HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

THE DESIGN OF GOD 195
-distribute them! Experience-that of older and wiser men,
fully confirmed by my own-taught me that colportage and
preaching were both needed. Further experience has reversed
in my mind the order, and now I would say-preaching and
colportage. If you must leave either out, let it be the latter.
If either must be abridged, let it be the latter, and not the
former."
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4. On the last point: By whom may such itinerant
work be most profitably prosecuted? one brief paragraph
must suffice.
"It would only be in very exceptional cases that such
work could be undertaken by married missionaries with
families. God has other work for them, mark, which they
only can do, and plenty of it. As a rule, single young men
must commence such work; and they should commence it as
soon after their arrival in the field as possible, before their
health and strength are foo much worn down. The physical
strain of months and years spent in such labour is very
great."
These quotations will illustrate the way in which
Hudson Taylor sought to fashion his work according to
the design of God, as revealed in the Scriptures, and
from personal and practical experience.