1. Charles Studd continued from Eton to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1883.
23 Facts About Charles Studd
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Charles Studd emphasised the life of faith, believing that God would provide for a Christian's needs.
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Charles Studd believed that God's purposes could be confirmed through providential coincidences, such as a sum of money being donated spontaneously at just the right moment.
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Charles Studd encouraged Christians to take risks in planning missionary ventures, trusting in God to provide.
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Charles Studd's spirituality was intense, and he mostly read only the Bible.
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Charles Studd believed in plain speaking and muscular Christianity, and his call for Christians to embrace a "Don't Care a Damn" attitude to worldly things caused some scandal.
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Charles Studd believed that missionary work was urgent, and that those who were unevangelised would be condemned to hell.
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Charles Studd gained fame as a cricketer representing England's Cambridge University, Gentlemen of India and Middlesex.
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Charles Studd played in the original Test against Australia where the Ashes were first named and was one of the last two batsman in.
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When Charles Studd went in, England needed a mere ten runs to win but an eccentric performance by his batting partner Ted Peate led to the match being lost.
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Charles Studd became an evangelist, and among those he influenced were Wilfred Grenfell and Frederick Brotherton Meyer.
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Charles Studd was one of the "Cambridge Seven", a group of former Cambridge students who offered themselves to Hudson Taylor for missionary service at the China Inland Mission, leaving for there in February 1885.
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Charles Studd believed that God had given him daughters to educate the Chinese about the value of baby girls.
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Between 1900 and 1906, Charles Studd was pastor of a church at Ootacamund in Southern India.
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On his return from India, Charles Studd met a German missionary named Karl Kumm, and he became concerned about the large parts of Africa that had never been reached with the Gospel.
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In 1910 he went to the Sudan with CMS missionary, Llewellyn Gwynne and was concerned by the lack of Christian faith in central Africa; out of this concern Charles Studd was led to set up the Heart of Africa Mission.
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Charles Studd's speaking on the subject inspired Howard Mowll, Arthur Pitts-Pitts, and Graham Brown.
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Against medical advice, Charles Studd first visited the Belgian Congo in 1913 in the company of Alfred Buxton, and he established four mission stations in an area then inhabited by eight tribes.
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Charles Studd returned to England when Priscilla fell ill, but when he returned to the Congo in 1916 she had recovered sufficiently to undertake the expansion of the mission into the Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade with workers in South America, Central Asia and the Middle East as well as Africa.
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Charles Studd was joined in his work by his daughter Pauline and son-in-law Norman Grubb, and his grandson Noel Grubb, who died on his first birthday, is buried at Nala, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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On 16 July 1931, still labouring for the Lord at Ibambi at the age of seventy, Charles Studd died from untreated gallstones.
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Charles Studd devoted the rest of his life to spreading the Gospel message in Africa, founding the Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade.
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Charles Studd continues to be best remembered by some for the poem, "Only One Life, 'Twill Soon Be Past".