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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THE INCREASE OF GOD 181<br />
It was thus that Hudson Taylor's wider ministry began,<br />
a ministry which was to take him to the ends of the<br />
earth. In November of the following year, after another<br />
visit to North America, to organize this new centre more<br />
adequately, and after the publication of the leaflet To<br />
Every Creature mentioned in the'previous chapter, Hudson<br />
Taylor, accompanied again <strong>by</strong> his son Dr. Howard<br />
Taylor, responded to some long-standing invitations to<br />
visit Sweden and Norway. <strong>The</strong> kindness and the hospitality<br />
he here received exceeded all he had ever known.<br />
And the opportunities for service were unbounded. He<br />
seldom addressed less than from two to five thousand<br />
persons at a time, and some twenty-four towns, in all,<br />
were visited. Queen Sophia, at Stockholm, also graciously<br />
granted him a private audience, while everywhere<br />
the people were drawn to him. "You took me <strong>by</strong> the<br />
heart, and held me there from first to last", said Dr.<br />
John Brown to Principal Shairp. And this is what Hudson<br />
Taylor did.<br />
It was clear to him now that <strong>God</strong> was calling other<br />
nations to participate in the rapid evangelization of<br />
China, and so with the theme of To Every Creature in<br />
his mind, he wrote:<br />
"In Scandinavia there are surely one hundred of the<br />
thousand additional missionary evangelists needed to carry<br />
the Gospel to every family in China."<br />
And in Ger<strong>man</strong>y, which country he could not visit<br />
then, the reading of his booklet To Every Creature<br />
kindled such a flame of missionary zeal that jewels,<br />
watches, and even wedding rings were placed upon <strong>God</strong>'s<br />
altar for His work abroad, leading t,o the formation of<br />
the Ger<strong>man</strong> China Alliance, one of the associate missions<br />
of the China Inland Mission. And the reading of
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