- Emil Fischbacher
Emil Fischbacher 巴醫生 (
9 August ,1903 -27 May 1933 ) was a ScottishProtestant Christian missionary toXinjiang . He served with theChina Inland Mission .Fischbacher was born in
Glasgow ,Scotland , 9 August, 1903.It was on the last Saturday in May 1931 that Emil Fischbacher picked up China's Millions and read the "Appeal for the Two Hundred". It was on the last Saturday of May 1933, exactly two years later, that Dr. Fischbacher died in
Ürümqi . Fischbacher left London for China on31 December 1931 , he was on the last boatload of missionaries who came because ofChina Inland Mission 's specific prayer for 200 new volunteers. His ship arrived in front ofShanghai when that city was under siege by the Japanese.After language school in
Anking , he, along with five other young men,Raymond H. Joyce ,William J. Drew ,George Fox-Holmes ,Aubrey Parsons , &Otto Schoerner was appointed to serve God inXinjiang . George Hunter happened to be in Shanghai at that time (a very rare occurrence). He accompanied the new recruits back to Xinjiang. Emil, a gifted mechanic, drove the truck acrossInner Mongolia toUrumqi . The journey took 57 days.Fischbacher died on May 27, 1933, of
typhus , which he contracted during the siege ofÜrümqi , when caring for people wounded during the "Muslim Rebellion" led byMa Chung-ying . He is buried in Ürümqi.Bibliography
* Broomhall, Marshall B.; "To What Purpose?" (London: CIM 1933)
* Schoerner, Otto F.; "Serving Christ" (Pine: Focalpoint 1997)ee also
*
Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission
*Percy C. Mather External links
* [http://www.ccmhk.org.hk/ccmProclaim/Cp-2002/0208p12.htm Short Biography] (in Chinese)
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