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. 

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