Joseph Daniel Graber,1900-1978 Hist.Mss. 1-503 Contained in 5 large boxes Series Headings Diaries..................................................................Box 1 Artifacts................................................................Box 1 Correspondence.....................................................Box 1 Sermon Notes.......................................................Boxes 1-2 Research & Class Notes..........................................Boxes 2 -3 Manuscripts...........................................................Boxes 3 - 4 Bibliography of J.D.G. writings............................Box 4 Manuscripts of others ..........................................Box 4 Clippings.................................................................Box 4 Organizational Data..............................................Box 4 Mennonite Bishop, veteran missionary and missions administrator. Graduated from Hesston and Goshen College and Princeton Theological Seminary. Served in India from 1925 to 1942 and as general secretary of the Mennonite Board of Missions until 1965. Box 1 (Large) DIARIES 1942 1946 - 47 1946 - 77 Artifacts India World War II Buenos Aires Travel papers (India, Japan, Europe, and more) Passports and identification Airline tickets Envelopes and stamps Ghandi Memorial pamphlet Misc. Memorial service for J. D. Graber Programs 1925-54 Programs 1955-71 Correspondence 1925-27 (India) to 1952 1953- China Trip 1943- 44 ( mission prospects) India China relief 1943 - 44 (corres. and data) Ethiopia, India, China 1946-47 Japan Trip Dec. 1949 - Jan. 1950 Japan trip 1954 Relief and service (India) 1967-68 Box 1 - Cont’d 1946- 49 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 Box 2 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972- 73 1974 1975 -76 no date no date (data) Christmas Church (include. baptism, reception of members) Colossians communion Dedication services, easter, family life. Funeral services 1955-75. Hinduism Humor, Marriage, Mission, Ordination, Prayer/Charismata, Revelation, Sanctification, Science, Spanish Sermon notes (by date) sermon clippings , ca.1931-45, 1925-50, ca.1939-50 1930s 1941-45 Misc. Sermon Notes, ca.1954-64 Sermon notes, [n.d.] Sermon notes - fragments Class and research notes Notes - The Anabaptist Vision Class notes - EMC Class notes - Christian Ethics BOX 3 - (Large) Class notes - Christianity and Islam. Research notes - Eastern Religions Class notes Gen. Ed 122 Intro. to Bib. Studies 1969 - 70 Intro. to Missions Notes Latin American Missions Mission teaching records and materials Missions Philosophy of Missions Missions 242 / 451 Missionary Methods, 1963. Notes - Planting the church Class notes - Theology of crisis Miscelleneous Grade book, 1962 Manuscripts - J. D. Graber filed alphabetically by title “Across My Desk” “Act Like Men: Be strong” filed in Box 5 (long) “The Advance in Asia” “After Foreign Mission: What?” “Anabaptism Expressed in Missions and Social Service” “Anthropology” “Benedictine Monastaries” “The Bible: A Missionary Book” “The Biblical Basis of Missions” “Boys Boarding” “The Broken Hope” filed in Box 5 (long) “Building the Mission church” “The Call of Worldwide Need, Physical and Spiritual” “Call to Prayer” “Camp Rehoboth” “Certain Women . . . Made Us Astonished” “The Chinese Gentleman” “Christian Education in World Evangelism” “A Christian Light in a Confused World” “The Christian Sense of Mission” “A Christian Witness Through the Hospital Service” “The Church and Medicine” “The Church in the World” “The Church vs. the Individual” “Complete Your Life’s Work” “The Congregation and the Mission Board” “The Declaration and the Deed” “The Desciple in Mission” “Dying to Live” “Entrusted with the Gospel” “The Eschatology of Augustine” “Face to Face with the Cross” “Faith Missions and New Testament Missions” “Fire in His Bones” “Glorying in the Cross” “God” “The God Encounter” Gospel Herald and misc. articles “The Gospel and the World” “The Great Affirmation” “The Great Pilgrimage, or Hajj” “Hospital and School of Nursing” “How To Do ‘The Work of an Evangelist’” “How Shall They Hear” “Hutterite Hymn” translated by J.D.G. Hymn Translation “I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” “India” “India Bible Women” “India Mission and Church” “India Mission: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” “India Needs Missionaries” India - unitled articles about India filed in Box 5 (long) “India Mission” “The Inn in the Cliff” “Introducing Cultural Change Among the Indians of the Chaco of Central South America” “Japan, the Open Door” “Jesus is Alive” “Jesus is Lord” “Jesus Papa” “Joseph the Dreamer” “Kagawa” “La Junta Hospital: An Appreciation and an Appeal” “Let the World Dwell in you Richly” “The Living Presence” “A Local Missionary Project” “Make a Will” “Making Nonresistance Live” “A Marvelous Conversion” “Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities” “The Church-World Dialogue” “Yesterday and Today” “Mennonite Distincitives” “Mennonite Missions Works Among the Mexicans” “Mennonite Missions” “Mennonite Relief Work in India and China” “Mennonite Youth Fellowship and Our Advancing Mission Program” “Mission in the Bible” “Mission in the New Day” “Mission in Winning People” “A Mission Outpost for Every Congregation” “Missionary Education” “The Missionary in Today’s World” “The Missionary Task” “Missions in the Bible Curriculum” “Missions in the Orient” Missions Today editorials, 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 [n.d] Missions Week speaker’s kit “More truck travel in West China” “The Need for Christian Doctors in our Missions Program” “The New Day in Missions” “A New Mennonite Church” “A New Missionary Strategy” “Nischintat Ka Pap” “The Non-Christian World” “Nonresistance and Missions” “Not By Power but By My Spirit” filed in Box 5 (long) “Not That We do . . . But What We Are” “The Old Men’s Home” “One Faith - One Mission” “The Open Door in China” “Organisation at India Mission” “Our China Relief Program” “Our Missionaries Encounter Buddhism” “A Panorama of World Need” Partners in World Missions, address, 1960-1965 “The Place of the Christian Church in the World” “Plan the Advance” “Planting the Church in Latin America” “Policies and Problems of Intercultural” “Relations of Mennonites in the Mission Field” “The Present Missionary Task” “The Proof of Love” “Prospects of China as a Mission Field” “The Pursuing God” “Race Relations in World Evangelism” “Russian Bible Society” “Sanctification in the New Testament” “Service or Salvation” “Seven Assertations Showing How TV opposes the Christian Atmosphere in the Home” “Sharing Mission With the Church in Southern Asia” “Sin of Neglect” “Some Problems in the Life of John Knox” “Special Chaco Needs” “Stewards of the Gospel” “The Strength and Weakness of our Mennonite Heritage as reflected in our Mission and Church Work” filed in Box 5 (long) “The Supreme Motive for Missionary Endeavor” “Teaching Scriptures to high school seniors” filed in box 5 (long) “Thanks Giving to New Years” “Thoughts on the Virgin Birth” “Thy Saving Health Among all Nations” “To be near to God” “To China Before Breakfast” “Training for missionary service” “Training Missionaries in the Devotional Life” “Truth and Freedom (EMC commencement address, 1965) “Two churches” “Unoccupied Fields” “Utilizing our Resources for the Building of Church and Community” “Vendanaykam Samuel Azariah” “What Shall be Place of the Younger Churches in our Mennonite Foreign Missions Program?” “Where Cows are Gods” “Where to in Missions?” “Where Two or Three are Gathered” “Why not a youth Missionary project” “With Christ at our Local churches” “World Peace” Youth at Work in the Local Church” Youth’s Christian Companion articles [Miscellaneous manuscript] Book reviews, 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1965 fragments more book reviews filed in Box 5 (long) Bibliography of J. D. Grabers writings Notes J.D. Graber writings, 1928 J.D. Graber writings, 1930-33 J.D. Graber writings, 1934-43 J.D. Graber writings, 1944-58 J.D. Graber writings, 1944-67 J.D. Graber writings, notes 1960-67 J.D. Graber writings, 1968 J.D Graber writings, 1970 J.D Graber writings, 1971 J.D Graber writings, 1973 J.D Graber writings, 1975 Manuscripts of others Beaver, R. Pierce, “Revolution in Missions” Burkholder, J. Lawrence, “Challenges and Changes in the Church as I see them” Erb, J. Delbert , “The Missionary and the World in Mission” Graber, Minnie R., [various manuscripts] Jones , E. Stanley, “How to Pray” Hillins, Dick, “I Was Never Called” Kreider, H. E., [miscellaneous] Lee, Robert, “The Growth and Development of the Protestant Church in Korea” Minnich, R. Herbert, Jr., “A Manual of Social Science Material for Missionaries” Nase, R.., “ Problems in Modern Islam” Reschly, Steve, “J.D. Graber and Mennonite Missions” Shenk, Wilbert R., “The Church Apostolic” (tribute to J.D. Graber ) Snyder, Elvin V., “The Missionary Teaching Old Testament” [Unindetified], “Czechoslovak Protestantism Today” Miscellaneous CLIPPINGS 1943-44 (Egypt, India, China) India, 1956 Vietnam, 1956 Czechoslovakia, 1956 Miscellaneous Organizational Data - filed alphabetically Eastern Mennonite College Mennonite Board of Missions-Misc. Mennonite Board of Missions-personal matters Mennonite Commission for Christian Education Mennonite General Conference Box 5 long contains manuscripts, but stored in Box 5 due to length. Each long manuscript is so noted in the manuscript listing.) Haider, John, “The Evils of the Cinema” filed in Box 5 (long) Map case, Drawer 7 statesman (Calcutta) 1,2 Feb.1948 on death of Ghandi