Nolan, F. P. 1980 "Christianity in Unyamwezi, Coplans, B. A. R. 1878-1928." "Methodism and Sinhalise Ph.D. Cambridge. Buddhism: The Wesleyan Methodist Encounter with Buddhism in Ceylon, Porter, R. S. 1814-1868, with special reference to "The Christian conscience and the work of Robert Spence Hardy." industrial Welfare in , Ph.D. Leeds. 1920-41." Ph.D. London, School of Oriental and African Studies. This listing was prepared by Dr. Ursula King, Department of Theology and Religious studies, The 1978 University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9fT, England. The fan, A. H information was gathered from the Index to "British and Canadian Theses Accepted for Higher Degrees by the in the Japanese Empire, 1905-1925." Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and Ph.D. Sheffield. the Council for National Academic Awards, published by Aslib, London. Theearlier volumes list always twoyears together without indicating thepre­ 1979 cise date ofthedissertations; thelater volumes list the Stanley, B. date for each dissertation individually. The present "Home support for overseas list does not include dissertations from the uniuersi­ missions in early Victorian England, ties of Abereen, Edinburgh, or Birmingham, which c. 1838-1873." were listed in earlier issues of the International Ph.D. Cambridge. Bulletin of Research.

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Protestant Missionary Works in Chinese on Microfiche Meetings Over 700 selected titles of Protestant missionary works in Chinese The American Society of Missiology will hold its 1983 annual from the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, are now meeting at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, June 17-19, on the available on microfiche from Inter-Documentation Co., Poststrasse theme "Spirituality for Mission." The Association of Professors of 14, 6300 Zug, Switzerland. The collection ranges from Scripture Mission will meet June 16-17 in conjunction with the ASM. The translations by Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Soci­ ASMIAPM annual meeting in 1984 will be held at Princeton ety, through publications by various missionary groups in China Theological Seminary, June 21-24. Further information may be ob­ after the . A catalog of the entire collection, com­ tained from Wilbert R. Shenk, Secretary-Treasurer of the ASM, piled by John Yung-hsiang Lai, was published by G. K. Hall & Co., Box 1092, Elkhart, Indiana 46515. Boston, in 1980.

In Memoriam Three of our esteemed colleagues have been taken by death in re­ New Center for Mission Studies in South Asia cent months, and are greatly missed. We praise God for their life The Centre for Mission Studies, a new, school of world missions, and Christian witness. was inaugurated at Union Biblical Seminary, India, on October 24, Dr. Lynn A. de Silva, Director of the Ecumenical Institute for 1982. Presently the seminary offers missions majors in the M.Th., Study and Dialogue in Colombo, Sri Lanka, died on May 22, 1982. B.D., and B.Th. degree programs. According to Dr. Saphir Athyal, Sister Gertrude Vaccaro, age 52, and Sister Margaret Han­ Principal of the seminary, the Centre plans to add a two-year Mas­ lon, 41, two members of the five-member central governing board ter's degree in missions, a diploma course for missionaries in ser­ of the Maryknoll Sisters, died in the crash of a Chilean airliner on vice, and resource materials for special studies in Hinduism, Islam, December 9, 1982. Sister Margaret ("Peg") had just completed a and Traditional Religions. The Centre is located on the new cam­ term as president of the Eastern Section of the American Society of pus of the seminary in Pune. Missiology and the Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission.

94 International Bulletin of Missionary Research Overseas Ministries Study Center ofVentnor, NewJersey 60 Years Serving the Christian World Mission

Rest andRenewal by the Sea has welcomed representatives of more than 150 different In 1923, Marguerite and Ida Doane, daughters of the hymn mission agencies and denominations, as well as several and Gospel song composer William Howard Doane, hundred representatives of overseas national churches. established in his memory ten missionary furlough Come and Be Part of the Unique OMSC Experience apartments in Ventnor, New Jersey, calling them ''The Youare warmly invited to join the OMSC community for all Houses of Fellowship." Over the past 60 yearssome 8,(XX) or part of your next furlough or study leave. All missionary adults, 6,(XX) children, and 3,(XX) additional missionaries, mission staff persons, teachers and students leaders of church and mission from all areas of the world of the Christian world mission are welcome to apply. have been served by this missionary project of the Doane family. Known since 1967as the Overseas Ministries Study "1 know of no center where such a broad spectrum of nussiological issues and viewpoints is considered so openly, creatively and lovingly as at OMSC. It is an Center, the Center now offers 37 comfortable, fully honor to share in this ministry." furnished apartments, plus social and recreational facilities, David M. Howard, General Secretary located just one block from the famous Boardwalk and World Evangelical Fellowship white sandy beach of the Atlantic Ocean. "Through its conferences and study courses, and through the lntemaiional Bulletin ofMissionJ1ry Research, OMSC is doing a uniquely valuable service to the Continuing Education for the Christian World Mission worldwide missionary cause ." Less1ie Newbigin In addition to the year-round residential program, OMSC Birmingham, England conducts a continuing education program of mission "I'm exceedingly grateful to God for OMSC's unique and significant contribution studies, leading to an optional "Certificate in Mission to our personnel and to the Church at large. " ClaytonL. Berg. Jr., President Studies." Some of today's foremost mission specialists come Latin America Mission to OMSC each year to liveand interact with the residents in "We express our sincere gratitude for the ministry of OMSC to our missionaries a score of seminars and workshops. The Center also and staff through your facilities and study program." publishes the quarterly International Bulletin ofMissionary Alice Giffin, Associate Executive Director American Baptist International Ministries Research, the largest circulation scholarly journal of mission "No other North American forum offers such freedom to such a wide spectrum studies in the world. of mission-minded Christians for growth in honest discussion, respectful understanding, and shared commitment." International and Interdenominational Fellowship ThoINB F. Stransky OMSC is known not only for its contribution to vocational The Paulists and spiritual renewal for mission but for its international "I've always felt that to fail to participate in the Ventnor programs was to impoverish myself to some degree. The whole Church is in OMSC's debt." and interdenominational community life. During six Arthur F. GWser decades of service to the Christian world mission, OMSC Fuller Seminary School of World Mission

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