HUDSON TAYLOR The man who believed God by Marshall Broomhall

VI
A GOD WHO RAISETH THE DEAD
IT was already dark when Hudson Taylor reached
London on Saturday evening, September 25, 1852. As
the small coasting vessel, which had come from Hull,
encountered fog in the river it was obliged to cast anchor
in the Thames and await daylight. This circumstance
gave Hudson Taylor a quiet week-end for waiting upon
God, and this he much needed, as his out]ook was,
humanly speaking, as obscure as the dark and foggy
river. But none the less he was, as he wrote to his mother,
"in good health and perfect peace because trusting in
God".
Upon one point he had been uncertain. His father
had promised to bear all his expenses in London, while,
at the same time, the Chinese Evangelization Society
offered to do the same. The question was which offer
should he accept, or should he decline them both and
seek to prove God as his one and all-sufficient confidence.
After mature deliberation he determined upon the latter
course. No one but God would know, for his father would
conclude that the Society was assisting him, whiJe the
Society would believe that the father was behind his boy.
And so, in the mighty metropolis of London, Hudson
Taylor sought more fuJly to prove the God who had been
his Helper in Hull.
Sharing an attic with a cousin in a house near Soho
Square, where his uncle, Benjamin Hodson, boarded, he
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