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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170 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
conference at Wuchang with a few members of the<br />
Mission.<br />
It was a time of unparalleled opportunity, for China<br />
was now open and there was urgent need, and immense<br />
scope for reinforcements. Possessed and burdened with<br />
a sense of great responsibility, it was impressed upon<br />
Hudson Taylor's mind to ask for "other Seventy also".<br />
Had not <strong>God</strong> appointed "other Seventy" to assist the<br />
twelve in little Palestine? Was it too much to ask Him<br />
to do a similar thing for vast and needy China? And the<br />
Conference felt the leading to be of <strong>God</strong>, and not only<br />
asked but definitely thanked <strong>God</strong>, ere they scattered,<br />
for the Seventy they knew were coming.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was really nothing arbitrary in the number<br />
chosen. With a sheet of paper before them they had<br />
surveyed the field, province <strong>by</strong> province, and station <strong>by</strong><br />
station, and the result was this determination to ask<br />
<strong>God</strong> in agreed prayer for forty-two men and twentyeight<br />
women. And in this advance Hudson Taylor practically<br />
carried the <strong>who</strong>le Mission with him, for the appeal<br />
was not published until it had been submitted to all<br />
the workers, and when it did appear in China's Millions<br />
it was with no less than seventy-seven autograph signatures.<br />
It was not that funds were plentiful; indeed, for some<br />
time the very opposite had been the fact. But, with the<br />
resolution to obey, the money came, and in ways that<br />
must have brought blessing to <strong>man</strong>y a giver, as well as<br />
joy to the heart of <strong>God</strong>.<br />
In Hudson Taylor the Italian proverb was fulfilled:<br />
"He <strong>who</strong> has love in his heart, has spurs in his side".<br />
He was never for taking an easy pace, but ever was for<br />
urging <strong>God</strong>'s work forward. With him it was literally,<br />
Time versus Eternity. But while he was ever for ad-
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