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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152 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
speaking, overwhelming sorrows and anxieties. Early in<br />
the year, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had to face the break up<br />
of their home, for it was all too evident that the elder<br />
children must leave the country before the great heat<br />
came. Arrangements were therefore made for the four<br />
eldest, Herbert, Howard, Samuel and Maria, to sail with<br />
Miss Blatchley, while the youngest, Charles, was to remain<br />
with his parents. This separation was keenly felt,<br />
and was, to quote Hudson Taylor's words, "a dark<br />
cloud" which seemed "to take all one's strength<br />
away". And the cloud was darker than he thought,<br />
for ere the children sailed, little Samuel, the youngest<br />
member of the Lammermuir party, suddenly sickened<br />
' and died, and was laid to rest in the cemetery at<br />
Chinkiang.<br />
Toward the close of March the stricken parents bade<br />
farewell to the other three, little knowing they were<br />
never again to meet on earth as a united family. <strong>The</strong>n<br />
in addition to this personal sorrow came keen anxiety<br />
about the <strong>who</strong>le situation in China. <strong>The</strong>re had been<br />
Mohammedan rebellions in the far south-west and far<br />
north-west. Russia had entered Chinese Turkestan, and<br />
the wildest rumours were <strong>believed</strong> concerning the designs<br />
of foreigners generally. Deep and widespread excitement<br />
shook the very foundations of Chinese society,<br />
which culminated in the terrible massacre, at Tientsin<br />
in June, of ten Sisters of Mercy, the French Consul,<br />
several other Frenchmen, and several Russians <strong>believed</strong><br />
to be French.<br />
As all this happened just as the Franco-Prussian War<br />
broke out, France was helpless to intervene. To the<br />
Chinese the humiliation of France before Ger<strong>man</strong>y was<br />
a proof of her guilt and of Heaven's vengeance, so that<br />
the tide of anti-foreign animosity threatened to rise
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