Author talk:Charles Frederick Hogg

Biographical data

At the age of 25, he went as a missionary to China under the China Inland Mission to pioneer in various provinces, as far as the borders of Tibet. He married a Miss Sarah Muir in 1887. Of their six children, three are buried in China.

In 1893, he moved his family to Shihtao, in Shantung province where he labored in the gospel. That year he also left the China Inland Mission to begin laboring with seven other couples who worked outside formal mission organization on the shore of the Yellow Sea in Shihtao. The missionaries' medical help was welcomed by the people, their spiritual assistance often ignored or ridiculed.

The Boxer Rebellion occurred in the summer of 1900. Most of the martyrdoms of missionaries occurred in Shansi province. In Peking the most brutal mass slaughter of Chinese believers occurred. There are only estimates of how many Chinese were murdered. Of foreigners, 135 missionaries and 53 children died. Charles and Sarah returned to England in 1901. The work in Shantung province would be left to national believers, as Hsia Ch'en Mu commonly known as "Summertime".

C. F. Hogg's writings are circulated today thanks to the coattails of William Edwy Vine (1873-1949). Around the year 1905, Hogg teamed up with Vine to conduct The Exeter Correspondence School of Bible Study. These studies between 1908-1911 were later published in commentaries on 1 & 2 Thessalonians, and Galatians.

Besides work in the United Kingdom, Hogg travelled to New Zealand, Australia, and made several visits to the U.S. and Canada. He also went to India and Central Africa.

Sarah Hogg passed into the presence of the Lord in 1935 in London. In early 1936, Charles married a Miss Amy Burwick of London. The last seven years of his life were in South Africa. He went there to visit, but war conditions detained him there, and the assemblies in the Capetown area then received the blessing. In 1939, he toured Central Africa and wrote a book, What We Saw in Africa which was laced with valuable counsel on missionary principles.

His ministry spanned 60 years.