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- Rev. James M. Menzies by a Dolmen in Shangdong province, China in 1935.
gain �hands-on� experience of the scientific method of recording the excavation of archaeological sites. Both these expeditions were connected with the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.
After a few months leave in Canada the Menzies family returned across the Pacific, the three children entering the Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan, while Mr. and Mrs. Menzies returned to Zhangde for a new beginning after an absence of over three years. In addition to his evangelistic and educational work, Mr. Menzies began again to collect archaeological reference materials. In 1931 the Academia Sinica began systematic excavation of the royal tombs at Xiao Tun of the Shangor Yin Dynasty. This activity gave Mr. Menzies personal contact with leading Chinese archaeologists like Li Ji. In 1931 Mr. Menzies published an article on The Culture of the Shang Dynasty in the annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution (pp. 549-58).
Qualified graduates of North Henan Christian high schools were sent on to Cheeloo University (originally called Shantung Christian University) in Jinan, the capital of neighbouring Shandong province. With the approval of the Church of Christ in China, the United Church of Canada provided four staff members to Cheeloo University; in theology, in medicine, in nursing and in Arts and Science.
In 1932 Mr. Menzies was invited by Cheeloo University to assume the post of Professor of Archaeology. He arranged for his recently assembled collection of ancient Chinese pottery vessels and fragments to be shipped by cart overland from Zhangde to Jinan to form the beginning of the Cheeloo University Museum. Mr. Menzies continued with his research work as an example to Chinese staff and students and introduced the first introductory course in archaeological methods and another on Asian and Chinese archaeology. He lectured in Chinese. In 1934 he published in Chinese in the Cheeloo Journal a study of Nestorian Bronze Crosses, being 979 ink impressions of bronze seals in the collection of F. A. Nixon, with an introduction, method of classification and an article on Christianity in China in Marco Polo�s time. In the Cheeloo Monthly Bulletin, May 1936, he published an article on Early Chinese Ideas of God, pointing out that the inscriptions on Shang Dynasty oracle bones included the concept of �The One Above��Shang Di.
On July 7, 1937, following a clash between Japanese and Chinese troops at the
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