Nov to Dec, 1920
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Content Description
From the Collection:
This collection of correspondence covers the period from 1917 and 1925; a time of great strife, but also of progress in the work among the local population.
The correspondence between church leadership is mainly in English. J. M. Howell, W. T. Knox, O. Montgomery, F. C. Varney, and E. H. Wilcox to name a few, are the ones corresponding. They reveal much of the business of the work at the time; orders of materials, money transactions, travels, reports on the advancement of the Adventist work among the local people, committee meetings, and also personal letters from home. Furthermore, there is information about evangelistic strategies and the needs of the workers. Some of the local workers correspond in Spanish. Everyday struggles are related concerning new schools, new fields, and life in general.
This may be the only and/or largest representative sample of mission correspondence from this period of time extent within the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The correspondence between church leadership is mainly in English. J. M. Howell, W. T. Knox, O. Montgomery, F. C. Varney, and E. H. Wilcox to name a few, are the ones corresponding. They reveal much of the business of the work at the time; orders of materials, money transactions, travels, reports on the advancement of the Adventist work among the local people, committee meetings, and also personal letters from home. Furthermore, there is information about evangelistic strategies and the needs of the workers. Some of the local workers correspond in Spanish. Everyday struggles are related concerning new schools, new fields, and life in general.
This may be the only and/or largest representative sample of mission correspondence from this period of time extent within the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Dates
- 1920
Extent
From the Collection: 5 Boxes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Inca Union Mission. (South Peru Union Mission) (1914-) (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Adventist Research Manuscript Collections Repository