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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THE WORD OF GOD 199<br />
admirable watchword for any Bible-reading association.<br />
It reads:<br />
"Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument<br />
afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of <strong>God</strong><br />
and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him."<br />
One of his little books, running to one hundred and<br />
twenty pages, owed its message and publication to this<br />
habit of consecutive reading. It is entitled Separation<br />
and Service, being a study of the, hu<strong>man</strong>ly speaking,<br />
uninteresting chapters, Numbers vi. and vii. He was on<br />
a missionary journey and was compelled to spend the<br />
night in a particularly wicked town. All the inns were<br />
places to abhor, and the people seemed to have seared<br />
consciences. His own heart was oppressed, and he awoke<br />
in the morning much cast down, and feeling spiritually<br />
hungry and thirsty.<br />
"On opening my Bible", he subsequently testified, "at<br />
the seventh chapter of Numbers, I felt as though I could not<br />
then read that long chapter of repetitions; that I must tum<br />
to some chapter which would feed my soul. And yet I was<br />
not happy in leaving my regular portion; so after a little conflict<br />
I resolved to read it, praying to <strong>God</strong> to bless me, even<br />
through Numbers vii. I fear there was not much faith in the<br />
prayer; but oh! how abundantly it was answered, and what<br />
a feast <strong>God</strong> gave me! He revealed to me His own great heart<br />
of love, and gave me the key to understand this and the<br />
previous chapter as never before."<br />
At the close of that little book, long since out of<br />
print, he says, "May <strong>God</strong> make our meditation very<br />
practical". This was one feature that characterized all<br />
his Bible studies-they must be practical.<br />
"Why is so much time worse than wastcid", he said, "over<br />
criticism of different books? What is needed is the humble,<br />
prayerful meditation of those <strong>who</strong> are determined to do the<br />
will of <strong>God</strong>."
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