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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THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
"ever intimately near". As one of our poet sages has<br />
written:<br />
"To make things real to us is the end and the battlecause<br />
of life. We often think we believe what we are only<br />
presenting to our imaginations. <strong>The</strong> least thing can overthrow<br />
that kind of faith. <strong>The</strong> imagination is an endless help<br />
towards faith, but it is no more faith than a dream of food<br />
will make us strong for the next day's work. To know <strong>God</strong>,<br />
as the beginning and the end, the root and cause, the giver,<br />
the enabler, the love and joy and perfect good, the present<br />
One existence in all things and degrees and conditions, is<br />
life; and faith in its truest, mightiest form is-to do His<br />
Will."<br />
Hudson Taylor would have nothing to do with Mr.<br />
Clip-Promise <strong>who</strong> sought to debase the King's coin. <strong>The</strong><br />
Word of <strong>God</strong> was to him the Coin of <strong>God</strong>'s realm, and it<br />
was not going to be less than a Bank of England note.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> living <strong>God</strong> still lives," he wrote, "and the living<br />
Word is a living word, and we may depend upon it; we may<br />
hang upon any word that <strong>God</strong> ever spoke, or ever caused <strong>by</strong><br />
His Holy Spirit to be written ....<br />
"If the Bible were not true, the sooner we found it out<br />
and threw it aside the better; but if it is true, the sooner we<br />
live up to it and act up to it the better. If any of you were<br />
offered a Bank of England note, whether for five pounds or<br />
five thousand pounds, you would never doubt the value of<br />
it. You would take the words printed on it as sure. And are<br />
not the words printed in this Book as sure? No part of the<br />
Book is unworthy of our credit. It is either <strong>God</strong>'s word, or it<br />
is not what it is represented to be."<br />
<strong>God</strong> was his Father, and prayer to him was "a word<br />
to the Big Heart from the little one". One of his <strong>man</strong>y<br />
proverbial utterances was: "Before I was a father I<br />
thought <strong>God</strong> never would forget me; but since I have<br />
been a father I know <strong>God</strong> never can forget me." It was
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