Singapore and Malaysia local church history student project

Jin Shoulian, Chen Yuying and Li Jiyao, Orchard Road Presbyterian Church Mandarin Congregation (乌节路长老会华语聚会初期宣教的发展) (djvu format)

Tan, Xiuhua, Chen-li Presbyterian Church, Johor Bahru (马来西亚长老会新山真理堂发展史) (djvu format)

Chen-li Presbyterian Church, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Anniversary Magazines

Chen-li Presbyterian Church 5th Anniversary Magazine, Johor Bahru, Malaysia 马来西亚基督教长老会新山真理长老会设教五周年特刊 (djvu format)

Chen-li Presbyterian Church 10th Anniversary Magazine, Johor Bahru, Malaysia 马来西亚基督教长老会新山真理长老会设教十周年庆典 (djvu format)

True Grace Presbyterian Church Singapore 10th Anniversary Magazine (1986-1996)

True Grace Presbyterian Church Singapore 10th Anniversary Magazine (1986-1996) 新加坡真恩教会十周年特刊 (djvu format)

T Z Koo, Songs of Cathay (1930)

T Z Koo, Songs of Cathay: An Anthology of Songs current in various parts of China among her people (1930) (djvu format)

Foochow Methodist Church Singapore Anniversary Magazines (founded 1897)

Foochow Methodist Church Singapore Anniversary Magazines 新加坡卫理公会福灵堂纪念特刊(founded 1897):

The 80th Anniversary Souvenir Magazine of the Foochow Methodist Church, Singapore
Foochow Methodist Church 90th Anniversary Souvenir Magazine, Singapore
The 100th Anniversary Foochow Methodist Church Centennial Celebrations
(djvu format)

Additions to Singapore Local Church Church Projects

An Yuejin, Fu Jiahui and Lin Sikai, All Saint's Church, Singapore, (1967-1975) (Anglican) (从诸圣堂的创建看圣安德烈座堂华语教会早期宣教植堂事工 [1967－1975])

Gao Yongliang, Wu Qingming, Li Xiangshi and Xu Shiqin, CNEC Glory Joy Christian Church, Singapore（福音自传会荣乐基督教会30年历史探究）

Jin Jihuan, True Grace Presbyterian Church, Singapore (长老会真恩教会"1+1学生团契")

Lin Xin'ai, Zhao Lanying and Zheng Leguo, Renewal Christian Church, Singapore (探讨"2040崇拜"在更新教会整体发展中的意义）

Click here for more Trinity Theological College Singapore Local Church History student projects (with oral interview transcripts of key Singapore Christians)

Chinese Annual Conference Women's Society of Christian Service 40th Anniversary Album Methodist Church in Singapore (1948)

Chinese Annual Conference Women's Society of Christian Service 40th Anniversary Album Methodist Church in Singapore 新加坡基督教卫理公会华人年议会妇女服务会40周年纪念刊(1948-1988)

Souvenir Album of the Tenth Anniversary of the Mandarin Congregation of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore (1964)

Souvenir of the Tenth Anniversary of the Mandarin Congregation of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore 新加坡圣安德烈座堂华语教会十周年纪念刊 (1964) (djvu format)

The Sabah Anglican Interior Mission -- A Vision becomes a Reality (1980)

Diocese of Sabah: The Sabah Anglican Interior Mission -- A Vision becomes a Reality (1980?) (djvu format)

Christ Church Malacca 1753-2003 250th Anniversary Magazine

Christ Church, Melaka 1753-2003: 250th Anniversary Magazine (djvu format)

Malaysia Mosaic: A Story of Fifty years of Methodism

Nathalie Toms Means, Malaysia Mosaic: A Story of Fifty years of Methodism (Singapore; Methodist Book Room, 1935) (in djvu format)

Erye Chatterton, India through a Bishop's Diary or Memoirs of an Indian Diocese by its first Bishop, 1935

Erye Chatterton, India through a Bishop's Diary or Memoirs of an Indian Diocese by its first Bishop (London: SPCK, 1935) (in djvu format)

C R Purser, Burma. SPG Handbook, 1929

C R Purser, Burma. SPG Handbook (Westminster: SPG, 1929) (in djvu format)

Index to the Trinity Theological Journal, Singapore

Index to the Trinity Theological Journal, published by Trinity Theological College, Singapore.
http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/epub/guides/ttjindex.htm

Anglican work in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation

Singapore Diocesan Association Annual Report 1939, 1940, 1949
The Diocese of Singapore Report for the Period from 1941-1949. Foreword by Bishop Henry Baines (Singapore: Diocesan Synod of Singapore, 1951)
Photographs from the period

On William Milne

William Milne, Dialogues between Chang and Yuen. Singapore, 1836.

See also his son William C Milne's Life in China. London: Routledge and Co., 1857, posted on Google Books.

On Samuel and Maria Dyer

Samuel Dyer, A Selection of the Three Thousand Characters being the Most Important of the Chinese Language for the Purpose of Facilitating the Cutting of Punches. Malacca: Anglo-Chinese College, 1834.

Samuel Dyer, A Vocabulary of the Hok-keen Dialect as Spoken in the County of Tsheang-Tshew. Malacca: Anglo-Chinese College Press, 1838. (Part 1, Part 2).

John Stronach, A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Samuel Dyer, Missionary to the Chinese, preached in the New Mission Chapel Singapore, November 9, 1843, with a Sketch of Mr. Dyer's Life and Character by his Widow. Singapore: Mission Press, 1843.

1949 Diocese of Fukien Book of Common Prayer

Full-text of the 1949 Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Diocese of Fukien Book of Common Prayer, probably the final prayer book issued by the Anglican/Episcopal in China before the political change in China in 1949.

http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/skh/bcp/gds1949-1.djvu and http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/skh/bcp/gds1949-2.djvu.

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/skh/index.html#pb on the CSCA Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Source Document web page for other prayer books published by CHSKH, and my article on the impact of prayer book translation on the self-understanding of Chinese Anglican communities as an "one, holy, catholic and apostolic" church.

China Centenary Missionary Conference Records, 1907

China Centenary Missionary Conference Records: Report of the Great Conference held in Shanghai, April 5th to May 8th, 1907.

Robert Alder, Wesleyan Missions: Their Progress Stated and their Claims Enforced , 1842.

Robert Alder, Wesleyan Missions: Their Progress Stated and their Claims Enforced (London: Wesleyan Missionary Society, 1842)

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: Records on Southeast Asia

Extracts on Southeast Asia from Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701-1892 (London: SPG Office, 1893).

Historical Sketches: Missionary Series, Number X: Borneo and the Straits (Westminster: SPG, 1888).

Guide to the World Council of Churches Archive on Christianity in Southeast Asia

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/wcc-sea/index.html.

Compiled by Michael Poon for the Documentation of Christianity in Asia Consortium

Guide to Yale University Divinity School Manuscripts on Christianity in Southeast Asia

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/ydsl-sea/index.html

Compiled by Michael Poon for the Documentation of Christianity in Asia Consortium.

Attempts in Producing Chinese-English Bilingual Book of Common Prayer from the 1960s to the 1980s

See The Order for Holy Communion produced by the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao in 1965 (http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/skh/bcp/hc1965.pdf) , and the more substantial effort The Book of Common Prayer (1976, 1983) by the Council of Church in East Asia. This later work, led by Bishop James Pong (Pang Deming) of Taiwan, was a serious attempt in integrating Chinese cultural heritage in the Prayer Book (http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/skh/bcp/dongyaben.pdf). It was regretably not adopted for general use after its release.

See also the source documents of Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hui (Holy Catholic Church in China)http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/poon/index.htm , and Michael Poon's essay on Prayer Book Translation and the Birth of 'Sheng Kung Hui.

Biography of Archdeacon D D Chelliah of Singapore -- D D Chelliah: Man of Faith, Master Teacher

See Mrs Leaena Tambyah's biography of her father, D D Chelliah: Man of Faith, Master Teacher (Singapore: Armour Pub,
2007), ISBN: 13:978-981-4138-97-0.

This biography sheds light in the history of the Anglican Church in Singapore from the Japanese Occupation to the early years of the new Singapore Republic. D D Chelliah played a key role in the church and the wider society during that span of thirty years.

The Chapter "The War and the Cathedral" and the Table of Contents are posted on the CSCA website by the kind permission of the author, Mrs Leaena Tambyah. All rights are reserved by the author. See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/sing/chelliah2007.pdf

The book is not on sale to the public. Librarians who wish to obtain a copy of the book should write to csca@ttc.edu.sg for further information.

Kampar Chinese Methodist Church, Malaysia: Source Documents

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/meth/kamparcmc.pdf.

Donated by the Rev. Sam Men Biew.

Guo Feng's Daily Office and Pastor's Handbook

Guo Feng's compilation and translation of liturgical material represents a singular attempt by a present-day ordained Protestant pastor in Shanghai in connecting his Christian life with the liturgical traditions of the universal church. Guo Feng makes use of surviving liturgical books in China and prayer books (mainly Anglican) from outside of China in compiling two works: the Daily Office (meiri songdao [lit. Daily Praise and Prayer]); and the Pastor's Handbook (shizhu liangyou [lit. A Good Friend for Those serving the Lord]. In so doing, Guo in fact inherits the tasks in prayer-book translation that first begun in the early nineteenth century. He stands immediately in continuity with the work of Bishop Shen Yifan that came to a halt in the time of drastic changes from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. Guo's translation of key phrases in the liturgy are important in shaping theological concepts in the present-day Chinese Church.

I am grateful to the Rev. Guo Feng for making these two significant works available to the wider church.

Daily Office: pdf; rtf format
Pastor's Handbook: pdf; rtf format

See also my translation of the Morning Prayer sections from Celebrating Common Prayer (- mncp) pdf ; rtf.

Huang Yangying, trans. Jitan Qian [=Before the Altar], with Foreword by Basil Roberts, Bishop of Singapore, 1938

See Jitan Qian.

This short devotional manual Before the Altar, written by Robert Wilson, was translated into Chinese by Rev. Huang Yangying in 1938 at Christ Church, Malacca. Bishop Basil Robert commendation of this work in his Foreword was revealing of the ethos and priorities in the Diocese of Singapore in the time shortly before the Pacific War. First, the handbook is meant to be part of the wider effort in translating "standard works of theology and devotion in the languages of the 'younger Churches'. Second, the handbook offers "the right approach to [the] solemn and precious mysteries" for Christian people.

See also Huang's history of Anglican work in Fujian, China, Yinshui Siyuan.

The Anglo-Chinese School Magazine, 1904

The Anglo-Chinese School Magazine, Volume V, No. 13, a "Special Illustrated Number" that "closes up the three school paper" of the Anglo-Chinese Schools at Singapore, Penang, and Ipoh. See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/acs1904.pdf.

(Donated by the Rev. Sam Men Biew, Chinese Annual Conference, Methodist Church in Malaysia.)

Chinese Theological Review Author Index

The Chinese Theological Review, published from 1985, is an indispensable source in understanding the Protestant churches in China in the post 1979 era. The articles reflect the theological engagements taking place within the ecclesiastical structures in the Chinese churches. We owe Janice Wickeri and her team for making key articles and news of the Chinese churches available in English.

The Indexes to the articles are recomplied here for easier access.
See the Author Index: http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/china/ctr/ctr-a.htm and Table of Contents by year/volume number: http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/china/ctr/ctr-y.htm

Raymond Morris' Assessment of Theological Libraries in Southeast Asia at the end of the 1950s

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/te/morris1960.pdf.

Raymond Morris' 1959 assessment formed the cornerstone to the development of "doing theology with Asian resources" in Asia.

See also the earlier posts:
S R Anderson and C Stanley Smith, Singapore and Trinity (Theological) College in the early 1950s
Program of the Nanking Theological Seminary. Statement adopted by the Board of Managers, 1935.
Anderson-Smith Report on Theological Education in Southeast Asia (1952), Summary and Conclusion

Refer also to Yale University Divinity School Library, Special Collections, HR1340 Folders 1 and 2 for historical documents leading to the establishment of theological colleges in Southeast Asia.

Church Document and Thesis Holdings in Seminari Theologi Malaysia, Seremban, Malaysia

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/epub/stm.htm.

Compiled from the online information at Seminari Theologi Malaysia Library

Selected Documents on Singapore and the Borneo Mission in the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Microfilms

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/spg/spgdocs.htm, with special reference to Saint Andrew's Church Mission Reports ,1881-1932.

Wang Weifan: A Bibliography with Collected Poems

Wang Weifan is one of the most significant present-day Chinese Christians. He grew up in the post-1949 China, and writes in Chinese. His poems bear witness to the spiritual journey of many patriotic Chinese Christians during the social upheavals in China from the 1950s to 1979. See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/china/wangweifan.htm

The Indo-Chinese Gleaner, 1818-1820

The Indo-Chinese Gleaner, Volumes 3-14 (1818-1820). See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/icgleaner.htm

Michael Poon, Comment on the Proposed Anglican Covenant 2007

See A Very Godly Order: A Response to Ephraim Radner's Making Promises: the Proposed Anglican Covenant in the Life of the Communion

Michael Poon, The Ways of Obedience: Scripture and the Global South

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/poon/scripture-gs.pdf

Methodist mission among the Ibans, Sarawak from 1959-1963

Terence Joseph's "Letters from Sarawak (1959-1963)", from The Long-house Church in Sarawak: A Study of the Rural, Iban, Methodist Church in the New Federation of Malaysia, Appendix A (Master of sacred Theology Thesis, 1964). See
http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/joseph1964.pdf

The "Old Singapore": A Photo Review

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/oldsing.htm

References to South East Asia in the Chinese Recorder (1868-1941)

References to South East Asia in the Chinese Recorder, according to Kathleen Lodwick's Index (1986) are tabulated with full text in pdf files. See
http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/crec-sea/crec-sea.htm

Index to the Borneo Chronicles Volume 34-37 (1955-1961) added

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/epub/guides/bc/bc-34-37.htm
The Journal is available at Trinity Theological College Library.

George Daniel: Love Unites People, 1913-1959

George Daniel, Love Unites People: Memoirs of a Christian Worker in Singapore from 1913 to 1959. See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/sing/daniel1959.pdf

Saint Andrew's Outlook Index, Volume 77-116

Saint Andrew's Outlook Index Volumes 77-116: http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/epub/guides/sao/sao-77-83.htm

Singapore Christians during the Japanese Occupation

John Hayter and Jack Bennitt, The War and After Series, Number II: Singapore (1946)
http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/sing/hayter1946.pdf

Index to the Borneo Chronicles Volume 27-33 (1942-1955) added

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/epub/guides/bc/bc-27-30.htm

Pamphlets on histories of Anglican churches in Singapore, Malacca, Bangkok and Miri

Christ Church, Malacca 1936 and 1950s: http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/m/cc-mal-1936.pdf and http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/m/cc-mal-1950s.pdf

St Columba's Church, Miri, Sarawak, A Historical Review 1923-2001 (in Chinese) http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/m/columba-miri.pdf

Christ Church, Bangkok: A Century of Worship 1864-1964 http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/indo/cc-bangkok1964.pdf

Glimpses from the Diocesan Digest on the Diocese of Singapore in the mid 1970s http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/ang/sing/ang-dos.htm

References to South East Asia in the Chinese Repository

References to South-East Asia in the Chinese Repository (full text): http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/rart_doc/cr-sea/cr-sea.htm

Index to the Borneo Chronicles updated

See http://www.ttc.edu.sg/csca/epub/guides/bc/bc-24-26.htm