John Oss

John Oss, General Editor, Signs Publishing House, Shanghai, China

Articles by John Oss

The Missionary Wife

October 1935

I. Sharing in Service 

The work of the missionary is a labor of  loving service for others. And as the mis­sionary's wife leaves relatives, friends, and homeland to work with her companion in a foreign land,…

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Carefulness in Public Utterance

March 1939

Recent world happenings have brought to our attention anew the rapidity with which world conditions can change, and the necessity of always conducting our work on such a basis that it will not be unduly affected or brought…

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Missionary Wives in Times of Crisis

May 1941

During the twenty-one years that my husband and I have spent in China it has been my privilege to carry on more or less regular correspondence with a number of our missionary wives who are stationed in the interior and at distant outposts…

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The High Price of Leadership

October 1948

Many aspire to positions of leadership who are unwilling to pay the full price entailed in this responsibility. Every leader in the Advent Movement should know the necessary qualifications for successful lead­ership,…

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The Missionary Wife

January 1936

IV. In Public Ministry

In my last article we studied together the activities of the missionary wife within the church in the mission field. In this final article I shall mention…

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The Missionary Wife

November 1935

Some one has said that the home is a castle where the man rules as king and the woman reigns as queen. But it is the everyday life lived in this castle that makes for success or failure in the destinies of the family,…

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The Missionary Wife

December 1935

In the apostolic church we find many examples of women laboring in the church and assist­ing in the giving of the gospel to the people of that time. There was Priscilla, the devout wife of Aquila, whom, with her husband,…

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