'The (Plymouth) Brethren' in Pre-war Hong Kong

Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 07/14/2015 - 16:29

I've come across a reference to 'nightly prayer meetings run by the Plymouth Brethren at the Duddell Street Gospel Hall' in 1941 (Ted Ferguson, Desperate Siege, 30).

Does anyone know anything about 'the Brethren' in pre-war Hong Kong? Or about the Gospel Hall? For example: where exactly was it? Was it used exclusively by the Brethren or was it available to any Evangelical Christian organisation?

Hi Brian,

Not something that rings any bells, and a few related searches didn't turn up anything relevant in the newspapers.

The only time I've heard of the Plymouth Brethren is in Elsie Tu's auto-biography. She was a member of that group when she arrived in Hong Kong, but she left them in the early 1950s, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Tu and Google Books.

Regards, David