James Joseph Meadows

James Joseph Meadows

James Joseph Meadows (September 1, 1835 – December 12,1914), Protestant Christian missionary to China and one of the first missionaries with the China Inland Mission.

Meadows was converted to Christianity at Perth, Scotland. He later lived at Barnsley, Yorkshire.

Meadows and his wife, Martha, sailed for China aboard the Challenger (clipper) on January 8, 1862 and arrived at Shanghai on May 24. They were at first unconnected to any organized mission agency, as Hudson Taylor's first recruits for the "Negro Mission" which three years later became the China Inland Mission. Their first field of work was in Ningbo maintaining the missionary work with John Jones (missionary) and Edward Clemens Lord at the Bridge Street premises, while awaiting reinforcements from England.

Martha died suddenly at Ningbo in 1863, and Meadows later proposed marriage by letter to her friend, Elizabeth Rose. Upon Miss Rose's arrival with the Lammermuir Party at Shanghai on September 30, 1866, the couple were married in October 1866 in Ningbo. Elizabeth Meadows died on November 3, 1890.

Meadows was away from China on furlough between 1871 and 1874, and between May 1895 and November 1896. He died of cancer in 1914.

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References

*Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission

ee also

*List of China Inland Mission missionaries in China

External links

* [http://www.omf.org/omf/us OMF International (formerly China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship)]

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NAME= Meadows, James Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Mi Daosheng
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Missionary in China
DATE OF BIRTH=September 1, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH= Norfolk, England
DATE OF DEATH= December 12,1914
PLACE OF DEATH= England


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