Subject Files, 1909-1942.

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United Lutheran Church in America. Board of Foreign Missions. Secretary for Japan. Subject Files, 1909-1942.

Subject Files, 1909-1942.

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The division of the ULCA's Japan mission materials into four series is not related to provenance. Rather, the chronological and subject groupings are those that seemed appropriate to the processor, based on the historical development of the mission. The subject files, 1909-1942 consist mainly of published minutes and drafts of constitutions. Files were generated either by the mission board Secretary George Drach or the Japan missionaries, such as Arthur J. Stirewalt, Edward T. Horn, John K. Linn. Files represent materials from both the time period when the mission was supported by United Synod South before 1918 as well as the ULCA up to the start of World War II. Included also are bound volumes of the Joint Conference of Lutheran Missions Cooperating in Japan (1910-1919) and the Japan Lutheran Mission and Church (1920-1941). The minutes of the missionary organization are complete; those of the Japanese Lutheran Church are not. Issues of The Japan Lutheran Church Bulletin from 1932-1940 (incomplete) are in an oversize box. They contain many articles by missionaries about the church and its institutions and biographical sketches of Japanese leaders. Also on file are publicity articles and promotional materials. These include sketches of institutional origins for Kyushu Gakuin, begun in 1911 as a boys middle school with a theological department; The Japan Lutheran Theological Seminary separated from Kyushu Gakuin in 1925 and recognized as a "special school" in 1926; Kyushu Jogakuin (or Janice James School), a girl's school begun in 1926; and JI-AI-EN (Colony of Mercy) an old people's home, orphanage, and rescue home for girls, fully opened in 1923. A few documents, like a translation of Luther's catechism and an early drawing of Kyushu Gakuin are in an oversize folder.

2 boxes.

eng,

jpn,

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