Arthur Matthews (missionary)

Arthur Matthews was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the China Inland Mission in China. He and fellow CIM missionary, Dr. Rupert Clark, were the last foreign missionaries to leave China in 1953 following the takeover of the Communist Party of China in 1949. Their wives, Wilda Matthews and Jeanette Clarke, had been allowed to leave with other missionaries before.

References

Kuhn, Isobel. Green Leaf In Drought. Singapore: OMF Books.
Broomhall, Alfred (1982). Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: It Is Not Death To Die. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Lewis, Jonathan (1994). World Mission: The Biblical. Pasadena, California: William Carey Library. ISBN 0878082379.

Protestant missions to China

Background	Christianity Protestantism Chinese history Missions timeline Christianity in China Nestorians Jesuits Protestant missions in China 1807–1953

People	Carl C. Jeremiassen Robert Morrison Hunter Corbett Gladys Aylward Pearl S. Buck Thomas Cochrane Jonathan Goforth Karl Gützlaff Eric Liddell Robert Samuel Maclay Lottie Moon Gideon Nye Timothy Richard Cambridge Seven Hudson Taylor (more missionaries)

Missionary agencies	OMF International/China Inland Mission LMS ABCFM CMS M.E.M US Presbyterian Mission (more agencies)

Impact	Bible translations into Chinese Medical missions in China Manchurian revival Chinese Christian colleges Chinese hymnody Chinese Roman Type Minnan Roman Type Foochow Roman Type Anti-footbinding Anti-opium

Pivotal events	Taiping Rebellion First Opium War Second Opium War Unequal treaty Yangzhou riot Tianjin Massacre Kucheng Massacre Boxer Crisis Xinhai Revolution Chinese Civil War WWII People's Republic

Chinese Protestants	Feng Yuxiang Liang Fa Keuh Agong Samuel Lamb Wang Ming-Dao Watchman Nee Xi Shengmo Sun Yat-sen John Sung Allen Yuan

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