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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LIKE AS A FATHER<br />
ing over to me, he said, 'Do you think that your son would<br />
see the little one in his arms suffering need if he had a crust<br />
left? Think you not that he would give it?' I never can forget<br />
that," said Dr. Guinness, "nor the calm and beautiful way in<br />
which he then gave testimony to a peace which passeth<br />
understanding''.<br />
He <strong>believed</strong>, not as a beautiful sentiment, but as an<br />
unchangeable reality, that "Like as a father pitieth his<br />
children so the Lord' pitieth them that fear Him" This<br />
was the secret of his strepgth and peace, and this calm<br />
trustfulness in <strong>God</strong> as a Father was one of the greatest<br />
legacies he left behind him. And when he spoke of <strong>God</strong><br />
as a Father he did not forget the more tender affection<br />
we associate with a mother's love. Writing on Numbers<br />
vii., one of the longest chapters in the Bible, all devoted<br />
to offerings given to <strong>God</strong>, he said:<br />
"Does not the full detail of this chapter reveal the love<br />
and tenderness of Him <strong>who</strong>se Book it is towards each<br />
offerer, and bring out what we may reverently call the<br />
Mother-side of <strong>God</strong>'s character, Who has condescended<br />
to say: 'As one <strong>who</strong>m his mother comforteth, so will I<br />
comfort you'."<br />
In a New Year's Address, entitled Under the Shepherd's<br />
Care, he records an incident to which he constantly<br />
made reference.<br />
"I have frequently thought of words I had the privilege<br />
of hearing some years ago from Professor Charteris at a<br />
united Communion service for students in Edinburgh. He<br />
said that there had been one life on earth of steady, uninterrupted<br />
development from the cradle to the Cross; but<br />
that there had only been one such life, for .que Christian life<br />
always began where the life of Christ ended, at the Cross; and ,<br />
that its true development is towards the cradle, until the child<br />
of <strong>God</strong> in the childlike simplicity of faith can rest in the<br />
omnipotent arms of infinite Wisdom and Love."
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