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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202 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
others <strong>who</strong>m I have known. In the presence of bereavement,<br />
in the deepest sorrows of life, He has so drawn near to me<br />
that I have said to myself, Is it possible that the precious<br />
one <strong>who</strong> is in His presence can have more of the presence of<br />
<strong>God</strong> than I have? Is it possible that more <strong>man</strong>ifestation of<br />
Himself can be given there than here?"<br />
In addition to this practical note which was so characteristic<br />
of his addresses, he possessed a powerfully<br />
lucid way of so presenting truth that his expositions<br />
were easily remembered. One or two previously unpublished<br />
illustrations of this may be given.<br />
Speaking on the words, "Oh magnify the Lord with<br />
me!" he asked the question:<br />
"How can we magnify <strong>God</strong> <strong>who</strong> is so great? We cannot<br />
make Him greater. No; but when we use a pair of binoculars<br />
or a telescope to look, say, at the moon, we do not expect to<br />
make the moon any bigger than it is, but to bring it nearer.<br />
And when we magnify <strong>God</strong>, we do not make Him greater,<br />
but we bring Him nearer to thousands from <strong>who</strong>m He seems<br />
very far off."<br />
Or again, when speaking at family prayers at Shanghai,<br />
one Christmas morning, on the familiar words,<br />
"Unto you is born this day in the.city of David a Saviour,<br />
which is Christ the Lord", he turned to the children and<br />
said:<br />
"When, one day, father told you that a little brother had<br />
been born to you, you did not make him your brother, he<br />
was born your brother. You may have been glad or sorry,<br />
you may have welcomed him or not, but he was still born<br />
your brother. And Jesus Christ has been born to you a<br />
Saviour. You do not make Him such. But you have power<br />
to welcome Him as such, if you will, or to reject Him.".<br />
Expositions such as these, so simple in one sense, and<br />
yet so helpful, are not easily forgotten. <strong>The</strong>y were
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