Henry Grattan Guinness

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Henry Guinness.

Henry Grattan Guinness (August 11, 1835June 21, 1910) was a Christian preacher, evangelist and author.

In March, 1873 Henry and wife Fanny started the famous Missionary Institute at Harley House in Bromley-by-Bow, East End of London with just six students. The renowned Dr. Thomas Barnardo was co-director with Dr. Guinness.

His daughter Mary Geraldine Guinness married Frederick Howard Taylor, the son of China Inland Mission founder James Hudson Taylor.

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I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.

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  • Hudson Taylor & China’s Open Century Volume Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives; Alfred James Broomhall; Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982
  • Christ Alone - A Pictorial Presentation of Hudson Taylor's Life and Legacy; OMF International, 2005