Geraldine Taylor
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Mary Geraldine Guinness a.k.a. Mrs. Howard Taylor (December 25, 1865 – June 6, 1949), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and author of many missionary biographies and history of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International [1] in 1964 and based in Singapore). She was the daughter of famous preacher and author Henry Grattan Guinness. She was the daughter-in-law of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission. She married his son, Frederick Howard Taylor.
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[edit] Single woman and missionary
In her youth, Geraldine taught a Bible class for "factory-girls" in Bromley-by-Bow in the East End of London where they lived. She attended meetings at "Berger Hall" named after William Thomas Berger.
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She left London for China as a second-class passenger on the "Kaisar-i-Hind" in January, 1888, age 22. The Hundred missionaries had all sailed to China the previous year. Aboard ship with her were the Pigott family of The Sheo Yang Mission (who were eventually killed during the Boxer Rebellion). At Colombo, Sri Lanka the missionary party boarded the "S.S. Deccan", bound for Shanghai. A stop in Penang, Malaysia allowed Geraldine a first contact with many Chinese who came on board. Then a stop at Singapore followed. Her first time on Chinese soil was later at a stop at Hong Kong.[1]Shanghai was reached at last. But Shanghai was not their final destination. Staying only long enough to exchange their European clothes for the national Chinese costume, the missionaries started on again, leaving this first station of the China Inland Mission behind them, and travelling north two and a half days' journey up the Yangtze River to Yangzhou. She arrived at Yangzhou on March 23, 1888.[2]
She wrote to her sister after a short time in China:
Oh ! if English Christians only knew the need and the longing willingness of these dear souls to hear the glad tidings, and the joy, the unspeakable joy of a missionary's life, they would surely cry from the depths of yearning hearts, " Lord, here am I, send me, send me."[3]
After training in China, Geraldine was stationed in Henan Province.
[edit] Legacy
Her niece, Joy Guinness, wrote her biography entitled Mrs. Howard Taylor: Her Web of Time, published by the China Inland Mission.
[edit] Published Works
- Peru
- In the Far East 1889
- The Story of the China Inland Mission (2 Vols.) 1893
- One of China's Christians 1902 (Biography of Xi Shengmo)
- Borden of Yale '09 1913 (Biography of William Whiting Borden)
- Hudson Taylor and The China Inland Mission Vol. 1 Hudson Taylor in Early Years: The Growth of a Soul 1911
- Hudson Taylor and The China Inland Mission Vol. 2 The Growth of a Work of God 1918
- Though War Should Rise 1914
- Pearl's Secret 1920?
- THE CALL OF CHINA'S GREAT NORTH-WEST, OR, KANSU AND BEYOND 19-?
- With P’u and His Brigands 1922
- Guinness of Honan 1930 (Biography of her brother, Dr. Gershom Whitfield Guinness)
- Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret 1932
- Faith's Venture 1932
- Margaret King’s Vision 1934
- The Triumph of John and Betty Stam 1935
- By Faith: biography of Henry Frost 1938
- Sirs, Be of Good Cheer 1941
- A Story Without End
- Behind The Ranges : Fraser of Lisuland S.W. China 1942 (Biography of J. O. Fraser)
[edit] References
- Guinness, Lucy (1889). In The Far East: Letters From Geraldine Guinness in China. London: Morgan & Scott.
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[edit] Further Reading
[edit] External links
- Hudson Taylor in Early Years-The Growth of a Soul - Volume 1 by Dr. and Mrs Howard Taylor
- Christian Biography Resources
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship
- http://www.missionaryetexts.org/
- http://www.worldinvisible.com/library/hudsontaylor/hudsontaylorv1/hudsontaylorv1tc.htm
- http://www.genealogy.com/users/y/o/r/Brian-York-Burnsville/?Welcome=1091209026
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| NAME | Guinness, Mary Geraldine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guinness, M. Geraldine ; Guinness, Geraldine ; Taylor, Geraldine ; Taylor, Mrs. Howard |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Missionary in China and Author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 6, 1949 |
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