HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

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FACE TO FACE WITH GOD
IT is a memorable moment in the life of any man when
he is first brought face to face with God. Such an event
is only comparable to birth itself, for a man is then begotten
again unto a new and living experience. It was
so with Moses when he drew near with uncovered feet
to the burning bush. It was so with Isaiah when, in the
year that King Uzziah died, he saw the Lord. It was so
with Sat1l. when he met Christ outside the walls of
Damascus. That encounter changed his name, his character,
his ambitions, his all. Henceforth the Apostle
Paul was a new creature, old things had passed away,
all things had become new. And so it was with Hudson
Taylor.
Of that never-to-be-forgotten experience Hudson
Taylor wrote in after life as follows:
"Not many months after my conversion, having a leisure
afternoon, I retired to my own chamber to spend it largely
in communion with God. Well do I remember that occasion,
how in gladness of my heart I poured out my soul before
God; and again and again confessing my grateful love to Him
who had done everything for me-who had saved me when
I had given up all hope and even desire for salvation-I
besought Him to give me some work to do for Him, as an
outlet for love and gratitude, some self-denying service, no
matter what it might be, however trying or however trivial;
something with which He would be pleased, and that I
might do for Him who had done so much for me!
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