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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96 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
inforced <strong>by</strong> some of the Bridge Street Christians. It was<br />
a new experience for all, and a trial of faith was to precede<br />
the glad experience of salvation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> supplies in hand daily decreased, and at length,<br />
when the last bag of rice was reached, the wolf came to<br />
their ve:ry door. But prayer like incense was sent up<br />
"To <strong>God</strong> the strong, <strong>God</strong> the beneficent,<br />
<strong>God</strong> ever mindful in all strife and strait,<br />
Who, for our own good, makes the need extreme,<br />
Till at last He puts forth might and saves."<br />
And then they saw <strong>God</strong> working for them, as they<br />
waited for Him. A letter arrived from Mr. Berger in England<br />
with a cheque for £50. But that was not all. <strong>The</strong><br />
letter went on to state that the writer had recently lost<br />
his father, that he had inherited his property, that he<br />
did not purpose to increase his personal expenditure,<br />
could his friend in China tell him how some of this<br />
wealth could be used for <strong>God</strong>'s glory? Truly "there is<br />
none like unto the Lord our <strong>God</strong>!"<br />
After a season of thanksgiving with his wife, Hudson<br />
Taylor called the Chinese workers together and translated<br />
to them the letter. We can almost now hear their<br />
exclamations Ai Ya? What a lesson in faith, and in<br />
<strong>God</strong>'s faithfulness! What a demonstration that the old<br />
message, "Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of<br />
the Lord", is still applicable in the straits of hu<strong>man</strong> experience!<br />
"I need not say", wrote Hudson Taylor, "how rejoiced<br />
they were, and that we praised <strong>God</strong> together. <strong>The</strong>y returned<br />
to their work in the hospital with overflowing hearts, and<br />
told out to the patients what a <strong>God</strong> was ours, appealing tp<br />
them whether their idols had ever helped them so. Both<br />
helpers and patients were spiritually blessed through this<br />
remarkable provision."
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