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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154 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
band, on the very morning she died: "You know, darling,<br />
that for ten years past there has not been a cloud<br />
between me and my Saviour. I cannot be sorry to go to<br />
Him: but it does grieve me to leave you alone at such a<br />
time."<br />
In this Valley of Deep Darkness, Hudson Taylor<br />
proved <strong>God</strong>'s grace sufficient, and was made more than<br />
conqueror. From his heart he said: "<strong>The</strong> Lord gave, and<br />
the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the<br />
Lord." This was said deliberately, and on those words<br />
he subsequently added this comment:<br />
"Was not Job mistaken? Should he not have said: '<strong>The</strong><br />
Lord gave, and Satan hath taken away'? No, there was no<br />
mistake. <strong>The</strong> same grace which had enabled him unharmed<br />
to receive blessing from <strong>God</strong> enabled him also to discern the<br />
hand of <strong>God</strong> in the calamities which had befallen him."<br />
Writing to his mother some ten days after his great<br />
loss he said:<br />
"My views are not changed, though chastened and deepened.<br />
From my inmost soul I delight in the knowledge that<br />
<strong>God</strong> does or deliberately permits aU things, and causes all<br />
things to work together for good to those <strong>who</strong> love Him.<br />
"He, and He only, knew what my dear wife was to me.<br />
He lqiew how the light of my eyes and the joy of my heart<br />
were in her .... But He saw that it was good to take her;<br />
good indeed for her, and in His love He took her painlessly;<br />
and not less good for me <strong>who</strong> must henceforth toil and suffer<br />
alone-yet not alone, for <strong>God</strong> is nearer to me than ever."<br />
"Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of<br />
the fire?" said Nebuchadnezzar to his counsellors. "<strong>The</strong>y<br />
answered and said unto the king, 'True, 0 king.' Th(\n<br />
answered Nebuchadnezzar: 'Lo, I see four men loose;<br />
walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt;<br />
and the form of the fourth is like the Son of <strong>God</strong>'.''
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