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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ALWAYS ADVANCING 173<br />
And the close of the year saw all the hundred workers<br />
either in China or en route, and the income of the<br />
Mission had risen 50% to meet the extra de<strong>man</strong>d. To<br />
Hudson Taylor the Bible was a Book of Certainties.<br />
More than once he summed up his own faith, and the<br />
basis of the Mission, in these few words:<br />
"<strong>The</strong>re is a Living <strong>God</strong>.<br />
"He has spoken in the Bible.<br />
"He means what He says, and will do all He has<br />
promised.''<br />
And so writing about this Book of Certainties he<br />
adds:<br />
"Do we not all need to dwell more frequently on the certainties,<br />
the absolute certainty of Divine things? Why is<br />
gravitation certain? Because it is a Divine Law. Why is<br />
Scripture just as certain? Because it is a Divine Book. Why<br />
is prayer offered in the Name of Christ as certain to be<br />
answered as the sun to rise? Because both are according to<br />
the Divine Will; both are promised in the Divine Scriptures."<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was no daunting a <strong>man</strong> <strong>who</strong> <strong>believed</strong> thus.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were no difficulties which could stay his progress.<br />
If laid upon his back in weakness, he could go down into<br />
the valley of humiliation depending upon all the fulness<br />
in Christ, and if he had to face the Hill Difficult, he could<br />
do all things through Christ <strong>who</strong> strengthened him. He<br />
knew the secret of Pascal's words:<br />
"Do small things as if they were great, because of the<br />
majesty of Jesus Christ, <strong>who</strong> works them in us, and <strong>who</strong><br />
lives our life; and great things as small and easy, because of<br />
His omnipotence."<br />
But even the coming of the Hundred did not suggest<br />
to him a halt. It only strengthened faith to ask, and to<br />
expect, still greater things, and from this time dates a
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