HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

4 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD
ful", he continued, "for the one deep lesson taught to
this generation by the founder of the China Inland
Mission, the power of the pure flame of a passionate
belief. There is nothing quite like it in the world, and
from it have come the great miracles of action in history .
. . . The spiritual force has been so great that no Church
or denomination can show so imposing a mass of missionary
agents in China as the Inland Mission, with the
exception of the Church of Rome, with its four centuries
of work behind it."
And Dr. Eugene Stock, Secretary of the Church Missionary
Society, when speaking at Hudson Taylor's
memorial service in London, said: "I have been thinking
of various great missionary pioneers, and I have tried to
think which of them our dear friend was like. I have
thought of John Eliot and Hans Egede. I have thought
of Ziegenbalg, and Carey, and Duff; Morrison, and
William Burns, and Gilmour. I have thought of John
Williams, and Samuel Marsden, and Patteson, and Allen
Gardiner. I have thought of Moffat, and Krapf, and
Livingstone; great men, indeed, some of them, as the
world would say, much greater than our dear friend.
But I.do not find among them one exactly like him, and
I am much mistaken if we shall not in the course of
years, if the Lord tarry, begin to see that Hudson
Taylor was sanctioned, enabled, and permitted by the
Lord to do a work, not less than any of them, if indeed,
one might not say, greater in some respects."
These are great testimonies from men well qualified
to speak. And the secret of it all was Hudson Taylor's
simple, childlike, unshakable faith in God. He is simply
inconceivable apart from his faith in the Word, and