Isobel kuhn biography meaning
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A Biographical Synopsis of My Life
Daniel wrote this for a Wheaton mission home reunion in June 2013.
With the help of Google Maps one can zoom in on southwestern China to an area along the Chinese border with northern Myanmar (Burma) and follow the course of the Salween river northwards until the river almost converges with the border. A few miles further north on the east side of the river lies a small Lisu village named Maliping, or Oak Flat.
I was born in Oak Flat on August 1, 1943 to missionary parents, John and Isobel Kuhn. World War II was at its height. The Japanese Forces controlled most of Burma just a few miles to the west.
In October 1944 my parents traveled east to the Chinese city of Kunming and caught a military transport plane to northern India with me cradled in their arms. From there they were able to catch flights that conveyed them back to the U.S.A. and to Philadelphia, Pa. where the CIM had its headquarters. My sister Kathryn was waiting there for us after spending almost six years in a Japanese detention camp in eastern China. She had been returned to the US in a prisoner of war exchange in late 1943.
From Philadelphia the Kuhn family moved to Dallas, Texas where my father enrolled in Dallas Theological Seminary. He qualified for ordination afte
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Isobel Playwright Kuhn Warehouse
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Identifier: CN 435
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newsletters, article, negatives, slab photographs relating to say publicly missionary assistance of Isobel and Lavatory Kuhn, first of all among description Lisu ancestors in Prc and Siam with Foreign Missionary Fraternization from 1928 to 1954. The topics discussed think about it the letters include traffic in Prc, missions preventable, their addon, birth warm daughter jaunt son, developmental differences, educate of communists into interpretation Lisu protected area, biographical sketches of co-workers Mary Baldock, Frances Lexicologist, Lilian Hamer, and Eileen O'Rourke. Significant on girl and son-in-law Kathryn captain Donald Rulison, and co-workers Allyn fairy story Esther Journalist is likewise in description collection.
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Isobel Miller Kuhn
In high school and in college, Isobel Miller was vivacious, pretty, smart, athletic, and known for her skill on the dance floor. She had been convinced by one of her teachers that only superstitious people believed in the truth of the Bible anymore; she loved talking about abstract ideas with the intellectual crowd, and disdained the faith of her parents. Influenced by the poems of Thomas Hardy, she saw life as meaningless and dark. Her response to finding out that her boyfriend had been dating another girl was to contemplate suicide. Only the thought that her father would believe that she had gone to hell stopped her at the last minute from killing herself.
That night, as she lay back down in bed, the words of Dante, “In His will is our peace,” came to her mind. She prayed, “God, if there be a God, if You will prove to me that You are, and if You will give me peace, I will give You my whole life.” (Repp, xvii)
From then on, Isobel began her search for God, though it took several years for her fully to commit her life to Christ. She wavered between God and the world, but slowly gave up her addictions to card-playing, theater and movies, romantic fiction, and dancing, which she loved. A passion to know God had taken possession of her heart, driv