HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

THE INCREASE OF GOD 183
might at least send one hundred, and when he visited
Australasia the second time, in 1899, this time accompanied
by Mrs. Taylor, the last of that hundred passed
him on the sea. Thus was the increase of God being
given from the southern hemisphere.
There is perhaps no need to follow him in all his
several visits to America, to the continent of Europe,
and to Australasia. A supernational bond of love was
formed in all places he visited, a bond which in the
ranks of the China Inland Mission stood the strain of
the recent great war without breaking.
He was ever ready to place his experience at the disposal
of others, and took long and arduous journeys to
serve any of the Lord's people, whether connected with
the Mission or not. In 1894 he undertook a long, and to
him, perilous journey through the heart of China, in the
heat of midsummer, to render service to some workers
who were in danger of being withdrawn from the country
by their own government, because of methods used
unsuited for inland China in those days. And in 1896
he visited India to take counsel with a company of
workers on the Indian-Tibetan border, when a critical
situation had arisen in regard to their future work.
No one could more heartily enjoy the beauties of
God's creation than he, and he revelled in nature's loveliness
wherever he went. New Zealand especially impressed
him in this respect, and he loved to dwell on
God's goodness to him in permitting him to see so much
of this world's grandeur in the performance of duties he
had not chosen. When he sailed for China in 1853 he had
not even contemplated seeing his own country again,
all had been surrendered, and now he had seen many of
the world's most noted beauty spots. All of this he accepted
as the bounty of his Heavenly Father.