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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158 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
similar experience, but had been brought out into the<br />
light. Writing from Hangchow Mr. M'Carthy said:<br />
"I have been struck with a passage from a book of yours<br />
left here, entitled Christ is All. It says:<br />
"'<strong>The</strong> Lord Jesus received is holiness begun; the Lord<br />
Jesus cherished is holiness advancing; the Lord Jesus counted<br />
upon as never absent would be holiness complete.' "<br />
Commenting on this passage and its context, Mr.<br />
M'Carthy said that he felt as "though the first dawning<br />
of a glorious day had risen upon him". And then he continued-and<br />
these were the lines which specially helped<br />
Hudson Taylor:<br />
"How then to have our faith increased? Only <strong>by</strong> thinking<br />
of all that Jesus is, and all He is for us. His life, His death,<br />
His work, He Himself as revealed to us in the Word, to be<br />
the subject of our constant thoughts. Not a striving to have<br />
faith, or to increase our faith, but a looking off to the Faithful<br />
One, seems all we need; a resting in the Loved One<br />
entirely, for time and eternity. It does not appear to me as<br />
anything new, only formerly misapprehended."<br />
When Hudson Taylor reached his home at Chinkiang<br />
on Saturday, September 4, after a visit to Yangchow,<br />
he found this letter awaiting him. Opening it he read,<br />
and as he read, the vision he had needed flashed upon<br />
him. It was to his thirsty soul as living water from the<br />
Eternal Springs of <strong>God</strong>. But, as he must speak for himself,<br />
we continue to quote his letter to his sister.<br />
"As I read I saw it all! 'If we believe not; He abideth<br />
faithful.' I looked to Jesus and saw (and when I saw, oh,<br />
how the joy flowed!) that He had said: 'I will never leave<br />
you'. 'Ah, there is rest,' I thought. 'I have striven in vain to<br />
rest in Him. I'll strive no more. For has He not promised to<br />
abide with me--never to leave me, never to fail me?' And,<br />
dearie, He never will.
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