HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

"THOU HAST PREVAILED"
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"On Sunday, June 25th, 1865, unable to bear the sight of
a congregation of a thousand or more Christian people rejoicing
in their own security, while millions were perishing
for lack of knowledge, I wandered out on the sands alone, in
great spiritual agony; and there the Lord conquered my unbelief,
and I surrendered myself foi: this service. I told Him
that all the responsibility as to issues and consequences must
rest with Him, that as His servant, it was mine to obey and
follow Him-His, to direct, to care for, and to guide me and
those who might labour with me."
Henceforth it was to be an absolute and unreserved
obedience to the all-conquering Lord. Like Jeremiah he
could say: "O Lord, Thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed;
Thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed."
And, like Jeremiah, he was to issue forth from this
struggle more sure of God, more trustful in Him, and
also able to say: "The Lord is with me as a Mighty One
. . . . Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and
whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted
by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf
shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of
drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." He had
added courage to his faith, and henceforth was to have
"that power of conviction which doubles the strength
of the strong".
His Bible was in his hand, and his portion for that
day, as his dated Bible shows, was in the Book of Job
where it reads:
"Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
That with an iron pen and lead · :
They were graven in the rock for ever!"
And so, as he prayed for twenty-fo~r fellow-workers,
two for each of the eleven inland provinces which were