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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210 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
of what was being done <strong>by</strong> all Protestant Missionary<br />
Societies in China, and he devoted also considerable<br />
space to the work of individual missions. It was<br />
not an uncommon thing to set apart a <strong>who</strong>le page<br />
every month to the work of some other Society, taking<br />
them seriatim. At times, practically a <strong>who</strong>le number<br />
was reserved-twelve pages out of sixteen, for instance,<br />
in 1877-for a report of some important Missionary<br />
Conference.<br />
"We can only cry to <strong>God</strong>", he wrote, "to incline His<br />
people to strengthen every Protestant Mission; and for ourselves<br />
our prayer now is, that the Lord will double our<br />
numbers, and increase our usefulness tenfold."<br />
Or again:<br />
"I do not mind what Society they go out under, if they<br />
will only go."<br />
Speaking at the Annual Meetings of the Mission in<br />
London one year, he said:<br />
"Much has naturally been said at these meetings about<br />
the China Inland Mission, but I should not like them to<br />
close without an expression of our gratitude to <strong>God</strong> for His<br />
blessing on the work of all the other Protestant Missions in<br />
China .... Our work is not in rivalry with any other, it is sui<br />
generis, and auxiliary, and supplementary. We can therefore<br />
rejoice, and we do rejoice, in the success of any <strong>who</strong> are<br />
carrying the Gospel to that needy land."<br />
When he was p~eaching the opening sermon of the<br />
great Missionary Conference in Shanghai, in May 1890,<br />
he alluded to the fact that the British and Foreign Bible<br />
Society was holding its Annual Meetings in Exeter Hall,<br />
London, on the same day, and before he commenced<br />
his discourse prayed specially for the Bible Society, and<br />
for all other Annual Meetings being held at that season.<br />
It was a characteristic act.
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