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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Young men and women of China, university undergraduates in one seminar, faculty in another, analyze the present, plan for the future -- all in the light of the mind and religion of Jesus, at the Omei Seminars of 1940 for the study of Jesus. While these seminars were going on at Omei, another similar seminar was being held on another mountaintop at the other side of the Chengtu Plain. In 1941 a third Lodge will be finished for similar seminars. Letters of personal discovery and new life found go from one mountaintop to another. Five male and one female students are visible, another is partly visible. They wear both Western and Chinese dress and sit on wooden benches at tables.
Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Students and faculty members representing almost every province in China, and most of the departments of some 8 or 10 mission and government universities -- Szechwanese and refugee -- standing before the new Omei Seminar Lodge. Here on a forested hilltop two 3-weeks seminars: one for faculty, one for university students, spent a happy and enriching summer in 1940, studying the life and religion of Jesus every morning for 3 ½ hours, and then discussing the implications of his teaching in their own lives, and in their country of China. These students returned in the fall to their many campuses, giving fresh vitality to the varied religious activities of their Student Christian Movement programs.Daniel Fleming, hearing of this work, wrote a friend that it might prove to be the most significant movement now taking place on the mission fields. Group portrait of the students and faculty of the seminars, men and women, Western and Chinese, in front of a partly visible building.
Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and 'WHITE DEER SUMMIT (Behludin) 1940' Seminar for the Study of Jesus. Three weeks, 3 ½ hours every morning of concentrated group discussion, by 25 teachers of Religious Education and university faculty and students. Membership included MEM District Supt. Daniel Lee (PhD Drew), Luther Shao, PhD Yale, Nat'l Xn Council Dir, of Religious Ed., Rev Peter Shih, Dean of Union Theol. Coll. In Chengtu, Mr Dsang, Dir. Of Religious Activities UU. In 1940 the Jesus Study Groups bought for these summer seminars for university staffs and students: 2 large bungalows & site at Behludin; site, & erected Lodge at Omei; site, & are erecting Lodge at Lung Ch'uan Ih, 4 hrs. from UU campus. Thus on 3 mountaintops not far from UU campus, 6 seminars will be conducted every summer for faculty & students respectively. Leader of Behludin 1940: Prof Djou of UU Dept. of Mathematics. Three men and three women, all Chinese, in mixed Western and Chinese clothing,sit with books and papers in their laps on a bench on a covered porch.
Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Senior research students in chemistry. Two male Chinese students in Chinese dress, working at a lab counter with assortment of chemistry equipment. Shelf of chemicals on the wall behind.
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and West China Admin. Bldg. in background. A group of Chinese students, women in Chinese dress and men in Western dress, walking along a sidewalk, some pushing bicycles. Lawns and shrubs on either side; trees and the administration building in the background.
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Students in front of Administration Bldg. WCUU About 10 students, male and female, most in Chinese dress, standing on the path and the steps in front of the administration building. Shrubs at right and left.
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Laboratory - Biology, WCUU. Male and female Chinese students, most in Chinese dress, studying at tables covered with books and papers or looking into the glass display cases at left.
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Library Reading Room West China Union University Eight students pictured, sitting at four different tables; both genders, all wearing Chinese dress.
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Cheeloo [Shantung Christian University] medical school was on campus of West China Union University during Japanese occupation of its home campus., and Laboratory in WCUU college of Medicine. Joint class of WCUU & Cheeloo Univ. students using microscopes in study of slides. Four male and one female students fully visible, also the backs of several others; all wearing Chinese dress and looking into microscopes.