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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have never seen the willingness to suffer and leave <strong>God</strong> to<br />
vindicate His own cause, His own people and their right,<br />
where the result has not been beneficial, if there has been<br />
rest and faith in Him; and praise <strong>God</strong>, I have known a<br />
number of such instances in the mission field."<br />
On more than one occasion Hudson Taylor, during<br />
this time in America, made some striking remarks on the<br />
subject of sudden conversions which are well worth recording.<br />
Speaking at the NewYorkconference,he stated<br />
that he had personally known at least one hundred<br />
Chinese <strong>who</strong> had accepted Christ as Saviour the first<br />
time they had ever heard of Him. On another occasion<br />
he gave the following arresting testimony on this important<br />
topic:<br />
"When I first went to China I expected people to be<br />
saved very soon, and before I could speak any Chinese at all<br />
<strong>God</strong> was pleased to give me the joy of seeing two accept<br />
Christ. By the time that year was over I had been so much<br />
under the influence of older and wiser men, <strong>who</strong> thought that<br />
a very gradual process of education was necessary before the<br />
heathen could be expected to become Christians, that I had.<br />
ceased to expect instantaneous conversions; and for two or·<br />
three years I was not disappointed, for I did not see any."<br />
He then records a conversation held with a missionary<br />
recently come from England, which friend answered<br />
his arguments in favour of a slow preparation <strong>by</strong> saying:<br />
"I should not like to hold views like that, it seems<br />
perilously like sinning against the Holy Ghost."<br />
"<strong>The</strong>n I remembered", continued Hudson Taylor, "that<br />
my own conversion had been like a flash of fire; and I felt<br />
that I was wrong, and confessed the sin; ~d we went out<br />
together .... Well, I think it was in July my' friend spoke to<br />
me in this way. On Christmas Day we had seven converted<br />
Christians meet together to spend a happy day. <strong>The</strong> Lord<br />
had blessed us to the conversion of seven!"
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