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OMF International
OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before 1964 the China Inland Mission) is an international and interdenominational Evangelical Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore. It was founded in Britain by Hudson Taylor on 25 June 1865. Overview The non-sectarian China Inland Mission was founded on principles of faith and prayer founded by James Hudson Taylor in 1865. From the beginning it recruited missionaries from the working class as well as single women. The original goal of the mission that began dedicated to China has grown to include bringing the Gospel to East Asia. Following the departure of all foreign workers in the early 1950s, the China Inland Mission redirected its missionaries to other parts of East Asia. The name was changed to the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in 1964, and then to the current name in the 1990s. History Missiological Distinctives of the CIM Origins Hudson Taylor made the first ...
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William Chalmers Burns
William Chalmers Burns (宾惠廉, 1 April 1815 – 4 April 1868) was a Scottish Evangelist and Missionary to China with the English Presbyterian Mission who originated from Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire. He was the coordinator of the Overseas missions for the English Presbyterian church. He became a well known evangelist through his participation in two periodic Anglo-American religious revivals. Biography Burns was brought up in a well-to-do household. The third son of a local church minister, William Hamilton Burns (1779–1859) and Elizabeth Chalmers (1784–1879). At the age of seventeen, Burns' faith was strengthened through tragedy, and he subsequently commenced theological training at Marischal College in Aberdeen, and at the University of Glasgow's Divinity Hall. (His brother Islay, author of ''Memoirs'', was later a professor there). During a revival meeting, he encountered an experience in which it became apparent that God had particularly appointed him into His ...
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William Whiting Borden
William Whiting Borden (November 1, 1887 – April 9, 1913) was an American philanthropist and millionaire Christian missionary candidate who died in Egypt before reaching his chosen field, Gansu province in China. Life and work Childhood and youth William Whiting Borden was born into a prominent and wealthy Illinois family, the third child of William and Mary DeGarmo Whiting Borden. Borden's father had made a fortune in Colorado silver mining, but the family was unrelated to the Borden Condensed Milk Company—an advantage for Borden since if asked about his wealth, he could honestly reply that his family was often mistaken for "the rich Condensed Milk firm that bears the name of Borden." Borden had three siblings: John (1884-1961), Joyce (1897-1971), and novelist and poet Mary Borden Spears (1886-1968). After his mother converted to evangelical Christianity in 1894, she took Borden to Chicago Avenue Church, later Moody Church, where he responded to the gospel preaching o ...
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Dixon Edward Hoste
Dixon Edward Hoste (23 July 1861 – 11 May 1946) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and the longest lived of the Cambridge Seven. He became the successor to James Hudson Taylor as General Director of the China Inland Mission, (from 1902 to 1935). Life Hoste was born in 1861 as the son of Major General Dixon Edward Hoste. He was educated at Clifton College"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p37: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, and at the age of 18 was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. In 1882 he experienced a Christian conversion under the influence of Dwight Lyman Moody. In 1883 he became interested in the work of the China Inland Mission, and was the first of the Cambridge Seven to apply to work with this mission, and after some delay he was accepted, sailing for China in 1885. He was sent to Küwu (presumably Quwo), to the south of Linfen in Southern ...
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, the Boxer Insurrection, or the Yihetuan Movement, was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (), known as the "Boxers" in English because many of its members had practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese boxing". After the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, villagers in North China feared the expansion of foreign spheres of influence and resented the extension of privileges to Christian missionaries, who used them to shield their followers. In 1898 Northern China experienced several natural disasters, including the Yellow River flooding and droughts, which Boxers blamed on foreign and Christian influence. Beginning in 1899, Boxers spread violence across Shandong and the North China Plain, destroying foreign property such as railroads and attacking or ...
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Henrietta Soltau
Henrietta Soltau (8 December 1843 – 5 February 1934) was a British evangelist and promoter of missionary work. Life Soltau was born in 1843 in Plymouth. She was the eldest but one of the eight children of Henry William and Lucy Soltau. When she was ten in August 1854 she was baptised by the Plymouth Brethren evangelist pastor Robert Chapman. Her father was a teacher for the Plymouth Brethren and a writer. She and her sisters, Lucy and Agnes, were her father's assistants at his outdoor meetings. She recalls how enthusiastic her father was after hearing James Hudson Taylor talk and immediately began organising for him to talk at his meeting. After they heard him talk then it was decided that Agnes would not become a missionary but Henrietta would and Agnes would support her. Henrietta volunteered with her family's support. Her father and her brothers became Taylor's supporters. George Brearley was a tract writer and well regarded Plymouth Brethren. Soltau and her sister were soo ...
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Richard Lovett (writer)
Richard Lovett (5 January 1851 – 29 December 1904) was an English minister in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion and author. Life The son of Richard Deacon Lovett and Annie Godart his wife, he was born at Croydon on 5 January 1851. Nine years of boyhood (1858–67) were spent with his parents at Brooklyn in the United States. Leaving school there at an early age, he was employed by a New York publisher. In 1867 he returned to England, and in 1869 entered Cheshunt College, the president of which, Dr. Henry Robert Reynolds, became a significant influence on him. He graduated B.A. with honours in philosophy at London University in 1873, and proceeded M.A. in 1874, when he left Cheshunt and was ordained to the ministry of the Countess of Huntingdon's connexion. He began ministerial work at Bishop's Stortford, also acting as assistant master at the school there. In 1876 Lovett accepted an independent charge as minister of the Countess of Huntingdon church at Rochdale. In 1882 h ...
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The Hundred Missionaries
This is a list of notable Protestant missions in China, Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison (missionary), Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as Medical missions in China, medical missionaries. Missionary organizations American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions American Presbyterian Mission American Southern Presbyterian Mission American Methodist Episcopal Mission American Southern Methodist Mission American Southern Baptist Mission China Inland Mission Church Missionary Society English Presbyterian Mission London Missionary Society Mission Covenant Church of Sweden Protestant Episcopal Church Mission A list of missionaries of the Episcopal Church (United Stat ...
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Lammermuir Party
The Lammermuir Party was a British group of Protestant missionaries who travelled to China in 1866 aboard the tea clipper ''Lammermuir'', accompanied by James Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission. Mission historians have indicated that this event was a turning point in the history of missionary work in China in the 19th century. This was the largest party of Protestant missionaries to date to arrive at one time on Chinese shores. It was also noteworthy that none of the members of the mission were ordained ministers, and only two had any previous overseas experience. In addition to this, there were among them nine unmarried women traveling to a place where single European women were rare for many reasons. Departure On the morning of 26 May 1866, the 34 sailors, 18 missionaries and four children boarded the Lammermuir, which lay tied up at London's East India Docks. Lammermuir was a two-year-old clipper ship with three masts and square-rigged sails. Grace Stott w ...
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Lammermuir (clipper)
''Lammermuir'' was an extreme clipper ship built in 1864 by Pile, Spence and Company of West Hartlepool for John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son, London. She was the second ship to bear the name. The first had been the favorite ship of John Willis, and was wrecked in the Gaspar Strait in 1863. Building ''Lammermuir'' was built at Swanson Dock in West Hartlepool, launching her on 23 July 1864 and completing her on 2 February 1865. She had an iron hull. Her registered length was , her beam was , her depth was and her tonnage was . She had three masts and was a full-rigged ship. Willis registered the ship at London. Her UK official number 50192 was and her code letters were HCVW. Career ''Lammermuir'' was designed for the China tea trade. In 1866 she was almost wrecked in the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean by two typhoons. Her Master was Captain M Bell, and she carried the famous Lammermuir Party of 18 missionaries and four children of the China Inland Mission outbound ...
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