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World Wide Missions
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In the early days of Dr. Bell's life in China, people from other countries were usually referred to as "Foreign Devils," hence the title of this book. But for tens of thousands of grateful patients, Dr. Bell was Chong Ai Hua, "the Bell who is Lover of the Chinese people," and that he continues to be to this day. After thirty years' absence, he has said that he still dreams of China and his old friends there; nothing would gladden his heart more than to see the basic friendship and respect of China and America restored to the point where all might be free to hear of and believe in the One who alone can heal "broken China" as well as "broken America." - Publisher's note.
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LibraryThing member autumnesf
Story of Dr. Bell - a missionary doctor (and the father of Billy Grahams wife) and all the years he spent in China. It was a very good book and if you like reading about missionaries I would recommend it.
LibraryThing member temsmail
Excellent background on the father and mother in law of Billy Graham. This excellent story is tinged slightly by hagiography, making more of their lives and work than seems possible.
LibraryThing member seoulful
A biography of Dr. Nelson Bell, medical missionary to China from 1916 until forced out by the Japanese in 1941. Best known in later years as father-in-law of the evangelist, Billy Graham, Nelson Bell in his own right, became well-loved and fruitful in his medical work and evangelism in China. He
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always stressed that the two must go hand-in-hand and strenuously urged against pure social work delivered without the Gospel. A good presentation of the background in which Ruth Bell, wife of Billy Graham, was reared. Show Less
LibraryThing member BradKautz
A Foreign Devil in China is the biography of Nelson Bell, an American physician who served 25 years as a missionary doctor in China. It is a well-written and easy-to-read story covering his early years as a child in Virginia, his mission service, which ended with the outbreak of World War II, and
For me, two things stood out about Bell's life. One was his absolute love of God, nurtured through a lifetime of devotional reading of the Bible and prayer, and without which he truly felt he could do no good thing. His close walk with God also led to his abiding trust in God's presence and will in every circumstance. And serving as a missionary doctor in China in the first half of the 20th century gave him a multitude of trials and tribulations.
The other thing that stood out, which was also connected to Bell's walk with his Savior and dependence on God's revealed word, was the idea that everything was theological. The words in the Bible mattered, and they had much to say to nearly every situation of life. It is a message that continues to ring true today. Bell lived during the time of the Fundamentalist/Modernist controversy and he was a Fundamentalist in every good way that word and time can be understood. And in that lived theology his was a life that many could do well to emulate today.
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his subsequent years as a physician and church leader when he returned to America. For me, two things stood out about Bell's life. One was his absolute love of God, nurtured through a lifetime of devotional reading of the Bible and prayer, and without which he truly felt he could do no good thing. His close walk with God also led to his abiding trust in God's presence and will in every circumstance. And serving as a missionary doctor in China in the first half of the 20th century gave him a multitude of trials and tribulations.
The other thing that stood out, which was also connected to Bell's walk with his Savior and dependence on God's revealed word, was the idea that everything was theological. The words in the Bible mattered, and they had much to say to nearly every situation of life. It is a message that continues to ring true today. Bell lived during the time of the Fundamentalist/Modernist controversy and he was a Fundamentalist in every good way that word and time can be understood. And in that lived theology his was a life that many could do well to emulate today.
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355 p.; 8 inches