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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214 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
"It is our privilege to take our rest and recreation for the<br />
purpose of pleasing Him; to lay aside our garments at night<br />
neatly (for He is in the room, and watches over us while we<br />
sleep), to wash, to dress, to smooth the hair, with His eye in<br />
view; and, in short, in all that we are, and in all that we do,<br />
to use the full measure of ability which <strong>God</strong> has given us to<br />
the glory of His Holy Name."<br />
In reading these words we almost seem again to see<br />
Mr. Taylor busy over something, yet at leisure; in labours<br />
more abundant,yet "calm on tumult's busy wheel".<br />
His words, "as our Father makes <strong>man</strong>y a flower to<br />
bloom unseen in the lonely desert", recalls an incident<br />
in Switzerland after ill-health had compelled him to lay<br />
his burden down.<br />
Climbing one afternoon up a wooded hill-side, we<br />
came across some flowers blooming in that secluded spot.<br />
Pausing and gazing at them, he q-q.oted the well-known<br />
lines of Gray:<br />
"Full <strong>man</strong>y a gem of purest ray serene<br />
<strong>The</strong> dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:<br />
Full <strong>man</strong>y a flower is born to blush unseen,<br />
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."<br />
<strong>The</strong>n in his own quiet way he added: "As though a<br />
thing were wasted simply because <strong>man</strong> had not seen it,<br />
when the Creator Himself delighteth in all His own<br />
handiwork! How easily we forget <strong>God</strong>!" It was one of<br />
those little incidental remarks which revealed how he<br />
lived in all things in the presence of <strong>God</strong>. His belief that<br />
<strong>God</strong> was watching over and delighting in even that<br />
hidden flower was the secret of his rest and trust, of his<br />
quietness and confidence.
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