HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

THE MAN HIMSELF 205
essential to missionary effort", he wrote. "And the more
definite the information the better." And he showed
great art, and unwearied persistence, in driving these
truths home.
"You will not be wearied", he once said, "by my reiteration
of the oft-told fact which may not be, must not be forgotten.
More than half China Proper is still destitute of one
resident Protestant Missionary. All Tibet, and nearly all
Mongolia and Manchuria are as totally neglected. Many
Roman Catholic missionaries from Europe are labouring in
these regions (above one hundred), while we, who owe so
much to God, are doing nothing for them. This should not
be; this must not continue."
On another occasion he wrote again:
"How long shall this state of things be allowed to continue?
We asked this question in the first edition of our
pamphlet on China's Spiritual Need and Claims, issued
twelve years ago; we have asked it in each successive edition;
we ask it still .... What is your reply?"
He never wearied of arraying the facts before the
Christian public, and of getting to close quarters with
his hearers, or readers, in their application. He knew
how to appeal to the imagination, how to speak to the
conscience, and how to move the heart also. He could
be intensely personal. Quoting those words which had
had such a powerful effect upon his own life, "If thou
forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death", he
would proceed:
"These words are the words of God; very simple, very unmistakable,
and very solemn. They are addresse!l, Christian
reader, to you. Not to you alone, yet to you in particular; and
you alone must bear your own burden,· in respect of them,
when you stand before the judgment seat of Christ."
He himself was so dominated by creative convic- .
tions that he could make them contagious. Few stories