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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."
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A GODLY HERITAGE 13<br />

Church, had in 1824 been appointed to Barnsley. As the<br />

home of James Taylor's childhood in Pitt Street was<br />

opposite the Wesleyan Manse, it was only natural that<br />

the young people should become acquainted one with<br />

another, and it was in this way that the attachment was<br />

formed.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Hudsons were a gifted family, the father and at<br />

least three of his children having considerable artistic<br />

talent, especially as portrait painters. One of the sons<br />

obtained some notoriety as a painter of Indian Rajahs,<br />

and was, at one time, granted sittings <strong>by</strong> Mr. W. E.<br />

Gladstone at Hawarden. Another marked gift-if it may<br />

be called such-of this family was humour in a conspicuous<br />

degree, and this saving grace was largely inherited<br />

<strong>by</strong> the Hudson Taylor of our story.<br />

Amelia Hudson, the eldest daughter in this family,<br />

and the mother of Hudson Taylor, was educated at the<br />

Friends' School at Darlington, and went, somewhat early<br />

in life, as governess to a gentle<strong>man</strong>-farmer's family at<br />

Castle Donnington, near Der<strong>by</strong>, so that the young lovers,<br />

James Taylor and Amelia Hudson, had their fair share<br />

of the piquant experience of separation during their<br />

years of courtship. But the industry and thrift of the<br />

young chemist were rewarded, for on April 5, 1831, on<br />

the third day after his twenty-fourth birthday, with his<br />

father's loan already refunded, he married his sweet<br />

bride, <strong>who</strong> was just a year younger than himself. <strong>The</strong>ir<br />

home was established in Cheapside, right in the heart of<br />

Barnsley.<br />

Five children came to gladden their parents' hearts;<br />

James Hudson, the first-born; then William Shepherd,<br />

named after his grandmother; then Amelia Hudson, subsequently<br />

the wife of Benjamin <strong>Broomhall</strong>; then <strong>The</strong>odore,<br />

and lastly Louise Shepherd, <strong>who</strong> married William

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