George Stott

George Stott was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the newly formed China Inland Mission. Although he was an amputee, missing his left leg, he labored for the Gospel in China for 23 years, arriving in October, 1865. His efforts brought Christianity to the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, where the teaching had been unknown, previously. The oldest church in the city, Chengxi Christian Church, still stands as a testimony to his work among the people that he loved. As a result of the ongoing influence of the message of Christ first brought there by Stott, Wenzhou is known today as the “Jerusalem of China” because in the entire Wenzhou Municipality, which has 6 million inhabitants, there are more than 600,000 evangelical Protestants – 10% of the population.

His wife Grace Ciggie wrote of his early life: quote|"Mr. Stott had been brought up to farm work, but when he was about nineteen years of age he slipped on the road and knocked his knee against a stone. This simple accident resulted in white swelling, which, two years later, necessitated the amputation of the left leg. For nine months he lay a helpless invalid, and it was during this time that the Lord graciously saved his soul. So far he had been careless and indifferent to the love of God in Christ Jesus, but now, in his helpless condition, and what seemed his ruined future, how precious that love became! After his recovery he began to teach in a school, and had been thus employed several years when he first heard of China's needs through a friend, who himself was going out. "In accepting Mr. Stott for mission work, Hudson Taylor manifested faith, for no Society would have sent an amputee to such a country to pioneer work, and Mr. Stott often referred with gratitude to Mr. Taylor's acceptance of him. When asked why he, with only one leg, should think of going to China, his remark was, quote|" I do not see those with two legs going, so I must." "

Stott died on April 21, 1889 on Easter morning, at half-past six.

References & Further Reading

* “Twenty-Six Years of Missionary Work In China” by Grace Ciggie Stott; 1898
*Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission
*List of China Inland Mission missionaries in China

External links

* [http://www.omf.org/ OMF International (formerly the China Inland Mission)]

Persondata
NAME= Stott, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Zao Yazhi
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Missionary in China and amputee
DATE OF BIRTH=
PLACE OF BIRTH= Scotland
DATE OF DEATH=April 21,1899
PLACE OF DEATH= Route De Grasse, Cannes, France