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Smith Wigglesworth (1859-1947)

21/4/2018

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Smith was born and raised in Yorkshire in England. The family was very poor which meant that by the age of six Smith was working in the fields pulling and cleaning turnips. At seven he went to work in a woollen mill for six days a week, 12 hours each day. All this work left him without any formal education, but from his earliest years he had a deep hunger for God. His parents were not saved but he had an old grandmother who was a born-again, on fire, Christian who attended meetings in a local Primitive Methodist Church. Smith was just eight years old, and his grandmother 90 years old, when his life was transformed at one of these meetings. As the believers danced around a big stove, clapping their hands, and singing about the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, Smith looked with faith to Jesus Christ and was instantly born-again. He became a fervent Christian, who loved to tell people about Jesus.

After training as a plumber he started his own business in 1882 and that same year he got married to Polly. During the first three years of marriage Polly taught him how to read and write. The plumbing business was successful but it began to consume more and more of his time. Extreme busyness caused by a very bad winter in 1884 resulted in many burst pipes which badly affected his spiritual life. He grew cold in heart as he neglected private prayer and public attendance at meetings which led him into a backslidden condition for a period of two years. During this time his wife burnt all the brighter in her devotion to God, and she soon won him back to Christ. He eventually went on to become a powerful Spirit-filled Evangelist who travelled the country preaching, seeing souls saved, and sick bodies healed.

When he first stepped out in faith to preach full time rusting God for all his financial provisions he laid down only one condition, that if his shoe-heals or the knees of his trousers ever wore out that he would go back to secular work as it would reveal that his Heavenly Father could not look after him. He coveted no man’s silver or gold and he hated extravagance wherever he saw it. He never made known his needs when he ministered and he never asked for guaranteed payment. He always promoted the needs of others.

In 1915 Smith was invited to join the council of the Pentecostal Missionary Union (PMU). At his yearly convention in his church in Bradford he raised large amounts of money for the PMU missionaries and for the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM), run by W.F.P. Burton. When he travelled ministering in churches and conventions he always insisted on taking up a missionary offering as a priority. He kept enough money for his own expenses and then poured everything else back into foreign missions so the gospel could be carried to those in other countries who had never heard of Christ. In the year 1920 alone, he raised £2,150 for missions and he sent £1,400 of this to the PMU, which was over a third of their income that year.

​During the 1920’s and 1930’s he travelled to many nations, among them Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, Palestine, and South Africa. He made ten trips to America, ten to Switzerland, and five to Scandinavia. He often ministered in small meetings but he also preached frequently to large crowds of 4,000 and even 20,000 people. His sermons and testimonies were published in all the major Pentecostal magazines in many nations. Everywhere he went leaders and believers were inspired by his dynamic faith and the remarkable healings that followed his ministry. By the time he died in 1947, at the age of 87, he was known across the world as the Apostle of Faith – a man rich in faith. He had stored up his riches in Heaven.
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C.T. STUDD (1860-1931)

21/4/2018

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Charles Studd was born into a very wealthy family in England. He received the best upbringing that money could possibly buy and was educated at Eton College in Cambridge. This college was noted for educating the most brilliant and important young people in the nation. His father, Edward, was devoted to card playing, hunting, and horse racing, with one of his horses winning the Grand National in 1866.

​But in 1876 Edward attended an evangelistic meeting in a theatre in London, where an uneducated American, called D.L. Moody, preached the gospel with power. Edward was struck to the heart and converted that night. Everything changed. He returned home, sold his horses, removed most of his beautiful furniture in his sitting rooms replacing it with benches and chairs to hold prayer meetings and preaching meetings. He dedicated his home and wealth to the winning of souls. At one of these meetings in 1878 Edward’s three sons were converted to Christ all on the same day. He continued to seek for souls for the next two years until his early death in 1881.

The three Studd sons were the best and most famous cricketers in the country. C.T. was 18 years old when he was converted but for the next 6 years fame and fortune as England’s greatest cricketer choked to death the power and influence of God’s Word in his life. He was backslidden in heart and unsatisfied in these worldly pursuits. In 1883 he heard evangelist D.L. Moody preach and was stirred in heart to turn to God in repentance, to devote himself entirely to Christ, and to forsake all for the Gospel.
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In 1885 he left England for China as a missionary to serve with Hudson Taylor’s mission society. Later that year when he turned 25 he inherited £29,000 from his father’s will (£3 ½ million in today’s money). As he wrestled in prayer he became convinced that he must give it all away. So he divided it four ways, between, D.L. Moody’s Bible College in America, George Müller's mission work and orphans in Bristol, the poor and homeless in Whitechapel in London, and the Salvation Army in India. He only retained £3,400 which he gave to his bride, Priscilla, for a wedding gift, but she challenged him to give all of his money to the Lord which he then did. They started married life and missionary life with no money or possessions, but they were rich in faith toward God.

They stayed in China for ten years, often persecuted by the locals, frequently lacking the basic needs of life, but rescuing 800 souls from drug addiction during that time. He travelled preaching in America, then they went to pastor a church in India for 6 years, and then finally he felt the call of God to go to Africa after seeing a sign in Liverpool advertising a meeting on the subject of 'Cannibals Want Missionaries'. At the age of 50 he moved to this new mission-field in 1910 leaving his family in England. He did not see his wife again until 1916 when he briefly returned home to gain more missionary recruits. He suffered several heart attacks, many hardships, but he personally witnessed thousands of souls turning to Christ and he established a mission society, later called
Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade (WEC), which placed 40 full time workers on the field by 1923.

Just before his death in 1930, at the age of 70, he wrote: “As I believe I am now nearing my departure from this world, I have but a few things to rejoice in; they are these: 1) That God called me to China and I went in spite of utmost opposition from all my loved ones. 2) That I joyfully acted as Christ told that rich young man to act. 3) That I deliberately at the call of God, when alone on the Bibby liner in 1910, gave up my life for this work, which was to be henceforth not for the Sudan only, but for the whole unevangelized World. My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.”
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