Students at the Omei Seminars, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 1940

"Students and faculty members representing almost every province in China, and most of the departments of some 8 or 10 mission and government universities -- Szechwanese and refugee -- standing before the new Omei Seminar Lodge. Here on a forested hilltop two 3-weeks seminars: one for faculty, one for university students, spent a happy and enriching summer in 1940, studying the life and religion of Jesus every morning for 3 ½ hours, and then discussing the implications of his teaching in their own lives, and in their country of China. These students returned in the fall to their many campuses, giving fresh vitality to the varied religious activities of their Student Christian Movement programs.Daniel Fleming, hearing of this work, wrote a friend that it might prove to be the most significant movement now taking place on the mission fields." Group portrait of the students and faculty of the seminars, men and women, Western and Chinese, in front of a partly visible building