Alan S. Moore Anderson (安德森·阿蘭·慕爾) 1876 ~ 1959
安德森出生在一個基督徒家庭，其家庭成員中包括安立甘宗、長老宗、弟兄會和貴格會的信徒。早在慕迪（Dwight Lyman Moody）來訪前十多年，安德森的信仰就已逐步堅定了。1896年，他聽到穆德（John R. Mott）的證道，一年後明確了自己的蒙召，立志從事海外宣教和教導工作。他先後到倫敦、威斯敏斯特學院（Westminster College）和劍橋（Cambridge）等地接受訓練，並於1902年被按立爲牧師。1904年，安德森在泉州和廈門開始辦學，且終生不綴。他把自己所創辦的學校取名爲威斯敏斯特。
1931年，安德森被調往新加坡辦學，爲建校他四處奔波勸募，特別向那些分散在東南亞地區的泉州畢業校友募捐。1941年夏天，65歲的安德森到南非休假。由於日軍入侵，他留在非洲爲中國募集資金。但當他試圖取道印度回中國時，卻未能成功。1946年，安德森返回新加坡，先後在Katong和Muar安度晚年。安德森終生未婚。他生活極爲敬虔，富有幽默感，而且有向個人傳福音的恩賜。他有點像詩人，蒐集一些格言謎語，用來和年輕人展開對話。他在宣教方面具有強烈的戰略意識，甚至不惜花費自己的資金爲教會的發展而購置土地。
作者：John Roxborogh, 傅國朝譯
關於作者:Head, Department of Mission Studies, bible College of New Zealand, Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand
English Version
Alan S. Moore Anderson 1876 ~ 1959
Story Sources Attribution From a family background which included Anglican, Presbyterians, Brethren, and the Society of Friends, Anderson's Christian commitment developed at Moody's visit over a decade before. Anderson heard J. R. Mott in 1896 and a year later was certain of his call to ministry, overseas mission, and teaching. He trained in London and at Westminster College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1902. He began a lifetime of school-building in Chuanchow (Chin-Chew) in Amoy in 1904, naming the school he founded after Westminster College.
Anderson was transferred to Singapore in 1931. He was shameless in soliciting money for Singapore schools, especially from former Chuanchow pupils around Southeast Asia. At age 65, he went on furlough to South Africa in the summer of 1941. Following the Japanese invasion, he remained in Africa raising money for China but failed in an attempt to get back there from India. He returned to Singapore in 1946 and spent his retirement in Katong and then Muar. Anderson never married. He had a strong devotional life, a sense of humor, and gifts of personal evangelism; something of a poet, he accumulated a proverbial collection of puzzles, which he used to strike up conversations with young people. His keen strategic sense of mission included committing his personal funds to obtaining land for church development.
About the Author
By John Roxborogh
Head, Department of Mission Studies, Bible College of New Zealand, Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand
Anderson, Alan S. Moore, Random Reminiscences (ca. 1956). Band, Edward, Working His Purpose Out: The History of the English Presbyterian Mission, 1847-1947 (1948). Henderson, John, "The Service in Malaya and Singapore of the Reverend Alan S. Moore Anderson," The Presbyterian Church in Singapore and Malaysia. 90th Anniversary of the Church and 70th Anniversary of the synod, Commemoration Volume (1970).
This article is reproduced, with permission, from A Dictionary of Asian Christianity, copyright © 2001 by Scott W. Sunquist, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan. All rights reserved.
