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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III<br />
A GODLY HERITAGE<br />
"0 BEAUTIFUL heredity", wrote the late Bishop Handley<br />
Moule, "where the Lord has so blessed the influence of<br />
the elder life that its very type is repeated in the younger,<br />
so that in a certain sense the son has not faith only but<br />
the parents' faith". This was so with Hudson Taylor.<br />
Spiritually Hudson Taylor was the child of the<br />
Methodist Revival. James and Betty Taylor, his greatgrandparents,<br />
had at the time of their marriage come<br />
under the saving influence of that great movement, and<br />
ten years later they enjoyed the honour of receiving<br />
John Wesley himself under the roof of their cottage in<br />
Barnsley. It was in this home, at the top of Old Mill<br />
Lane, the first Methodist Class Meeting in Barnsley was<br />
formed, and the first Methodist "Church in the House"<br />
gathered together for worship.<br />
Those were rough and rude days in England's history,<br />
and Barnsley, "famous for all <strong>man</strong>ner of wickedness",<br />
to quote John Wesley's Journal, was a stern and Spartan<br />
school for any uncompromising follower of Jesus Christ.<br />
But James Taylor never shrank from openly and publicly<br />
testifying to his Lord and Master, though he often<br />
had more than scorn and jeers to face. He well knew<br />
what it was to be stoned and roughly handled, to be<br />
dragged in the dirt, even to be in danger of his life, and<br />
on one occasion to have powdered glass rubbed in his<br />
eyes; and all for the Master's sake.<br />
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