{"id":1084,"date":"2014-02-15T05:17:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2014-02-05T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:49:01","slug":"this-just-in-from-philadelphia-to-japan-to-abilene-logan-foxs-commentary-on-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/2014\/02\/15\/this-just-in-from-philadelphia-to-japan-to-abilene-logan-foxs-commentary-on-revelation\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In: From Philadelphia to Japan to Abilene&#8230;Logan Fox&#8217;s commentary on Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Son of Harry Robert Fox, Sr., Logan Fox was born in Tokyo on 20 October 1922.\u00a0 He studied at David Lipscomb College (Nashville, TN), University of Syracuse (Syracuse, NY), George Pepperdine College (Los Angeles, CA) and the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL) before returning to Japan in 1948 to establish <a title=\"Ibaraki Christian College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icc.ac.jp\/english\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ibaraki Christian College<\/a>.\u00a0 He served Ibaraki as Dean and President.<\/p>\n<p>This slim volume on Revelation by Charles Erdman bears Logan&#8217;s signature in the front.\u00a0 In the rear is the ever-present and familiar convention of library books&#8230;the check-out slip.\u00a0 We do not know all the resources available to Fox as he studied and taught at Ibaraki, but this volume is among them.\u00a0 A. Hashimoto also read Erdman&#8230;perhaps Logan&#8217;s personal library was available to the students at Ibaraki?<\/p>\n<p>Published in Philadelphia, Erdman&#8217;s book served missionaries in Asia and eventually came back to the US to Memphis, TN.\u00a0 Finally, it came to Abilene, Texas just a few days ago through the papers of another missionary, <a title=\"Joe D. Cannon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianchronicle.org\/article\/undaunted-and-radical-missionary-joe-cannon-dies\" target=\"_blank\">Joe D. Cannon<\/a>, co-worker with Fox in the early years at Ibaraki.\u00a0 One item at time, one slip of paper, whether a letter or a sermon, or through photographs, scrapbooks, or former library books, we preserve the records of our past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-title.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1087\" alt=\"Erdman, Revelation, Fox, title\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-title-324x490.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-title-324x490.jpg 324w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-title-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-title-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-title.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-signature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1086\" alt=\"Erdman, Revelation, Fox, signature\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-signature-490x376.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-signature-490x376.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-signature-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-signature-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-signature.jpg 1730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-checkout-slip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1085\" alt=\"Erdman, Revelation, Fox, checkout slip\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-checkout-slip-327x490.jpg\" width=\"327\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-checkout-slip-327x490.jpg 327w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-checkout-slip-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-checkout-slip-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/files\/2014\/02\/Erdman-Revelation-Fox-checkout-slip.jpg 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son of Harry Robert Fox, Sr., Logan Fox was born in Tokyo on 20 October 1922.\u00a0 He studied at David Lipscomb College (Nashville, TN), University of Syracuse (Syracuse, NY), George Pepperdine College (Los Angeles, CA) and the University of Chicago &hellip; 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