F 12665
14 DEC 1939
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36, Knocklofty Park,
Knock,
Belfast.
11th December, 1939.
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To The Right Honourable The Viscount Halifax, K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.
His Majesty's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs,
My Lord,
Foreign Office, London. S.W.1.
As Chairman and Honorary Secretary respectively of the British
Committee formed for the purpose of raising funds to assist the
work of the Protestant Evangelical Bible School at Newchwang,
Manchukuo, we desire to bring the following matters under your
Lordship's notice, and to crave the favour of the intervention of
His Majesty's Government in relation thereto:
The Newchwang Bible School was established in 1930 for the
purpose of training Chinese evangelists, Bible-women, and voluntary
workers with a view to the furtherance of missionary work in
Manchuria and Northern China. The School was first started in
temporary premises in 1930, and in 1932 a commodious building was
erected, largely througn the generosity of Mr. John E. Hilton of
Dublin, and later, a further building was acquired for the
accommodation of the women students.
The School is maintained by voluntary subscription,
approximately half of which comes from native sources, the remainder
being contributed mainly from Great Britain and Ireland.
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The School is interdenominational in character, and is governed
by a Board consisting of British and American Missionaries,
addition to native Leaders of the Manchukuo Churcn. Foreign members
of the Board include the Revd. James McCammon, M.A., (Irisu
Presbyterian Mission), Mr. J.C.F. Robertson (Britisn & Foreign Bible
Society), Revd. Chas. A. Leonard, D.D. (American Southern Baptist
Mission), and Miss R.A. Houston (American Reformed Presbyterian
Mission).
By a Conveyance drawn up in 1935 the following Trustees were
appointed:-
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