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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190 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
they are willing to be taught, and obedient as they are<br />
taught ....<br />
"Ten thousand horses could not convey the loads from<br />
London to Glasgow in a week that are easily taken in half a<br />
day <strong>by</strong> rail ... and so in spiritual things no amount of labour<br />
and machinery will accomplish without spiritual power what<br />
may be easily accomplished when we place ourselves in the<br />
current of <strong>God</strong>'s will, and work <strong>by</strong> His direction, in His<br />
way."<br />
He then speaks of the conditions of success in spiritual<br />
things, of <strong>God</strong>'s work done in <strong>man</strong>'s way, and even<br />
in the devil's way, which startling statement may be<br />
understood <strong>by</strong> a study of Satan's temptations of our<br />
Lord.<br />
"Would the same sums of money always be contributed<br />
if the plate were not passed, or if the donors' names were not<br />
published? And yet does any spiritual mind really think that<br />
the true work of <strong>God</strong> is at all advanced <strong>by</strong> anything done<br />
from worldly motives, or to be seen of men? It is a solemn<br />
thought that the wood, and hay, and stubble will all be<br />
burned up."<br />
<strong>The</strong>n in closing he shows how the Christ of <strong>God</strong> saw<br />
that the low place, the place of poverty, of weakness, of<br />
shame and suffering was the best place in which to meet<br />
us.<br />
"In order to enrich us, poor bankrupts, He intelligently<br />
and cheerfully emptied Himself of all His riches; and this He<br />
did, not <strong>by</strong> distributing them among us, but <strong>by</strong> leaving them<br />
behind-as neither needed nor suited to effect His purpose.<br />
We do well to remember that He was the Wisdom of <strong>God</strong> and<br />
the Power of <strong>God</strong>, and necessarily chose the wisest way and<br />
the mightiest way to effect His purpose ....<br />
"<strong>The</strong> Corinthian Christians knew the grace of our Lord<br />
Jesus Christ. Do we? Do we want to know it? ... Are we<br />
'imitators of <strong>God</strong>' if we are making no costly sacrifices for the
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