HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

232 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD
Y angtse, the mortal remains of Hudson Taylor were laid
to rest a few days later. It was there he had entered
deeply into the fellowship of Christ in suffering, it was
there he had learned the sufficiency of God's Unfailing
Springs, and it is there he sleeps in Jesus till He come.
It has been said of one who died upon the heights of
Mount Everest, higher than any other man has climbed,
that "he was always drawn to the big and the unexplored-to
the great walls that mountaineers, as a
rule, set aside as obviously impossible. And while he
climbed his eye was always on the watch for some fresh
clue or hint that might give away the secret of their
invincibility". And so it was with Hudson Taylor. The
great things, the unachieved, the unevangelized regions
drew him, and they inspired him to attempt the seemingly
impossible for God. And so he laboured, and so he
advanced, with his eye always on the watch for some
fresh opportunity, some new opening, for some new ad­
_venture, that the strongholds of Satan might be captured
for God, and that men might be brought into captivity
to Jesus Christ.
To him there was "no dream that must not be dared";
no risk that must not be taken, if it came in the line of
duty; no obstacle that could not be surmounted, if the
call of God demanded. "Faith", he asserted, "laughs at
impossibilities; and obedience raises no questions." And
so, like Joshua and Caleb, undaunted by the fenced
cities, and the sons of Anak, he wholly followed the Lord,
and in His Name possessed the land.
If the secret of his life be asked, it is to be found in
words already quoted; He believed in the Living God;
he believed that God had spoken in His Holy Word; and
he believed that God meant what He said, and would do
all that He had promised.