returning missionaries delayed one month in view of British-Japan-China situation; best to escort 5-7 tons of baggage from Hong Kong to Chengtu; 2) Bell: Fowchow wiring postponed; Quotes Reed’s description of second bombing; bombing at Luchow; Hoffman has typhoid; Struthers, Sheridan and Hilliard to consult on Morgan’s health; Mrs. Jenner’s health; Canadian School to stay in Jenshow; Boys’ Union Middle School move to Penghsien; mail routes; Erickinson at Loiwing; missionary situation in Japan and Korea; cooperation Swarthmore style leans to spectacular rather than established projects; - Aug 13: Arnup: Fowchow bombing; Dickinson; medical accounts; comment on money situation, war situation and travel, etc.; - Aug 16: Bell: Third bombing of Tzeliutsing and damage; possibility of moving hospital outside city; source of money for replacement or even repairs; express sympathy and concern of West China group to Japan missionaries; - Sept 20: --- Conditions of work and life unchanged; only outside circumstances might warrant non-return of furlough people; Albertson’s freight problems; Burma road; restriction on A.D.P. freight allowance for missionaries; individuals not to request returnees to bring things; repairs at Tzeliutsing, Fowchow; cost of living; Campbell baby ill; Canadian school

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functioning.; - Sept 26: --- Death of Campbell baby; additions to Chengtu houses; hospital accommodation in emptied school; bomb damage lists; Albertson’s freight difficulties; sale of land; two year agriculture course to be established; Dickinson pleased; cost of living; - Oct 3: 1) Arnup: War Savings Certificates suggested as missionary contribution to war effort; Fowchow bombing; Best, Hoffman and six women free to return to China or stay; Health: Hoffman, Morgan, Jenner; Dickinson’s Loiwing work; greetings to and from General Council; Miss Sparling represented West China at Council; Emergency repairs must go forward.; 2) Bell: Medical accounts 1938-1941; Chengtu Hospital’s financial problems eventually solved; cost of living and Chinese workers; Albertson; Burma Road - Oct 8: Hibbard: Comment on minutes; WMS light and fuel bills; Woman’s hospital; Albertson in Juning; Struthers named to committee since a number of Honan people now in West China; Jenner’s health; living arrangements for Mrs. Edmonds; Tzeliutsing electricity; Personnel: Gay, Preston, Hartwell; Bell will have to dismiss some workers to offset rising costs; Doris Hibbard allowed into Canada for one year by customs.; - Oct 23: Arnup: Albertson’s death, financial arrangements; Best and freight on Burma Road; Money for essential repairs; Campbell’s baby’s illness; Will discuss medical grants with Mrs. Taylor of WMS; finances for mission; death of Robert Allan; Morgan early furlough; air mail routes in question; - Oct 24: Hibbard: Albertson’s last weeks and death; affairs to be settled; - Nov 6: Bell: Albertson’s death—a tribute; disaster at Boys’ Senior Middle School, Chungking and financial aftermath; trip to Djen; Djen’s attitude changing, more enthusiastic about self-support; increased self-support not an immediate answer; some men can go to other work; cannot simply drop supernumeraries; some bright spots in earnest seeking of young men, etc.; Fred Owen doing fine work; Webster’s in Luchow getting along well; Morgan health retirement; Guild in Chungking must change policy; - Nov 7: Hibbard: Letting of WMS property; U.S. government warns nationals out of occupied China; Kepler wants places for some unoccupied China; problem but will try to help; Crawford bringing freight (Albertson) thought; returning to Canada; Morgan, Robert Kilborn and possibly Nancy Rackham; Sundry repairs; Chungking child; Luchow gateman’s salary; hospital (Si Shen Tsi) insurance; Meuser’s pharmaceutical exchange unsettled; rumours of China joining the Axis; travellers: Best, Hoffman, Thexton, Dickinson bombed, but safe; - Dec 3: Bell: Cable and letter on conditions of workers and work and need for supplement to maintenance; possibility of work of WMS closing until more funds; - Dec 6: --- Chungking Middle School too much in the hands of few; early furloughs; difficulty of getting sailings; CPR ships now under British Admiralty; movement of missionaries into Free China not so likely; Crawford now sick in Junming; goods are on the way; Allen to go to look after Crawford; - Dec 10: --- Crawford’s illness; Mrs. Jolliffe has typhus; - Dec 28: --- Albertson’s papers; Struthers’ accident on mail truck; increased grant will be big help on work; missionaries salaries; “Outport” (Honan custom) salaries.

1983.047C 8-167 Correspondence: Arnup/Armstrong with Individual Missionaries: -Albertson (Mrs.): Concerning her husband’s death; - Brown, Muriel: Successes in Forward Movement in Chengtu District; Boyd of Honan welcome; Swarthmore findings; Isabel Brown and Tribes study; loss of Albertson; home week in the churches; Forward Movement,

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response from churches; Shu Wa Gai needs good minister and missionary; Julia Brown teaching at Nanking University; - Copeland: an account of his work; lay leadership; services for Christians in the Salt administration; - Day: personal relationship of secretaries with missionaries; personal finances; language study; - Dickinson: Baby chicks; invited to be agricultural advisor to company on border of Yunnan and Burma; injured in truck accident; account of this new agricultural project; - Endicott: New Life Movement; got relief goods to Kiating; help in hospital from Hilliard and Outerbridge; hospital’s fine work in great contract to local Red Cross; Bacon, other missionaries and Pastor Liu did yeoman service in other aspects of relief; Dugouts in Chungking; again with New Life Movement to Luchow; church more active in relief work than officials; still editing simple English Weekly for school; Chinese and Kuomintang attitudes to Hitler; happy in English teaching; preaching frequently; Endicott teaching system; language training for missionaries; possibility of wider use of English teaching methods through friends in high places; may wish to delay furlough to get things moving; - Endicott, Mary: Happy in Chengtu; relearning Chinese; various groups of students; social life with English speaking Chinese; missionary companionship; cost of living; - Haddock: arrival in Vancouver; plans for summer and for medical examination; - To Hartwell: Refers to letters of 1939; - Hilliard: Practice of medicine in West China; other correspondence about special appeal for medical work; - Jolliffe: many appeals going home for Church of Christ in China’s new projects; but nothing for 45 yr. old Press; need for deposits; C.L.S. at Kunming cannot get new supplies; we cannot meet orders; new publishing arrangement with C.L.S.; hope for CC appeal for funds in U.S.; defense of Press’s history; cooperation with other missions; relations with C.L.S.; - Lindsay, Alice: Description of Dental Clinic Fire; - Lindsay: repairs going forward at Dental Clinic; carried on clinic work through spring term; provincial government grant and insurance covers buildings but not equipment; personnel frictions in Clinic and Faculty (Aug 11, 1940); Difficult to make gold payment for necessary dental materials and equipment; unlikely that Campbell will stay; will need replacement; dormitories finding it difficult to get rice owing to hoarding and profiteering (Sept 3, 1940); - Sharpe: in India; personal finances; - Sheridan: Getting patients to dugouts; cover for statement about hospital people; cost of living; statement covers troubles arising from resignation of Dr. Hsia; exchange of 2-1 on hospital purchases a help; Bills for drugs; damage to Women’s Hospital in bombing; cave in of residence dugout; variety of bomb damage; - Spooner: reactions to situation in University and church on return from Canada; university weakest in Arts section; lack of time for creative work; responsibility of dulling effect of older men; wives doing better religious work; student conference; Chinese leaders; cost of living; travel difficulties; Christmas letter to friends; - Stinson: Sunny days bring bombers; Christmas service; language; 68 baptisms; Mrs. Chiang’s war orphanages; adult choir; language difficulties; - Reed: Disparagement of hospital changed to support as a result of the raids; Bible work in district; need for retreats; August bombing and its effects; rain adds expense to repairs, cost of living;

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- Walmsley: Canadian school children’s gift of bedding to orphans; special church for Canadian School; work being done by children; Senior Middle School (Chinese) in sad state; Canadian boys catch poultry thief who later escaped from the police station; cottage industry in woollens, carpets, etc., as result of the war; better quarters than last year; execution Chinese style; war in Europe; - Wilford: Mrs. Wilford and Patsy returning to Canada; destruction of WMS hospital by fire and aftermath; help from various sources; possible sabotage by Japan; dental college fire; new WCUU hospital nearly finished; family news; Hong Kong evacuation; medical board feels Mrs. Best should not return; staff salaries deferred partly to illustrate to them our difficulties; relief for wounded; - Willmott, Katherine: In bed with suspected lung spot; student spring conference; with student choir to Chungking; acted as matron of Canadian School in Jenshow; - Willmott, Earl: Dental College Clinic Fire; fascist methods of suppression being used against communists; work in Middle School; “Down River” boys brought vitality; “Life” and “The Masses” present different pictures; Summer and Omei seminars on “Jesus as Teacher”; Sharman’s method going great guns.

1983.047C 8-168 Reports of Work: General report; individual reports: Bridgeman, Brown, Homer and Muriel, Copeland, Edmonds, Hartwell, Hoffman, A.C., Kitchen, Longley, Rackham, Reed, Sparling, Stinson, Veals.

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1983.047C 8-169 Correspondence: Dr. L.G. Kilborn and Dr. W. Crawford: Kilborn: Advocates psychological testing for missionary candidates and better screening; Crawford: Report of Field Mission Board; advocates thorough check up on all missionaries returning for furlough, including children; enclosure to Best.

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1983.047C 8-170 ---: Feb 12: Arnup-Hibbard (Mission Treasurer): Hibbard: Various reasons for high cost of living; explanation of particular items in estimate; - Mar 11: --- Cover for financial statements; rate of pay for Honan missionaries and method of payment for split families; list of unused plant balances

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1983.047C 8-171 Estimates, Joint Medical Report, Unused Plant Balances, List of Properties, Canadian School costs

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1983.047C 8-172 ---: Concerning J.S.K. Ngai and H.Y. Chang: Dr. Ngai: On staff of Medical Faculty of WCUU going to Canada at his own expense; asks for loan; later goes on staff at Toronto Hospital for TB; Chang: Working at Cheeloo University in exile and has full responsibility for “Christian Farmer”

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1983.047C 8-173 National Christian Council of China: Bulletin (Nov 23), Letter: W.Y. Cheng and John C. Mathieson; asks for missionaries from occupied China to be sent to unoccupied rather than to other fields.

Nov 26, 1940

1983.047C 8-174 Correspondence: Arnup-Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jan- Jun): - Jan 7: Bell: Struthers on the mend; accident as described by Struthers; Best and Hoffman buying second truck in Rangoon to carry enough gas to get to Chungking; Dickinson soon back, hope he will take up rural projects; Jolliffe and Crawford recovering; list of friends of West China Missionaries - Jan 22: Arnup: Morgan’s arrival; health: Crawford and Jolliffe; expecting Bacon and Hartwell; possibility of evacuees going to Szechuan; appreciations of Albertson; bombings; Foreign Missions Conference coming up; - Feb 7: Bell: Health: Struthers, Crawford; Albertson’s papers; Best and Hoffman struggling with freight; definite need for Honan missionaries as replacements; claims on losses to Board; possibility of making 60 retirement age for West China; problems connected with Guild, Chungking; air raid

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shelters, Chengtu; Jenner health furlough; Outerbridge to Junghsien; salaries and cost of living; land sale; Canadian school teacher; medical coverage for Canadian school; discussion of estimates with Hibbard; greater increase in pastoral department; WMS schools feeling pinch; contingency fund a possibility; Mathieson claims his relationship with mission different; Mitchell wants district work when present assignment finished; travel payment arrangements; balance of BFM, WMS representation on Council Executive; need for WMS to be closer to Synod; furlough sailings: Bacon, Jack, Hartwell; Furloughs: Jones, Williams, Kilborn; need to provide bedding and other household goods for furlough people who can no longer bring them; provision for North China missionary recruits to be apprenticed in West China; Dickinson appointed to University with no strings since he had no interest in rural church program; appeal for replacements for Morgan, Longley and Hoffman, Sheridan and possibly Jenner; Synod, salaries, self-support and mission responsibility; hospital grants, (See Sheridan letter, 1940 [File 167]; Struthers’ recovery; Birtch and Day heading for stations; Jack and Hartwell to meet Bacon in Hong Kong; - Feb 14: --- Cable and letter; Menzies for Chengtu; cost of living affects Chinese workers; - Mar 4: --- Bacon’s delayed in Hong Kong, scarlet fever; Mission finances Chengtu doctors monitoring health at Canadian school; Dr. Yang for Canada, wife supports family; War Savings certificates; sale of property; support for man for Gao Shih Ti; help for others; Miss Gay’s (Honan) adjustment; Kepler’s petard; comparison of Szechuan Synod with other areas; Crawford improving; Word from Best and Hoffman at Lashio; - Mar 5: --- Not many missionaries from other parts coming to Szechuan; Bacon scholarship; - Mar 17: --- 1) Appreciation of Canadian Church from Synod; 2) Bombing of airfields South of Chengtu; Visit of General Feng Yu Hsiang to Mission Press; renewed bombing; fighting around Ichang; Honan WMS missionaries may not work in well; Miss Gay’s adjustment; Outerbridge in hornet’s nest at Junghsien; control and administration of medical and educational work; appreciation of Boyds (Honan) Mathieson going on relief work to North under NCC: Bacon’s sailing; no financial backing for Press other than UCC; GLS closed corporation; - Mar 19: 1) Arnup: Salary raises means no new men; Honan men may fill gap; football, hockey, weather; Japan men nearly all out; Morgan’s health; 2) Bell: Finances; accepts DD as honour to all missionaries; - Apr 2: Bell: War Savings Certificates for UCC; voluntary contributions to British fund; hope Boyds may return to West China; Mathieson on relief work, released from BCC: National Central University Hospital request; Executive accepts withdrawal from United Hospitals Board; new contract with Cheeloo and other medical arrangements; - Apr 9: --- 1) Struthers to represent Honan people on Mission Executive; efforts to unite FMB and WMS flattering; repair of city dispensary; Rev. S.F. Kan appointed to Shu Wa Kai church, Homer Brown chairman of its committee; Hibbard going to Kunming to sort out finances a) abortive Transportation office, b) Albertson’s deposits for mission in Chinese bank; suggestions for Hartwell’s furlough studies; travel for Dai; closure of Fowchow primary school; pension queries; Mathieson en route to Sian and Honan without even consultation; 2) Cable, letter; Outerbridge daughter born; Outerbridge’s troubles at Junghsien; Plant and maintenance funds and Canadian Foreign Exchange Board; - Apr 17: --- Repeat of Central Medical University matter with further details; cost of living; lacking rice, people stealing vegetables from fields; truth of rice situation obscure; 28 baptisms at Sze Sheng Tsi Church; Shu

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Wa Kai helped by Brown improving; Rackham’s Easter services; Hoffman and Best arrived from Rangoon; - Apr 29: 1) --- Presbyterian Mission wish to build on UCC house foundations, UCC to refund later; opposed to mortgaging future funds; Canadian school deficit cleared off books; limit number of freight packages; 2) Arnup: Cable: total appropriation of $161,000; 3) Board actions concerning China; retirement: Plewman, Haddock; Personnel: Morgan, Jenner, Agnew, Mullet, Hayward, McIntosh, Harris; Children: Bridgeman, Brown, Hoffman, Kilborn, Owen, Jones Williams, Bacon, Endicott, Hartwell, Longley; request for high school teacher for Canadian School; Bell’s D.D.; finances; property; Albertson; West China Jubilee; Associated Board for Christian Colleges in China; general medical and financial; appeal for new workers; 2nd letter with comment on above. 4) Brewing: Chairman of BFM, April c.29; greetings; - May 6: Bell: Appropriations; rising prices; concentration of effort rather than diffusion; work with wounded soldiers; Honan missionaries appointment: Copeland, McClure and Roulston; property matters; Chinese military and political situation; Dr. K.S. Ngai; - May 13: 1) Arnup: Letter sent to Synod; Bill Small for WCUU; Meeting with deputation from Japan 2) Bell: Kepler inquiry about handing over some districts to Scotch and Irish missions in Manchuria; if this were done could concentrate more on remaining territory; Chungking bombing; inflation and drought factors in high prices; more serious in corruption in high places; Boys’ school in Tzeliutsing; - May 23: Arnup: Non-cooperation of WMS on field; Brown in charge of Shu Wa Kai church; Hartwell’s studies; closing of primary schools; pension fund workings; withdrawal of Central University from United Hospitals plan; other general comment on Bell’s letters; activities past and future; - Jun 9: --- Service delayed one year by appointment to Sick Children’s Hospital; - Jun 13: Bell: Health care of Canadian school children; high school work also a factor in location of school; Shelters (bomb) the responsibility of mission; Guild Board trying to hold on; Shu Wa Kai church; WMS should give grant to Press; Dr. Best to examine mission hospitals; allowances for Chinese workers; - Jun 16: Armstrong: Honan missionaries and their relationship to West China Mission Council

1983.047C 8-175 Correspondence: Arnup and Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jul- Dec): Jul 8: Bell: (to the mission): Pros and cons of locating Canadian School in Jenshow - Jul 9: --- 1) Five boys leave for Canada; arrangements for Neil Bell Canadian School health care; 2) Sale of large trucks; health care, Canadian school in relation to WMS medical work; Health: Hilliard, Hoffman; Medical work difficulties compounded by government Public Health activities; prices; Dickinson; Shu Wa Kai property sale; 3) Explanation of closing of primary schools; commandeering of U.S. vessels interferes with travel plans; problem of baggage transportation; Holidays: Jolliffe, Kitchen; no help at Canadian school from Honan, ask for Forster - Jul 16: --- Problems of Cheeloo University in West China; Djiang and Border Tribes; Chang and “Christian Farmer”; increased circulation of “Christian Hope”; prices - Jul 23: --- Theological college graduation; lack of U.S. visas may have prevented five boys from leaving Hong Kong; McClure’s comment on poor use of Honan missionaries in West China raised big issue; work of Boyd, McHattie, Copeland, Mathieson; differences in way the two missions worked; sense of shame for situation

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- Aug 4: --- Chengtu bombing; shifts in sailings from Hong Kong, missionary children, Endicott; G. Smith in Hong Kong, Roulston and McClure; Dr. Millar to Jenshow; Reed’s account of Tzeliutsing bombing - Aug 12: --- Canadian school situation; non-stop bombing; Arrivals: Smith, McClure, Roulston; Chinese doctor for Fowchow; Shu Wa Kaih church going well - Aug 15: --- Reply to Armstrong, Jun 15, on Honan missionaries - Aug 18: Arnup: Canadian school; sale of trucks; Health: Hilliard and Hoffman - Aug 21: --- Comment on Bell of Jul 15; missionaries from all fields drop into office; Morgan looks better; Hartwell’s studies - Aug 22: Bell: Tzeliutsing raid; money for wounded in Fowchow does not reach hospital; resignations of Sibley and Quentin not on the record; arrival of Smiths; further bombing and property damage; Tzeliutsing and Fowchow - Aug 29: Arnup: To consider idea of Irish and Scots taking some of West China areas; arrival of several missionary children - Sept 4: --- Sympathy for Szechuan missionaries; Sports; Robertson lectures; Personnel: Endicott, Longley, Jenner, Hartwell, Mullett - Sept 11: --- Cheeloo University Tsinan campus versus West China campus; relations with Honan Mission - Sept 12: 1) --- possible further financial assistance to missionaries; 2) Bell: Hayward’s non-return serious for Allen; Canadian School, Mrs. Edmonds and Ruther Sparling Bannon for high school; Dugout improved; Millar for Jenshow for school and other work; minimum repairs to preserve property; money problems; minor personnel matters - Sept 22: Armstrong: relations of Honan and West China mission, particularly McClure; Cheeloo University friction - Sept 24: Arnup: Canadian school; Forster, Millar et. al.; doubt wisdom of sending new people to war situation; trucks for freight transport authorized for Angew; difficulty getting passage for Mullett; Agnew, McIntosh, Allen’s goods paid for; Hayward not returning; Stephenson’s death. - Sept 30: Bell: Death of Owen - Sept 30: Arnup: Deaths: Stephenson, Owen; financial arrangements for Owen family; Mullett and Agnew sailing - Oct 2: Bell: Details of Owen’s death; Hayward’s non-return and medical staff situation; curtailment of evangelistic staff serious; Small doing well; rice must be stocked for partial Chinese salary payments; other staples; Radium treatment for Sheridan; property, Tzeliutsing, Junghsien, Jenshow, badly battered; Reed’s health; withdrawal from Junghsien Boys’ Middle School; Mrs. Bridgeman’s baby welfare work; difficulties and dangers of travel within West China; Mrs. Brown recovering slowly; permission requested for sale of Fowchow property; Kitchen; teacher for Canadian School needed; shipping of goods from Rangoon. - Oct 6: Arnup: Relationship of Quentin and Sibley to mission - Oct 8: Bell: 1) Owen family return to Canada; urgent need for doctor for Chungking; 2) Owen’s body reported found; continued search for Owen’s body; IMS missionaries into Canadian work; repairs to property; Junghsien Middle School; purchase of Owen’s furniture; Forster’s stationing; urgency of another doctor for Chungking and Tzeliutsing; replacement needed for Jones and McHattie; Irish Scotch proposition; salaries inadequate for inflation - Oct 9: 1) Bell: Tribute for F.C. Stephenson; 2) Arnup: return of Owen family; Lind not available for Chungking; Mrs. Brown’s serious accident - Oct 13: Bell: Passage to Chungking on mail truck; Mrs. Brown in case for six months; Owen’s body found, burial service; salary bonuses - Oct 18: --- Mrs. Owen’s travel arrangements, may need assistance

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- Oct 28: Arnup: Memorial service for Owen - Statement of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions’ Committee: outlines alternatives for Manchuria missionaries - Nov 4: Arnup: Salary bonuses; Dr. Forster would like Chungking; Tzeliutsing dugout - Nov 7: --- Bonuses; Owen’s body; two missionary sons in airforce; several children sent condolences to Mrs. Owen; WCUU Board of Governors and Theological College - Nov 14: --- Bonuses granted; explained closing of primary schools to Executive; grant for repairs; Quentin resigns officially; Mrs. Owen’s finances; FMS requests exchange of NCCC grant - Nov 15: Bell: Tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Jones; Hilliard’s health; babies expected: Hilliard, Birtch; description of state of work: Fengtu, Chungchow, Fowchow; all schools closed on Fowchow district; Hilliard doing well with hospital; drastic reorganization of work needed; Chungking hospital problems; Harris and Preston; Djang and Roulston at church on school property - Nov 25: --- Truck fiddle story untrue; Cheeloo University; thanks for assistance for preachers and for missionaries; must look for means of saving better trained men for the ministry; prices; Scottish missionary couple; Health: Stinson, Reed, Russell, Foster, Fee; entertaining Dr. Liu, minister to Canada - Nov 29: --- Birth of Ann Hilliard; More on Dr. Liu; Stanway ill with typhoid - Dec 5: Armstrong: McKenzie of Honan may go to West China; Honan missionaries advised to get out; Kepler touring Ontario - Dec 8: Bell/Harrison: Cable asking emergency powers; board’s responsibilities for families and women; ask for exchange - Dec 16: Bell: Pearl Harbour changes West China situation, especially getting personnel and money in and out; WCUU teachers hard hit financially; may have only representative Council and Synod; Mrs. Brown’s progress; Mullett caught in Hong Kong - Dec 24: Arnup: Emergency powers and other cable requests granted; Forster, McIntosh turned back Honolulu; Agnew and twenty ton shipment

1983.047C 8-176 Correspondence: Arnup with Agnew (Missionary): Congratulations on Ph.D.; meeting Dr. Dai; deputation work; Truck Purchase, freight arrangements; gathering gifts of dental supplies

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1983.047C 8-177 ---: Arnup with Bacon: personnel affairs while on furlough; appeal for help for Norwegian friend

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1983.047C 8-178 ---: Arnup with Muriel Brown: Work in Chengtu district; Shu Wa Kai church; need for Chinese General Secretary for church; Introducing Dr. Dai; cost of living; work in progress in Chengtu district; analysis of situation in church and suggested remedies; Mrs. Brown’s accident; Chinese church financial responsibility

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1983.047C 8-179 ---: Arnup with Crawford: Crawford’s illness at Kunming; Defense of Council resolution concerning furlough physical examinations

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1983.047C 8-180 ---: Arnup with Endicott: Personal affairs 1941 1983.047C 8-181 ---: Arnup with Hartwell: Work in Tzeliutsing described; furlough travel;

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1983.047C 8-182 Correspondence- Arnup with Missionaries: Hayward: Leave of absence from BFM; employment in Canada by WMS; pension arrangements

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1983.047C 8-183 ---: Jolliffe: The Press and it’s relation to CLS of China; financial support; general missionary policy at time of 50th anniversary

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1983.047C 8-184 ---: Jones: Personal affairs; list of necessary documents for returning to China; death of Owen; accounts of Chungking air raids 79-123 between May

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4 and Aug 7 1983.047C 8-185 ---: Kilborn: Glad psychiatrist appointed to BFM; statement of accounts and

hardship, general financial situation of missionaries; Cheeloo University and WCUU difficulties; service bequest to Medical faculty; loss of exchange on money received in Szechuan serious

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1983.047C 8-186 ---: Lindsay: money to replace Dentistry Faculty losses; new building; Campbell; death of father; Dr. Day to N.Y.; problems arise with Chinese staff because of return of Mullett and Agnew

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1983.047C 8-187 ---: Morgan: Health breakdown and plans for return; comment on japan missionaries; life in sanatorium; Winnipeg D.D. for Bell, Morgan’s suggestion; Robertson lectures; payment at sanatorium.

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1983.047C 8-188 ---: Owen: Concerning death of Owen; Seeking opportunity for B.D. degree; Jones’ account of Owen drowning; arrangements

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1983.047C 8-189 ---: Reed: Conditions of the church and economic conditions in Tzeliutsing; Hartwell’s future; personal poor health; rethinking methods; cost of living; Stinson’s adjustment problems

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1983.047C 8-190 ---: Walmsley: Canadian school, school life; numbers in high school; graduating: Bell, Kilborn, Jenson, Meuser, Reed, Walmsley, Phelps, Endicott; commends son Glenn to Arnup’s care; teacher needed; school opening delayed by bad roads; school books hard to come by; staff needs

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1983.047C 8-191 ---: Willmott, Earl and Kathleen: Concerning Miss Lin’s account of Sharman type study group; introducing Dr. Dai; health Mrs. Willmott and children; salary cuts, cost of living

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1983.047C 8-192 ---: Albertson: pension arrangements for widow; resolution of Board; - Allen: donation for Chungking hospital; - Bell: D.D. from Winnipeg; - Bridgeman, Mrs. C.A.: account of child welfare work; - Campbell: cost of living; loss of friends from field through death, ill health or other reasons; future uncertain; check school children’s teeth; coming Council more of the same; - Copeland, Bruce: Szechuan compared with Honan; bombing of Kiating; cost of living; disparity of income in of middle class and labourers reversed; student conference at Omei; Graft and callousness in National affairs; Church alive in Honan; work in Kiating; Burma road open again; - Copeland, Margaret: Longing for food “we had at home”; a missionary’s wife’s days; - Dickinson: goat’s milk; cattle stock; grass seeding; Nan’s painting; New Life Movement; - Haddock: salary differences in male and female single people; extension of furlough; retirement; - Harris: travel; gift for Hospital Memorial Chapel; difficulty of transmitting same owing to Canadian Foreign Exchange control; Hilliard: Experience of being bombed; new doctor coming; financial help for hospital from government; Arnup’s family; - Jenner: health furlough; Vancouver visit; wish to inspect TB sanatorium; - Kitchen: financial arrangements for daughters; third daughter en route home; Press has busiest time ever; demand for Bibles and New Testaments; use of old military antimony to harden plates for printing; demand for Christian literature; cost of living and cost of printing; - Longley: furlough; gift for Mme. Chiang’s orphans; - Meuser: gift for building fund; - Mullett: furlough study and travel; returns without wife; - McIntosh: sailing; personal financial arrangement; leave boat at Honolulu to go to Rangoon; - Plewman: agreement on salary and deputation work;

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- Rackham: request place for Nan at Llewellyn Hall; appreciation of sports news; work in Penghsien; - Sheridan: health; copy of letter to International Red Cross describing financial straits and other problems of Tzeliutsing Hospital; Small: designation of William Small as missionary; warm welcome from Chinese friends in all classes awaits him; state of university; bombing; - Smith, Geoffrey: safe arrival after travel; language study; Still minus baggage; - Spooner: Chinese New Year; Children’s birthday party; removal of Canadian School in Jenshow; small Primary School for smaller children organized in Chengtu by mothers, helped by Mrs. Molgaard of Irish Mission; French explorer; political situation; Government repression dangerous; price of rice focal point of struggle between military-capitalists and Central Government, and of cost of living; WCUU hard hit; too much help from government ties university to government too closely; student volunteers help wounded; study group with Junior Science staff, cynicism about Chinese society, unsure of religion; quote from student at Omei ashram on his experience; work in Chemistry department; panel discussion with freshmen; Effect of inflation on daily life and work, particularly Chinese colleagues (Apr 26); Hoffman’s arrival by truck from Rangoon, Mr. Sun’s journey to bring the Albertson freight through to Chengtu; Rice bonus to WCUU staff; Middle School fees paid in rice; some missionaries may have to leave; Bill Small’s future; Weakness of the Arts department; no constructive thinking in the administration (Jun 29); - Stinson: conditions in Tzeliutsing; changed attitude of Chinese hospital staff; Bombing.

1983.047C 8-193 Correspondence: Arnup with Hibbard (Mission Treasurer): - Jan: 1) Arnup: money drawn on West China mission for International Red Cross and Honan; 2) Hibbard: tidying up Albertson’s affairs; Crawfords’ condition; Best/Hoffman party making preparations in Rangoon; Thexton given free transportation from border; necessary travel documents; preparation for Synod Executive; personnel: Jenner, Hartwell; openings for Honan people; lack of CPR ships boosts travel costs; two for one exchange under discussion - Feb 2: Hibbard: Explanations to Mrs. Albertson - Feb 3: --- More on Albertson’s affairs, personal and mission; difficulties of 2 to 1 exchange explained; hospitals’ grants; accounting procedures; Hoffman/Best party; difficulties of moving goods; Struthers’ improving; travel via San Francisco: Bacon, Jack, Hartwell—others tentative. - Feb 8: --- Explanation of estimates and financial transactions; Crawford’s health; estimates for Honan men - Feb 18: Arnup: payments to missionaries; application of Mrs. Harrison’s gift (Mrs. Sibley’s mother) - Mar 10: --- comment on Hibbard’s letters; some comment on personnel; transmissions - Mar 11: Albertson: Clarification of exchange rates; delay on amounts for Red Cross Work - Mar 18: Hibbard: 1) fire insurance; Harrison fund; dealings with Central India Mission; uncertainty of sailings; raid on Chengtu; Red Cross payment; Bacon child’s scarlet fever; Dougall gift to Mme. Chiang; Albertson; Best/Hoffman should be in Kunming; financial statement difficult because of payments to Honan men; 2) comment on financial statement - Mar 25: --- Explanation of Joint Medical financial report; Personnel: Best, Hoffman, Struthers, Boyd, Canadian School youngsters; Sparling to write re: Harrison fund - Apr 3: --- Cover for list of unused plant balances and list of friends and

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relatives, and children; Personnel: Boyd, Mathieson, Bacon, Best, Hoffman; Payments: Kitchen, Robertson, Hilliard - Apr 12: --- Use of plant funds; expecting to go to Kunming by truck; Albertson’s accounts - Apr 16: --- Albertson’s account; goods must have personal escort; handling of Miss Harrison’s gift; handling of Joint Medical Accounts; WMS finances; Dr. Best has gone back for broken down truck - Apr 25: --- Return of Kilborn cheque - May 27: Arnup: Mostly comment on foregoing financial matters; money for Theological College; personal transmissions - May 28: --- joint medical accounts; dental chair; service money for Kilborn - Jun 16: Armstrong: 1) G. Smith is on Honan budget; send travel accounts for Honan men; 2) Roulston finances - Jun 27: Arnup: various small transmissions - Jul 4: Hibbard: Trip to Kinming and struggles with freight and trucks; closing account with Evans of the United Methodist Missions; description of Kunming road; Albertson’s grave; Albertson’s accounts; notice of children going home; Endicott sailing and plans; other travellers; cancellation of all tourist passages affects Drs. Beh and Yang; need of Dr. Jean Millar for Canadian School, Jenshow; Teacher also needed; high costs affect travel, holidays; conditions of rice crop, prices, manipulation - Jul 14: Arnup: 1) Provisions for Small’s travel; 2) Exchange rate on gifts, especially case of Willmott - Aug 13: Hibbard: Payments on gifts, Willmott, Brown; exchange rates on extras a headache; arrival of Smiths and McClure in Chungking; Roulston en route; bombing of Chengtu and Chungking; Foster sick - Sept 22: 1) Armstrong: Tung’s salary to be charged to Honan budget; 2) Arnup: Payments re: Harris, Hayward, Longley, Jenner, Bacon, Bell, Reed, Kitchen - Sept 24: Arnup: 1) Allen misunderstood clarification of designated and super gift; required goods ordered and charged against West China Mission account; collect from Allen; 2) Clarification of exchange on transmissions; Foreign Exchange Control Board getting stiff about individual transmissions - Oct 25: Hibbard: Appeal for raise in salary; food economies reduce health; sale of possessions to increase income; clipping giving food prices in Chengtu - Oct 28: Arnup: Various transmissions; Christmas money for Wu Fuh Ling - Nov 2: Hibbard: 1) Cable re: salaries; 2) Comment on Executive Problems of Junghsien Junior Middle School; illness of Russell; urgent need for missionary doctor for Chungking; repairs; Hoffman health expense; salary bonus; must have Shanghai-Chungking exchange to care for emergencies; stoppage of business with Shanghai; effect of prices on repairs; tax reassessment, payment in rice, seek some sort of relief; Stinson’s illness; repairs; dental expense pool needs revision; regret no replacements for mission or Canadian School - Nov 8: Arnup: Various minor transmissions; Albertson cheque cashed in Toronto - Nov 21: --- Salary help; transmissions; Mrs. Owen and family sailed from Hong Kong; Shanghai exchange granted (cable) - Dec 6: 1) Armstrong: Honan missionaries in West China get same bonus; raise for Mr. Tung on Honan budget; 2) Hibbard: Joint medical Expenses; as treasurer on the field for Joint Medical should be informed of Joint Medical Committee in Toronto’s actions; misunderstanding over WMS grants to work of Synod cleared; must know rate of exchange for sterling drafts

1983.047C 8-194 Estimates: General, and Joint Medical 1941 1983.047C 8-195 Mr. H.Y. Chang of “The Christian Farmer”: Request for Kitney and Affleck 1941

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1983.047C 9-196 Correspondence: Arnup with Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jan- Jun): - Jan 6: Bell: Mail routes; Fall of Hong Kong; missionaries in transit: Forster, McIntosh, Crawley, Rouse, Mathieson’s leave of absence to be liaison with British forces - Jan 10: Arnup: Mullett caught in Hong Kong; advisability of women using Burma Road; possible loss of draft from Board - Jan 22: --- Exchange 13-1 granted; offer invitation to Scottish Manchuria Mission; word received from Japan and Korea interned missionaries - Feb 7: --- Budget figured needed for Foreign Exchange Control Board; Japan and Korea mission funds available; Missionary Movements: McIntosh, Agnew; communication of missionary children with parents; word on Mullett, Broadfoot, Cheung, Moore; West China candidates; personal payments through Hibbard - Feb 10: Bell: (signatures of Djang and Price): CCC letter on state of church, setting up Provisional committee; budget for office and program; legal position - Feb 17: --- (cables) property and finance; Mullett in Hong Kong - Feb 23: Arnup: (cable) furlough - Feb 24: 1) Bell: Expanded executive necessary for representative wisdom; changes in Synod due to straightened finances; Hibbard laid up so Bell extra busy; Synod reorganization; problems of stationing with too few men; Jenshow, Junghsien; meeting with first termers: Day, Webster, Outerbridge, Smitt, Campbell, Hockin, Small—want to work in teams of young and not the older missionaries; celebration of the 50th anniversary of the mission; historical review gives perspective; representative to Board; property; Guild property a problem; sale of building material from destroyed buildings; Tzeliutsing school expansion plan illustrates difficulties under new government control measures; furlough travel routes; Mrs. Homer Brown’s health; need for Forster and Hayward in Chungking hospital; effects of government, national and provincial, moving into health field on mission hospitals; furlough discussion: Kilborn, Bridgeman, Hoffman, Williams, MacHattie, Mathieson, Roulston, Hibbard; cost of travel; information on Mullett in Hong Kong Sze Sheng Tsi hospital; plans for future handling of finances of mission; Copeland seconded to CCC provisional committee as English secretary; Stanway to take Brown’s work in Chengtu; Roulston for Chungking; Birtch and Hilliard to Fowchow; grade 13 work a problem for Canadian school; need for salary bonus; discussion of pastoral work slated for summer; property sale; possible extended mountain holiday in lieu of furlough; Djen appointed to new position created by Synod; stationing a problem in view of thinning of ranks; Mathieson trip to Honan; Nanking University Department of Agriculture move back to Chengtu suggests sale of Jenshow Boarding School; hope for support for post graduate study for Miss Kewi; Hoffman retirement; farewell meeting for Browns; may reach agreement with Provincial Department of health of Kiating hospital; Holidays in India too expensive; Hibbard’s health; appeal for new workers. 2) Arnup: applied to Ottawa for permission to advance money for missionaries in occupied China; Llewellyn Hall matron on boys staying too long in China; home church financial situation improved; plan for discussion of mission policy in war situation; Agnew arrived in Karachi - Mar 28: Arnup: (cable) Money to Kwantung Synod; Kilborn airborne - Apr 17: Bell: Mail routes discussed; families anxious to avoid being shut up in China; travellers: Brown, Bridgeman, Williams; Kilborn unwilling to accept flight; India holiday impossible; Agnew en route; no news of Mullett; Personnel: Hoffman wishes to stay; Birtch and Graham in Fowchow;

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Copland with CCC; hope Bacon will be back; Mathieson to embassy; Roulston; Webster and Day work in Junghsien; local Chinese resist station closings; problem of Jones and future of Agency and Home in Chungking; sale of Jenshow Boys’ Middle School; money to be used against appropriations; Ko Gia Hang property; bonus to offset inflation; Scotch-Irish Mission; brief resume of meeting in Jenshow with Li Min Liang; University Press and Daily News Bulletin - Apr 27: Arnup: Personnel: Quentin, Morgan, McIntosh, Bacon, Jenner, Agnew, Hayward, Brown; 1942 furloughs and returns; financial assistance for holidays, and for Canadian school; property sales approved; Chengtu Hospitals Board; Medical and educational work separated from Szechuan Synod; mission children not to risk journey home; Mix-up over W. China representatives to Board meeting; revision of field and furlough salaries; Hartwell, Longley, Endicott, Service to go to China; salaries of those in enemy territory “deferred”; appropriations and other financial matters - Apr 28: --- explanation of foregoing board actions - Apr 29: --- Covering letter for Report of Meeting on Mission Policy as affected by the war - May 10: Montcrieff and Dye: Baptist report on cost of living - May 18/23: Arnup/McArthur: Canadian school granted permission to recommend Grade 13 students - May 21: Bell and Spicer: NCC of China appeal for funds for student work and attached report by Copland and Shao - May 23: Bell: Letters received reported by cable; Willfords want word from children; mail routes; stationing difficulties and personnel: Hoffman, Sheridan, Copland, Brame; effect on ministers of high cost of living; local churches need to get under burden; so far no moonlighting; Press problems; Shu Wa Kai church work picking up; Day and Webster at Junghsien; Stinson and Miss Sparling to Tzeliutsing; Reed doing city work Hoffman Sr. to live with son; sailings from India are hard to get; Mrs. Brown’s recovery slow; Jones remaining in Chungking for one year - Jun 8: --- (cable) re: buying year’s rice supply for preachers; request funds for quarter; personnel: Bridgeman, Stewart, Gibbs (Presbyterian) - Jun 10: Taylor/Arnup; (cable): rice purchase approved; Allan’s children’s message to mother - Jun 11: Arnup: Matter of $10, 000 requested and sent to Bombay mysterious; Personnel: Kilborn, Hoffman, Jones; agency very important; sale at Jenshow; salary question; Canadian School allowed to “recommend” pupils by Ontario Department of Education; Bacon enlistment and study record; have not yet reached Wilford’s children; Longley to return if possible; Korea missionaries repatriation - Jun 16: Bell: Mitchell leaving IRC; medical reports on missionaries; move to gynaecological and obstetrical departments to University Hospital; appeal to IMC, hope UCC will respond; comment on Baptist Cost of Living Report; travel conditions and costs from India; people going into CCC work get all kinds of assistance not available for mission secretaries. - Jun 29: --- No one plans on prolonged holidays as resort homes not suitable; Canadian School teaching problems; Mrs. Thompson’s comment on boys staying out too long in China answered; Synod reorganization discussed; closing of Primary Schools a natural development; government policy and regulations concerning Middle Schools take control out of mission hands; position of Thexton and Chiang on pre-school education; otherwise no missionaries involved in Normal training; sorry about mistake on representation at Board meeting; awaiting Hartwell and Service; WCUU grant heretofore outside appropriations; NCC budget startling; grant for Press; Diffendorfer’s attitude; appeal for funds for Medical Teaching

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College, WCUU; Agnew pushing for new man for Dental faculty; explanation of cable on finances and cost of living; news from Broadfoot and Cairns in occupied China through Chinese pastor who visited them.

1983.047C 9-197 Correspondence: Arnup with Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jul- Dec): - Jul 22: Armstrong: Letter to Hibbard gives finances; trying to meet cost of living please; list of missionaries on first repatriation ship; shipping of drugs to McClure and Sharman; McClure’s letters; Mitchell’s severance from IRC and move to America Advisory Committee as field supervisor of relief; enquiry on possibility of McRae returning to China; missionary children in army; sailings doubtful for Menzies, Boyd, Endicott, Longley, Service; Could Chinese government request these men? Mrs. Brown improving; transmissions to various Chinese and missionaries - Aug 7: Bell: Arrival of Arnup’s letters of November, 1942; grade 13 students will do some work at WCUU but under direction of Walmsley; in view of limited news sources asks for a monthly summary of church and national affairs; UCC missionary conference on evangelism very good; Joy and relief; Chinese and missionary over Board’s response to financial need; problems over Copland’s appointment to CCC work and relationship to Kiating work; financial queries referred to Hibbard; Kilborn refuses air travel; types of work open to Longley; personnel: Hartwell, Preston - Aug 15: Arnup: Summer activities; comment on previous letters; earlier apparent gains disappeared in exchange and repatriation costs; medical reports not available to Board or Field; IMC appeal for NCC student work; Mitchell, Service, Brown, Williams; official listening post radiogram from Mrs. Edmonds - Sept 9: Bell: Possible arrangement for Hartwell, Outerbridge and Hoffman; returning personnel: Boyd, Longley, Endicott; Neil Bell in artillery; help for preachers appreciated but problem ongoing; Stanway in Chungking; house open to ailing Robertson, Agnew and R.A.F. men; Cheeloo university must have change of president or close; death of Kepler; representatives to General Council named - Sept 10: --- Mail time improving; safe arrival of Gripsholm party; Bridgeman and Miss Stewart; Scottish Mission Fleming now in Indian, hopes to come to West China; Neil Bell’s enlistment; procedural mistake in Copland’s appointment and situation particularly in Kiating explained; Mathieson’s relationship with West China mission changeable and unsatisfactory - Sept 24: Arnup: Missionary emphasis at General Council; comment on reorganization of Synod; assurance passports will be granted for Service and others essential to China work; inclusion of WCUU grants in total appropriation; NCC and over-organization; development of Chinese Christian writers for the Press; salaries in spite of stationary review of Board; Honan men in West China; Longley’s return; Hartwell’s disposition and theological direction; feels heavy responsibility in sending people out to China; Observer to prepare church news material for missionaries; exchange of cables on personnel: Brown, Bridgeman, Williams, Longley, Robertson, Neil Bell, Service, Boyd, Menzies - Oct 6: Bell: Mrs. Brown’s health; difficulties of necessary travel documents; better cooperation for Press from other missions; book distribution very expensive; papers and magazines go at old postal rates; program for young people; use of hospital building Chungking by Chinese ministry of Information; Mathieson’s present plans; urge pressure to get exchange rate changed in view of inflation; death of Jason Haugh; Health: Hilliard, Birtch, Robertson; enlistment of Neil Bell - Oct 8: --- Comment to Armstrong on activities of Copland, Mitchell and Mathieson; clarification with NCC on Mathieson

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- Oct 12: --- Problems on administration of Cheeloo University and removal of President Liu - Oct 13: Armstrong: Copland to CC and Mitchell to relief work approved; Armstrong now on Board of Cheeloo University; funds for Honan Synod; McClure’s ambulance unit; arrival of Struthers, Thomson, Faris, McTavish and McTavish and Menzies to Gripsholm - Oct 21: Bell: McRae’s welcome if they come to Kwangtung; WMS giving no permission for sailings to Indian and China; Cairns and Broadfoot trying to reach W. China; financial situation of mission in light of present and prospective price levels and present exchange rates; problems will arise out of deferred furloughs; serious situation facing Church; Hilliard back at work, Robertson better; loss of Cecil Hoffman’s household goods; much irreplaceable; Shu Wa Kai church continuing to pick up; newspaper clipping of September prices - Nov 6: Arnup: Service en route to China, able for any medical work; Longley cannot return on health grounds; Endicott’s plans for return; D.D. for Endicott; Hayward, McIntosh eager to go; Health: Eleanor Williams; Sons: Armstrong, McRae mission action; appeal call up of Robert Kilborn, Glenn Walmsley, George Meuser, grade 13; Rugby and family news - Nov 7: Bell: General Council; reorganization of Synod; Service sailing; special grant to Press; East Asia grant for Press slow in coming; price of paper and distribution; Copeland to CCC; property matters; Guild in Chungking, problem of sale; Health: Hilliard, Robertson; Cheeloo University mess.; Neil Bell’s letter - Nov 15: --- Commendation of Mrs. Jones at Agency Home; Owen’s affairs tidied up; Hilliard’s health; impending mission births: Hilliard, Birtch; trip to Stanway, Fengtu, Chungchow; Fowchow beginning to revive after evacuation; men working out from Fowchow; schools all closed; hospitals running well; future organization of stations; Allen needs help in Chungking; Chinese doctor pulled out for higher pay; Harrison and Preston to make specific division of responsibility; Roulston doing good work in evangelism; Hsiao’s Middle School excellent, voluntary Bible classes; Talks with Webster; Luchow city work dead owing to bombing, country work good under Hoffman, Ward and Dinwoody; tentative plans for Luchow hospital; great weakness in all work is lack of contact of educational and medical work with the church - Nov 30: Arnup: Financial situation of mission board vis-à-vis all missions - Dec 4: Bell: (Cable, December 1): Faris welcome for definite district work; funds for salaries; Vokes too old to return; death of Dr. Retta Kilborn; Leslie Kilborn to be interpreter for Odlum, Canadian Minister to China; dinner for British Parliamentary Mission - Dec 8: Arnup: Comment on Bell’s October 6; Press; Tzeliutsing repairs; Mathieson; preferential exchange rate; supplementary appropriation for W. China - Dec 10, 11: Bell: (Cable, Dec 10 and 11); Guild in Chungking now off mission hands; Executive decision on Vokes; furloughs; Kilborn’s furlough; Hibbard and Bell furloughs and future of administrative work of West China Mission; high bombing danger lessening; rebuilding of hospitals comes into question; Tzeliutsing problem of school and/or hospital; $8,000 grant for Synod; sale of some Shu Wa Kai property; gratitude of Chinese pastors for special assistance; commodity prices and sale of possessions - Dec 16: Arnup: Increase in funds for West China and consideration of resources; new candidates and returnees in light of foregoing; property sales; salary of A.C. Hoffman; repairs Tzeliutsing - Dec 18: Bell: Cable and letter; Hibbard’s illness; Bell takes over treasurer’s work; some systems for handling similar situations is needed; Mrs.

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Campbell’s’ return on health grounds; funds for Christian schools and universities from British relief funds; business of mission to be taken care of by Executive action; W. Small wants and needs more language study; Longley’s physical condition; Endicott’s D.D.; Hayward’s desire to return; mission children - Dec 18: Arnup (cable) Campbell furlough granted - Dec 31: --- money on the way; Saw Neil (cable)

1983.047C 9-198 Correspondence: Arnup with Hibbard (Treasurer of Mission): - Feb 24: Hibbard: Comment on estimates; travel via India by air desired for Browns, ordinary by others; arrangements for drafts to be cashed in India; list of furlough personnel; Synod costs; possibility of loss of funds in capture of Hong Kong and Shanghai; home order requests: Jones, MacHattie, P.S. Lo, Brown; $10,000 USA received. - Feb 26: --- Need repeat of bonus; Mrs. Edmonds though at Canadian School back on mission budget - Apr 21: --- Agnew’s route; storage of baggage in India; no question of exchange rates in NCC contribution; need for salary increase; Honan grants; sale of property, proceeds used on field for maintenance, record as receipt to plant funds; no word for Mullett; King escaped - May 11: Arnup: Response to February letter and estimates; various personnel payments - May 11-12: Hibbard: (cable and letter); funds; problem of educating 13 children; Agnew’s arrival; medical and other supplies hard to get; comment on minutes of Executive; thanks for financial help; no funds for pensioning Chinese workers; guild problem, partly due to lack of legal advice; Luchow doctor causing trouble; Kiating hospital and government or local people; property matters; help needed for Allen in Chungking; sale of material left by bombing; Tzeliutsing High School; Smith Memorial Fund; house building on Theological Site abandoned; Reed’s liver extract; well digging at Penghsien; Dzen Tsliang’s appointment; Salary: Brown, Bridgeman, Williams; bonus for Chinese pastors from Emergency fund in pastoral estimates. - May 22: Arnup: Requests of Feb 24 attended to; transmissions to China; salary arrangements: Hartwell, Agnew, Mullett; clarification of two cables re: $10,000; WMS grant to China synod; dates of letters received; Bacon’s enlistment; Wilford children’s message; Hoffman salary and payments for children. - Jun 8: Hibbard: Arrival of RAF personnel in Chengtu; ongoing entertainment provided by British women including Canadians; government announcement to prevent populace cheating these men; news of travellers: Bridgeman, Stewart, Bannon, Brown, Williams, McDougall, Russell; attempts to provide sustenance through the year for Chinese pastors. - Jun 10: Arnup: repeat of cables, May 30 and Jun 10; complications of WCUU and Service accounts; Li’s travel account; Plant fund; Joint Medical Account not clear; WMS Synod grant; minor finances; Hartwell reached Capetown - Jun 29: Harris, Hibbard, Bell: Long cable on finances - Jun 30: Hibbard: Transmission of funds to Broadfoot in South China; continued rise in cost of living must be met; possible switch to sterling payments; RAF personnel in Canadian school - Jul 4: --- Permission requested to give advance for supplies for supplies for Canadian School; Crawley, marriages and funds; no word from Hartwell, Baker, Bridgeman or India party; few can afford hill’s holiday; Canadian School older boys have taken jobs - Jul 11: --- Salaries and funds: Agnew, Roulston, Mullett, Brown, A.C. Hoffman; copies of missing statements; must ask Jones to stay, Bell,

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Hibbard and Kitchen cannot handle more; if WCUU salaries go up, so will missionaries’ servants; canteen for RAF men; money for literature department; payment of drafts in Canada - Jul 20: Armstrong: Explanation of cable of July 16; payment of estimates to S. China O.K.; Broadfoot et al. cared for by Canadian government; Moore on exchange ship; Cheung remains with mother in Kongmoon; cost to board of raise salaries; $6.000 rice loan changed to gift; exchange rate 16-1; news of Hibbard children; transmissions: for student aid, scholarship, relief, special objects; un-cashed West China orders; Arrivals: Brown, Russell, McDougall; Mrs. Brown much improved; Bridgeman and Stewart on slower boat; gift for relief from Delahay; gift for Hilliard; Williams salary amount - Aug 20: Cairns (South China) - how to get funds into S. China; consul casual about Canadian government payments; state of mind; living conditions. - Sept 9: Mitchell: Good character of Mr. Wu, Exec. Secretary Kwantung Synod; the church in Shaokuan city; Wu getting funds through to church in occupied China. - Sept 21: Hibbard: ruling of payment of children’s allowances to retired men; allowances for Arthur Edmonds and Mary Jolliffe, since unable to return to Canada; fire at Jolliffe house; pressure brought for better exchange rate; problems over financial dealings in India - Sept 26: Arnup: use of property sale funds for maintenance O.K. but must know total amount for budget purposes; loan/gift clarified; Hoffman’s salary; method of Literature payments; word received from Mullett; McIntosh taking up TB nursing, hopes to return - Oct 7: --- Literature appropriation coming through IMC; received cable on exchange rate; transmissions; W.R. Morrison building fund - Oct 23: Hibbard: Wanting to change plant funds into gold; advancing salaries for advance buying of staples; want cable if estimates require cutting; Broadfoot’s estimates - Dec 8: Arnup: Children’s allowances: Plewman and children on the field; preferential rates of exchange; meeting of Odlum with other missionaries; Salary payments: Mullett, Broadfoot; drug payment for Service; salary increases: Brown, Bridgeman, Williams; transmissions; missionary travel accounts should be exact

1983.047C 9-199 Correspondence: Boyd Re: Canadian Mission Press: Time for all out organized scheme for cooperation of all missions in W. China for literature work

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1983.047C 9-200 List of Mission Buildings in Fowchow and Chungchow 1942 1983.047C 9-201 Correspondence- Arnup with Missionaries: Best: family and financial

affairs; - Hartwell: (from Arnup); Theological position innate good sense; - Hayward: re: return to China; - Hilliard: letter from Hamlyn who gave funds for Hilliard; Arnup on keeping Hamlyn informed; - Hoffman, A.C.: Failure of W. China mission in church organization; CF; Honan; Policy change may have to come from Canada; Jenner: unable to return on grounds of health; interview on medical work in West China; - Longley: re: return to China; - Lindsay: temporarily Vice Chancellor, WCUU; brief comment on registration of students and financial future; - Rackham: immigration problems for Nan Rackham - Robertson: WCUU finances; health - Service: departure and travel adventures; engagement to Norma Thompson;

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- Sparling: Theological College; - Stinson: Doubling up with Sheridan’s and doing without cook to save money; country evangelistic work, Miss Sparling and Miss Li; - Spooner: Address given to Sunday Retreat of the Faculty of the College of Science, WCUU.

1983.047C 9-202 ---: Brown: Revival of work at Sutherland Memorial; funds for daughters proceeding home; flight to Calcutta; on to Bombay; Mrs. Brown’s condition; travel finances in India; sailing as flight changes too uncertain; Gandhi; Central India Mission; arrival in N.Y.

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1983.047C 9-203 ---: Bacon: Decision to leave mission and enter chaplaincy; request from Bell for use of furniture for Brames

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1983.047C 9-204 ---: Bridgeman: From Bombay to N.Y.; comment on Mrs. Bridgeman on her work and on Canadian contact; post-graduate work

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1983.047C 9-205 ---: Endicott: Mary Endicott argues sending missionaries back to the fields because of travel risks; wants to take job to earn flight money for Jim’s return journey’ J.G. Endicott’s notes on message about China

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1983.047C 9-206 ---: Jones: Mail routes; no word of Mullett; finances; bombing; Radio Message via USA; payments for Mr. German; money for Anglicans in Honan; problems raised by Jones’ furlough

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1983.047C 9-207 ---: Morgan: Retirement due to ill health; thanks to Board for past relationship; pension augmented for two years; privilege of mission service and relationships; insurance arrangements; Medical and dental accounts; compiles news items for sending to West China.

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1983.047C 9-208 ---: Mrs. Mullet: Mullett interned in Hong Kong; hope for repatriation; salary payments

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1983.047C 9-209 ---: McIntosh: re: return to China, and present occupation, nursing at Bruns’ Lake and Tranquille; preparations for departure, papers, inoculations

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1983.047C 9-210 ---: Walmsley (Principal of Canadian School): Authority for Canadian School to recommend for Grade XIII exams; conditions at school; grade XIII to be taught at Chengtu; mixed bag of children at school; discussion of appropriate age for children to separate from parents and return to Canada; particular problem cases; truck ride to Chengtu described in hilarious detail; maturity level of youngsters sent home; deferment of military service sought for three “China” boys

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1983.047C 9-211 ---: Williams: Arrival and settling in Winnipeg; travel expenses; will return to Chengtu alone; refused army medical corps position; furlough plans; expenses of settling; deputation work; temporary work at pathology at Winnipeg General; post graduate study at Johns Hopkins; explanation of various financial operations; serious illness of daughter Eleanor; Hayward’s return to China

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1983.047C 9-212 ---: Williams; Agreement between Associated Press, Canadian Mission Press, the Christian Farmer and the CLS

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1983.047C 9-213 Provisional Council of the Church of Christ in China: Annual report of CCC in Kunming and Kokiu; news of Fukien Synod; newsletter from Chengtu; General Assembly of Provisional Council of CCC; financial report Jan- Feb, 1942; resume of report by Djang on visit to Yunnan Mission field; special data on finances; syllabus regarding Yunnan Church; mission project

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1983.047C 9-214 Financial Statement: Statement and special list of requested increases 1942 1983.047C 9-215 Occupied China (1942-1943): Report of Missionary Work in China between

Jun 1942 and Sept 1943 by representative missionaries on 2nd Gripsholm; Church of Christ in Occupied Areas

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1983.047C 9-216 Correspondence: Arnup-Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jan- Jun): - Jan 11: 1) Bell: Letters received; shocked by financial situation of church; division of lump sum difficult; rice bonus; concerned no news from Service; WMS finances; 2) Arnup: Financial position vis-à-vis China may improve;

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exchange rate under study; M. and M. not so healthy; reprise of cables Dec 12 to Jan 11, covering personnel and finances; Hartwell funeral; appropriation short of request but more than resources; death of Crawford’s father; transmissions; salary arrangements: Agnew, Mullett; payments to Hibbard children; McRae’s return to China; family news; church unity, and apathy; numbering all letters; Hamlyn’s gift for Hilliard - Jan 27: --- Queries concerning cooperation in United Christian Publishers; bulleting of East Asia Committee of NCC: duplication in appointments: specialist vs. general missionary: non-Christian attitudes and cooperatives; sale of properties authorized; Cables Re: financial problems; missionaries discuss mission request that no missionaries return to China for financial reasons; special grants of last year included in budget - Jan 29: Bell: Father’s death; cables of Jan 16-31 explained; Sterling remittance held by Bank of Chungking in racket; Finance Minister claims to be in a bind on exchange; Chaing still tops with all but very soon down the ladder corruption begins; suggestion of selling Canadian drafts on open market, CF Stillwell on exchange rate on American salaries; dividing the lump sum appropriation; some missionary bonuses gets applied on work therefore no sense sending more missionaries; Hibbard’s health; furlough travel planning: children, also Jones, Mathieson, MacHattie, Mitchell, and Campbell; news wanted of Bill Service and Glenn Walmsley - Feb 8: 1) --- Lack of Council meeting; arrival of Bill Service; NCC and Nanking Theological seminary have funds for road widening; sale of properties: Yu Chia Chang Chapel, Chungchow school site, Shu Wa Kai [p. 3 and 4 missing]; plans for Fowchow; possibility of Scottish mission taking area East of Chungking; cooperation vs. denominationalism; Agnew gone to get supplies from India; Service brought 500 lbs.; plans for Agency and Home in absences of Jones; suggest one treasurer, trained for both missions, with secretarial backup; Canadian School location and staffing problems, expenses; replacement expenses for Walmsley and Harris; salaries and cost of living; currency very unstable; repairs for hospitals, Luchow; closure of school; two men at Tzeliutsing hospital as base for supervision of other hospitals; personnel: Sheridan, Brown; repeat of furlough names; sale of cow, Dickinson give part of proceeds to University and part to Mission; problem of Hibbard’s work while ill; 2) Arnup: Comment on furlough people and gaps left; transfer of China children to Woodstock, India to be studied; Vokes’ return; no more missionaries to go; Williams at John Hopkins; comment on minutes received; Kilborn as interpreter to Legation, Bell retirement discouraged; cable sent: Mullett piano sale and Glenn Walmsley in Oshawa; Doris Himmbar’s engagement - Feb 10: --- Notification of furloughs to W. China missionaries in Canada - Mar 15: Bell: Inflation continues; home orders are funded from sale of personal goods; Campbell’s have left permanently; comment on United Christian Publishers; two doctors as medical secretaries of NCC; NCC commissions drain off money which should be used in city church work; who will do work after specialist has withdrawn?; Cannot make in depth comment on people’s understanding of cooperatives; non-return recommendation certainly applies to Honan missionaries; having to put personal funds to house repairs, etc.; must provide more or less adequate support for Chinese staff; thanks for Morgan’s news notes. - Mar 19: Arnup: Routine matters; Broadfoot escape to interior reports; mission boys returning to Canada may be drafted; Longley unable to work; Mrs. Longley in slide department; Church financial situation, special appeal for West China denied; still some hope, maybe pooled resources with other boards; transmissions; WMS payment to FMB in Canada should be spent on field; scramble to get four women off to field.

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- Mar 31: Bell: Hibbard improved; ship from India available; others heading for India; crisis coming over some school properties, particularly Chungking Boys’ school and WMS schools; recommend turning them over to government; Friends’ Mission may take over Home; Canadian schools to move back to Chengtu, other possibilities being studied; cost of living and exchange rate; special help for office of President Dzen. - Apr 9: --- Not much danger of large group of missionaries being stuck in India; some possibility of higher education for missionary children in Indian colleges; Woodstock school proposition in light of cost of living; Kilborn to legation in Chungking; Bell’s personal future discussed; report on Broadfoot escape may be false; difficulties of cooperation in field of literature, NCC not helping with money; India situation not really comparable with China; latter using literature more widely; cost of books now prohibitive - Apr 13: Armstrong: Appointment of Copland to CCC; Bacon to chaplaincy, also Faris; possibility of American support for Endicott, Boyd, Menzies; furlough movements; relief for China; appointment of Norman McKenzie; West China’s difficulties with Honan refugees, Chinese and Canadian; removal of deficit on M. and M. fund promising; Commission on Church, Nation and World Order; Mme. Chiang in America - Apr 27: Arnup: No letter about Joint Executive Meeting; seeking successor for Decker on Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China; N.Y. meeting on support for UCC West China Mission a flop; Canadian Red Cross and requisitions for Canadian mission hospitals - Apr 29: Wilmott, K.: to Odlum Canadian Minister, Chungking; cost of living, exchange rate -May 3: Bell: Cable; all children, Walmsley and Edmonds to Woodstock; furlough in India not desirable; inflation continues; proceeds of large property sales for salaries and maintenance; Bell replaces Hibbard as treasurer - May 4: --- Shocked that China appeal was denied; Cunningham letter not diplomatic but expressive; other missions similarly concerned; inflation at 7000%; description of costs and quality; comment on move to Woodstock; furlough in Indian not a sufficient change; Grace Manley’s illness; reduction of West China Staff; Government grant of 50% on all diplomatic, Missionary relief funds instead of new exchange rate, a present help but leaves future uncertain, complicates use of property sales funds for maintenance; friends taking over Home; travellers: Millar, Buchanan, Bell, Hibbard, Steele; Broadfoot well in Linhsien; Longley’s conditions; Beaton’s D.D.; medical work payments; WMS and BFM; Geoff Smith, language study and future - May 10: --- cable: official announcement of 50% grant and problems - May 11: --- Some doubts about accepting 50% grant; sale of Jenshow; money from sales creates real problem; method of using these funds with equity to all; inflation continues, complex situation, political military, economic; Veal gift to be held; death of Manley owing to “identifying” - May 15: Arnup: Cable answering Bell on government grant, Canadian school, furloughs, etc. - May 17: --- 1) Board actions; discussion of West China situation; government grant approved; Mission to decide use of property proceeds; appropriations; pension fund assessments; repairs, etc.; Bell appointed treasurer; cooperation of WMS, specifically McIntosh; Canadian school move; transfer of schools; Longley retirement; relationship to Board of Endicott, Bridgeman, Brown, Williams; Sibley resignation; policy: WCUU, Evangelism; Dickinson’s cow money; postponement of Kitchen furlough; greetings to Mme. Chiang; death of Yang Shao Chuen; greetings from Szechwan Synod; Treasurer’s report; resolution on immigration; China

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Relief-Lend Lease. 2) Explanations of Board actions; returning missionaries must give a full report of all expenses; is there confidence between Szechwan and Honan missionaries? - May 25: Bell: Comment on failure of cooperation and pooled expenses; drug supplies through Red Cross, and Stewart Allen; gift to Hilliard; transportation of drug supplies greatest problem; furlough of Indian service: Hoffman, Lindsay, Willmott; sale of dental houses to Chinese Christians; many schools graduates are now well off; possible to purchase gold drafts on Bank of China to be honoured in N.Y. one year from date; bonus to be paid in lump sum to allow wholesale purchases; Friends Mission definitely taking over Home, Jones leaves for India soon - May 28: Mickle: Telegram; Method of transmitting funds to obtain 5% grant - Jun 1: Arnup: Insurance risks; MacHattie’s arrival; sale of Chungking school property to WMS; settlement of Albertson estate; pension assessments to be discussed with Pension’s Board; possible return of two missionaries; disposal of property funds; personnel transmissions - Jun 12: Bell: Scheme for payment of bonuses and handling proceeds, grants; more on Government’s 50% grant; prices listed; bonuses for Chinese colleagues; cable reply requested; Boyd to return if support outside of present grants; cannot transmit funds direct to Canada; “Duck Pond: sale; Morgan bungalow, Mullett goods; Hibbard marriage delay; high prices, health hazards will necessitate further reductions in staff; Broadfoot in Kwantung needs increase; Walmsley and school move; Odlum to visit Chengtu - Jun 23: Arnup: Hartwell Memorial Fund; WCCU grant included in appropriation; other financial matters, “special” gift for Jolliffe, Union Normal school, 1942 bonus for medical workers, children’s allowances, Albertson, Simpkin, Mullett; sale of Morgan’s bungalow; remit surplus funds by Toronto Orders; sale of Chungking property to WMS; personnel: McIntosh, Jack, Longley, Williams, Brown, Endicott, Bridgeman; Feeler from Norwegian Lutherans to take over part of field; relation of property to Chinese church; dinner to mark 50th anniversary of Endicott Sr.’s sailing for China; Africa missionaries; Mme. Chiang in Ottawa; transmissions - Jun 28: --- Cabling authority for spending property receipts on rice; Arrivals: MacHattie, Campbell, Mathieson; sale of Endicott’s property; transmissions.

1983.047C 9-217 Correspondence: Arnup-Bell (Secretary of Mission, Jul- Dec): - Jul 7: Bell: Hibbard’s departure; office now combined; movements of Canadian School personnel and children to India and Canada; problems related to Chungking Boy’s School sale; Church brethren oppose sale of small property to bank involving new treaties in support of action; Jenshow school sale; Shu Wa Kai property renovations, problems with tenants; Ginling Hospital rents Canadian School; Campbell’s return would be unwise; praise for Mrs. Edmonds; discussion of the spiritual health for the mission as a whole; possibility of getting Smith, trained accountant to act for both missions; new price rises; use of bonus under consideration; Endicott may replace Kilborn at legation - Jul 12: Harrison: cable: rice price, need funds - Jul 16: Armstrong: Approval for appointment of Gordon Smith for BFM/WMS accounts; sell personal goods of Williams and Brown; travellers: Jack, Mitchell and others; transmissions and salary and travel accounts; information on UCC - Jul 17: Bell: Ratio of Canadians to U.S. Missionaries in Szechuan; words from Madras and Swarthmore fine but no concrete action; less cooperative effort in West China than in 1927; situation in literature field; Mathieson’s

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return discussed; supplies through Red Cross difficult; universities better off than general missions; secretaries and specialists; only hope to cut funds at source; missionary withdrawal seriously affects churches; prices still rising. - Jul 20: --- to fellow missionaries outlining position on spiritual health of mission - Jul 26: --- Cable to Canadian School personnel, also McIntosh and Jack - Jul 30: --- Row over principal at Chungking Boy’s School; Chungking hospital minor building plans; salary arrangements in India: Walmsley, Allan and Sheridan; Gordon Smith available for accounts - Aug 13: Arnup: Red Cross drug distribution; approval of expenditure of property fund without Executive approval; Cunningham letter to go into Observer - Aug 19: --- Some advocate withdrawal of missionaries from China; whole situation to be reviewed by Pensions and General Council Executive - Aug 23: --- Bell: details of Chungking Middle School mess; pension on basic salary only; Honan group; transmissions; W.E. Scott’s illness; Allowances: Nan Rackham, Joy Willmott; rice field and Duck pond not interchangeable; Morgan bungalow; tax on property sales caused by opposition’s delaying tactics; four families due for furlough 1944, hope it will be possible for four families to return to China; need consultation with Mission and Synod on Lutheran proposal - Oct 4: Arnup: Arrival of Gordon James; Rackham child allowance; transmissions; Gordon Smith appointed - Oct 7: Bell: Problem of Willmott’s theological position and return; Gordon Smith appointment great boon; heavy repairs on No. 2 house; must have council meeting; lease of property to Theological College; furloughs: Stinson, Roulston; request cable authorization for signing of deeds as Chungking Middle School not finally settled; Mary Jolliffe travel accounts - Oct 8: Arnup: Information required on PUMC students transferring to WCCU; Bell refusal to accept $200; India allowances; personnel: Jones, Edmonds, Hibbard; UTCNY offering fellowships; transmissions; Campbell in Medical Corps; Simpson small gifts; church deficit completely underwritten; Kings and Mullett being repatriated from Hong Kong - Oct 18: Bell: Arrangements for parcel for Neil Bell; no reason for immediate withdrawal; use of property funds makes big difference; truck account; inefficient to charge India expenses via West China accounts; 50% government grant on exchange has complications; missionaries’ reports - Oct 26: --- Cable received; Jones, Mullett, King; legal property authorization; truck account; Canadian School account; rice price falling, other prices rising. - Nov 1: 1) --- Travel account and salary, McIntosh; expected outcome of Norwegian proposition; discussions over Shu Wa Kai sale with various echelons of officialdom; Smith expected; suggest Anderson (India) deal directly with Toronto; 2) Armstrong: Chinese Committee fund appeal passes one million; some to go to Medical Missions; inter-church China relief campaign; Margaret Brown to West China; other Honan missionaries - Nov 1: Arnup: Executive okays use of property funds for rice bonuses; sympathy on school and property controversies; mission children, Mitchell, Edmonds party—fire at sea- safe in Honolulu; help from Red Cross on field; Board of Finance surplus; CCC rather than UCC should make approach to other boards to help finance lower part of field; busy over WCCU Board of Governors meeting in Toronto; enclosing legal document re: property; General Council Executive warmly sympathetic to West China situations and relief appeal; Mission boys in services: Bell, Reed, Swann and Meuser; Arnup new chairman of WCCU governors; transmissions with instructions - Nov 13: Bell: Furniture for Stanways; transfer by gift of small property to

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government; Council and Synod may be in Chengtu; present and expected price rises; Li Min Liang’s insurance; Mullett - Nov 22: --- Explanation of request for sterling funds; estimated appropriation before Council meets; price index $60,000 forecast; still urge no withdrawal in spite of rise; irrational situation and sense of values; NCC conference on post war church: Unity, mission-church relationships, program, Chinese leadership, etc. (Chang of Christian Farmer chairman of mission-church relation and property); some NCC officials think organization more than advisory; control of property an important issue; surge of national felling with new treaties. - Dec 8: --- Death of Donald Bridgeman; gifts from Simpsons; transfer of PUMC medical school to WCCU, contributions from former of latter; concerned about provision of overhead, endowment necessary; property: Junghsien, problems over deed; proposition to turn over Chin Ih Boys’ school debt; puzzled over Edmonds; Broadfoot’s personal and mission finances; suggest direct remittances to Broadfoot; Births: Webster, Hilliard - Dec 10: Arnup: Endicott dinner; call for missionary candidates for after the war; cable of November 18 puzzling; Arrivals: Hibbard, Allan Rackham, Kilborn, Edmonds, Mitchell, Mullett, King; Dr. Janet Kilborn, health; finances of UCC in better shape; West China appropriation uncertain; special appeal approved; Endicott restless; suggest a day with Kilborn and others on University question; Willmott; Gordon Smith; agree Council should meet; were Agnew trucks sold in India?’ India payments being studied; dental faculty cable to Mullett; orders for deposit; transmissions - Dec 13: Bell: Cable requesting replacements, 1944 and appointment of Norma Thomson; other items in previous letters - Dec 15: Arnup: Require list of WCCU salaries and bonuses; appropriations estimate; mission houses on University property; property of Theological College donated by UCC, other missions forget; WMS $12,000 on medical account; return to field: Jones, Endicott, Bridgeman; most others not immediately available; Mrs. Edmond’s finances; Norma Thompson for appointment - Dec 16: --- Endicott, Bridgeman; appropriations; pay CCC $1,200

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1983.047C 9-219 Correspondence- Arnup With Hibbard (Treasurer up to July): - Feb 11: Hibbard: explanation of estimates; problems of travel from and to India; Canadian School to move back to Chengtu - Feb 23: --- More on travel - Feb 24: Arnup: Payment of Broadfoot estimates; financial details on estimates; transmissions - Mar 10: Hibbard: Orders for insurance and from individuals; latter indicates sale of personal goods - Mar 27: --- Explanation of financial statement; expenses of Honan and South China separate; funds for furlough probabilities; mix-up over WMS medical payments - Apr 10: --- Grant to Christian publishers; Mathieson accounts; U.S. citizens denied travel through India; travellers: Hibbard, Sheridan; exchange rate; Albertson estate; Willmott accounting of Quentin funds - Apr 22: --- Account with India; MacHattie advanced personal funds for flights; travellers: Buchanan, Millar, Hibbard, Campbell, Mathieson, Sheridan; suggested transfer of funds to Canadian bank for U.S. Friends’ mission man; government award for Mullet; Broadfoot’s adventures - May 5: --- Dismayed by attitude of church board secretaries against China appeal; travel for Hibbard with Omar Walmsley; Bruce Dickinson; urges

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that travel via Australia be allowed and also that costs for long delays be covered

1983.047C 9-220 Correspondence: Arnup with Individual Missionaries: Allan, C. Gage, (Mrs. F.F): travel from Chungking to Mussoorie; hope to get position at Woodstock; closing up of Canadian School, Chengtu described; news of Walmsleys, Hibbard, Sheridan, Veals; returning to Canada; - Allen: financial hand to mouth at Chungking hospital; $1,000 advance for purchase and airmail of essential drugs; - Arnup: drugs should come from Canadian Red Cross, and related letters from Allen’s mother and sister-in-law; - Bacon: In the army; - Best: Messiah sung by Chinese at University gym; Christmas much marked by student groups; PUMC nursing school best in China; account of arrival of PUMC staff and students and their joining with WCCU; signs of the new China; hospital problems—scarcity of beds and quality of those available, need de-bugging once a month; expense of bedding and mosquito nets; two cases described; - Arnup to Mrs. Best: about Best sons; - Birtch from Arnup: ---; - Brace: Exchange between Hosking, YMCA and Arnup on Brace’s relationship with the two bodies; - Brown: leave of absence and medical expenses; possible return to China; - Buchanan: Arnup welcomes home and gives news of other missionaries; - Collier: contribution for Spooner; - Cunningham: Arnup to Tallin: Dinner given by staff of Shensi Gai Hospital to Cunningham’s 50th birthday; - Day: The year’s work; Webster and he feel Chinese church too dependent on mission and examples given; ideas on missionary training; missionary experience clarifies beliefs; accepts necessity of patience with colleagues, Chinese and Canadian; language; country work, living with pastor; - Dickinson: sale of improved cow, and disposal of the money; - Edmonds: en route to Toronto with children; furlough salary; - Endicott: extension of furlough pending opportunity to return to China; member of Committee on Pension Assessments; - Harris: (Arnup describes gift and activities of friends, particularly stirring government to China appeal); description of work conditions, make shift chapel; praise for Sheridan’s foresight and persistence in purchasing present site of Chungking Hospital; Sheridan’s talk to staff describing early days; - Hartwell, Geraldine: Arnup condolences on mother’s death; - Hayward: Arnup explanation of non-return; Hayward leave of absence extended; - Hibbard: from Calcutta; ship turned back, waiting passage; Canadian School Children going to Montessori; - Hilliard: Grateful for general news; finances of Fowling Hospital; frustrations; comment on Jim Endicott and Mme. Chiang; - Arnup: sports roundup; Hamlyn’s gifts; drugs through Red Cross; - Hilliard: Hospital helped financially by a company and Public Health Department; council meeting may be tense; future of hospital in event of Hilliard furlough; Evangelistic work needs indigenizing; - Hoffman, C.M.; Opposition to closing of Kiating hospital; present arrangement is that Kiating, Tzeliutsing and Junghsien are working together fairly well; lost some goods, others badly damaged in move down river; bomb damage repairs urgently needed at Tzeliutsing; - Jenner: leave of absence extended; - Jones: First Secretary of Chinese legation in Ottawa and wife Christian; they wish to make church connections; [This letter dated 1941, received

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Mar 15]; - Arnup: Chinese government minister made good impression at General Council; report of escape of Broadfoots; - Kitchen: Program at Sze Shen Ts Church under pastor from Nanking; good work with young people; Church lay people raise funds for weaker churches; pres—its debt to Endicott senior and its work and problems; - Lindsay, G.S.: Taylor writes of lowering morale amongst the younger missionaries due to “unjust” financial treatment; Arnup replies; - Longley: retirement; - Reed: Canadian School; gardens and cost of living; conditions in the church; trying to keep some sort of Christian control on Tzeliutsing Middle Schools; personnel turnover due to expense; livestock; - Service: Arrival in India; - Spooner: “Neglect of contribution through Arts College”; absence of young staff who will be here ten years from now; need full time religious worker on Campus; Canadian School now very small; University of Toronto Alumni Association in Chengtu; hope for warmer relations between Canada and China; rate of exchange problem aired; sale of goods in order to save for furlough; - Veals: gift from Mrs. Clark; Port Perry Star: Cost of living Canadian School closed; sale of personal goods; - Walmsley: Thanks for outlines of high school courses; ways of getting Canadian H.S. Texts to West China; 56 children in school; From India: Canadian school children settled at Woodstock; Walmsley travel and furlough plans; - Wilmott, K. to Bell: Differences in mission set up; to Arnup: Reasons for going to and staying in India; work at Indore Christian College; family plans; regrets at leaving work in China; Jesus study groups

1983.047C 9-221 ---: Jolliffe: Annuity for wife; United Christian Publishers and Christian Literature Society; Margaret Brown needed; Canadian Mission Paper, S.S. supplies in Free China; Christian Omnibook, Wesley’s Journals; importance of keeping union idea in Chinese Church; better attitude amongst Canadian mission church pastors; comment on queries re: cooperation in publishing; statement of the United Christian Publishers; Menzel’s paper; personal details; problem of ethics in savings from sale of personal goods; sale of old dentures netted $1,500 for literature - Arnup: Furthering union movements; lack of church material for public relations; misinterpretation of Ed Jolliffe by Press in Canada; copy of Menzel on Distribution of Christian Literature

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1983.047C 9-223 ---: Kilborn: Working at Canadian Legations; Wife’s health; opening of new university hospital; student concert in aid of free beds; Medical grads raising scholarships; hospital arrangements; service of Outerbridge as successor to chair of surgery; Cunningham succeeds Kilborn as dean of medicine; hospital administrator leaves; secretarial help needed in medical faculty; one treasurer for both Canadian boards; Endicott a natural for Legation job; Shensi Gai Hospital establishes Cunningham scholarship; mission and municipal government to open mental hospital; Shensi Gai Hospital Trachoma Research Fund; Associated Boards should make study of future of medical education in China; portraits (Forster) of Kilborn srs; Arnup: Comment on above - Kilborn: travel expense account; report of W. China Frontier Research Institute; donation to Medical/Dental Building

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1983.047C 9-226 ---: Robertson: Inflation fixed exchange rate, government subsidy, effect on work; call for return of Endicott; Minister Chiang Kia-ngai to U.S.A. for study; New York office needs personnel; student work; -Arnup: tenant revolving scholarship, comment on above

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1983.047C 9-227 ---: Sheridan: Drugs; condition of hospital, repairs; Cecil Hoffman’s loss of household goods; visit to Chengtu for medical and dental check-up; food prices and short supplies; health; going to India; life in Chengtu; travelogue: Chungking to Dhar, India

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1983.047C 9-228 ---: Stinson: Account of West China Christian Workers’ Conference and address to it of Governor of Szechuan; meetings of Mission Council and Synod; Mrs. Stinson describes life in Tzeliutsing

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1983.047C 9-229 ---: Williams: furlough activities and studies; daughter’s health; sale of bungalow and goods; donation for Service Fund; residency sought for Dr. Hsu Ming Yuen; Spooner suggestion for small drug packages; resignation from mission

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1983.047C 9-230 Annual Reports: Personal: Harris and Hartwell; Districts: Chungchow, Chungking, Fowchow, Jenshow, Junghsien, Kiating, Luchow, Penghsien, Tzeliutsing, Mission Press, WCUU

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1983.047C 9-231 Papers concerning conditions in West China 1943 1983.047C 9-232 Christian Theological Education in China: Tables showing state of

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1983.047C 9-233 Church of Christ in China: Djang and Price: Secretaries of Provisional Committee outlining conditions and program; Djang: on Copland as colleague and as missionary; Clark to Arnup: funds for CCC

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1983.047C 9-235 Provisional Council of CCC: Suggested organization; minutes of meetings; correspondence of Djang and Copland with boards; report by Tsui; financial statements

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1983.047C 9-236 Map of Chengtu City; Diagram of Boys’ School property Chungking 1943 1983.047C 9-237 Financial Statements of Mission 1943 VOLUME III: 1944-1952

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date(s) 1983.047C 10-238 Correspondence- Arnup with Bell (Secretary of Mission):

- Jan 3: Bell: December cables received; relationship of financial situation to return of missionaries to China; new exchange rate under consideration; case on hand situation; people due for furlough must go to make place for others to return; people already arriving for Mission Council; Marshall Feng Yu Hsiang’s collection for war effort; Typhus: Agnew, Foster and Cunningham; Fowchow and Chungchow reaction to proposed General Assembly take-over and copy of letter to Birtch on the same subject. - Jan 12: Arnup: Possibility of English Baptists taking over eastern end of UCC field; Canadian East Asia account; financial arrangements for stay of China Missionaries in India; cash on hand; Stinson wants fellowship for church music study; property sales; Mullett has scarlet fever; Personnel: Price, Hibbard; return of missionaries and stationing: Bridgeman, Jones; small financial matters and transmissions; copy of African letter to China and from Mary Jolliffe - Jan 18: --- Property, Board and Chinese Church; expense of University Hospital and back history; Chungking school; arrival of Margaret Brown; Births: Webster, Hilliard; finances; Chinese Church leaders in asking mood; Broadfoot payments via West China; no fellowship available for Stinson - Statement on Mission Property in China: Categories and title and right of

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sale, affidavit re: Bell as treasurer - Feb 3: Bell: 1) Council meeting well worth cost; commendation of younger members of mission; reports encouraging in view of prevailing attitudes; discussion with Tsui on CCC General Assembly and its power; recruitment of missionaries for WCUU a responsibility of all cooperating boards; reorganization of Conference, educational and medical work not covered; property promise to Dan Dzi Shih church; long term contract for Mr. Han as business manager of hospital; increased self-support in Fowchow, Chungchow districts; problem of furlough exchanges especially in relation to Dickinson; property and the Chinese Synod; properties: Chungchow, Tzeliutsing, Junghsien, Penghsien, Weiyuan, Kiating; possible home for retired workers; reasons for resignation from secretaryship; Bayne and Johns invited back for year by Chinese; Canadian School future Committee for Control of University property: gymnasium, playing field, missionary houses; scholarship men: Yang and Dzp; furnishing of repaired hospital; Mr. Hoffman’s return to Canada; reinforcements in view of age of majority; request policy on short terms for men separated from families; need a Honan contact man; Stinson furlough study; furlough study for missionary wives; finding ways for some held in Canada to return. 2) U.S. stopping all missionaries to China; change in make-up of Joint Executive; sale of part of Kao Shi Ti; comment on Veals; stations: Day, Webster, Service; Christian literature society; Cheeloo; furloughs, death of Dr. Smith dealt with in cable. 3) Comment on estimates and sharp price rises; trying to find means of meeting requirements; exchange rate - Feb 7: --- To Armstrong on Roulston furlough - Feb 14: Arnup: Estimates; Church China appeal rather than War relief Committee; Smith funeral; Bridgeman and Endicott ready in April; some non-mission prospects for Jones; request policy on sale of educational property; reply to cable of Feb. 3.; Canadian Foreign Missions Conference; appointment of Dayfoot; personnel: Hibbard, Brown, Kilborn; clergy certificates available through office of Presbyterian Board, U.S.A. on West Coast or Albright in N.Y. - Feb 23: Bell: Indignant reaction to postponement of Junghsien sale as a result of pressure from furlough people; defense of expenditure of property funds to cover bonuses during crisis; current economic and financial situation—market rate of exchange; if estimates cannot be met foreign personnel must be withdrawn; travellers: Rackham and Veals; possible sale of Agency property; Synod wanting bonuses immediately; furloughs and returns of prospects fluctuate; tenant scholarship proposition not feasible; expenditure of plant funds and appropriations; use of housing at WCUU; background of erection of Youth Corps building; Theological College property; Odlum and Canadian government on “Free” exchange; table 5: cost of living in Chengtu - Feb 29: --- Visas and travel documents for Yang and Beh; property proceeds; Smith expenses and travel; pressing need to sell Junghsien school; means of returning Kilborn to University; U.S. Air Force use of hospital lands and payment of view of exchange; departures: Crawford, Lindsay, Struthers, Stinson, Reed, Veals, Rackham, Hoffman - Mar 10: --- Cover for information on support of workers at WCUU; buildings on Theological college property, difficulty removing tenant; prices still rising; cost of remitting money to Broadfoot; omission in estimates - Mar 15: Arnup: Board finances better than expected; prospects for 1944; cable exchange: February 10 and 11 on use of property funds and returning men to China; meeting discussed open market, return of men, evacuating

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families, Kilborn’s return problematical on grounds of wife’s health; money for Smith, bookkeeper; Kilborn’s support on return; comment on Council; allocation of Relief Fund; financial items, mostly personal. - Mar 29: --- Hopes for Canadian government permission for open market; property sales approved; Endicott might go back under American War Department; Furlough status of Hibbard and Sheridan compared; suggest WMS medical payments be made on field; Mullett to Arctic for summer; Union Theological Seminary information on fellowships; special child dosage drugs through Red Cross; transmissions - Mar 31: 1) Armstrong: Cost of China postage a news item; relief money; Roulston furlough; Penfield works for medicine in China; useful book on China; proposition for Canadian Overseas Mission Conference to be part of newly formed Canadian Council of Churches; 2) Bell: looking forward to Williamson (English Baptist) visit; some plan wider than self-support needed for Eastern district; thanks for authoritative statement on property; return of wives not considered; no future in Agency type work for Jones, would like him to prepare for evangelism; Chungking School; Broadfoot’s remittances; Stinson’s furlough study; furlough people in India; doubts expressed by other missions about Earl Willmott; agreement over University Hospital [See Arnup Jan 12] and other hospital matters; MacHattie salary deduction; Sparling statement on Theological college property quoted at length; cables mostly on financial affairs exchanged; Dzo’s study program; missionaries’ cooks walk out to work elsewhere for higher salaries - Apr 14: --- Marriage of Lee and Lu; payment of bonuses; exemplar of personal finances; relief funds; Jenshow Hospital; Tzeliutsing Hospital Board, payment of deficit, accidental death of patient; sale of Agency; future for Jones; Typhoid: Agnes Hilliard; sale of Junghsien school site, Bridgeman involvement; no joint reports on schools made; personnel: Mrs. Kilborn, Brow n, Dayfoot appointment - Apr 12: --- Comment on estimates - Apr 13: Arnup, Harold (Treasurer, UCC): arrangements with Canadian Foreign Exchange Control Board for U.S. currency - Apr 14: Arnup: Above arrangement should be cleared with China Foreign Exchange Control Board - Apr 17: --- Notification of missionaries sailing from India - Apr 18: Bell: Cables of Apr 5, 6, 15 noted; permission for sale of Kiating property and Agency; new developments in exchange situation; coal and oil bonus o.k. in some places; sailings from India; Sheridan’s salary payments; sale of Frier bungalow; Allen accompanies family to India to look into medical supplies and the transport of same - Apr 25: --- Insurance figures; fire and repairs at Mong Yang; Penghsien; repeat on Allen’s plans -May 2: Arnup: 1) Board meeting letter [items: 4]; orphaned missions [5]; China-India appeal: [8-14]; applications and appointments for China: [16]; Appeal for new workers for China: [19]; new treaties with China: [21]; Brace: [11]; Hibbard: [23]; Foreign Exchange in China [24-26]; China properties [27]; Chinese scholarships: [28]; Sino-Canadian Relations: [31-34]; Christian Colleges and Universities: [36-39]; Missionary Personnel: [40]; Canadian School: [41]; Allen furlough: [42, 43]; furlough study: [45]; Joint Council: [49]; Bissell Memorial Trust Fund: [51-60]; finances; 2) Comment on foregoing - May 3: White (Treasurer, Treasury Department, Washington): Concerning U.S./China dollar exchange - May 12: Arnup: Further on China/U.S. dollar exchange; Japanese gains in China; meetings of Associated Boards in N.Y., Kilborn present; Advisory

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Council on Church of Christ in China; Gordon Jones’ future; Broadfoot finances; Stinson; Miss McGowan’s gifts; finances: Kilborn’s support, Broadfoot’s bonuses; Stanway, Allen for x-ray plant; Jolliffe, Hilliard - May 10: Bell: Junghsien property tangle submitted to Synod; Mrs. Liu’s resignation; medical expenses: Webster, Day; P.P.D. clinic; Middle Schools’ future - May 19: --- Vagaries of mail service; Endicott’s plans; travel from India to China not too slow; Sheridan furlough and salary; Mullett to Arctic; U.T.S. scholarships; Red Cross drugs; Kilborn family gift; United Clearing Board organized in Chungking to deal with U.S. $ exchange; regulations of said board; Mission Executive takes exception to the organization of acting without consultation and queries need for a highly centralized scheme; sales of dollars held up at present- may mean shake-up in Finance Ministry; WMS and the services of Smith, bookkeeper. - May 12: --- Notification of missionaries en route home - May 18: Bell: Copy of letter to Hilliard; an account of development of work; relation of Council, Conference and Synod; meetings of medicals and educators at Synod concerned themselves only with finances; church side of Synod followed suit; medical matters - May 23: 1) --- Notification of missionary arrivals in Boston; 2) Arnup’s secretary: Acknowledgment of cables re: finances and other matters; welcome for Lindsay planned in Montreal - Jun 5: Bell: Foreign Cemetery in Chungking; work around Chikiang to be turned over to Reformed Church group; Miss Dougherty; Mullett compensation; finances and salaries; sale of U.S. $ and position of funds, WMS and BFM; looking for markets for Canadian U.S. $ drafts; problem of adequacy of funds available in relation to return of missionaries; Odlum’s interest in Canadian School; gratitude of Home church response to special appeal; invasion of Europe; cable re: sale of Canadian dollars via India; rent in Australia for Mrs. Gordon Smith - Jun 19: --- India deal for funds going through; Chungking group want Chengtu group to subordinate their financial dealings; Independence of action a necessity; sale of Agency property; Broadfoot move to Kunming in view of Japanese advance; interdenominational cooperation in supplying personnel to the universities lacking; awaiting word of Endicott and Bridgeman; celebrations for O. Jolliffe

1983.047C 10-239 Correspondence- Arnup (later Kilborn) with Bell (Secretary-Treasury of Mission, Jul- Dec): - Jul 5: Bell: Dickinson instrumental in getting duck egg hatchers from China to India; problems arising from Dickinson staying on in spite of furlough rules, and personal ventures such as the dairy herd; The Press might be a possible interim work for Jones; Kilborn’s return a matter for consultation with the Board - Jul 13: 1) --- Sterling/rupees exchange for Chinese currency in concert with British Societies; mechanics of this scheme; property sales hanging fire; offer for Agency from Bishop Hall; finances and transmissions; Endicott and Bridgeman en route; Lindsay, Crawford arrived; possibility of sending drugs and special powdered milk with those retuning; 2) Effect of present conditions on first termers and general policy; Arnup for moderator; statement on Mission Work in China [3 pg.] - Jul 31: --- Copy to Sisco; greetings to 11th General Council - Aug 2: --- Exchange bonus account explained; exchange rate on money sent home; Willmott’s salary; Children’s allowances: Willmott, Reed, Rackham; payment of board for time spend in India en route to Canada; property sale at Hsinfan; difficulties with local officials over Psong Lin (Penghsien) sale; delays in depositing pounds for man in Kunming;

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Morgan’s health; no rush to sell property in Jenshow and Kiating as rice price down, however, will press Agency sale; Chungking Middle School mess - Aug 17: Arnup: Summer activities; moderatorship possibility; comment on Bell letter #14: Mullett, prices; request for information on use of Relief Fund Exchange in relation to American and British policy; Mrs. Gordon Smith’s rent; Bishop Hall’s offer for Agency makes UCC milch cow; cooperation at WCUU; personnel: Dickinson, Jones, Kilborn; Broadfoot’s requisitions; in transit: Sheridan, Allen, Bridgeman, Endicott, Brown: accounts and health; Wilford’s honour reported in Globe; various financial matters - Sept 5: Bell: Use of rents from mission houses; furlough plans: Jolliffe, Mrs. Bell, Outerbridge, Webster; press; property; Mullett’s return; urge return of all able to come in view of large number of furloughs coming up; young people want assurance of Canadian School; possible temporary appointment of Knight to WCUU; Union Middle School upheaval; relief funds; drop in price of rice in other commodities; exchange rate; limitation of funds under British exchange regulations - Sept 6: --- Chinese concern over mission property sales largely reflect views of Chang of the Christian Farmer; history behind mission acquisition of property; effect of anti-Christian agitation of 20’s followed by depression; some schools sold, others in a mess; only a limited amount of property should be turned over to Chinese Synod; new tax laws do not totally exempt churches - Sept 19: --- Congratulations on election as Moderator; in transit: Dickinson, Endicott, Bridgeman; money for Broadfoot, Wu and others; transmissions to Canada: Chengtu City Dental Hospital, Dr. Hsia and Press; tax problems in relation to property sales; problem of future of church in China largely one of grass roots leadership; Chinese love of bureaucratic position; modern obsession of size, speed, mass production; Church just another “hwei” or guild; no easy quick future for church in China; news of Bacon and Neil Bell - Sept 20: Arnup: Arrangements for Board office during moderatorship; Arnup to continue with international organizations; Kindness from all sides on election; Clara Jones’ sleeping sickness; postscript, by Kilborn: Mullett, Knight; Mrs. Kilborn improving; P.P.S. transmissions - Sept 17: Bell: large amounts cannot get preferential exchange; not wanting to bring out money in view of income from property sales; slow use of relief funds also due to inability to get money through Honan and Kwangtung; prices still rising; relief funds blessing moral to Chinese associates; work funds also helped; Japanese raiders came in on tail of Super Forts; WCUU cooperation; Wilford celebration purely Chinese affair; remittance to Pentecostal Assemblies; Dayfoot equipment; finances. - Oct 11: --- Service to India to meet finance; repairs; maintenance; Agency sale; Outerbridge furlough plans; Webster furlough; payment to Hoffmann on account of loss of goods; Endicott wants to leave to do war work; Committee to consider Bell replacement; Reed’s settlement; Bedding for Dayfoot - Oct 17: Kilborn: Cables received; cable and further comment: Webster, Jolliffe, Dayfoot, Thompson, Mullett, Sheridan, Allen, Gormley, Chen, Wang; Clara Jones condition; Browns want mission opinion on possible return; Crawford’s studies; Lindsay’s health; Rackham and Veals want to return; Reed not too well; if no high school Walmsley would prefer Woodstock, India to Canadian School; defense of heavy UCC commitment in funds and personnel to WCUU; meeting of Post-War Planning Committees in China; Mors fund; Kilborn’s delay in return due to wife’s

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social work study; Outerbridge extended furlough request; Bowyer gift; Chinese doctors studying in Canada; Lindsay’s operations; Crawford studying leprosy, Jean Millar anaesthesia; Willmott promoting Sharman studies; news of missionary children in the armed services; would like report on airmail issues of Observer; further on Bowyer’s gift; Toronto’s mammoth blizzard; grant for Theological College to be paid; mail via India; transmissions. 2) Bell: Effect of Japanese advance; aided by Chinese treachery, on general and mission situation; evacuation plans; reshuffle at Union Middle School; matter of Cornhield referred to annual meeting; Browns will get hearty welcome. - Dec 12: Bell: (To Armstrong): Repeat of items in other letters - Dec 14: --- (To Arnup): Thanks for football news; enclosing congratulations from Chinese church on moderatorship; military situation improved; repeat of other letters; relationship of Canadian School future to Stanway’s appointment as secretary; will suggest that all previous allocations of plant funds be wiped out, leaving the money free for post war use; Webster’s return; advising Outerbridges and Hilliards to leave soon - Dec 21: Hibbard: notification of Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China of intention of UCC mission to transfer mission property at WCUU - Dec 27: Evans: Acknowledgement of Hibbard’s letter

1983.047C 10-240 Correspondence: Arnup with Missionaries: Bacon: Interest in W. China; husband overseas; - Birtch: Suggestion for change to overall control by General Assembly of the Christian Church in China brought local gloom but stirred devotion and desire for self-support at Fowchow and Chungchow; concern over suggested endowment method of self-support through purchase of land and high interest; - Bridgeman: Condolences from Arnup on death of son, Donald; - Brown, Homer: Timing of return to China in view of Muriel’s physical handicap; time wanted for preparation of Literature’s work; Brown, Muriel: Need for study in preparation for Literature work; needs wheel chair; about Dr. Dorothy Chiu Dzen; (Arnup’s answer to Brown’s); - Crawford: Arrival in Detroit and further travel plans; Drs. Beh and Yang sent forward to Toronto; Travelled with Lindsay on account of the latter’s health; - Cunningham: moderatorship; Kilborn needed in China; lack of missionaries serious; praise of Jolliffe; Jones’ return welcome; - Dickinson: praise of Hwang who assisted with teaching and setting up Chinese method of Duck hatching in India; project described; (Letter from U.S. Air Corps Colonel praising Dickinson); - Harris: non-receipt of letters concerning Crawford gift due to loss at sea or censorship; Chinese gown made for Odlum; nurses’ graduation; Christian work in wards produces baptisms; Moderator; new foreign kitchen in hospital works well; - Hartwell: travel difficulties; Chinese feast for missionaries; interpreters wanted by U.S. forces; Dr. Liu returns to the fold; system of local government; 18 hours of English teaching; local staff changes; sad case of Dr. Fung; prices; visit of Goodwill Agricultural Mission from India and other foreign guests; graduation exercises; summer arrangements; - Hoffman: establishment of Synod in China; relation of pastoral to non-pastoral work; Chinese financial responsibility for their church; - Jenner: glad of return of some missionaries to Szechuan; Jenner return hinges on health and type of work required; - Quentin: Disposal of central property of Kiating, proceeds to go to West

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Gate church, Kiating; - Reed: Children’s allowances; account of work; en route home; regularizing residency in Canada of Reed children; - Sheridan: en route home; possibility of remaining to work at WMS hospital at Hat Piplia, India; Bombay crowded with missionaries waiting passage out; travel plans from California include stop overs; request Clergy certificates; Mrs. Allen and children already on the way to Vancouver; visits in California to ex-China people; Small, spot on eyebrow malignant; offers to work in Home Mission Hospital; -Smith, Gordon: family plans; return to Chengtu; taking over BFM and WMS books; personal finances; - Spooner: Problem of numbers vs. quality in the university; key to making Christians is in middle schools; with erosion in Christian middle schools, necessary to place Christian teachers in government schools; China’s future economic problem, Generalissimo relies on expanded education; rice price has dropped a little; presentation of “Romeo and Juliet”, also Chinese drama “Home”; report of medical and dental set up at WCUU; decimation of missionary corps; last Will and Testament of Pastor Shih; moderator; sense of being cut off; need teacher for missionary children; would like some assistance for a Chinese member of the Chemistry Department; - Walmsley: consideration of a program [?]; Humewood redecoration necessary; plans for future, work in Oriental studies; request from Woodstock School, India; - Webster: small payments requested; glad of time spent with Small, Rackham and Hoffman; the latter statesmanlike; Chinese Christians too dependent on Mission; day is a good man to work with; Evangelistic bands and their work; encouraged by tone of district meeting; Webster future in China; family news; early furlough; - Wilford: 60th birthday celebration—funds being raised for Radium and Deep X-Ray; how Sunday was spent; operation on son on Field Marshall, difficulty of getting waiver signed, charges for operation help finances; hospital expenses and expense of supplies; Fuller account of 60th birthday; holiday in Buddhist temple; college crowded, supplies and equipment scarce; U.S. Airforce medical use of WCUU Hospital but help in many ways; General Stillwell’s recall; VIP visitors; moderator; pawn shop prices; - Williams (Arnup to Williams): Dr. Wilder Penfield’s praise of medical mission in West China; Kilborn’s wife’s health; lay missionaries’ pensions; - Willmott: medical examinations and return to China.

1983.047C 10-241 ---: Rev. G.R. Jones: Agency account with UCC treasurer; sale of Agency property, pros and cons; future work in Chungking; Invasion Day in Toronto described; full scale business agency may not be necessary but there will always be some business to be handled in Chungking and the same is true of the home in Chungking; list of instructions for New York embarkation and travel tips; Sun Fo’s book; Welcome to Press from Kitchen; Mrs. Jones’ illness.

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1983.047C 10-242 ---: Dr. L. Kilborn: Sponsorship for Dr. Janet Wang; gift of WCUU in memory of Omar and Retta Kilborn; other donors; hospital appointments for Dr. Yang and Dr. Dzo obtained through Dr. Wilder Penfield; Drs. Wang and Beh to work in Toronto; Medical Missions Conference in Chicago not in favour of more union in China medical work; people coming out of Occupied China not aware of new situation in Free China; refusal of extra salary for Board office stint; return to China authorized

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1983.047C 10-243 ---: Rev. John Kitchen: Canadian Mission Press used by Catholics and others because of unreliability of secular firms; Press will be needed for some time; list of printings; United Christian Publishers feels need of a daily Christian newspaper, but will make it weekly for present; comment on

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the “Christian Farmer”; work at Sze Shen Ts church described; The Press and the establishment and working of the United Christian Publishers; books printed; British MOI work helps with financing; high rates of transportation and postage; loyal Chinese colleagues; would like Homer Brown to replace Jolliffe

1983.047C 10-244 ---: Dr. A. Lindsay: Lindsay’s health; kindness of Crawford; health improving; comment on Armstrong’s letter of welcome; travel plans; Mrs. Lindsay losing her hair; getting medical attention in Montreal; Dr. Yang contacted; would like to attend General Assembly.

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1983.047C 10-245 ---: Dr. Mullett: claim for Hong Kong losses; serving temporarily in Aklavik; Eskimo and Indian congregation made offering for China and India; Muskrat Thanksgiving

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1983.047C 10-246 ---: Rev. George Sparling: Decision to return to China or not must wait; Brown for Theological College; rising prices; news of Theological College; arrival in Springs, South Africa for visit with daughter; future plans uncertain owing to war travel difficulties; speaking on China; may need more funds

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1983.047C 10-247 Reports: Bell: General Report; Sparling: Theological College; Spooner: WCUU Chemistry Department; Jack and Jones: Press; Statistical Report; United Christian Publishers; Extracts from Odlum, Canadian Ambassador

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1983.047C 10-248 Statement on Middle School Policy to Board of Missions 1944 1983.047C 10-249 Church of Christ in China: Minutes of North America Advisory Committee;

Report and Correspondence: Provisional Council in West China; Dr. H.H. Tsui

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1983.047C 10-250 Estimates 1944 1983.047C 10-251 Correspondence- Kilborn, Hibbard, Arnup, Bell for Board with Mission

Secretaries, Stanway, Small Veals: - Jan 4: Bell: Confused situation re: necessity for evacuation in view of Japanese advances; Plans: Wilford, Cunningham, Kitchen, Dickinson, Bell, Hilliard, Outerbridge, Webster, Tallman, O’Neill, Holt, Birtch, Day, Hoffman, Spooner, Stanway; turning over Synod work to Liu Beh Yang; property to Small, Eastern part to Jones; Agnew, Best, Meuser, Robertson, and Endicott; Endicott probably goes to Army - Jan 25: Hibbard: property sales accounts; Executive actions re: WCUU; board dinner; new recruits being sought; World Day of Prayer for China; delayed study assistance mooted; Walmsley to India temporarily; news and non-news from missionary travellers, particularly Sparling in South Africa; no visas yet for return to China; China Relief accounts; Airmail Observer; Roulston and other Honan furloughs; Consultation with Provisional Council of Church of Christ in China on stationing of MacHattie and MacKenzie; death of Harvey MacHattie; payment of Honan Synod funds; funds for Broadfoot; careful travel accounts requested - Mar 6: --- Cable on returning missionaries; Tsonglin property; Jenshow Middle School sale; length of term for men without families; Roulston furlough approved; information lacking on travel plans; possible need for Service to stay in India; Dr. Janet Kilborn’s health delays Kilborn’s return; permission of Embassy sought for return to Kilborn, Veals, Mullett, Reed, Rackham; Sparling will try to return to China from South Africa; complete list of those en route to China; Homer Brown’s health; Overseas Mission Month; UNRAA; estimates; accounts; McClure transmission; Ping Yang Wang’s travel plans; Best’s bank worried; travel expenses. - Mar 25: Stanway: Lack of educational facilities for mission children means leaving field of Spooner, Birtch, Stanway, Hoffman; schooling in the future a vital part of missionary work; arrangements for work of secretary/treasurer: Veals, Jones, Small; Cronheilm not compatible with

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Chinese workers; need to examine reason for shortage of nurses in mission; China property; new workers needed in view of new situation; categories of missionaries allowed into China; waiting in India, Miss Jack; Service with wife hopes to get into China - Mar 28: Hibbard: hope for alleviation of difficulties in leaving India; non-arrival of minutes makes preparation for Board Meeting difficult; Janet Kilborn’s illness; housing in Toronto for missionaries; China-India account still not settled for lack of information - Mar 29: Small: situation better; strength emerging in Chinese leadership; enjoying working with Synod; ordinations carried through by Chinese; Dong and Hockin doing good work in Kiating; sale of all unnecessary property advised; Dickinson taking leave of absence to do government work; of WMS’ers now in India only Cora Kilborn allowed into China. - Apr 10: 1) Hibbard: Changes in estimates; consideration of training of missionaries for new situation; routines of Finance Committee; comment on estimates; transmissions; salaries: Mullett and Rackham; 2) Resolutions of West China Missionaries on furlough in Canada; 3) Expense and delay of travel; three year term for separated men; reopening of Canadian school; medical program; appeal for new workers; replacement for Jolliffe; losses through bombing. - May 1: Hibbard: Unedited Board Minutes concerning West China; refers to items in previous letters - May 2: --- Veals appointed Secretary of Mission; retirement of some on leave of absence; Veals and Reed leave in June; Working on India to North America travel; furlough dates for Birtch and Day; short term and short furlough; Walmsley future; Brown retirement; Health: Kilborn, Jones, Sparling plans; protested West China plant funds going into General Property Fund; appointment of Bell; Middle School reorganization; India stay expenses; bombing losses; no replacement for Jolliffe; China-India relief; release of Plewman; Death of Liddell; Bissell Memorial Fund; changes in estimates; must draw on Reserve Fund; crusade for Christ and his Kingdom; arrival of Dsao; Ginling College rent for Canadian School building; $50 for C.M. Hoffman; South China Synod payment; reopening of Japan and Korea; plan for Board Finance Committee to meet for one day before General Board Meeting; China-India travel account - May 7: Small: Hoffman back at Tzeliutsing; Dickinson with government; Day remaining; business manager for University Hospital; MacHattie; India-China travel account; salaries and inflation; grants to Chinese workers only met by one half; hope for more support from Chinese Church; sale of property in Kiating; free ride to Chungking; Bill Service cut consular red tape; arrival of Observer - May 23: Arnup: Moderatorial greetings - May 31: Armstrong: Honan appropriations; MacHattie to Honan Committee on field; University Hospital Business manager; Walmsley to Woodstock; payments: Mitchell, MacKenzie, MacHattie - Jun 8: Small: Birtch; William Small furlough; rental difficulties indicate advisability of property sale; WMS Girls’ School move from Penghsien and property sale, cf; Junghsien property; assistance for pastors might call for special appeal; travel and baggage, Calcutta-Chengtu; hope woman may return to China in changing situation; Chungking school - Jun 8: Hibbard: Kilborn salary as widower with children; dealing with leave of absence: Bacon, Brace, Campbell, Hayward, Jenner, Williams; possibility of Knight serving in West China; personnel returning to China: Struthers, Kilborn, Lindsay, Crawford, Stinson, Reed, Veals; ship assigned for returning missionaries from Bombay; Willmott defers return; Walmsley on loan to India; Dickinson leave of absence; China Relief Fund down;

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Reserve Fund expenditure dangerous; property sales accounts; transfer of Kiating San Yoh Sae funds to Canada; resignation of Homer Brown; minutes of Executive and Synod not received; proposal to change West China Missionary candidates fund to F.C. Stephenson Memorial Fund and possible include Japan; is balance on financial report in liquid funds; West China people at U of T convocation; candidates learning Chinese at Yale; donation for nurse’s training; Border mission; suggests postponement of Small furlough; WCUU accounts; UCC 20th Anniversary at Maple Leaf Gardens - Jul 19: --- Death of Morgan; keep information coming on exchange rates; arrivals: Mullett, Rackham, Mrs. Hoffman; problem of funds in relation to return of missionaries; bill Service married salary; travellers: Wilford, Hilliard, Allen, Chenlum - Jul 28: Small: negotiations over school at Penghsien; progress in sale at Junghsien; problems at Chong Chon; brief comment on Executive Minutes - Aug 1: Smith: Insurance on mission property - Sept 6: Small: Mail uncertain; payment of 2nd half of Chinese workers’ wood and oil grant underwritten by receipts from Peng Hsien; procedure of Penghsien sale; trips to Kiating and Junghsien to finish sales; statement from Synod; Rackham transportation Chengtu to Chungking; cloudbursts and price of eggs; hope wives will be allowed to come in spite of straightened funds; Norma Thompson Service’s pre- Marriage expense; University entrance and enrolment; Sparling; A.S.M. going well under Liu and Wu - Sept 23: Veals: visiting stations; Dr. Ho doing well in Fowchow; Church pushing self-support; differences between young minister and old doctor at Chungchow; travel problems because refugees returning to their homes; Chungking hospital; Service has trouble with his arm, may need to go away for treatment; Machattie must be replaced in administration; Sparlings in India; transport to Chengtu scarce; personnel: Urquart, Reed, G. and J. Smith, Harris. - Oct 11: --- Travels; Luchow- medical work; Hoffman hospitalized at Tzeliutsing, family plans, concern over reopening of Canadian school; Miss Sparling limited by knee by active locally; District work has suffered through central stations healthy; to Junghsien on foot with Bridgeman; Hartwell does much entertaining in spite of H.C.O.1.; local officials want hospital kept open; church encouraging; completion of school property sale; Liu Ueh Tin going downhill; peace but net yet pacification - Oct 13: Small: Dickinson’s activities; must consider necessity of wives to the work; comment on Executive minutes; mission urges adoption of the Gordon Smith family; U.S. army vacates mission property; Kilborn to live with Lindsay; hospital improved by U.S. Tenants; machinery and equipment gathered at Hsin Kin; river travel East from Chungking congested; sparling half time Theological College, half time Chengtu district; annual meeting to be held; rain damage makes heavy repair bill - Oct 30: Bell: 1) Comment on Veals September 23 letter; return of missionaries to North China, Korea, Japan puts great strain on budget; new list of missionary relatives needed; cheaper air mail via U.S. Transmissions 2) Report on October, 1944, Post-War Planning Committee in China 3) Church union, Missionary standard of living; church and mission; hospitals; property; missionary and the church; Chinese invitation to returning missionaries; support of ministers; education and medical work; memorandum re: emerging problems of labour and industry - Nov 2: Veals: 1) Bell in Mission Office; living arrangements in Chengtu; explanation of estimates; furnishings request; 2) Field salary payments for income tax, Jolliffe, Wilford et.al; exchange

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rates in relation to estimates; New price rises due to civil war - Nov 14: --- Hartwell memorial service; no full meeting of Council or Synod due to unsettled conditions; plan to visit every Presbytery with Liu Beh Shang; need thought of future plans; stationing: Reed, Sparling, Agnew; Day’s travel plans; no word on Service; Hoffman bringing daughters to China; Smith’s wife not yet on field; report on various districts; queries keeping outstations; prices; late word on Service - Nov 30: Bell: Death of Hartwell and funeral; death of Jean Stewart’s father; Bill Service improving; arrival in India: Crawford, Stinson, King, Kilborn, Lindsay; Kitchen on list for English sailing; Meuser’s in England; disposal of property sales receipts; M. and M. increase; missionaries definitely going to Japan, possibly Korea; family news, mission finances; exchange rate; Bissell fund; need new representative for Board meeting; transmissions; super gifts - Dec 20: --- Salaries and travel; effect of exchange rates on budget; need for planning for the future; Division of property sales receipts between Reserve Fund and China Plant Fund; approval of West China Medical policy; further consideration of Chin Ih Middle School urged; approval of Kiating sale; return of wives to China; Dr. F.W. Routley now represents UCC Board of Christian Colleges; suggestion of merging West China Candidate Fund with Stephenson Memorial scholarship for Orientals; Birtch leave of absence; Webster’s future plans; Hilliard; return of missionaries to Japan, warm welcome; Crusade movement in Canada; request for mission Council minutes; Arnup to International Missionary Conference; gift of rehabilitation; Wilford, E.R. and G. Cunningham, Allen, McClure honoured; Scott, Robson, Stinson, King, Crawford in Calcutta; comment on property sales; Arnup hopes for some continuance of middle school work; sale of Mme. Chaing’s herd; furlough housing; wives not held back for economic reasons - Questionnaire to all missionaries on future of work - Dec 15: Veals: Service in Calcutta, arm better; personnel: Kilborn, Lindsay, Stinson, King; Hockin, mother and daughter, doing well in Kiating;- church self-support; Cartwright report - Dec 28: --- working on estimates; cost of living; Hawbecker gift to Junghsien

1983.047C 10-252 Correspondence: Board Secretaries with Missionaries: Bacon: death of brother; relationship with Board; - Birtch: leave of absence; - Crawford: post-graduate expenses and work; return to China; - Cunningham: Vancouver medical examination free; deputation work; some study plans; honorary degree; - Day: SCM in the schools; assistance to Veals and Holt; Wife and children’s eye trouble; travelling in districts; comment on state of the church; moved into Chengtu; plans for furlough study; news of family and other missionaries; - Dayfoot: travel via South Africa, India; comment on ships to Africa; - Dickinson: (Letter from F.W. Price about Dickinson joining government liaison group); urgent appeal for missionaries from Formosa; going for three months to UNRRA; other possibilities for work in China; nature of present work; - Hartwell: death of father; Hawbecker gift; - Hayward: desires to return to China; gift of money to board; Hibbard replies with list of doctors going and coming and need for Hayward in China; - Jenner: Would like to go to China, health permitting in 1947; - Jolliffe: Wife’s health; translation of Wesley’s journals; other Press work

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also occupies waiting time in India; account of vicissitudes of travel from and housing India; - Lindsay: congratulations on LL.D. from Armstrong; - Meuser: travel to and from England; rationing; Liao Hsio-Chang says government and people want all missionaries back; - Rackham: arrangements with Kilborn for return to China; - Service: marriage; offer of support from church in Ohio; domination elections; - Smith, Mrs. Gordon: travel expenses; - Smith, Geoffrey G.: finances; return of missionaries; - Spooner: activities in India; Woodstock school, Forman Christian College; - Stinson: adoption of son; - Veals: sailing from New York via India to Chungking; high cost, especially excess baggage; official ban on women lifted; - Walmsley: need for new theology and more vital expression; comment on trip and crew of ship; teachers for Woodstock; salary arrangements; - Webster: money, housing study; - Wilford: signed on as ship’s surgeon to get to England; news of Hilliard family and Allen; - Willmott: leave of absence; strong appeal for his return to China from WCUU; SCM job turned down; request for study grant; Board to relatives and friends: travel difficulties

1983.047C 10-253 Broadcast by Dr. A.S. Allen: Letter about trip home and meeting people of British United Aid to China; Broadcast description of conditions and measures and sources of relief; missions in Chinese eyes; medical situation

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1983.047C 10-254 Correspondence: Hibbard (Acting Secretary of Board) with Campbell (Missionary): back salary and pension refund on final severance; resignation

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1983.047C 10-255 ---: Christian Publishing: Kitchen to represent United Christian Publishers at Conference in U.S.; appreciation of Kitchen’s work from Chinese colleagues; Whang’s money; L.M. England’s gift for Literature work should go to Canadian effort; money for books in lieu of post-graduate grant; return to China planned; muck up of deputation arrangements; Sze Shen TS dental account; Hsia’s account; Bell’s letter Dec. 31; relationship of mission with Christian Literature Society

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1983.047C 10-256 ---: Hibbard (Acting Secretary of Board) with Kilborn (Missionary): Ready to return to China after brief rest and study tour of U.S. Medical Schools; arrangements for family; thoughts of WCUU: missionary staff, distribution among various boards and possible Canadian major influence. President and Deans should have power of selection, retirement age too high; Chinese staff: quality; endowment; relationship of WCUU and mission hospitals [There is handwritten comment in the margins by an unidentified hand]; Routley suggested for Board of Governors; paper on post-war medical assistance to China; Canadian citizenship of missionary children; ERPI films; list of UCC medical, dental and medico related missionaries in Szechuan; trials of trip to Calcutta; RAF will take baggage; Kilborn Memorial Library Fund brochure

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1983.047C 10-257 ---: Hibbard with Sparling: Life in South Africa; prospects for travel to Canada or China; Visas from Canada to India for Kilborn, Veals, Mullett; hope for Canadian Embassy in China may expedite Chinese visas; China conditions described by Hibbard; preparation to return to China from South Africa; personal finances; India visa difficulties; Wallace Wang appointed President of Theological College; suggestion by Bell that West China missionaries’; donations to Candidates Fund be used for scholarship for Liu Pih Hsiang; Chungking and missionary staff described

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of Kwangtung Synod: minutes, letters, papers. 1945

1983.047C 11-261 Correspondence: Bell and Arnup with Veals (Secretary of Mission): - Jan 10: 1) Bell: Mail service; personnel: G.G. Smith, Bacon, Hayward; Chungking house to be returned by CCC; plans for mission future; Hilliard’s leave of absence; Agnew expected home; 2) Funds for rehabilitation of medical work; transmissions for West China Mission Press; 100 present at West China Club - Jan 19: Veals: Information report of Synod Executive meetings acting for annual meeting; salaries; stationing of missionaries: Day, Birtch, Sparling, Stanway, Chinese pastors; doctors and nurses to be stationed by Council; relationship of hospitals to Synod; WMS employment of and scarcity of Bible women; team to visit stations in March and April; problems with Dr. Gao; emphasis on spiritual life - Jan 25: --- details of bonus for pastors and self-support; $22,000 Canadian for pastoral work; medical committee enlarged and given authority for one year; sub-committee to draw up constitution for body responsible for medical work; sale of Jenshow property, school; problem of Gin Ih School, including Chungking house; WMS have better control of their schools; Wu Han University to stay for year in Kiating School; return of wives possible - Feb 1: --- Strike prevents cabling of estimates; G.G. Smith to Fowchow; personnel: Bacon, Hayward, Hilliard; Gin Ih School; comment on executive minutes: replacing Chungking clinic, finances, estimates; permission to sell one Penghsien house; Canadian School linked with return of missionaries; Joint Medical estimates - Feb 5: --- Cabled estimates; transfer of church and chapel property to General Assembly of CCC; future of Home and Agency in Chungking; stenographer; illness of Sparling; comment on proposed visitors from Home Board - Feb 15: 1) --- representatives to Board and General Council named; Stinson’s accident; organ for Kiating 2) Bell: response to Veal’s letters; comment on Gin Ih, Hsaio and WMS schools; problem for control of medical work is Chinese doctors in charge of hospitals; Kitchen leaving England; Bacon, back from overseas, will go to China only with family; Stanway’s leave of absence; New candidates: Tonge, Bell; Mission attitudes and actions in UCC; Bell interprets for Chinese government purchasing agent; Money for Helen Cheng; finances: Service, Kitchen, Rackham, Jolliffe; grant for United Christian Publishers; rail reduction certificates - Feb 23: Veals: Chinese political situation; prices rising; still cannot cable - Feb 27: Bell: Estimates; Chinese War Relief Fund; Allen leaving for China Mar 6; non-return of Hilliard and Stanway; Canadian School population; Hoffman objects to Missionary Candidates Fund application for Stephenson Memorial Fund; no blanket permission for use of money from property sales; Allen’s stationing and hospital needs; transmission - Mar 4: Veals: Jim Endicott’s position vis-à-vis the church; Miss Sparling’s health and return home; Kiating sale; Jolliffe’s return not desirable; monthly instead of quarterly payments; team of station visitation ready to set out; in many areas people report conditions under the nationalist government worse than under the Japanese - Mar 10: --- Report of Team’s visit to Jenshow - Mar 14: Bell: Possibility of visit from A.E. Armstrong; Observer by ordinary mail; Meuser’s unpaid salary; McGowan could assist with conference for all pastors and evangelists; money for orphans - Mar 18: Veals: report on visitation continued; Kiating; Liu of Synod doing well; personnel on field: Stinson, Hockin, Hoffman: off field: Bacon,

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Stanway, Spooner, Education of children of missionaries; need more missionaries - Mar 25: --- 1) Report of Junghsien visit; promises of self-support from Kiating, Tzeliutsing; two students for Theological School; Sparling’s letter; Hoffman’s tired, need furlough; WMS will not take over Gin Ih School; general discussion of personnel, stationing and Canadian School; use of Penghsien money; if Gin Ih continues massive repairs necessary; Mary Owen suggested as matron for Canadian School; Allen’s stationing; 2) Chinese personalities at Tzeliutsing: Huang, Wang, Chen, Hsu; Dorothea Hoffman’s return to Canada for education and stationing of Allen; Luchow, tried to stick to spiritual renewal and self-support but problems, particularly the hospital, emerged; road through four outstation; outside points well represented; Liu Beh Shang strong on self-support; travel Luchow to Chungking; conditions in Chungking; Gin Ih School - Apr 10: Bell: Comment on Veal’s letters; meeting of Foreign Missions Conference, Buck Hill Falls; Willmott’s plans for China; complications in relation to return of missionaries to West China; United Boards Planning commission meeting at WCUU; public school teacher for West China authorized; policy, finances, use of reserves, WMS cooperation; estimates for West China - Apr 23: Veals: Report on Changchow, Fowling and Fengtu; Fowling meetings best of lot; G.G. Smith’s command of Chinese; also good in hospital; Cheo not very good Fengtu; great need is for more workers; Allen stationing relative to service and Hayward; invitation for Armstrong visit; hope visitors include Beaton and Moorhouse; embassies moving to Nanking; work of Liu and Pen on trip praised - May 6: --- trip showed this is a time for opportunity; Liu’s report; comment on 1945 Financial statement and needs of the work - May 7: Bell: Items from Board Meeting; transfer of Reserve to Maintenance; study of salaries; educational allowances for missionary boys returning from services; travel regulations; return of wives to field; Jones’ medical expenses; property sales and transfers; post-graduate study for Small; Stephenson Memorial Fund; retirements, resignations, leave of absence, extended furloughs; returning to West China: Agnew, Allen, Bacon, Cunningham, Meuser, Wilford, Willmott, (Families), and Madame’s Lindsay, Kitchen, Stinson, Mr. and Mrs. G.N. Bell (new) to proceed to field; furloughs: Best, Hoffman, Harris; staff required: WCUU medical college, Business Agency, Canadian School; leave of absence: Hilliard, Hayward, Jenner, Birtch; policy, general and West China; Allen and Chinese War Relief Fund; new missionaries: Honey, Tonge (information on other fields) - May 10: --- General information on Board Meeting and state of Canadian church; puzzled over unused WMS medical grant; Armstrong retirement; Board finances; Field and furlough salaries; travel regulations; use of funds from Penghsien sale; extended furloughs: Stanway, Spooner, Outerbridge; new missionaries: Ball, Honey, Tonge; transfer of G.G. Smith; workers needed: Medical/Dental college, Agency and Home, Canadian School; Hayward’s release from Aklavik; transfer of property to CCC; policy problems vis-à-vis home church; Beaton may visit; finances; furlough terms; up to date statement of property necessary; rehabilitation of property - May 13: --- to Liu, response to Synod’s letter of thanks - May 16: Veals: one remittance cashed, the other a mystery - May 23: Bell: Finances; Hayward’s return to China - May 27: Veals: New method of transmitting money suggested; movements of missionaries: Gordon Smith, Day, Hockin, Hoffman, Ricker, Sparling, Harrison, Fee, Small, Millar; mystery remittance for Honan; Wall at

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Junghsien; deficits in all areas of work; Sze Shen Tsi hospital - May 30: Bell: Finances; Gordon Smith Family reunited; truck sale money; property account covers hospital equipment, cars; Chungking Agency; death of Day’s mother; Longley dying - Jun 7: Veals: insurance on property; remittances and exchange rates; Dickinson’s future; Gin Ih School debt; properties; travel difficulties; prices level - Jun 13: --- new appointees; finances; large payments from Treasurer’s office should have field O.K.; return of wives not simple problem; mission travellers as before; Shanghai transit - Jun 18: Bell: Treasurer’s counter proposal to May 27 proposal; Junghsien wall payment; Sze Shen Tsi Hospital; gift from Simpson; CCC meeting in October, Owen’s piano - Jun 25: Veals: Suggestion that Copland look after Shanghai transients’ housing and alternative suggestions; large parties impossible to handle; relationship of mission with University and Gordon Jones; property problem in Luchow; Gin Ih School debt payment; Walmsley’s return; Mix-up over Toronto Order - Jun 29: Liu: Synod wants more missionaries - Jul 2: Arnup (Treasurer): banking arrangements - Jul 16: 1) Bell: Insurance on property; Arnup’s letter; Dickinson’s future; liquidation of Gin Ih School Debt; Mission Executive should strongly request Walmsley’s return; language study books; 2) Veals: Bell’s intimate knowledge of situation; property; request for Walmsley; resolution on split families; transfer of property to CCC; arrival of Gordon Smith family - Aug 15: Bell: Return of wives; short terms; Walmsley return; Synchronize with other missions on transfer of property to CCC; Arnup returns to office; difficulties with travel to China - Aug 20: --- To Presbyterian Board - Aug 21: Veals: Mrs. Endicott’s death; troubled that Hayward is not mentioned as returning; sale of Kiating West Gate School - Sept 9: Bell: Permission for property sales; use of income from Jenshow; Gin Ih School debt; Junghsien wall; Walmsley and Canadian School; sailings; Bacon’s return plans; contact made with Presbyterian Board; New York re: transfer of property to CCC - Sept 9: Veals: Sale of Kiating property; Agency and Home to be re-established under Rackham; sale of Medical House 2. Political Conditions - Oct 16: --- General Assembly of CCC- composition; three commissions: Life and Work Christian Education; relationship of CCC to Missions and Boards; freight problems - Nov 11: 1) --- Jones’ return to Canada; Agnew air travel; need council meeting, hope for visitors; Hayward urgently needed; arrivals: Cunningham, Willmott, Bacon, Lindsay; 2) Arnup: acknowledgement of Veals September 9; governor Chang’s visit; Small to help at Canadian Embassy Jan- Jun, football - Dec 11: Veals: Loan of Small to embassy; salaries and living allowances for missionaries an urgent matter; grant to Tzeliutsing church and repairs to property; Spooner on pensions

1983.047C 11-262 ---: Bell and Arnup with Gordon Smith (Treasurer of Mission): 1) Largely on estimates and accounts but some information on personnel, housing and furloughs; 2) Resignation of Jim Endicott; some problems with WMS accounts

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1983.047C 11-263 Reports to Board: bombing losses; appeal for new workers 1946 1983.047C 11-264 Correspondence: Bell and Arnup with Missionaries: Agnew: air travel;

timing of return to China; Board not aware of furlough activities; - Bacon: plans for return to China;

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- Ball: language study; - Best: personal finances; United Hospital situation; - Campbell: not returning to China; - Crawford: conditions in Shanghai and China generally; - Cunningham: preparations in red tape for return to China; uncertainty of shipping; - Cunningham, Gladys: travel from Shanghai to Chengtu; conditions, general and mission property; effect on bombing and privations on missionaries; problems of “single” men; all missionaries under pressure of work because too few; Cat essential to housekeeping; salaries and bonuses; effect of war and Western troops on students; effect of social breakdown on work of the mission; support from Canadian Church seems low; - Dayfoot: wedding rings; - Hartwell: father’s death; on receiving dead body of airman into home; -Hawbecker [letter missing] - Arnup: WCC at Amsterdam; Committee of IMC at Oeegest; teacher for Canadian School; Arthur Edmonds a possibility for treasurer - Oct 14: Arnup: Teacher for Canadian School; treasurer’s job covered; fees at Canadian School; Small’s salary adjustment - Oct 26: --- Small’s relationship with WCUU; freight charges for several people, including Endicott, untangled; retirement at 60 with full pension for nurses; Clugston en route [see letter Oct 22, Agnew file] - Nov 5: Veals: Canadian school; Rackham’s travel account; Edmonds’ permanent appointment; Chungking Hospital; MacHattie to relieve Smith; present government will fail; some hope for future; CCC General Assembly; touring districts - Nov 9: --- No Chinese confidence left in present government; watching situation in Communist areas - Nov 16: Cunningham: request executive be given power in emergency; send out wives and children by chartered plane to Hong Kong?; general situation, political and economic (Cable from Canadian Ambassador) - Nov 22: --- response to cable - Nov 23: 1) --- Account of meeting which discussed Ambassador’s advice; executive actions; Clugston for South China; stations informed of discussion at meeting; Young families met and discussed necessity of situation and possibility for future work; Except for sick people decision to leave p to individual; 2) Notes on discussion of situation at meeting at Canadian School; 3) Veals: Chapter and verse for no confidence in Government; alarmed by American stance; missionaries with children worried; warning from Canadian Ambassador; inflation; question of Rackham’s return; 3) Arnup: Cable, Executive given power - Nov 30: Veals: questionnaire re: future if communists come - Dec 1: --- To Missionaries: recap of Cunningham, Nov 23; Executive put Crawfords on priority for leaving; CCC General Assembly; news of fighting, evacuation of Americans from Nanking and Shanghai; Tsinan University still functioning; WCUU will carry on; identity armbands in Tsinan, military being replaced by political; future plans require thought and prayer - Dec 2: --- Rackham’s travel expenses; salary adjustments - Dec 3: Arnup: Clugston to South China; Veals: fall of National Government soon; effect on Szechwan unpredictable; comments on Gissimo and Madame; answers to questionnaire incomplete yet but general agreement on situation but different actions; men with children feel they should leave; possible use of West China people in Japan?; preparation of estimates; Clugston; Rackham’s return - ---: Hayward: Return to China; new medical plan; short study before

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return; [letter missing] - Hoffman: West China medical personnel needs; protests use of Candidates funds; Canadian School; refugee doctors returning home; - Honey: preparations for going to China; - Jones/German: Condition and care of Mrs. Jones; Veals visit with team to stations appreciated; cost of living; realistic exchange rate might help stability; - Outerbridge: furlough extension and study; - Rackham: air travel offered by Chinese for Beaton visit; Life in Chungking; Gin (Chin) Ih School; Allen with War Relief; - Reed: District work; missionary staffing problems- retirement age, extended furloughs; sell property rather than rent; Luchow church condition; indignation over change of bonus and rentals for wives in Canada; church condition in Tzeliutsing and Luchow districts; Hoffman needs furlough; living conditions since war not greatly improved; lady Cripp’s visit; - Service: arm diagnosed and better; travel expenses; shocked to hear so many not returning; Chungking Hospital changes; hospital charges and funds; - Small: sale of Kiating school; lawsuit and sale of San Yoh Sie, Penghsien house; Madame Chiang’s herd; Chungking school; working men’s wages; exchange rate; University holidays in line with guest universities; property matters: Jenshow, Kiating; problem of Stanway’s stationing; medical work situation; return of wives; - Sparling: Theological school teachers for coming year; account of enlarged executive meeting of Synod- missionaries on equal footing with Chinese; Church’s relation to medical work and Theological College; - Spooner: leave of absence arrangements; lack of schooling for children; - Stanway: leave of absence for daughter’s health; - Wilford: on board with the “Marine Lynx”; - Willmott: studies; plans for son, Bill; activities in New York outside of studies; travels, held up in San Francisco; in Shanghai.

1983.047C 11-265 ---: Armstrong (Board Secretary) with Margaret Brown (Missionary in Shanghai): Shanghai logistics; dangerous situation in Honan; CLS and newsprint order; CLS work generally

1946

1983.047C 11-266 ---: Armstrong with Dr. Stewart Allen: Loaned to China War Relief Fund; complications of getting aid for medical work; to visit China under CWRF to make a report on medical conditions; schooling for missionary children; brief report on China visit; urgent plea to church to respond to need; amounts received by UCC missions from CRC, CWRF, and other sources; disgusted with UCC officials’ lack of support for Aid for China

1946

1983.047C 11-267 ---: Bell with Dickinson: with UNRRA in Canton and Washington; “Cloud and Banner” citation received

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1983.047C 11-268 ---: With Dr. Irwin Hilliard: Indefinite leave of absence; standing of mission hospitals

1946

1983.047C 11-269 ---: Arnup with R.O. Jolliffe: Ideas on relationship of medical and educational work with the Chinese church; request from United Christian Publishers that Jolliffe return for two years; membership on various Christian Literature committees in relation to UCC Board

1946

1983.047C 11-270 ---: Bell/Arnup with Dr. Leslie Kilborn: Missionary staffing at WCUU; Chengtu University Hospital Conditions; need trained hospital administrator; stationing of Hilliard, Service; Allen part of total medical policy; possible deportation of Endicott; conditions in Chengtu and WCUU; report on Higher Education in China deemed insulting by Szechuan people; lists of medical and dental personnel from the beginning of the mission; Morse Fund interest; Janet McClure Kilborn Memorial Library and Omar

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and Retta Kilborn Memorial Library funds; low morale in mission; many feel let down by Board over separated wives’ housing and short furlough; school of nursing and its dormitory; Sze Shon Tsi hospital reopened after some fuss with locals; possible aid for TB program from Manchester, England; government health programs; CCWR grant not likely; Secretary for Medical School not available

1983.047C 11-271 ---: Bell with Kitchen, Mission Press: getting into China via India- ship or plane; travel account; Hennington paper monopoly in China; post-war condition of mission press, irregularities, loss of type and of stock of good paper as well as orders; financial condition of Press; membership in UCP; CIM doing mild heresy hunting; registration of Press as business concern with government or hold for later transfer to Chinese church

1946

1983.047C 11-272 ---: Bell/Arnup with Rev. G.G. Smith (Missionary): Letter from August, 1945: Asks for transfer from Honan to West China Mission and describes work in Chungking; transfer made; work in Fowling district

1946

1983.047C 11-273 ---: Bell/Arnup with Walmsley: Woodstock School versus Canadian School with some description of Woodstock; hope for cooperation of other missions in Canadian school; leaving India`

1946

1983.047C 11-274 ---: Report of Dr. A. Stewart Allen on Hospitals and Relief Throughout China

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1983.047C 11-275 ---: Armstrong with Rev. N.B. Slater of China Christian Universities Association: Minutes: Dec 14, 15 1945 and Feb 5, 1946; further cooperation desirable; need for books for libraries

1946

1983.047C 11-276 ---: Bell/Arnup with Dr. J.E. Moncrieff, Missionary Training School, Chengtu; request for language teaching equipment; need for regional language schools

1946

1983.047C 11-277 ---: Church of Christ of China, General Assembly: Conditions in Manchuria, Honan and Shanghai; minutes of Standing Committee; various suggestions for furthering the work of CCC; relationship of cooperating boards; Education Commission; articles: Archie R. Crouch, The Christian Front in China

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1983.047C 11-278 Financial and Property Statements 1946

1983.047C 11-279 Correspondence- Arnup with Veals (Secretary of Mission): - Veals: use of request to assist theological students; changes in theological course; university declines livestock; high cost of travel and mission budget; estimates will call for more money all along the line - Jan 22: --- Estimates in Canadian dollars; salaries and bonuses; aid for poor patients; contingency fund; Shanghai delays expensive; politics - Feb 5: 1) Arnup: Death of Mrs. Kitchen; sailing: Meuser, Bacon, Hayward; Agnew’s travel expenses; new Ambassador to China; repeal of Chinese Immigration Act; Funshun sale; Board’s heavy expenses; Mission property at WCUU; WCUU does not want Robertson or Dickinson; pensions for lay missionaries; rehabilitation; transmissions; 2) Death of Frier; Agnew’s delayed return and sponsorship of George Dzang; Canadian Aid to China Fund; WMS repayments to BOM; list of projects; Armstrong’s retirement - Feb 21: Veals: estimates; board support; prices; death of Mrs. Kitchen; movements of Wilford party; government weak on financial situation - Feb 24: --- Comment on minutes of Council; M. and M. budget system; salary raises; aid for poor patients; vehicles; Kitchen’s salary a widower; no extra salaries for wives; furnishings for mission houses; Chungking South Bank Hospital Chapel; house repairs; organization of medical and educational work; Gin Ih and Union Middle Schools; Canadian School; shorter terms; new workers needed; short term missionaries; stationing; executive needs personnel from outside Chungking

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- Mar 7: Arnup: M. and M. Surplus to go for Overseas Missions; rehabilitation of Chinese ministers; some applied to West China and Honan; Tzeliutsing needs from property funds; C.O.L. bonuses and salaries - Mar 21: Veals: possible loss of letter; Dayfoot wedding; use of balance from M. and M.; Smith unable to close books earlier; excessive freight due to lack of instructions; Agnew’s delayed return; some men entitled to short term short furlough; furloughs: G.G. Smith, Hartwell, McIntosh, Bridgeman; WMS bills; outfit allowance for Gordon Smith; Frier’s death; Arrivals: Honey, Ball; birth to Tonge’s - Apr 11: Arnup: finances; excess freight; Agnew’s return; short term need definition - Apr 18: Veals: Properties [see file for list]; Dayfoot wedding arrangements; Tzeliutsing houses; men returning with or without wives; return of Willmott son; Bill Small’s marriage; Allen’s long absence from the field; Rackham re-establishing agency; outfit allowance for Gordon Smith; closing books for the year; proposed visit to Canada to Rev. Liu Beh Shang - Apr 19: Arnup: 1) Resignation of Birtch; 2) Comment on Board minutes; 3; deputation to fields; 6.; new Canada-China treaty; 12; policy on wives and Agnew; 17; return of older children to the field; 18; cars for West China; 19; charity work; 35; outfit, Gordon Smith; 21; Bridgeman furlough; 34; Canadian School; 35; Robertson; 39; heavy furniture; unedited minutes - May 8: Veals: insurance; estimates and appropriations; Robertson’s future; deputation time table - May 17: --- Comment on Executive minutes; paint; Canadian school appointment of Stewart referred to Associated Boards of Christian Colleges; Edwards Appointment by board requested; money from sale of WCRTS plant in Chungking; WCUU out of order writing to UCC Board direct on Robertson and Dickinson - Jun 2: Arnup: appropriations and other financial matters; comment on Veals’ letters; defense of Allen in Relief Work; scholarship men - Jun 18: Veals: Robertson not to return; pharmacist; Canadian school; Honan evacuees may turn to W. China; conditions of Agnew’s return; charity work in hospitals; mission supplied furniture to reduce moving expenses - Jun 24: Arnup: 1) Deputation named; 2) Canadian school; cars vs. motor cycles; Honan completely evacuated; audio-visual equipment; Clugston appointed to W. China; theological college land and house in relation to contribution from other boards; freight arrangements in Shanghai - Jun 26: --- Send detailed list of hospital needs to CAC - Jun 27: 1) Veals: Insurance on Press; 2) Gallagher: Thanks for congratulations - Jul 7: Veals: Stinson/Mullett account; payment to NCC; payment from American Methodist Board; WMS payment on Smith; Robertson’s case; Honan people welcome; New mission in province; street widening; food scarce in Chengtu- government not doing anything - Jul 31: --- Service’s furlough; Nurses’ Training School Building, Tzeliutsing; selling cheques on the market; deputation; Chengtu emergency over - Aug 25: --- Sailings; language study for newcomers; welcome to Menzies and Thomson from Honan - Sept 10: Arnup: Sailings: Day, Webster, Walmsley, Willmott, Robb, Jolliffe, Donald; last two for Canadian school; Allen hopes for October; deputation leaves on 26th - Sept 24: Veals: Chungking City Clinic; Personnel: Allen, Clugston, Agnew, Thomson, Menzies; Beaton’s injury; deputation plans; Chinese

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peoples’ pessimism - Sept 26: 1) Arnup: Edwards partial support from CAC; Robertson; Kitchen’s status; Honan missionaries for W. China; Gordon Smith’s furlough; money for WCUU and Cheeloo; grants for City Clinic, Chungking; 2) Bequest for missions; Agnew’s intransigence - Nov 7: Veals: Kiating, Junghsien, Tzeliutsing; Central churches doing good work; outstations in poor shape for lack of supervision; Methodist $500 to be used for new book room of Press; conditions of Edwards’ appointment unwelcome; arrival of Walmsley party; Stinson’s twins; Agnew’s with wife or not at all - Nov 17: Arnup: No hope of funds for Tzeliutsing Nurses Training School; Chungking City clinic funds; Menzies and Thomson not for W. China; Clugston delay; Hoffman pinch hits for Ferguson of Deputation; Methodist $500; Edwards’ station; Agnew; Endicott in Canada; deputation reports from India; excess freight; finances - Nov 29: Veals: Support of Canadian School; Tzeliutsing Nursing School; Hoffman in Ferguson’s practice; Agnew; optimism about climate for Christian work in Szechuan - Dec 10: --- Tzeliutsing Nurses’ building; children’s allowances; Agnew should return at once or resign; Bacon reported from Shanghai on opinions on future of missions under Communism - Dec 15: Arnup: Chungking City Clinic; Tzeliutsing Nursing School commended to WMS; furlough: Service, G.G. Smith; furlough extensions: Best, Robertson, Agnew; various financial transactions with individual missionaries

1983.047C 11-280 Correspondence: Arnup with individual Missionaries: Agnew: Government assistance at dental clinic; - Bacon: Send off in Hawaii and pleasant trip; life and work in Loshan; need for jeep; deplores motor cycles; churches doing well where missionaries handy; Canadian School; Christian factory manager’s worship services; to Shanghai for CCC meeting; - Beaton: Good and bad news about Chinese Church; - Bridgeman: Furlough travel plans; communists and Nationalist; rice boarders; - Cunningham, Gladys: High price of medicine and lack of financial support from mission board; resignations of young missionaries; - Dayfoot: Wedding, language, China politics, finances; - Hoffman; Dr. F.Y. Ferguson’s practice, leave of absence; Nurses’ Residence at Tzeliutsing; - Meuser: Pharmacist for WCUU; - Rackham: Instructions re: packing of freight; - Service: birth of son; advice of doctor candidates to take further training before going to field; - Small: going directly from work at Embassy in Nanking to Chengtu; comment on diplomatic life; labour costs; exchange rate; - Smith, G.G.: furlough - Sparling: Retirement; scholarship for Wang; Theological College matters; - Stinson: Reunion with family; death of Mrs. Kitchen; appointment to student work in Chengtu; birth of twins; - Wilford: Travel on Lynx; arrangements Shanghai to Chungking; Mrs. Kitchen’s death; sale of cars in Shanghai; hospitality en route by land from missionaries; Chungking hospital; Rackham and the agency; filling in for Kilborn and Service; retirement in 1949; WCUU medical staff in Toronto; - Walmsley: Bills for settlement; books for Kilborn; - Webster: accommodation and food on Marine “Stinks”; port of call

1947

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council on medical missions in China; Allen, June 28 and August 12 analyse the political situation

1983.047C 11-282 ---: Arnup with Dr. R. Hayward: trip out and handling of freight: Tzeliutsing hospital could carry on without mission; is missionary impulse spent?

1947

1983.047C 11-283 ---: Arnup with Gordon Jones: Furlough and wife’s conditions; 20 persons, including Mrs. Kitchen, died in plane crash; superannuation; health of father-in-law, Mr. German

1947

1983.047C 11-284 ---: Arnup with Kilborn: Re- Marriage and furlough; CRC and CWRFC; criticism that Chengtu swallows whole mission; Stinson for student work; other four missions not vitally interested in WCUU; secretary to be supplied by WMS; sources of hospital work expenses; asks for campaign in home church; rehabilitation of hospital buildings; Dr. C.H. Arnold, volunteer surgeon; auxiliary staff needed; social service, technology and business.

1947

1983.047C 11-285 ---: Arnup with Kitchen: Death of Mrs. Kitchen; memorial from Chinese Christians; Agnew’s statements on funds awaited; missing men like Bell and Jolliffe; furlough; status as widower; constitution of Council of Christian Publishers

1947

1983.047C 11-286 ---: Arnup with Robertson: Withdrawal from field; seeks other work; no pension

1947

1983.047C 11-287 ---: Arnup with Walmsley: possibility of cooperation from other missions at Canadian School; plans for reopening; purchases for school; import supplies through WCUU; offer of position from Bishop White; criticism of American President Lines; freight handling; corruption of Nationalist Government.

1947

1983.047C 11-288 ---: Arnup with Willmott: Permission for son, Bill, to return to China; work as bursar at WCUU; middle school religious situation; University SCM; comment on the Communists and the future of missions; quotations from China Welfare Fund on International Peace Hospitals

1947

1983.047C 11-289 ---: Minutes of Sixth Annual Meeting, Szechuan Synod 1947 1983.047C 11-290 ---: Annual Statement and Property List 1947 1983.047C 12-291 Correspondence: Arnup with Veals (Secretary of Mission):

- Jan 9: 1) Arnup: SVM Convention; Canadian School; Tzeliutsing Nurses’ School; Agnew’s situation; Endicott, son and father; Brecken Fund; 2) Veals: Edwards’ stationing and language study; scholarships; WMS involvement in hospital building, Tzeliutsing and Chungking; furlough extensions: G.G. Smith, Best, Hoffman, Outerbridge; Shu Hua Kai church; delegations’ activities - Jan 22: Arnup: Edwards’ stationing; Synod chairman not for Canada; finances; financial relief for ministers; politics according to Endicott and Mitchell; Fowling church building; expenses: Edwards, Lindsay, Allen - Feb 8: Veals: Return of Outerbridge and coming of Clugston - Feb 12: Questionnaire on Communism in China - Feb 12: 1) Arnup: Death and funeral of Longley; 2) Veals: Arrangements for scholars for Franklin Wu - Feb 13: 1) Veals: Comment on new format of estimates; amounts asked by various departments, salary and children’s allowance bonuses; reserve fund against adverse exchange; delegates to Board and General Council; 2) Longley’s death; Brecken fund; Edwards in Shanghai; emergency planning group; missionaries’ attitude to National government; work impossible when Communists in control; Fall of Nationalists a matter of time; Now a hopeful time for evangelism - Feb 20: Arnup: Statement on J. Endicott; Agnew’s salary; Estimates; death of Broadfoot - Feb 26: Veals: Comment on Council minutes

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- Mar 4: --- Signed by Liu and Veals, Synod requests missionaries; comparative list of workers - Mar 8: Arnup: Agnew leave of absence; YPU Takes over scholarship students; “Gospel on Wheels” project for Sunday Schools; finances and bequests; unexpended balances in project fund for China and Japan; station wagon for Allen; candidates, Walker and Redfern - Mar 15: --- Wu accepted at Victoria - Mar 17: Veals: Ballot on type of worker needed; trucks for emergency purposes also useful in bringing baggage from Shanghai; arrangements for field office work; class of travel; bicycles for theological students; replacement for Agnew - Mar 19: Arnup: Statement on Endicott, reactions in Church - Mar 23: --- Audio-visual equipment - Apr 2: --- Invitation to Mrs. Wu - Apr 29: --- 1) Clugston for China; GM recommends commercial type chassis for station wagons; 2) Comment on Board actions; field salary bonus; pension protection for children; lay missionaries and pension fund; terms of service and length of furlough; appropriations; Llewellyn Hall, future; class of travel on Pacific; outfit lists and allowances; trucks; Canadian School; Bissell Trust Fund; Shukuang property; Bridgeman; freight allowances; Veals officially Secretary of mission; Spooner resignation; scholarships: Wang and Wu; Agnew situation; Walmsley resignation - May 17: --- Hesitation over new building operations; Agnew, Mullett situation uncertain; Mary Jolliffe travel account - Apr 22: Veals: property insurance; audio-visual equipment; Walmsley’s resignation and replacement; visiting the station’s; political situation worse -May 30: --- finances; outfit lists; second truck purchase and evacuation plans; Canadian school accounts; Newcombe to replace Walmsley; difficulties over Principal Wang and students at Theological College -May 28: --- need for repairs in spite of uncertainty; Tzeliutsing Nurses’ Home and City Clinic; Agnew and Mullett; relief fund; trucks and costs from Shanghai to Chungking; new church wanted in Kiating; travelling in Synod -May 31: Arnup: Wallace Wang; length of 2nd term unchanged; payments for Chungking hospital; payments on trucks and Small’s salary - Jun 4: --- Clugston’s departure date uncertain; trucks and station wagon; Wallace Wang - Jun 24: Veals: Furlough possibilities for Smith and Veals; Chungking hospitals funds; payment for trucks; scholarship for Chin; council opposed to “single” husbands; praise of ordained Chinese woman - Jul 22: --- recommendation of Fred Fisher and family - Jul 30: --- Description of trip with Synod Evangelistic Band to Jenshow, Penghsien, Chengtu; Lui, Pen; Jean Stewart Veals assisted locally by Newcombe and Honey; 17 ordained pastors in all Szechuan; Fowchow summer school for young people - Aug 10: Arnup: Brief comment on Veals’ letters - Aug 19: Wu: En route to Canada - Sept 15: Veals: Request for 2nd teacher for Canadian School; Canadian school fees discussed - Sept 18: --- Reroofing Chengtu houses and Canadian School; Veals’ furlough; W. Small to be acting secretary of mission; replacement for Gordon Smith, treasurer, a problem; special circumstances for Knight’s furlough; Chengtu conditions, particularly food; government’s new currency last chance to survive - Sept 23: 1) --- Executive action on replacement for Gordon Smith; 2)

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Arnup: WCC at Amsterdam; committee of IMC at Oeegest; teacher for Canadian School; Arthur Edmonds a possibility for treasurer - Oct 14: --- Teacher for Canadian School; treasurer’s job covered; fees at Canadian School; Small’s salary adjustment - Oct 26: --- Small’s relationship with WCUU; freight charges for several people, including Endicott, untangled; retirement at 60 with full pension for nurses; Clugston en route; [See letter Oct 22, Agnew file] - Nov 4: --- Request for information on possibility of work under communists. - Nov 5: Veals: Canadian School; Rackham’s travel account; Edmonds’ permanent appointment; Chungking hospital; MacHattie to relieve Smith; present government will fail; some hope for future; CCC General Assembly; touring districts - Nov 9: No Chinese confidence left in present government; watching situation in Communist areas - Nov 16: Cunningham: Request executive be given power in emergency; send out wives and children by chartered plane to Hong Kong? General situation; political and economic; (Cable from Canadian Ambassador) - Nov 22: --- response to cable - Nov 23: --- 1) Account of meeting which discussed ambassador’s advice; executive actions; Clugston for South China; stations informed of discussion at meeting; young families met and discussed necessities of situation and possibility for future work; except for sick people decision on leave up to individual; 2) notes on discussion situation at meeting at Canadian School; 3) Veals: Chapter and verse for no confidence in government; alarmed by American stance; Missionaries with children worried; warning from Canadian Ambassador; inflation; question of Rackham’s return - Nov 30: Arnup: Cable, Executive given power; Veals: Questionnaire re: future if communists come - Dec 1: --- (To missionaries): Recap of Cunningham, November 23; Executive put Crawfords on priority for leaving; CCC General Assembly; news of fighting, evacuation of Americans from Nanking and Shanghai; Tsinan University still functioning; WCUU will carry on; identity armbands from Tsinan, military being replaced by political; future plans require thought and prayer - Dec 2: --- Rackham’s travel expenses; salary adjustments - Dec 3: Arnup: Clugston to South China - Dec 8: Veals: Fall of National Government soon; effect on G. Issimo and Madame; answers to questionnaire incomplete yet but general agreement on situation but different actions; men with children feel they should leave; possible use of West China people in Japan?; preparation of estimates; Clugston; Rackham’s return - Dec 10: 1) Arnup: Executives action on China Missionaries; J. Endicott’s activities; Arthur Edmonds’; Rackham’s return; finances of Canadian School; Walmsley freight payment; resignations of Harley and Jenner; 2) Veals: Excerpts from letters to Mrs. Veals, Nov 14 and 28 - Dec 11: --- Investigation of possibility of evacuation planes asked - Dec 22: Arnup: General Council Executive on China situation - Dec 24: Veals: Furlough replacement for Gordon Smith; Chungking committee favours Edmonds as McHattie and wife too useful in Chungking - Dec 22: Arnup: General Council Executive endorses Board Executive Action re: China - Dec 28: --- Seeking government assistance for emergency evacuation; salaries and bonuses; gifts - Dec 31: Veals: problems arising from evacuation of families; news from

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Communist areas reassuring; no firm advice on return of Hoffman and G.G. Smith; Tzeliutsing needs Canadian doctor

1983.047C 12-292 Correspondence: Arnup with Missionaries: Bacon: Furlough income tax; living conditions; political situation; - Bridgeman: furlough extension; - Crawford: Lack of pension; audio-visual equipment; - Cunningham, Ed: Peng, scholarship student; - Cunningham, Gladys: evacuation question; medical doings; changing situation of Tsinan; - Day: Wife’s work at WCUU; work at Press; theological students and others inspired by Rev. Helen Pen; inflation; flood; driving trucks from Shanghai to Chengtu; - Edwards: Travel; customs in Shanghai; language study; some practical work; first impressions; inflation; - Hartwell: daily work; second generation missionaries; farewells; to Shanghai; Bernice Chu Chen and others, Chinese and Western; - Harris: insurance; - Hayward: need evangelists; hospitals if under CCC; reflections on living in China; Tung’s criticisms quoted; - Hoffman: Returning to mission; - Jenner: Resignation; - Jones: pension arrangements; - Kitchen: Workers at Mission Press; candidacy of Redfearn; Formation of Council of Christian Publishers; money for Mission Press should be earmarked; rehabilitation needed for Press machinery and buildings; Shu Hwa Gai book room; shortage of Bibles; importance of Press for Szechuan; General situation; Agnew and Dental Hospital rupees; insurance on Press; inflation, lack of currency; refugees from North; - Outerbridge: discussion of future of mission, evacuation, routes, assistance from Canadian government; - Outerbridge, Margaret: settling in after furlough; High praise from all groups using Canadian school; - Reed: possibility of temporary assignment to oversight of Llewellyn Hall; - Small- A.S.M. church elders and stewards encouraging; activities of A.S.M. church; travel by Postal truck to mission stations for inspection of mission property; strong words on J. Endicott; - Stinson: move equipped station wagon explained; - Webster: [Dec 30, 1947]: Settling in at Tzeliutsing; re: Hayward’s letter; lack of trained and consecrated workers for rural areas; family news; - Wilford: University graduation; Banking difficulties in W. China; to say or not; wedding anniversary poem; drugs for hospital; visit to Nanking, Shanghai and Peking; - Willmott: Sympathy with communism; folk dancing for faculty; Baptists assist Middle school with grant; seminars at Mt. Omei; son Bill’s organization of co-ed, interracial basketball.

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1983.047C 12-293 Correspondence: Arnup with Agnew: Agnew’s position at Baylor University; uncertainty about date of return to China; moves on to position in California; continued leave of absence.

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1983.047C 12-294 ---: Arnup with Allen (Missionary): Purchase of various machinery and supplies for Chungking hospital; need for secretarial help; key-men lacking in Chungking hospital; inflation; big clean-up needed of buildings; hospital account; conditions inside Chungking Hospital; difficulty of getting money out of mission grants, black market rates; resents lack of status in Synod; matter of exchange rates to be raised at Council

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1983.047C 12-295 ---: Arnup with Kilborn: Defense and description of religious program of University; Beaton’s error about the Medical Department; Audrey Lei for

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Brewing bursary; visit of delegation; Szechuan quiet, communication with coast good; criticism of J. Endicott; return of Dr. Enda Wei; Endicott’s activities; Sze Shen Tsi Hospital’s relationship with mission and church; West China staff in Montreal: Lui, Lan, Lu, Dso; Best’s return; queries re: salary and rent for children and move to mission house; tribute to Walmsley and Canadian school; Jean Kilborn’s health; furlough plans; appeal on behalf of Fisher family, stateless; payment to Connaught Labs; proposal for a Department of Biochemistry; Fundamentalist refugee missionaries cause problems; keeping numbers at University down; transfer of Brewing bursary to Edith Lu; Fisher’s future; statement on Sze Shen Tsi Hospital; Chinese receipts showing inflation.

1983.047C 12-296 ---: Cora Kilborn to Constance Walmsley: Inflation; food in scarce supply, hoarding; Nurses’ Conference in Canton; travel difficulties; concerning Communist advances and tactics; evacuation discussion; urge welcome for Fishers; Jean Kilborn’s health; electricity stoppages

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1983.047C 12-297 ---: Arnup with Rackham: payment for refrigerator and auto parts; travel costs; permission to go to China without family

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1983.047C 12-298 ---: Arnup with Robertson: Half pension requested and refused; work found in Department of Trade and Commerce

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1983.047C 12-299 ---: Arnup with G.G. Smith: Smith’s report on Board meeting to field personnel; willing to return to China

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1983.047C 12-300 ---: Arnup with Sparling: Appreciation of delegation’s contribution to Council Meeting; paper on situation in Theological College, short of staff; principal Wang unpopular; Campaign for funds in China at present no good; refugee missionaries from further North; scholarship for Wang and arrangements

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1983.047C 12-301 ---: Arnup with Spooner: Future plans after resignation, pension rebate; no opening for Shemilt; pension regulations unfair to lay missionaries

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1983.047C 12-302 ---: Arnup with Walmsley: Canadian School pianos and other freight charges; School of Chinese Studies, U. of T. and future of Canadian School in relation to Walmsley’s work on Chinese culture; Canadian school funds; Official offer of Toronto job; political-military situation worsening; resignation as Principal of Canadian School

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1983.047C 12-303 Reports of Work: Bacon, Hayward, Sutton [the name Sutton does not appear elsewhere, possibly a refugee from another mission], Sparling; Canadian Mission Press

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1983.047C 12-304 Questionnaire on Communism in China 1983.047C 12-305 Report of Deputation: This deputation was sent out by the BOM to assess

the needs of the war torn Far East. It’s members were Rev. D.H. Gallagher, Mr. John S. Asbury, Dr. J.Y. Ferguson and Mrs. Ruth Taylor

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1983.047C 12-306 Correspondence: Arnup with G.K. Smith (Treasurer, BOM Mission), Miss Harris: 1) Consideration of Smith furlough; stenographer/bookkeeper for WMS office; 2) estimates; financial statements

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1983.047C 12-307 Minutes of the 7th Annual Meeting of Szechuan Synod, CCC 1948 1983.047C 12-308 Correspondence- Arnup with Veals (Secretary), and Small (Acting

Secretary): - Jan 18: Arnup: Canadian Pacific Air preparing for Orient flights - Jan 19: Veals: Bastable takes over as accountant; extensive renovations: Agency and other; Jack considering Chengtu; Station wagon; lack of Missions Courses in Canada; short term workers; housing for families forced to leave; furlough timing: Dayfoot and McKenzie; Bursaries; Dalziel invited to West China; Wilford retirement; Bastable salary; situation of Mission under new regime unclear. - Jan 31: 1) Small: Communist attitude; gift from Woodstock; Webster

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appointed to Theological college, Ball to Tzeliutsing; Tonge to Chungking; elaborate New Year celebrations; Big bills problem for shoppers; political situation; Mary Jolliffe’s operation; opportunities for missionary work still open; many new church members; 2) Veals (Hong Kong): future of Dr. Bill Arnup - Feb 2: Gallagher: to CP Air on transport out of China, Ryan (CPA) - Feb 9: --- Plans for service and emergency; McConachie (CPA) - Feb 14: 1) --- the same; Gallagher; 2) Thanks to CPA - Feb 15: 1) --- Concerning CPA plans; possibility of work under Communists; 2) Telegram: Arrival, Veals, Kilborn - Mar 14: Arnup: Comment on Small letter, Jan 31; WMS payments - Mar 18: Small: Repairs after fire at Tzeliutsing; Sparling’s retirement; Mrs. Small’s financial arrangements; return of F. Reed; no short term WMS nurses; plenty of opportunity for missionaries who come; death of Plewman, also Mrs. Hua Hsien da - Mar 22: Arnup: Small’s position confirmed, also Bastable; Reed’s return questioned; Wilford retirement; Hoffman, leave of absence; G.G. Smith’s decision to return to China; South China mission future under discussion - Mar 30: --- Response to Small letters; Veals thinks Smith should not go till’ fall - Apr 4: Small: Reed, G.G. Smith, Mrs. Rackham, Hoffman, nominations to Board, Veals and Kilborn; English Club at Shu Hua Kai; invitation for Bible Class at National Provincial U. turned down; Gordon Smith departure; Sparling under par; Ferguson death- old timers - Apr 11: --- extra grant for medical personnel conferences travel; insurance for Tzeliutsing; want Clugston; return of families; Hilliard to be called in on Reed’s health; transportation; private language teacher for Edwards - Apr 29: --- Assistance in finding housing for families of men who remain on field; financial problems; press self-support against time when no Canadian funds available - May 4: Arnup: Board letter- financial affairs and matters concerning W. China; extracts from Board Minutes - May 9: Small: Reed return; freight for Wilford and Sparling; special plane at this time vetoed by Executive; families going via Hong Kong; Ball’s decision to leave; financial problems in both salaries and work - May 13: Arnup: housing for families - May 18: 1) --- Reed; G.G. Smith change of mind; baggage arrangements okayed; emergency plans; 2) Small: Effect of exchange rates on reduced salaries and work budgets; Agnew leave of absence extension; Clugston and South China; no immediate departure of families; conditions generally quiet - Jun 3: 1) Arnup: Son, Bill, decided to go to W. China; finances; 2) Small: Mail route through Hong Kong; Bacon, Hayward, Mrs. Robb, Mary Jolliffe returning to Canada; boarding department of Canadian School will be closed; Allen children to be cared for privately; Meuser departure June; Church properties should be turned over to CCC before Communists come; not time for special plane yet; reasons for permitting those going via Hong Kong to fly the Pacific; remarriage of Kitchen; proposed purchase of station wagon; returnees to China to wait word from mission; - Jun 6: Small: further comment on Executive minutes; reactions of Chinese pastors to departure of missionaries - Jun 8: Arnup: Salary scales; letters to be numbered hereafter; good response to appeal to church for housing for missionary families; Roberston back at work - Jun 15: --- Comment on mail routes and housing for families; Meuser retirement; permission for people leaving field; hoped field would take action on reduced salaries; care of property; Kitchen remarriage; delay of

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new people - Jun 16: Small: Hope Bill Arnup will come with Kilborn; present word on situation under Communists; Hayward’s plans for remaining on field; Webster bringing Bacon family and Scandinavian refugees from Kiating by truck; property under new government; self-support drive at A.S.M. church for Sci Shen Tsi; reduced salaries; literature donation; Day’s operation - Jun 22: Arnup: Executive minutes endorsing Field Executive actions; housing for evacuated missionaries; G.G. Smith, leave of absence; Kitchen’s remarriage; purchase of station wagon; salary scale; church property; J.M. Menzies for W. China?; Reed leave of absence; language study in North America for new candidates; Mary Kilborn appointed; post-graduate work: Hoffman, Service; retirement: Harris, McIntosh - Jun 23: Small: Honeys firm to remain; no thought of special plane yet; Haywards added to returnees list; Webster’s probably next; comment on mission situation in relation to general situation; statement of Chinese Christian leaders on missionaries staying or leaving; scholarships at Theological College; Clugston’s future; Globe and Mail headline, picture a boo-boo. - Jun 26: --- Comment on evacuees and housing; salaries and currency vagaries; possibly hand over some church properties to Synod instead of CCC; Sparling, Wilford and Meuser departures; mission farewell to retiring missionaries impressive - Jun 28: Arnup: Comment on Small’s letters - Jun 29: Gallagher: not responsible for salary cut but defends general policy scale

1983.047C 12-309 Correspondence-Arnup with Small (Acting Secretary) and Veals (Secretary): - Jul 2: Small: Events at A.S.M. Church including farewell for Sparlings, prove its worth; circumstances of handing over Chinese; CCC does not want to handle schools and hospitals, nor even church properties - Jul 4: --- Satisfaction at delay in salary cut; no enthusiasm for Menzies; Honey to Theological College, Webster’s leaving; Mullett furlough; Edwards’ location; Heffron to evangelistic work; Honey super-gift; residence for Thexton and Chiang; salary and pension arrangements for Miss Donald; Newcome to supervise Canadian school - Jul 8: --- Pros and Cons on Mary Kilborn; Storm and flood at Tzeliutsing; report of Dr. Wu Ihi Fang on Ginling University; travellers getting out of Hong Kong rapidly; political scene - Jul 14: Arnup (Secretary): Acknowledgement of letters; arrivals of West China personnel and instructions; some financial items; Kitchen’s wife’s passport problems - Jul 24: Small: Resolution on what new candidates should be sent forward; Mary Kilborn, no, Bill Arnup, yes; Hayward and Webster leaving; faith in future says send out new families; visitation of Tzeliutsing; Junghsien; WMS school principal and land problem at Tzeliutsing; strong Chinese appeal for return of Sutton; Great Chinese concern over departure of missionaries; stopped by flood in Tsi Chong, rough journey - Aug 8: --- Insurance; Stinson leaving; Sutton to Chengtu; A.S.M. church declares self-support; Sci Shen Tsi more difficult; preachers’ salaries better than doctors or teachers; whereabouts of single women missionaries; Allen daughter going home, Stewart to accompany her to Hong Kong - Aug 11: Arnup: Kilborn and Arnup sailing for China; evacuees arriving - Aug 12: Small: Copy of letter of Jun 28; Lutheran plane for Arnup, Kilborn, Veals party cheapest - Aug 16: Arnup: housing for refugees; sorry CCC unwilling to take over church property; comment on Small letter, Jul 4; Hartwell not returning;

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Mary Kilborn appointed; job settlement for returning missionaries; Salary increments; Globe and Mail fiasco; Jim Sutton; Sailings: Arnup and Rackham - Aug 18: --- Insurance; Stinson coming home; Allen’s daughter - Aug 22: --- Kilborn and Arnup to await Veals in Hong Kong; Honeys and Newcomes on holiday; Chiang’s troops pouring in to Chungking; Mrs. Rackham’s departure delayed because of daughter’s illness - Aug 24: Small: Stinson’s departure; property and taxes under the Communists; wills in mission safe; Bastable and Tonge leaving; U.S. consulates closed - Aug 26: --- Sutton explained; problems raised by Education Bureau’s action re: Union Middle School and student attitudes; handful only at Canadian School; Willmott might replace accountant; Honey’s steadfast; Press building repairs; Allen’s daughters - Sept 7: 1) Arnup: Property sales up to field; accountant work; field headquarters staff too large; wills; Sutton; Allen’s daughters to Stanstead; 2) Small: Comment on Executive minutes; Agency Home; Heartz Memorial Fund; various minor property items; money under Communists; Bastable, Willmott; use of Canadian School building; Robb to assist injured Baptist Travel; schooling for remaining Allen daughter; hospital machinery shop; Field must vote on those returning without wives to China; Synod Executive and self-support of churches; Mrs. Rackham’s delay; Middle School students not ready to sit June exams; political comment - Sept 23: 1) Gallagher: Grant from Candidates’ Fund requested for Bill Arnup; 2) Arnup: Executive actions: Nursing School, Chungking; Mullett furlough; repairs at Mission Press; Donald’s superannuation; Heartz Memorial grant to Dr. Marion Cheng; placement of evacuees in churches; wills - Oct 7: Small: Grant from Candidate’s Fund for Arnup approved; general conditions - Oct 12: --- No one who has left field may return without invitation; uncertain about Stinson; Division of houses for double occupancy; Housing for WMS and some stateless people; salary system; Travel problems; Kitchen’s wife; balance in Hong Kong Bank from Japanese occupation days, possible for scholarships - Oct 20: --- Kilborn, Arnup arrived in Hong Kong; hope some workers may return; Synod and self-support; A.S.M. Church self-support; Chinese church hopes Veals will visit outstations; General situation; plane communications; illness of Mrs. Crawford - Nov 2: --- Chengtu arrival, Kilborn, Arnup; Veals’ future work; Synod treasurer now responsible to Synod Finance Committee - Nov 4: Arnup: No cable on arrival of Kilborn and Arnup; placement of evacuees - Nov 9: 1) Gallagher: Answer to Small on Arnup debt, etc.; 2) Small: Division of work in mission office between Veals and Willmott; Knight and Stinson may return without wives; Hong Kong account and bursary fund; salaries; grant to Synod; Gordon Smith unacceptable to Chinese; Rackham in Agency; CNAC and ATC planes off to other side, makes for travel complications; McHattie, MacKenzie; insurance on Press and reduced income of Press; tax payment if new government comes in; Fowling Hospital completion; request G.G. Smith family return; Kitchen furlough postponed; replacement for Donald requested; buildings for Gin Ih School and Union Middle School; communists moving closer. - Nov 10: Arnup: Transmissions: Arnup, Rackham, Crawford, Edwards; Kitchen settlement with Norwegian mission; death of Haddock - Nov 11: Veals: No more planes; effect of Communist approach on

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exchange for Nationalist notes and difficulties of getting silver; Danger of Nationalist soldiers gunning robber; Missionaries quietly waiting - Nov 18: Arnup: Mrs. Rackham en route; various small business items; salaries, bonus and pension; return of Service?; Geoff Smith?; Sparling arrival - Nov 19: Willmott: Hope Mrs. Rackham gets in before take-over; W. Arnup made fine impression at Council; Wilson Chen having problems at OCE; Willmott’s children’s allowances; information needed on “Golden Rulers” gift; freight payments for Bacon, Robb, Mullett, Day; political situation - Nov 21: Arnup: Report of conversation with Canadian Ambassador to China - Nov 28: --- Support division of work at Field Office; Hong Kong bank balance under consideration; Synod self-support move must not savour desertion; Gordon Smith case - Nov 29: --- Travel expenses Allen; gifts to Dayfoot, Kilborn and A.S.M. Church; mission and personal financial responsibility for expenses incurred through travel delays; Jolliffe refund - Dec 1: Veals: Fowling hospital; Chungking taken over by Communists; barricades in Chengtu streets; approximately 48 missionaries in Chengtu - Dec 6: Arnup: 1) Official approval of new office-set up; Veals Executive Secretary, Willmott Office Secretary and Treasurer; return of Service pending; 2) Will look into Wilson Chen’s problem; Willmott Children’s allowances; “Golden Rulers” gift; freight chargers; “Jull” memorial fund for Fowling -External Affairs: Telegram; Cable from Chungking; Missionaries safe, conditions quiet; Allen - Dec 19: Arnup: Two more cables from Chungking - Dec 20: --- Death of Brace - Dec 28: Unused balances of 1949? Grants for Fowling, Chungking, Chungchow hospitals; Gordon Smith case; Appeal for new workers; field invitation to King

1983.047C 12-310 Financial Statements 1949 1983.047C 12-311 Under the New People’s Government: Message from Chinese Christians to

Mission Boards Abroad; Excerpts from the Minutes of Ad Interim Committee of the General China Conference of the Methodist Church

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1983.047C 12-312 Correspondence: Arnup with Missionaries: Crawford: Standing Medical Services Committee request for Hoffman, Service and Arnup; soon to lose old timers; (To Outerbridge): Placement of machine shop for hospital equipment; - Day: Canadian School needs; - Dayfoot: intention to stay; quiet year; attitudes to Communism; misunderstanding of U.S. and West; - Donald: Canadian School; various attitudes to situation; money value; supplies for school; effect of approach of Communist armies on Chengtu; - Edwards: Language study and engineering activities; impressions of poverty and life; - Hayward: Hospital finances; Nurses’ graduation; extending time in China; departure of furlough; arrival of Stinson’s in Hong Kong; - Hilliard: resignation; - Hoffman: leave of absence; studying Public Health; hoping to return to China; - Honey, F: Requests birth certificates; language on the job; future plans; - Honey, A: arrival of Arnup’s; community in Chungking; - Jolliffe, Mary: travel expense and salary; - Jones: quotes child’s gift letter; retirement;

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- McIntosh: Accidental fall; - Meuser: Omission of Department of Pharmacy from Gallagher’s booklet; information Department of Pharmacy; retirement; turning over Department to Chinese; Chinese hope for missionary pharmacist replacement; - Robb, Ian: Offers for Korea if forced to leave; - Robb, R: travel expense; - Robertson: Pension and work; - Service: extension of furlough to complete surgery examination; return to China; - Tonge: return to Canada, future plans; - Webster: Return to Canada; some faith in Chinese Church; appointment to Orillia; scholarship support from Queen’s for Chinese Theological student; - Willmott: Thoughts on adjustment when new regime takes over; specific political problems in top level at WCUU; family news; - Arnup: United Board for Christian Colleges Meeting; comment on behaviour of nationalist officials as Communists approach; - Veals: En route to China; comment on Japan missionaries; Philippine experiences; spirit of W. China Council; general conditions; need for but difficulty in visiting stations; plane flights under new and old regimes; mails

1983.047C 12-313 ---: Arnup with Agnew: extension of leave of absence; appointment at University of California and other personal matters

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1983.047C 12-314 ---: Arnup with Allen missionary: Hospital funds needed in gold; excess National currency came by gift from China Relief Mission; rumours about Clark re: machine shop; controversy re: location of machine shop; allocation of supplies; personal beefs against discrimination of various aspects of his missionary life; defense of Clark; need for consultation with new men before stationing; lobbying distasteful; Christmas in Chungking under Communists; liberation affects status of orderlies and labourers; description of takeover; impression of Communist Officials good; Communist hatred of U.S. Massacre in Chungking by departing Nationals: condition of Communist army; hopeful for future work; new democratic organization of hospital; Chinese do not favour Russia

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1983.047C 12-315 ---: Arnup with Bacon, Missionary: Mission has not moved with the times in travel in the districts; cars, projectors, etc. would improve efficiency; conditions in China; travel expense; leave of absence; appointment to P.E.I.

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1983.047C 12-316 ---: Arnup with Bell: Return home; travel from China across Canada; leave of absence; poor at language; personal and family adjustments contributory to decision to leave

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1983.047C 12-317 ---: Arnup with E.R. and G. Cunningham: Gladys: Pthy comment on Council discussions of medical work, Theological College; housing for separated families; hopes Kilborn might speak in Western Canada to counteract Endicott and Faris; Christian services in Chinese and English; medical activities; unless board provides housing for separated wives men will leave too; news from other parts of China; protests reduction in salaries - Ed: Political situation; possibility of war with Britain; families faced with tough decisions; - Gladys: analysis of young couples reaction to situation; financial situation; age of retirement; arrangements for W. Arnup family; making emergency medical arrangements

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1983.047C 12-318 ---: Arnup with Hartwell: health, transfer to Home Mission 1949 1983.047C 12-319 ---: Arnup with Kilborn: Speaking en route, Vancouver to Toronto; travel

account; short term workers; can Anglicans help out since Honan mission closed; urgently want Hoffman and Service, Geoff Smith, Stinson, Knight

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1983.047C 12-320 ---: Arnup with Kitchen: Remarriage; Miss Lydia Thomassen of Lutheran Free Church Evangelical Mission; various arrangements and financial

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adjustments; money for Canadian Press from Council of Christian Publishers; Synod salary scale; paper by Y.T. Wui on Christian Literature under New Democracy; possible effects on British government recognition of new government; print of Hymn book and other Christian literature

1983.047C 12-321 ---: Arnup with Rackham: letters in this field are studded with comment on the changing political situation; conditions on SS General Meigs; reasons for disembarking at Shanghai; living costs in Shanghai; International Certificate of Inoculation and Vaccination essential; Chinese students on ship want KMT-Communist coalition; visit to Tokyo useful; Henry Jones’ contribution to labour relations; English services in Chungking; exchange and money problems; mailing problems; arranging travel for evacuees of other missions; importance of Christian missionary home in probable new circumstances; Henry Jones’ statistics; some labour and management leaders sympathetic to Christianity; regional Conference with Fowling and Highbaugh as speakers; Chengtu lags behind Chungking in information; Press and Church handicapped by slow action of NCC and literature organization elsewhere; Church needs preparation for new situation; internal travel difficult even for Chinese; Mrs. Rackham’s departure delayed by daughter’s thyroid and asthma; Chungking fire and church’s relief work; Fowling situation quiet; tension in Chungking; Mrs. Rackham’s arrival in Chungking.

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1983.047C 12-322 ---: Arnup with Reed: concerning return to China without wife; decision to take a charge in Canada

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1983.047C 12-323 ---: Arnup with G.G. Smith: uncertainty about date of return to China; studies; deputation work

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1983.047C 12-324 ---: Arnup with Sparling: Illness; new principal at Theological College doing well; Webster chosen for Theological College; home orders; retirement; journey home via India, South Africa and England; travel accounts

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1983.047C 12-325 ---: Arnup with Stinson: Christmas preparations in Chengtu; agony of decision to go or stay; return to Canada

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1983.047C 12-326 ---: Arnup with Wilford: Retirement; masonic connections; nursing school financing; conditions, general and Christian; Radium fund

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1983.047C 12-327 Minutes of 8th Annual Meeting of Szechuan Synod Church of Christ in China

1983.047C 12-328 Correspondence from Cora Kilborn, Chengtu to her sister Constance Walmsley

1983.047C 13-329 Correspondence: Arnup with Veals (Secretary of Mission): - Jan 2: Veals: Liberation in Chengtu and its effects; communication with Canada by cable and mail; possible return to China: G.G. Smith and Service; tax remission to mission hospital, Fowling; Stockwell report on Nationalist departure from Chungking - Jan 9: Arnup: Relatives informed of cable; Stinson wants to return - Jan 12: Veals: Registration of vehicles; Liberation Army’s sense of mission; transfer of property to CCC; Fowling situation under liberation; FAU trucks; financial headaches; Kiating and Luchow situations; Personnel: Mitchell, Dayfoot - Jan 18: Arnup: Entry permits; personnel: Knight, Service, Hoffman, Stinson, G.G. Smith; various transmissions - Feb 6: --- Comment on Veals news; transmissions - Feb 15: Veals: Direct mail to Szechuan; mail services slow; entry permits difficult; Mitchell, Dayfoot furlough and Fowling continuity; travel routes for Knight, Service, Rouse; Stinson wanted without family because of uncertainty of future conditions; Mission finances, especially hospital; Walter Small’s furlough and retirement; criticism of staff at Theological

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students’ retreat and concern for practical activity in the community; problems of financing; health: Honey, Outerbridge; educational conference - Mar 8: Special request for medical funds; description of problems facing hospitals - Mar 10: Arnup: Leonard, candidate as mechanic; G.K. Smith’s furlough plans; entry permits and Canadian recognition of China; representatives on Board of Missions - Mar 21: 1) --- personnel; recognition of China delayed; Small’s extended furlough; Mission contingency fund; UCC finances improved; knight refused medical clearance; Jim Endicott to Moscow; 2) Veals: Tsui (CCC) not optimistic about future of church work or entry permits; Mrs. Stinson should not return; transfer of property to Synod; McKenzie and Dayfoot household includes 30 of Liberation Army plus others; currency somewhat stabilized; Synod salaries; still hopeful - Mar 29: Arnup: Money for hospitals; no matching money from U.S. Boards; G.K. Smith leave of absence; McKenzie post-grad studies; Small for furlough - Apr 4: Veals: financial statement; unused balances; fluctuating exchanges; Dayfoot extends term; Wu family extension abroad and return; entry permits still unobtainable - Apr 11: --- Case of Gordon Smith; entry permits; Dayfoot, McKenzie and Fowling situation; representation at Board meeting; list of next of kin - Apr 24: Arnup: Board minutes; attempt to get church behind government recognition of China; various China personnel matters; Knight’s non-return; G.K. Smith leave of absence; teacher for Canadian school; return of Mrs. Allen and children; South China work turned over to Synod - Apr 28: --- Use of contingency fund for hospitals if necessary - May 2: Veals: Allen family return related to loss of Llewellyn Hall; Chungking hospital taxed $1,000; future of all hospitals uncertain; 5 months residence permits received; Meuser, McKenzie and Burwell waiting exit permits; if not Canadian School replacement two more families will go; cannot itinerate without permission, no permission; entry permits and personnel: G.G. Smith and Stinson, Service, Hoffman - May 3: --- Cost of living and salaries and periodic exchange crisis; no church scholarship candidates available; money for hospitals - May 15: Arnup: Christian Colleges meetings, Cheeloo, WCUU; United Board meetings; unable to place national scholarship students in Christian education camps; emergency hospital money - May 19: Veals: Allen and Stewart make 8 day trip to attend special mission executive; Phyllis Allen refused permission to join parents; Canadian school; Board responsibilities for property taxes limited to residences; closure of Sze Shen Tse Hospital; Lindsay will leave in fall; Junghsien hospital problems - Jun 3: --- Deflation; voice of American annoying; patience needed in dealing with new government; travel and exit permits easier in Chungking; advise Smith and McKenzie to study agriculture; entry permits, Service a test case; Penghsien and Fowchow hospitals in trouble; Gin Ih school library; Small’s salary half mission half WCUU - Jun 10: Clearing up account with Copland; Sze Sheh Tse church; future of Sze Shen Tse hospital - Jun 7: Arnup: Hospital emergency fund voted in full; Theological College land; personnel: Knight, King; Canadian school; transmissions; pension fund list - Jun 26: Veals: Clare mentally disturbed; Hope exit permit for party including Crawford and two nurses; Gin Ih library; Fowchow hospital mess; guarded comment on meeting of General Assembly (Shanghai meeting)

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pronouncement - Jul 1: --- Day and Donald decide to leave; Hope Crawford’s party including Clare may leave soon; Arnup allowed some medical work; sale of trucks; compensation for loss of household goods - Jul 7: Arnup: Wu’s travel plans - Jul 26: Veals: 1) permits granted: Day, Newcome, Donald, Burwell; Crawford party has left; Day going via England; Allen family flying; US consular officials sticky on transit visas; private school property under new government regulations; WCUU and Canadian school should be turned over to WCUU; pension fund for Chinese pastors; 2) salaries and pension fund charges for Arnup, Veals, Rackham and Robb - Aug 10: Arnup: Comment on Veals letters; opinion of Voice of America - Aug 11: --- Service has taken job in Sackville - Aug 16: Veals: Births: Arnup, Small; comment on CCC manifesto and pastoral letter from Anglican Bishops; entry permits - Aug 24: Arnup: Transfer of WCUU property and complications; Day’s post-graduate expense; railroad strike and General Council - Sept 11: Synod cable: greetings and request for help - Sept 18: Veals: Day, Donald, Burwell delayed by loss of exit permits; Lindsay’s send-off; Service entry permit; possibly future for West China men in other UCC fields; transfer of church and school properties - Sept 21: Arnup: Day, Newcome furloughs; permission to transfer New Salary Scale; Gallagher appointed to succeed Arnup - Sept 22: --- various financial matters - Sept 25: Veals: Outerbridge children leaving China; land reform period curtails travel within Szechuan; Veals takes over treasurer’s work; Allen’s salary arrangement; comment on Endicott in Observer; Willmott and truth of situation in China and WCUU; Dayfoot leaving - Oct 5: --- More on General Assembly manifesto; new residence permits sought; students at Theological College; Theological College registration cancelled; pastor of Sze Shen Tse church and government celebration of October 1; Dr. Manly’s arrest and imprisonment; sale of vehicles; Allen refused permission to travel to Chengtu; Council and Synod will have to be quiet - Oct 11: --- 1) Bill Arnup to leave China; residence permits granted; 2) Salaries and other finances - Oct 16: --- Permits being granted in categories; new meanings for “imperialism” and “law abiding”; release of Manly; sale of riddance of vehicles - Oct 19: 1) Arnup: Travellers: Day, Newcome, Meuser, Walter Small, Lindsay, Dayfoot; openings in other fields; Wu’s travelling expense; payments to Dalziel in Hankow for Crawford party; 2) cables re: funds - Nov 7: --- Comment on Veals letters, Sept. 25, Oct. 30; turnover property in relation to missionary housing; Observer editorial protested; G.K. Smith’s travel; Missionaries’ losses in relation to outfit allowance; financial details; China club; Veals, Allen, Rackham - Nov 18: Veals: Punitive taxed on Chungking hospital; not sensible to change name of treasurer of mission; departures expected: Outerbridge, Kitchen, Cunningham, Honey; waiting return of Chinese delegates to NCC and CCC meetings to plan for future of work - Nov 20: Arnup: Next of kin of returnees notified - Nov 21: 1) --- Numbers leaving field disturbing; awaiting word on Bill Arnup; turnover of property authorized; 2) Arnup secretary: financial matters - Nov 24: Veals: Return of Franklin and Dorren Wu- travel expenses; closing Canadian School account; permission to leave not yet granted:

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Kitchen, Cunningham, Honey, Foster, Stewart, Swann, Kilborn; situation at Chungking hospital bad - Nov 27: --- difficulties in turning over property to church; future very uncertain - Dec 7: --- general situation worsening; G.K. Smith’s travel a matter for the board; losses and outfit allowances; future of university church; finances: Allen, Rackham - Dec 15: Arnup: property transfer; personal property losses; finances - Dec 26: Veals: Rapidity of changing circumstances; Kitchen, Allen and Constance Ward held by authorities; personnel going or staying; exit permits - Dec 27: Arnup: 1) Response to Veal’s letters and cables; 2) Wu’s travel account

1983.047C 13-330 Correspondence: from Treasurer’s office, Wilmott and Small: Property insurance and estimates; some discussion also of personnel, general conditions, scholarship students, as well as financial matters

1950

1983.047C 13-331 ---: Arnup with Individual Missionaries: Arnup, William: Possible service of India; - Agnew: request continued leave of absence; - Bacon: requests extension of leave of absence; - Ball: resignation from the mission; - Crawford: funds for completion of University Church; return to Canada; rent allowance in Canada; pension; - Cunningham: News of Arnup family in China; reaction to general situation; Chinese woman doctor taking over as head of department; (Arnup; transfer of property; General Council Missionary Night; Endicott at Massey Hall); return of Arnup family defended; Cunningham return imminent; (Arnup, Return of Copland and Faris criticized); - Hartwell: Enjoying Bella Coola; - Hoffman: No return to China possible; Job in St. Catherine’s; furlough and study expense; - Meuser: Life under new government possible now, future uncertain; furlough housing requested; application for Exit permits; Celebration of 40th Anniversary of WCUU; travel home via England; student activity as reported by Willmott; urgent plea for funds for completion of University Church, its history past and present; - Outerbridge: Conditions under which future work will have to be carried on; consideration for and against staying in China; decision to send daughters out to Vickers, U.S. Baptists; - Robb: Salary and pension payments; - Service: Takes work in Sackville; translation of permit to enter China; (Arnup writes of general exodus); -Small, Walter: Chengtu liberation and general conditions under new government described; salary responsibility of Board; return via England; - Smith, G.G.: reluctantly takes B.C. charge; - Smith, G.K.: travel expenses; requests leave of absence; - Sparling: retirement, work in church in London and Chatham; - Stanway: resignation; - Tonge: payment for stove; work at Lakefield, scholarship students: Wilson Chen, Franklin and Dorothy Wu; - Wilford: retirement; - Willmott from Arnup: Communism giving good government now but it is most serious challenge to Christianity since Mohammedanism

1950

1983.047C 13-332 ---: Arnup with Allen: Life under new regime; Austerity program; generally optimistic; personal finances; Miss Demitroff; Hospital finances; taxes; Mrs. Allen’s return travel; Chengtu conditions stickier than Chungking;

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agreement on health treatment for various government departments 1983.047C 13-333 ---: Arnup with Day: Canadian School: teacher, doctor, Day’s return to

Canada: Press in Chinese hands 1950

1983.047C 13-334 ---: Arnup with Dayfoot: furlough timing and study plans; still itinerating in march; returning to Canada in fall on advice of Chinese colleagues

1950

1983.047C 13-335 ---: Arnup with Kitchen: The Mission Press under new regime; troubles at Sze Shen Tse hospital; problem of registering birth of son; Press publications; Government takes over Sze Shen Tse hospital; uncertainty about position of church; comment on Sinton and Stockwell on government and church leaders’ attitude to missionaries; decision to place Press in Chinese hands; importance of Christian Literature in present time; Chinese Christian witness continues; opportunities with students; furlough plans for 1952; arrest of Dr. Manly; Kitchen held over Relief money, Mrs. Kitchen and Olaf proceed

1950

1983.047C 13-336 ---: Arnup with Kilborn: Contribution of Canadian School children to University Hospital; funds from Boards acknowledged; possibility of Canadian firms establishing “chairs” in medicine; taxation; hospital situation described in detail; (Arnup on Canadian Aid to China’s fears of communism); news on hospitals in Chengtu; Sze Shen Tse hospital now People’s hospital; medical staff mostly Christian trained; air conditioning unit for operating theatre; Don Willmott; support for supergifts; Baptist support; Bill Arnup to being work; Hong Kong transit visas for Chinese scholarship men; Hope for Service re-entry permit; Christian manifesto urges no more missionaries; dental money not accounted for; farewell reception for Lindsay’s possibility of going to Vellor raised

1950

1983.047C 13-337 ---: Arnup with Lindsay: Mrs. Lindsay and library personnel; criticism weathered; fine send-off; travel

1950

1983.047C 13-338 ---: Arnup with Rackham: Christmas celebration after take over 1949; mails unsatisfactory; necessity of several institutional accounts in N.Y.; poverty assisted; Bank of China suggests alternate banking arrangements; besieged by poor people, had to quit helping; leaflets distributed by plan (1 copy); monster demonstration Oct 1 described; all Christian teaching out of schools and hospitals; Church still carrying on; conditions at Chungking tightening up; F. Wu a fellow traveller; agency busy with those leaving China which means much necessary contact with police and foreign office; personal future

1950

1983.047C 13-339 Christianity under New Regime in China: Proposed statement by Chengtu Protestant missionaries; Chengtu Christians statement against American Imperialists; Problem of Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches; American Imperialist Missionaries in service of “God”; Christian Patriotic Movement Direction for Chinese Christianity in Reconstruction of New China

1950

1983.047C 13-340 Transfer for Property 1950 1983.047C 13-341 Correspondence- Arnup with Veals (Mission Secretary):

- Jan 2: Arnup: Transfer of property at WCUU; decision to go or stay left with individual - Jan 8: 1) --- Final decision of withdrawal left to field; Bill Arnup to Sunnybrook; advice from Brown and Copland that one or two West China people remain in Hong Kong; (Ruland to Arnup on property transfers); 2) Veals: Slowness of exit permits and exit transportation problems; financing difficulties - Jan 9: Veals: Wills; Chungking a bottle neck for travellers; Chungking hospital; Robb and Darby out soon; no word on Allen; Ward out - Jan 10: Arnup: Ruland letter on property transfer - Jan 20: 1) Veals: Various persons going or staying; Allen still in prison;

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funds transmission for future needs for work, missionary keep and transportation; 2) Cables Re: Funds - Jan 26: --- : Property: Church or government use; Bill Arnup’s baggage; Synod can no longer receive money from abroad - Feb 6: Arnup: 1) W. McLure has “same disease” as Kitchen; 2) circular re: wills; news on those left in China - Feb 12: Veals: University people cannot get permits until status of University decided; many exit applications pending; after all missionaries leave to keep hands off church best policy; uncertainty about transfer tax on property for church; hospital plans; university status; Copland looking after West China affairs; new spirit in Chinese people - Feb 17: --- Anxieties over people returning to Canada unavoidable; censorship; freezing of funds in U.S.; Kitchen’s second exit permit - Feb 19: Arnup: Families in Canada anxious; comment on Canadian church - Mar 2: Veals: final payments: medical, Press; University people may soon be able to apply for exit; Veals and Ricker last in city to do so; Small’s child had meningitis relapse - Mar 12: Arnup: comment on travellers, particularly Honey; concur someone needed in Hong Kong; newspapers on to Allen case - Mar 21: Veals: Kilborn accused of sloppy accounting of drugs; exit permits: Kitchen and Thexton; Allen still in prison; Kilborn and Small still employed; material of historical interest from files sent home; Synod must go it alone - Mar 22: --- 1) comment on financial statement; 2) Exit permits, university people have not applied; willing to take over from Copland in Hong Kong when possible; sorry Allen affair in the papers; Small’s baby O.K. now - Apr 17: Arnup: Extracts from Board minutes - Apr 24: 1) --- Copland should stay in Hong Kong to cover final W. China departures; comment on Toronto orders; 2) Circular on “missing golden opportunities to keep their mouths shut”; 3) Veals: Pension assessments; don’t even go to Synod office; Kilborn, Willmott and Small still teaching; Ian Robb leaving; everyone well - May 3: --- Relation of Synod to General Assembly; explanation of decision to apply for exit permit through university people unable to do so; Outerbridge owes mission; payments to other missionaries - May 19: --- Comment on Board minutes; Copland may leave Hong Kong business to Ruch of Presbyterians; University people invited by educational authorities to remain - Jun 14: Arnup: 1) Comment on Veals’ letters; news of returnees; 2) Missionaries should leave China although invited to stay - Jul 3: Veals: Word on those remaining who have and have not applied for exit permits; personal and other individual financial arrangements - Jul 11: 1) Taylor: WMS mission staff in and out of China; warning not to write to Chinese friends and to be careful in speech; 2) Gallagher: Endorsement of Taylor above - Jul 17: Veals: repeat of Chengtu exit permit status; English service still going on; Honey’s cheerful - Aug 1: --- Cunningham’s accounts with mission and board; Edward’s accounts - Aug 13: Arnup: letter from President Fong asking that missionaries remain at WCUU; Bill Small’s account - Aug 22: Veals: Outerbridge owed, not owing; group insurance with Pensions Office; no further exits yet - Aug 30: --- Hocking asked about money which should have gone to Kiating hospital; assessment sent to Pension Fund; Rackham permitted to advertise departure

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- Sept 12: Arnup: Memo to UCC treasurer on Rackham’s letter on frozen funds - Sept 14: Veals: Rackham’s may be away; Kilborn outspoken; Small intends to stay; some WMS from Chengtu received permits - Sept 20: 1) Arnup: payment of Kiating funds authorized; Rackham in Hong Kong; other financial matters; memo on Agency account in Hong Kong; 2) Veals: Money paid to Kiating but bank statements requested by Dr. Yang; Toronto orders for those still in China; official takeover of WCUU, now a National University; Kilborn to give four week lecture course; small contract - Oct 11: Arnup: Letter sent to Fong on missionaries at WCUU; McIntosh funeral; extract from Mrs. Allen on keeping an eye on her husband’s situation - Oct 17: 1) --- Missionaries eligibility for Old Age Pension; 2) Veals: comment on Financial Statement; letter received from Allen - Nov 19: Arnup: Secretary- notification to families that Veals and Mullett are en route for Canada - Nov 21: --- Welcome home to Veals - Dec 3: Veals: from Hong Kong- those left behind, Honeys, Edwards, Kilborn, Willmotts; pressure on Christians to hold accusation meetings; Mullett’s baggage inspection; sudden permission and order to leave; red tape of departure; Allen’s case; travel to Hong Kong; prayers needed for Chinese church; travelling via London. - Dec 17: Arnup: Pay $3000 for release of Allen if necessary - Dec 18: Veals: 1) Travel plans: Honey, Hockin, Veals, Mullett; Edwards now in Hong Kong; Allen may have to wait for escort; 2) Notification of families of those en route home

1983.047C 13-342 Financial Statement: Property Lists 1951 1983.047C 13-343 Correspondence: Arnup with Margaret Brown, Hong Kong (West China

business): - Movements of W. China missionaries; reports of what was happening to Chinese Christians and missionaries; arrangements for supplying funds to those still in W. China; deportations; money from Canada should be sent in U.S. Dollars - May 26: --- Instructions from Calvin Bright to Boards; high praise of Rackhams - Jul 4: --- Account of Kilborn’s refusal to bow to pressure to remain; Willmott’s defense of Synod action on donation to National Defense; release of Allen; further information on reasons for his imprisonment; Willmott versus Mike Yuen; [see Oct, Nov letters]

1951

1983.047C 13-344 Correspondence and Accounts of Rev. E.B. Copland, Hong Kong: on behalf of W. China

1951

1983.047C 13-345 Papers on Situation of Missionaries and church in China 1951 1983.047C 13-346 Correspondence: Arnup with Missionaries: Agnew: Leave of absence

extended; - Arnup: tidying up finances with Board; - Bacon: resignation; Kiating organ fund; compensation for field losses; - Ball: retirement; - Day: furlough extended by one month; loss compensation; - Dickinson: going to Cairo for FAO; - Edwards: parental anxiety; board orders return; illness of child on journey down river; kindness of Chinese en route; - Hartwell: retirement; - Hoffman: leave of absence requested; Willmott’s should not be sponsored as speakers by BOM; pension; Kiating and other hospital funds; - Honey: letter from Foster concerning good spirit of Honeys

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1983.047C 13-347 ---: ---: Lindsay: Compensation; - Meuser: thanks on retirement; tidying finances with board; - Service: leave of absence requested; possibility of Maritime Conference publication of Service’s talk; - Small, Walter: Compensation of losses a complicated problem, many factors; no payment yet for travel expense; rent allowance stopped; assistance in medical bill requested; - Small, William: Invitation to Japan; order to come home; - Smith, G. and J.: leave of absence extended; consideration of field other than China; resignation; - Stinson: leave of absence extended; - Webster: resignation; medical and travel expenses; - Willmott: condolences on death of father; order to return; Mike Yuen; son Bill in medicine at McGill; Chairman of Synod quoted on state of church; Kilborn working on physiology book; Willmott on new “Jesus as Teacher”; Small doing well as teacher and athletic coach

1983.047C 13-348 Correspondence: Arnup with Mrs. A.S. Allen and later Dr. Allen: Allen’s imprisonment; copy of letter from Mrs. Rackham describing Chungking situation; also from David Day on prison life; first letter from Allen after arrival in Hong Kong

1951

1983.047C 13-349 ---: Arnup with Crawford: arrangement for special pension; suggestion of rehabilitation program for Korea; medical supplies in attic of house 14; letter for Kilborn; war losses compensation

1951

1983.047C 13-350 ---: Arnup with Cunningham: responsibility for others on trip out to Hong Kong; comment on K. Willmott on change-over at WCUU; settling accounts; Chinese Church money given to government for guns

1951

1983.047C 13-351 ---: Arnup with Dayfoot: future plans; birth of son; study at Westminster College, Cambridge, on travelling fellowship; open to missionary work anywhere- Trinidad favoured

1951

1983.047C 13-352 ---: Arnup with Kilborn: American freezing of Chinese accounts a body blow to Christian institutions and individual foreigners; effect on WCUU; Exit permit problems; resignation as head of department; future: Philippines, Vellore and other possibilities; government attitude to all foreign mission activities; resignation from WCUU as teacher; Malaya and Hong Kong possibilities for future; letter to Fong, May 25 on remaining at WCUU, also Jun 5; Ludhiana opening; staff changes at WCUU which is now WCU; wishes three months in Hong Kong to finish pharmacology textbook; various departures from Chengtu; 16 remaining

1951

1983.047C 13-353 ---: Arnup with Kitchen: Kitchen detained; will changed; on release flying to Norway; description of “hellish” last days spent under surveillance in Chengtu; treatment of foreigners reflected changing situation in Korea; ordered deported, left in great secrecy; trip to Hong Kong virtually under guard; warns against letters address to Chinese friends; various charges against Allen connected with Bethune Memorial; new regulations on exit baggage; Hong Kong congested; travel plans; optimism for future of Chinese people and church; Press account should revert to Board; Truman and Dulles statements have repercussions; guarantor for Mrs. Kitchen's immigration: personal account in Britain blocked; war losses.

1951

1983.047C 13-354 ---: Arnup with Outerbridge: at first missionaries’ staying helped Chinese Christians but that is no longer so; ideal and practical communism differ; travel via Europe; since born in Japan, U.S. Visa may be difficult; accounts; settling in New Westminster, B.C.; war losses

1951

1983.047C 13-355 ---: Arnup with Rackham: on getting tickets to leave; tidying other people’s freight; correspondence from Canada can be dangerous; uncertainty the order of the day; Wills in safe of Agency; notice of closing of China fields;

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word received from Allen; from Hong Kong: Agency inactive several months, now “taken over”; arrangements for Allen; travel plans; agency and Hong Kong accounts

1983.047C 13-356 ---: Arnup with Robb: Travel to Canada; still nervous of speaking and writing; need discretion in what is printed; leave of absence; work at DVA hospital, Halifax; interested in Korea; finances O.K.; suggestion of Formosa leprosy work; war losses

1951

1983.047C 13-357 ---: Arnup with Gordon Smith: no compensation in view of travel and outfit allowance

1951

1983.047C 14-358 Correspondence: Arnup and Gallagher with Missionaries: Agnew: Leave of absence; - Crawford: joint BOW/WMS Policy Committee ignores China possibilities; possibility of Hong Kong team of Kilborn, Veals and Honey; - Edwards: accounts; employment in Civil Service; no losses claim; - Hartwell: book;

1952

1983.047C 14-359 Correspondence: Arnup with Allen 1952 1983.047C 14-360 Correspondence: Drs. Arnup and Gallagher with Drs. Cunningham 1952 1983.047C 14-361 Correspondence: Arnup with Dayfoot: travel accounts; Trinidad possibility;

Chung Ch’I, Hong Kong, development; Arnup’s retirement; war losses; travel accounts

1952

1983.047C 14-362 ---: Arnup with Leslie and Jean Kilborn, Missionaries: Leslie: Throughout there is reference to the Pharmacology textbook which he was hoping to have published in Chengtu; tribulations of various Chinese friends and colleagues; dangers for Chinese in “speaking out” or receiving letters from abroad; Willmott’s financial responsibility to Michael Yuan case; paper on San Fan (Three Anti’s) movement at WCUU; comment on Willmott’s and Small’s statements; Allen’s article; Endicott’s germ warfare and other statements on China; Kilborn asked to do medical survey in the Philippines; takes position in medical college, Hong Kong University; - Jean: These letters deal vividly with departure from Chengtu, news of tribulations of Chinese colleagues, effects of living under fear, strange feeling of association in Hong Kong

1952

1983.047C 14-363 ---: Arnup and Gallagher with Rob: transfer to Korea field 1952 1983.047C 14-364 ---: Arnup with Gallagher with Small: Asked not to make press statements

without reference to Board; no claim for war losses; travel expenses; Sze Shen Tze hospital account; settling in Canada

1952

1983.047C 14-365 ---: Arnup with Veals: time spent in Singapore; Chinese travellers; statement on China; travel accounts

1952

1983.047C 14-366 ---: Gallagher with Michael Yuan, scholarship student: travel funds 1952 1983.047C 14-367 ---: Arnup and Gallagher with Willmott: Willmott’s involvement with

Michael Yuen’s finances; travel out of Chengtu to Hong Kong; no statements to press without reference to Board; various statements by both Willmott’s on new regime and their Christian faith; news of Willmott children; no war loss claim; travel account

1952

1983.047C 14-368 - Financial Statement from American Presbyterian Mission re: expenses of evacuating missionaries - Chungking Business Agency account - Chungking Hospital account

1952

1983.047C 14-369 Reports on conditions in China: Kilborn, Endicott, Willmott and others 1952 1983.047C 14-370 Articles: Olin Stockwell, “What is Brain-Washing?” and “C.P. Fitzgerald,

“Christianity and the Chinese Revolution” 1953

1983.047C 14-371 Correspondence: Gallagher with Missionaries: Agnew: resignation; - Allen: Article to be published by CIIA; accounts; - Dalziel: resignation; - Edwards: leave of absence; difficulties with Insurance Co.;

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- Hoffman: possibility of service in India 1983.047C 14-372 ----: Gallagher with Kilborn, Hong Kong: Urges strong protest to Star on

Stevenson’s reporting; seeking Kilborn Fund and Morse Fund for Hong Kong use; repayment of personal loan to WCUU; personal finances, pension; problem of the “begging” class; appointment of Honey as Board Secretary; work at Hong Kong U. differs from WCUU; payment for Dr. Eugene Chan

1953

1983.047C 14-373 ---: Gallagher with Missionaries: Mullett: resignation; - Rackham: upset over Board’s attitude to re-appointment; - Reed: would like re-appointment; resignation; - Willmott: special grant of assistance; job in Calgary; - Veals: resignation

1953

1983.047C 14-374 Article: WCUU Community Church, Dryden Phelps 1953 1983.047C 14-375 Letters from Mrs. Homer Brown after visit to Peking: Mrs. Brown was a

former West China missionary 1955

1983.047C 14-376 Canadian Mission Press: “In Trust” account; reprinting of booklet, “The Holy Way”

1955

1983.047C 14-377 Correspondence: Casey (Board Secretary) with Dr. Gerald Bell: Concerning the writing of the West China Mission history; Reports of Medical Work: Chengtu Hospitals Board Reports: (1931-1936); Chungking Hospital for Men, Reports (1932, 1935); Ren Gi Hospital, Tzeliutsing Reports: (1938-1939); West China Council on Health Education Reports, (1930-1934); Chengtu Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Reports (1925-1930, 1932); Brebon Corliss Memorial Hospital, Yachow, West China (1929-1933); Chinese Medical Association, Constitution and By-laws (1933)

1965

1983.047C 15-378 A Listing of Typed minutes missing from the following files 1983.047C 15-379-

401 Minutes of Council, Council Executive, Joint Council, Joint Council Executive

1925-1950

1983.047C 15-402 Missionary Information Sheets: Abrey to Would

SECTION II: WEST CHINA UNION UNIVERSITY (1926-1954)

The material in the section covers the period which saw the anti-foreign campaign of 1927, the upheavals during the Sino-Japanese war, the uneven and changing relations with the Nationalist government and the eventual take-over of the University by the Communists.

The West China Union University was, as its name implies, an interdenominational foundation. During this period its cooperating bodies came to include the Methodist Episcopal Church, U.S., the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Committee, the Friends Missionary Society and the Church Missionary Society.

Files 1-70 contain correspondence for 1925-1952. It is in the main between the officers of the university with the North American supporters. There is some correspondence of individual missionaries and there is some directed to the United Church of Canada Mission Board Secretaries, Drs. Endicott and Arnup. There is a considerable amount of correspondence between the WCUU Board of Governors in New York and the constituent bodies in North America as well as the institution itself. After 1932 there is some correspondence with the WCUU Committee of the Associated Boards of Christian Colleges in China and later with the United Board for Christian Colleges in China. Subjects discussed range through relations with the Chinese government, finances, building programs, curriculum, religious education, military training, personnel, scholarships etc. Although the Communists took over in 1950, the correspondence between mission boards and the UBCCC continued until 1952 tidying up loose ends in finances.

Files 71-127 are largely filled with minutes of various bodies within or connected with the university: Governors, Associated Board, etc. 31 envelopes contain a variety of printed material; Minutes of the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry, reports, historical accounts, a few catalogues and some miscellaneous papers.

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Two binders hold typed minutes of the Board of Directors (Chengtu) and the General Faculty.

There are also bound volumes of Senate minutes, Faculty minutes and Faculty Bulletins.

Records that are unrelated to medical missions have been omitted, although some are listed to give general context.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 83.047C 16-1 Correspondence: Endicott, Flavelle, McGillivray, Beech, Rice, Gantz:

General conditions in China and effects on university. Constitution of the University. Details of university administration, finance and personnel. Memorandum on Coordination and Promotion of Christian Higher Education in China. Ackerman Coles’ bequest.

1926

83.047C 16-2 ---: Flavelle, Beech, Sparling, Arnup and numerous Chinese: Anti-foreign activity. Evacuation of most of missionary staff. Government registration. Dental and Medical faculties closed. University carries on. Pharmacy department personnel.

1927

83.047C 16-3 Papers concerning Government Registration of the University 1926-1928

83.047C 16-4 Correspondence: Sparling, Beech, Flavelle, Anderson 1928 83.047C 16-5 ---: Beech, Flavelle, Endicott, etc.: Sources of financial aid. Government

registration, land transfer and registration. Reorganization of Board of Directors (China). Transfer of property, inadequacy of University staff. Council of Higher Education in China. Flavelle $10,000 donation.

1929

83.047C 16-6 Memorandum on Correlated Program 1929 83.047C 16-7 Correspondence: Endicott, Carside: finances 1929 83.047C 16-8 ---: Concerning murder of Dr. Clifford Stubbs, (Friends Mission), Dean of

Science, WCUU 1930

83.047C 16-9 Report of Medical Work and Clinical Education 83.047C 16-10 Correspondence: Sparling, Arnup, Endicott, Garside: Personnel, buildings,

finances, unrest at university, Canadian Board contribution to the University.

1930

83.047C 16-11 ---: Endicott, Morse: Death of Service. Comment on Canadian Mission. 1930 83.047C 16-12 ---: Endicott, Garside: Concerning recruitment of businessmen for Board of

Governors, and selection of new chairman. 1930

83.047C 16-13 ---: Lindsay, Kilborn, Flavelle, Wallace, Sparling, Endicott 1931 83.047C 16-14 ---: Endicott, Sparling, Anderson, Beech: Personnel. Wesleyan University

China ambulance. Harvard Yenching fund in trouble. Clinical hospital. Exchange rate and university finances. Associated Board of Schools and Christian Colleges in China. Membership of board of Governors. Dinner for Agnews. Refunds from exchange to mission boards. List of Canadian Mission contributions, 1906-1930.

1932

83.047C 16-15 ---: Endicott, Sparling, Chang, and Anderson: Continuance of study of Chang. Visit of president Dsang to Montreal

1932

83.047C 16-16 Woman’s College Constitution 1929-1932

83.047C 16-17 Correspondence: Dickinson, Endicott: University financial trouble particularly in light of M.E. Mission lack of support. UCC account with Associated Boards. Salt tax as a source of revenue. Government registration granted, changes in University set up. Davidson report on 25 years of WCUU. Harvard Yenching Institute.

1929-1932.

83.047C 16-18 ---: Sparling, Beech, Flavelle: Civil war. Visit to Chengtu Scientific Association of China.

1933

83.047C 16-19 ---: Beech, Endicott, Garside: Changes in WCUU Constitution. Chinese representatives for Board of Directors. University financing unrealistic and some missions not taking share of responsibility. Associated Boards.

1932

138

Request for degree granting status, state of N.Y. and need for information. Military training in University. Contractual statement, Governors with Directors. Transfer of University funds to Hong Kong, Shanghai Bank recommended.

83.047C 16-20 Budget: 1934-1935 1934 83.047C 16-21 Correspondence: Garside, Flavelle, Endicott, C.A. Evans, Beech,

Anderson: Failure of banks in Shanghai. Financial support through Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China. Some account of political situation- hope in Chaings, especially vis-à-vis the university. Financing of university hospital versus need for current funds. Discussion of Beech’s return to U.S.A. to solicit funds for University Clinical Hospital. Military training agreement with government. Lists of securities. Two articles: Religious Education, 1934, WCUU, 1935

1935

83.047C 16-22 ---: Endicott with Collier, Spooner, and Missionaries: Collier resigns because of health and dissatisfaction with the university situation. Financial crisis of university described. Clinical Hospital opposed. Spooner on compulsory military training.

1935

83.047C 16-23 ---: Arnup: Endicott, Garside, Anderson, Beech, and Robertson: Special appeals for funds denied. Statement on Dentistry at WCUU. Beech’s comment on 1935-1936 Director’s Meeting. WCUU budget. Order to WCUU from Ministry of Education, Nanking. Some comment on general and political conditions. Supervision of construction of Dental building. Theological College. Reinvestment of funds. Union Middle School.

1935

83.047C 16-24 ---: Flavelle, Endicott, Anderson, Garside, Arnup 1937 83.047C 16-25 News Notes: College of Medicine and Dentistry 1937 83.047C 16-26 Correspondence: concerning Rockefeller grant for Medical education 1938 83.047C 16-27 ---: Meuser-Arnup: Concerning Pharmacy Department. New buildings.

Address on Progress of Pharmacy in China. 1938

83.047C 16-28 ---: Kilborn-Arnup: Cheeloo University Medical Department “guests” at WCUU. Invite Ernest Struthers to joint WCUU on temporary basis. Proposal to complete union administration of all medical institutions in Chengtu. Contract of the United Hospital for the Associated Universities in Chengtu. [see file 30]

1938

83.047C 16-29 The China Colleges Bulletin 1938 83.047C 16-30 Correspondence: concerning the United Hospital. Policy for the Pharmacy

Department. Support from Madam Chiang Kai Shek. 1939

83.047C 16-31 Contract: The United Hospital of the Associated Universities in Chengtu. 1939 83.047C 16-32 Correspondence: Anderson-Arnup on Property and Finance. Incorporation

of WCUU and property holding. Protest on bombing of Chengtu mooted. Comparative figures on UCC and other missions’ investment in WCUU. Flavelle obituary.

1939

83.047C 16-33 Budget 1938-1940

83.047C 16-34 University Notes: 1936, 1939. College of Science Newsletter, 1940. Report of E.R. Struthers, 1940

1936-1940

83.047C 16-35 Correspondence: Anderson, Garside, Arnup, Robertson, Kilborn concerning Finance and Property: Construction report by Walter Small and its repercussions. Fire damage at Medical-Dental building. Relation of the Canadian men at WCUU with UCC mission. Support requested for Meng Szu-Ming. Memorandum regarding titles to property.

1940

83.047C 16-36 Declarations of Trust. UCC holding land for other boards. 1940 83.047C 16-37 Report: General conditions on education and administration at WCUU 1940 83.047C 17-39 Correspondence: Arnup, Garside, Decker concerning finances, personnel,

building and property: Personnel: William Small, Bruce Collier, Meng, Pen.

1941

139

- Building: Pharmacy. List of possible investment stocks. University church. Memorandum on Dental Education Program. Chinese staff and rising prices. Pilot Plan for Medical Centre at WCUU

83.047C 17-43 Departments of Medicine and Dentistry: University Hospital building program. Outline of work, staff etc. of Medicine and Dentistry

1941

83.047C 17-44 Estimates 1942-1943

83.047C 17-45 Property Titles: Straightening out the various properties registered with the UCC

1942

83.047C 17-48 General Correspondence: Exchange rates. Dilution of Christian influence in WCUU and other educational institutions reported by W.P. Fenn. WCUU Deficits. Gift from and honorary degree to Mme. Lan. Youth Corps building. Chinese administration and the missionary force. Use of missionary housing for Chinese staff. Tributes to Dr. Beech. Wilder Penfield report on WCUU and Chungking Hospital. Robertson’s comment on Fenn’s report on finances

1943

83.047C 17-51 China Medical Board: Arrangements with P.U.M.C. and C.M.B. Grants from C.M.B. explained. Outline of aid available from American sources. Reopening of P.M.U.C. nursing school. Forkner quoted on future of medical education in China, especially in relation to foreign funds and personnel.

1943

83.047C 17-52 Correspondence: Changing situation in University. Problems: honorary degrees, Youth Corps building. University church. Funds for library from Kilborn family. Staff needs. Missionary personnel. Map of WCUU. Insurance. Budget. Difficulty in getting permission for Chinese to go abroad. Religious activity. Visits of Penfield, Cressey and others. Merging Board of Governors (N.Y.) with United Board. More responsibility from cooperating boards for appointing missionary staff desired. Harvard-Yenching funds and Chinese Department. Invitations extended to other boards to enter cooperation with WCUU. Resignation of Vincent Massey from Board of Governors. Transfer of UCC Property to WCUU Board of Directors.

1944

83.047C 17-54 ---: Arnup-Robertson-Evans: [some of Robertson’s letters are in copy in File 52]: Honorary degrees. Reference to John’s letter, File 52. Missionary staffing. Florence Ho, M.C. Chang. Finances and cooperation with “Guests”. American forces use and pay for hospital facilities. Jim Endicott needed for English teaching. Changing conditions. Arnup complains about N.Y. office. Kilborn useful at Board meetings. Uncertainties of mail service. The University and church organization in the future. Religious life on campus. Exchange rate. Consolidation of universities not likely. Comment on minutes of Board of Directors (Chengtu). Study body too large deficit. Missionary housing allocation proposal. Kilborn’s return an urgent need. Set up for consolidation of Trustee Boards of China Colleges. Help for leper hospital in Chengtu from American Missions to Lepers. Portrait of Beech. Lack of information on West China Woman’s College. Discussions with Rockefeller Foundation. Tour of Chinese industrialists in Canada. Kilborn at UUC Board office. Worsening military and political situation reflected in school.

1944

83.047C 17-55 Annual Report of Szechuan Provincial Health Administration 83.047C 17-56 Correspondence: Question of Beech’s retirement from chancellorship aired.

Economic crisis for WCUU when war ends. M.S.C.E. contribution to WCUU. Grants from Jenshow sale to Union Middle School. Medical department in dire straits, money and personnel. Basis of participation in Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China. Relative appropriations for WCUU, (Arnup’s comment on Evans, Apr 24). Travel expenses Walter

1945

140

and William Small. UCC Property policy explained. Finances. William McClure gift. Plan for development of Natural History Museum. West China Frontier Research Institute. List of Medical Missionaries, 1891-1945.

83.047C 17-57 ---: Kilborn, Robertson, UCC Board: Student unrest due to all varieties of politics. Cost of living and salaries. Exodus of missionaries. State of University Hospital critical. Fear of rivalry between city and university hospitals. Comment on Best and Agnew. Financial way clear till June. Death of Dr. Janet Kilborn. Need for clarification of United Hospitals situation. Exchange rate plus British Aid to China prevented deficit. Comments on Meeting of Council of Higher Education, Chengtu, October 2-8 on future of Colleges and Universities. Evidence of “the Shanghai Mind.” WCUU not sufficiently considered. Music department under Miss Ward. Comment on United Board for Christian Colleges set up. Comment on Juomintang-Communist conflict.

1945

83.047C 17-59 ---: Jolliffe, Lindsay, Ballou, Fong, McMullen: UBCCC plans for future of WCUU criticized. East and West Cultural Association. Closer contact between WCUU and Chinese Church proposed. Various university projects outlined: Geology, Museums, Agriculture, Chemistry, and Leather Division. Defense of WCUU as Christian institution with accompanying list of missionary staff needs and list of all missionaries from the beginning. List of total staff, 1946. Student registration figures. Plans for Neuro-psychiatry Department. Printing of WCUU bulletin in Toronto. Chinese staff in Canada. Canadian personnel. Use of missionary houses by Chinese staff. Transfer of University property to University Administration. Secretary for Kilborn should be missionary appointee- not person on shared support. Explanation of UBCCC plans for future expansion of WCUU criticized.

1946

83.047C 17-61 ---: Board Field and Associated Board for Christian Colleges in China. Finances: staff salaries. Slightly increased staff. Enrolment too high- 483 chosen from 7000. Some “Guest” students could not go “down river”. Religious work. Need for trained religious workers. Suggested use of men on sabbatical. Other personnel matters: Jones, Willmott, Walter, Small. Death of David S.K. Dai, fund for support for family. Income from abroad decreasing. Scholarship arrangements under UBCCC. Wallace and Whang. WCUU connection with Wesleyan, Connecticut. Flood damage and relief. Fine Arts Department. Resignation of President Dsang. Retrenchment in staff. Dsang requests money for further study in North America. Fall enrolment and fee schedule, 1947. United Board replaces Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China. List of WCUU staff studying in Canada. Ministry of Education inspection and comment on it. Repercussions from Jim Endicott’s speeches. John Stinson and religious work on the campus. Request scholarship for Dr. Li Hen. 1947.

1947

83.047C 17-63 ---: Fong, Lindsay, Phelps, Arnup and others. Some departmental reports. Appeal for personnel. [See defense of this later in file]. Religious activities. Western staff. Jim Endicott’s comments on Youth Corps building. Fees. Salaries. Finance campaign. Junior Middle School. Natural History Museum. University hospital. Staff retiring allowances. Agnew’s delay causing difficulties. University church. 35 years of religious life at WCUU. Reports on Department of Religions, Child Welfare Experimental Station, Guidance nursery, etc. Student enrolment cut. Visit of Ambassador Davis. T’sien would like to study hospital management abroad. WCUU Council concern for future under communists. Beginning of the exodus, bookings scarce. Religious life. Report of Woman’s College for 1948. Map showing site of University Church.

1948

83.047C 17-65 ---: T’sien’s hope to come to Canada. WCUU Committee (N.Y.) statement re relation of United Board to Colleges in China in case of communist

1949

141

success. Personnel needs. University Church construction, pro and con. Enrolment February, 1949. Dr. Wei. Silver money replacing paper. Problems of financing under uncertain conditions. Department of Music. Government sympathizers dropped from Board of Directors. Comment on Annual Meeting of Directors. Baptism of Dr. Li Hen. Account of University Church activities. Memorandum re: Wesleyan University Fund. Attempt at retrenchment. Division over constitution of University Church. Closing of Union Middle School. House build by former president of Cheeloo constitutes problem. Home Economics building. List of scholarship departures. WCUU would welcome Menzies. Fall term enrolment. Departure of some missionaries. Tuition rates. Extension of public health services and social survey done during summer. Preparing for communist takeover. Money matters. New principal of Middle School. Importance of Middle School to University and Christian Church. University entrance qualifications. Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction. Growing discontent with Kuomintang. Use of missionary houses by Chinese staff again raised. Request Canadian Anglicans to support 2 CIYS missionaries. Kuomintang government move to Chengtu, State of Emergency. Religious activities, 1949. Plans for future religious activities.

83.047C 17-66 ---: (Jan- June): Conditions at time of Communist takeover. Suggested university administration changes. Life at the University. Hong Kong- Shanghai funds requested for bursary fund. Enrolment. Student’s financial difficulties. Hospital finances. Source of salary for hospital chaplains. Stockwell report on Kuomintang atrocities. Religion in the university under communism. Problem of University Church constitution. Military control. Representative got all groups involved in University reorganization. Reorganization outlined. Emergency funds for University Hospital. Support for CMS missionaries from Canadian Anglicans. Report of Theological College. Minutes of 5th Meeting of University Council. Youth Corps building. “Farm” scholarships. Dr. Li’s resignation. Future of medical education and its mission relationship in light of Chungking meeting. Other university reorganization. Spring Study Program addressed by Government speakers. Chinese Victory Bonds. Students demand practical courses. President Fong attending conferences on education, Christian and government. Proposed retrenchments and reorganization. Beginning of harassment. Double taxes on farm land owned by University. Emphasis on student interest changed. Campus overrun by cyclists. Bond purchase practically compulsory. Dean’s responsibility for students as outlined by Department of Education. Strains and stresses. Outline of President Fong’s experiences at and between educational conferences. Withdrawal from Sze Shen Si Hospital. Cannot yet withdraw from Shansi Kai Hospital which is not functioning better. Permission for departure granted to two.

1950

83.047C 17-67 ---: (Jul- Dec): Conference of all groups in University called to discuss all phases of University life. Retrenchment plans being considered by all levels in University, including workmen. Meeting of 1700 held in University Church building. Graduates must attend political study summer course. Permission to leave and permission for refugee missionaries to return to former stations sought. Program of special study week. Graduation and baccalaureate Sunday. Bibles given to 200. Grand meeting and parade from People’s Park. Fong criticizes Harvard-Yenching attitude to WCUU. Description of administrative set up of WCUU under Ministry of Education regulations. Transfer of property. Controversy over invitation to members of government bureaus to become Directors. Middle School’s summer learning conference. Anti-American demonstrations of Army Day to not result in personal harassment. Kuomintang and Communist approach to

1950

142

students very different. Political indoctrination. Anti-revolutionary literature sealed, history rewritten. Accusations delay departures of two missionaries. University Church. Comment on Board of Director’s meetings. Lindsay replaced as Western Executive Secretary by Kilborn. Departments. Budget. General drop at all universities in applications. Principles for University Church constitution accepted. Woman’s Residential College. Property. Alumni recommendations. University Council recommendations. Provisional budget. Summer study for staff of University. Cannot yet invite missionaries to return. Case of Calvin Bright accused by students over Museum documents. Woman’s College property, constitution, staff, students. Fong expressed desire for missionaries. Religious program continuing. September enrolment and fees. List of administrative officers. Agronomy and Rural Reconstruction departments closed, other changes. Budget. Optimism about state of University. Imprisonment of Dr. Marian Manly. Farewell reception for Lindsay’s. Changes in department of Nursing. Compulsory political studies for students. New medical course criticized. Bright and Manly incidents add to sense of insecurity. Property transfer urgent, (November). Report by G.G. Vichert on changes since liberation, attitudes, relation of People’s government with mission. Stoppage of U.S. Funds. Presence of missionaries an embarrassment to Chinese friends. Proposed form of agreement re custodianship of mission property. WCUU budget to June 1951. Accounts.

83.047C 17-68 ---: Continuance or withdrawal of missionary personnel. Financial tidying up. Military Control Group takes over campus. Public accusation meeting. Slight relaxation of controls in December.

1951

83.047C 17-69 ---: To whom it may concern: re licensing of WCUU Medical Graduates in U.S. Opening of Chung Chi College in Hong Kong. Future use of bequest income. Whang’s account cleared. Bill Swall’s furlough salary. WCUU Balance Sheet up to June 1952 with explanation. Transfer of WC funds to other work.

1952

83.047C 17-70 ---: Final wind up of WCUU finances 1950-1954

83.047C 18-74 Twenty Fifth Anniversary Addresses 1936 83.047C 18-75 Hospitals: Cooperation in Medical Work and Clinical Education. Report of

Study on College Medicine and Dentistry. University Clinic. Hospital building program, 1941, 1943. 1945- Minutes, Hospital Board.

1936-1937, 1943

83.047C 18-79 Department of Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy, 1941, 1943

83.047C 18-80 College of Medicine and Dentistry: An account of this faculty and its ramifications. Address by Kilborn at opening of University Hospital.

1943

83.047C 18-83 News Notes: General (1937-1942), Medicine (1937) 1937, 1939

83.047C 18-84 Senate Reports to Board of Governors 1926, 1927

83.047C 18-85 Reports of President to Board of Governors. Includes run downs on various departments.

1927, 1928, 1929

83.047C 18-86 ---: President and Vice-President 1930 83.047C 18-87 ---: President 1931 83.047C 18-88 ---: President and Chancellor 1932,

1934 83.047C 18-89 ---: President and Chancellor 1935 83.047C 18-90 ---: President 1939-

1941

143

83.047C 18-91 --- 1943 83.047C 18-92 Report of Board of Governors to Constituent Missions 1926-

1927, 1930, 1931

83.047C 18-93 Drafts of Constitution and Contractual Statement Constitution 1929-1930

83.047C 18-94a Contractual statement 1934-1936

83.047C 18-94b Minutes, Board of Governors 1926-1928

83.047C 18-95 ---: --- Executive 1928-1929

83.047C 18-97 ---: 1932 Annual Meeting, 1934-1935 Executive meetings. By-laws of Board of Governors, 1934

1932-1935

83.047C 18-98 ---: Executive and Annual Meetings 1936-1937

83.047C 18-99 ---: --- 1930-1940

83.047C 19-100 ---: --- 1941-1943

83.047C 19-101 Minutes: WCUU Committee of United Board for Christian Colleges in China

1947-1948

83.047C 19-102 ---: --- 1948-1949

83.047C 19-103 Minutes: Board of Governor’s Committee on Finance and Property 1927-1943

83.047C 19-104 to 117

---: --- 1927-1943

83.047C 19-118 to 121

Property Matters 1927-1930

83.047C 19-122 Deeds of Trust 1931 83.047C 19-123 to

124 Reports of Walter Small, Superintendent of building

83.047C 19-125 Minutes, Board of Trustees 1932-1934, 1937-1938

83.047C 19-126 Partial List of Publications by WCUU Staff 1941 83.047C 19-127 - The Romance of the Wesleyan-West China Ambulance

- Binder 1: Minutes, Annual Meetings, Executive Meetings, Board of Directors (1943-1950) - Binder 2: General Faculty Minutes (May) (1946, 1950)

1943-1950

83.047C 20 Envelopes: 1-8 : Minutes: College of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Medical Sciences (1932-1950) - 9: Catalogues: Medicine and Dentistry (1933-1934, 1937-1939) - 10: Lists: Administrative Officers and Staff (1948-1949) - 11: Miscellaneous Papers Relating to College of Medicine - 12-16: University Catalogues (1929, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1937-1939) - 19: Reports, College of Medicine and Dentistry (1931, 1934, 1935, 1937-1939, 1940, 1949) - 21: Bulletin of Medicines from West China U.U. Pharmaceutical Laboratories (1942) - 22: Department of Pharmacy, Research contributions (1941-1950) - 23: Dept. of Pharmacy, Catalogues of Medicines and Supplies (1931,

1929-1950

144

1940, 1949) - 24: Health Education Reports (1931, 1933) - 25: Journal of Medicine and Dentistry (Student publication in Chinese), (1934) - 27: Meuser, E. E., Pharmacy Texts - 28: Department of Pharmacy Catalogue - 29: News Bulletins

SECTION III: MINUTES OF THE MISSION COUNCILS (1929-1949) AND WEST CHINA UNION UNIVERSITY BODIES (1910-1950)

Records that are unrelated to West China Medical Missions have been omitted.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 83.047C 23-1 Minutes: WCUU Senate [bound] 1916-1933 83.047C 23-2 ---: WCUU General Faculty [bound] 1931-1948 83.047C 23-3 ---: Board of Directors [bound] 1931-1939, 1946-1950 83.047C 23-4 ---: Cabinet, Bulletins 1937-1939

FONDS 503: UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA BOARD OF WORLD MISSION FONDS. -- 1880-1976, predominant 1962-1971. -- 40 m of textual records

Administrative History: The Board of World Mission was established by General Council in 1960 and became operational 1 January, 1962; the Board brought together the Board of Overseas Missions and the Overseas Missions Committee of the Woman's Missionary Society, thereby becoming the sole authority for mission work outside of Canada and Bermuda. The Board was superseded in 1972 by the Division of World Outreach.

Finding Aid: See series descriptions.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of the following series: administrative records, 1962-1971; records relating to finance and administration, 1910-1969; records, including re finance and administration, missionaries and mission property, relating to: Angola, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, New Hebrides, Philippines, Taiwan, Trinidad, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; records of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia; and records of external cooperating councils. Some series include records of antecedent, successor, and related bodies: the Board of Foreign Missions, the Board of Overseas Missions, Division of World Outreach, and the Woman's Missionary Society.

SERIES 6/PAMPHLETS AND DOCUMENTS RE CHINA. -- 1888-1969, predominant 1905-1949. -- 1.75 m of textual records

Administrative History: This is an atypical archival collection of pamphlets and documents closely connected with the mission work for which it was originally collected.


Scope and Content: Series consists of a collection of pamphlets and documents written by Canadian missionaries and others, both in China and foreign countries, which documents issues of relevance to the China mission field. It covers evangelistic, medical, educational, political, social, economic and cultural issues. The collection is divided both geographically (West China, Honan, South China), and by topic. The pamphlets are arranged in numeric order within geographic and topical subseries. Records relating to West China Medical Missions are found under West China Mission (1892-1952); Education/Medicine, Medical/Educational Work and Mission Work/Christian Church in China.

West China Mission (1892-1952)

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date(s)

145

1983.041C 1-1 Our West China Mission. The Departments at Work and Their Costs. (Omar L. Kilborn, The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, 64 pp.)

1983.041C 1-2 Seeing Our West China Mission Through Our Missionaries’ Eyes (Canadian Methodist Mission Press, Chengtu, West China)

1921

1983.041C 1-3 Maps and Pictures of Our Work and Workers in China (The Methodist Young People’s Forward Movement for Missions)

1904

1983.041C 1-4 The Distinct Missionary Responsibility of the Canadian Methodist Church in West China. A Special Report by the Mission Council of West China (Methodist Mission Rooms, Toronto, 17 pp.)

1908

1983.041C 1-5 Work Worth While in West China (Foreign Department, Methodist Mission Rooms, Toronto, 34 pp.)

1910-1911

1983.041C 1-8 How We’re Doing It in Kiating (A.P. Quentin, 32 pp.) 19-- 1983.041C 1-9 Beh and Yang in Chengtu Hospital, China (Rev. R.B. Ewan, M.D., 12

pp.)

1983.041C 1-10 Tien Da Niang The Story of Our Chinese Bible Woman (Grace O. Smith, 9 pp.)

1983.041C 1-12 The Old Priest of Mount Omei, Chinese Superstitions (James R. Cox, 24 pp.)

1983.041C 1-14 Chinese Educational System: What She Studies and What She Tries to Learn. (J.L. Stewart, 24 pp.)

1983.041C 1-15 Awakened China and the Gospel. (Edward Wilson Wallace, 12 pp.) 1983.041C 1-16 With a Camera in West China. (George L. Bond, 23 pp.) 1983.041C 1-17 Proceedings of the Committee on Church Union in West China,

Chengtu. (16 pp.) May 7-13, 1909

1983.041C 1-18 Report of the Committee on Church Union in West China (14 pp.) May 5, 8, 9, 1911

1983.041C 1-19 School for Missionaries Children (2 copies, 6 pp.) 1918-1919 1983.041C 1-20 West China Estimates- Maintenance (48 pp.) 1921-1922 1983.041C 1-21 Mission Legislation (157 pp.) 1905-1915,

1916 1983.041C 1-22 Mission Regulation and Procedure (90 pp.) 1924 1983.041C 1-23 Handbook: Canadian Methodist Mission (20 pp.) 1924 1983.041C 1-24 Chinese Babies (Laura H. Hambly, 16 pp.) 1983.041C 1-27 The Healing Hand of the Woman’s Missionary Society in China (Mrs.

E.S. Strachan, 12 pp.)

1983.041C 1-29 The Story of the W.M.S. in China 1983.041C 1-30 - Elder Sister. A Glimpse into the Chentu School (Laura Hambly, 11

pp.) - More About “Elder Sister.” A Glimpse into Chentu Hospital (Caroline Wellwood, 12 pp.)

1983.041C 1-32 Program of the First Szechwan Summer Student Summer Conference (9 pp.)

Jun 25-30, 1918

1983.041C 1-34 West China Union University (12 pp.) 1942 1983.041C 1-35 The Omar L. and Retta Gifford Kilborn Memorial Library Fund

College of Medicine and Dentistry, West China Union University (3 pp.)

1983.041C 1-36 History of the West China Union University (Joseph Taylor, 94 pp.) 1910-1935 1983.041C 1-37 The Challenge of China’s Land of Enchantment. Report of the

Chancellor of the West China Union University. (16 pp.) 1932

1983.041C 1-39 The Little Doctor of Fowchow (Jesse H. Arnup, 6 pp.) 1983.041C 1-40 Our Last Term in China: 1949-1952 (Leslie G. Kilborn, 21 pp.) [1952?] 1983.041C 1-41 Foreign Mission of the United Church of Canada (24 pp.) 1983.041C 1-42 West China Mission Council Statement re: Reduction of Mission Grant Jun 26, 1933

146

(12 pp.) 1983.041C 1-43 Impression of the Medical Work in Our Station (E.R. Cunningham, 6

pp.)

1983.041C 1-44 Report of the Church and Schools of Our Mission (Gerald S. Bell, 9 pp.)

1934

1983.041C 1-45 The Colossal Conceit of Missionaries (Leslie G. Kilborn, 16 pp.) 1983.041C 1-46 Directory of Chengtu Foreign Community Dec, 1937 1983.041C 1-47 These Forty Years. West China Mission. 1892-1932 (40 pp.) [1932?] 1983.041C 1-48 Station and Institutional Reports: West China Mission (76 pp.) 1925 1983.041C 1-50 Great Living. Rev. Charles W. Service of Chengtu (K.J. Beaton, 35 pp.) 1983.041C 1-51 The Fiftieth Anniversary of the West China Mission. May, 1941 (2

copies, 3 pp.) 1941

1983.041C 1-53 Szechwan After Forty Years: 1893-1933. A Brief Sketch of the Work of the Woman’s Missionary Society in West China (Retta Gifford Kilborn, 11 pp.)

1983.041C 1-55 Reply to Policy Committee’s Question – from the members of the West China Mission (53 pp.)

1936

1983.041C 2-? Spend Ten Minutes in China 1983.041C 2-58 The West China Missions Advisory Board’s Directory According to

Mission. 1932. (28 pp.) 1932

1983.041C 2-62 On Far Horizons They Work With Time and Truth. West China Union University. (8 pp.)

1983.041C 2-63 The College of Medicine and Dentistry. West China Union University. (3 pp.)

1942

1983.041C 2-65 Price List of Household Requirements in Drugs, Medicines, Milk, Foods and Drug Sundries. Canadian Methodist Pharmacy. (14 pp.)

1983.041C 2-66 Hospital Supply Catalogue of Pharmaceutical Preparations (27 pp.) 1922 1983.041C 2-67 Out of the Overflow (K.J. Beaton, 48 pp.) 1983.041C 2-70 The Good Samaritan Continues to Serve in War-Torn China (E. Bruce,

E. Copland, and Dr. A.E. Best)

1983.041C 2-72 The Missionaries are Still Needed in War Torn China (Jesse H. Arnup, 5 pp.)

1983.041C 2-74 Japan and China. Report of the Commissioners. 1907 1983.041C 2-75 A Statement of Mission Plant and Maintenance Required by the

Canadian Methodist Church in West China & Japan 1911-1915

1983.041C 2-76 A Statement of the Work and Needs of the Canadian Methodist Church in Japan & China.

1919

Education/Medicine

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 1983.041C 8-5 Dental Education in Postwar China (R. Gordon Agnew) 1945 1983.041C 8-18 Science in the Christian Universities at Chengtu, China (Wm. Band, 17

pp.)

1983.041C 8-20 Science Teaching is Helping to Develop China’s Leaders. West China Union University (7 pp.)

1983.041C 8-21 The Challenge of China’s Land of Enchantment. Report of the Chancellor of the West China Union University. (16 pp.)

1932

1983.041C 8-22 A General Summary of Educational Practices in the Province of Szechuan (16 pp.)

1941

1983.041C 8-23 Seven Christian Universities in China (10 pp.) 1983.041C 8-29 School Health Programme. (China Christian Educational Association

Bulletin, No. 6, 23 pp.) 1925

1983.041C 8-31 Medical Missions (Dr. Dugald Christie, Paper No. 8. 22 pp.)

147

Medical/Educational Work

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 1983.041C 12-1 Chungking Hospital of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Annual

Reports: 1892-1913 (Bound Vol.) 1892-1913

1983.041C 12-5 The Chinese Medical Association. Council of Medical Missions. Prayer Cycle.

1940-1941

1983.041C 12-6 The China Medical Journal. Vol. XXXIII, No.5. Sept, 1919 1983.041C 12-7 The Chinese Medical Journal. Vol. 69, Nos. 1 & 2 Jan- Feb,

1951 1983.041C 12-8 Report of the Chengtu Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. Methodist

Episcopal Church. 1929-1930

1983.041C 12-10 Council on Medical Missions. Occasional Leaflet. Vol. 3, No. 14. Oct, 1935 Mission Work/Christian Church in China

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 1983.041C 14-1 Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the West China Council of the

Woman’s Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada. Mar 19, Apr 7, 1927

1983.041C 14-2 Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the West China Council and the Annual Meetings of the Worker’s Conference

1929-1931, 1934, 1935

1983.041C 14-3 Minutes of the Annual Council of the Woman’s Missionary Society, Methodist Church, Canada

1914, 1916, 1917, 1925

1983.041C 14-20 Report of Church Work in Chengtu District Jul, 1939; Jan, 1940; Nov, 1940

FONDS 505: UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY FONDS. -- 1886-1972, predominant 1925-1962. -- 35 m of textual records; photographs

Administrative History: The United Church of Canada Woman's Missionary Society (WMS) brought together in October 1925 the Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church (Canada) and the Canada Congregational Woman's Board of Missions. The new Society had its first annual meeting in 1926. Like the earlier societies, it brought the message of missions before the entire community of the Church, while offering financial support and personnel to its own wide mission programme. The Home and Overseas Missions were organized into separate Departments, and other Departments were devoted to Finance, Home Organization, Literature, Periodicals, and Scholarship and Candidates.

The foreign missions were under an Executive Secretary of the Foreign Mission Department (renamed Overseas Missions in 1945), with secretaries responsible for each foreign nation in which the Society served. The women's work encompassed the whole of the modern century's missionary ideal: medical service, including clinics and nursing, but also hospital building, financing and administration; education from the primary to the university level; evangelism, visitation and social service. By the 1950s, control of many of these mission enterprises had been transferred to local leadership. The Society worked in cooperation with the United Church's Board of Overseas Missions in many of these missions.

The home missions were under an Executive Secretary of the Home Missions Department. The Department worked with immigrants and the poor, on Aboriginal reserves where they operated hospitals and schools, and in cities where they ran boarding schools and homes for out-of-town children. The Society originally established a number of schools and hospitals, predominantly in Western Canada, but these were gradually turned over to government administration.

In 1962 the Society's overseas missions work was merged with the new Board of World Mission; the home missions work was merged with the Board of Home Missions. Other work was incorporated into the Board of Women, established in 1962, and into the general work of United Church Boards in which women were achieving more equal participation.

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Scope and Content: Fonds consists of twenty-seven series: records of the Dominion Board, 1889-1972; records of the Overseas Missions Department relating to each of the following: Angola, 1924-1961; Honan, 1925-1955; South China, 1929-1950; West China, 1925-1952; Hong Kong and Formosa, 1949-1961; India and Nepal, 1926-1961; Japan, 1886-1961; Korea, 1926-1961; Northern Rhodesia, 1953-1961; Trinidad, 1927-1961; records of the Home Mission Department relating to each of the following: boarding schools and school homes, 1929-1962; Community Missions East, 1932-1962; Department of the Stranger, 1922-1931; Community Missions West, 1926-1962; work with Aboriginal People, 1927-1960; medical work, 1909-1962; work with Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1927-1962; records of the Scholarship and Candidate Departments, 1948-1961; records of the Home Organization Department, 1944-1962; records of the Literature Department, 1926-1961; records of the Periodicals Department, 1926-1961; records of the Bay of Quinte Conference Branch, 1925-1962; records of the Toronto Conference Branch, 1914-1962; records of the Hamilton Conference Branch, 1925-1962; records of the London Conference Branch, 1926-1962; and historical documents from Conference Branches, 1926-1961.

SERIES 5/RECORDS RELATING TO WEST CHINA. -- 1925-1952. -- 72 cm of textual records

Administrative History: The Mission, originally opened by the Methodist Woman’s Missionary Society in 1894, was engaged in evangelistic, medical (hospital) work, and educational work (schools and involvement with West China Union University). During World War II the influx of Honan missionaries and the transfer of the Christian Literature Society from Shanghai to Chengtu boosted the population. As with other China missions, work was difficult due to growing nationalism and wars. The last missionary left China in 1952.


See also: To view a list of known Missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society in West China (from Finding Aid 90), see also Lists of Known Missionaries, page 235 of this guide.

Scope and Content: Series includes minutes of the Mission Council and Executive, 1925-1926 and 1930-1942; correspondence of the Executive Secretary with the field Secretary- treasurer, 1930-1943, 1951; correspondence of the field Secretary- treasurer, 1925-1951; correspondence of the missionaries; some pamphlet and historical material on the mission work; and material on the Women's College, West China Union University, 1939-1940. Not all records make mention of Medical Missions, however, such records have been left in to give context to the situation in West China.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date(s) 83.058C 61-1 Pamphlets: “Our Girls’ School in Chentu” (L. Hambly); “Report of Hospital

for Women and Children” (1932) “China” (N.T. Hillary et. al.), WMS Literature Department

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83.058C 61-2 Correspondence of Field Secretary-Treasurer with Missions Executive Secretary (Miss Sparling; Mrs. Spotton): In February, Miss Sparling wrote concerning Mrs. McGillivray’s visit to West China; expansion after the recent evacuation is reflected in the urgent request of Mission Council that Misses Foster, Tallman, Smith, Thompson and Ketcheson return to the field, and that new workers be appointed, including educational workers with training to teach Domestic Science, Music and Kindergarten. Evangelistic Workers were needed, also doctors, a dentist, and a worker with business training. - Property questions also reflect expansion of work. They concern purchase of a General Board house in Junghsien for use as a W.M.S. school, erection of a music building in Chengtu, hospital extension, kindergarten near Tzeliutsing, and one near Chungking, open-air gymnasium for school in Luchow, a woman’s school in Tzeliutsing, Chungking hills bungalow, and furnishings for W.M.S. homes. - A request was made for a grant toward university boundary walls, following the tragic killing of Dr. Stubbs on Campus. - Miss Jack in Chungking wrote concerning the required registration of schools with the government. As this would involve doing away with

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compulsory classes in religion, Miss Jack felt that such registration would defeat the purpose of Christian schools. In spite of pressure from the Chinese Church and from other missionaries, she refused to register the Chungking Middle School, even at the risk of it being forced to close. On October 4th, church leaders in Chungking wrote protesting the refusal to register.

83.058C 61-3 ---: Mar 19: Comments on Council Minutes: Principle of registration of schools accepted, but teaching of Bible continues out of school hours. Opinion expressed that although the W.M.S desires all candidates for overseas work to be university graduates, there was much evangelistic work to be done by well-educated, experienced women even without a degree. [This was a live issue in West China for a number of years]. Decision was made to operate only three Junior Middle Schools, Chengtu, Tzeliutsing, and Chungking. Request for new workers. - July 25: Comments by Miss Sparling on the W.M.S. Executive minutes of meeting at Omei; Luchow school request for purchase of additional piece of land. Miss Peters transferred from Chungking to Junghsien because of registration of Chungking School. - Dec 28: Letter from Woman’s College Board to Mrs. Hales, requesting that Miss Pearl Chiang be given an opportunity for graduate study abroad, in preparation for university teaching.

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83.058C 61-4 ---: There are several letters concerning Miss Pearl Chiang- request for a scholarship in Canada, possible course of study; later, plans are delayed because of health. - Questions involving property are a major concern. These include the sale of part of the school property in Chungking, Luchow school gymnasium, purchase of property at Mah Tah Gin near Kiating, possible effect of proposed street widening adjacent to Chengtu Middle School, Miss Hambley’s purchase of land in Tzeliutsing and request for a wall around the new part of Tzeliutsing property. - The appointment of Miss Adelaide Harrison as secretary-treasurer is ratified. She returns to the field after an absence of several years. - In February there are reports of Japanese landings in Shanghai and Nanking. Chengtu is quiet. - On February 10th, Miss Harrison wrote to Mrs. Hales reporting on the trip to Tzeliutsing for the annual meetings of the Council and Workers’ Conference. She comments on the following points: the decision to take back the management of the Chungking school from the Chinese Church, and to appoint Miss Marion Coon as W.M.S. worker there; a request is made for a woman doctor for the Woman’s Hospital in Chengtu; resolutions were passed regarding the formation of a Joint Council, representing both Foreign Mission Board and the W.M.S. - an anti-Christian demonstration was held in Tzeliutsing during the Council meetings. - There is a list of W.M.S. workers on the field, with times their furloughs are due. - Leila Temple scholarship for a girl student at West China Union University. - In April, it was decided that Miss Florence Jack should go to Shanghai to look after the printing of Christian Education books. She was to take a holiday in Vancouver. - Dr. Jean Millar was appointed to W. China - In June, Miss. Harrison reported that travel grants would be insufficient because of the rate of exchange. The Executive Secretary wrote that a ten percent cut has been made on missionary salaries, and a twenty-five percent cut on maintenance. Miss Harrison then wrote a retrenchment of work because of cuts, and asked permission to use local school fees. The W.M.S. policy was then stated, namely that receipts on the field and gains on

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exchange must revert to the Home Board, thus reducing the amount of grant required. A request is made for an increased grant for the Woman’s College dormitory - A cholera epidemic in the province was gradually spreading Westward; fighting was going on between local military leaders. - Historical Pamphlet: “Those Forty Years” West China Mission (1891-1932)

83.058C 61-5 ---: Postponement of Council because of fighting in the province. - Dr. Retta Kilborn wrote that she was not fully in agreement with cooperative plan for medical work. The resolution regarding the plan was enclosed. Pleaded for larger missionary staff, doctors, and nursing staff for Training School. - Miss Jack to go on early furlough because of father’s death. - News items from the stations: In Chungchow, F. Fee reported good attendance at 8-day evangelistic services; Chungking- Coutts reported greater interest in religion at Woman’s school; in Chengtu a preaching place has been set up at the annual spring fair. School attendance had increased. Mr. Plewman had acquired a radio and was able to get newscasts. - Financial problems in schools. Registration of Chungking school agreed upon, with certain conditions. - A. Ward to go home because of mother’s illness. - Danger of unoccupied Jenshow home being taken over by military- suggests its use as school annex. - Invasion of Red Army in north-east Szechwan. - Mrs. Spotton writes that Board is unable to make a contribution at present to the central hospital plant at the University in Chengtu. - In May Miss Harrison reported fighting between local armies in the Penghsien area. - Opening ceremony of residence of Woman’s College involved Mr. Small as builder, Miss Steele as chairman of the Board, Miss Foster representing the faculty and the principal of our Senior Middle School, Miss Ku Tsi Peh, a former graduate. - Spotton to Harrison: Board action re: use of school fees. Reduction in salaries and maintenance. Warning to underspend. - Local fighting ceased to allow to plant rice. Inaugural of air mail service Chengtu-Chungking-Shanghai. - Renewed fighting. Missionaries unable to go to hills for vacation. Unfair taxes levied, customs duties increasing. Damage to village schools in Jenshow district by soldiers. - Mrs. Hocking, C. Kilborn and three new missionaries expected. A. McFadden appointed for Household Science. - C.G.I.T. work encouraging in Senior Middle School. - The Chinese representatives sent to General Assembly of Church of Christ in China in August.

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83.058C 61-6 ---: February 24: Comments on minutes of Council: in Fowchow, W.M.S. to take over F.M. B. Day School. Continuation of Mission examinations for schools for another year. Part of Penghsien school property to be sold. Request for appointment of Mrs. Allen by W.M.S. Need of C.G.I.T. leaders’ material in Chinese. New projects in mass education, rural evangelism, Christianizing the home, baby welfare, leadership training, etc. Request for use of Jenshow Woman’s School for new projects. Insufficient grants for fuel and light. Imported goods increased in cost, with high duties. Advance of money to Chungking school for installation of water system. Need of doctors. Cost of language school. - Suggestions regarding missionaries retiring on the mission field. - April 30: Spotton to Harrison: Approval of taking over Fowchow School, and of selling Penghsien building. Unable to authorize appointment of Mrs.

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Allen. New projects authorized. Miss Wellwood to delay furlough. - Jun 29: Grant for electric light plant, Chungking. Miss Tallman re-appointed to W. China. - Training of Women for ministry and as Bible-women. - Reparations fund; re-grants not to be carried more than four years. - Request Dr. Retta Kilborn’s appointment for a short term. Dr. Helen Lousley appointed. Re-adjustments of furloughs for better distribution of personnel. Approved. - Recommendation to rent land from Union Normal School for temporary residence for women medical students. Approved by home board. - Missionaries of Society of Friends protest introduction of military training at WCUU, and suggest withdrawal from staff; also Friends Service Council withdrawal participation in the university. - Protest cut in maintenance in 1935. Permission granted for use of local receipts on field.

83.058C 61-7 ---: Dr. Millar’s return to China after furlough as a regular missionary (original appointment 3 years). - Financing on furloughs. In 1934, grant underdrawn because of favourable exchange. Statistical statement. - Defence commissioner of Chengtu urged that all foreigners leave, due to nearness of Communist army. Evacuation of C.M.S. stations North of Chengtu. Fear that armies would break through Chengtu, so some F.M. B. woman and children to be evacuated. Lousley, McFadden, Peters to Kiating. Supplies of food and clothing sent to Kiating, both other workers remained in Chengtu. Situation became easier. - Comparison of number of workers in West China with number ten years previously. - Request release of Fowchow Kindergarten balance to be used as bonus to Chinese teachers whose salaries had been frozen. - Rose Cullen Wallace scholarship. - May 16: Red Army drive out of Kweiyang West to Yunnan where they turned north into South-West Szechwan. Generalissimo in Chengtu. - Clippings from Toronto Star re: situation in W. China give distorted and lurid account. Miss Harrison refutes the account, gives facts of the case. - Executive secretary reports continued salary and maintenance reductions for 1936. Request re: teachers’ bonuses not granted. - Correspondence re: scholarship for Pearl Chiang; establishment of Bible Training School for women; Miss L. Hinton’s health forces return to Canada; need of a doctor, suggested Charlotte Small; Steele, Virgo, Brooks and Peters plan furlough travel home by Siberia to attend World Sunday School Convention in Norway. - W.M.S. General Secretary reports appointment of Miss H. Day and Literature Secretary, Mrs. Loveys as Home Missions Executive Secretary, and Mrs. Hugh Taylor as Foreign Missions Executive Secretary. - Christmas pamphlet (Probably 1935) describes W. China Work.

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83.058C 61-8 ---: July 8: Arrival Rouse in Junghsien. McFadden, Mrs. Hoffman and Mrs. Vickert (Baptist) at Omei cottage robbed and beaten. - Oct 6: Opposition to school work in Junghsien. Visit to Mr. and Mrs. Forbes. Tense situation between China and Japan. Staff for Bible Training School. - Nov 2: Mrs. Hocking travelling on bus- bus fired on – Hockin injured.

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83.058C 61-9 ---: Appointment of Ruth Sparling and Katharine Hockin. - Famine in Junghsien area. Relief funds from Canadian churches. Teen-age girls taken in by Junghsien Missionaries. Sacrificial donation from Chengtu Senior Middle School to starving girls in Junghsien. Gift from missionaries and students in Japan for famine relief.

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- Miss Liu Dze Ru, principal in Chungking, refuses Lillian Massey Treble scholarship in Household Science. - Court case re: cheque for $8,000.00 stolen in mission office. - Finances: value of Canadian dollar same as 1925. Method of making estimates based on exchange rate of 2:1 proves satisfactory. - Sept 25: British Consul in Chungking writes re: possible danger from Japanese hostilities. Possibility of women and children leaving at once by British gun boat. If they remain, it may be necessary later to leave by Kweiyang and Yunnanfu. Harrison reports that M. Brown has left Shanghai and Honan missionaries scattered. Many down-river Chinese arriving in Chengtu. - Oct 7: Harrison reports “Mails functioning- quiet- safe.” Mails via Hong Kong and Hankow or by Yunnanfu and Indo-China. Chinese well-informed of political situation by radio. - Suggestion that Foreign Mission Board nurses join the W.M.S. raises problems of salary and living. - Difficulties of securing currency. - Government moved to Chungking. Decision to move Chung-Girls’ School from city to the other side of river because of danger of air raids.

83.058C 61-10 ---: Jan 10: Copy of letter from Mr. Hibbard to Dr. Arnup. Cable sent asking return of both W.M.S. and F.M.B. workers. Details given of method of travel through Indo-China. Need of relief funds. - Feb 21: Penghsien property. Inquiry re: insurance. Re: requirement that nurses under appointment be required to take United Church Training School course. - Comments on Executive minutes: Suggestion that all new nurses be appointed by the W.M.S. Relief funds for war refugees coming to Szechwan. Christian hostel for refugees opened in Chungking by Miss Wellwood. Invitation to Dr. Arnup to visit W. China. List of special objects for which funds are requested. Loan of F.M.B. house in Chungking to girls’ school. Arrangements between girls’ and boys’ schools, Chungking. - Air raid shelters on W.M.S. properties. Chungking bombed. Travel and transportation of freight from Yunnanfu. - Mar 22: Difficulties of travel and of bringing baggage overland from Yunnanfu. Plans made for carriers, but truck finally located. - Jul 27: Letter from Omei to Mrs. Loveys acting for Mrs. Taylor. Agree to request of Association of University Women to allow placing of thirty destitute children in Jenshow Primary Boarding School. Welcome to Rural Service Project of Ginling College to use W.M.S. house in Jenshow. - Ruth Sparling’s engagement and resignation. Request that Mrs. Hockin remain on field until end of 1939. - Sept 12: Death of Mr. Edmonds. Request for appointment of Mrs. Edmonds to Tzeliutsing Boys’ School. Chungking School- appointment of Miss Holt. Miss Stella Cheng (Djen) - M.A. Degree from Yenching- appointed principal of Chengtu Senior Middle School. -Preparation of outline programme of Religious Education for boarding schools. United Hospitals contract. Projected visit of Mrs. Taylor to Szechwan. - Sept 24: Written to Mrs. Taylor in India about travel plans for her visit to W. China - Air raid in Kunming.

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83.058C 61-11 ---: (Mrs. Harris to Mrs. Taylor): Mar 13: Request for Women’s College for grant for salaries of Chinese Staff. Request for grant for building for Union Theological College. Dug-outs for air raid shelters. Chengtu Middle School to move to Penghsien. - May 4: Mrs. Taylor’s return to Canada without visit to W. China. Bombing

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of Chungking on May 3 and 4 very serious. - May 11: People moving out of Chengtu in panic at air raid alarms. Middle School moved to Penghsien; Bible School preparing to move or close; Day School and Kindergarten closed. Night spent in dug-out. Statements regarding bombing of Chungking. - Jan 15: Bombing of Chengtu. Death of Rev. Harold Hsu. Shen Tsi church used as emergency hospital for injured. - Jun 28: Increase of Chinese salaries and bonus. Air-raid shelters. Request for early furlough for Dr. Lousley. - Jul 22: From Shin Kai Si on Mt. Omei. Request for special grant for Chinese salaries and for funds for moving schools. Scholarships for Miss Du Shi Tsai, Miss Wen Hsioh Min (Doreen Wen, later Mrs. Franklin Wu), and Stella Cheng. -Building of kindergarten at Normal School delayed. Revision of Joint Medical plan. Appointment of missionary nurses. Furloughs. - Apr 21: From Omei. Bombing of Kiating. Some mission property destroyed. - Sept 19: Bombing of Luchow, W.M.S. Buildings destroyed by fire from incendiary bombs. School had already evacuated. Miss Constance Ward lost almost all possessions. F.M.B. property had direct hits by demolition bombs. Welcome appointment of Canadian-born Chinese nurse. Prices soaring. - Oct 18: Miss Hambley had reported bombing of Tzeliutsing- bombs fell around W.M.S. house, but building saved- F.M.B. hospital direct hit. Many deaths, destruction.

83.058C 61-12 ---: (Miss Harris and Miss Harrington to Mrs. Taylor). Map: China After 3 Years of War [transferred to graphics--maps]. - Jan 17: Appointment of Margaret Lee as Missionary nurse, and her salary. Request for travel aid to Dr. Helen Ioh not fully approved. Need of greatly increased salaries for Chinese workers. Scholarship for S. Cheng. - Feb 8: Illness of Rouse, Hockin, Graham. Hope of having Honan worker to relieve Graham for immediate furlough. - Feb 12: Comments on minutes of Joint Executive and Workers’ Conference Executive: Closer cooperation with Church of Christ in China. Request for supplementary grant because of rising cost of living- resignation of some teachers because of low salaries- need urgent. Discussion of place, function and training of missionary nurses. Request for appointment of Honan personnel to West China, L. Dinwoody and H. McDougall. Request for emergency grant for literature because of unusual opportunity at present time. Chengtu, Miss A. Ward appointed to Middle School. School specializes in music, religious education, Home Economics, and English. Request for West China Union Theological College for grant for dormitory for women students. Request for permission to sell Chungking school property within city, and possibility of purchase of F.M.B. property for the school. - Feb 27: A Statement from Dr. Bell to Mrs. Taylor and Mr. Arnup, re: need of increased grants for 1940 and 1941. - Mar 30: Stella Cheng to Harris, outlining plans for development of Senior Middle School. - Apr 6: Important changes planned in Church programmes to meet changing needs. Great need of more money- some work must be closed because of finances. Welcome to Honan Missionaries- Dr. Forster, Miss Dinwoody, Miss Boyd, Miss V. Stewart. Needs of Wen Deh Girls’ School, Chungking. Request of Isabel Brown for appointment as missionary of W.M.S. to work with National Christian Council in establishing cooperatives. - Apr 23: Comments on Executive minutes: Crowded temporary buildings at Wen Deh; Miss Dinwoody for Fowchow; funds for Dr. Helen Ioh’s return to China. Renewal of bombing in the province. Amusing account of a soldier’s request to be taught The Lord’s prayer.

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- May 2: Woman’s Hospital, Chengtu, destroyed by fire. - May 18: Further request for money due to inflation. Chungking School. Women’s hospital to move Girls’ School Property, Fang Chen Kai, Chengtu. - Jun 7: Severe bombings in Chungking. Alarms in Chengtu. Miss Ward to continue in Woman’s College. Investment of money in land for Senior Middle School, Chengtu. - Jun 14: Bombing in Chungking destroyed city school buildings. Fowchow bombed; Ichang fallen to enemy. - Aug 20: Written from Omei. Joint medical plan. Notes on Dunwoody, Sommerville, Forster, Ruth Sharpe, Isabel Brown. Gratitude for permission to use gain on local exchange. Suggestion that Woman’s hospital be not rebuilt, but W.M.S. undertakes responsibility in University hospital. Great damage to U.C.C. property- Tzeliutsing hospital, Fowchow hospital, F.M.B. houses, Chungking church and clinic. Institute for training Christian Home Workers opening in Junghsien. - Sept 1: Grants for air raid shelters. Request for grant for medical equipment to replace that lost in Woman’s Hospital fire. Problems of travel, etc. for returning workers- plane from Hong Kong with little baggage. - Oct 26: Arrival of Margaret Lee and Evelyn Ricker. - Nov 15: Dr. Sparling to Mrs. Taylor. Report on new building, Union Theological College. - Nov 22: Harrison arrived in Szechwan- to visit various stations en route to Chengtu. Distress of people due to inflation and low salaries of mission employs due to rate of exchange used. - Nov 25: Renting of property, Chungking. Purchase of land. Appointment of Honan Missionaries- Gay, Sommerville, Stewart, Preston, Boyd. Fee in Fowchow, Ricker in Penghsien. High cost of fuel and light. M. Lee’s salary- missionary scale or Chinese workers scale?

83.058C 61-13 --- (Miss Harrison to Mrs. Taylor): Programme of the Fiftieth Anniversary of The West China Mission of the United Church of Canada. -Financial report for 1940. Request of Woman’s College for annual grant to be paid in Canadian Currency. - Salaries of Honan Workers in West China. - Recommended division of offices of secretary-treasurer, Miss Harris recommended as secretary of the mission and of educational work, Miss Harrison as treasurer. - Drs. Best and Hoffman bringing baggage and freight, including that of W.M.S. by Burma Road. - Mar 7: Request for maintenance grant at 7:1 rate. Woman’s dormitory, Union Theological College. Scholarship and passport for Stella Cheng. Junghsien riots because of high price of rice. - Mar: Passage and travel arrangements, Stella Cheng. Arrival of Dinwoody in Chungking. New highway to connect Luchow with Burma Road. - Apr 10: Joint Executive Minutes: Normal school, temporarily in Jenshow, ordered by government to close. Permission sought to continue for three years. Chungking: Use of rents for repairs after violent Windstorm. Work closed because of finances: Primary schools in Chengtu, Penghsien, Jenshow and Kiating districts. - Apr 23: Rev. George Sparling to Mrs. Taylor: Plans and finances of women’s dormitory at Union Theological College, thanks for two thousand dollar grant. - May 7: Resignation of Dorothy Boyd. Request for use of Canadian School building for Union Normal School. - Letters in June and July discuss the following: Method of travel from Hong Kong to Szechwan; soaring prices; continued air attacks; maintenance grant for 1941; Miss Cheng’s travel to Canada; request of Hwa Yin School to use

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F.M.B. boys’ Primary School, Penghsien; Chengtu Primary School building to be vacated by Chinese Air Commission; only two cottages occupied at Omei in summer because of cost of carriers. - Dr. Sparling reported first graduation at Theological College- Miss Dorren Wen graduated in Senior Class. - July 26: From Omei: re; Executive Minutes: rent of Kiating boarding school to Wuhan National University. W.M.S. subsidy for Christian literature. Question regarding the appointment of Dr. Millar to Chengtu or Jenshow. - Aug 6: From Omei. Estimated expenditures to end of year abundance of rain, prospect of good crops, and price of rice down. Salaries of teachers and Bible women put largely on rice basis. -Bad air raid in Chengtu C.M.S. and C.I.M. buildings. No military objective hit. Much loss of life. - Aug 13: Tzeliutsing heavily bombed. W.M.S. House hit, business section destroyed, hits in hospital compound. - Aug 30: Details of Tzeliutsing raid. Bad bombings in Fowchow damaged schools and destroyed church. Damage in Kiating. - Sept 1: Bombing in Chengtu and Chungking. Mrs. Homer Brown had serious accident at Kwanhsien. - Sept 10: Minutes of Executive: Outline of Mission property damaged during July and August raids in Chungchow, Fowchow, Tzeliutsing, and Kiating. Recommended that the only repairs to be done should be those necessary to protect from weather and to enclose with walls. Boys’ school property, Penghsien to Girls’ school without rent. Request to home board to set aside $8,000 this year toward rebuilding after war- loss already suffered between forty and fifty thousand. Concern over new law affecting foreign exchange- possibly grave effect on funds for maintenance. Banking difficulties in Shanghai and Hong Kong. - Oct 14: Joint Executive minutes: proposal to transfer UCC work East of Chungking to another mission because of impossibility of staffing adequately. Scotch and Irish Presbyterians from Manchuria looking for a location in Szechwan for permanent work. Commemoration of 50th Anniversary of the mission set for Jan 23-25, 1942, during meeting of mission council. Appeal to home Boards for additional bonus or reduction of cut on salaries. Government survey of property. - Oct 21: Maintenance grants. Grant to Synod and Literature. Purchase of truck. Use of rent money. - Nov 3: Lois Russell seriously ill with Typhus fever. M. Lee and A. Tallman requested to come to Chengtu to nurse her. - Dec 10: Cable. “In view of possible interrupted communication, Council requests full emergency powers.” - Dec 11: Cable: “Emergency powers grants; exchange for 1942 set at 13:1; salary bonus $100 each.” - Dec 19: Difficulties selling cheques; Mary Crawley’s resignation. Dr. Mullett detained in Hong Kong. - Feb 7: Executive Minutes: cost of living, travel on the Pacific, representation of W.M.S. on Joint Executive; future of W.M.S. hospital work in Chengtu; temporary buildings in Chungking; plans for Stella Cheng’s study in Canada.

83.058C 61-14 ---: (Miss Harrison to Mrs. Taylor): An enlarged Joint Executive, with one Chinese and one missionary from each district met in place of full Council and Synod. Subjects discussed included the following: Reorganization of Synod as a purely ecclesiastical body, not including medical and educational work. Organization of a medical board - members - duties. Organization of a board of education, responsible to Council- members, function, duties. Request for additional grants for salary and maintenance. Request from

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Woman’s College for doubled grant. Furloughs- route available via air to Calcutta, Bombay, and steamer via South Africa. Recommended that Misses Hambley, Wellwood, Ward, Russell, McDougall, Sommerville, and V. Stewart leave as soon as possible. Urge return of Foster. Negotiation of contract for taking over Kiating hospital by Provincial Health Administration. Request for permission to sell Fowchow school property and erect building on church property for women’s and children’s work. Reorganization of Chengtu Hospital Board. Request for missionary for department of rural work in Theological College. Proposal to engage a business manager for the mission, both W.M.S. and F.M.B. Agreed that Wen The Girls’ School, Chungking, should open a Senior Middle department. Acceptance of resignation of M. Crawley- resolution and appreciation. Transfer of materials salvaged from W.M.S. Woman’s Hospital to College of Medicine and Dentistry. Request for Permission to sell Woman’s Hospital property. A Committee was appointed to re-consider the constitution of Joint Council. A message was received through Miss Chi of the N.C.C. that Miss Warren was free to work in Shanghai, but cut off from N. China and Canada. As she needed money for living expenses, Miss Harrison arranged for her to draw on the W.M.S. bank account in Shanghai. An all-air route was announced from China to U.S.A. via Calcutta, Cairo, Lagos, Brazil, Port-of-Spain, and Miami. - From March to June, the Correspondence included the following: Misses McDougall and Russell left on furlough. New air mail route via Durban. Messages could be sent home via Chungking Radio Station. Resignation of Dr. Forster. Appointment of Misses Wiens and Burwell. Commodity prices; salaries of Chinese workers; pensions for women evangelists. Reimbursement to missionaries for loss of baggage. Miss Eva Spicer wrote requesting help for students in isolated university centres. Cables were sent re: purchasing year’s supply of rice, to help offset inflation. - Jun 4: Comments on minutes of Joint Executive: Refusal of government to allow Union Normal School to continue, as it was a private school. A new arrangement worked out for co-operation with the government in making it a government school, but with Miss Chiang to continue as Principal. Request for funds for W.M.S. work in the Normal School in Macao where Miss Cairns was on the staff. - Aug 15: Closing of schools and reduction of evangelistic work. Return of evacuated schools to cities- Junghsien and Tzeliutsing. Appeal for new workers. Fiftieth anniversary. - Sept 18: Articles of Agreement- United Christian Publishers. - Sept 18: Comments on Minutes of Executive: Authorize printing of map of West China Mission Field. M. Lee to University hospital. L. McRae early furlough- health. Request for grant for repairs to Tzeliutsing house. Increases in Chinese salaries. Continued rise in prices. Bonus for pastors’ families from special home grant. Relief funds from W.M.S. used for food, medical attention, and student fees. Summary of special requests for additional funds. Purchase of land for new nurses’ Training school. Virgo and Wellwood, McRae to fly to India. - Oct 7: Approval of organization of United Christian Publishers. Request for Miss Lamb’s return to field. Conversion of property money from Chinese to Canadian currency. Scholarship in honour of Miss Wellwood on her retirement raised by former students. -Correspondence to the end of the year deals with the following items: letter from Miss Warren in Shanghai reported freedom to work, sufficient funds. Request to release Miss Dinwoody for phonetic script work. It was recommended that Dr. Ming Chong (Canadian Chinese) go to South China because of language, but welcomed to West China until able to go South.

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Various financial questions. Missionaries sell personal possessions to help with scholarships for students. Request for $200.00 bonus for missionaries. Death of Miss Swann and Dr. Kilborn reported. Circular letter from Miss Harrison to missionaries at home.

83.058C 61-15 ---: (Miss Harrison to Miss Taylor): Jan 18: Miss Clara Preston and Miss Steele ill. - Feb 12: Annual meeting of Joint Executive, Synod Executive and Workers’ Conference. Request to Home Board for negotiations with Scottish Mission re: Taking over United Church work East of Chungking. Request for grants for repairs to bombed hospital in Tzeliutsing. Suspension of West China Missionary News publication because of printing costs. Mission property in relation to Chinese church. Hwa Yin School endowment campaign- required by government for private schools. - Mar 17: Grants: additional maintenance; South China Synod; Honan Synod; Honan bursary fund. Miss Warren moving to detention camp in Shanghai. Impossible to sell Chungking property because of government relationships. Air raid alarms begin after 1.5 years quiet. Missionaries waiting for transportation in India. - April: Sale of part of Woman’s Hospital Property, Chengtu, to Provincial Health Administration. Request for grant for under-privileged children at Child Study Centre. Request that part of F.M.B. property in Chungking be transferred to Girls’ School. Joint Medical accounts. Miss Cairns and South China grants. Miss Warren in concentration camp. Missionaries on furlough finally left India, delayed in Durban. - May 1: Summary of financial need of institutions in view of continued price rise- from 7 to 10 per percent compounded monthly. Meetings with Dr. H.H. Kung, minister of Finance, suggested government subsidy of mission remittances. Plan to close Canadian School, children to school in India. “Bedrock” basis for salaries worked out. Miss Warren reported conversation with Bishop of Japanese Methodist Church. United Christian Publishers. Honan Synod grant. Rates of exchange. Sykes to Loyang for six months- relief work. Resignation of Dorothy Fox- health and working conditions. Sale of Jenshow property. Tzeliutsing school recommended closed- Board of Directors and alumnae allowed to use buildings to continue school on trial basis. - June: Sale of Tsongling property. Closing of Luchow school. Miss Harris to extend term by one year, carrying on work of Educational Secretary; After return of Stella Cheng to Middle School, Miss Christine Lee released for Miss Harris’ work. Bonuses. - July: Recommendation that mission offices be moved, and Mr. Gordon Smith engaged as accountant. - August: Student relief, school finances, government subsidy on exchange, property questions. - September: South China finances. Boys’ and Girls’ Schools, Chungking. Mary Gormley. - October: Request to sell Tzeliutsing Girls’ School property. Miss Hockin recovering from operation. Plans to hold Council in 1944. - November: Estimates for Loyang, Honan. Missionary circular letter. - December: Request for Miss Sykes to be appointed to Loyang for indefinite period. Property sales. -List of woman missionary doctors and nurses in West China (1946).

1943, 1946

83.058C 61-16 --- (Miss Winifred Harris with Mrs. Taylor): Feb 2: [From Florence Fee]: Miss Foster and Miss Edith Sparling reached Hong Kong. Exit permits granted to Vera Harrison (English Baptist on loan to W.M.S. at Middle School) and to Annie Thexton. Miss Fee had completed her literature work and work at Union Theological College, and was preparing for departure.

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Literature Department of Synod and the Press being separated. Pressures on Christians. - Mar 18: Miss Harris still in Chengtu, but ready to leave and work of secretary-treasurer taken over by Evelyn Ricker. Eleven of W.M.S. remain, all have asked for exit permits. Connie Ward with Ian Robb. Nellie Graham having difficulties. No mail for two months. - Jun 19: Mrs. Taylor reports cable that W. Harris and F. Fee left Chengtu on Jun 18. On July 3rd Mrs. Taylor reports that Fee and Harris have reached Hong Kong. - Jul 4: Miss Harris writes from Hong Kong describing experiences of last few months. Chinese reduced to poverty, tremendous taxes, assets frozen, extortion dues, death. Difficulties experienced by scholarship student Dorreen Wu (Mrs. Franklin Wu. Extremely grave situation among church people in Junghsien. Pastor in prison. Principal of Girls’ School in Tzeliutsing in prison.). Eunice Peters and Hazel Heffren in Kiating, vacated residence. Anne Ward still at Woman’s College, able to help students unofficially with music. Evelyn Ricker and Katharine Hockin still at Middle School compound. Hockin’s permit granted and then withdrawn. Recovered from typhus (not typhoid). Belongings of Ricker and Hocking searched minutely. Isabelle Miller not allowed to accompany Harris to Hong Kong. Difficulties in Chungking for Constance Ward and Jean Stewart. Constance and Nellie Graham underwent accusation meetings. [Above information was to be kept confidential because of danger to Chinese friends]. - Jul 20: Jean Stewart in Hong Kong. - Aug 28: Constance Ward left Chungking Aug. 5 or 6, arriving in Hong Kong Aug 12. Jean Sommerville reached Hong Kong Sept. 12. Anne Ward left Chengtu Sept. 10. E. Ricker to reach Hong Kong Oct. 7. Miller leaving Chengtu on Oct. 11. K. Hocking still in Chengtu on Oct. 12. Other matters in these letters are concerned with Mrs. Harris’ trip home, via Europe.

83.058C 61-17 Minutes of Council, Executive, Worker’s Conference. [Files 17-26 contain minutes of Council, Council Executive, and Workers’ Conference, 1930-1942. Council was usually held annually, in January, and was attended by all missionaries. Workers’ Conference also met annually, at the same time as Council, and included Chinese teachers and women evangelists, as well as missionaries of the W.M.S. During times of war these meetings were sometimes held at irregular intervals.]

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83.058C 61-18 --- 1932 83.058C 61-19 --- 1933 83.058C 61-20 --- and reports: Joint Publicity, Church, Medical Work, N.C.C.R.E. 1934 83.058C 61-21 --- 1935 83.058C 61-22 --- 1936 83.058C 61-23 --- 1937 83.058C 61-24 --- 1938 83.058C 61-25 --- and West China Missions Directory (1939) 1939 83.058C 61-26 --- 1940-

1942 83.058C 61-27 West China Union University Cabinet Bulletins (1939). Women’s College

Constitution. Minutes of Woman’s College Board (1939, 1940) 1939, 1940

83.058C 61-28 Union Normal School and Child Study Centre- pamphlets 83.058C 61-29 W.M.S. President, Mrs. McGillivray, to Mrs. Hales, describing trip to W.

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83.058C 61-30 Private Schools and Religion- a government petition and reply regarding repeal of regulations forbidding the teaching of religion in schools.

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83.058C 61-31 Medical Work- proposals for cooperation of hospitals 1930 83.058C 62-1 Papers describing the war situation (1939, 1940, 1945), by G. Bell, J. 1939,

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Endicott, F. Jack, W. Morgan, H. Veals, J. Kitchen, E. Struthers, Mrs. Longley, L. Walmsley; newspaper clippings (1940, 1945)

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83.058C 62-2 Church of Christ in China- letters, bulletins, reports 1948-1952

83.058C 62-3 Dr. Stewart Allen- letter re: time of confinement; Dr. Leslie Kilborn- “The San-Fan Movement in the West China University” (1952); General Newspaper Accounts re: China (1951-1952)

1950-1952

83.058C 62-4 Correspondence between the W.M.S. Assistant Treasurer (referred to as W.M.S. Treasurer) and the West China Secretary-Treasurer: [The following records deal with transmission of funds to the field by Bank drafts, etc., and sending of money home by missionaries by means of local orders and home orders. Requests for grants are made to the Home Board; financial reports are compiled, and so on. Where this is of a routine nature, it is not referred to specifically in the following synopsis. The Secretary-Treasurer often includes subjects of a general nature in her correspondence. Reference is made to these, as they throw light on the current conditions in West China, and the progress of mission work]. (Mrs. Powell and Miss Harrison): In the first six months of the year correspondence referred to the following items: loss of a shipment from Shanghai- typewriters and a safe. Rev. T.Z. Koo in Toronto- grant to National Christian Council. Appointment of new workers- Misses Fee, Isaacs, Berryhill, Sandell. Illness of Miss Sturdy. Big gain on exchange. Grant for Woman’s School building, Fowchow. Large attendance of children in Chengtu schools and Sunday School. - Jul 22: Cables between Canada, Shanghai and Chungking concerning disturbed conditions and evacuation of missionaries from Szechwan. - Aug 11: Return of evacuated missionaries to stations. Conditions in Chungking normal. - Sept 25: Conditions quiet; in Chengtu, Junghsien and Tzeliutsing school registration was good, but in Luchow and Chunking a decrease in number of pupils probably because of anti-foreign feeling. - Oct 5: Cable reported situation quiet, people friendly, and asked for return of missionaries. Disturbed by W.M.S. decision not to send workers, new or old. - Dec 18: Miss Harrison cabled “Situation is quiet, officials and people friendly, workers urgently required send at earliest opportunity.” - Dec 29: Construction of school in Fowchow. Losses and travel expenses due to disturbances and evacuation. Fires in Chungking property. Discussion of attitude of missionaries to abolition of extraterritorial jurisdiction- believe it should be abolished, but recognize that have been helped by it in the past and that difficulties might arise because of lack of strong Chinese government, power of military, increased taxation by local governors, tax on property purchase, etc. Re-building of Chengtu dispensary because of street widening.

1925

83.058C 62-5 ---: Miss Harrison reports on Christmas celebrations in Chengtu. News of the death of Mrs. Powell is received with sadness. Miss Sparling appointed secretary-treasurer, Miss Harrison to go on furlough. Much correspondence re: loss of typewriters. Dr. Henry arrived from home in June; death of Miss Brackbill is received in August. Land was purchased in Chungking and also in Tzeliutsing. - September: Miss Sparling and Dr. Henry arrived in Chengtu after travel by smaller steamer and boat. They found the people friendly, but there was anxiety because of the bombardment of Wanhsien by British gunboats. Suggestions were considered for procedure in case of evacuation- close boarding schools; arrange for payment of Chinese workers, treasurer’s books, use of money on land, property deeds. A statement is made of the Wanhsien incident; preparations in Chungking for evacuation. However, on September

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30th Miss Sparling reports that all are at work, city quiet, but student meetings are being held. The Southern army in Hankow. - October: There were these reports: Chungking- British residents evacuated, W.M.S. personnel still there, school open, bungalows in hills looted. Chengtu- quiet, tense; no word from Penghsien, Kiating, Jenshow. Plans for missionaries arrived in Shanghai to study language until able to proceed to Szechwan. - November: Miss Sparling reported that the university had re-opened with 156 students, after being closed for three weeks. Students’ Patriotic Society, supported by General Liu Wen Hwei had insisted that all missionary and mission school servants should leave their jobs. Missionaries acted as gatekeepers, etc., pupils in schools did own marketing, drawing water from wells more difficult. - Nov 16: Sparling reported a meeting of World’s Student Christian Movement, attended by 1000 students.

83.058C 62-6 ---: (Sparling and Smith): The year opened with danger to missionaries because of the military situation. Many cables were sent between Chengtu, Shanghai and Canada regarding withdrawal of staff. Workers unwilling to leave because of probable looting of property, and in Chengtu because of responsibility felt for girls in Middle School. Committee in Shanghai advised that some should go on furlough, others temporarily in Shanghai or Japan. - April: All missionaries had withdrawn. Correspondence deals with salaries, travel expenses, etc. Miss Sparling deposited deeds, wills, and other important papers in bank in Shanghai. Dr. Ada Speers married to Dr. Smith. On June 17, it was reported that the southern army had advanced to Pukow, across the river from Nanking. Reported loss of #3,600.00 from Luchow safe, taken by soldiers occupying house. Silver left in Tzeliutsing put out at interest with Chinese people. Miss Sparling returned to Canada. Dr. Kilborn appointed secretary-treasurer.

1927

83.058C 62-7 ---: Routine finances. - July 28: British Consul agreed to missionaries returning to Szechwan. Miss Sparling returned to China. New salary rates- minimum $750.00; maximum $1000.00, plus room, heat, light. Housing allowance for workers while evacuated to east coast. Retirement fund assessments. List of missionaries returning to China- Jack, Steele, Hambley, Ward, Darby, Rouse, Virgo, and Wellwood.

1928

83.058C 62-8 ---: (Sparling to Bennett): On Jan 3rd Miss Sparling reports conditions quiet; but on Jan 18th, civil war threatening. Heavy repairs needed in Luchow and Fowchow; repairs begun in Chengtu. A fine conference held with Chinese workers. In April Miss Sparling travelled to stations to assess damage during evacuation. And to review work. In Junghsien, city schools flourishing, village schools with small attendance. Jenshow schools splendid. In Luchow, cleaning and repairing going on, with Miss Ward and Miss Rouge in charge. Chungking reported largest school attendance they had ever had. Miss Lamb described the opening of the Girls’ School in Fowchow, and relationships with the military- most buildings occupied by General Liao and his soldiers. Heartz scholarship in medical education of a Chinese girl. - Apr 22: Fighting in the province between two generals. Reparation fund; order for household furnishings; need of typewriters.

1929

83.058C 62-9 ---: (Sparling and Bennett): Purchase of furnishings and typewriters. Report of a visit to His Pu, near Chengtu, when evangelistic meetings were held and a number became interested in Christianity. In Fowchow, Pastor Din and Mr. Bridgman captured by robbers; ransom asked. Account of escape and return after three weeks. Marriage of Edith Lorree. Stabbing death of Dr. Stubbs of Friends’ Mission. Mrs. McGillivray’s visit to Szechwan. - In September, and elsewhere there is reference to the activity of

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communists. In a search for Communists quite a number of students were taken and killed. Furnishings. Typewriters. Reparations for personal losses of missionaries. Purchase of medical instruments. Emergency grant for university campus wall. Miss Brimstin returning to Canada-health.

83.058C 62-10 ---: --- Estimates for 1932. Rural Evangelism by College students. Sparling and Chungking to assist in School registration. Miss Fee early furlough- health. Japanese aggressiveness; daily patriotic meetings. Order for artificial limb for Chinese teacher. Miss Harrison appointed secretary-treasurer after end of year.

1931

83.058C 62-11 (Harrison, Bennett and Buck): Estimates for 1933. Requests regarding property in Junghsien, Kiating, Luchow, Chungking, Fowchow, Chungchow. Also, reparations money still needed in Jenshow, Penghsien, and Kiating. Grant to Educational Secretary of National Christian Council. Contributions from West China missionaries for Canadian relief work. Students incensed over invasion of Shanghai by Japanese. General Liu insists on widening streets adjoining Chengtu school property (Fang Chen Kai and Fuh Deh Kai). Cholera epidemic in Szechwan. Missionaries inoculated, but one C.I.M. death. Leila Temple scholarship for university student. Fighting in Szechwan, including Luchow and Chengtu.

1932

83.058C 62-12 ---: (Harrison, Buck): Finances. Estimates for 1934. Request that re-grants be released for land in Kiating, Luchow and Fowchow. Uncertain mails in previous months because of fighting between 21st army in Junghsien and 29th army in Chengtu. Leila Temple scholarship and Julia Killam Heartz Memorial Fund. Donation from African women for “Relief in China”. In April A. Ward returned to Canada because of mother’s illness. In May, Miss Harrison reported civil war again, North and West of Chengtu. Trip to Tsong Ni Chao to close school. In July, civil war had lessened and missionaries were able to go on holidays. Illness of Miss Gormley. Arrival reported of three new missionaries- Ricker, Stewart and Hinton. Language study in Chengtu. Reduction in salaries of missionaries and in maintenance because of decrease in funds. Endowment of a memorial cot in Chengtu Woman’s Hospital provided in will of Miss Minnie Hester Garrett.

1933

83.058C 62-13 ---: (Harrison, Buck): In January, Council and Conference meetings were held. Financial statements. Several letters dealing with architects fees for Woman’s College buildings. In May, Miss Harrison wrote explaining the system of transfer of funds from Canada to Shanghai to West China stations, using bills of exchange, etc. Mail robberies. Executive action of W.M.S. granted release of money for new projects. Summer at Omei. Miss Harrison broken leg. Twenty-four days record time in receiving mail, Toronto to Omei. Plan for re-adjustment of times of furlough for more adequate staffing of stations. Approval of sale of part of Penghsien school. Missionaries to W. China, Autumn, 1934: Alice McFadden, Mary Lamb, Robena Swann, Edith Sparling, Alma Tallman, and Dr. Helen Lousley. Grave financial situation in Canada, continued decrease in W.M.S. receipts, and necessitates reduction and great economy. Field protest reduction of maintenance grants. McFadden to travel Chungking to Chengtu by air. Plan $100.00 mex.; sedan chair $85.00 mex. Plan two hours, chair ten days. Dr. Sherwood Eddy held student meeting in Chengtu. Eight hundred expressed desires to study Christianity.

1934

83.058C 62-14 ---: (Buck, Harrison): Financial report of 1934. Estimates for 1935. Furlough travel. Communist fordes in Kweichow and Southern Szechwan, South of Yangtze, have caused evacuation of some Baptist and China Inland Mission personnel. No danger if government troops can prevent Communists from breaking through to Yangtze. In March, a dust storm reported from the Gobi Desert. - April: Political situation tense. Red Army circled to West and North of Chengtu, 100 miles away. General in Chengtu advises foreigners to leave if

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convenience. McFadden, Coutts, Peters and Lousley go by boat to Kiating. Military preparations in Chengtu- trenches dug- city wall strengthened. In May, the Red Army entered Szechwan in extreme South-West. Collapse of Shanghai Bank and Trust Company, a great loss to some missionaries. In November, there was further anxiety about the Red Army advance toward Kiating.

83.058C 62-15 ---: Notice received of appointment of Mrs. Hugh Taylor as Foreign Missions Executive Secretary. - June: plans for Pearl Chiang to travel with Lottie McRae, to Canada. - September: Legacy of Mrs. Purdy for Domestic Science work in W. China. - November: 1937 estimates. Cuts on salaries and maintenance retained.

1936

83.058C 62-16 ---: (Harrison and Buck): Registration of property deeds. Mail held up because of low water and ship-wreck in upper Yangtze. Ten weeks for letter from Canada. Relief camp in Junghsien due to unprecedented famine. Difficulty of selling drafts because of war with Japan; treasurer’s funds very low. Little possibility of Japanese bombing in Chengtu. Possibility of University of Nanking moving to Chengtu. Sept. Mails uncertain. Foreign mails via Hong Kong instead of Shanghai. In October, Miss Hambley wrote to Miss Buck about her insurance, reporting that missionaries were receiving very little mail, and that it was impossible to get supplies from Shanghai, such as coal oil and baking powder. - Oct 9: Grant of $2,000.00 Can. To Szechwan Synod of Church of Christ in China. Destruction in China from War. - Oct 23: Cheeloo Medical School, Nanking Central Medical College and Dental College, teachers and students en route to Chengtu, to carry on West China Union University. Visit of Dr. Stanley Jones began Nov. 3. Meetings well attended by church members, workers and students. Estimates for 1938- continued reduction in salaries and maintenance. Scholarship estimates, including Miss Pearl Chiang. - Dec 13: People fearful of air raids; fighting on Yangtze.

1937

83.058C 62-17 ---: --- Feb 19: Temporary buildings for Wen The Girls’ School in Chungking Built across river. City property to be used as Christian Hostel for refugees from down-river, Miss Wellwood in charge. - Mar 26: Arrival of Steele and Gormley by air from Yunnan-fu, a new route. - Apr 6: Miss Hambley reports that the great interest among women in literacy schools gives an opportunity for Christian teaching. Military drill compulsory in schools. General conditions- refugees- families separated- destitution. - Miss Sparling seriously ill with typhus. Death of Miss Coon reported. Engagement of Ruth Sparling. Illness of Lottie McRae. Miss Harrison moved back to Chengtu from Penghsien in November. - May 13: Serious difficulties in getting freight to Szechwan, including medical supplies. Routes available: French, Indo-China to Yunnan, extremely expensive; Canton up Pearl River, truck to Hankow or Changsha, then steamer- but no transfer company to make arrangements. - In August and September, inflation prices due to taxes are reported, and also due to export of cotton and rice to Eastern China for the army. Air service was discontinued to Hong Kong because of attack on passenger plane. Bombing in Kunming and Chungking; Air raids on two Chengtu airfields. - Purchase of two pianos in Shanghai, stored there; grant for household science teacher; grant for erection of school building, Chungking; grant for Faculty House for Woman’s College, Chengtu. Estimates for 1939.

1938

83.058C 62-18 ---: (Harrison, Harris, Buck): Financial Report. Estimates for 1940. Salary schedule for 1940; scholarships. Medical finances. - In March, fire was reported at the Fowchow property, and an estimate made of necessary repairs. On March 19, Miss Harris wrote that Chengtu Middle

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School (Hwa Yin) planned to move to Penghsien, the Normal School to Jenshow. A dug-out as being made for the remaining people on the Chengtu Compound. - In April, Harrison, Fee, Ricker left on furlough by plane to Chungking and Kunming- flight extended because of Kunming air raid in progress on arrival. - By June 8th, there had been many air-raid alarms, with resulting confusion on the streets but no bombing. On Jun 11th, a raid caused much destruction in the city. A Letter written from Omei in August describes the bombing of Kiating, rescue work- over two thousand reported dead. - Letters in September and October deal with emergency grants and institutions. Descriptions of bombing in Chengtu, nights spent in shelter. - September 11th- bombing of Luchow.

83.058C 62-19 ---: (Harris, Buck): Jan 9: Miss Buck wrote of restrictions established by Foreign Exchange Control Board on negotiation of Canadian currency outside Canada. Financial reports and action of W.M.S. Grant for Chinese workers and to Normal School. Grant to move Chengtu school. Salaries of Chinese staff at Woman’s College. Purdy legacy for Domestic Science to be used in Junghsien or Tzeliutsing. Travel to field of Foster, K. Hockin, Mrs. Hockin, Holt and Dorothy Fox. - April: Great need of bonuses and increased salaries for Chinese workers because of inflation. Dorothy Boyd from Honan appointed Chungking. - Miss Brooks remittance to “adopted daughters”- Yao Shih Hwa, Yao U Hwa, and Dai Yuin Fu (Dorothy Dai); - In June, air raid alarms, shortage of money, unable to sell Shanghai cheques. - In August, Miss Harris wrote that the situation was acute- grants insufficient for year’s work- more needed for Chinese salaries and maintenance. Japanese on Szechwan Eastern border. - Nov 20: Appointment of Isabel Brown for one year. Salaries of Chinese staff at Woman’s College. Grant for temporary building at Luchow, and for furnishings. Grant for equipment, Woman’s hospital, Chengtu. Purchase of a site for Chengtu Girls’ School. Travel to China of Harrison, Ricker, Stewart, Thexton, and new worker Margaret Lee. Salaries of Honan workers being transferred to W. China- D. Boyd, J. Sommerville, L. Dinwoody, V. Stewart, C. Preston, Miss Gay, Dr. M. Forster.

1940

83.058C 62-20 ---: (Harrison and M. Buck): Jan: Honan salaries. Economic conditions. Rising prices; rice thirty times price two years previously. Salary increase far behind. Maintenance grant to be reckoned at 6:1 rate of exchange, but still necessary to close work. - Feb: Harrison to Norman Knight. Honan salaries and grants for work. Rising prices. Lack of hospital supplies. - March: Bills of exchange. Transfer of funds from Honan Grant for Woman’s Dormitory at Union Theological College. Resumed bombings in W. China reported. - April: Drs. Best and Hoffman in Kunming arranging storage and transportation of university and hospital supplies brought in from Indo-China. - May: Transference of Currency from Shanghai to Chengtu to provide for emergency. - June: Miss Harrison wrote to missionaries at home re: return travel from Hong Kong- fly direct, or via Rangoon. Continual soaring prices. - August: High cost of living affecting missionaries and their work. Famine in dried- out areas of Junghsien, Tzeliutsing, Jenshow and Luchow. - September: Drastic financial regulations made in Hong Kong by Chinese government. Stella Cheng’s travel. - October: Contributions of missionaries toward liquidation of the Debt of the Church. Maintenance grant for 1941 at 7:1 rate. Purchase of a truck. - December: Mr. Hibbard and Dr. Arnup. Attempt to send letter via Rangoon.

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Emergency powers for Council. Impossible to get money through Shanghai or Hong Kong- Hong Kong besieged. Missionaries of various boards stranded; no funds available; Council and Synod cancelled because of financial situation. Russell-typhus fever.

83.058C 62-21 ---: (Harrison, Buck): The opening of the year presented continued problems regarding communication with Canada, and acquiring funds in West China. Cables were sent regarding remittances and financial reports. Air route via Calcutta, Durban, and then steamer to Canada. Exchange rate 13:1. - In March, McDougall, V. Stewart and Russell started on furlough via Calcutta. Fall of Singapore and Rangoon resulted in higher prices. Stella Cheng was in Canada. - In April, McDougall, Stewart and Russell in India- question re: their salaries. Miss Warren provided for in Shanghai. Salary of Miss Chi of Church of Christ in China. Grant to Christian Literature Society. Cables sent home re: F.M.B. and W.M.S. finances, and re: travel funds for the five in India. - In October, cables again re: low exchange rate allowed on funds. Wellwood, Virgo, McRae leaving on furlough via India. Wellwood scholarship. Home Orders. Exchange rates. Use of Shanghai funds by Mrs. Warren.

1942

83.058C 63-1 ---: (Harrison, Buck): Continued to cable for funds. Miss Preston went on furlough via India. Letter from Miss Warren, Shanghai, written day before entering concentration camp, use of W.M.S. Shanghai bank account for salary, etc. - In May, Steele and Millar were en route to Canada. By June 7th, J. Sommerville was in Calcutta. D. Fox leaving in July. Sale of missionaries’ personal effects gives financial aid. - In June, permission as requested to sell Jenshow city property. In July, an increased maintenance rate was requested. - From October to December, correspondence dealt with Miss Jack’s travelling expenses via New Zealand, lists of transmissions, home orders, and etc. - confusion due to not receiving letters of Miss Buck. Sale of Jenshow property.

1943

83.058C 63-2 ---: ---: Financial Report for 1943. South China account. Another leap in prices- eggs $4.20 Doz. Can. Currency. By March, prices had increased 75 percent since January. Need to sell drafts on open market. - Receipt and letter for money sent to Madam Chaing for relief from Chinese children, Edmonton. Cooperation with Canadian Foreign Exchange Control Board to get better rate of exchange. Harris, Gormley, Dougherty go on furlough. Sale of personal effects of missionaries at inflated prices. Miss E. McKenzie appointed new W.M.S. treasurer. In December, the advance of the Japanese was reported.

1944

83.058C 63-3 ---: (Harrison, McKenzie): Financial report for 1944. Special relief money used for rice and salary bonuses. Missionaries advised to leave by British authorities because of critical situation. Hibbard to Taylor: Joint Medical Account. Account of Mr. Z.K. Zia. Funds for Miss Cairns in Macao. Canadian embassy refused to give permission for four missionaries to India to return to China. Transfer of funds to Cairo for six ladies. Taxes on Chengtu properties. - In September, Miss Harrison writes re: Miss Isaacs proceeding to Kongmoon; Miss Cairns in Macao- impossible to send her funds; drop of 40 percent in exchange rate, but no drop in cost of living; letters from Hodge and Warren after 2.5 years in a concentration camp. Grant for Tzeliutsing hospital for $3,000.00 for repairs necessary due to bombing. - In November, Miss Harrison writes of difficulty in sending funds to Isaacs and Cairns. Sykes and others return to Honan in spite of civil war. - In December, Harrison cabled: “Pay Uberta Steele sixty dollars Christmas gift from former pupils with loving greetings.” Former gift from Halliday for

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children’s work, W. China now released by custodian of Enemy property. Finances- Warren in Shanghai and Cairns in South China.

83.058C 63-4 ---: (Harris, Harrison, McKenzie): Financial Report, 1945. Estimate for 1947. Refresher course for Chinese workers. Chengtu Middle School- $3,000 for Household Science and Music. Pianos purchased 1938 in Shanghai and stored there found safe after war. Anxiety re: Miss Sparling’s illness (typhus). Stationing list. Miss Harrison arrived from furlough, took over Secretary-Treasurer at end of March. - In March, cables and memos re: exchange difficulties. Pearl Chiang to Chungking for passport to Canada. - In April, Honan and Shanghai in need of funds. Sent ten million to Honan, one million to Shanghai. - In July, missionaries travelled home via S.S. Gen Meiggs, including Dr. Jean Millar who was ill. Janet Kilborn legacy to provide scholarship to aid women students obtaining medical education. Missionary salaries to be paid in Canada-deposited to bank accounts because of instability in China. Mail delays of several months result in confusion in accounts.

1946

83.058C 63-5 ---: (Harris, McKenzie): Jan. to March. Financial reports for 1946 and estimates for 1948. Difficult financial year. Letters not received in Toronto. Death of Mrs. Kitchen in Hankow plane accident. Dr. Beeton and Mr. Morehouse in Chengtu- photography. Resignation of Dr. Jean Millar as of July 24, 1946. Special grant to Church of Christ in China because of expansion work. Resignation of Bessie Julien, Apr. 19, 1947- to be married. - In April, Miss Harris wrote concerning Chengtu school special project and Chungking school building a second project. - Difficulties of getting money from Canada. Opening of W.M.S. account in New York. Exchange rate in Shanghai 30,000 to 1. Rice $22.00 a bushel. - In May, correspondence concerning Z. K. Zia trust fund; Wen Hsiu Min trust fund; Hwa Yin trust fund. Correspondence concerning remuneration of Missionaries Wives’ for serve connected with women’s work. Request for Theological College grant at open market rate rather than official rate of 12,000 to 1. Grant for women’s residence at Theological College. Miss M. Alexander appointed short term medical work. Approval $25,000 nurse’s residence and 80,000 Chengtu School. Grant for occupational therapy equipment. Beatrice Pilon, Lillian Taylor, Helen Taylor and Evana Demitroff new missionaries.

1947

83.058C 63-6 ---: (Harris, McKenzie): Mrs. Taylor and deputation made fine contribution to Council, Workers’ Conference, etc., leaving Chungking Feb. 13th. Financial statement; Hwa Yin School account- Dr. Stella Cheng; purchase of truck for W. China; grants for repairs to Junghsien School and Woman’s College. Arrival of English Baptist refugee missionaries in summer, to work with United Church Mission. Drafts issued through Associated Mission Treasurers, Shanghai. In September, a change in Chinese currency. Nurses’ pins for university hospital. Bequest to Miss Wu Ueh Bing, first woman graduate nurse in W. China from Caroline Wellwood estate. Travel by air across Pacific authorized for New nurse, Miss Isabelle Miller. -In December, plans were discussed for evacuation because of political situation. Letter from Canadian ambassador to China regarding deteriorating situation, shipping out of Shanghai, Communist forces likely to cut Yangtze and occupy Nanking and Shanghai. “Canadians not prepared to remain under hazardous conditions where they now reside should plan at once to move to places of safety.” Mary Urquhart early furlough for health reasons. Holt and Rouse returning to Canada on 2nd reparation plane from Shanghai. Russell leaving in Jan. K. Hockin due to arrive.

1945

83.058C 63-7 ---: (Letters of Treasurer to Harris): January: K. Hocking returned to field with equipment for Wen The and Hwa Yin Schools.

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- March: Decision not to send short-term nurses at present. Because of need of strengthening Christian institutions in China, permission given to proceed with building of new Chungking Girls’ School with #30,000. Already granted. - April: Permission to Hwa Yin to erect new school; accumulated funds, $80,000.00 released. - June: Resignation of Urquhart; retirement of Jean Holt. Wellwood scholarship. Miss Hambley sent out money for Tzeliutsing. - Sept 1: Air service suspended. - Sept 16: Gifts from women and children in Camundongo for relief work in China. “We too have hunger in this land but because of the mercy in our hearts we are sending to China because that land is far away.” Dorothy [Dui?] and Gladwyn Ho arrived Toronto- scholarship students, former Hwa Yin teachers. - Oct 12: Sale of property to Miss Thexton for erection of a house.

83.058C 63-8 ---: --- (Letters of Harris to McKenzie): The whole year was one of financial strain and urgency. -In Jan: The evacuation plane from Shanghai to Vancouver was cancelled. Holt and Rouse plan to sail Jan 19th. Russell by air to Hong Kong. Hockin arrived Feb 14th. - Jan 31: Request of Chinese schools that grants be paid into New York accounts, so that schools could sell more profitably. Mission treasurer unwilling to sell on open market. Difficulties in securing funds increased. Use of silver currency adopted in China. - In May, mission’s treasurers appointed a clearing board after a meeting to discuss financial crisis. Canadian mail held up, probably in Shanghai. Request for mail to be sent via Hong Kong. - In October, arrangements were discussed for salary payments if communications cut off with the outside. - In November, there was hope of sending letters by Lutheran mission plane. Communist forces approaching Fowling (Fowchow); Chungking next. Kweiynag “liberated” early November. - Dec 1: Liberation armies between Chungking and Chengtu. Curfew in Chengtu; many Chinese leaving city. - Dec 3: Banks and business firms collapsed.

1949

83.058C 63-9 ---: (Letters of McKenzie to Harris): Jan 25: W.M.S. grant to Synod refused. Request for advanced educational grant refused. - Feb 6: Grant to Christian Engineering Service. Additional grants to Cheeloo and W. China Universities. - May 3: L. Touse appointed Trinidad as entry permits to China unobtainable. Ownership of all church property to be transferred to C.C.C. (Church of Christ in China). Emergency grant of $5,000 to university hospital. - May 11: Executive re: property grants- amounts held for Hwa Yin to be released for other areas. - June: Emergency grant to hospitals. Special grants to Child Study Centre and Hwa Yin School. - Oct: Authorization of air travel by missionaries. - Dec 21: Executive approval of transfer of property to Church in W. China.

1950

83.058C 63-10 ---: (Letters of Harris to McKenzie): Jan 6: Harris reports “peaceful liberation”. - Jan 10: Mr. Copland wrote to Dr. Arnup from Hong Kong that Margaret Brown would look after United Church business in Hong Kong- accounts, forwarding mail, etc. - Feb 20: Educational Conference held in Chengtu as usual. - Mar 1: In sending the financial statement for 1949, Miss Harris reported that the year had been very difficult because of unfavourable exchange,

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depreciation of the Canadian dollar, difficulty of transferring funds to the station, losses through robberies. An emergency fund had been established for the purchase of gold. (Little gold bars, the size and shape of an unshelled peanut). New currency put accounts in 8-10 digits, possible to get funds through Bank of China. - Apr 13: Foreign residents required to register with new government. Anxious situation in Fowling. - Jun 16: American currency, cheques and traveller’s to be turned in to government. Advised to destroy traveller’s cheques. - Jun 30: Illness of Miss Clare. Exit permits for Clare, Kilborn, and Taylor. Some families plan to leave. - Aug 10: Unable to sell New York cheques. - Sept 1: Burwell travelling home with Day family held up in Chungking because of theft of exit permits. - Sept 30: Re-registration with foreign office. - December: Harris applied for exit permit. E. Ricker appointed secretary-treasurer from Jan 1. Cables regarding funds. - Dec 26: Ricker wrote McKenzie re: transfer of Hwa Yin School funds from Canada and U.S.A. to China. - Dec 30: Cable for funds. Stewart, Foster, Swann leaving.

83.058C 63-11 ---: (Harris and Ricker to McKenzie): This was a year of great tension and pressure in regard to finance. - Jan 3: Ricker cabled for funds. In letter of Jan. 4, reported on conditions. Chinese funds in U.S.A. frozen. American funds in China frozen by People’s Government. Harris also writes of emergency needs- funds frozen, unable to draw on bank accounts. - Jan 12, 13, 16, 22, and 26: Cables re: Funds. Hwa Yin School demanded return of money abroad, both in Canada and U.S.A. Miss Wu Ueh Bing’s funds transfer from Toronto. - Feb 1: Miss Harris wrote regarding closing of 1950 accounts. Pressure regarding recall of endowment funds. Missionaries leaving W. China. All had applied for exit permits except A. Ward, C. Ward, and E. Ricker. - Feb 2: Difficulty in getting funds from Hong Kong. Cables from M. Brown in Hong Kong undelivered in Chengtu. Cabled for $25,000 for new Chungking school building. Request for $20.000 to cover final grants to work, and furlough travel. - Mar 1: McKenzie to Ricker Hwa Yin accounted. - Mar 27: Ricker to Taylor. E. Graham’s difficulty in obtaining exit. Explanation re: school endowment funds deposited abroad: Chengtu (Hwa Yin) Middle School; Child Study Centre; Kiating Primary School and Kindergarten; Chungking (Wen Teh) Middle School (and illness of principal Miss Eleanor Liu); Penghsien Kindergarten. Action of Educational Executive in allocating $13,125.00 Can. Funds to various schools as final grant. Evangelistic executive granted $16,000.00 for maintenance of work, salaries and retirement. Literature $2,000.00. Synod $1,000.00. All sums reported to government in March registration. - Apr 5: refund of endowments. - Apr 26: Query re: regulations in case of delays in travel. Missionaries having several weeks delay in Chungking and Hong Kong, waiting for transportation. Graham, Fee, Harris, Stewart have left. Seven still on field. - Sept 18: Travel funds. Three on way to Hong Kong, only Hockin, Miller and Ricker left on field. - Oct 18: Ricker reported leaving Hong Kong Oct 19, sailed form Liverpool, Nov 19, arrive Toronto on Nov, 26. Travelled from Hong Kong with Miss A. Ward. - Jul 22: A letter from Mr. Moncrieff, formerly in Chengtu, to Treasurer,

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refunding to W.M.S. $125.00 from the Missionary Training School, Chengtu. - In this file there is also record of bonds, amounting to $200.00, held in trust for Miss Ethel Ong.

83.058C 63-12 Correspondence: W.M.S. Treasurer and Scholarship Students. - Correspondence regarding travel, allowances, etc. with the following students who came to Canada for study: Mr. and Mrs. Doreen and Franklin Wu; Miss Gladwyn Ho; Dr. Marion Cheng; Mr. Kenneth Wu; Dr. Maurice Wang; Miss His Chi Yu. - Correspondence with the Bank of Commerce re: the account of Miss Eleanor Liu, Chungking, Principal of Wen Teh Girls’ School, and also re: the school endowment funds. - Correspondence with Dr. Stella Cheng, former scholarship student, regarding Chengtu Hwa Yin Middle School Trust Funds.

1947-1952

83.058C 63-13 W.M.S. Treasurer’s Correspondence regarding grants by Women’s Inter-church Council to Women’s College, Chengtu

1947-1951

83.058C 63-14 Rose Cullen Wallace Scholarship, correspondence between W.M.S. Treasurer and Dr. Wallace.

1930-1940

83.058C 64-1 [Boxes 64-1 to 65-9 contain correspondence between the W.M.S. treasurer and individual missionaries. These papers are concerned with furlough travel, furlough salaries, and in some cases, with personal financial matters, such as insurance policies. Occasionally other correspondence is found in the files.] Miss Marjory Alexander

83.058C 64-2 Miss Minnie Brimstin 83.058C 64-3 Miss Charlotte Brooks 83.058C 64-4 Miss Eleanor Burwell 83.058C 64-5 Miss Marion Coon 83.058C 64-6 Miss Martha Coutts 83.058C 64-7 Miss Mary Crawley (Mrs. Ronald Hillborn) 83.058C 64-8 Miss Laura Darby 83.058C 64-9 Anne Davison [see also Honan + Korea] 83.058C 64-10 Miss Evana Demitroff 83.058C 64-11 Miss Mary Dougherty 83.058C 64-12 Miss Gertrude Dunham 1920-

1927 83.058C 64-13 Miss Florence Fee 83.058C 64-14 Miss B. Louise Foster 83.058C 64-15 Miss Dorothy Fox (Mrs. W.H. Easter) 83.058C 64-16 Miss Mary Gormley 83.058C 64-17 Miss Eleanor Graham 83.058C 64-18 Miss Laura Hambley 83.058C 64-19 Miss Winifred Harris (Mrs. Stanley Edgecumbe) 83.058C 64-20 Miss Adelaide Harrison 83.058C 64-21 Miss Hazel Heffren 83.058C 64-22 Miss Katharine Hockin 83.058C 64-23 Mrs. Lily M. Hockin 83.058C 64-24 Miss Jean Holt 83.058C 64-25 Miss Florence Jack 83.058C 64-26 Miss Bessie Julien (Mrs. Arthur Dayfoot) 83.058C 64-27 Miss Cora Kilborn (Mrs. Benn Cannell) 83.058C 64-28 Miss Mary Kilborn 83.058C 64-29 Dr. Retta Kilborn 83.058C 64-30 Miss Mary Lamb 83.058C 64-31 Miss Margaret Lee (Mrs. Louise Lu)

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83.058C 64-32 Miss Edith Loree (Mrs. R. Leonard Crook) 83.058C 64-33 Dr. Helen Lousley (Mrs. A.T. Cairncross) 83.058C 64-35 Miss Alice McFadden (Mrs. Harley Jenner) 83.058C 64-36 Miss Pearl I. McNeill 83.058C 64-37 Miss Lottie McRae 83.058C 64-38 Dr. Jean Millar (Mrs. Leslie Kilborn) 83.058C 64-39 Miss Eunice Peters 83.058C 64-40 Miss Beatrice D. Pilon 83.058C 64-41 Miss Evelyn M. Ricker 83.058C 64-42 Miss Lula V. Rouse 83.058C 64-43 Miss Lois E. Russell 83.058C 64-44 Miss Edith P. Sparling 83.058C 64-45 Miss Ruth Sparling (Mrs. Peter Bannon) 83.058C 64-46 Miss Uberta Steele 83.058C 64-47 Miss A. Jean L. Stewart 83.058C 64-48 Violet Stewart 83.058C 64-49 Miss Martha Robena Swann 83.058C 65-1 Miss Evelyn Swann 83.058C 65-2 Miss Alma M. Tallman 83.058C 65-3 Miss Lillian Taylor 83.058C 65-4 Miss Annie Thexton. Also contains papers re: scholarship students Miss Pearl

Chiang and Miss Yu His Chi.

83.058C 65-5 Miss Mary Urquhart 83.058C 65-6 Miss Ethel Virgo 83.058C 65-7 Miss Annie I. Ward 83.058C 65-8 Miss Constance Ward 83.058C 65-9 Miss Caroline Wellwood 83.058C 66-1 [While she was home on furlough, 1946-1948, Miss Katharine Hockin was

appointed to a new position in W. China, that of Secretary of Christian Education for the schools of the mission. The following files contain her correspondence with W.M.S. Executive Secretary, Mrs. Taylor, from 1946-on, and deal chiefly with her work in Christian Education, but also contain some personal items.] Correspondence of R.E. Secretary with W.M.S. Executive Secretary (Dr. Hocking and Mrs. Taylor, also Mrs. Lily M. Hockin): July 27, 1946: Mrs. Hockin writes from Shanghai where she, Katharine, Evelyn Ricker and others are awaiting passage home. - Jun 28: K. Hockin from Vancouver, re: plans for furlough study at Columbia University. - Sept 7, 1947: K. Hockin regarding her second year of study at Columbia, and plans for Religious Education work in W. China - Lists of books and audio-visual materials purchased for China. Plans for return to China in 1948. Uncertainty concerning wisdom of return in view of political situation. Sailed on Dec 20, 1948.

1946-1948

83.058C 66-2 ---: (Dr. Hockin and Mrs. Taylor): Correspondence concerning her trip to China, accompanied by scholarship student Miss Yu His-chi, stopping in Manila, then Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Arrived Chengtu, Feb. 14th. - Feb 4: Political situation in Chengtu and China. Plans for R.E. work. General discussion of situation, etc. Increase in Christian faith among graduates of middle school. - Feb 27: Change in attitudes of Miss Liu and Miss Yu after scholarship study in Canada. - Mar 5: Principalship of Chengtu Middle School- Miss Stella Cheng offered position at university, but no-one to take her place in school. - Jun 15: Trip to Tzeliutsing and Junghsien, giving many details of industry

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and life in these cities, as well as account of visit to the schools, and the situation in regard to Religious Education. Also visited Kiating (new name, Loshan). Currency inflation. D.D.T! - Jul 14: Conference of teachers in Chungking. - Aug 31: Bus travel in China. - Correspondence re: school supplies left in storage in Canada. - Nov 11: Political situation, and its relation to the work. Living arrangements of missionaries.

83.058C 66-3 ---: (Dr. Hockin, Mrs. Taylor, and also circular letters from Miss Hockin to friends). Mar 12: “Liberation” to Chengtu on Christmas Day. Problems and adjustments of first days under new government; school attendance lower; more need of scholarships. - Aug 25: Student political study programs. Improvements in the city- drains, electric service, etc. - Lists of R.E. Materials purchased for schools by W.M.S. Question of what should be done with these supplies. - Reports concerning schools to the church Synod. - May 22: Requests to W.M.S. for increase in funds. Student attitudes swinging away from faith in God. Place of missionary probably disappearing. - Aug 15: Re: Possibility of Gladwyn Ho returning from Canada for a position in Child Study Centre or in Chengtu Middle School again. Eleanor Liu’s desire that construction of new school in Chungking be started. Discussion of the situation in most of the schools in regard to staff, missionary personnel, and facilities. - Dec 21: W.M.S. granted $15,000 to Chungking School for new building.

1950

83.058C 66-4 ---: (Dr. Hockin and Mrs. Taylor): Jan 3: School finances. Future work after leaving China. - Jan 17: Application for exit permit - Jan 30: Miss Hocking meeting scholarship students returning to China. (Gladwyn Ho and Dorothy Dei). - Correspondence re; personal and mission materials in storage in New York. - Feb 4: Discussion of situation. Confusion re: values. - Feb 26: Illness of Miss Liu, Chungking School. Ricker and Hockin giving over downstairs of house for school use. Playground to be extended to include lawn beside house. - Mar 5: A. Thexton on way to Hong Kong. - Apr 10: Correspondence re: future work. Hockin prefers teaching. - May 10: Permit granted to leave on 23rd, but delayed. Ill with fever, possibly typhoid, more probably typhus. (E.M.R.) - Jun 20: (Mrs. Hockin quoting Katharine). Residence permits renewed temporarily. - Aug 28: Hockin accused of sending radio messages and of being a spy. Police took away papers, but returned them, and no further incident. - Oct 28: Ricker on way home. Hockin in smaller quarters. - Nov: Hockin left Chengtu Nov. 22, reached Hong Kong Dec. 8th? - Dec 14: Hockin writes of trip to Hong Kong. - Bulletin sent to Mrs. Taylor from England entitled “Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland. Revolution of Religion in China. A Survey”

1951

83.058C 66-5 --- (Dr. Katharine Hockin and treasurer): Jul 20, 1948: Purchase and shipment of audio-visual equipment for Chengtu Hwa Yin School. - Aug 27/48: Hockin to treasurer re: audio-visuals, sewing machines and books to be shipped to China. - Sept 15: Re: Typewriter for Chengtu office. - Sept 16: Travel accounts and purchase of equipment for China. - Sept 27: Purchases for Chengtu Hwa Yin School and Chungking Wen The

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School. - Oct 12: Books from Dr. Astbury for W. China. - Nov 16: Typewriter. Travel funds for Miss Yu His Chi, scholarship student returning to China. - May 1949-1950. Special gifts from H.L. Bronson for work of K. Hockin in West China. - Jun 1950: Letter from Mrs. Lily M. Hockin re: Katharine’s insurance. Reference to letter from Katharine about disheartening period of time, but church is being pared down to its really reliable elements. - Feb 8/51: Treasurer to Mrs. Lily Hockin-draft from K. for School funds. - Mar/51: re: books and dishes in storage. - Apr 13/51: Hockin re: Educational executive balances for schools held in blocked New York account; Loshan School Endowment. - May/51: Treasurer’s correspondence with N.Y. Bank re-deblocking Hockin-account- unsuccessful. - May, June, 1952: Correspondence re: de-blocking bank account in New York. - Jun 17/52: Travel account. Small account of Chengtu High School.

83.058C 66-6 ---: (Mrs. Taylor and Dr. Hockin): [In this file is an article written by Dr. Hockin, entitled “Liberation” as I experienced it: Early Days of the Peoples’ Republic of China.” 33 pages. This article is not dated, but was included with 1953 correspondence.][See also: Further correspondence of Miss Hockin, dealing with future work, appointment to the United Church Training School staff, relationship with the Woman’s Missionary Society, etc. will be found in her personal file, box 64, file 22.]

1953

FONDS 500: UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GENERAL COUNCIL FONDS-- 1925-present. -- 48.58 m of textual records

Biographical Sketch: The General Council is the highest Church court, meeting biennially, with full power to determine matters relating to: boundaries and number of Conferences; doctrine, worship, membership and government; the courses of study for and ordination to the Order of Ministry; property matters; missionary policy; colleges and Christian education; petitions, memorials and appeals; relationships with other churches; appointments to committees and Divisions and of officers for Departments; appointment of the Secretary of the General Council, its Executive and its standing committees, and appointment of the Moderator.

Between meetings of the General Council, the Executive acts on its behalf. It takes a leadership role in articulating and translating the broad vision of the General Council, establishing mission directions, and setting priorities for the work of the General Council Office. The Executive reports on its proceedings to the General Council. The Executive of the General Council normally meets twice each year. A Sub-Executive is convened to consider matters which emerge between meetings and require action or decision.

Finding Aid: 17

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of twelve series: records of meetings of the General Councils I-XXIX, 1925-1984 (incomplete) including some remits and memorials; minutes of the Executive and Sub-Executive, 1925-2003; correspondence, 1925-1977 and 1979-1983 (includes list of remits to change Basis of Union, 1987); records relating to church government files, 1925-1975; records of relations with other Church Boards and Divisions, 1954-1978; records relating to church property, 1925-1975; records relating to Conference and Presbytery property, 1956-1973; records relating to specific subjects, including briefs and some committee records, 1940-1984; records of relations with external bodies; records of the Research Office, 1969-1984; records of the Department of Planning Assistance, 1969-1972; and records relating to General Council administrative and social committees, 1961-1983. Records relating to West China Medical Missions are located in Series 1: Records of the Meetings of General Council, and Series 2: Minutes of the Executive and Sub-Executive.

SERIES 1\ RECORDS OF MEETINGS OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL. -- 1925-1982. -- 2.76 m of textual records

172

Administrative History: The regular meeting of the General Council is most often held every second year. Its delegates are called Commissioners and are all members of the United Church. The Commissioners are the following: an equal number of members of the Order of Ministry and of the Laity, elected by Conferences, as well as Overseas Personnel; the immediate past and retiring Moderators; the Secretary of the General Council; the Chairperson of each Division; and three members from the General Council Secretaries.

Finding Aid: 17

Scope and Content: Series consists of an uneven collection of materials from several meetings of the General Council, including memorials and remits; scrapbooks and newspaper clippings re the meetings; correspondence, especially as it relates to the Nominations Committee; copies of the Moderators' addresses; and miscellaneous material. Records relating to West China Medical Missions are primarily found in the reports of the Board of Overseas Mission (Formerly Board of Foreign Mission), and of The Woman’s Missionary Society. All General Council Record of Proceedings are indexed and bound, located in the United Church of Canada Archives Reading Room. Records from 1925-1974 are indexed and searchable through the Records of Proceedings database.

Title/Description Page(s) Date Foreign Missions Greetings 32 Jun 15,

1925 Report: The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church: Japan and China 79 1925 Methodist Foreign Missions: West China 85-88 1925 Report: Women’s Missionary Societies (Effie A. Jamieson, Secretary): Foreign Field 116-117 1925 The West China Woman’s Missionary Society of the Canadian Methodist Church 264 1925 The Canadian Methodist Missionary Council, Szechwan, West China 265 1925 Report: Foreign Missions (Methodist): (West China) 296-300 1926 The Woman’s Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada (Report): Foreign Missions

351-353 1926

Foreign Missions Report 264-303 1930 Foreign Mission Staff 304-310 1930 Women’s Missionary Society Report: Foreign Missions 364-369 1930 The Board of Foreign Missions: Report, In Memoriam, Foreign Mission Staff 290-320 1932 Women’s Missionary Society Report 361-367 1932 The Board of Foreign Missions: Report, In Memoriam, Foreign Mission Staff 307-335 1934 The Woman’s Missionary Society: Report, Missionary Staff 379-397 1934 Foreign Missions Report No.2 (1 Re. Medical Work) 89-90 1936 Report of the Special Committee on Policy: Appointed by the Board of Foreign Missions and the Woman’s Missionary Society

238-204 1936

The Board of Foreign Missions 363-391 1936 The Woman’s Missionary Society (Report): Foreign Missions 429-437 1936 ---: The Missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society 441-446 1936 Foreign Missions 112-115 1938 Action Concerning Property 248 1938 Board of Foreign Missions (Report), In Memoriam, Foreign Mission Staff 309-335 1938 Women’s Missionary Society: Foreign Missions 384 378-384 1938 West China Mission 124 1940 Board of Foreign Missions: Report, In Memoriam, Foreign Mission Staff 287-309 1940 Foreign Missions 86-88 1942 The Woman’s Missionary Society: Report, The Missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society

384-400 1942

The Board of Foreign Missions: Report, In Memoriam, Foreign Mission Staff 325-348 1942 Greetings from West China Mission 35-36 1944 The Board of Foreign Missions: Report, In Memoriam, Foreign Mission Staff 286-305 1944 The Woman’s Missionary Society: Report, The Missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society

344-363 1944

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The Board of Overseas Missions: Report, In Memoriam, Overseas Mission Staff 425-449 1946 The Woman’s Missionary Society: Report, The Missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society

453-471 1946

Board of Overseas Mission: A Needs and Policy 210-214 1948 The Board of Overseas Missions: Report, In Memoriam, Overseas Mission Staff 418-433 1948 The Woman’s Missionary Society: Report, The Missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society

446-461 1948

Overseas Missions 113-118 1950 Board of Overseas Mission 190-191 1950 The Board of Overseas Mission: Report, In Memoriam, Overseas Mission Staff 383-391 1950 The Woman’s Missionary Society: Report, The Missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society

407-427 1950

The Board of Overseas Missions: Report, In Memoriam, Overseas Mission Staff 401-421 1952 The Woman’s Missionary Society: Report, The Missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society

442-459 1952

SERIES 2\ MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE AND SUB-EXECUTIVE. -- 1925-1990. -- 1.59 m of textual records

The Executive of General Council consists of the Moderator and immediate past Moderator, the General Secretary and Secretaries of the Council, the General Secretaries of the Divisions, two members from each Conference, ten members elected at General Council who represent the various Divisions of General Council, and representatives of other constituencies in the church, attempting a balance between ordained and lay members. Its purpose is to carry out the decisions of the General Council, to receive annual reports from the Divisions and committees of General Council, to deal with the financial and property affairs of the Church between sittings of the General Council, and "to do any act or thing of a routine or emergency nature which the General Council has the power to do." The Sub-Executive operates between the meetings of the Executive.

Finding Aid: 17, Series 2 Accession #: 82.001C

Scope and Content: Series consists of records documenting Executive, and Sub-Executive decisions relating West China through the Board of Foreign Missions and later, the Board of Overseas Missions. Records are primarily concerning the sale of Mission land; very few are related to medical work specifically. Records of the Executive and Sub-Executive are bound and located under various accession numbers in the Archives. Recent minutes that have yet to be transferred to the Archives (2007-present) can be found either on the United Church of Canada website (under General Council), or can be accessed by staff on a shared computer drive. Records from 1925-2006 are indexed and searchable Archives “General” database.

Accession # Box/File Subject Page(s) Date 82.001C 24-1 Names of Missions 58 Dec 2, 1925 82.001C 24-2 Moderator’s Visit to Mission Fields 51 Oct 22, 1926 82.001C 24-2 Church of Christ in China 148 Jun 24, 1927 82.001C 24-2 Rev. Alfred Gandier visit to the Orient 91 Feb 7, 1927 82.001C 24-2 Delegation to Foreign Fields 157 Sept 29, 1927 82.001C 24-2 Evacuation of Mission in China 107 Apr 20, 1927 82.001C 24-3 Destruction of Mission Property in China 14 Dec 13, 1928 82.001C 24-4 Sale of Woman’s Missionary Society property at Chungking 33 Mar 2, 1931 82.001C 24-4 Sale of West China Mission Properties 138 Feb 11, 1932 82.001C 24-4 Sale of Woman’s Missionary Society Property in

Chungking, West China 207 May 26, 1932

82.001C 24-4 Sale of Woman’s Missionary Society property in Chungking, West China

223 Jul 13, 1932

82.001C 25-1 Sale of Woman’s Missionary property in Chungking, West China

16 Nov 19, 1932

82.001C 25-1 Sale of property at Jenshow, West China 93 Jun 8, 1933

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82.001C 25-1 Sale of Woman’s Missionary Society property at Penghsien, West China

194 May 16, 1934

82.001C 25-2 Sale of Board of Foreign Mission properties at Junghsien District, Wu Tong Chang, Lia Gia Chang, and Tzeliutsing

79 Apr 12, 1935

82.001C 25-2 Greetings from Missions on Tenth Anniversary 130 May 28, 1935 82.001C 25-2 Sale of Board of Foreign Missions Outstation Chapel

property at Ho Gai Chang, Tzeliutsing 208 Mar 11, 1936

82.001C 25-3 Appeal in “New Outlook” for relief of famine in China 52 Mar 30, 1937 82.001C 25-3 Greetings to Church of Christ in China 76 Apr 20, 1937 82.001C 25-3 Sale of Board of Foreign Missions properties in West China 82 Apr 20, 1937 82.001C 25-3 - Sale of Foreign Mission Outstation in Junghsien

- Sale of Woman’s Missionary property in Chungking, West China

127 Jan 28, 1938

82.001C 25-3 - Day of Prayer for China and Japan - Appeal for contributions to an Emergency Relief Fund for China Missions

159 Mar 3-4, 1938

82.001C 25-4 Appeal from “The Friends of China” 87 Jun 20, 1939 82.001C 25-4 Permission given for sale of property at Ho Keo, Junghsien

District 118 Feb 8, 1940

82.001C 25-4 Correspondence from Mr. Irwin Hilliard re: medical aid to the Chinese people

129 Mar 5, 1940

82.001C 26-1 Sale of property at Penghsien, Hsiao Beh Kai, West China 32 Dec 17, 1940 82.001C 26-1 Sale of property at Junghsien dispensary compound, West

China 86 Apr 30, 1941

82.001C 26-1 Sale of outstation property at Lai Ho Ba, Junghsien District, West China

86 Apr 30, 1941

82.001C 26-1 Observance China Week (Celebration of “China Week” in Ontario, July, 1941)

92 Jun 24, 1941

82.001C 26-1 - Sale of Ko Gia Hang property, Chengtu, West China - Sale of Fowchow property, West China

130 Nov 12, 1941

82.001C 26-1 Emergency request by the Board of Foreign Missions re: vacancies in its Chinese and Japanese representatives caused by the war

148 Mar 17, 1942

82.001C 26-1 Invitation to Dr. Liu Shih Shun, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of China, to address the Tenth General Council

174 Apr 28, 1942

82.001C 26-1 - Sale of Outstation Chapel property at Lai Meng Pu, Junghsien District, West China - Jenshow Boys’ Junior Middle School, Jenshow

189 Apr 28, 1942

82.001C 26-1 - Sale of property at Hsin Hang Tzi, Chengtu, West China - Sale of property at Han Lin Ba, Fowchow, West China

205 Jun 30, 1942

82.001C 26-2 Sale of Chapel property at Ngai Yeh Tan, West China 18 Oct 27, 1942 82.001C 26-2 Representatives of Mission Councils on Board of Foreign

Missions 71 Apr 27, 1943

82.001C 26-2 - Sale of Outstation Chapel property at Yu Chia Chang, Junghsien District, West China - Sale of land at Fowchow Hospital Compound, West China - Sale of building at entrance to Shu Wa Kai Church property, Chengtu, West China - Sale of school site land in Chungchow City, West China

102 Jun 10, 1943

82.001C 26-2 Sale of property at Tsongling, Penghsien District, West China

113 Sept 14, 1943

82.001C 26-2 Appointment of Rev. Gerald Bell as Treasurer of the West China Mission

139 Nov 4, 1943

82.001C 26-2 Board of Foreign Missions statement on financial difficulties in West China

125 Nov 3, 1943

175

82.001C 26-2 Appeal to be made for relief of the people and missionaries of West China

126 Nov 3, 1943

82.001C 26-2 Sale of Girls’ Middle School Building in Tzeliutsing, West China

151 Dec 16, 1943

82.001C 26-2 - Sale of one-half of Hwa Gia Chang Chapel, Tzeliutsing District - Sale of Junghsien Boy’s Board School property, West China

152 Dec 16, 1943

82.001C 26-2 - Sale of outstation properties in Junghsien and Chengtu Districts - Sale of Chuwakai Church Property, Chengtu, West China - Sale of Old Bible School Building at Kao Shih Ti, West China

53 Jan 26, 1943

82.001C 26-2 - Sale of property including W.M.S. missionary residence and Girls’ School at Jenshow, West China - Sale of part of W.M.S. Kindergarten compound at Tzeliutsing

154 Feb 21, 1944

82.001C 26-2 Donation to local government of a small plot at the chapel at Yang Chia Chang, Junghsien County, West China

166 Mar 21, 1944

82.001C 26-2 Sale of Outstation Chapel at Chong Tan, Tzeliutsing District, West China

167 Mar 21, 1944

82.001C 26-2 Appointment of Missionaries to the Board of Foreign Missions

172 Apr 12, 1944

82.001C 26-2 Appointment of Commissioners to General Council from evacuated areas

196 May 3, 1944

82.001C 26-2 List of the sale of properties belonging to the West China Mission

197 May 3, 1944

82.001C 26-2 Sale of school section of W.M.S. property at Luchow, Szechuan Province, West China

203 Jun 27, 1944

82.001C 26-3 Sale of Woman’s Missionary Society school at Hsinfan, West China

25 Dec 7, 1944

82.001C 26-3 Representatives from four mission fields to Board of Overseas Missions

50 Apr 19, 1945

82.001C 26-3 Sale of part of Tsonglin property, West China 51 Apr 19, 1945 82.001C 26-3 Sale of Jenshow Street Chapel property of the West China

Mission 73 May 2, 1945

82.001C 26-3 Sale of property on Shao His Gin Tan Street, Luchow, West China

133 Nov 7, 1945

82.001C 26-3 - Sale of No. 1 Foreign Residence in Penghsien - Transfer of Property of Wen Day Girls’ School, Chungking

181 May 7-8, 1946

82.001C 26-3 Sale of West China Mission properties in the Tzeliutsing and Luchow districts

16 Oct 18, 1946

82.001C 26-4 Visit of Rev. K. J. Beaton to China 44 Apr 22, 1947 82.001C 26-4 Sale of San Wooi School Property, South China 46 Apr 22, 1947 82.001C 26-4 Power of Attorney to Albert C. Hausske re: property in

Tientsin, China 86 May 7, 1947

82.001C 26-4 Sale of chapel properties in West China 87 May 7, 1947 82.001C 26-4 Sale of Shu Kuang Property, Chungchow City, West China 189 Jun 16, 1948 82.001C 27-1 Situation in China and evacuation of missionaries 26 Dec 21, 1948 82.001C 27-1 Communication from Board of Overseas Missions re: aid to

students in medical missionary work 216 May 3, 1950

82.001C 27-2 Transfer of land to Union Theological College, Chengtu, China

3 Sept 22, 1950

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Methodist Church (Canada) FONDS 14: METHODIST CHURCH (CANADA) MISSIONARY SOCIETY FONDS. -- [ca. 1851]-1950, predominant 1884-1925. -- 15.41 m of textual records; photographs

Administrative History: The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church Canada Conference was established in 1824, and continued under the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada when it formed in 1828. When this Church joined with the British Wesleyans to form the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada in 1833, the Society evolved into an Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society (Great Britain) to support the growth of Aboriginal and domestic missions. This union was disrupted in 1840, but resumed in 1847. In 1854, the British Hudson's Bay Territory missions were transferred to the Missionary Society in Canada which gradually took over the responsibility of all mission work from Britain beginning in Central Canada and the Northwest. The Society, with some changes in administrative structure, existed as part of the Methodist Church of Canada, formed in 1874, and the Methodist Church (Canada), formed in 1884. The object of the Society came to be the support of domestic, Aboriginal, immigrant, new Canadian, French Canadian, and other missions carried on under the direction of a central committee and board, and later also under the Conferences. In 1906, the missions were divided between two new Departments--Foreign and Home. Missions to European immigrants and domestic missions fell under the care of the Home Department. Missions abroad and, until 1920, missions to Japanese, Chinese, and Aboriginal People in Canada came under the direction of the Foreign Department.

Finding Aid: See series descriptions.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of the following series: Minutes of the General Board of Missions, 1865-1925; correspondence of the General Secretaries, 1868-1923; records re foreign missions, 1888-1950; home mission records, 1906-1927; financial records, 1899-1930; quarterly returns of Aboriginal Institutes and day schools, 1902-1923; printed ephemera; and constitution and financial records of the Superannuation Fund for Lay Missionaries of the Foreign Fields, 1919-1929.

SERIES 3/ RECORDS RE FOREIGN MISSIONS. -- 1888-1950, predominant 1888-1925. -- 4.07 m of textual records; photographs

Scope and Content: Records relating to West China medical missions include records re the following missions: West China, 1891-1931; West China Union University, 1896-1950.

SERIES 3/ Subseries 1: WEST CHINA MISSION COLLECTION. -- 1891-1931, predominant 1891-1925. -- 2.2 m of textual records

Administrative History: The Canadian Methodist Mission in West China was established in 1891. The original party of missionaries consisted of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Virgil C. Hart, veterans of missionary work in China under the Methodist Episcopal Church, U.S., their daughter, Miss Stella Hart (later Mrs. Hare), Dr. and Mrs. Omar L. Kilborn, Rev. and Mrs. G.E. Hartwell and Dr. and Mrs. David W. Stevenson. The group landed at Shanghai on November 3, 1891, remaining there throughout the winter. In mid- February they left for the interior, arriving at Chengtu, the capital of Szechwan, on May 21, 1892.

The first reinforcements, Rev. James Endicott and his wife and Dr. H.M. Hare, arrived in Chengtu in the spring of 1894. They were accompanied by Miss Sara C. Bracbill and Dr. Retta Gifford (later, the second Mrs. Kilborn) sent out by the Women’s Missionary Society (W.M.S.). In 1896, Dr. and Mrs. W.E. Smith joined the group in Chengtu.

The mission grew slowly at first, by 1901 there were only 19 missionaries under the General Board and Woman’s Missionary Society together. In 1917, however, the mission staff included 75 men (67 of whom were married), and 35 single women; by 1919, there were 155 under the General Board and 32 women under the W.M.S. At the time of Union in 1925, there were a total of 218 missionaries in the field of West China.

As the number of missionaries increased, the territory of the mission expanded. In 1894, Kiating, 100 miles south of Chengtu, was opened in addition to the capital city. In 1905, Junghsien and Jenshow were opened; in 1907, Penghsien and Tzeliutsing; in 1908, Luchow. In 1910, the mission inherited control of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.).

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Medical Work: While there was a primary emphasis laid on Evangelical and Educational work, emphasis within the mission was also laid on medical work, and two of the original four men sent out to China were doctors. During 1894, two hospital buildings were erected in Chengtu and medical work began in 1895. However, these structures were completely destroyed in the riots of 1895. The year 1897 witnessed the second hospital built with a dispensary, waiting room, and two wards for 25 patients.

By 1917, there were 21 doctors, 15 men and 6 women, working in eleven hospitals in the then central stations. A medical college was created in 1914 in connection with the West China Union University, in an attempt to create native medical workers. Dental hospitals were opened in Chengtu and Chungking, and in 1920, a Faculty of Dentistry was established within the University.

Finding Aid: 19 Accession #: 78.096C See also: For records of the University, see also: Series 3, Subseries 2- West China Union University Collection. Scope and Content: Subseries includes correspondence of the General Secretaries of the Methodist Church (Canada) Missionary Society; copybook of W.J. Mortimore; minutes of the West China Mission Council; reports, financial records, property registers, manuscripts of historical and biographical studies, and other material relating to the evangelistic, pastoral, educational and medical work of the West China Mission. Some references to medical related work may be brief as emphasis was also placed on Education and Evangelical work.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date(s) 78.096C 1-1 Council Minutes (Canadian Methodist Mission, annual, bound) 1900-1906 78.096C 1-2 --- 1907-1915 78.096C 1-3 --- 1916-1920 78.096C 1-4 --- 1921-1925 78.096C 2-2 ---: duplicate of above 1907-1916 78.096C 2-3 ---: --- 1917-1920 78.096C 3-5 Executive Minutes 1905-1910 78.096C 3-6 --- 1909-1912 78.096C 3-7 --- 1913-1916 78.096C 3-7a --- 1916-1918 78.096C 3-8 --- 1918-1921 78.096C 3-9 --- 1922-1923 78.096C 3-10 --- 1924 78.096C 3-11 Minutes from Meetings in West China: Miscellaneous (loose minutes,

i.e.: Committee of Promotion, Conference Executive, Press Committee, Council Agenda, Executive Minutes,)

78.096C 3-12 Minutes of the Annual Councils 1913- 1915 78.096C 3-13 --- 1916- 1918 78.096C 3-14 --- 1919-1920 78.096C 3-15 --- 1921 78.096C 4-16 --- 1922-1924 78.096C 4-17 Minutes of Divisional Council Meetings: 1915- Chengtu, Chungking,

Junghsien; 1917-Chengtu; 1918- Chungking, Junghsien 1915, 1917

78.096C 4-18 ---: Chengtu, Chungking, Junghsien 1919-1920 78.096C 4-19 Property Registers: Records of Deeds in Chengtu 1895-1926 78.096C 4-20 ---: Penghsien and Junghsien 1907-1923 78.096C 4-21 ---: Jenshow, Luchow, Kiating 1903-1918 78.096C 4-22 ---: Chungking, Chungchow, Fowchow, Tzeliutsing 1890-1919 78.096C 4-23 Book: West China Mission, Financial Reports. 1891-1917 78.096C 4-24 ---: Douglas Heights Joint Stock Co., minutes and account book, 1910-

1931, Junghsien, West China 1910-1931

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78.096C 4-25 ---: Canadian Methodist Mission, West China, Account Book 1891-1905 78.096C 5-26 Financial Statements, Estimates (1896-1906), China Press Account

(1904) 1896-1906, 1904

78.096C 5-27 Financial Reports 1907-1909 78.096C 5-28 --- 1910 78.096C 5-29 --- 1911 78.096C 5-30 --- 1912 78.096C 5-31 --- 1913 78.096C 5-32 --- 1914 78.096C 5-33 --- 1915 78.096C 5-34 --- 1916 78.096C 5-35 --- 1917-1918 78.096C 5-36 --- 1919 78.096C 5-37 --- 1920, 1921,

1922 78.096C 5-38 --- 1923-1925 78.096C 6-39 Correspondence: A.T. Crutcher, Accountant’s Office 1909-1919 78.096C 6-39A ---: Accountants Department 1916-1923 78.096C 6-39B ---: --- 1923-1925 78.096C 6-40 Novel: “A Story of the War in Luchan and West China” (E. Jolliffe)

Chapters 1-4

78.096C 6-41 ---: Chapters 5-8 78.096C 6-42 Stories on China: “War, Revival and Robbery” (A.E. Johns), “Comedy

and Tragedy in China” (J.L. Stewart), Editorial on “The Laughing Buddha” (J.L. Stewart)

78.096C 6-43 ---: “Life Has a Meaning” (O. Jolliffe) (2 copies), “History Repeats Itself in China” (O. Jolliffe) (2 copies), “Miscellaneous Notes on China” (no author listed)

78.096C 6-44 ---: “School Days in the Land of Four Rivers” (S. Soper) 78.096C 6-45 Miscellaneous Notes on China: “Li His Lang- Confucianist, Christian

Teacher”; “Greatness of China”; “Chungchow”; “Three Glimpses of China”; “Notes on a Journey from Vancouver to Chengtu, West China”; “Our Share of China”; “Sons of Shuh-Outline”; “Chinese Street Hawkers”; “Only a Coolie’s Wife”; “The Chungking Bell”.

78.096C 6-46 ---: “Religions of China” (2 copies); “Rural Evangelism” (2 copies); “Story of West China Mission” (incomplete); “In the Haunts of the Immortals”; “Sidelights on Building in Szechwan, West China”; “Reminiscences of Chengtu”; “Chengtu Temples”; “Alcoholism in China”; “Commercialized Vice in China”; “The Problems of Transferring the Heritage of Culture bequeathed to us by our race to the present generation in China.”

78.096C 7-47 Names, Dates of sailing and arrival, and location of CMM missionaries in West China; descriptions of missionary stations

1891-1925

78.096C 7-48 Early Histories of West China Mission; “The Present Crisis in China Christian or Communist?” (J.L. Stewart); “General Condition in Szechwan, 1919-1925” (W.J. Mortimore); Miscellaneous notes on the West China Missions

1919-1925

78.096C 7-49RR Personnel: Field requirements, salaries for various years 1913-1925 78.096C 7-50 Miscellaneous Correspondence: M. Leonard, contractor for CMM in

Szechwan- plus building costs and estimates. 1916-1924

78.096C 7-51 ---: Matriculation for Canadians in West China School for Missionary Children

1924

78.096C 7-52 ---: Contributions to aid missionary work in West China 1914-1923 78.096C 7-53 ---: Volunteers for Missionary Work 1912-1923

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78.096C 7-54 ---: L.A. Ker. Principal of school for Missionaries’ children, Chengtu; re: Pension

1919

78.096C 7-55 ---: Requests for speakers to promote mission work 1919-1923 78.096C 7-56 ---: Canadian Methodist Mission Press 1914-1924 78.096C 7-57 ---: General Information on London Missionary Society (L.M.S.) in

Szechwan 1902-1907

78.096C 7-58 ---: Corres. with L.M.S. re: transfer of mission in Szechwan to CMM Aug 1908, May, 1909

78.096C 7-59 ---: --- May 1908, Dec, 1909

78.096C 7-60 ---: --- 1910-1912 78.096C 8-61 ---: A. Sutherland, General Secretary, to Virgil C. Hart in Chengtu,

Szechwan (1891-1897); Sutherland to J. Endicott in Chengtu (1896); West China Mission Annual Report (1893-1894), “The Work in the Early Years of Chengtu.”

1891-1897

78.096C 8-62 ---: Sutherland to Hard (1898-1900); Sutherland and James N. Shannon (finances) to O.L. Kilborn (1900-1903)

1898-1903

78.096C 8-63 ---: Sutherland and Shannon to Kilborn 1903-1905 78.096C 8-64 ---: Sutherland to Kilborn (1905); Correspondence to Sutherland re:

Finances, hospital construction in West China (1905) 1905

78.096C 8-65 ---: Sutherland to Kilborn 1906 78.096C 8-66 ---: to Sutherland re: volunteers, contributions, finances 1906 78.096C 8-67 ---: Sutherland to Kilborn 1907 78.096C 8-68 ---: to Sutherland re: volunteers, contributions and finances 1907 78.096C 8-69 ---: Especially to/from T.E. Shore re: appointments to West China,

travel expenses, experiences on voyage to China. 1906-1908

78.096C 9-70 ---: re: missionaries in the field, letters re: their state of health and correspondence, their voyage to West China.

1908-1909

78.096C 9-71 ---: F.C. Stephenson re: Miss Georgia McCallum’s offer to support C.R. Carscallan in West China; letters to Carscallan and Miss McCallum re: her sponsorship and withdrawal of W.F. Lawrence’s support; correspondence re: shipments of supplies to China and cost thereof; reports of missionaries trips to China

1908

78.096C 9-72 ---: O.L. Kilborn to/from Shore; O.L Kilborn to/from Sutherland re: candidates for China; expenditures, construction of dwellings for CMM Personnel (1908). O.L. Kilborn to Shannon re: accounts, etc. for CMM in West China; T.E. Shore to various missionary organizers re: Y.M.C.A. Work in China; Shore to/from J. Endicott re: their trip to Szechwan via Yunnan. Reports of work of E.W. Wallace, R.B. McAmmond, C.P. Jolliffe, W.J. Sheridan re: language training; reports of G.E. Hartwell for 1908, CMM Statistics for 1908

1908

78.096C 9-73 ---: F.H. Langford to/from G. Harris re: Harris appointment to Szechwan in 1908, letters to/from A. Sutherland and Shore re: candidates for West China

1908

78.096C 9-74 ---: Sutherland to/from James Neave re: Neaves’ work in Tibet; letters to/from Sutherland to various missionaries re: furloughs; letters to Kilborn re: exploratory trips to Yunnan and Kweichow provinces

1908

78.096C 9-75 ---: F.H. Langford to/from T.E. Shore re: Langford’s Appointment to China in 1908; O.L. Kilborn to Sutherland re: erection of CMM buildings in Szechwan (costs, methods, materials to be used); correspondence between Sutherland and G. Cousins (joint foreign secretary of the L.M.S.), re: transfer of L.M.S territory in Szechwan to CMM; Sutherland to Kilborn December 30, 1908 informing him of L.M.S. offer; some general correspondence, Sutherland to Kilborn, 1908

1908

78.096C 9-76 ---: Sutherland and Shore to Kilborn re: Candidate for West China 1908

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78.096C 9-77 ---: to/from Shore re: candidates for West China, especially the applications of B. Albertson and Angus J. Bater

1908

78.096C 9-78 ---: A.J. Crutcher re: preparation for his voyage to China, 1908; Sutherland to O.L. Kilborn re: General Events in West China.

1908

78.096C 9-79 ---: G.E. Hartwell to/from Sutherland re: work in Penghsien, 1909; re: the application of D.S. Kern and the extenuating circumstances; re: this application. Christian Literature Society, D. McGillivray to Shore; Timothy Richard to Shore, 1909

1909

78.096C 9-80 ---: Hamilton Wigle to/from A. Sutherland re: application of D.S. Kern for field work in China; A. Stewart to/from Sutherland re: Kern’s Application; R.B. Ewan to Sutherland re: CMM building costs in West China; correspondence to the Pedlar Roofing Co., re: Costs of goods for CMM Construction in West China; letters to/from Nellie Forman re: support of J.S. Stewart for trip to university in the U.S.; General correspondence to/from candidates of missionary work and missionaries en route to China; James Neave correspondence re: his work in Tibet. “China Centenary Missionary Conference Appeal for Evangelistic Workers”, 1909

1909

78.096C 9-81 ---: re: purchase of various goods for the West China missions 1909 78.096C 9-82 ---: Telegrams 1909 78.096C 9-83 ---: Extract from Minutes, West China Council, (Jan 28- Feb 5, 1909).

O.L. Kilborn to A. Sutherland re: acquisition of land for planned union university site, (Apr 7.1909); Kilborn to Sutherland re: comments on various missionaries in West China; correspondence Hartwell to Sutherland

1909

78.096C 9-84 ---: Sutherland to/from J.R. Cox re: furloughs, salaries, etc., 1909; Endicott to Sutherland re: trip to Yunnan; “Report of a visit to the province of Yunnan”; notes from the Renshaw convention for Chinese Christians- Jul 1-4, 1909. Correspondence re: appointment of Walter Small as missionary- contractor to West China

1909

78.096C 10-85 ---: From/To D.S. Kern re: his appointment to West China; Shore from/to O. Jolliffe, A.C. Hoffman to/from Shore; Shore to Hartwell re: policies of General Board of Missions as applied to West China; Abery to Shore re: Abery’s appointment to West China; A. Brillinger to Shore re: laymen’s salaries.

1909

78.096C 10-86 ---: From various missionaries to F. H. Langford and T.E. Shore re: furloughs, salaries, expenditures, construction of CMM buildings.

1909

78.096C 10-87 ---: From/To F.H. Langford re: his application for work in West China. Shore and Sutherland to G.E. Hartwell

1909

78.096C 10-88 ---: Resolution adopted by the General Board of Missions re: work in Szechwan: correspondence re: transfer of L.M.S. area to CMM; Shore and Sutherland to G.E. Hartwell

1909

78.096C 10-89 ---: letters to/from Sutherland to Shore 1910 78.096C 10-90 ---: Timothy Richard to Shore re: future of Christianity in China;

estimates of regional mission plant needs 1910

78.096C 10-91 ---: Extensive work report from J. R. Earle; O. Jolliffe to Shore re: “revival” meetings in West China; H.D. Robertson to Shore re: CMM work in Szechwan, 1910: Shore to/from W.J. Mortimore re: deployment of personnel in West China; W.E. Smith to Shore and Sutherland re: work in Yuinhsien; Shore to/from Kilborn.

1910

78.096C 10-92 ---: Shore to/from J. Parker and Wardlaw Thompson re: transfer of L.M.S. mission to CMM; general correspondence to/from Shore re: deployment of personnel, finances and land purchases.

78.096C 10-93 ---: Copy of some of the resolutions passed by West China Council (1910), F.H. Langford to/from Shore re: Langford’s inability to go to

1910

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West China; Timothy Richard to J. Endicott re: reform movements in China C. 1910, Shore to Batdorf confirming the latter’s appointment as educational missionary to West China; some general correspondence from missionaries in field to Home Board

78.096C 10-94 ---: Letters to/from Shore especially re: revolutionary activity of 1911 and the protection of Canadian missionaries in this regard. Interesting letters from British Consulate to Canadian Missionaries re: evacuation from Szechwan; report of the situation from various Missionaries in China.

78.096C 10-95 ---: Kilborn to/from Shore re: difficulty of obtaining sufficient number of volunteers for West China work; re: need of builders in Szechwan. Kilborn to Shore re: applications of Meuser and Dingle for West China mission work; reports on various CMM stations and activities there in 1911

1911

78.096C 10-96 ---: W. Hagar to/from Allan Farrell re: general information on China. J. Parker to Shore re: revolutionary activity in China, November 9, 1911; Parker to Shore (Nov. 23, 1911); W.F. Perley to Shore re: revolutionary activity, (Nov. 30, 1911, Dec 2, 1911); reports of work of C.P. Quirmbach (Keating), 1910-1911. H.D. Robertson to/from Shore; Walter Small (mission builder) to/from Shore; 1911, Shore to Endicott re: the possibility of indigenization of Church and education in West China.

1911

78.096C 10-97 ---: Kilborn to/from Shore reporting on revolutionary events in 1911, letters of November 10,15, 18, 26, 27; Shore to Kilborn discussing safety of missionaries during Revolution; Kilborn to Shore (copy of protocol accepted by ex-viceroy of Szechwan Chao Er-feng): Kilborn to Shore re: events in 1911, letters of December 6,7,11,25,29,30.

1911

78.096C 10-98 ---: Kilborn to Shore re: revolutionary activity in China July- October, 1911; other correspondence re: purchases of land for the CMM.

1911

78.096C 11-99 ---: Mortimore to Shore re: candidates in West China, 1911; Mortimore’s work reports for 1911; Hockin report of 1911; Mortimore’s summary of Chungking summer convention of 1911; report of W. Smith (Junghsien), 1911; Shore to Mrs. W.E. Smith expressing “concern” re: revolution in China; W.E. Sibley to Shore concerning events in 1911; G. W. Sparling to Shore re: unsettled condition in China, 1911; report of the action taken by the general Board of Mission at its annual meeting in Toronto, (September 25-30, 1911)

1911

78.096C 11-100 ---: From/to missionaries in West China re: conditions in China 1911 78.096C 11-101 ---: From/to missionaries re: conditions in China 1911 78.096C 11-102 ---: re: expenditures, finance etc. of CMM in West China 1912 78.096C 11-103 ---: Famine relief in China re: The China Famine Relief Fund. Letter of

E.C. Lobenstine, secretary Central China Famine Relief Committee 1912

78.096C 11-104 ---: to/from other missionary societies re: general mission policies re: education and medical work in China

1912

78.096C 11-105 ---: re: CMM missionary activity in the aftermath of the 1911 revolutionary uprisings

1911

78.096C 11-106 ---: --- 1912 78.096C 11-107 ---: --- 1912 78.096C 11-108 ---: re: death of A. Hockin in Szechwan; Mortimore to/from Shore re:

various missionary committees held in West China and Reports on finances

1912

78.096C 11-109 ---: Mortimore to Shore re: furloughs of various missionaries; schools for missionaries’ children; McAmmond to Shore re: return to China and preparations related to the trip; W.E. Smith to Shore, various missionaries to/from Shore

1912

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78.096C 11-110 ---: G. Harris to Goderich District re: relief work in China; Crutcher to Shore, 1912 re: mission work in Szechwan in view of unsettled conditions. Lobenstine to Crutcher thanks re: contribution to famine relief fund. Earle to Shore expressing concern over return of missionaries to the interior of Shore’s response; extensive correspondence Shore/Evan/Dr. Lafleur of Montreal re: Evan’s health, Lafleur’s recommendations of (Aug 10, 1912) that Evan enter a sanatorium; Dr. C.P. Lusk to/from Shore emphasizing the need for Evan to be given an extensive leave of absence; Evan to/from Shore re: Evan’s improved health (Nov, 1912), same miscellaneous letter from various missionaries.

1912

78.096C 11-111 ---: R.M. Brecken to Shore re: return of missionaries to Chungking in 1912; Brecken to Shore describing missionary activities in West China; A.J. Brace to/from Shore focusing on Brace’s work and salary; Shore to/from Homer Brown re: Brown’s appointment to China.

1912

78.096C 11-112 ---: Shore to/from G.R. Carscallan re: preparations and plans for W.C.U.U.; Carscallan to Shore re: expenditures for joint maintenance of W.C.U.U.; structure and plans for W.C.U.U.; (Nov, 1912), re: plans for construction of W.C.U.U.; article entitled, “Republicanism in Expectation- and Result”; financial notes, Shore/Crutcher.

1912

78.096C 12-113 ---: Changing China as viewed by C.W. Service; extensive general correspondence Shore to/from Hillborn; Fred L. Abrey to Guelph District League Noting Extensive changes in Chinese society. Correspondence F.F. Allan to/from Shore re: missionaries on Furlough

1912

78.096C 12-114 ---: to/from T.E. Shore re: appointments to China 1912 78.096C 12-115 ---: --- 1912 78.096C 12-116 ---: E. Hibbard to Mrs. F. C. Stephenson re: “rebels” activity in

Szechwan; correspondence between CMM/British Consulate re: attack on R.O. Jolliffe resulting in the death of his son (Jan 30, 1913), E. Hibbard to Mrs. Stephenson re: his activities in China (Jun, 1913), Kilborn to/from Shore re: CMM personnel and financial matters

1913

78.096C 12-117 ---: O.L. Kilborn to/from E. Shire, James Allen and J. Endicott re: deployment of personnel in CMM; parts of CMM West China Committee Report

1913

78.096C 12-118 ---: from/to Sutherland, Endicott and J. Arnup from missionaries esp. G.E. Hartwell

1914

78.096C 12-119 ---: --- 1914 78.096C 12-120 ---: Endicott/Kilborn re: CMM affairs in West China (funds, personnel) 1914 78.096C 12-121 ---: --- 1914 78.096C 12-122 ---: --- 1914 78.096C 12-123 ---: to Dr. F.C. Stephenson; Kilborn/Endicott minutes of three divisional

councils- Chengtu, Junghsien, Chungking, 1915, further correspondence Kilborn/Endicott, 1915

1915

78.096C 12-124 ---: --- 1915 78.096C 12-125 ---: Endicott/Kilborn re: supplies needed, expenditures and personnel

deployment in CMM 1916

78.096C 12-126 ---: Report of work, G.R. Jones business agency, Chungking: Kilborn/Endicott

1916

78.096C 12-127 ---: --- 1916 78.096C 12-128 ---: Primarily addressed to Endicott from various missionaries in West

China 1916

78.096C 13-129 ---: Endicott/Kilborn 1917 78.096C 13-130 ---: --- 1917 78.096C 13-131 ---: --- 1918 78.096C 13-131 ---: --- 1918

183

78.096C 13-133 ---: Endicott to/from W.J. Mortimore re: estimate, accounts, personnel on furlough, general activities.

1919

78.096C 13-134 ---: D.S. Kern to Endicott re: need to expand facilities; Ashley W. Lindsey to Endicott re: school for missionaries’ children; Alice Lindsay to Endicott re: the preparation of a mission “Book of Information”; R.O. Jolliffe to Endicott; Aug 16/1920 re: his remaining in China; Endicott to Mrs. Hockin re: her claims upon superannuation Fund (Oct, 1919); W.J. Sheridan to Endicott, 1920

1919-1920

78.096C 13-135 ---: Mrs. Crutcher to/from Endicott re: her desire to be matron for school for missionaries’ children in Szechwan. S. Soper to Endicott re: Soper’s studying a trade in N.Y.; James K. Cox to Endicott re: events in China, 1920; general correspondence to Endicott from various missionaries re: furloughs.

1920

78.096C 13-136 ---: Endicott to J. Arnup 1920 78.096C 13-137 ---: From CMM Missionaries to Home Board re: personal problems such

as illness or death in family; estimate of funding needed to improve facilities; applications to study while on furlough; general remarks

1920

78.096C 13-138 ---: Endicott/Arnup with R.B. Lindsay (Holt Renfrew & Co.) 1920 78.096C 13-139 ---: Treasurer and corresponding secretary (1919-1920), Kilborn’s death

(1920), letters Kilborn/Endicott; Kilborn/Stephenson 1919-1920

78.096C 13-140 ---: CMM Business Agency – report of work; A. Gordon, R. Jones Chungking; letters to/from W.J. Mortimore, Jan- Jun 1920 re: mission plant needs in Szechwan; small amount of correspondence re: West China Missionaries Canadian War Fund

1920

78.096C 13-141 ---: mainly to/from W.J. Mortimore re: Mission plant needs/resources, Jun- Dec

1920

78.096C 14-142 ---: Secretary/Treasurer’s office, Jan- Apr; Endicott to/from Mortimore re: mission plant needs (financial, personnel)

1921

78.096C 14-143 ---: Endicott/Mortimore (May- Sept) 1921 78.096C 14-144 ---: --- (Oct- Dec) 1921 78.096C 14-145 ---: --- (Jan- Apr) re: mission plant needs 1922 78.096C 14-146 ---: --- (May- Aug) 1922 78.096C 14-147 ---: --- (Sept- Dec) 1922 78.096C 14-148 ---: (Jan- Apr), between missionaries mainly on leave 1923 78.096C 14-149 ---: (Mar- Apr), between missionaries in general (not particularly

relevant to CMM in West China) 1923

78.096C 14-150 ---: (May- Jun), primarily to J. Endicott (not particularly informative re: CMM West China)

1923

78.096C 14-151 ---: (Jul- Dec), mainly to J. Endicott from missionaries on furlough discussing personal matters, correspondence from CMM sources re: World Missionary Atlas; letters concerning funds for T.E. Memorial Church, (of no particular relevance to West China)

1923

78.096C 14-152 ---: Secretary/Treasurer’s office (Jan- Apr), Endicott/Mortimore CMM plant needs in W. China

1923

78.096C 14-153 ---: --- (May- Aug) 1923 78.096C 14-154 ---: --- (Sept- Dec) 1923 78.096C 15-155 ---: Secretary/Treasurer’s office, Endicott/G.E. Hartwell re: mission

plant needs in China 1924

78.096C 15-156 ---: Report of work, Gordon R. Jones, Chungking Business Agency and Local Treasurer; E. Kyle Simpson to Endicott reporting on change in China’s social climate, Dec 7/1924; Simpson to Hartwell- reporting on needs and progress of CMM work in Szechwan; reports from Chinese newspapers, re: general political situation in China- translated by Chinese students

1924

78.096C 15-157 ---: Secretary/Treasurer’s office (Jan-May); Endicott/G.E. Hartwell re: 1925

184

CMM Mission plant needs in W. China 78.096C 15-158 ---: --- (May- Oct) 1925 78.096C 15-159 ---: from Missionaries in China re: Social/political upheaval in China 1925 78.096C 15-160 ---: --- 1925 78.096C 15-161 ---: --- 1925 78.096C 15-162 ---: Telegrams 1921-1925 78.096C 15-163a ---: General Correspondence re: women’s work in CMM, W. China 1910-1925 78.096C 15-163b ---: --- (mostly about teaching, brief references to medical) 1908-1912 78.096C 15-164c ---: --- (---) 1907-1912 78.096C 16 Work Reports (1909-1924) and Copy Book of W.J. Mortimore (1912-

1916) 1909-1924

78.096C 17-164 Correspondence re: candidates for missionary work in China – letters to/from these candidates: Letters to/from candidates for W. China, Jan-May (especially to/from Shore)

1907

78.096C 17-165 ---: Letters to/from candidates (Jun- Dec) 1907 78.096C 17-166 ---: --- 1908 78.096C 17-167 ---: --- 1909 78.096C 17-168 ---: --- 1910 78.096C 17-169 ---: --- 1911 78.096C 17-170 ---: --- 1912 78.096C 17-171 ---: --- 1920 78.096C 17-172 ---: --- 1923 78.096C 17-173 Candidate correspondence with Canadian Colleges re: volunteers and

applications for foreign missionary work. Mount Allison University (Sackville), Victoria College (Toronto), Columbian College (New Westminster), Methodist student Volunteer Union of Canada, F.H. Langford, Secretary

1908-1910

78.096C 17-174 Correspondence: re: special support of missionaries, building projects, and native evangelists in China

1908

78.096C 17-175 ---: re: Chengtu Hospital Fund 1909 78.096C 17-176 ---: re: special support of missionaries in W. China 1910-1911 78.096C 17-177 ---: --- 1912 78.096C 18-178 Educational Correspondence [references to Union University medical

school],: Book: Annual Reports of the West China Educational Union (1909-1919) - Unbound: Annual Reports, 1920-1921; - Educational correspondence: 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912: Henry Grant to Sutherland, (Feb 8-10/1906) re: establishment of Candon Christian College, H.K. Carroll to Sutherland 1907, re: educational union in W. China; statement by Joseph Beech, 1907; - “Plans for Educational Union in China”; educational report of J. L. Stewart; Kilborn to Sutherland 1908 re: work in Chengtu College building; - T.E. Plewman work reports of 1911; reports of Langley, 1912

1908-1921

78.096C 18-182 ---: G.E. Harris to Endicott re: financial arrangements, etc. of Union Middle School work with M.E.M in Szechwan; Endicott/Kilborn correspondence re: construction of buildings in W. China for educational and hospital work- costs, mgmt., etc.

1915

78.096C 18-184 ---: report on Union Middle School – Frank Dickinson; report on Penghsien schools – Frank Dickinson (1919), notes on phonetic system (1919), Mortimore to Endicott re: activities and expenditures in W. China ; report of W.R. Albertson re: educational activities and expenditures in Chungking (1910), report of G.S. Bell re: Junghsien City schools; report of educational work of C.W. Batdorf; Mortimore/Endicott re: expenditures with regard to construction of

1919-1920

185

houses and institutions in W. China; A.J. Brace Y.M.C.A. report of work of 1920 [folder contains brief references to medical workers]

78.096C 18-185 ---: Charts (3) re: W. China Missions Advisory Board (1) General Statistics, (2) Educational, (3) Staff Churches: reports from A.N.C. Pound re: work in Chungchow; reports from C.A. Bridgeman, G.S. Bell in Junghsien; D.S. Kern report of work re: educational union, reports from Stanley Annis and A.J. Brace. Statistics on educations (1922); A.N.C. Pound Chungchow educational work (1920-1922); reports from J.M. Would and J.R. Earle re: work (1921-1922) [folder contains brief references to medical workers]

1920-1922

78.096C 18-186 ---: Statistical report on school work (1923); summary of registrations and examinations (1923); Endicott/Gamewell re: China Christian Educational Association; report of J. Veals Junghsien, Szechwan; report of investigation on industrial education in N.Y. and Hampton, Virginia; report of educational work of G.W. Sparling (1924); report of R.S. Langley, Fowchow (1924); reports from C.J.P. Jolliffe and L.E. Willmott; reports of A.J. Elson and G.S. Bell (1924) [folder contains references to West China Union University]

1923-1924

78.096C 18-187 ---: “West China Christian Educational Union” K.J. Beaton, “Chinese Student Thought Today”; West China educational statistics (1916-1925); report of the executive committee of the general board of the China Christian Educational Association; report of H.F. Swann from Chungking; G.W. Sparling to Endicott re: Anti-Christian sentiments in W. China [folder contains brief references re: medical]

1916-1925

78.096C 18-189 ---: Reports of plans for the development of schools for missionaries Children in Chengtu (1908); “Our Educational Work in China”; “History of Education in China”; O.L. Kilborn, “The Advisory Council of the Educational Association of China”; general statistics on Education in Szechwan; O.L. Kilborn “Educational Work in West China”; “Arrangements for Manual and Bible Training Work at Fowchow”; Report of Canadian School Board; Minutes of Christian Educational Union (1906-1921) [references to medical workers]

1906-1921

78.096C 19-193 Pastoral Correspondence: Report of work: G.S. Bell and A.N. Pound, “The Problem of Religious Instruction” (Rev D.S. Kern), Summary of Pastoral Reports of Work (1917), memo: “Pastoral Workers: Three More Needed”, “Pastoral Work in Chungchow under M.P. Smith”, “Annual Report of the Junghsien, North Gate Church, together with 13 Outstations and their 5 lower primary day schools” (1917), Letter to Endicott from Kilborn (1917), Letter to Mr. Arnup from Katori Maru”, “Minutes of the Conference of the Chinese Church”, Report of Work (R.O. Jolliffe) (1919), Report of Work (E.W. Morgan) (1919), Report from G.W. Sparling to Dr. Endicott (1919), Report of R.S. Longley for Dr. Endicott (1919) [brief reference to medical workers]

1917-1919

78.096C 19-197 Medical Correspondence: Miscellaneous- West China Mission medical statistics (1916-1925) indicating the number of Chinese physicians; expenditure and beds; statistics (1916) for Junghsien, Tzeliutsing, Penghsien; Renshaw, statistics for all stations (c. 1915), General articles for various years; an open letter “to Methodist Doctors and Dentists throughout Canada” (c. 1912); call to doctors in Canada by O.L. Kilborn (1910); an attempt by W. Service to start a fund for a medical college in China; K. J. Beaton, “Story of a Hospital Site”; article on “Chinese Medicine” (2 copies); “The Relation of the Mission Physician to the Mission Schools”; “The Place of Medical Missions of Missionary Work”; “Resolutions passed by the Medical Missionary Association of China” (1908), “Appeal for Medical Workers.”

1910-1925

186

78.096C 19-198 Report of Work and General Correspondence: 1907: Reports of P.S. Tennant; C. W. Service; and T.E. Shore; report of Chentu General Hospital (Jul 1907- Mar 1908); T.E. Shore to/from W. J. Sheridan (1907), re: Sheridan’s departure for China. - 1908: Shore to E.C. Wilford re: appointment to China: Service to/from Shore; James R. Cox; “Report of Renshaw Hospital 1907/1908”; C.W. Service, report of Keating Work (1907-8). - 1909: Shore to/from E.C. Wilford; Shore to/from Service; Shore to/from D.F. McKinley re: appointment to China; W.J. Sheridan to Shore

1907-1909

78.096C 19-199 ---: 1910: T.E. Shore to/from Wolfendale and F. H. Broder re: work and donations for work in W. China; Shore to/from Service re: contributions, personnel for W. China; Sheridan report of work (1909-1910); Wolfendale 1910 report for Chungking hospital.

1909-1910

78.096C 19-200 ---: Shore to/from Wolfendale; Shore to/from Service re: evacuation of missionaries under British protection during 1911 revolutionary upheaval; Shore to/from C.B. Kelly re: appointment to China; Interesting letter of W.J. Sheridan describing events in W. China in 1911; W.J. Sheridan report of work at M.E.M. Hospital, Chengtu; report of E.C. Wilford

1911

78.096C 19-201 ---: E.C. Wilford to/from Shore re: work in Tzeliutsing opening of dispensary etc.; letter of Wilford’s re: famine in Central China; letter to/from A.W. Lindsay re: university courses while on furlough; letters to/from W.J. Sheridan re: union work in medicine in W. China

1912

78.096C 19-202 ---: 1914-1916: E.C. Wilford; report of work 1914: re: union medical work in Chungking between M.E.M. and CMM; letters to/from O.L. Kilborn re: medical work in Chengtu especially the Faculty of Medicine at W.C.U.U.; report of D.F. McKinley (1916); re: Keating medical work; letters to O.L. Kilborn re: use of funds and personnel during W.W.I.

1914-1916

78.096C 19-203 ---: 1918-1919: W.J. Sheridan letters to/from Civil governor of Szechwan and to/from Shore re: acquisition of site and personnel for hospital in Chungking; report of work of W. J. Sheridan (1918); Sheridan to Endicott (5/8/19) re: securing of hospital site in Chungking; Wallace Crawford to Endicott re: addition of women’s wing at Tzeliutsing; report of work of 1920- B.C. McNaughton (Chungking); Keating Hospital report (1920); Luchan Hospital Report (1920); report of work (1920), E.E. Dale; report of work from Tzeliutsing General Hospital (1920)

1918-1920

78.096C 19-204 ---: 1921-1922: Report of work of A.J. Barter (1921, Chungking); report of Chungking medical work (1921); report of J. R. Cox (1921, Tunghsien); report of Luchan Medical work (1921); report of the Tzeliutsing General Hospital (1921); report of work of F.F. Allan (1921, Chengtu); R.S. Greene to/from Endicott re: missionaries as interns in Peking Union Medical College; report of CMM hospital in Fowchow (1922)

1921-1922

78.096C 20-206 Life Sketches of Chinese Converts: Li Huang of Chungchow 78.096C 20-207 ---: Mao CheSan 78.096C 20-208 ---: Liu Dze Ru I 78.096C 20-209 ---: --- II 78.096C 20-209A ---: --- III 78.096C 20-210 Life Sketches of Missionaries in China: A-Bel (also lists of

missionaries)

78.096C 20-211 ---: Bir-Dal 78.096C 20-212 ---: Dar-Had

187

78.096C 20-213 ---: Har-Kit 78.096C 20-214 ---: Leo-Mor 78.096C 20-215 ---: Nea-Sib 78.096C 20-216 ---: Sim-Won Microfilm Reels: Some material may be duplicates of files mentioned above.

Accession # Reel/File Title/Description Date(s) 78.096C 22-1 Interpretations of Missionary Work in China (1893-1925): West

China (from Annual Report 1893-94) (early history) 1893-1894

78.096C 22-2 ---: General Conditions in Szechwan 1919-1925. (W.J. Mortimore) May 30, 1925 78.096C 22-3 ---: Our West China Mission (O.L. Kilborn) 1919? 78.096C 22-4 ---: Methodist Church, Canada. Canadian Methodist Mission, West

China. 1. Our Mission Stations in Brief Review, 2. The Place of Medical Missions in Missionary Work, 3. Present Day Emphasis in the work of the Pastoral Missionary, 4. West China Mission Stations.

78.096C 22-5 ---: The Present Crisis in China – Christian or Communist, Which? (J.L. Stewart)

78.096C 22-6 Material Relating to Administration of the West China Mission (1921-1925, n.d.): Names, dates of sailing and arrival locations of Missionaries. List of friends and relatives of missionaries, and children born in China.

1921-1925

78.096C 22-7 ---: Personnel: requirements, salaries, furloughs 1921-1925 78.096C 22-8 ---: Women in China 1921-1925 78.096C 22-9 ---: Correspondence: William M. Leonard, builder, Fowchow. His

Mental Illness 1916-1925

78.096C 22-10 ---: ---: Statistics, education, etc. 78.096C 22-11 ---: ---: Matriculation for Canadians in China 1923-1924 78.096C 22-12 ---: ---: volunteers for missionary service 1912-1923 78.096C 22-13 ---: ---: contributions to aid mission work 1914-1912 78.096C 22-14 ---: ---: Lelah A. Ker, Principal of School for Missionaries’ Children,

Chengtu, re: her pension 1919

78.096C 22-15 ---: ---: Requests for speaker to promote mission work 78.096C 22-16 ---: ---: and reports, Canadian Methodist Mission Press (Chengtu) 1914-1924 78.096C 22-17 ---: ---: The National Christian Council of China, Shanghai 1923-1925 78.096C 22-18 General Correspondence (1912-1925): 1912-1914 78.096C 22-19 --- 1914-1916 78.096C 22-20 --- 1919 78.096C 22-21 --- Jan- Apr, 1920 78.096C 22-22 --- May- Dec,

1920 78.096C 22-23 --- 1922 78.096C 22-24 --- Jan- Jun, 1923 78.096C 23-25 --- Jul- Dec, 1923 78.096C 23-26 --- 1924-1925 78.096C 23-27 Correspondence of Missionary Society Secretaries With

Missionaries in China (1891-1925): Sutherland and Shore With Missionaries (1891-1912): Sutherland to V.C. Hart in Chengtu

1891-7

78.096C 23-28 ---: ---: Sutherland to J. Endicott in China 1896 78.096C 23-29 ---: ---: Sutherland to V.C. Hart in Chengtu 1898-1900 78.096C 23-30 ---: ---: Sutherland and Jas. N. Shannon [accountant] to O.L. Kilborn 1900-1903 78.096C 23-31 ---: ---: --- 1903-1904 78.096C 23-32 ---: ---: Sutherland to Kilborn 1905 78.096C 23-33 ---: ---: --- 1906 78.096C 23-34 ---: ---: Sutherland and Shore to Kilborn 1907

188

78.096C 23-35 ---: ---: --- 1908 78.096C 23-36 ---: ---: --- 1908 78.096C 23-37 ---: ---: Sutherland and Shore – Kilborn and G.E. Hartwell 1908-1909 78.096C 23-38 ---: ---: Sutherland and Shore to Hartwell 1909 78.096C 23-39 ---: ---: Telegrams 1909 78.096C 23-40 ---: ---: Sutherland and Shore to/from Hartwell and J.L. Stewart 1908-1910 78.096C 23-41 ---: ---: Shore to/from Kilborn 1911-1912 78.096C 23-42a ---: Shore, Allen, Stephenson and Endicott with Missionaries (1913):

Endicott, F.C. Stephenson, James Allen, Shore to/from Kilborn Jan- Jun, 1913

78.096C 23-42b ---: ---: Endicott, Allen, Stephenson to/from Kilborn Jul- Dec, 1913 78.096C 23-42c ---: Endicott with Kilborn (1914-1920) Jan- Jun, 1914 78.096C 23-42d ---: --- Jul- Dec, 1914 78.096C 23-42e ---: --- Jan- Jun, 1915 78.096C 23-42f ---: --- Jul- Dec, 1915 78.096C 24-42g ---: --- Jan- Apr, 1916 78.096C 24-42h ---: --- May- Dec,

1916 78.096C 24-42i ---: --- Jan-May, 1917 78.096C 24-42j ---: --- Jun- Dec, 1917 78.096C 24-42k ---: --- Jan- Jul, 1918 78.096C 24-42l ---: --- Aug- Dec,

1918 78.096C 24-42m ---: Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary (Kilborn’s death, 1920).

Endicott to/from Kilborn, Stephenson-Kilborn (1919-1920) 1919-1920

78.096C 24-43 ---: Letter book: Correspondence with W. J. Mortimore 1912-1916 78.096C 24-44 ---: Endicott and Mortimore 1916-1918 78.096C 24-45 ---: --- Jan- Apr, 1920 78.096C 24-46 ---: --- May- Sept,

1920 78.096C 24-47 ---: --- Oct- Dec, 1920 78.096C 24-48 ---: --- Jan- Apr, 1921 78.096C 24-49 ---: --- May- Sept,

1921 78.096C 24-50 ---: --- Oct- Dec, 1921 78.096C 24-51 ---: --- Jan- Apr, 1922 78.096C 24-52 ---: --- May- Aug,

1922 78.096C 24-53 ---: --- Sept- Dec,

1922 78.096C 24-54 ---: --- Jan- Apr, 1923 78.096C 24-55 ---: --- May- Aug,

1923 78.096C 24-56 ---: --- Sept- Dec,

1923 78.096C 24-57 ---: --- 1924 78.096C 25-58 ---: Endicott and Hartwell (1923-1925) Aug. 1923-

1924 78.096C 25-59 ---: --- Sept, 1924-

Feb, 1925 78.096C 25-60 ---: --- Mar- Apr,

1925 78.096C 25-61 ---: --- May- Oct,

1925 78.096C 25-62 Reports from China: General

189

78.096C 25-63 ---: Chengtu (Hospital for Men, W.C.U.U) [1914-1924?] 78.096C 25-64 ---: Chengtu (Canadian School, Union Bible Training School,

Y.M.C.A., General)

78.096C 25-65 ---: Chungchow 78.096C 25-66 ---: Chungking 78.096C 25-67 ---: --- (Gordon R. Jones) 78.096C 25-68 ---: --- (W.J. Sheridan) 78.096C 25-69 ---: --- (George W. Sparling) 78.096C 25-70 ---: Fowchow (E. Kyle Simpson) 78.096C 25-71 ---: --- (E.K. Simpson, R.S. Longley, etc.) 78.096C 26-72 ---: Jenshow 78.096C 26-73 ---: Junghsien 78.096C 26-74 ---: Kiating 78.096C 26-75 ---: Luchow 78.096C 26-76 ---: Penghsien 78.096C 26-77 ---: Tzeliutsing I 78.096C 26-78 ---: --- II 78.096C 26-79 Newspaper Extracts, 1924: Extracts from Chinese Newspapers re:

General political situation in China 1924

78.096C 26-80 Telegrams 1921-1925 SERIES 3/ Subseries 2: WEST CHINA UNION UNIVERSITY COLLECTION. -- 1896-1950, predominant 1908-1925. -- 97 cm of textual records; photographs

Administrative History: The University, located in Chengtu (Szechwan province) was founded cooperatively by the Friends Foreign Mission Association, Great Britain and Ireland, the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, and Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, U.S.A., and the General Board of Missions of the Methodist Church, Canada, Newfoundland, and Bermuda.

In 1910, classes in Arts and Science were inaugurated. A faculty of Medicine was added in 1914; a Faculty of Religion in 1915; Education in 1918; and Dentistry in 1920. In addition to these Faculties there was a Pharmacy Department, and Agricultural Department, the Union Middle School, the Union Normal School, the Union Bible Training School, the Union Training School for Missionaries, and Lower and Higher Primary School.

The University was controlled by a Board of Governors in the home-lands, and in 1922 it was incorporated under the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. By 1925, the Campus of over 150 acres contained some 22 teaching buildings and dormitories and 34 teachers’ residences. The University became co-educational in 1924. (Written by Bruce Lawrie, 1978).

Finding Aid: 13 Accession #: 1978.097C; 1995.096C; /TR; 2004.043C.

Scope and Content: Subseries includes correspondence of the General Secretaries, Foreign Department, 1907-1925, copybooks of outgoing correspondence of O.L. Kilborn, 1896-1906; minutes of West China Union University bodies, 1909-1938; also constitutions, reports, financial records, photographs, architectural drawings and maps, publications and printed ephemera, 1908-1950. As records are general in nature, references to Medical work may be brief.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date(s) 78.097C 1-1 West China Union University: Temporary Board of Management,

Minutes (1909-1911), Senate, minutes (1911-1916) (bound copies) 1909-1916

78.097C 1-2 ---: Joint Commission, Minutes (1910), Board of Governors, Minutes (1911-1938)

1910-1938

78.097C 1-3 ---: Board Of Governors Executive Committee, minutes 1926-1938 78.097C 2-4 ---: --- 1926-1938

190

95.096C/TR Finance Committee Minutes 1915-1919 78.097C 2-5 Copybook of outgoing correspondence of O.L. Kilborn 1896-1902 78.097C 2-6 --- 1902-1906 2004.043C 1-1 WCUU: Senate, minutes (bound) 1916-1923 2004.043C 1-2 ---: --- 1924-1928 2004.043C 1-3 ---: Senate minutes (loose) 1929-1930 2004.043C 1-4 Miscellaneous Documents 78.097C 3-1 WCUU: A statement 1912 78.097C 3-2 ---: Draft for WCUU Pamphlet n.d. 78.097C 3-3 ---: Suggestions for the erection and equipping of a clinical teaching

hospital in connection with the WCUU, Chengtu, Szechwan n.d.

78.097C 3-4 ---: Constitutions 1908-1914 78.097C 3-5 Conferences re: organization of the University (minutes and reports) 1908-1909 78.097C 3-7 Correspondence: re: admission of women to the University (J.

Endicott) 1921-1925

78.097C 3-8 Department of Pharmacy, E.N. Meuser, information and photographs [some photographs relocated to photograph collection]

1932-1950

78.097C 3-9 Medical College Building: summary of minutes re: its construction 1918-1925 78.097C 3-10 Correspondence: C.R. Carscallen, Secretary of the Senate (T.E.E.

Shore/J. Endicott) 19101-1919

78.097C 3-11 ---: re: private contributions (T.E.E. Shore/J. Endicott) 1913-1925 78.097C 3-12 Faculty reports and requirements 1910-1918 78.097C 3-13 Correspondence: re: staff (T.E.E. Shore/J. Endicott) 1912-1924 78.097C 3-14 ---: Treasurer’s Office, George Vaux Jr. (J. Endicott) 1918-1924 78.097C 3-15 Finance: budgets 1916-1920 78.097C 3-16 ---: accounts and balances 1914-1925 78.097C 3-17 Correspondence: Board of Governors, WCUU, general. (A.

Sutherland/T.E.E. Shore) 1908-1911

78.097C 3-18 ---: Board of Governors, General (T.E.E. Shore) Mar- Aug, 1912

78.097C 3-19 ---: ---: --- Sep- Dec, 1912 78.097C 4-20 ---: ---: (T.E.E. Shore/J. Endicott) 1913 78.097C 4-21 ---: ---: (J. Endicott) Jan- Apr, 1914 78.097C 4-22 ---: ---: --- May- Dec,

1914 78.097C 4-23 ---: ---: --- 1915-1916 78.097C 4-24 ---: ---: --- 1918-1919 78.097C 4-25 ---: ---: --- 1920-1923 78.097C 4-26 ---: ---: --- 1924 78.097C 4-27 ---: ---: --- 1925 78.097C 4-28 ---: Board of Governors, re: Purchase of land, contributions for

building of WCUU (T.E.E. Shore/J. Endicott) 1909-1914

78.097C 4-29 ---: --- (J. Endicott) 1917-1925 78.097C 4-30 ---: Board of Governors, re: Incorporation of WCUU (includes copies

of legal documents) (T.E.E. Shore/J. Endicott) 1907-1925

78.097C 4-31 Reports from the Senate of the WCUU to the Board of Governors 1916-1922 78.097C 5-32 --- 1923-1925 78.097C 5-33 Reports of the Board of Governors re: Educational Policies 1916, 1922,

1923, 1925 78.097C 5-34 Reports from China to the Board of Governors, re: WCUU:

Miscellaneous activities 1911-1925

78.097C 5-35 Correspondence: WCUU, Joseph Beech, President, to/from J. Endicott, Secretary, Board of Governors

1914-1923

78.097C 5-36 ---: Beech to/from Endicott 1925

191

78.097C 5-37 ---: --- 1925 78.097C 5-38 ---: re: building the WCUU: Architect- Fred Rowntree,

Superintendent of Construction, Raymond C. Ricker (T.E.E. Shore) Feb- Jul, 1912

78.097C 5-39 ---: --- (T.E.E. Shore) Aug, 1912 78.097C 5-40 ---: --- Sep- Dec, 1912 78.097C 5-41 ---: --- (T.E.E. Shore) Jan- Jun, 1913 78.097C 5-42 ---: --- (T.E.E. Shore/J. Endicott) Jul- Dec, 1913 78.097C 5-43 ---: --- (J. Endicott) 1914-1915 78.097C 6-44 ---: --- 1916-1920 78.097C 6-45 ---: --- Ricker/Rowntree correspondence (J. Endicott) 1921-1925 78.097C 6-46 Architect’s maps and drawings I [relocated to Map Cabinet] 78.097C 6-47 --- II 78.097C 6-48 Correspondence: general, (T.E.E. Shore) 1910-1912 78.097C 6-49 ---: Other competition between Architects for the contract to build

WCUU; correspondence with Ricker, Architect and Advisor to the Board of Governors (T.E.E. Shore)

1910- Jul, 1912

78.097C 6-50 ---: Architects competition II Aug- Sep, 1912

78.097C 6-51 ---: III Oct- Dec, 1912 78.097C 6-52 ---: Henry T. Hodgkin, Secretary of the Friends Foreign Mission

Association, and England. (T.E.E. Shore) 1910- Oct, 1911

78.097C 6-53 ---: --- II Nov, 1911-May, 1912

78.097C 6-54 ---: --- III Jun- Aug, 1912 78.097C 6-55 ---: --- IV Sep- Dec, 1912 78.097C 6-56 ---: Newton W. Rowell, representative of the Board of Mission of the

Methodist Church ( on the Board of Governors of WCUU) (T.E.E. Shore)

1907-1912

78.097C 6-57 ---: Morney Williams of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of the WCUU I (T.E.E. Shore)

1910-1911

78.097C 6-58 ---: --- II 1912 78.097C 6-59 ---: T.S. Barbour, Foreign Secretary, American Baptist Foreign

Mission Society, Treasurer of the Board of Governors of WCUU (T.E.E. Shore)

1910-1912

78.097C 6-60 ---: G.B. Huntington, Assistant Foreign Secretary; J.H. Franklin, Secretary, Joseph Taylor, All of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (T.E.E. Shore)

1910-1912

78.097C 6-61 ---: J.F. Goucher of the Board of Foreign Missions of the MEM, U.S. representative on the Board of Governors of the WCUU (T.E.E. Shore)

1910-1912

78.097C 6-62 ---: Frank Mason North, Corresponding Secretary, Homer C. Stunty, Assistant Corresponding Secretary, A.B. Leonard, Corresponding Secretary, all of the Board of Foreign Missions of the MEM (T.E.E. Shore)

1910-1912

78.097C 6-63 Reports from China, Chengtu Hospital Yu Man. 1914-1924 78.097C 6-64 Letter to Fred W. Sawdon of Montreal from his brother stationed in

Chungking, China, who comments on the Canadian Methodist Mission

1908

78.097C 7-68 Publications and Printed Ephemera: History of West China Union University (J. Taylor)

1910-1925

78.097C 7-70 ---: An Open Door- A review of Ten Years’ Progress in the West China Union University (H.T. Hodgken)

1919

78.097C 7-71 ---: The West China Union University 1910-1939

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78.097C 7-72 ---: --- 78.097C 7-73 ---: The WCUU Spirit, Aims and Progress 1917 78.097C 7-74 ---: WCUU Chengtu, Szechwan reprinted from “The Builder”, a

journal for the Architect and Constructor

78.097C 7-75 ---: West China Union University Faculty of Medicine by E.C. Wilford

1924

78.097C 7-76 ---: Constitution of West China Union University 78.097C 7-77 ---: Pharmacy in West China – A New School of Pharmacy is

Developing in a Vast Empire (E.N. Meuser)

78.097C 7-78 ---: A Few Interesting Points of Information Relating to Pharmacy in West China (E.N. Meuser)

1922

78.097C 7-79 ---: Pharmacy in China, An Appeal to Pharmacists and Their Friends in the United States and Canada

78.097C 7-80 ---: Announcement of the West China School of Pharmacy 1923-1925 78.097C 7-81a ---: WCUU, Annual Announcements 1910, 1913-

1914, 1915-1916, 1915-1919, 1920-1921

78.097C 7-81b ---: --- 1921-1922, 1925-1926

78.097C 7-82 ---: WCUU Annual Report of the Board of Governors 1910-11, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1924-1925

78.097C 7-83 ---: WCUU Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors (list of members)

Sep, 1923

78.097C 7-84 ---: WCUU Meetings of Joint Commission, Agenda Jun, 1910 78.097C 7-85 ---: WCUU Report to the Advisory Board of the West China Missions 1914 78.097C 7-86 ---: Report of the West China Union University to the Participating

Missions 1920

78.097C 7-87 ---: Science in Szechwan as seen at WCUU (reprinted from the China Press, Shanghai

78.097C 7-88 ---: WCUU Bulletin (no.1) 1914 78.097C 7-89 ---: WCUU Appeal for Teachers 78.097C 7-90 ---: The University Quarterly, vol.1, no.1 published by the WCUU Jan, 1917 78.097C 7-91 ---: Dose Book (E.N. Meuser) 1925 78.097C 7-92 ---: University Book Club 1924 78.097C 7-93 ---: WCUU Program University Day Apr 24, 1924 78.097C 7-94 ---: Invitation to the Dedication Ceremony of the Joyce Memorial

Building – Program for the Dedication of the Joyce Memorial Building and New Methodist Episcopal Dormitory

Oct 3, 1914

78.097C 7-95 ---: WCUU 78.097C 7-97 ---: A Reception to His Excellency, the Governor General of

Szechwan and the West China Educational Union Oct 18, 1915

78.097C 7-98 ---: Spend Ten Minutes in China 1920

FONDS 15: METHODIST CHURCH (CANADA) WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY FONDS. -- 1880-1927. -- 1.37 m of textual records; ca. 80 sheets of building plans and sketches

Administrative History: The General Conference of 1878 authorized Alexander Sutherland, General Secretary of the Methodist Church (Canada) Missionary Society, to organize a Woman's Missionary Society. In 1880, a society was formed in Hamilton, Ontario, followed by other auxiliaries. On 1881 April 29, a resolution for the establishment of a Dominion body was successfully moved, and in November of the same year, the General Board was created. In 1925, it joined with similar societies of the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches to form the Woman's Missionary Society of The United Church of Canada.

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Finding Aid: 137 Accession #: 78.078C, 78.079C, 78.080C, 2004.025C

See also: Graphics Database (93.049P), United Church of Canada Woman’s Missionary Society Fonds (505) for successor files.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of minutes of the annual and executive meetings of the Board of Management, 1881-1918, which deal primarily with administrative, operational, and financial matters covering the entire mission field including foreign work in Japan and West China; Aboriginal work in Port Simpson and Kitamaat, B.C.; French, and Syrian work in Montreal, Que.; Chinese and Japanese work in Victoria and Vancouver, B.C.; Ukrainian work in Wahstao, Smoky Lake (Kolokreeka), and Edmonton, Alta.; Italian work in Montreal, Que., Toronto, Hamilton, and Copper Cliff, Ont.; and work among other European immigrants in Sydney, N.S., Fort William, Ont., Winnipeg, Man., Regina, Sask., Frank, Alta., and Natal, B.C., among other places.

Fonds also includes histories of the W.M.S. 1888-1922; history of the Ruthenian Home, Edmonton, Alta., ca. 1920; incomplete list of missionaries, 1882-1924; candidates signatures, 1910-1925; financial records, 1886-1926; minutes of the Publication/Literary Committee, 1891-1926; records of the Japan and West China missions, 1883-1933; minutes and various records of Hamilton, London, Montreal and Toronto Conference Branches and of Belleville and Welland Districts, 1880-1927; pencil drawings to scale of various Woman's Missionary Society properties in China, 1919-1920; and architectural drawings of Aboriginal mission school and Crosby Girls' Home, Port Simpson, B.C., Shizuoka school and Toyama House, Japan, and Hospital for Women, Chengtu, China.

Appendix B: Woman’s Missionary Society, 2. West China Mission

[Note: There is very little West China correspondence probably because as in the case of Japan, much of the work was done by volunteer secretaries of whom Mrs. Hales was one. What there is deals almost exclusively with financial and property matters. There is some information about furloughs, health problems, and so forth. The miscellaneous letters include some information on Canada. File 10a-17 are concerned solely with property in West China, Japan and Canada. Two books contain signatures and brief accounts of missionaries’ qualifications and service in West China, Japan and Canada.]

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 78.080C 001 Missionaries of the W.M.S. of the Methodist Church, Canada 1882-1924 78.080C 009-1 Correspondence: Mrs. James Hales, Secretary in Canada for West

China Field: The letters deal largely with travel and furlough and resignation of a number of missionaries. Pros and cons of appointing Chinese Canadians as missionaries in China. Difficulties of probate of Wheeler’s will. Woman’s School. Girl’s Board School

1918-1927

78.080C 009-2 ---: Harrison, Field Treasurer of West China with Board Treasurers, Mrs. Chipman, Mrs. Powell: This correspondence deals almost entirely with Toronto Home Orders, Estimates, Expenditures, Exchange rates. There is occasional comment on conditions of life in China. Marcella Wilkes School building. Of special interest are the following: -Harrison, February 22, 1921: Suggestion of using silver instead of gold as basis for exchange. - December 12, 1921: No truth in story that missionaries having to support work from salaries. - Mar 1, 1922: Work in progress at various stations.

1915, 1920-1922

78.080C 009-3 ---: Harrison, treasurer of Mission with the Board: Several travel expense accounts. -May 8 and 9: Dallyn’s return home. Loss through failure of Chinese bank in Chungking. - Mar 20: Request for kindergarten supplies. Fighting through the spring months. - Aug 7: Keeping cool by punkah. - Oct 1: Reduced fares.

1923-1924

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- Nov 22: Death of Wheeler and will. [See letters Mar 4, Mar 24, May 30, Dec 31, and file 4], 1924 - Jan 12: Second mention of need for safe. Loss of 8 workers in 4 years. - Mar 4: Costs of McNeil’s eye treatment. -May 5: McNeil’s eyes o.k. Political comment. Typewriters supplied to each station. - Sept 16: Endicott criticized. - Oct 22: Purchase of Leonard’s furniture. Street widening near mission property. - Nov 27: Shipping instructions. - Powell, Dec 8 - new arrangements for closing books in China. 3 copies of estimates required. Miss Study’s breakdown.

78.080C 009-4 Probate of Wheeler’s will: Miss Harrison’s problems as executrix of will. [See also file 3: Mar 4, Mar 24, Dec 31, Powell, May 30]

1925

78.080C 009-5 Constitution of Union Normal School for Young Women in West China: various draft constitutions

1913-1915

78.080C 009-6 West China Property: Correspondence, evaluation 1913-1922

78.080C 009-7 Miscellaneous letters: John McLean, 1891: On the parlous state of Methodism in poverty stricken areas in Canada through lack of literature. - Edith Sparling- Description of property and work in Tzeliutsing, 1911 - Finances

1891, 1911

78.080C 009-8 Council Executive Meetings: Feb 28, 1922, Nov 6, 1923 1922, 1923

78.080C 009-9 Instructions to Missionaries

78.080C 009-10 Newspaper Clippings [not on microfilm] 1886-1933

78.080C 009-10a Correspondence: West China personnel [not on microfilm] 1905-1909

78.080C 009-11 West China Property Maps and Evaluation

78.080C 009-12 --- and Property Deeds of WMS Hospital for Women and Children in Chengtu

78.080C 009-13 ---

78.080C 009-14 ---

78.080C 009-15 ---

78.080C 009-16 Property Evaluation, West China, Canada 1919-1921

78.080C 009-17 Quadrennial Reports of Property in Canada 1922

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Personal Papers FONDS 3133: CECIL MAGEE HOFFMAN FONDS. -- 1908-1979. -- 7 cm of textual records; photographs Biographical Sketch: Cecil Magee Hoffman (1904-1991 ) was a medical missionary to West China and a public health administrator. He was born in West China, studied arts at Victoria University, and earned his M.D. at the University of Toronto. He worked in West China as a medical missionary, 1932-1947; in public health units in Ontario, 1950-1960; and as a public health administrator in Ontario, 1960-1970. He died in 1991.

Accession #: 1986.142C

See also: Correspondence of Cecile Magee Hoffman will be found in the Board of Overseas Missions of the United Church of Canada in the West China Section (Fonds 502, Series 4: Records Relating to West China).

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of correspondence, reports and memoirs of Cecil B. Hoffman. There is some mention of Medical Facilities throughout.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 1986.142C 1-1 Correspondence from Szechwan 1936, 1941 1986.142C 1-2 Memoirs “75 Years” [195?] 1986.142C 1-3 Tzeliutsing Salt Mining (photos and essay) 1986.142C 1-4 Memories re: School Days at Chengtu 1986.142C 1-5 75 Years: Hoffman Copy (black duo tang, not in a folder)

FONDS 3184: ERNEST BLACK STRUTHERS FONDS. -- 1912-1973. -- 87 cm of textual records Biographical Sketch: Ernest Black Struthers (1886-1977) was a medical missionary in China and Korea. He was born in Galt, Ontario, and studied arts and medicine at the University of Toronto. He served as a medical missionary in China, 1913-1950, with interruptions for military service and further studies. He taught at Cheeloo University (Shandong), serving as Dean of the Medical College, 1942-1948. He served in the field of tuberculosis control in Korea, 1953-1963, and worked for the Ontario Department of Health in the early 1950s and from 1963 to 1964. He was librarian at the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital in Toronto, 1966-1973.


See also: Correspondence of Ernest Black Struthers will be found in the Board of Overseas Missions of the United Church of Canada in the West China Section (Fonds 502, Series 4: Records Relating to West China). See also files under his name as missionary and also West China Union University Files.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of diaries, correspondence; articles, notes, reports and other material re medical matters in Korea. Certain files have been omitted as they do not relate to Medical Missions in China.

Ernest Black Struthers was born on May 28, 1886 in Galt, Ontario. Struthers spent most of his career with the Presbyterian and United Church of Canada mission boards. He prepared for his long career by learning to write and speak in Chinese.

A graduate of the University of Toronto Medical School in 1912, he was appointed to the Presbyterian Mission in Honan Province, North China. In 1916, he returned to Canada.

He went back to Tsinan in North China after a short stay in Canada and was attached to Cheeloo University as professor and hospital doctor. In 1938, with the Japanese in North China, he, along with other members of the university staff, undertook a 1,000 mile journey to Chengtu in West China.

Struthers returned to Toronto on furlough in 1945 but was asked by the President of Cheeloo to return to Tsinan until 1950. In 1953, he went to Korea to introduce a controlled program for mass treatment of tuberculosis.

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After returning to Toronto, in 1963, he was librarian at the Orthopaedic and Arthritis Hospital from 1966 until 1973, when he retired at age 87. E.B. Struthers died on May 22, 1977.

Education and Positions Held:

- Dickson Public School, Galt, Ontario: 1892-1900 - Galt Collegiate: 1900-1906 - University of Toronto: 1910 (B.A.) - University of Toronto, Medical School: 1912 (M.D.) - Diploma of Tropic Medicine and Hygiene, London, 1925: (D.T.M. & H) - University of Toronto, School of Hygiene: 1937-1938 (D.P.H.) - Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Certificated Internal Medicine: 1948 (C.R.C.P) - In France: 1917-1918 (Captain, R.A.M.C) - Washington: 1944-1945 (Consultant to the Surgeon-General, U.S. Army) - Cheeloo University College of Medicine: 1930 (Professor, 1934-1950) - Dean of the Medical College: 1942-1948 - Editor, Chinese Medical Journal: 1942-1944 - Controller, Cheeloo University: 1943-1944 - Medical Specialist, Ontario Department of Health: 1950-1953, 1963-1964 - Severance Union Medical College, Seoul, Korea, Professor of Medicine: 1953-1960 - Director, Church World Service T.B. Control Project: 1953-1960 - Consultant in T.B. to Republic of Korea, Department of Health and Social Affairs: 1961-1963 - Librarian, Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital, Toronto: 1966-1973

This collection of letters, notes and articles will not be of great value to the serious researcher of Chinese or Korean history. However, certain materials might be of interest to those undertaking a study of medical mission work in either of these two countries.

The collection is comprised of eight boxes and the first four are, primarily, family letters and diaries. Aside from a few interesting anecdotal references which crop up in these letters they will not be of significant value to the advanced researcher. Box five deals primarily with the T.B. control project in Korea with which Struthers was closely connected. Box six is a collection of newspaper clippings and journal articles dealing, for the most part, with contemporary China. Box seven deals with the treatment of Kala-Azar in China and the work of Cheeloo University. Box eight is a collection of papers and articles dealing with T.B. work in Ontario.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 86.193C Box 1 Diaries, Files A-O 86.193C 2-1 Letters from/to mother and father; letters to/from E.B.’s wife

Margaret, and members of the Struthers family; interesting letter on the “value of Chinese nurses”

1912-1920

86.193C 2-2 Struthers to/from father and mother (mother’s death April, 1923); Struthers to sisters, Helen and May, and brother Gordon re: activities in China; Margaret Struthers to various members of the family.

1923

86.193C 2-3 Struthers, on furlough, letters to father; Margaret’s letters to Helen and May; Dr. Robin Mosse (Tsinan) to Struthers.

1924

86.193C 2-4 Dr. Mosse to Struthers; Struthers to brother Pierson and other family members, while studying at the London School of Tropical Medicine; Margaret Struthers to family members; A.E. Armstrong, Secretary of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, to Struthers.

1925

86.193C 2-5 Struthers to family; Margaret to family; Dr. Mosse to Struthers 1926

86.193C 2-6 Notes on trip overland to Honan by Dr. McRae, c.1927; Struthers to family re: activities in China; Margaret Struthers to family members. Dr. Alice Mosse to Struthers family (Ernest and Margaret)

1927

86.193C 2-7 Circular from Shantung Christian University re: unsettled conditions in China; Ernest Struthers to/from family members; Margaret

1928

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to/from family members; Circular- Tsinan Medical Report re: health of foreign residents- covering period Oct 1, 1927 to Sept 30, 1928.

86.193C 2-8 Report of 1928 covering medical/educational work and political developments; extracts from Robert A. Mitchell letter/Shantung University re: events in China; Struthers to/from family; letter re: death of father, June, 1929

1929

86.193C 2-9 Struthers to/from family; Margaret to/from family 1930

86.193C 2-10 --- 1931

86.193C 2-11 S.B. Grubbs, U.S. Treasury Department- Public Health Service, to Struthers Sept 20, re: China developments; Cheeloo newsletter from Struthers Oct 31; Struthers to/from family; Margaret to/from family.

1932

86.193C 2-12 Robin Mousse to Struthers; Struthers to/from family; Margaret to/from family

1933


86.193C 2-14 --- 1935

86.193C 2-15 C.E. Fockener/Struthers re: his work in China; A.E. Armstrong to/from Struthers re: problems of financing Cheeloo University Medical School; “Public Health in Rural Schools”- “Public Health Activities”- E.B. Struthers; Struthers to family; Margaret to family

1936


86.193C 2-17 G.W. Sparling- “Our Journey to West China”; Ernest and Margaret Struthers letters to/from family

1938

86.193C 2-18 Struthers to Dr. Armstrong re: events in China and work of Medical School; Cheeloo Newsletter by Struthers- Nov 6; Ernest and Margaret Struthers letters to/from family.

1939

86.193C 2-19 Newsletters from WCUU (West China Union University) Medical School; Newsletters from the United Hospital of the Associated Universities in Chengtu; Ernest and Margaret to/from family

1940

86.193C 2-20 Ernest and Margaret to/from family (addressed from Szechwan) 1941

86.193C 2-21 --- 1942

86.193C 2-22 Letters home from Junghsien, West China from Geraldine Hartwell re: events in China 1943, mentions [1850?] Army rebels against Chiang.

1943, 1944

86.193C 2-23 Gaylord Anderson (Lt. Colonel, Medical Corps) to Struthers re: his return to China- release from War Department- Washington, May 19, 1945; Newsletter from Bill Mitchell from Chungking, May 20, 1945; News letter from Grace Sykes from Chengtu, Jun 5, 1945; Newsletter from Margaret Brown (Chengtu), October, 1945; letter to Dr. McClure re: confiscation of Cheeloo Medical Library by Japanese

1945

86.193C 2-24 Anti-Communist newsletter from John A. Abernathy (American Baptist) to West China Mission- May 25, 1946; letters from Struthers to family; letters from Struthers from former students.

1946, 1947

86.193C 2-25 - Jan 27: Struthers report on medical situation in China; - Jan 30: Struthers to Dr. Chan re: Kala-azar Patients; - Feb 4: English Baptist Mission Hospital to Struthers re: causes of Kala-azar in North China; - Feb 16: Report of Dr. Struthers to Cheeloo Medical graduates;

1948

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- Feb 27: Dr. S. Chu to Professor M. Cadbury (Canton General Hospital) re: kala-azar treatment; - Mar 6: Dr. Menzies (Jenkins-Robertson Hospital Shensi, North China) to Struthers re: kala-azar; - Mar 26: Dr. H.T. Chu to Dr. Cadbury re: kala-azar test; - Mar 31: Dr. Cadbury to Struthers re: kala-azar cases; - Apr 4: Newsletters from G.E. Miller Cheeloo University; - Struthers letters to family.

86.193C 2-26 Struthers to J. Arnup re: events in China; letter to Struthers re: Endicott remark about the Chiangs; Arnup to Struthers re: possible evacuation of people from West China- Mar, 1949; Struthers/Dr. Brock Chisholm (WHO) re: possibility of establishment of water filtration plant in Foochow; newsletter from Cheeloo; Jesse Arnup to Struthers re: conditions and prospects in China for the continuation of the UCC mission; several letters Struthers/family

1949

86.193C 2-27 Ruth H. Taylor- observations and developments in China; letters from J. Arnup to Struthers re: retirement; Arnup/Struthers re: status of missionaries in China; numerous letters from former students studying medicine in North America

1950

86.193C 2-28 Numerous letters from former students studying in North American many expressing gratitude for his work in China; Fred Scovel to Struthers re: status of medical graduates from Cheeloo vis a vis American schools (especially the case of Dr. Ling Chih-ming).

1950

86.193C 2-29 Almost exclusively letters from former students now studying medicine abroad

1952

86.193C 3-30 Numerous letters from former students; letters of recommendation provided by Struthers for former students not studying in America; Dr. Douglas Farmer (Secretary, Christian Medical Council for Overseas Work) to Dr. Rowland Cross re: T.B. project in Korea; Cross/Struthers re: Korea T.B. project and Struthers participation in same; Rowland Cross/Struthers re: the building of a 100 bed sanatorium in Korea for anti-T.B. project; Douglas foreman/Struthers re: work and future of Severance Hospital; Korea; several letters Struthers/Family.

1953

86.193C 3-31 Struthers work report- 1954; Korea Church World Service (CWS) chest clinics report for October, 1943; letters to/from Struthers to Korea T.B. work; letters from former students; letters to/from home

1954

86.193C 3-32 Letters to/from family; letters to Struthers from former students; numerous letters from representatives of CWS re: T.C. clinics in Korea

1955

86.193C 3-33 Letters from ex-students; Struthers letters to family especially re: plans to work with ROK government and army in the establishment of medical/hospital facilities; letters to Struthers from Dr. Douglas Foreman re: work of Christian Medical Council for overseas work; Struthers Christmas Message

1956

86.193C 3-34 Letters to Struthers from Church World Service re: account of medical facilities in Korea; letters from Christian Medical Council for Overseas Work re: medical work in Korea; letters to Struthers from former students; letters from Walter Judd, U.S. Congress, House of Representatives; letter to Struthers from U.S. Embassy in London, England re: his work in Korea and desire to arrange an interview, Jun 22, 1957; announcement of second marriage, July 20.

1957

86.193C 3-35 Letter to Struthers from ex-Chinese students approaching him for letters of reference; letters to Struthers re: financial donations to Korea work (especially John Hay Whitney); letters from CWS

1958

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director re: Korea work; Newsletter from Korea, Oct 28; letters to/from family.

86.193C 3-36 Letters from former students; Newsletter from Seoul, November 20; letters to/from family.

1959

86.193C 3-37 Struthers to Dr. Eugene R. Campbell re: Chest Clinics in Korea; letters from former students re: letters of reference; letters to Struthers from CWS re: Korea work (noting his possible retirement); Saturday Evening Post article Mar 12, 1960 entitled “The World’s Toughest Medical Problem” (focusing on Dr. Struthers); communication with Canadian and American government officials regarding the possibility of their funding the Korea T.B. work; several applications to private foundations re: possibility of financial aid for Korea work

1960

86.193C 3-38 Letters to family; letters to foundations re: funding of Korea work; several letters to/from Dr. Dorothy Frost, Executive Director of American Korean Foundation re: medical educational work in Korea and deployment of personnel.

1961

86.193C 3-39 Letters from former students re: letters of reference; letters to/from Struthers re: family; letters to/from Dr. Dorothy Frost, Director of American Korean foundation re: state of Korea work; letter from Elda Struthers re: 14th birthday of ROK.

1962

86.193C 3-40 Letters to/from American-Korean Foundations; letters to/from family; letters to/from former students; letter from Dr. Frost re: Struthers leaving Korea.

1963

86.193C 3-41 Letters to Struthers re: status of former students- with regard to their academic qualifications, references for immigration officials, etc.; letters to/from immigration officials re: the status of certain former pupils.

1964

86.193C 3-42 Letters from former students and colleagues in China and Korea; various letters from Florence Murray; newsletter from Florence Murray; letters to/from family.

1965

86.193C 3-43 B.B. Lawry, Director of National Council of Churches of Christ (U.S.) to Struthers; Herbert Codington (new director of T.B. work in Korea) to Struthers; William Fenn, General Secretary of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia to Struthers.

1966

86.193C 3-44 Letters from former students and colleagues in China; Herbert Codington/Struthers re: T.B. work in Korea; letters to/from B. Lawry (Director, CWS)

1967

86.193C 3-45 H.A. Codington/Struthers from Presbyterian Mission Christian Hospital, letters from former students

1968

86.193C 3-46 Robert Lowry (Church World Service) to Struthers re: state of T.B. Project in Korea; letters from former Chinese students

1969

86.193C 3-47 Letters from friends and ex-students; letters to/from various university officials re: the status of Cheeloo University and its graduates (especially Dr. Edward H.S. Chia).

1970

86.193C 3-48 Letters from friends and ex-students 1971 86.193C 4-49 Letters from former students, e.g. Dr. Wen Hsiang-lai and Dr.

Edward C.H. Shu 1972

86.193C 4-50 Letters from friends and ex-students 1973 86.193C 4-51 --- 1974 86.193C 4-52 Letters from friends and former students; interesting letter Claude

Forkner/Struthers, Mar 31; College of Physicians and Surgeons/Struthers re: status of Shantung U./Cheeloo status, Oct 3.

1975

86.193C 4-53 Letters regarding application of Dr. Geng Ping-ming for registration with Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia; letter Dr.

1976

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Teng/Struthers re: his application, Mar 31; Application rejected, Apr 21.

86.193C 5-68 Collection of newspaper clippings and journal articles dealing primarily with contemporary China: - Dec 3, 1951: Pamphlets on pre-1949 China- letter from H.J. Veals, Secretary (West China Mission) to Dr. J.H. Arnup. - Leslie Kilborn, “Our Last Term in China, 1951-1952” - Oct- Dec 1943: Reprint from Chinese Medical Journal Oct- Dec, 1943 re: date on hospitals in occupied China. - Apr, 1924: “Fundamentals” from Chinese Recorder. - 1936: “Report on Medical Staff Relief for Flood Refugees” from Chinese Medical Journal

1924-1951

86.193C 5-69 Miscellaneous Notes and Pamphlets on Post-1949 China: - Dialogue on “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy” - Jul 26, 1963: Letter from China, Anna Louise Strong. - Obituary notice re: death of Chou En-Lai - Nov 1972, Mar 1973, Jan, Jun, Nov, May 1974: Canadian China Society (CCS) Notes - Tues, Oct 16, 1973: Hsinhua News Bulletin. - Book Review of Tuzo Wilson’s Unglazed China - Canadian Scientific Delegation to the PRC - Short Biographies of Participants.

1963-1973

86.193C 5-70 China Notes: Winter, 1968, 1969; Spring, Summer, 1969; Spring, 1975: Division of Overseas Ministries,

1968-1975

86.193C 5-71 Asian Reports: Various Newsletters’ - c.1974: Asian Report: #55, 57, 58 - 1972: Peking Review: #34, 40, 41 - Mar, 1969; (Part 1, Sept, 1968; Part 2: Oct, 1968): “China Enamel” The Auctioneer. - Speeches by Pierre Trudeau and Chou En-lai on the occasion of the banquets in honour of Trudeau’s visit to China, Oct 1973.

1968-1974

86.193C 5-72 Bowes, John Z.- “Imperialism and Medical Education in China” 86.193C 5-73 Treatment of Kala-Azar in China- Information on Cheeloo

University- Medical Passport System: Miscellaneous medical articles, some dealing with T.B.

86.193C 5-74 ---: --- 86.193C 5-75 ---: --- 86.193C 5-76 ---: --- 86.193C 5-77 Articles on Acupuncture 86.193C 5-79 Articles on Medical Passport System 86.193C 5-80 Articles and Notes on Kala-Azar in China. 86.193C 6-81 Articles on T.B. Preventions; Survey of 1950’s Chest clinics;

Effectiveness of Chest X-Rays; answers to Questionnaires. 1950-

86.193C 6-82 --- 1960- 86.193C 6-83 --- 1960- 86.193C 6-84 --- 1960- 86.193C 6-85 Various printed articles on breast cancer mortality rates under

control programmes, 1900-1947

86.193C 6-86 Struthers’ personal documents and awards 86.193C 6-87 Day Book, notes re: tuberculosis 86.193C 6-89 Epidemiology of Diseases of Naval Importance in China (W.W. II) 86.193C 6-92 Various Articles re: medicine 86.193C 6-93 A.M.A. Journal Apr, 1958 86.193C 7-95 Articles re: tuberculosis 1960- 86.193C 7-96 ---

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86.193C 7-97 Life articles re: China 1970- 86.193C 7-98 Articles re: tuberculosis; The Medical Graduate 1974

FONDS 3190: CHARLES W. SERVICE FONDS. -- 1930. -- 1 cm of textual records Biographical Sketch: Charles Winfield Service (1872-1930) was a Methodist/United Church minister active in mission work in British Columbia and China. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Reverend William Service. He was born at Tamworth, Ontario, in 1872. He was educated at Victoria University and Trinity Medical College. He was ordained in 1906. While he was at Victoria University, he was one of a committee which helped to lay the foundation of the Young People's Forward Movement for Missions. He was prepared to go to China, but the Boxer Rebellion intervened and he served at Clayoquot in British Columbia. In 1889 he married Robina Morgan, a nursing graduate of Brockville General Hospital. In 1902, Dr. and Mrs. Service went to China. He served there until his death.

Accession #: 86.362C/TR

See also: Correspondence of Charles W. Service will be found in the Board of Overseas Missions of the United Church of Canada in the West China Section (Fonds 502, Series 4: Records Relating to West China).

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of copies of Dr. Service's last letters to his family before his death in China, 1930 March 10.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 86.362C/TR 1-1 Charles W. Service – correspondence from Service to family and

friends 1930

FONDS 3200: WILLIAM JOHN SHERIDAN FONDS. -- 1912-1935. -- 12 cm of textual records Biographical Sketch: William John Sheridan (1873-1955) was a medical missionary to China and Alberta. He was born in Palermo, Ontario and studied at the University of Toronto. He served the Methodist then United Church of Canada as hospital superintendent and surgeon in West China, 1907-1944. After he retired in 1945, he served briefly as a hospital superintendent in Battle River, Alberta. He wrote the book Watching the Chinese Curtain Fall at the time of the Chinese revolution.

Accession #: 1986.209C

See also: Correspondence of William John Sheridan will be found in the Board of Overseas Missions of the United Church of Canada in the West China Section (Fonds 502, Series 4: Records Relating to West China). See also files under his name as missionary.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of correspondence and work reports re missionary work in West China.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 1986.209C 1-1 Correspondence 1912-1915 1986.209C 1-2 --- 1916-1917 1986.209C 1-3 --- 1918-1923 1986.209C 1-4 --- 1924 1986.209C 1-5 --- 1925-1926 1986.209C 1-6 --- 1927 1986.209C 1-7 --- 1928 1986.209C 1-8 --- 1929 1986.209C 1-9 --- 1930 1986.209C 1-10 --- 1931 1986.209C 1-11 --- 1932

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1986.209C 1-12 --- 1933 1986.209C 1-13 --- Jan-May, 1934 1986.209C 1-14 --- Jun- Dec, 1934-1935 1986.209C 1-15 --- + fragments n.d. 1986.209C 1-16 Reports of Work (incomplete) 1915-1922 1986.209C 1-17 --- 1923-1931 1986.209C 1-18 --- 1932-1935 1986.209C 1-19 Various reports re: Operations of Missions

FONDS 3256: EDWIN NELSON MEUSER FONDS. -- 1917-1950. -- 7 cm of textual records Biographical Sketch: Edwin Nelson Meuser (1880-1970) was a pharmacist and medical missionary to China. Born June 24, 1880 in Elmwood, Ontario, Dr. Edwin Nelson Meuser graduated from the Toronto School of Pharmacy in the University of Toronto in 1904. Meuser arrived in China in 1909 under the sponsorship of the Methodist Episcopal Mission (MEM) U.S. and was placed in charge of the dispensary in the American Hospital at Chungking. One year later, he joined the Canadian Methodist Mission (CMM) in Chengtu, Szechwan where he organized and directed the Medical College of the West China Union University. At this time Meuser was the only representative of modern pharmacy in China west of Nanking (an area of approximately 250 million people).

Meuser was the prime motivator behind the opening of the West China School of Pharmacy in September, 1918. Subsequently, in September, 1932 this school because officially linked to the West China Union University (WCUU) as the Department of Pharmacy.

Meuser continued his work in China until 1950, at which time he was forced to leave the country in the wake of the 1949 revolution. Upon leaving China, Meuser retired and lived in Willowdale, Ontario, from 1950 until 1969. Meuser was residing in Kitchener, at the time of his death on February 9, 1970.


See also: Correspondence of Edwin Nelson Meuser will be found in the Board of Overseas Missions of the United Church of Canada in the West China Section (Fonds 502, Series 4: Records Relating to West China). See also files under his name as missionary and also West China Union University Files. Also consult Biographical Files of the United Church of Canada.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of historical material re: Pharmacy Department at West China Union University, and addresses, 1917, 1947-1950.

[This small collection provides some important insights into the pharmaceutical work of Dr. E.N. Meuser in Szechwan, West China 1910-1950. It will be some use to those doing research on the China missionaries, especially their medical work.]

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 1986.265C 1-1 West China Union University: Department of Pharmacy- Historical:

General Historical Data regarding the work of E.N. Meuser as overseas missionary pharmacist to West China 1909-1950. - Data re: the history of the development of modern pharmacy in West China (May 15, 1950) - Summary-Overseas Missionary Record-1909-1950 (Per E.N. Meuser)

1909-1950

1986.265C 1-2 Addresses of Dr. Meuser: - “Modes of Travel in China” 1917 - “Around the World in 20 Minutes” c.1917 - “Talk to the Pharmacy Freshmen” October 9, 1947 - “Some Experiences During the Past 40 Years” Dec 18, 1948

1917-1950

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- “Christian Education in China” 1950 - “Life Under the New Regime in China” 1950 - “Around the World in 30 Minutes” 1950 - “Pharmacy Alumnae Farewell, WCUU “ Jun 9, 1950 - “Christianity in Present Day China” 1950 - “Science in Pharmacy”

1986.265C 1-3 WCUU-Dept. of Pharmacy-Scholarship Applications-Lists of Graduates (1934-1949) - Scholarship applications (1936-1946)

1934-1949

1986.265C 1-4 WCUU-Dept. of Pharmacy- Reports on Various Experiments. - Articles re: preparation and use of dried liver extract. - Procedure for the industrial preparation of Potassium Quisqualate from the Chinese drug Shih Chuin Tze. - List of a few medicines with Table of Comparative cost of those prepared in West China and those imported. - Formulas for household and other preparations.

1986.265C 1-5 WCUU-Dept. of Pharmacy-Inventory of Drugs, Medicines and Equipment. - Inventories for 1940-1941, 1942, 1949

1940-1949

1986.265C 1-6 Miscellaneous Pamphlets-Articles - “Pharmacy in West China- 1938” - National College of Chiropractic, Chicago/E.N. Meuser- Mar 14, 1936 - General letters from Meuser from Szechwan. Mar 30, 1938.

1936, 1938

FONDS 3295: ASHLEY WOODWARD LINDSAY FONDS. -- 1939-1950. -- 7 cm of textual records Biographical Sketch: Ashley Woodward Lindsay (1884-1968) was a medical missionary to China. He was born in Magog, Quebec, and graduated from the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in Toronto. He was appointed the first missionary solely for dental work to West China, in 1907. Appointed to the Faculty of Medicine of West China Union University in 1918, he organized the Faculty of Dentistry the following year. He was Dean of Dentistry for thirty years, left China in 1950, and retired in 1952.


See also: Correspondence of Dr. Ashley W. Lindsay will be found in the Board of Overseas Missions of the United Church of Canada in the West China Section (Fonds 502, Series 4: Records Relating to West China). See also files under his name as missionary and also West China Union University Files.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of addresses and notes re: church, education and customs in China; and, primarily, articles by various authors re religion, science and social philosophy.

Ashley Woodward Lindsay was born at Magog, Quebec, in February, 1884. Upon graduation from the Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto, in 1907, just prior to his marriage to Miss Alice Tayler, Dr. Lindsay was appointed to the West China Mission of the Methodist Church. The couple arrived in Chengtu in the spring of 1908, where the doctor began his work as the first missionary ever appointed by any Board solely for dental work.

Dr. Lindsay started work in a somewhat dilapidated Chinese house which was also his residence. A small mud floor room with a leaky roof served as a laboratory. For ten years, Dr. Lindsay and others who had joined the staff worked to build up the dental clinic in Chengtu city.

In 1918, he was appointed to the faculty of Medicine of the West China Union University and the next year, 1919, he organized the Faculty of Dentistry of the University. After a few years in the Medical-Dental buildings, the Faculty was moved into the Dental wing of the new University Hospital where it had adequate facilities, excellent

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equipment and a well-qualified staff. For thirty years, Dr. Lindsay acted as Dean of Dentistry for the College which for many years was the only dental school of University grade in China, and latterly the only one at all qualified to give post-graduate instruction.

In the fall of 1950, Dr. and Mrs. Lindsay left China on furlough, retiring in 1952 without returning to China, and on December 8, 1968, Dr. Lindsay died.

Accession # File Title/Description Date (s) 1986.304C 1 - 1939: Regulations for the Organization of Administration of The

Universities - West China Union University - “New Deal in a Christian University” by Earl Willmott - 1950: Minutes of Christian Universities Conference - First Open Letter from the College of Dentistry.

1939, 1950

1986.304C 2 “The Task of the Church Abroad” 1986.304C 3 Notes and Addresses by Dr. Lindsay on Christianity and The Church

in China

1986.304C 4 “Women Evangelistic Workers to China” an address by the Dr. Lindsay on the need for women workers

1986.304C 5 - 1950: Conference of Christian Leaders with Mr. Chou En-Lai - Y.M.C.A. Conference, Shanghai - A Manifesto on the direction of the work of Chinese Christianity from now on.

1986.304C 6 -1948: “What is Democracy” by Elliott Dodds 1986.304C 7 “Individualism” by Max Hirsch 1986.304C 8 “Ethics” by James H. Tufts 1986.304C 9 “Religion in Science” 1986.304C 10 “Christianity as Truth” by Robert D. Buckley 1947 1986.304C 11 “Science and the Supernatural” by Arthur H. Compton 1946 1986.304C 12 “The Social Philosophy of Karl Marx” by Abram L. Harris 1948 1986.304C 13 - “Man is the World’s Most Intelligent Animal”

- “The American Way of Life” - “David Gunn on Dialectical Materialism - 1947: “Reason versus Reds and Materialism” by Rev. Patrick O’Conner. - 1948: “Conflict of Ideologies” by J.D. Mabbott - 1949: “How my mind has changed in the last decade” by B.G. Gallagher. - “Force and Freedom” - Summary of Liu Shao-Chi’s speech on Labour Day. - 1949: Eight regulations issued by Mao Tse-tung - 1950: Digest of “Theories of Socialist Imperialism” by Lenore O’Boyle. - Common Program and Organic Law of the Central People’s Government.

1947-1950

1986.304C 14 “The Chengtu Man’s Food” short sketches on its production, preparation for use, and superstitions connected with it.

1986.304C 15 Sketch on Chinese chess, with diagrams 1986.304C 16 - Leaflet on “What is Free Masonry?”

- “The World of Hiram Abif,” account of Diamond Jubilee of the Shriners, Chicago, 1949

1949

1986.304C 17 - 1920: “Chinese Lighter Literature,” an article in the North-China Herald - “Making Good Coffee”

1920

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FONDS 3304: LESLIE AND JEAN KILBORN FONDS. -- 1911-1967, predominant 1943-1952. -- 12 cm of textual records Biographical Sketch: Leslie Gifford Kilborn, (1895-1967) was a missionary to China. The son of missionaries, he was born in China in 1895. He studied at the University of Toronto (M.A., M.D., Ph.D.), and taught at West China Union University. He was appointed Dean of Medicine in 1936, and Director of the College of Medicine and Dentistry in 1939. He married Jean Millar in 1947. He was forced to leave China, for Hong Kong, in 1952. While he was there he taught at Hong Kong University and was appointed Vice President of Chung Chi University. He returned to Canada in 1963, and died in 1967.


See also: Correspondence of Leslie Gifford Kilborn will be found in the Board of Overseas Missions of the United Church of Canada in the West China Section (Fonds 502, Series 4: Records Relating to West China). See also files under his name as missionary and also West China Union University Files. Records relating to Jean Millar may be also found in Fonds 505: United Church of Canada Woman’s Missionary Society Fonds.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of correspondence, 1943-1952; and reports and other material re United Church medical missions and West China Union University, 1911-1967.

Dr. Leslie Gifford Kilborn was born in Kiating, Szechwan, China, on April 7, 1895, the son of Dr. Omar and Retta Kilborn. After experiencing the anti-foreign riots and Boxer uprisings of the 1900s as a child, he returned to Canada to complete his schooling and university education, finally graduating B.A., M.A., and M.D. in 1921 in Toronto. In the fall of that same year he sailed for West China as a Methodist Church medical missionary with his first wife, Dr. Janet Kilborn, nee McClure. After language study in Peng Hsien, he was appointed Instructor in Physiology at West China Union University.

On his return to Chengtu, following a year’s furlough during which he earned his Ph.D., Dr. Kilborn became Professor in Physiology in the fall of 1928 and then Dean of Medicine in 1936. Eventually he was selected Director of the College of Medicine and Dentistry in 1939.

In May of 1945, while on furlough, Dr. Janet Kilborn died in Toronto.

Dr. Leslie Kilborn married Dr. Jean Millar in 1947 in Hong Kong. Dr. Millar, a 1931 graduate of the University of Western Ontario, had served as a missionary for the Woman’s Missionary Society of the United Church at Chengtu Woman’s Hospital, 1932-1941, and at Jenshow Hospital, 1941-1943. She had been forced to resign in 1946 due to medical reasons, but returned in 1947 with Dr. Kilborn to Chengtu where they remained until forced to leave by the Communist Government in 1952.

Following their expulsion from China, the Kilborns joined the staff of the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Leslie Kilborn eventually becoming Vice-President of Chung Chi University. Although the Kilborns left Hong Kong in 1963, they did not officially retire until 1964, at which time Dr. Leslie Kilborn had completed 43 years of service with the Mission Board.

Dr. Leslie Gifford Kilborn died in June of 1967.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 86.313C 1-1 Background Material 1911, 1929,

1936, 1945, 1965

86.313C 1-2 Correspondence: Dr. and Mrs. E.R. Cunningham, and other colleagues

1945-1952

86.313C 1-3 ---: Dr. and Mrs. E.R. Cunningham 1945-1952

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86.313C 1-4 ---: Dr. E.R. Cunningham and Dr. T. Harry Williams 1943-1946

86.313C 1-5 ---: American Friends Service Committee, particularly Ralph and Nancy Lapwood

1951-1952

86.313C 1-6 West China Union University, War Years. A Multi-University 1936-1945

86.313C 1-7 Associated Board for Christian Colleges in China. Constitution and bi-laws, 1947 (United Board). Historical sketches

1947

86.313C 1-8 West China University and “take-over” 1946-1964

86.313C 1-9 United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, re: West China Union University

1963-1967

86.313C 1-10 Data re: United Church of Canada, Board of Foreign Missions staff-medical, dental, pharmacists, women doctors and nurses

1945

86.313C 1-11 Church Missionary Society (Dr. Harold G. Anderson), Founding and Development of the University. Statement

1963-1965

86.313C 1-12 - Report of the Faculty of Medicine, 1934-1944. - Replies to a questionnaire from the China Medical Board, 1943 - Council of Medical Missions of the China Medical Association-1944 - Report of the Women’s Hospital, 1945

1934-1945

86.313C 1-13 West China Union University “Medical Dental Pharmacy”

86.313C 1-14 West China Union University and China and the Quakers 1965

86.313C 1-15 Various documents re: China

86.313C 1-16 Notes for addresses, etc. by Dr. E. R. Cunningham

86.313C 1-17 Notebook of quotations & clippings.

FONDS 3323: S. MABEL MCKINLEY FONDS. -- 1910-1937, predominant 1910-1917. -- 36 cm of textual records; photographs Biographical Sketch: S. Mabel McKinley (1881-1974) was a Methodist missionary to West China with her husband, Dr. D. Fuller McKinley.

Finding Aid: 329 Accession #: 1987.232C; 1990.180C.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of letters written by McKinley to her parents regarding her experiences and those of her husband, Dr. D. Fuller McKinley as Methodist missionaries in West China, 1910-1917; correspondence received by McKinley, 1920-1937; articles and fiction, 1926-1929; clippings, 1922-1930; photographs.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 1987.232C 1-1 Correspondence with Parents I (1910-1911), and II (1911) 1910-1911 90.180C 1-1 Correspondence with Parents 1911 90.180C 1-2 --- 1912 87.232C 1-2 Correspondence with Parents: I and II 1912 87.232C 1-3 --- 1913

87.232C 1-4 ---: I and II 1914

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87.232C 2-1 ---: --- 1915

87.232C 2-2 ---: I, II and III 1916

90.180C 1-3 Correspondence with Parents 1917

87.232C 2-3 --- with aunt 1910-1914

90.180C 1-4 Various Correspondence to Mabel McKinley 1920

90.180C 1-5 --- 1926

90.180C 1-6 --- 1936-1937

90.180C 1-7 Articles and Fiction by Mabel McKinley: Published articles and short stories

1926-1929

90.180C 1-8 ---: Fiction manuscripts/typescripts, n.d.

90.180C 1-9 ---: Articles re: riding in sedan in China, n.d.

90.180C 1-10 Clippings re: China 1922-1930

FONDS 3381: RALPH HAYWARD FONDS. -- 1933-1949. -- 1 microfilm reel : positive and negative Biographical Sketch: Ralph Hayward (1908-1973) was a medical missionary to China. He was born in Toronto, studied medicine at the University of Toronto and interned at Toronto Western Hospital. He worked as a missionary in Szechwan province, China, from 1933 to 1940. Because of the war, he was unable to return to China until 1947, only to be forced to leave by the Communists in 1949. During World War II and after 1949, he worked for Indian Health Services in the Northwest Territories, Manitoba and Ontario.

Finding Aid: 175 Accession #: 1986.356C/MR

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of diary and correspondence: letters to family from China giving a detailed account of Dr. Hayward's medical work and description of life in Szechwan, circular letters addressed to “Dear Friends,” 1933-1940, and 1947-1949.

The letters of Dr. Ralph Hayward offer a unique glimpse of life in Northwest China during the tumultuous 1930’s and late 1940’s.

While working as a medical missionary for the United Church of Canada in the province of Szechwan from 1934-1940 and 1947-1949, Dr. Hayward kept an extremely detailed daily journal. These hastily jotted notes were then expanded fortnightly by Dr. Hayward in the form of letters to his family in Toronto.

A great deal of space in these letters is devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of the peculiar medical challenges which Dr. Hayward faced. This is especially so in the letters addressed to his father and brother (Arthur), who both shared Dr. Hayward’s profession.

More important, however, is the detail in which day to day existence in Szechwan is explained. All aspects are touched upon- from the quality and preparation of food to panoramic descriptions of rural and urban areas. Even the day to day visits of neighbours are recorded and discussed. So much attention is paid to the more mundane matters of life, that it sometimes seems that the great political upheavals of the time have been ignored.

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It was impossible, however, for Dr. Hayward to ignore the communist advance in 1937 when they were less than 100 miles from his hospital, as it was impossible to ignore the war with Japan when the city in which he was stationed was firebombed. During such periods political discussion in his correspondence turns from short asides to lengthy diatribes.

Also valuable are Dr. Hayward’s notes on the age-old problem of opium addiction, which seemed to reach crisis proportions during the 1930’s. At one point he notes that over fifty per cent of his hospitalized patients were opium addicts.

The post-war years brought the added difficulties of homeless refugees, monthly triple-digit inflation, black- Market financing, official corruption, (which ultimately destroyed the Chiang government), and the communist take-over. These subjects are all thoroughly dealt with in Dr. Hayward’s letters- often in a surprisingly light-hearted manner.

Most of the letters are addressed to members of his immediate family: his mother and father; his two brothers (Arthur and John); his two sisters (Louise and Dorothy); and his wife (Ruth), until she joined him in Szechwan in late 1934. Some letters are addressed “Dear Friends.” These were written in circular letters- copied by his family and distributed to friends and churches (in hope of raising funds). The circular letters provide excellent overview and background for the more detailed and sometimes confusing family letters.

The letters have been grouped chronologically, each file representing on year. A diary (from which some letters were derived), covering the years 1948-1954, has been included for reference.

Dr. Hayward interned at Toronto Western Hospital and left for China in late 1933. He was stationed at a mission hospital in Chengtu. War broke out with Japan in 1940 while Dr. Hayward was on furlough in Canada. He was not able to return to Szechwan until 1947, when he took charge of a mission hospital at Tzeliutsing. He was evacuated in 1949 when the communists took control of the area.

Dr. Hayward also worked as a home-mission doctor in the Northwest Territories and Manitoba with the Indian Health Service.

He retired in 1971, and died at his home in Toronto on June 18, 1973.

Accession # File Title/Description Date (s) 1986.356C/MR 1 Chungking- Circular letter written en route to China- 5 pgs. Dec 30,

1933 1986.356C/MR 2 - Jan 2: Chengtu: Description of Chunking and arrival in Chengtu- 10 pgs.

- Jan 20: Chengtu: Description of Chengtu- 6 pgs. - Feb 19: Chengtu: Description of Nanking and Chinese New Year’s- 4 pgs. - May 29: Chengtu: Circular letter, description of Wanhsien, 1 pg. - Mar 3: Chengtu: Visit to Buddhist temple- 2 pgs. - Apr 1: Chengtu: On eating Chinese food- 2 pgs. - Apr 13: Chengtu: Festival in honour of Lao Tze (founder of Taoism) - 3 pgs. [incomplete] - Apr 29: Chengtu: Description of Kwanhsien- 6 pgs. -May 13: Chengtu: Trouble with local police at mission hospital- 3 pgs. -May 27: Chengtu: The Ch’iang Religion – 2 pgs. - Jun 9: Chengtu: The eating of monkey brains; the frying of live ducks; beggar’s deformities- 3 pgs. - Jun 25: Chengtu: On Yak meat- 3 pgs. - Jul 5: Chengtu: Chinese courts and foreign hospitals- 7 pgs. - Jul 20: Chengtu: Visit to a paper mill- 4 pgs. - Aug 4: Chengtu: 4 pgs. - Aug 18: Chengtu: Description of local flood- 2 pgs. - Sept 1- Chengtu: 2 pgs.

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- Sept 16: Chengtu: Beh Lu Din- 2 pgs. - Oct 12: Penghsien: Buddhist temples and Yak meat- 1 pg. - Oct 28: Penghsien: An evening at the Chinese movies with General Liao- 3 pgs. - Nov 13: Chungking: 2 pgs. - Dec 9: Penghsien: 2 pgs. - Dec 23: Penghsien: 2 pgs.

1986.356C/MR 3 - Jan 6: Penghsien: 4 pgs. - Jan 20: Penghsien: 4 pgs. - Feb 12: Penghsien: 4 pgs. - Feb 24: Penghsien- Communists getting closer; army is brought in; thoughts of evacuation- 4 pgs. - Mar 10: Penghsien: 4 pgs. - Mar 24: Penghsien: Visit to Chengtu, preparations by city for visit of Chiang Kai Shek- 4 pgs. - Apr 7: Penghsien: 4 pgs. - Apr 21: Chengtu: Increasing communist victories; preparations for evacuations- 4 pgs. - May 5: Chungking: Arrival in Kiating; discussion of governor Liu Huang’s reluctance to defeat the communists. Arrival in Chungking- 5 pgs. - May 19: Chungking: Discussion of banking practices in Chungking- 4 pgs. - Jun 2: Authorities give clearance for return to Chengtu- 4 pgs. - Jun 8: Chungking: General Chiang in Chengtu- 3 pgs. - Jun 16: Luhsien: 4 pgs. - Jun 30: Kao Shih Ti: Junghsien- 4 pgs. - Jul 14: Kao Shih Ti: Indications of trouble between local warlords and Chiang, Chinese fashions (apparel)- 2 pgs. - Jul 28: Chungking: Chiang to establish headquarters in Chengtu- 3 pgs. - Aug 11: Kao Shih Ti: Japanese gunboats in Chungking on manoeuvres- 4 pgs. - Aug 25: Jenshow: Rebellious local armies- 4 pgs. - Oct 6: Chengtu: 4 pgs. - Oct 20: Chengtu: 4 pgs.- Lifan mission is destroyed by communists; the pastor is killed. - Oct 23: Chengtu: Chiang moves North to Kansu and back to Nanking, boat trip up Yangtze, circular letters- 4 pgs. - Nov 3: Chengtu: Reports of communist massacres in the Tribes’ country; some government soldiers refuse to fight; Hayward reappointed to Kiating- 4 pgs. - Nov 17: Chengtu: Problem of “drinking, smoking and gambling” among the “weak” pastors. - Dec 1: Chengtu: Yachow (100 miles NW) is besieged by communists; precautions taken against possible Japanese air raids- 4 pgs. - Dec 15: Chengtu: 4 pgs.

1935

1986.356C/MR 4 - Jan 26: Kiating: 4 pgs. - Feb 9: Kiating: Opium addiction in high places- 4 pgs. - Feb 23: Kiating: 4 pgs. - Mar 8: Kiating: 4 pgs. - Mar 22: Kiating: 4 pgs. - Apr 26: Kiating: 4 pgs. - May 10: Kiating: earthquake- 2 pgs. - May 24: Kiating: Opium addiction- 1 pg. [incomplete] - Jun 7: Kiating: Chinese family restrictions in the treatment of patients- 2 pgs.

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- July 19: Hsinkaisze: Omeihsien- 1 pg. - Aug 2: Hsinkaisze: P’uhsien temples- 4 pgs. - Aug 16: Kiating: 4 pgs. - Aug 30: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Sept 13: Kiating: Two Japanese killed in Chengtu- 2 pgs. - Sept 27: Kiating: Opium smokers- 3 pgs. - Oct 11: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Oct 25: Kiating: More opium addiction- 3 pgs. - Nov 8: Kiating: Bandits attack bus outside of Chengtu- 3 pgs. - Nov 22: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Dec 6: Kiating: 4 pgs. - Dec 20: Kiating: 4 pgs.

1986.356C/MR 5 - Jan 3: Kiating: 4 pgs. - Jan 31: Kiating: 4 pgs. - Feb 14: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Feb 28: Kiating: Description of financial condition of church in Kiating- 4 pgs. - Mar 14: Kiating: Drought- 4 pgs. - Mar 28: Kiating: Parental disposal of unwanted newborns- 2 pgs. - Apr 11: Kiating: Report of League of Nations by Dr. Stampson on conditions in China; critical effectiveness of mission hospitals- 2 pgs. - Apr 25: Kiating: Relations with provincial health authorities; possibilities of war with Japan- 2 pgs. - May 9: Kiating: 1 pg. - May 23: Kiating: 1 pg. - Jun 6: Kiating: Birth of quadruplets, discussion of Hitler- 3 pgs. - Jun 22: Kiating: Dragon boat races- 3 pgs. - Aug 1: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Aug 22: Kiating: Panda bears smuggled out of China- 4 pgs. - Aug 29: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Sept 12: Kiating: Cancer treatment- 3 pgs. - Sept 26: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Oct 10: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Oct 24: Kiating: Japanese propaganda- 4 pgs. - Nov 8: Kiating- 3 pgs. - Nov 21: Kiating- Strange Chinese cures- 2 pgs. - Dec 5: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Dec 19: Kiating: 2 pgs.

1937

1986.356C/MR 6 - Jan 16: Kiating: Modernization of Chengtu- 3 pgs. - Jan 30: Kiating: Death of Liu Hsiang, Provincial Chairman- 2 pgs. - Feb 13: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Mar 13: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Apr 11: Kiating: 1 pg. - May 8: Kiating: 2 pgs. - May 22: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Jun 5: Kiating: Dragon Boat Festival- 2 pgs. - Jun 28: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Jun 3: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Jul 17: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Jul 31: Kiating: Arrangements are made for accepting 2000 refugee children from war zone- 2 pgs. - Aug 28: Kiating- 2 pgs. - Sept 11: Kiating: Chinese soldier deserts from army while a patient at the hospital- 2 pgs. - Sept 25: Kiating- 2 pgs. - Oct 9: Kiating: Circular letter- 3 pgs. General discussion on the effects

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of war on the mission and province. - Oct 9: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Oct 25: Kiating: 1 pg. - Nov 6: Kiating: Peculiar conscription practices (impressment) - 2 pgs. - Nov 22: Kiating: Bombardment of Chengtu- 2 pgs. - Dec 4: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Dec 18: Kiating 2 pgs.

1986.356C/MR 7 - Jan 1: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Jan 15: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Feb 26: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Mar 18: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Mar 26: Kiating: Chinese superstition regarding birth- 2 pgs. - Apr 9: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Apr 23: Kiating: 2 pgs. - May 7: Kiating: Reports of the bombing of Chunking- 2 pgs. - May 21: Kiating: Air raid and government cowardice, a two headed baby goes on display- 2 pgs. - Jun 4: Kiating: An offer is made to buy the two-headed baby- 2 pgs. - Jun 18: Kiating: Chengtu is bombed, Cholera in Kiating- 2 pgs. - Jul 2: Kiating: Cholera spreads, destruction of nearby opium field- 2 pgs. - Jul 16: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Jul 30: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Aug 27: Kiating: Japanese planes fire on Kiating; 120 wounded brought to hospital; city fire-bombed; problems with relief – 3 pgs. - Sept 17: Kiating: 1000 people killed in air raid- 2 pgs. - Oct 1: Kiating: 2 more air raids- 2 pgs. - Oct 15: Chengtu: Hayward attends a meeting with General Chiang as speaker- 3 pgs. - Oct 29: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Nov 12: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Nov 26: Kiating: Fire in town- 2 pgs. [incomplete] - Dec 9: Kiating: 2 pgs. [incomplete] - Dec 23: Kiating: Communist centre in Shansi- 2 pgs.

1939

1986.356C/MR 8 - Jan 7: Kiating: Duck shootout at Mulukeo; Dr. Hayward misses and shoots coolie- 3 pgs. - Jan 21: Kiating: 3 pgs. - Feb 18: Kiating: Preparations made for going home on furlough- 2 pgs. - Feb 4: Kiating: 1 pg. - Mar 3: Kiating: 2 pgs. - Mar 17: Kiating: 2 pgs.

1940

1986.356C/MR 9 - Mar 30: Chengtu: Arrival in China and Chengtu; James Endicott converts to communism; conditions in communist territory- 2 pgs. - Apr 13: Tzeliutsing: Arrival in Tzeliutsing and description of hospital- 4 pgs. - Apr 29: Junghsien: Return to Kiating- 3 pgs. - May 11: Tzeliutsing: Rampant inflation- 1 pg. - May 25: Tzeliutsing: Rat chasing; bedbugs and black flies- 1 pg. - Jun 8: Tzeliutsing: inflation up 80%- 1 pg. - Jun 22: Tzeliutsing- 1 pg. - Jul 8: Tzeliutsing: Food riots, hospital financial statement- 2 pgs. - Jul 20: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Aug 3: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Aug 17: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Aug 31: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Sept 28: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Oct 12: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg.

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- Oct 26: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. [incomplete] - Nov 2: Tzeliutsing: Circular letter: General description of Tzeliutsing; inflation; Shanghai; refugee problem- 1 pg. - Nov 9: Tzeliutsing: Salary raise of 100% over 1 month; banking on inflation-1 pg. - Nov 23: Tzeliutsing: 2 pgs. - Dec 7: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Dec 21: Tzeliutsing: Comparison of Robert McClure and James Endicott- 1 pg.

1986.356C/MR 10 - Jan 4: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Jan 18: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Feb 1: Chengtu: Synod meeting in Chengtu; discussion of fate of Christians after eventual communist victory- remarks on James Endicott-1 pg. - Feb 15: Loushan: 1 pg. - Mar 7: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Mar 21: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Apr 4: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Apr 18: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. -May 16: Tzeliutsing: The problems of underpaid police- 1 pg. - Jun 6: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Jun 20: Tzeliutsing: The China Relief Mission- 1 pg. - Jul 4: Tzeliutsing: The work habits of Chinese construction labourers- 1 pg. - Jul 18: Tzeliutsing: Mission finances and the black market-1 pg. - Aug 1: Tzeliutsing: Corruption in government and the collapse of the monetary system- 1 pg. - Aug 29: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Oct 3: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. [incomplete] - Oct 17: Tzeliutsing: Visit from the Canadian Ambassador- 1 pg. - Oct 24: Tzeliutsing: Circular letter- 2 pgs. - Oct 31: Tzeliutsing: Communists offer missionary’s asylum- 2 pgs. - Nov 28: Tzeliutsing: Plans are made for evacuation- 2 pgs. - Dec 12: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg.

1948

1986.356C/MR 11 - Jan 2: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Jan 16: Tzeliutsing: Fall of Tienstin, Universal conscription (18-45 years) declared- 1 pg. - Jan 30: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Feb 13: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Feb 27: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Mar 13: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg. - Mar 28: Tzeliutsing: Conditions in the local jail- 1 pg. - Apr 10: Tzeliutsing: Sporadic outbreaks of violence in town, 1 pg. [incomplete] -May 22: Tzeliutsing: Cancellation of subscriptions; evacuation inevitable- 1 pg. - Jun 5: Tzeliutsing: 1 pg.

1949

1986.356C/MR 12 Diary 1948-1954

FONDS 3468: HARRISON J. MULLETT FONDS. -- 1927-1955. -- 1 cm of textual records Biographical Sketch: Harrison J. Mullett (1892-1972) taught dentistry and served as a missionary in China. He attended the Regina Normal School and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. He was appointed to China in 1917 to serve on the staff of the West China Union University. He was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in from

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1941 to 1943. He returned to China from 1945 to 1950. Upon his return to Canada, he joined the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto.

Accession #: 1993.085C/ TR

See also: Correspondence of Harrison J. Mullett will be found in the Board of Overseas Missions of the United Church of Canada in the West China Section (Fonds 502, Series 4: Records Relating to West China). See also files under his name as missionary and also West China Union University Files.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of clippings and correspondence about China.

Accession # Box/File Title/Description Date (s) 1993.085C/TR 1-1 -Science and the Teaching of Jesus by Leslie G. Kilborn (1955)

-“I Know Recognize the True Face of L.G. Kilborn” (postscript to “Our Last Term in China, 1949-1952) -Correspondence (1927) -essay, untitled

1927-1955

FONDS 3598: SIMPSON FAMILY FONDS. -- 1911-1959. -- 25 cm of textual records; 14 photographs Biographical Sketch: Edward Kyle Simpson M.D. was a Missionary to West China for the Methodist Church from 1912-1926. While in China he met and married Alice Lessing Estabrook in Chengtu Feb 17, 1916. Dr. Simpson was ordained in London Conference and left for China in 1912. In 1919 he took charge of the hospital at Junghsien for two years, and then moved to Fowchow for medical work. Alice L. Estabrook was appointed by the W.M.M to West China in 1910. Alice became first Principal of the Union Normal School until 1916 when she resigned to be married to Dr. E.K. Simpson.

Both E.K. and Alice left China in 1926, they had two children Alice Janet (born 1917) and Wilda Pauline (born 1923).

Finding Aid: 1 Accession #: 2010.109C; 2011.012C

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of two accessions, which are, at the time of this the creation of this guide (August, 2011), unprocessed. Contents of accession number 2010.109C include: correspondence (1911); Diary of Edward K. Simpson, Missionary to Chungking (1915); Diaries of Alice Simpson, Missionary to Chungking (1912, 1914, 1916); (1911-1926). Contents of accession number 2011.012C include a Chinese scroll with translation; a cloth map of Szechwan province, and textual records. Photos relating to Medical Missions in China include: 2011.012P/4 [W.M.S. party of missionaries arrived in Shanghai, November 1910] and [2 pictures of the 1910 Missionary Party (C.M.M.) General Board Missionaries and W.M.S. New party with Miss Brooks].

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Biographical Files The United Church has an extensive collection of Biographical Files, which are searchable in the Biographical Files database. Records can be searched by surname, first name, year born, year died, mission field, and faculty (for Victoria University). As there are too many biographical files to be included in this guide, they have been omitted.

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Photographs The United Church of Canada Archives has an extensive photograph collection which can be searched online through The United Church of Canada website (www.united-church.ca) or at the General Council Archives in the Graphics Database.

Photos relating to Medical Missions in West China are primarily located in the Portraits Collection, and Foreign Missions Photograph Collection. For more detailed descriptions (including physical descriptions, subject headings, and notes), please see also the Graphics Database.

Location Preliminary Fonds Name

Title/Description Date

76.001P/1806 1807 Portraits Collection Rev. Dr. Barker Ewan and family (Chengtu) n.d. 76.001P/2590 --- Dr. Ralph Hayward n.d. 76.001P/2637-2638 --- Dr. Anna Henry n.d. 76.001P/2639 --- --- 1899 76.001P/2640 --- --- n.d. 76.001P/2651 --- --- with two unidentified men. n.d. 76.001P/3200 --- Dr. Lawrence Percy Jones n.d. 76.001P/3274 --- Dr. Charles Belfrey Kelly n.d. 76.001P/3276 --- --- in his laboratory with a Chinese assistant n.d. 76.001P/3332 --- Dr. Leslie Gifford Kilborn n.d. 76.001P//3336 --- --- n.d. 76.001P/3337 --- --- sitting in den, Chengtu n.d. 76.001P/3338 --- Rev. and Mrs. Leslie Gifford Kilborn, Chengtu n.d. 76.001P/3339 --- Rev. Leslie Gifford Kilborn standing beside cairn

built by Tibetans at the top of a mountain pass n.d.

76.001P/3340 --- Rev. and Mrs. Leslie Gifford Kilborn sitting in a den, Hong Kong

1958

76.001P/3341 --- Rev. and Mrs. Leslie Gifford Kilborn on their 7th wedding anniversary

Apr 28, 1954

76.001P/3342 --- Dr. Janet Rodger Kilborn with her two children, Robert McClure Kilborn and Mary Eleanor Kilborn, Chengtu

May, 1926

76.001P/3345 --- Dr. Retta Gifford Kilborn n.d. 76.001P/3346 N --- --- n.d. 76.001P/3361 N --- Dr. Maud Killam 1902 76.001P/5950 --- Dr. Charles Winfield Service with patient n.d. 76.001P/5951 --- Dr. Charles Winfield Service and assistant dressing a

patient’s foot n.d.

76.001P/6001 --- Dr. William J. Sheridan in operating room [1932?] 76.001P/6633 --- Dr. John Edwin Thompson with patient in dentists’

chair n.d.

76.001P/7811 --- Leslie Kilborn, two years of age c. 1987 78.097P/3-9 Methodist Church

(Canada). Missionary Society. Foreign Department

Canadian Methodist Mission Hospital, Chengtu, China, Pharmacy Department

n.d.

78.097P/10-14 --- Edwin Nelwon Meuser at Canadian Methodist Mission Hospital, Chengtu, China, Pharmacy Department

n.d.

78.097P/34 --- Canadian Methodist Mission Hospital for men, Chengtu, West China

[ca. 1913]

94.007P/12 N Foreign Missions Photograph

Miss Mary Totten Smith and the first two girls to prepare to take training for nurses

[1915-1917]

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Collection 95.067P/2 N --- Front entrance to Chengtu Men’s Hospital Oct 31,

1918 98.083P/29 N --- Consultation hour in Luchow Dispensary Sept, 1916 98.083P/30 N --- Luchow Dispensary n.d. 98.083P/31 N --- Luchow missionary staff (taken on the steps of the

new church) n.d.

1999.001P/1373 N --- Burma Road X-ray truck 1999.001P/1374 --- Burma Road Red Cross- interior of surgical truck n.d. 1999.001P/1384 --- Dr. R.B. McClure and some of his staff 1999.001P/1383N --- Dr. R.B. McClure and his drivers n.d. 1999.001P/1385 N --- Burma Road Base Hospital n.d. 1999.001P/1389 N --- Burma Road hospital unit at Lashio n.d. 1999.001P/1390 N --- Dr. A. E. Best, the Burmese driver and one of the

medical trucks & trailers n.d.

1999.001P/1391 N --- Burma Road Hospital Staff n.d. 1999.001P/1392 --- [outdoor meal] n.d. 1999.001P/1393 --- Medical Supplies- Burma Road Not after

Aug 30, 1941

1999.001P/1394 --- Wreck on the Burma Road n.d. 1999.001P/1395 N --- Burma Road repairing a truck n.d. 1999.001P/1396 N --- Dr. A. E. Best trying out the fire engine (Burma

Road) n.d.

1999.001P/2765 N --- [House of Wong] 1940 1999.001P/2768 --- Well baby competition 1943 May

25 1999.001P/2769 --- Well baby clinic 1944 May

19 1999.001P/2770 --- Dr. Du and assistants with the prize-winning babies

and their mother [ca. 1944]

1999.001P/2840 --- [Mrs. Tsen and girls] n.d. 1999.001P/2917 --- Farewell picture n.d. 1999.001P/2921 --- Dr. Service with Patient n.d. 1999.001P/2922 --- Dr. Allen n.d. 1999.001P/2923 --- Dr. Li- Native trained foreign doctor n.d. 1999.001P/2924 --- Dr. Choween- Dr. Stephenson n.d. 1999.001P/2925 --- Men’s Hospital n.d. 1999.001P/2926 --- Dental Section n.d. 1999.001P/2927 --- [Dentist/patient relationship] n.d. 1999.001P/2928 --- Pastor Neave giving out ouki-opium medicine n.d. 1999.001P/2933 N --- Chinese doctors who are Superintendents of our

hospitals at Chung Chow, Luchow, Fowchow, Junghsien and Penghsien

n.d.

1999.001P/2934 N --- Dr. Y.T. Liu, one of first two medical graduates n.d. 1999.001P/2947 --- Mrs. Li, occupational therapist 1938 1999.001P/2948 --- Staff Picture n.d. 1999.001P/2949 --- The women medical students and staff n.d. 1999.001P/2950 --- New graduating class 1938 Jan 1999.001P/2951 --- The entire number of nurses, graduates and students 1929 Oct 7 1999.001P/2952 --- The class of nurse probationers [not after

1940 Mar 7]

1999.001P/2953 --- Graduates of 1930 1930

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1999.001P/2954 --- Miss Virgo- Micc Chang, Mis [---], Miss Liu 1919 1999.001P/2956 --- Baby welfare 1938 1999.001P/2981 --- Mission House- Medical House n.d. 1999.001P/3166 --- Dr. Robert Yang and Dr. Anna and daughter Alice n.d. 1999.001P/3234 --- New University hospital laundry and service

building n.d.

1999.001P/3244 --- [Aerial view of campus] n.d. 1999.001P/3293 --- Medical-Dental Building 1934 1999.001P/3294 --- Medical-Dental College n.d. 1999.001P/3295 N --- Medical Building in front of the Vandeman College

Building (Baptist) n.d.

1999.001P/3296 N --- First Bldg used as Medical College in Chengdu n.d. 1999.001P/3297 N --- First stones for Medical College, W.C.U.U. n.d. 1999.001P/3298 --- #1 Medical House n.d. 1999.001P/3299 --- Dental Building n.d. 1999.001P/3300 --- A class of students getting a lesson on the human

skull n.d.

1999.001P/3301 N --- Dr. Morse and students tyudying [studying] the nerves and arteries and veins etc. of the human body

n.d.

1999.001P/3302 N --- Dr. Morse instructing students in dissecting a human body

n.d.

1999.001P/3303 N --- Leslie and two of his students in the lab n.d. 1999.001P/3304 N --- Dr. Kilborn and medical students in lab n.d. 1999.001P/3305 N --- A lesson in dentistry n.d. 1999.001P/3306 N --- A few of the medical teaching staff n.d. 1999.001P/3307 --- Faculty of Medicine 1925 1999.001P/3308 N --- Students of medicine 1928 1999.001P/3309 N --- Chinese Students and Canadian-American teachers n.d. 1999.001P/3310 --- [Banquet in honor of the Bests] 1931 March 1999.001P/3311 N --- Dr. A. E. Best, Prof. of medicine, with G.B. Loh,

T.B. Specialist n.d.

1999.001P/3312 N --- Medical faculty of W.C.U.U. 1923 Oct 1999.001P/3313 --- Medical faculty and students in first session [1914-

1915] 1999.001P/3314 N --- Morse and skull museum n.d. 1999.001P/3315 N --- Dr. Bi and family 1939 1999.001P/3316 N --- Dr. Chas. Su Yuan (in white) and head of a family of

four- all of whom came into our hospital to take the cure from opium

n.d.

1999.001P/3317 --- Miss Wellwood and Nu Ueh Bin, first Chinese nurse in Chengtu

n.d.

1999.001P/3318 --- Dr. Bi Tien Min 1939 1999.001P/3319 N --- Medical students getting a lecture in “internal

medicine” instruction in how to use the stethoscope n.d.

1999.001P/3320 N --- Dr. A.E. Best and bedside teaching n.d. 1999.001P/3321 Neg --- [Dr. A.E. Best and bedside teaching] n.d. 1999.001P/3322 N --- Graduating class in dentistry n.d. 1999.001P/3323 N --- Dr. and Mrs. Best and 1st graduating class in

medicine 1926, June

1999.001P/3324 N --- Part of class of medical students 1919 1999.001P/3325 --- Graduating class meds and their teachers 1934 Jun

30 1999.001P/3326 N --- A graduating class in 1934 1934 1999.001P/3327 N --- Miss Foster and five graduating doctors 1937

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1999.001P/3328 N --- Dr. Yang Gia Liang n.d. 1999.001P/3329 N --- Women medical and dental students [1927-

1934] 1999.001P/3330N --- The First Woman graduate in medicine, Chengtu,

W.C. n.d.

1999.001P/3331 N --- Senior medical students with teaching staff n.d. 1999.001P/3332 N --- Medical students n.d. 1999.001P/3333 N --- Graduates of U.C.C. Medical College n.d. 1999.001P/3334 N --- Dr. Li- One of the Originals n.d. 1999.001P/3335 Neg --- Dr. T.V. Hwang, first dental graduate n.d. 1999.001P/3352 --- Dr. Tsang, president of West China Union University [1932?] 1999.001P/3354 N --- The Originals- College, Staff and Students n.d. 1999.001P/3416 MC 1-9

--- Cheeloo University Looking South from Medical Compound

n.d.

1999.054P/11 N --- House of Chinese Nurses, Chengtu 1917 1999.054P/17 N --- Women’s medical ward, Chengtu n.d. 2000.017P/3 --- Part of our medical property at Chungchow [1919?] 2001.017P/4 --- Chungchow Dispensary [192-0] 2000.017P/5 --- Chungchow Hospital Staff and Hospital Servants 1920 2000.017P/6 N --- The hospital at Chungchow in 1924 1924 2000.017P/77 N --- [Canadian Methodist Mission] Hospital at

Chungking [191-?]

2000.017P/79 --- Mission Truck Oct. 29 1936

2000.017P/80 --- Canadian Methodist Mission Hospital-courtyard [ca.1935] 2000.017P/83 N --- Dr. H.W. Hwang (mrs Hsu) + Dr. CH Hsu and baby

girl [192-?]

2000.017P/84 Neg --- [Dr. Cecil Hoffman holding young panda] [192-?] 2000.017P/85 N --- Dr. + Mrs Djuo Deh and two girls [192-?] 2000.017P/86 N --- Dr. + Mrs Wen of Staff of our Chungking hospital [192-?] 2000.017P/87 N --- Miss Yan Hong Min [1939?] 2000.017P/88 N --- Miss Chen Chia Yuan [ca. 1939] 2000.017P/89 N --- Miss Li Yen Mei [ca. 1939] 2000.017P/90 N --- Dietitian at Chungking Hospital, West China [ca. 1939] 2000.017P/92 N --- Dr. and Mrs. Hoffman with our hospital staff.

Chungking. [ca. 1940]

2000.017P/93 --- C.M.M. Hospital, Chungking [193-?] 2000.017P/94 --- W. China Chungking Hospital [193-?] 2000.017P/95 --- Chungking, Hospital Staff [194-?] 2000.017P/96-97 --- Entire nursing staff of Chungking hospital [193-] 2000.017P/100 N --- [Doctor with a patient] [193-?] 2000.017P/101 N --- Dr. D. D. Yuan, Chungking Hospital [193-?] 2000.017P/102 N --- Hospital Staff: Chungking- 1916 1916 2000.017P/103-112 --- [Portraits of Chungking hospital graduates] [193-?] 2000.017P/113-114 --- [Group portrait of Chunking Hospital graduates] [193-?] 2000.017P/117 N --- Graduating class of 1947 with Miss Irene Harris,

Supt. of nurses 1947

2000.017P/120 N --- [Inside the ward of Chungking Hospital] [194-?] 2000.017P/226 N --- The Fowchow Hospital Staff [194-?] 2000.017P/281 N --- Jenshow Hospital Staff June 1917 [1917] 2000.017P/282 N --- Jenshow, Sze., China June 1917 1917 2000.017P/283 N --- 24 bed Dispensary Hospital, Jenshow, Sze 1925 2000.017P/335 N --- Junghsien Canadian Mission Hospital Staff 1948 2000.017P/336 --- Staff: Junghsien Hospital 1917

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2000.017P/337 N --- Dr. + Mrs Kilborne in operating room [191-?] 2000.017P/401 N --- Rev. Dr. Service’s House and the Church, Kiating [193-?] 2000.017P/412 --- Kiating Hospital Staff 1941 2000.017P/416 --- Our Mission Compound at Kiating [191-?] 2000.017P/559 --- Tzeliutsing Hospital: “Staff” [191-?] 2000.017P/560 --- The Women Staff of the Tzeliutsing General

Hospital June 1937

2000.017P/561 N --- [Dr. Hoffman setting broken arm] 1947 2000.017P/567 --- Tzeliutsing Canadian Mission Hospital Staff Mar 1948 2000.017P/568 N --- [Tzeliutsing Hospital Staff] [193-?] 2000.017P/1085 --- P. Barbara Nicholls Myrtle C. Devison L. Geraldine

Hartwell [193-?]

2000.017P/1396 --- About [the] 1st week in April 1918 1918 2000.017P/1517 Neg --- [Woman with an enlarged stomach, lying on table] [193-?] 2000.017P/1535 N --- [Dr. Sheridan operating on a patient] [193-?]

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Audio-Visual Materials Berkeley Studio Collection Administrative History: Berkeley Studio opened in 1956 under the Board of Information and Stewardship of The United Church of Canada. Berkeley produced the photographs, film and filmstrips, recordings, and radio/television productions that promoted the work of the United Church. The Board was disbanded in 1968; most of its responsibilities and staff were transferred to the new Division of Communication. Berkeley Studio remained with the Division of Communication under the Department of Media Resources and later the Audio Visual Unit. In the 2003 General Council Office reorganization, Berkeley Studio became a part of the newly created Resources, Production and Distribution (RPD). The studio closed in 2008 and the collection was transferred to the United Church Archives. The collection is currently unprocessed but individual productions are available for viewing, and searchable through the Berkeley Studios database.

Scope and Content: Series includes records in Master Database, and Film Database.

Records of: Berkeley Studio, MASTERDB (Master Database): Database of Master copies, finished copies ready to air. (1978)

Item Title Date [1] West China Interviews: [Dr. Helen Mitchell] Oct 25, 1978 [2] ---: [Dr. L. Walmsley] Oct 26, 1978 [3] ---: [Dr. Floyd Honey] Jan 1, 1978 [4] ---: [Ruth Taylor, W.M.S. Overseas Mission Executive Secretary] Jan 1, 1978

Records of: Berkeley Studio, FILM DB (Film Database): (1947)

Item Title Date [1] China: Hospital and School [2008.011AV/434] 1947

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Near-Print and Print Publications Collection in the General Council Archives Reading Room The United Church of Canada General Council Archives Reading Room has an extensive library, covering a wide array of subjects. Books related to medical missions in West China are listed below. Some books relating to medical missions in China in general have also been listed. Near-Print and Print Publications are listed in The United Church of Canada Archives catalogue; hosted by the University of Toronto Libraries Catalogue.

Near-Print: Pamphlet Collection in Library

• The Kilborns in China: seventy-two years of service, 1891-1963. Canada: 1967. • These forty years: West China Mission. China: 1932. • Bowers, John Z. Imperialism and medical education in China. ?: 1974. • Canadian Methodist Mission of West China. Reply to Policy Committee’s questionnaire: to the members of

the Policy Committee, Woman’s Missionary Society and Board of Foreign Missions, United Church of Canada. Canadian Methodist Mission of West China: 1936.

• Choa, G.H (Gerald H.) The Introduction of western medicine into China. ?, 1982. • Hambley, Laura Hannah. Mission stories from China. Winnipeg, Manitoba: J. Hambley, 1946. • ---. Our Girls’ school in Chentu. Toronto: Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. • Kilborn, Leslie G. The Colossal conceit of missionaries. Toronto: United Church of Canada Committee of

Missionary Education of the Board of Overseas Missions, 1930. • Kilborn, Omar L (Omar Leslie). Our West China Mission : the departments of work and their cost.

Toronto: Young Peoples Forward Movement Department, Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, 1910.

• Taylor, Joseph. History of the West China Union University, 1910-1935. China, Chengtu: Printed at Canadian Mission Press, 1936.

• West China Missions Advisory Board. List of Protestant Missionaries, West China. China: 1921. • Young Men’s Christian Association (Chengtu, China). Directory of foreigners, Chengtu 1924. Young

Men’s Christian Association: 1924.

Print Publications: Book Collection in the Library

A statement : regarding the proposed Woman’s College for West China. 1921 Austin, Alvyn. Saving China: Canadian missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1888-1959. Toronto: University

of Toronto Press, 1986. Baker, Richard Terrill. Ten Thousand Years: the story of Methodism’s first century in China. New York: Board

of Missions and Church Extension, Methodist Church, 1947 Balme, Harold. China and modern medicine : a study in medical missionary development. London: United

Council for Missionary Education, 1921. Brown, Margaret H. MacGillivray of Shanghai: the life of Donald MacGillivray. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1968. Cheung, Yuet-wah. Missionary medicine in China: A study of two Canadian Protestant missions in China

before 1937. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. ---. Toward a typology of missionary medicine: a comparison of three Canadian medical mission in China

before 1937. ?, 1983. Edwards, E.H. Fire and sword in Shansi: the story of the martyrdom of foreigners and Chinese Christians.

Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1900. Endicott, James G. The Canadian Far Eastern Newsletter. Toronto: James G. Endicott, 1948. Endicott, Mary Austin. Five stars over China: [the story of our return to New China] 1st Canadian ed. Toronto:

Mary Austin Endicott, 1953. Endicott, Stephen Lyon. James G. Endicott : rebel out of China. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. Hoffman, Cecil Magee. Seventy-five years (1904-1979). Canada: 1979. Jolliffe, Edward. A story of the war in Luchow and West China. [s.n., n.d.] Jolliffe, Paul. Growing up in West China. Merlin, Ontario: Paul Jolliffe, 1997 Kilborn, Omar L. (Omar Leslie) Our West China Mission: being a somewhat extensive summary by the

missionaries on the field of work during the first twenty-five years of the Canadian Methodist mission in the province of Szechwan, Western China. Toronto: Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Young Peoples Forward Movement, 1920 [available online]

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---. Heal the sick : an appeal for medical missions in China. Toronto: Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, 1910. [available online]

Kowalski, Kenneth Reginald. The West China Mission of the Methodist Church of Canada, Szechwan, China, 1891-1911. ?: 1970.

Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A history of Christian missions in China. New York: MacMillan, 1929. Medical Missionary Society in China. Report of the Medical Missionary Society : containing an abstract of its

history and prospects : and the report of the hospital at Macao for 1841-2 : together with Dr. Parker’s statement of his proceedings in England and the United States on behalf of the Society. Macao: Press of S. Wells Williams, 1843.

Menzies, James M (James Mellon). Link by Link. Toronto: Presbyterian Church in Canada, Board of Foreign Missions, 1913.

Minden, Karen. Bamboo Stone: The Evolution of a Chinese medical elite. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1994.

---. Missionaries and medicine and modernization ; Canadian medical missionaries in Sichuan, 1925-1952. Toronto: York University, 1981.

Morse, William R. The three crosses in the purple mists : an adventure in medical education under the eaves of the roof of the world. Shanghai: Mission Book Company, 1928.

Preston, L. Clara. Flowers amongst the debris: a biography: a Canadian nurse in war torn China. Brockville, Ontario: Henderson Printing, 1990.

Scott, Munroe. McClure : A Biography. Toronto: Canec Publishing and Supply House, 1977. Smith, William Edward. A Canadian doctor in West China : forty years under three flags. Toronto: Ryerson

Press, 1939. Stewart, Allen A. Trial of faith: the imprisonment of a medical missionary under Chinese communism, 1950-

1951. Prescott, Ontario: Estate of Dr. A. Stewart Allen, c. 1995 Struthers, Ernest Black. A doctor remembers : days in China and Korea : an autobiography of Ernest B.

Struthers as told to his wife Elda. Mississauga, Ontario: Imperial Press, 1976. Stursberg, Peter. The golden hope : Christians in China. Toronto: United Church Publishing House, 1987. Speer, Robert E. “Lu Taifu” Charles Lewis, M.D. : a pioneer surgeon in China. New York: Board of Foreign

Missions: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1900. United Church of Canada. [Calendar] 1949. Toronto: United Church of Canada, Committee on Missionary

Education, 1949. --- Board of Foreign Missions. Forward with China : the story of the missions of the United Church of Canada

in China : published for the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Church of Canada, by the Committee on Literature, General Publicity and Missionary Education. Toronto: United Church of Canada Committee on Literature, General Publicity and Missionary Education, 1928.

---. Board of Foreign Missions. China news letter : issued occasionally for special distribution by the Board of Foreign Missions and the Woman’s Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada. Toronto: United Church of Canada, 1927.

---. Woman’s Missionary Society. Minutes…annual meeting of the West China Council, … annual meeting of the Workers’ Conference. China.

Veals, Howard James. Three score years and ten. Thornhill, Ontario: 1965. West China Christian Educational Union. Report of the…annual meeting of the West China Christian

Educational Union. Chengtu: 1908. West China Missions Advisory Board. The West China Missionary News. Chengtu, West China: The Society,

1899. West China Missionary Conference. Records of the West China Missionary Conference. Chentu: Canadian

Methodist Mission Press.

Methodist Church of Canada Periodicals The Missionary Outlook (1881-1923)

The Missionary Outlook: A Monthly Advocate, Record and Review was published by the Methodist Mission Rooms of the Methodist Church in Canada from 1881 to 1923. There is currently no index to this publication although subjects can be identified through a Table of Contents. Volumes are bound and located in the General Archives Reading Room.

The Missionary Bulletin (1903-1920)

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The Missionary Bulletin was published quarterly by the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church; it contained letters from missionaries and missionary superintendents to their fellow-workers at home containing news and updates. It was published from 1903 to 1920 at the Methodist Mission Rooms, in Toronto, Canada. There is currently no index to The Missionary Bulletin; although subjects can be identified through Table of Contents or the Analytical index in each volume. Many articles contain photographs; a listing of illustrations can be located at the beginning of each Bulletin. Volumes are bound chronologically by year (incomplete), and can be found in the General Council Archives Reading Room.

Methodist Episcopal Church Reports (1825-1831) and Annual Reports of the Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada (1847-1921)

This publication contains minutes of the Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, and formerly of the Methodist Episcopal Church. There is currently no index to this periodical. Copies are bound and located in the General Council Archives Reading Room.

Annual Reports of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of Canada (1881-1926)

Copies of the Annual Reports of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of Canada are bound and located in the General Council Archives Reading Room.

Methodist Year Book (1915-1925)

The Methodist Year Book contains departmental reports and minutes of conferences. There is currently no index to this periodical, however, there is an index. Many reports feature photographs. Year Books are bound and located in the General Council Archives Reading Room.

Canadian Methodist Magazine (1875-1895) and Methodist Magazine and Review (1896-1906)

The Canadian Methodist Magazine and later the Methodist Magazine and Review was a publication of the Methodist Church of Canada devoted to religion, literature and social progress. While there is no direct reference to missions, a look through the Table of Contents may yield some references to China.

United Church of Canada Periodicals Records of the Christian Guardian (1829-1925), The New Outlook (1925-1939) and United Church Observer (1925-2011)

The United Church Observer (formerly Christian Guardian 1829-1925, and The New Outlook 1925-1939) is the oldest continuously published magazine in North America and the second oldest in the English speaking world.

In the early part of the 19th century, leadership within the Canadian Methodist church wanted to keep in touch with the growing denomination across the country and started the Christian Guardian in 1829, with educator and political activist, Egerton Ryerson, as the founding Editor. When The United Church of Canada was formed in 1925, Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist publications merged into The New Outlook. In 1939, the name was changed to the United Church Observer.

The Observer was run under the United Church of Canada Board of Publication, from 1926 until it was amalgamated with the Board of Information to become the United Church of Canada Division of Communication. It remained with the Division of Communication until it separated entirely in 1973, while still accountable to the General Council and its Executive. In 1986, the Observer became independently incorporated. The magazine sets its own editorial policies and program and is overseen in its own board of directors.

Records of the Christian Guardian include historical articles pertaining missions. Christian Guardian articles are indexed by date, subject matter, or place name and are alphabetically listed and described on index cards, currently held in a card catalogue. There is no index to The New Outlook; or the United Church Observer. New Outlook and Observer magazines are bound and located in the General Council Archives Reading Room.

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The Year Book of The United Church of Canada contains reports of various boards. These reports are duplicates of reports included in the General Council Record of Proceedings (see also: Fonds 500). Year Books are bound and located in the General Council Archives Reading Room.

Annual Reports of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada (1926-1961)

These are bound reports of the Woman’s Missionary Society. Reports of the Board of Foreign Missions are duplicates of reports included in the General Council Record of Proceedings (see also: Fonds 500). Reports are bound and located in the General Council Archives Reading Room.

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Lists of Known Missionaries in West China List of Missionaries to West China Sent by the General Board Located in Fonds 502: United Church of Canada Board of Overseas Mission Fonds, Series 4/Subseries 1: Papers of the Associate Secretary Relating to West China (Finding Aid 158). See also: File listing for additional lists of missionaries.

[This list is based upon a) United Church of Canada Yearbooks (1927-1953), b) Master card list of missionaries, Division of World Outreach, U.C.C.1976, c) Record of missionaries and year of sailing (to 1940), P.R. Beaton, service with Sons of Shuh, published c. 1941. The list includes names of short term appointees (Canadian School, etc.), year of appointment (sailing) and termination of service are approximate in many instances. Titles are those pertinent at times of appointment. These also may be incomplete and/or inaccurate. (July 1976, Roy and Kathleen Spooner). ]

Name Date (s) Name Date (s) Abrey, Mr. & Mrs. F.E.L. 1910-1928 Lamb, Miss Mary L. 1920-1942 Adams, Dr. & Mrs. W.F. 1902- Leonard, Mr. & Mrs. W.L. 1913-1925 Agnew, Dr. & Mrs. R.G. 1923-1951 Lindsay, Dr. & Mrs. A.W. 1907-1950 Albertson, Rev. & Mrs. W.B. 1908-1940 Longley, Rev. & Mrs. R.S. 1907-1943 Allan, Dr. & Mrs. F.F. 1906-1933 Lundy, Rev. & Wesley C. 1913-1917 Allen, Dr. & Mrs. A. Stewart 1929-1952 McHattie, Rev. and Mrs. James B. 1940 Anderson, Dr. & Mrs. R.M. 1920-1935 MacKenzie, Miss Dorothy E. 1937- Annis, Rev. & Mrs. S.E. 1916- MacLeod, Miss M. 1930-1939 Arnup, Dr. & Mrs. W.B. -1951 Male, Miss Annie (Mrs. F. Reed) 1920- Bacon, Rev. & Mrs. R. Leonard 1934-1951 Marcellus, Miss Ina 1917- Ball, Rev. & Mrs. George N. 1946- Mathieson, Rev. & Mrs. J.C. 1940- Barter, Dr. & Mrs. A. J. 1908-1925 McAmmond, Rev. & Mrs. R.b> 1906-1936 Batdorf, Mr. & Mrs. C.W. 1911-1927 McGowan, Miss A. Clare 1933- Bateman, Rev. & Mrs. Thomas W. 1910-1920 McIntosh, Miss I.K. 1919-1949 Batstone, Miss M.W. (Mrs. C.O. Douglas)

1919-1928 McIntosh, Miss Janet M. 1931-1937

Bayne, Mr. & Mrs. Parker M. 1908-1927 McKinley, Dr. & Mrs. D.F. 1910- Beaton, Rev. & Mrs. K.J. 1914-1930 McNaughton, Miss B.G. 1909- Beatin, Miss A.L. 1922- Meuser, Mr. & Mrs. Edwin N. 1909-1951 Bedford, Miss G.M. 1921-1935 Mendenhall, Mr. F.L. 1911- Bell, Rev. & Mrs. G.S. 1915-1951 Miller, Miss Isobel 1948-1951 Best, Dr. & Mrs. A.E. 1914-1948 Modeland, Miss M.J. (Mrs. - ) 1916- Birks, Dr. & Mrs. W.H. 1913-1930 Money, Miss Mabel 1934-1937 Birtch, Rev. & Mrs. George W. 1939-1947 Moore, Mr. W.A. 1912- Bousefield, Miss E. (Mrs. H ?) 1920- Morgan, Rev. & Mrs. E.M. 1906-1944? Bowles, Rev. & Mrs. N.E. 1906-1930 Morgan, Miss Ada 1912- Bowyer, Mr. & Mrs. R.G. 1925-1934 Morrison, Rev. & Mrs. Wesley R. 1920- Brace, Rev. & Mrs. A.J. 1912-1945 Mortimore, Rev. & Mrs. W.J. 1902-1929 Brecken, Rev. & Mrs. Egerton, R.M. 1908-1925 Mullett, Dr. & Mrs. W.J. 1917-1953 Bridgman, Rev. & Mrs. C.A. 1913-1948 Neave, Rev. & Mrs. J. 1895-1936 Brillinger, Mr. & Mrs. M.A. 1908- Neave, Miss Jean (Mrs. A. Lee) 19301-1935 Brown, Dr. & Mrs. H.D. 1923-1930 Newcombe, Rev. & Mrs. E.E. 1948- Brown, Rev. & Mrs. Homer G. 1923-1945 Newton, Mr. & Mrs. R.H. 1912- Bruce, Miss A.E.I. 1920- Norman, Miss Lucy 1910- Burwell, Rev. & Mrs. H.G. 1913-1933 Nicholls, Miss P.O. (Mrs. Veitch) 1925-1936 Campbell, Dr. & Mrs. W.gG. 1935- Outerbridge, Dr. & Mrs. R.E. 1938-1952 Caldwell, Miss E.M. 1925- Owen, Rev. & Mrs. A. E. 1935-1941 Carscallen, Rev. & Mrs. C.R. 1906-1929 Parker, Rev. & Mrs. John 1920- Carson, Rev. & Mrs. Egbert J. 1906-1910 Perley, Rev. & Mrs. D.M. 1908-

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Carson, Mrs. E. 1910-1920?

Perkins, Miss S.G. 1925-

Clarke, Dr. & Mrs. J.M. 1920-1925 Perkins, Miss M.L. (Mrs. -) 1910- Claxton, Rev. A.E. 1910- Pincock, Dr. & Mrs. T.A. 1922-1928 Collier, Dr. & Mrs. H.B. 1930-1937 Plewman, Mr. & Mrs. T.E. 1908-1941 Copland, Rev. & Mrs. E. Bruce n.d. Pound, Rev. & Mrs. Allan N.C. 1915- Corbman, Miss [Ebhelda] May 1918 Quentin, Rev. & Mrs. A.P. 1896-1942 Cox, Dr. & Mrs. J.E. 1903-1927 Rackham, Rev. & Mrs. G.E. 1922-195? Crawford, Dr. & Mrs. Wallace 1907-1951 Reed, Rev. & Mrs. F.J. 1920-1953 Crutcher, Rev. & Mrs. A.T. 1908-1919

(-1925) Revelle, Dr. E. Ian 1928-1936

Cunningham, Drs. E.R. & G. 1922-1951 Ricker, Rev. & Mrs. R.C. 1913-1922 Davis, Mr & Mrs. F. Murray 1912- Riddell, Miss Laura 1927- Davidson, Rev. & Mrs. Robert Huntley 1914-3? Robb, Dr. & Mrs. Ian S. 1947- Day, Rev. & Mrs. Alfred L. 1939- Robertson, Rev. & Mrs. H.D. 1906-1948 Dayfoot, Rev. & Mrs. Arthur 194?- Ross, Dr. & Mrs. J.M. 1930- Dickinson, Rev. & Mrs. Frank 1913-1947 Ross, Miss K.D. 1919- Dale, Miss Ella 1913- Self, Mr. & Mrs. A.R. 1925-1958 Donald, Rev. C.D. 1915-1931 Sellery, Dr. & Mrs. C.M. 1921-1929 Donald, Miss Marion 1947- Service, Dr. & Mrs. C.M. 1902-1930 Dunkin, Miss Hilda 1932-38 Service, Dr. & Mrs. C.W. McD. 1942-1952 Earle, Rev. & Mrs. James R. 1907-1925 Sharpe, Miss Ruth E. 1937- Edwards, Mr. & Mrs. George R. 1947-1952 Sheridan, Dr. & Mrs. W.J. 1907-1944 Edmonds, Rev. & Mrs. E.W. 1921-1938 Sibley, Rev. & Mrs. W.E. 1907-1938? Elson, Rev. & Mrs. A.J. 1909-1928 Simpson, Dr. & Mrs. E.K. 1912-1928 Endicott, Rev. & Mrs. James 1873-1910 Small, Rev. & Mrs. Walter 1908-1951 Endicott, Rev. * Mrs. J.G. 1925-1946 Small, Mr. & Mrs. William W. 1942-1952 Ewan, Dr. & Mrs. R.B. 1897 Smith, Rev. & Mrs. Geoffrey 1940-1952 Fisher, Dr. & Mrs. F. n.d. Smith, Rev. & Mrs. Gordon K. 1943-1952 Ferguson, Dr. & Mrs. W.D. 1908 Smith, Dr. & Mrs. M.P. 1914-1931 Frier, Mr. & Mrs. S.H. 1920-1931 Smith, Dr. & Mrs. W.E. 1896-1936 Gould, Miss M.R. 1925-1927 Soper, Rev. & Mrs. S.H. 1912-1931 Graham, Miss J.M. 1925-1929 Sparling, Rev. & Mrs. G.W. 1907-1950 Granger, Miss Lily B. n.d. Spooner, Mr.& Mrs. R.C. 1931-1946 Haddock, Miss S.M. 1914-1941 Stanway, Rev. & Mrs. E.R. 1931-1950 Hare, Dr. & Mrs. H.M. 1893- Stevenson, Dr. & Mrs. D.W. 1891- Harris, Mr. & Mrs. George G. 1909-1918 Stewart, Miss Edith 1933-195? Harris, Miss I. 1921-1930 Stewart, Rev. & Mrs. J.L. 1902- Hart, Dr. & Mrs. Virgil G. 1891- Stinson, Rev. & Mrs. J.W. 1938-1955 Hartwell, Rev. & Mrs. G.E. 1891-1931 Struthers, Dr. & Mrs. Ernest B. 1939- Hayward, Dr. & Mrs. Ralph 1933 Surtees, Rev. & Mrs. Benjamin 1913-1920 Hartwell, Miss L.G. 1914-1951 Swan, Rev. & Mrs. H.F. 1921-1927 Henderson, Rev. & Mrs. J.W.A. 1909-1913 Switzer, Miss Mary 1908- Hibbard, Rev. & Mrs. E. 1912-1944 Taylor, Miss L.E. n.d. Hickling, Miss Mae R. 1929-1933 Taylor, Rev. & Mrs. R.E. 1909-1919 Hilliard, Dr. & Mrs. I.M. 1938-1949 Taylor, Rev. & Mrs. H.D. 1920-1931 Hockin, Rev. & Mrs. Arthur 1908-1912 Tennant, Dr. & Mrs. P.S. 1922- Hoffman, Rev. & Mrs. A.C. 1903-1945 Thompson, Miss Mabelle I. 1917-1920 Hoffman, Dr. & Mrs. Cecil M. 1932-1948 Tonge, Rev. & Mrs. W.H. n.d. Honey, Rev. & Mrs. T.E.F. 1946-1952 Tufts, Miss Edith (Mrs. L. McCartney) 1922-1924 Imeson, Miss V.C. (Mrs. – Mulligan) 1922-1927 Veals, Rev. & Mrs. H.J. 1920- Irish, Rev. & Mrs. H.H. 1908-1939 Vokes, Dr. & Mrs. A. 1932-1937 James, Miss Mary J. (Mrs. R. Bowyer) 1924-1927 Wallace, Rev. & Mrs. E.W. 1906 Jenner, Dr. & Mrs. Harley D. 1936-1949 Walker, Rev. & Mrs. J.A. 1919-1935

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Johns, Dr. & Mrs. A.E. 1910-1936 Walmsley, Dr. & Mrs. L.C. 1921-1948 Jolliffe, Rev. & Mrs. C.J.P. 1906-1950 Webster, Rev. & Mrs. R.E. 1938- Jolliffe, Miss Mary 1947-1949 Westaway, Mr. & Mrs. S. Percy 1907-1918 Jolliffe, Rev. & Mrs. R.O. 1904-1946 White, Miss A. 1913-1919 Jones, Rev. & Mrs. G.P. 1910-1950

(?) Wilford, Dr. & Mrs. E.C. 1909-1950

Jones, Dr. Mrs. L.P. 1912- Wilson, Miss E.A.R.V. 1919-1926 Kelly, Dr. & Mrs. C.B. 1912-1927 Williams, Dr. & Mrs. T.H. 1919- Ker, Miss L.A. 1908- Willmott, Mr. & Mrs. L.E. 1921-1951 Kern, Rev. & Mrs. D.S. 1909- Williston, n.d. Kitchen, Rev. & Mrs. John 1920-1952 Wolfendale, Dr. & Mrs. R. 1910-1921 Kilborn, Dr. & Mrs. Omar L. 1891-1920 Would, Rev. & Mrs. J.M. 1913-1928 Kilborn, Drs. Leslie & Janet 1921-1952 Wood, Miss M.E. (Mrs. -) 1909 Knight, Mr. & Mrs. N. -1948

Missionaries of the Woman’s Missionary Society, West China Mission Located in Fonds 505: United Church of Canada Woman’s Missionary Society, Series 5/Records Relating to West China. For additional lists re: missionaries in West China (including nurses, female and male doctors, dentists and pharmacists), see also: Box 61 File 15.

[Notes: The first date is that of appointment, the second is the date of resignation from the W.M.S., or the date of the end of furlough after leaving China for the last time.]

Name Date (s) Name Date (s) Alexander, Marjorie, G.I. 1947-1950 Killiam, Maude (Dr. ) (Mrs. James

Neave) 1897-1905

Armstrong, Mildred J. 1913-1917 Lamb, Mary (earlier under F.M.B.) 1926-1942 Asson, Margaret A. 1909-1930 Lawson, Lottie E. (Mrs. Walter Small) 1908-1911 Austin, Dr. Mary 1907-1917 Lee, Margaret E (Mrs. L. Lu) 1939-1944 Barnett, Martha 1918-1924 Loree, Edith (Mrs. R. Crook) 1919-1930 Boyd, Dorothy M. (of Honan) 1938-1941 Lousley, Dr. Helen (Mrs. A. Cairncross) 1934-1940 Brackbill, Sara C. 1893-1914 MacDougall, Helen F. (of Honan) 1941-1942 Brimstin, Minnie 1899-1931 McFadden, Alice (Mrs. Harley Jenner) 1934-1938 Brooks, Charlotte 1896-1937 McNeill (Pearl I.) (Mrs. W. Sheridan) 1922-1928 Brown, Amelia M (Appointed but did not reach Sze.)

1892 McPherson, Ethel (Mrs. H. Burwell) 1910-1914

Brown, Isobel 1941- McRae, Lottie (later Canada) 1918-1942 Brown, Margaret H. (of Honan) 1943-1945 Marshall, Eliza 1909-1928 Burwell, Eleanor E. 1944-1951 Massey, Winona (Mrs. J. Smith) 1918-1924 Bridgman, Jean (unable to go to Sze.) 1948 Millar, Dr. Jean (Mrs. Leslie Kilborn) 1932-1946 Campbell, Florence M. 1918-1925 Miller, Isabelle E. (later Canada & Hong

Kong) 1948-1952

Cassidy, Mabel A. (Dr.) (Mrs. W. J. Mortimore)

1904-1905 O’Donnell, Dr. Florence (1902-1908)

Cheney, Norma L. (Mrs. J.B. Kent) 1920-1927 O’Neill, Annie (of Honan) 1942-1945 Clare, L. Isobel 1946-1951 Peters, Eunice (later Canada) 1923-1952 Coon, Marion G. 1920-1938 Pilon, Beatrice D. 1947-1950 Coutts, Martha (also Canada) 1930-1938 Preston, L. Clara (of Honan) 1940-1943 Crawley, Mar E. 1929-1942 Rea, Dr. Olive M. 1909-1913 Dallyn, Mary C. (later Canada) 1921-1924 Ricker, Evelyn M. (later Canada) 1933-1952 Darby, Laura W. (later Japan) 1924-1952 Rouse, Lula V. (later Trinidad) 1922-1950 Davison, Anne (later Korea) 1945-1952 Russell, Lois E. (also Canada) 1919-1950 Demitroff, Evana B. 1947-1949 Sandell, Ada (did not reach W. China) 1926-1927

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Dinwoody, Leah (of Honan) 194- - 194- Shepley, Beulah M. 1915-1922 Dolmage, Eliza 1921-1928 Sherritt, Lydia B. 1914-1921 Dougherty, Mary 1938-1945 Shuttleworth, Velettia (later Canada) 1910-1912 Dunfield, Lena M. (Mrs. R.O. Jolliffe) 1904-1905 Smith, Coar E. 1921-1928 Dunham, Gertrude 1921-1928 Smith, Mary Totten 1910-1919 Elderkin, Elizabeth J. 1909-1922 Snider, Leda H. (Mrs. A.H. Fisher) 1918-1923 Ellwood, Ila M. 1913-1918 Sparling, Edith P. 1909-1947 Estabrook, Alice L. (Mrs. K. Simpson) 1910-1916 Sparling, Ruth (Mrs. P. Bannon) 1937-1938 Fee, Florence (later Canada) 1926-1952 Speers, Dr. Ada B. (Mrs. W. E. Smith) 1914-1927 Folkins, Sadie M. (Mrs. P. Bayne) 1909-1912 Srigley, Zelmah (Mrs. J. Sinton) 1909-1914 Ford, Jennie M. 1894-1896 Steele, Uberta 1908-1944 Forrest, Fannie (Mrs. G. Franck). 1900-1906 Stewart, A. Jean L. (later Canada &

Trinidad) 1933-1952

Forster, Dr. Margaret B. (transferred from Honan, but did not reach W. China)

1941 Stewart, Violet (of Honan) 1940-1942

Foster, B. Louise 1917-1952 Sturdy, M. Christina 1921-1924 Foster, Mary A. 1896-1908 Swann, Evelyn I. (later Angola) 1947-1950 Fox, Belle (Mrs. J.R. Cox) 1903-1909 Swann, Martha Robena 1902-1940 Fox, Dorothy E. J. (later Canada) (Mrs. -) 1939-1943 Sweetman, Ethel M. (Mrs. Ricker) (Mrs.

Gerald Bell) 1915-1918

Gay, Margaret R. (of Honan) 1940-1944 Sykes, Grace (of Honan) 1941-1943 Gifford, Dr. Retta (Mrs. O. Kilborn) 1893-1897

and 1925-1934

Tallman, Alma (also Canada) 1921-1945

Gormley, Mary (also Canada) 1921-1947 Taylor, Lillian (later Angola) 1947-1950 Graham, Eleanor D. (later Canada) 1916-1952 Thexton, Annie (later Canada, Hong

Kong) 1918-1952

Hall, Ellen E. (Mrs. Taturn) 1909-1921 Thompson, E. Irene (later Trinidad; Mrs. J. Kerster)

1921-1927

Hambly, Laura H. 1904-1944 Tindale, Elva (Mrs. Earl Bolton) 1922-1926 Harris, A. Winifred (later Canada) (Mrs. S. Edgecumbe)

1921-1952 Turner, Olive M. 1910-1914

Harrison, Adelaide (also Canada) 1913-1947 Turner, Helen (appointed to W. China, but transferred to Honan) (Mrs. P. Nelson)

1947

Heffren, Hazel (later Canada) 1946-1952 Ure, Jane (Mrs. E. Hibbard) 1913-1919 Henry, Dr. Anna (later Canada) 1899-1929 Urquhart, Mary 1944-1949 Hinton, Lillian (Mrs. - ) 1933-1936 Virgo, Ethel 1908-1944 Hockey, Muriel (Mrs. H. Brown) 1913-1914 Ward, Annie I. 1930-1952 Hockin, Mrs. Lily M. 1913-1947 Ward, Constance E. (also Canada) 1918-1952 Holt, Jean E. 1913-1949 Wellwood, Caroline 1906-1944 Innis, Hattie B. 1924-1925 Wheeler, Myrtle M. 1915-1923 Isaacs, Olive 1926-1927 Wilkins, Eleanor L. (Mrs. J. Muir) 1905-1908 Jack, Florence 1915-1949 Woodsworth, Harriet (Mrs. W. Morgan 1906-1907 Julien, Bessie (Mrs. A. Dayfoot) 1946-1947 Ketcheson, Elizabeth V. 1923-1927 Kilborn, Cora (also Canada) (Mrs. B. Cannell)

1926-1950

Kilborn, Mary E. 1959-1951