HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

THE CHINA INLAND MISSION
The China Inland Mission, founded in 1865, has to-day
approximately 1200 missionaries located in 275 central stations
with 2000 out-stations. From the commencement of the work
more than 120,000 have been baptized, and 1235 Churches
have been organized.
The story of its financial supplies, for ;ippeals for funds
and collections are not authorized, is stranger than fiction.
It constitutes a convincing proof of the providential care of
the living God.
The story of its expansion strengthens faith in the belief
that God rules in the kingdom of men. Despite the wrath
of man, and the ma.lice of the adversary, God has set and
maintained before His Church an open door. That truth has
been especially emphasized by the painful experiences of 1900
and 1927. Each decade of the Mission's history has been
marked by its own distinctive feature.
In the first decade the Mission struck its roots in China, and
began work in the unoccupied districts of the nearer provinces.
In the second decade it explored the distant provinces,
and opened stations in all the unoccupied provinces but one.
In the third decade there was rapid expansion and consolidation
both in China and in new Home centres.
In the fourth decade a new era dawned dating from China's
defeat by Ja pan. This period was saddened by the terrible
Boxer persecutions and the subsequent need for reconstruction.
The fifth decade was ushered in by Asia's triumph over
Europe in Japan's defeat of Russia, a revolutionary fact in
the history of the world. In the history of the Mission's work
in China it was marked by mass movements and revival, and
by the reaching out to the remote areas of Sinkiang and the
Tibetan border.
The sixth, and the seventh decade still in progress, have
been marked by the rise of Nationalism and civil strife. At
the time of writing the outstanding features in the Mission's
history are the handing over of authority to Chinese Ch~rch
leaders, and thl! inauguration of a forward movement mto
regions still unevangelized.
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