HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

XIII
A VISION SEEN THROUGH TEARS
IT is easy now, in the light of after events, to see God's
Hand in the sorrowful home-coming of Hudson Taylor;
but then, to him, it was the deepest disappointment. It
seemed the death-blow to many hopes, and nothing
short of a great calamity. Nor was the sorrow lessened
when, on reaching England, medical testimony assured
him that all thought of returning to China for several
years must be abandoned.
But God had said: "Light shall shine out of darkness".
and faith still clung to God. Throughout the
voyage earnest prayer was made that God would overrule,
and turn this sorrow into joy, by making this time
at home instrumental in the raising up of at least five
helpers to labour in the province of Chekiang.
After a brief stay of a few months at Bayswater with
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Broomhall, where their eldest
son Herbert was born, Hudson Taylor and his wife
rented a small house on a side street near the London
Hospital in Whitechapel. Here, in scantily furnished
rooms, he not only devoted himself to medical study,
but also, in company with Rev. F. F. Gough of the
Church Missionary Society, to the revisiqn of the Ningpo
New Testament. His medical degrees were secured in
the late autumn of 1862, and then he ~as able to make
the work upon the New Testament his chief occupation.
In this work of revision Hudson Taylor saw nothing
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