CHINA THROUGH WESTERN EYES
Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Missionaries & Diplomats, 1792-1942

Parts 4 & 5: Manuscript Diaries and Papers from the China Records Project at Yale Divinity Library

ABBREVIATIONS USED

Abbreviations for missions agencies featured in the China Records Project:

ABCFM  - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

ABFMS  - American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society ACM – American Church Mission

ALM - American Lutheran Mission

AUG - Augustana Synod Mission

BMS - Baptist Missionary Society (British)

CBM - Church of the Brethren Mission

CCC - Church of Christ in China

CIM - China Inland Mission

CLS - Christian Literature Society

CMML - Christian Missions in Many Lands

CMS - Church Missionary Society

ChCC - China Continuation Committee of the National Missionary Conference

EPM - English Presbyterian Mission

FCMS - Foreign Christian Missionary Society

FFMA - Friends’ Foreign Mission Association

LCMS - Lutheran Church Missouri Synod; pre 1947 MELCM; pre 1927 ELSM

LMS - London Missionary Society

LUM - Lutheran United Mission

MEFB - Methodist Episcopal Church

MES - Methodist Episcopal Church South

MGC - Mennonite General Conference

MMS - Methodist Missionary Society

PN - American Presbyterian Mission, North

PS - American Presbyterian Mission, South

RC - Roman Catholic

RCA - Reformed Church in America

RCUS - Reformed Church in the United States

SBC - Southern Baptist Convention

SDA - Seventh Day Adventist Mission

SVMM - Student Volunteer Movement

UCC - United Church of Canada

UCMS - United Christina Missionary Society

WFMS - Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Chrch

YM - Yale in China Association

YMCA - Young Men’s Christian Association

YWCA - Young Women’s Christian Association

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