George Pleasant Bostick was the fifth son of fifteen children. Three of those children served the Lord for a total of 110 years in China. George was converted to Christ at an early age and after his baptism joined Floyd’s Creek Baptist Church in North Carolina. After attending seminary, and while he was pastoring the First Baptist Church of Durham, he felt God’s call to go to China as a missionary. For thirty-seven years he served in that country as a true pioneer, suffering much while experiencing much joy. For example, while on preaching trips he lost his wife and the first of his people to surrender to the ministry; both of whom were buried before he could return. He suffered through the Boxer Rebellion, unspeakable cruelties and various plagues, but he remained faithful to his calling. Eventually he contracted typhus and never fully recovered. As he was passing from this world, he called the names of several loved ones who had gone on before him, and on his day in 1926 he joined them.
– Source: “This Day in Baptist History,” Thompson and Cummins