HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

192 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD
"Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself
servant unto all, that I might win the more.
"And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win
the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law,­
that I might win them that are under the law.
"To them that are without law, as without law (not being
without law to God, but under the law to Christ), that I
might win them that are without law.
"To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the
weak; I became all things to all men, that I might by all
means save some. And this I do for the Gospel's sake."
And then Hudson Taylor adds, in summing up this
valuable series of articles:
"It is noteworthy that after this remarkable declaration,
the Holy Spirit, by the Apostle, exhorts us likewise to 'so
run that ye may obtain'. We confidently believe that there
is a secret here which would often have spared tried workers
the disappointment of years of unsuccessful labour."
We have dwelt at some length on these articles, in
which Hudson Taylor laid emphasis upon the mind of
God, for they express truths which dominated his life.
But he did not search the Scriptures only, to learn the
mind of Christ; he meditated long upon them for light
upon the right methods of work and organization. The
practice as well as the principles upon which he built up
the China Inland Mission he found in the Word of God.
That Book was to him his vade-mecum. The paper entitled
the Principles and Practice of the China Inland
Mission sums up under fifteen heads the definite results
of his thinking on these subjects, based upon the experience
of many years. It reveals Hudson Taylor as a
master builder laying the foundations of the work he
had been raised up to establish. His one concern was to
find out the mind of God, the design of God, and apply
that to the practical problems of the work in China.