Thursday, December 12, 2024

Only One Life, 'Twill Soon Be Past

 Charles Thomas Studd, better known as C. T. Studd, was a British missionary, a contributor to The Fundamentals, and a cricketer.  
He was born on December 2, 1860, in Spratton, United Kingdom, into a family of wealth and privilege.
In 1883 he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1885 entered the missions field with Hudson Taylor in China.  
As a British Anglican Christian missionary to China he was part of the
Cambridge Seven, and later was responsible for setting up the Heart of Africa Mission which became the Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade (now WEC International). As a cricketer, he played for England in the 1882 match won by Australia, which was the origins of The Ashes.
C.T. Studd spent his life in dedicated service to the Lord, serving in China, India, and Africa. In 1913 he formed the World Evangelisation Crusade (now WEC International) which operates to this day.  

In 1888, he married Priscilla Livingstone Stewart, and they had four daughters and two sons.  
She died in 1929, and  C.T, died in 1931, in 
Ibambi, Belgian Congo.  

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Studd
https://reasonsforhopejesus.com/only-one-life-twill-soon-be-past-by-c-t-studd-1860-1931/

A poem he wrote, "Only One Life, 'Twill Soon Be Past", has become famous to many who are unaware of its author. Only One Life