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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A VISION SEEN THROUGH TEARS 105<br />
and bring the machinations of His people's foes to nought.<br />
He has seen Him, in answer to prayer, raise the dying from<br />
the bed of death, when hu<strong>man</strong> aid was vain; has seen Him<br />
preserve from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and<br />
from the destruction that wasteth at noonday. For more<br />
than eight and a half years he has proved the faithfulness<br />
of <strong>God</strong> in supplying the pecuniary means for his temporal<br />
wants, and for the needs of the work he has been engaged<br />
in."<br />
"Shall not the eternal interests of one-third of our race<br />
stir the deepest sympathies of our nature, the most strenuous<br />
efforts of our blood-bought powers? Shall not the low<br />
wail of helpless, hopeless misery, arising from half the<br />
heathen world, pierce our sluggish ears, and rouse us--body,<br />
soul, and spirit-to one mighty, continued, unconquerable<br />
effort for China's weal."<br />
"It is the prayerful consideration of these facts, and the<br />
deepening realization of China's awful destitution of all that<br />
can make <strong>man</strong> truly happy, that constrain the writer, <strong>by</strong><br />
every means in his power, to lay its claims as a heavy burden<br />
upon the hearts of those <strong>who</strong> have already experienced the<br />
power of the blood of Christ."<br />
<strong>The</strong>se few extracts will give the reader some conception<br />
of the facts which had burned themselves into the<br />
mind and heart of the writer. <strong>The</strong>y were before him day<br />
and night, and every glance at that map on the wall<br />
brought these great realities home to his heart afresh.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was no escape from them, they were facts stamped<br />
upon his mind <strong>by</strong> what he had seen in China itself. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
were to him the burden of the Lord. "If thou forbear to<br />
deliver them. . . . He that keepeth thy soul, doth not<br />
He know it? and shall not He render to every <strong>man</strong><br />
according to his works?" To a mm <strong>who</strong> implicitly<br />
<strong>believed</strong> <strong>God</strong>'s Word to be true, the solemn bearing of
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