Fool and Fanatic, By C.T. Studd

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: WEC Publications (1980)
ISBN: 0900828105

C.T. Studd, founder of the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade, was an outstanding County and All-England Cricketer. He was a freshman at Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1879-1880, and took a degree in law. By that time he had been challenged to a missionary career and, forsaking his cricketing fame and the family fortune, he was one of the then well-known “Cambridge Seven” who followed Hudson Taylor to China.

He returned 21 years later, broken in health, after serving in China and India. Unexpectedly he received a new and very distinct call to the heart of Africa and at 53, leaving his invalid wife in England, he set out again in utter reliance on God’s promises. His answer to all who questioned the wisdom of his action was found on a postcard on his desk: If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

His biography, C.T Studd, Cricketer and Pioneer, written by his son-in-law, Norman Grubb, has gone into 28 impressions in 9 languages. Now these colourful quotations, taken from hundreds of his personal letters, present a further inescapable challenge to all-out commitment to Jesus Christ.