HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

134 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD
That the large Lammermuir party should have secured
a settlement in Hangchow, the capital of Chekiang,
was a great point gained. And many would have been
satisfied with such substantial progress at the early
stages of so young a Mission, but Hudson Taylor was
insatiable. He was fired with a passion to possess China
for Christ, a passion which burned with an intensity not
less than that which consumed the most ambitious conqueror
of kingdoms. Napoleon, for instance, after having
secured the gates of the Alps in his Piedmont campaign,
thus addressed his troops:
"You have gained battles without cannon, passed rivers
without bridges, performed forced marches without shoes,
bivouacked without strong liquors, and often without bread.
Thanks for your perseverance! But, soldiers, you have done
nothing-for there remains much to do."
In a higher cause Hudson Taylor possessed a like
spirit. His eye was ever on the great undone. He was
never content to rest in the achieved.
And so it was he chose as the watchword for the new
year 1867, the first new year after the arrival of the
Lammermuir party, the Prayer of Jabez: "Oh that Thou
wouldst bless me indeed and enlarge my coast, and that
Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldst
keep me from the evil, that it may not grieve me!" And
it was a remarkable fact that by the end of that year, or
only a little more than twelve months from the arrival
of that party at Hangchow, there were China Inland
missionaries resident in six of the eleven prefectural
cities of Chekiang, including the capital, while a seventh
prefectural city was opened, though with no one actually
in residence, and the pioneer Duncan was also ·established
in Nanking, the capital of another province,
Kiangsu. Thus the young Mission had already eight