Charles T. Studd (1862-1931) was a national sports hero in England and a renowned cricket player, Studd abandoned fame and fortune after his conversion at a Moody-Sankey evangelistic crusade. He gave away over 100,000 pounds and went to China in 1885 to serve under Hudson Taylor at the Inland China Mission. He married an Irish missionary and the two worked together until ill health forced them to return to England in 1894. They traveled in America for a time – where Studd ministered on various university campuses – until he received a call in 1900 to work as a missionary in South India. After another brief return to England in 1906 he decided to undertake a mission campaign in Central Africa. Eventually his wife, daughters, and two sons-in-law joined him and together they founded the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade. He remained in Africa until his death. He is a wonderful example of someone who abandoned the temporal pleasures of this world in favor of eternal riches in heaven.
