HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

182 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD
the Retrospect by Hudson Taylor, a little later, was used
to call into being the Liebenzell Branch of the work also.
Thus was the increase of God being given to his ministry
in Europe, and through Europe to China.
But this was not all, for while the booklet To Every
Creature was being penned in England, the hearts of
some of God's servants in Australasia were being burdened
with the need and claims of China. Hudson Taylor
believed that workers were thrust forth in answer to
prayer, for had not Christ said: "Pray ye therefore the
Lord of the harvest that He send forth labourers into
His harvest"? And prayer was being answered before
ever the appeal was issued, and apart from any mutual
conference. The result was, after certain correspondence,
the formation of another Home Centre, this time
in Australasia, authorized by cable on Hudson Taylor's
birthday, May 21, 1890, the day after the conclusion of
the Shanghai Conference, when he had preached and
appealed for the thousand new workers. And as soon as
it was possible he, this time accompanied by Mr. (now
Sir) Montagu Beauchamp, set sail for Australia.
· Here again, as in North America, the faith and zeal
of many Christians were stimulated by personal intercourse
with God's servants, and over sixty candidates
volunteered for work in China. Of these, eleven were accepted,
four from Victoria, three from Tasmania, three
from South Australia, and one from New South Wales,
and these sailed with Mr. Taylor on November 20, 1890,
the first of many contingents from this southern continent.
Auxiliary Councils were then, or subsequently,
formed in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Auckland, arid
Dunedin. With the Shanghai Conference Appeal fresh
in his mind, Hudson Taylor had asked that Australasia