David Willard Lyon

1870 – 1949

David Willard Lyon was born in China, and returned in 1895 to found in the first YMCA in the country in Tianjin. In 1930, he returned to the U.S. During his later years in China, he organized where leadership training classes, a lending library, and a college student newspaper called The Chinese Intercollegian (later called China’s Young Men). He helped organize language schools. Lyons book, "The Christian Equivalent of War," was published in 1915. Lyon Lyon graduated from the College of Wooster, Ohio, and McCormick Theological Seminary.

• Sketch of the History of Protestant Missions in China
• The Christian equivalent of war
• The Christian equivalent of war
• The evangelisation of China
• American laymen and missions in China
• Charts prepared for the Student Volunteer Convention, Kansas City, 1914
• Chinese students in Japan
• Inside the moon gate
• On mastering the form and use of the most frequent words in the Mandarin language
• The Christian Equivalent to War
• The crux of the crisis in China
• The supreme choice of Jesus