George and Mary Schlosser papers, 1906-1952 (inclusive).

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George and Mary Schlosser papers, 1906-1952 (inclusive).

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Material documents the work of the conservative Free Methodist Church of North America in central China. They also provide insight into the dynamics of a missionary family, demonstrating the intimacy and the strains fostered by their chosen lifestyle. The documentation of Mary Schlosser's intensive involvement in evangelistic work provides interesting comparison with other missionary wives who were more exclusively involved with their nuclear family and household responsibilities. There are detailed descriptions in the letters and diaries of famine relief work, societal routine and disruption of China during the period 1908-1949 and the daily routines of missionary life. The Schlossers came in close touch with the common Chinese people since they did not live on a college campus or in a mission compound. Vivid descriptions of rats, centipedes and mosquitoes, of idol worship, the night sounds of a Chinese village, dramatic encounters with soldiers, and the suspense of parents separated from their child.

3 linear feet (7 boxes)

Yake University Divinity School Library

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Schlosser, Mary, 1885-1955.

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Free Methodist Church of North America

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The Free Methodist denomination was founded in 1860. Congregations that were expelled from the Methodist Episcopal Church in western New York state and Illinois comprised its first adherents. Early leaders include B.T. Roberts, Loren Stiles, Walter Sellew, John Wesley Redfield and Wilson T. Hogue. Theologically, the denomination is part of the Wesleyan tradition and was an early player in the Holiness Movement that swept through the United States in the later part of the 19th centur...

Schlosser, George, 1875-1936.

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George Donald Schlosser was born in Clinton County, Missouri in 1875. Maria Christina (Mary) Ogren was born in Jamestown, New York in 1885. They met while attending Greenville College in Illinois in 1905. George Schlosser left Greenville in 1906 to serve in South Africa under the Foreign Missionary Board of the Free Methodist Church. In 1908, he arrived in China and took responsibility for an orphanage in Kiangsu Province. After her graduation from Greenville College in 1909, Mary Ogren was stat...