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Schmidt, formerly an officer under General Gordon in the “Ever-
Victorious Force,” had been the first to live and preach Christ in this
city. Converted through the instrumentality of Mr. Meadows, he was
a warm friend to the China Inland Mission, and at his request the
Mission had also undertaken work in Soo-chow. Mr. Henry Cordon
had succeeded in renting premises a few weeks previously, in which
regular services were now commenced with help from Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor. Beyond this point all was unbroken ground. Save for Duncan
at Nanking and the L.M.S. and Wesleyan workers in the treaty port
of Hankow, not a Protestant missionary was resident northward or
westward anywhere in the interior. To join the former in his lonely post
was Hudson’s intention, unless some more important opening should
detain him by the way.
Books by great explorers had stirred Hudson Taylor’s father to pray for the
people of China. Hudson would later write …
For myself, and for the work I have been permitted to do for
God, I owe an unspeakable debt of gratitude to my beloved and
honored parents, who have passed away and entered into rest,
but the influence of whose lives will never pass away.
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