Arthur Matthews (missionary)

Arthur Matthews (missionary)

Arthur Matthews was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the China Inland Mission in China. He and his wife Wilda were the last foreign missionaries to leave China in 1953 following the takeover of the Communist Party of China in 1949.

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