Stephen Livingstone Baldwin

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Stephen Livingstone Baldwin
Missionary to China
Born	Stephen Livingstone Baldwin January 11, 1835 Somerville, Somerset, New Jersey
Died	July 28, 1902(1902-07-28) (aged 67) Brooklyn, New York
Spouse	Esther E. Baldwin

Rev. Stephen Livingstone Baldwin (simplified Chinese: 保灵; traditional Chinese: 保靈; Pinyin: Bǎolíng; Foochow Romanized: Bō̤-lìng; January 11, 1835 – July 28, 1902) was an American missionary to China by the Methodist Episcopal Church. His ministerial life covered a period of forty-four years, half of which was spent at Fuzhou.

Biography

Stephen Livingstone Baldwin was born in Somerville, Somerset, New Jersey on January 11, 1835. He graduated at Concord Biblical Institute (modern-day Boston University) in 1858. The same year he was appointed a missionary to China under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He arrived at Shanghai with Mrs. Baldwin in the latter part of 1858, and proceeded forthwith to his station at Fuzhou, which he reached early in 1859. In the beginning of 1861, he left with his family for the United States on account of Mrs. Baldwin's health, but she died on the voyage. Baldwin married again in America, and the next year, he was at Fuzhou again with his second wife, Esther E. Baldwin, remaining till 1870. Upon his return to the United States, he held several pastorates, and was for the last 14 years of his life, recording secretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1900, he published Foreign Missions of the Protestant Churches. Baldwin died of typhoid fever on July 28, 1902, in Brooklyn, New York.

References

A Century of Protestant Missions in China (1807-1907) (p. 430)
The Encyclopedia Americana (pp. 78 – 79)
保靈 (in Chinese)

v t e Protestant missionaries in Fuzhou
ABCFM	Caleb Cook Baldwin Willard Livingstone Beard Justus Doolittle Charles Hartwell Emily Susan Hartwell Lewis Hodous Stephen Johnson Alden E. Matthews Dauphin William Osgood Lyman Burt Peet
AME	Stephen Livingstone Baldwin James Whitford Bashford Elizabeth Fisher Brewster Judson Dwight Collins Otis Gibson Elizabeth Chamberlain Gibson John W. Gowdy William Henry Lacy George Carleton Lacy Hiram Harrison Lowry Robert Samuel Maclay James Simester Nathan Sites Erastus Wentworth Moses Clark White Isaac William Wiley
CMS	John Shaw Burdon John Hind Joseph Charles Hoare W. S. Pakenham-Walsh Horace MacCartie Eyre Price C. B. R. Sargent George Smith (bishop) Robert Warren Stewart
Swedish Lutheran	Carl Joseph Fast
Independent	Margaret E. Barber

v t e Protestant missions to China
Background	Protestantism in China Protestantism in Sichuan Chinese history Missions timeline Christianity in China Nestorians Jesuits Protestant missions in China 1807–1953
People	David Howard Adeney Mary Ann Aldersey Roland Allen Thomas J. Arnold Gladys Aylward Joseph Beech John Birch William Jones Boone Pearl S. Buck John Burdon Thomas Cochrane Hunter Corbett Jonathan Goforth Frederick Graves Karl Gützlaff Francis Hanson Laura Askew Haygood Elizabeth G. K. Hewat Jennie V. Hughes Robert A. Jaffray Carl C. Jeremiassen Griffith John Walter Judd James Legge Eric Liddell Robert Samuel Maclay Lottie Moon Robert Morrison George Moule Gideon Nye David Paton Karl Ludvig Reichelt Timothy Richard Issachar Jacox Roberts Charles Scott Cambridge Seven George Smith Vincent John Stanton John and Betty Stam John Leighton Stuart Elwood Gardner Tewksbury Hudson Taylor Thomas Torrance William C. White (more missionaries)
Missionary agencies	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions American Methodist Episcopal Mission Canadian Methodist Mission China Inland Mission Church Mission Society London Missionary Society National Christian Council US Presbyterian Mission Protestant Episcopal Church Mission List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)
Colleges and universities	United Board University of Shanghai Cheeloo University Ginling College University of Nanking Soochow University Yenching University St. John's University Hangchow University Fukien Christian University Lingnan University College of Yale-in-China Huachung University West China Union University Peking Union Medical College Methodist Episcopal Church Hwa Nan College English Presbyterian Mission Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Reformed Church in the United States
Impact	Bible translations into Chinese Medical missions in China Manchurian revival Chinese Christian colleges Chinese hymnody Chinese Roman Type Minnan Roman Type Foochow Roman Type Anti-footbinding Anti-opium
Pivotal events	Taiping Rebellion First Opium War Second Opium War Unequal treaty Yangzhou riot Tianjin Massacre Kucheng Massacre Boxer Crisis 1911 Revolution Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War People's Republic
Publications	The Chinese Repository Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal The Christian Occupation of China Journal of the West China Border Research Society The West China Missionary News

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