Ordination and Ministry
He was ordained an elder in the Tennessee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and returned to China with his wife Daisy Kelly as a medical missionary in 1877. Then he was dispatched to West Japan where they were founders of Methodist work in Japan. In 1889, he founded Kwansei Gakuin in Kobe.
He returned to the United States in charge of all missionary work as General Secretary of the Board of Missions of the American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission. Lambuth was elected Bishop by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1910 and was assigned to Brazil. The following year he established Methodist work in the Belgian Congo, Africa, later traveling to Europe and establishing Southern Methodism in Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Siberia, supervising missionary work worldwide until his death in 1921. He died in Yokohama, Japan and his ashes were buried in Shanghai, China, next to his mother Mary.
Lambuth Day is held October 6 at Pearl River Church in Madison County, Mississippi.
Lambuth University in Jackson, Tennessee and Lambuth Inn at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina are named in his honor.
Lambuth Memorial United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, OK was named for him. Some say the name was chosen the day he died in 1921 when the church began.
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