All of us at the publishing house were busily engaged Friday morning when we were hushed into sorrowed silence by a telegram to the Woman's Board, which read: "Father died. --Sammy."

When the above is read there will be tears to flow all over the bounds of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Gam Sing Quah has won a place in the heart of all Cumberland Presbyterians. Born in 1863 (best information I have), he came to America when but fifteen years of age. Of that trip and the purpose of it, and also the result, Gam later said:

"I, like many another Chinese boy, left my native village, Tongha, and came to America to get rich, but thankful to God am I that I have found something that is better than silver and gold, because these earthly things will perish. I have found my Savior." Continuing, he said, "After I was converted, God called me to preach, and I went to Lebanon, Tenn., in 1891, to prepare myself for my work. I remained in Lebanon until 1900. While I was in school I spent my summer vacations lecturing on 'Chinese Manners and Customs.' In this way I made my way through school. I must say the people were always very kind to me everywhere I went."

When he finished school he went to San Francisco and became one of the workers in our Chinese mission at that place. He was there when the earthquake came, and our mission was demolished. It was while Gam was in San Francisco that an ecclesiastical earthquake (the attempt to dump the Cumberland Church into the U.S.A. Church) occurred. Gam was the only one of six missionaries in San Francisco to remain true to the Cumberland Church. Out of that wreckage of two earthquakes--the earthquake and attempted union--he gathered together his people and reopened and established our Chinese mission in San Francisco.

Mrs. Clay writes in a leaflet: "He rented a building himself, not knowing from whence would come the rent. He did not know or question if he would get a salary. He was working for his Lord, his church, his people, and he worked on, nor questioned the results, and, the San Francisco Chinese mission was saved to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. it is not necessary that I tell the story of persuasion, bribes, even threats, with which his former co-workers assailed him, to all of which he answered time and time again, 'No, I will not go. I love God first and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church next, and I will never forsake either.'

"After serving the Lord and the Cumberland Church and his people in San Francisco, he began to feel that it was the Lord's will that he go as a missionary to his own people in China. The church was loathe to let him leave the rapidly growing mission in San Francisco, but Brother Fam announced through the church papers, 'The Lord's voice is first with me. The Lord is calling me to go to China. I must go.'" On October 8, 1908, he sailed for China.

Brother Gam has been married twice. I do not know the number of children, but in the Woman's Board office I learned the following: Finis King (adopted), Clara, Naomi, Clay, McAdow, Mary, Samuel King. Clara is preparing herself for a medical missionary, and Samuel will take up Gam's work. It was Gam's intention to send McAdow and Mary here for their education.

The particulars of the illness and death of Brother Gam have not been learned. Brother Fooks received a letter from him dated January 19. No mention was made of any illness.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, February 25, 1937, page 1]

As the news of the death of of Rev. Gam Sing Quah spread over the church a wave of great sorrow followed in its path. Few men, if any, have ever been loved in our denomination more than Gam Sing Quah was loved. Few, if any, was known by more people, and by whomsoever he was known, he was also loved. His magnetic personality, his warm-heartedness, his smile, his ability to call the name of anyone he had ever met before, and his great Christian love won all hearts.

From the time he was converted in a Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Fort Worth, Texas, there was never any wavering or uncertanity in his attitude toward Christ and the Christian religion. Like Paul, his every attitude, movement and purpoise attested, "I know in whom I have believed." His was a radiant Christian life, such as one seldom meets. He loved God supremely. This fact was written in every line of his rugged, joyous face. "For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness," was attested to year after year by the life he lived and work he did for his Master.

It is said that none but the truly great of soul is ever genuinely humble, If this be true, then we are right in believing that Gam Sing Quah was great of soul, for he was the most humble of men.

He possessed a great faith and a great courage. The work he did and the harvest of his sseed-sowing prove his consciousness of of "Christ in me," "Christ with me," and in that spirit he moved steadily on, ever marching with a clear vision toward the "prize of his high calling in Christ Jesue, the Lord." Difficulties, disappointments, hardships, danger or risk of life might deter him, and cause loss of time--this often happened--but they did not stop him, nor turn him from his high goal.

When he first returned to China to preach the gospel to his own people, he went into the towns and villages to preach. In some of these he was stoned and persecuted. But today we have a mission, and he has preached Christ in every village from which he was, once or many times, driven out by stoning. Stoning could delay the gospel, but nothing stopped the one great, vital purpose of sis [sic: his] life--that his people have the gospel.

His work stands the test of time. Not all whom he trusted proved true, and nothing hurt him so much as for one whose Christian life he had trusted to prove a traitor to the cause of Christ. But, almost without exception, the work which Brother Gam established, such as a church, a mission, or a school, has endured. Reverses, war, floods, fire, depression, almost despair have come and gone, and sometimes come again with the years, but what he established in the name of the Lord and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church has remained. That which he has built seems as "eternal as Christ is eternal," for he has "set eternity" in the hearts of the people by teaching them the way of eternal life. Well has it been that Brother Gam's wisdom was trusted, for the years have proved his saneness, and the soundness of his judgment. And, not only this, but that the ways of a man of prayer are safe ways.

When he was moved by a strong conviction nothing could cloud his faith in God or dim his calm belief that all would be well. Often, his faith carried him beyond what seemed possible to the Board under which he served; his faith found a way sometimes, when the Board could not.

His influence on the lives of others was vital and lasting. This fact has been experienced in the lives of hundreds in two nations. I heard a man say once, "Something came to me from Gam Sing Quah that I never received from any other man--something that changed me. I was always a better man for meeting Brother Gam." So could many say.

His preaching changed human natures and made for holy and useful lives. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life," was the sum and substance of his message and the heart of his appeal. Who that heard him preach that matchless sermon on "God is love," at the Evansville Convention on his last visit to America, can ever forget the depth of his appeal. In this sermon he told how once when he had preached from this text three consecutive Sundays to his congregation in Canton, China, one of his elders asked, "Can't you preach on any other subject," he had replied, "Oh, brother, I could preach for a lifetime on that subject and never tell the half that even my poor heart is able to feel about his great love. What would there be to say if we were able to fathom the full meaning of his love?"

He was an ideal missionary. Certain women who have held membership on the Woman's Board of Missions have had a rare experience--30 years as laborers together with Gam Sing Quah, and not one unpleasant experience! As nearly as he could, or could understand what was desired of him, he responded with happy compliance to every request of the Board. Not one unpleasant experience, or word, mars the memory of those years of serving with him.

He loved his Church almost to a fault, but he loved his Lord more, whose will for him was as a law unto his life. When he felt the Lord's call to retire from the work in San Francisco and go to China to preach the gospel to his own people, there was a strong protest voiced in the church paper from church leaders because of conditions at that time.

His reply was couched in kindly words but firm: "If God calls me I must obey, not men but God. And the call of the Lord is upon me to preach the gospel of Christ to the people of my native land, and I shall obey." The Cumberland Presbyterian Church can never pay its debt of gratitude for this man's obedience and for the church he built in the name of the Lord in China.

Some days ago I read this statement which Mr. Moody once made of himself:

"Some day you will read in the papers that Dwight L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I shall have gone up higher, that's all; out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal--a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto his own glorious body, I was born of the flesh in 1856. I was born of the Spirit in 1873. That which is born of the flesh may die; that which is born of the Spirit will live forever."

On February 18, 1937, death took the body of Rev. Gam Sing Quah from us but not his spirit. That will abide forever as a benediction and blessing to the world. He lives today in the multitude of men and women whose lives he touched with his inspiring, transforming message. He lives in the institutions which he has established, and he lives in the leadership he has created in other lives. His work, like his spirit, will live on.

No career lived among us is a better commentary on the priestly, high motto of Paul, "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Neither God nor man will let such a life die.

"They are not dead who live
In hearts they leave behind.
In those whom they have blessed
They live a life again,
And shall live through the years
Eternal life, and grow
Each day more beautiful,
As time declares their good,
Forgets the rest, and proves
Their immortality."

[Source: The Missionary Messenger, April 1937, pages 1-3]

It was a surprise and sad news when I cabled the Board of the death of my father on February 18. Our American friends would naturally be surprised to hear such schocking news, which was unexpected. It is my duty to explain to our friends the story of my father's recent illness to his death, which will give the people some understanding. I may say in the very beginning that neither my father nor his friends knew that death would result, but somehow God's will cannot be ignored.

Ever since my return to China two years ago my father's health has been failing--gradually and, up to last year, rapidly. Howeer, he never was sick, but his flesh showed signs of being an old man. Now and then after a strenuous journey to some mission field he felt tired and worn; but never was sick. Things became different last year (last August, 1936). After he returned from Jung-shang district, he suffered heart trouble. His breath was uneasy, and he could not sleep, ear nor walk. He went to doctors for diagnosis, and they told him that it was a heart trouble. Every one gave him the same warning: namely, "NO WORK, BUT REST."

A friend of mine, an American doctor, told me confidentially that my father's case was dangerous if he kept on working the way he did. The case was a hopeless one, he said, but if father would rest, life might be prolonged for a while; otherwise the end would come.

Somehow after a week of rest in bed, my father got well, but the fear in my heart did not cease. I thought and thought to find some way to persuade him not to work so hard, but I never let him know what the doctor had warned me concerning him. Even the doctors have suggested to him that he not work so hard, but he did not mind their suggestions. For a while I thought about asking the Board to let him retire. The people in China wanted the Board to do this, but he would not agree to this. "I will not retire as long as God gives me the life to work," is all he would reply. The only thing left for me to do was to help him as much as I could in order to relieve him. I made many strenuous trips for him, as I could stand them better than he could.

Everything was well with him up to the week or so before the Lord took him away. This time he suffered from the same ailment. For many days he suffered much pain and was in bed. His breath was rapid, the pulse ran almost twice normal. Many doctors came to see him, but could do nothing for him. Three nights before he died, mother an I sat up all night to nurse him. When we saw him suffering, mother could not control her tears. Sometimes he caught mother's eyes, he comforted her: "It is God's will, you must not cry." The night before he end came, his mind was confused; he could not talk well. At mid-night he mentioned something about the family, especially mentioned the two younger sisters, whom he said we must do our best to support and help them finish school. He also mentioned that every one of us (brothers and sisters) should love each other and be good children to mother. Besides these few things, he said no more.

When the last day came, he called me in rapid successions to assist him in the bed. He spoke to me once concerning the work which he left. "Samuel," cried he, "I am content to have you take up my work. I would not be willing to die if there were no one to follow my task, but I am thankful God has called you....you must be brave...." Before he could finish I found my eyes overflowing with tears. All the sadness of the world seemd to flood my heart and soul at that moment. Finally I told him not to worry about us, not to worry about the work which he loved so much, and I promised him that I would follow Christ's guidance in carrying on the work which he left behind.

At 10 p.m. a group of people came to pray for him. Every one of us was in tears. It was the most sorrowful prayer meeting I have ever witnessed. We could hear him calling: "Lord... Lord help me...Lord, God...Amen...Amen...." At 11 p.m., seeing his condition became worse, a doctor was called hurriedly. At 11:30 p.m., the angels came and took him away. There was no medicine in the world that could save him.

When the news was broadcasted to friends in the city, many came to spend the night with us. The news was a shock to many who did not know anyting about his illness. When the body was last viewed by friends before it was placed in the coffin, more than three hundred came to our home for the solemn service conducted by Rev. Wong. The funeral will not take place until March 4, waiting the return of my brother, McAdow, and sister, Clara, from the North.

"Your father is the best friend I have in this world," some one told me at the service. "He was the best Christian character I have ever known," another remarked. "He should be highly respectd in the history of the Christian Church in South China," still others expressed. We are grateful for the fine words expressed by friends about our father. We, his own children, feel that he has been a wonderful father to us; he has brought us up so devotedly that we could never repay him for what he has done. He was an untiring worker, both to his Lord and his church. Even in the early part of his sickness he was continuously working. One day in the morning we found him sitting up making his monthly report to the Board, which was against the doctor's orders, my mother stopped him; she had to put things away before he would retire again to his sick bed. We thank God for him and his life. We will miss him terribly from our midst, but it is God's will to give him rest--the rest that he could never have obtained while in this material world.

We, in the family, used to hear him pray and read the Bible early in the morning. It was his daily habit for years. His Bible and Daily Debotional Book, "Daily Strength For Daily Nees," by Tileston, still remains in his desk, but no more prayers or readings from him can be heard. He is at rest now in Heaven; waiting us all by and by.
       Written on February 24, 1937.

First of all, let me describe as simply as I can about our father's funeral, which took place two days ago (March 4). The funeral would have taken place sooner but we were waiting for the return of my sister, Clara, and my brother, McAdow, who are studying in North China. We called them to come home; they finally cane few days before the occasion.

Early in the morning (9:00 a.m., on March 4) a group of friends, more than a hundred, came to our home for a brief service before the casket was taken to the Central Church for the funeral service. The program was as follows: I. Silent prayer; 2. Song; 3. Prayer by Mr. Leong; 4. Scripture; 5. Sermon by Rev. Wong; 6. Song; 7. Benediction. Then the funeral procession immediately formed, marching to the Central Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the center part of the city.

At 12:00 more than a thousand friends had already gathered at the church waiting for father's coffin to arrive. The hall was in absolute silence, filled with such solemn atmosphere that I cannot describe it to you in words. When the band played the funeral march everyone stood up for three minutes of silence--but there was not much of silence. Then followed prayer, song and a sermon.

The sermon was preached by Rev. John Fisher, head of the Church of Christ in South China, an American, and a good friend of my father's. It was first thought that this sermon should be preached by a Cumberland Presbyterian preacher, but everyone insisted that an American must be in charge in order to honor my father whom the American people loved so well and by whom he was sent. Dr. Fisher's words were helpful words to us all. He said in part: "Brother Gam was my friend in China for more than twenty years; though I have not frequently come in contact with him on account of working in a separate denomination but many times we had happy gatherings, and on few occasions had the privilege of working together in the name of Jesus Christ. I have never known a friend who was so kind and considerate to his friends as Rev. Gam..."

Then followed the sermon. Two elders talked on, "The Life of Rev. Gam Sing Quah"; one on my father's life while in America, and the other about my father's life in China. I may say here that the elder who spoke on my father's life in America was none other than Mr. John Wong, whom some of the American friends (especially in San Francisco) may know. He was one of the early converts of my father's in the San Francisco Mission, and who is now a high official in the Chinese Government. In this talk, Elder Wong chiefly spoke on my father's early effort in establishing a Chinese Mission in San Francisco.

Another elder spoke on my father's life in China as he knew him during these years. He spoke of many noble characteristics of my father and the hardships he faced during the early years of his effort in establishing the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in this part of the country. He said finally, "Our Brother Gam is gone now--forever from us in this earth, but his spirit and his personality is remaining with us. We should be glad instead of sad that he is gone; for he needed a rest--and the Lord knew this and he could not take it while in this material world.... We are glad to have his own son, whom he was so proud of in his work. He will now take up the cross that we all may work together with him in the name of Jesus Christ...."

After the funeral service at the church, people were supposed to dismiss and go back to their respective homes before the coffin was moved to the cemetery. But instead they followed the coffin up to the last minute. This really showed how greatly they did love our dear father, even to the end of his life on earth. As the people gathered on the mountain toop, they all sang again, prayed again, until they saw the body of my father slowly covered with dirt. There were no dry eyes when people left the ground. More than a hundred wreaths were laid on the grave. Rarely do our people see so many flowers.

Our churches, every one of them, are preparing memorial services for my father now. We had a meeting yesterday and all our workers were present. They all came and shook hands with me and told me that they will love me as much as they loved my father, and that they will all stand by me in all the tasks ahead. Their hope and their fine expressions were greatly appreciated by me in my heart, but there were no words that could express all I felt.

I could not begin to tell the Board how I felt when the air mail letter was in my hands. Your words were really like arrows piercing down in my heart and soul. I know every one of you love me, more than ever before. I can feel your love every minute of my existence, and I just cannot let the Board know how greatly I appreciate your great love except to bow before him and to thank him for this great love. I feel the cross of Christ coming down to my shoulders harder and harder, and I can hear the Lord say to me: "Be not afraid, neither be dismayed...for I am with thee...I will not forsake thee, even at the end of this world." There is not a least bit of doubt in my heart as to Christ's calling me in his service. How could I resist his calling and how could I disappoint him when I knew such was real and true? And how could I fail the Board whose love was, and is, so great and sincere?

Father was loved and highly respected by all his friends and associates. This was shown at his funeral, if not by anything else. No one can imagine how greatly we, the family, do miss him. He was a kind father to us and good husband to mother. It is not selfish for me to say that he was very proud of me. During the months that I have been working with him in the field he often expressed his appreciation to God for my life; for his calling to his son to follow the steps of the father. He said that one of the greatest comforts in his life was to know one of his children will carry on his work which he loved so much. Even at the last moments of his life he expressed the same thing again. When his last moment come, I was holding his head in my arms. I could see that his breath became rapid, and could not speak anymore, I uttered him these words...."God bless you, father....Please do not worry about us....I wil not fail you....I will not fail the Lord...." Within a few seconds there was nothing except the heart-broken sounds of the family.

Mother told me to tell the Board that she deeply appreciated your message. She knows that the Board will pray for her and think of her in the midst of her sorrow and sadness. It is hard for her as well as for us to live without father, but we trust that God has done what was best. We thank the Lord for our father's life and what he meant to us and his friends.

Please accept our deep appreciation to the Board and each one of the members. I cannot tell all I feel in these pages. We thank God for you all who are so interested in us and in the work in China. Please do not worry about our work, for God is with us and we cannot fail; for nothing can fail with God.
   PRAY FOR US.
   March 6, 1937.
[Source: The Missionary Messenger, May 1937, page 12-16]

We wish to thank our friends who attempt to comfort and help us after the departure of our beloved father, Rev. Gam Sing Quah. Their sincere prayers and sympathetic messages have helped to fill our aching hearts.

Our father's death was not sudden, but is was rather unexpected. For about a year or so his health was failing, due to heart trouble, but he refused to seek rest as many doctors had advised him. He was constantly working for his Lord and his church, though it may proved a great danger upon his age. Even at the peak of his physical suffering, he got up working against doctor's orders. While he knew that the Lord may soon take him away, he remarked that this life of his be contented because some one will take up the cross of Jesus for him; otherwise he would not be satisfied to leave this sinful world.

We feel that his whole life, even up to end, has been given for the service of the Lord and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. No one could have loved his Lord and his church more than he. It is hard, as everyone of us could understand, that we live without him in our midst. But we thank God for his life and his sacrifice. we are thankful that he is at reat now--the rest that he would never have obtained while in this material world.

We wish to thank the Woman's Board and the church at large for what they have done for him as well as for us. We also wish to thank all the sympathetic messages sent by our friends in America whom our father loved and appreciated. There is only one request we wish to make to you, and that is prayer. Please pray for us that God may show us the way; that God may continuously guide the works in China, which our dear father left behind.

Prayerfully yours,
The Family of Rev. Gam Sing Quah, Canton, China.
[Source: The Missionary Messenger, June 1937, pages 4-5]

1892
Catalogue of Students
Sin Quah, Gam [sic] - Canton, China - Preparatory School
[Source: Catalogue of Cumberland University. Lebanon, Tennessee. 1892, page 10]

1893
Sing, Quah Gam - Canton, China - Preparatory School
[Source: Catalogue of Cumberland University. Lebanon, Tennessee. 1893, page 10]

1894
Sing, Quah Gam - Canton, China - Freshman Class
[Source: Catalogue of Cumberland University. Lebanon, Tennessee. 1894, page 10]

1895
Gam Sing Quah, Nashville, Tenn. (Page 192 gives address as Lebanon, Tenn.)
Candidate - Lebanon Presbytery - Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1895, pages 168 & 192]

1896
Gam, Sing Quah (Cumberland University) - Canton China
Theological School, Junior Class student
[Source: Catalogue of Cumberland University. Lebanon, Tennessee. 1896, page 56]

1896
Gam Sing Quah, Lebanon, Tenn.
Candidate - Lebanon Presbytery - Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1896, page 154]

1897
Gam, Sing Quah (Cumberland University) - Canton, China - Lebanon Presbytery
Theological Students, Middle Class
[Source: Catalogue of Cumberland University. Lebanon, Tennessee. 1897, page 57]

1897
Gam Sing Quah, (student) Lebanon, Tenn.
Candidate - Lebanon Presbytery - Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1897, page 275]

1898
Theological School - Senior Class
Gam, Sing Quah (Cumberland University) - Canton, China - Lebanon Presbytery
Degress Conferred, 1898: Bachelor of Divinity, B.D. - Gam, Sing Quah
[Source: Catalogue of Cumberland University. Lebanon, Tennessee. 1898, pages 51 & 55]

1898
Gam, Sing Quah, (student) Lebanon, Tenn.
Licentiate - Lebanon Presbytery - Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1898, page 289]

1899
Gam, Sing Quah, (foreign missionary) Lebanon, Tenn.
Licentiate - Lebanon Presbytery - Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1899, page 193a]

1900
Gam, Sing Quah, missionary, 4 Clay Ave., San Francisco, Cal.
Minister - Lebanon Presbytery - Tennessee Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1900, page 207a]

1901
Gam, Sing Quah, missionary, 4 Clay Ave., San Francisco, Cal.
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1901, page 258a]

1902
Gam, Sing Quah, missionary, 1106 Stockton St., San Francisco, Cal.
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1902, page 212a

1903
Gam, Sing Quah, missionary, 1106 Stockton St., San Francisco, Cal.
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1903, page 199a]

1904
Gam, Sing Quah, missionary, San Francisco, Calif.
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1904, page 179a]

1905
Gam, Sing Quah, charge, 1228 Stockton St., San Francisco, Calif.
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
Pastor - First Chinese Cumberland Presbyterian Church
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1905, pages 96a & 158a]

1906
Gam, Sing Quah, missionary, San Francisco, Calif.
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
Pastor - First Chinese Cumberland Presbyterian Church
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1906, pages 87a & 146a]

1907
Gam, Sing Quah, 665 Alice St., Oakland, California
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
Pastor - First Chinese Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Commissioner to General Assembly in Dickson, Tennessee, May 16-21, 1907.
Served on the Committee on Publication.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1907, pages 12, 14, 27, 51a & 19b]

1908
Gam, Sing Quah, San Francisco, 766 Jackson St., California
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
Pastor - First Chinese Cumberland Presbyterian Church
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1908, pages 61a & 11b]

1909
Gam, Sing Quah, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1909, page 10b]

1910
Gam, Sing Quah, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1910, page 208]

1911
Gam, Sing Quah, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1911, page 205]

1912
Gam, Sing Quah, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1912, page 243]

1913
Gam, Sing Quah, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1913, page 317]

1914
Gam, Sing Quah, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1914, page 264]

1915
Gam Sing Quah, Canton, China, 77 Tung Loy Sai Quick
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1915, page 223]

1916
Gam Sing Quah, Canton, China, 77 Tung Loy
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1916, pages 241 & 270]

1917
Gam Sing Quah, Canton, China, 77 Fling Loy, Sai Yoke (page 270 has 77 Tung Loy Sai Quick)
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1917, page 246]

1918
Gam Sing Quah, 77 Flin Loy, Sai Yoke, Canton, China (page 235 has 77 Fouly Loy Sai Yoke)
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1918, pages 213 & 235]

1919
Gam Sing Quah, 77 Fung Loy, Sai Yoke, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1919, page 213]

1920
Gam Sing Quah, 77 Fung Loy, Sai Yoke, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1920, page 234]

1921
Gam Sing Quah, 77 Fung Loi, Sai Yoke, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1921, page 316]

1922
Gam Sing Quah, 77 Fung Loi, Sai Yoke, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1922, page 277]

1923
Gam Sing Quah, 77 Fong Loy, Sai Yuek, Canton, China
Minister - California Presbytery - Pacific Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1923, page 287]

1924
Gam Sing Quah, 77 Fong Loy, Sai Yuek, Canton, China
Minister - Pacific Presbytery - Texas Synod
Pastor - Canton Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Canton, China
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1924, pages 168 & 268]

1925
Gam Sing Quah, Canton, China
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
Pastor - Canton Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Canton, China
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1925, pages 173 & 229]

1926
Gam Sing Quah, Canton, China
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1926, page 236]

1927
Gam Sing Quah, 77 Fong Loy Sai Yuek, Canton, China
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1927, pages 241 & 260]

1928
Gam Sing Quah - 77 Fong Loy Sai Yuek, Canton, China
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
Pastor - Canton Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Canton, China
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1928, pages 38a, 11c & 30c]

1929
Gam Sing Quah - 77 Fong Loy Sai Yuek, Canton, China
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1929, pages 216 & 236]

1930
Gam Sing Quah - 77 Fong Loy Sai Yuek, Canton, China
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1930, pages 235 & 255]

1931
Gam Sing Quah - 79 Fong Lay Saiyuck, Canton, China [page 238 has 79 Fong Loy Sai Yuek
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
Pastor - Canton Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Canton, China
Commissioner to General Assembly in Evansville, Indiana, May 21-27, 1931.
Served on the Committee on Missions and Church Erection.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1931, pages 18, 22, 168, 219 & 238]

1932
Gam Sing Quah - 79 Fong Lay Saiyuck, Canton, China (page 205 has 77 Fong Loy Sai Yuek, Canton, China
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
Pastor - Canton Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Canton, China
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1932, pages 155, 185 & 205]

1933
Gam Sing Quah - 77 Fong Lay Saiyuck, Canton, China (page 196 has 77 Fong Loy Sai Yuek)
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
Pastor - Canton Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Canton, China
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1933, pages 157, 175 & 196]

1934
Gam Sing Quah - 77 Fong Lay Saiyuck, Canton, China (page 191 has 77 Fong Loy Sai Yuek)
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1934, pages 169 & 191]

1935
Gam Sing Quah - 77 Fong Lay Saiyuck, Canton, China (page 201 has 77 Fong Loy Sai Yuek)
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1935, pages 179 & 201]

1936
Gam Sing Quah, 77 Fong Loy Sai Yuek, Canton, China
Minister - Canton Presbytery - Texas Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1936, page 187]

1937
Report on Mortuary
Canton - Rev. Gam Sing Quah, active, died February 18, 1937, age 75 years; died on mission field, heart trouble.

RECOMMENDATION
(This Memorial Granted)
(Note: The wording of this recommendation indicates that the Canton Presbytery intended it for a memorial, not being thoroughly acquainted with the English language, they give it as a recommendation. this paper is copied just as it is given to us, but we pray you that it be considered as a memorial.--D. W. Fooks, member of Canton Presbytery.)
In recognition of the great works which our late brother, Rev. Gam Sing Quah Memorial Fund, of the Canton Presbytery, would like to recommend the following:
That both the Cumberland Presbyterians in China and in America are freely urged to make contributions toward a Gam Sing Quah Memorial Fund whereby a memorial may constructed in loving memory of this great servant of God. As yet no definite idea is set by this committee as to how should this said fund be used. (Whether for a Gam Sing Quah Memorial School, Orphan's Home, Home for Aged, Hospital, or the like). But we suggestd first that this said fund be recognized by the Woman's Board and the church at large. Will you cooperate with us and pray for us in this attempt?
Yours very truly,
The Committee for the Gam Sing Quah Memorial Fund of the Canton Presbytery.
Mr. Wong Tong, Chariman (temporary),
Y. L. Chu,
S. Q. Yan,
S. K. Gam,
Y. M. Wong.

MESSAGE FROM SOUTH CHINA MISSION FIELD
To the one Hundred Seventh General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.A.
Dear Brethren:
We, the Cumberland Presbyerians of South China, wish to extend to you our hearty greetings. We have recently suffered a great loss by the passing of our great leader and friend, Rev. Gam Sing Quah. Though is is gone forever from us in this earth, but his spirit, his faith, and his love can never, never be forgotten in our hearts. We are now looking unto Jesus for guidance in bringing the kingdom of God into this great unsaved nation. Pleae pray for us.
Read Psalm: 133.
Yours in Christ,
Samuel K. Gam.
Canton, China.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1937, pages 44 & 154]

Clay, Mrs. Johnie Massey. A Brief History of Cumberland Presbyterian Missions in South China or Gam Sing Quah in China: 1908-1923.

Clay, Mrs. Johnie Massey. The Young Man From China (Gam Sing Quah in America). Nashville, Tennessee: Woman's Board of Missions Cumberland Presbyterian Church, no date.