C.T. Studd was an English pioneer missionary that worked in China, India, and Africa lived from 1863-1931. He was a son of a wealthy planter, Studd was converted under D.L. Moody in 1876, educated at Cambridge, and played cricket for the English national team. He was one of the famous “Cambridge Seven” who sailed for China in 1895 with the China Inland Mission .

While there, he adopted the Chinese lifestyle and gave away his considerable fortune to Christian causes, preferring to trust God completely. Ill heath brought him home in 1894, and following several years working among students in America, he served as pastor of Union Church at Ootacamund, South India from 1900-06. Despite continued health problems, he founded the Heart of Africa Mission in 1912, working in the Congo until his death.

He gave himself unreservedly to spreading the gospel, reducing local languages to writing, and translating the Scriptures. His motto was, “If Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for him.”

The following are some quotes from CT STudd:

• “Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.”
• “Christ’s call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil’s clutches and the very jaws of Hell. This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ.”
• “Concluding a short series on prayer We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism… To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don’t hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!”

**Information comes from the Evangelical Dictionary for World Missions