Priscilla Studd
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Christian
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missionary
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...
and wife of Charles Studd
Charles Studd
Charles Thomas Studd, often known as C. T. Studd, was born 2 December 1860, Spratton, Northamptonshire, England, and died 16 July 1931, Ibambi, Belgian Congo....
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Born in Lisburn
Lisburn
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, near Belfast
Belfast
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, Ireland
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, (modern day Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
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Priscilla Stewart arrived in Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
in 1887 as part of The Hundred missionaries of the China Inland Mission
China Inland Mission
OMF International is an interdenominational Protestant Christian missionary society, founded in Britain by Hudson Taylor on 25 June 1865.-Overview:...
and was one of a large party to arrive together. She was reported as being both Irish in her looks and in her spirit with blue eyes and golden hair. After a while in Shanghai she moved with three other women to work inland at the city of Ta-Ku-Tang.
Of her new found calling she said,
In China, after praying whilst kneeling in the snow, she became seriously ill with a serious bout of pneumonia
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
- so much so that she sent for her then fiancé Charles - who was himself recovering from an attack of pleurisy
Pleurisy
Pleurisy is an inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs. Among other things, infections are the most common cause of pleurisy....
. After a while she started to recover but the local Chinese said that having sent for Charles from so far - that they must marry and Charles agreed! They went through a wedding ceremony with Pastor Xi Shengmo
Xi Shengmo
Xi Sheng Mo 席勝魔 also known as Pastor Hsi, was a Chinese Christian leader.-Life:He was born Xi Liaozhi in a village near Linfen, became a Confucian scholar, and after his conversion to Christianity changed his given name to Shengmo or Conqueror of Demons...
- who was unlicensed - but it pleased the locals. After their wedding the Studds moved to another inland city - Lungang-Fu.
Priscilla Studd was married to the English cricketer
Cricketer
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and missionary Charles Studd
Charles Studd
Charles Thomas Studd, often known as C. T. Studd, was born 2 December 1860, Spratton, Northamptonshire, England, and died 16 July 1931, Ibambi, Belgian Congo....
who she met in China when she was a missionary with the China Inland Mission as had Charles as one of the Cambridge Seven
Cambridge Seven
The Cambridge Seven were seven students from Cambridge University, who in 1885, decided to become missionaries in China; the seven were:*Charles Thomas Studd*Montagu Harry Proctor Beauchamp*Stanley P. Smith*Arthur T. Polhill-Turner*Dixon Edward Hoste...
under the direction of Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor , was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission . Taylor spent 51 years in China...
. The Studds were married in 1888 and had four daughters - Grace, Dorothy, Edith, Pauline; in addition two sons died in infancy.
In 1894 the couple returned to England and then between 1900 and 1906 they moved to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. After India and another return to England Charles' missionary work took him alone to Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and the last sixteen years of their married life was spent apart, with Charles remaining in Africa and Priscilla in England - here she laboured with the newly formed Worldwide Evangelization Crusade. She died in 1929.
See also
- The Studd Brothers
- Kynaston StuddKynaston StuddSir John Edward Kynaston Studd, 1st Baronet OBE , known as "JEK", was a British cricketer, businessman and Lord Mayor of London.-Family:...
- George StuddGeorge StuddGeorge Brown Studd - cricketer and missionary.Studd was the second eldest of the famous Studd brothers, who dominated English cricket in the late 19th century...
- Peter Malden StuddPeter Malden StuddSir Peter Malden Studd GBE KCVO MA DSc DL - was an English cricketer and the 643rd Lord Mayor of London.-Biography:...
- List of China Inland Mission missionaries in China
- 19th Century Protestant Missions in China
- Christianity in ChinaChristianity in ChinaChristianity in China is a growing minority religion that comprises Protestants , Catholics , and a small number of Orthodox Christians. Although its lineage in China is not as ancient as the institutional religions of Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism, and the social system and ideology of...
External sources
- C.T. Studd: Cricketer and Pioneer by Norman Grubb ISBN 0-7188-3028-8
- Christian Biography Resources