HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall
This book should be required reading for any and all future missionaries. Broomhall does the Christian world a great service by detailing Hudson Taylor's successes as well as his trials. The most remarkable feature of this book is the faith of Hudson Taylor. In the midst of incredible adversity this man abandoned himself to Jesus and the promises of Scripture. He rested solely on the provision of God, letting no man know his need. Throughout the book, Taylor's adversities and God's deliverances are a source of encouragement and inspiration that will lift the spirits of any true believer to "cast all your cares on Him because He cares for you." This book is an excellent read about a life well-lived and a spiritual journey of great depth.
This book should be required reading for any and all future missionaries. Broomhall does the Christian world a great service by detailing Hudson Taylor's successes as well as his trials. The most remarkable feature of this book is the faith of Hudson Taylor. In the midst of incredible adversity this man abandoned himself to Jesus and the promises of Scripture. He rested solely on the provision of God, letting no man know his need. Throughout the book, Taylor's adversities and God's deliverances are a source of encouragement and inspiration that will lift the spirits of any true believer to "cast all your cares on Him because He cares for you."
This book is an excellent read about a life well-lived and a spiritual journey of great depth.
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GOD, THE ONE GREAT CIRCUMSTANCE 95<br />
fifty beds to close? And ~hat about the dispensary? Dr.<br />
Parker urged Hudson Taylor to close the hospital but<br />
continue the dispensary. But this was to raise some big<br />
financial questions. Hitherto the expenses of that work<br />
had been met <strong>by</strong> the proceeds of Dr. Parker's European<br />
practice. This would now not be available, and the cost<br />
of upkeep and maintenance was considerable. Yet to<br />
close the hospital on these grounds alone would surely<br />
be a lack of faith in <strong>God</strong>.<br />
"Hath not <strong>God</strong> said", argued Hudson Taylor with himself,<br />
"that whatever we ask in the name of the Lord Jesus<br />
shall be done? And are we not told to seek first the Kingdom<br />
of <strong>God</strong>-not means to advance it-and that all these<br />
things shall be added to us? Such promises were surely<br />
sufficient."<br />
To hold back on financial grounds, he felt, was nothing<br />
less than doubting <strong>God</strong>. And it was to fail <strong>God</strong> at<br />
a time of emergency. So he felt constrained to accept<br />
responsibility, not for the dispensary only, but also for<br />
the hospital. Eight days before he came to this decision<br />
he had not had the remotest idea of such a call, still less<br />
could his friends at home know. Yet funds were already<br />
on their way to meet this unknown and unexpected /<br />
need! Is not our <strong>God</strong> the <strong>God</strong> of Abraham, <strong>who</strong> called<br />
the place of his trial Jehovah Jireh? "As it is said to this<br />
day, In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided."<br />
How <strong>God</strong> would provide, Hudson Taylor did not<br />
know, but meanwhile he called together the hospital<br />
assistants and explained to them the situation, stating<br />
that he could not guarantee their salaries as Dr. Parker<br />
had, but that he would welcome their fellowship if they<br />
were prepared to trust <strong>God</strong> to supply their need, as he<br />
did. <strong>The</strong> fearful and the trembling departed, as they did<br />
from Gideon, and the remnant <strong>who</strong> remained were re-
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