HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

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THE MEEK INHERIT
THE great transaction at Brigbton, which was both a
prayer and a consecration, was sealed two days later by
the opening, in the London and County Bank, of an
account in the name of the China Inland Mission, with
the sum of fro. Both the name and the amount are
arresting, for it is the first time the name appears, and
the sum seems small indeed with which to start a Mission
to evangelize inland China! But it was fro, "and all
the promises of God", as Hudson Taylor said on a subsequent
occasion. It was faith's mustard seed, and since
that date approximately four million pounds sterling
have been paid in to the Bank on account of the same
Mission. "It is all the same to God whether we begin
with ten pounds or a thousand", said an old Scotch
saint, who probably never heard of Hudson Taylor, but
believed in the same Heavenly Father.
From this time onward there appears a new note, or
more correctly a new tone in Hudson Taylor's life. The
note or theme was still the evangelization of China, but
a stronger confidence, and a more joyful assurance run
like a deep diapason through everything. "I much need
to add to faith courage", he wrote to his wife not long
after the Brighton experience. 1 And tliis he did. He did
1 Is it possible he had in mind the exhortation of Peter, "Add to
your faith virtue," the Greek areta, primarily meaning courage,
resolution, prowess?
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