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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148 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
were borne is best illustrated <strong>by</strong> a few extracts from<br />
letters of that period. Mrs. Taylor wrote:<br />
"I had felt encouraged to hope that help was at hand, <strong>by</strong><br />
the fact that my own strength was rapidly ebbing away from<br />
loss of blood. I was anxious not to let anyone know how<br />
much I was hurt, as I felt it would alarm them, and it<br />
seemed most important that all should keep calm.<br />
"My heart was too full to pay much heed to the scene of<br />
ruin through which we passed, but at the foot-of the stair my<br />
eye fell on a bead mat worked for me <strong>by</strong> our little Gracie<br />
before leaving England. <strong>The</strong> sight of it at that moment<br />
seemed to speak of our Father's love and tenderness in a<br />
way that perhaps it would be difficult for another to under<br />
.~tand." [It was just a year to the very day since her death.]<br />
In another letter she added:<br />
"<strong>The</strong> faithful and tender love that preserved all our lives<br />
and restored us to each other at that terrible time will, I<br />
trust, inspire us with fresh confidence in the future .... I<br />
shall count all our physical sufferings light, and our mental<br />
anxieties, severe though they were, well repaid, if they may<br />
work out for the further opening of the country to us for the<br />
spread of our Master's Kingdom."<br />
Such extracts, and there is much more that could be<br />
quoted, reveal what <strong>man</strong>ner of wo<strong>man</strong> Mrs. Hudson<br />
Taylor was. How her husband was affected the following<br />
few lines will show:<br />
"We are not disappointed, we are not daunted. We expected<br />
to meet with difficulties, but we counted on <strong>God</strong>'s<br />
help and protection, and so far from being disheartened, we<br />
take courage from the goodness of <strong>God</strong> to us in our extreme<br />
peril; and from the very opposition of Satan, are the more<br />
determined to continue the conflict."<br />
Instead of allowing difficulties and opposition to<br />
daunt him, he even drew encouragement from them, as<br />
the Apostle Paul did from afflictions.
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