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- BIO:Jonathan Goforth
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- 1859-1936
- Missionary to China. Jonathan Goforth was converted to Christ
- at the age of 18. While attending college, he did rescue mis-
- sion work. He read Hudson Taylor's book about missionary work
- in China, and it so moved him that he dedicated his life to
- the Lord as a missionary. He and his wife labored in Honan,
- China, training hundreds of Chinese pastors and evangelists.
- During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Goforths barely es-
- caped with their lives, though suffering severe wounds.
- They returned to the Orient and helped start a re-
- vival in Korea in 1907. This revival seemed to follow them as
- they went back to China. In 1925 they went to Manchuria and
- served there for eight years before ill health forced them to
- return to Canada.
- Although Goforth was blind the last years of his
- life, he and his wife promoted missions until they went home
- to be with the Lord.
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