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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60 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
Parker's arrival. But though mails, posted in England<br />
three months after the Parkers had sailed, arrived ere<br />
long, they brought no remittance, nor even any mention<br />
of money! And yet Hudson Taylor had been criticized<br />
at Shanghai, <strong>by</strong> those <strong>who</strong> did not know the facts, for<br />
not making more adequate provision for the comforts<br />
of a family with little children!<br />
All this was trying enough, but when his Society's<br />
magazine at home began to publish statements critical<br />
of those <strong>who</strong> were befriending him in Shanghai, he felt<br />
he had no option but to remonstrate. It was a painful<br />
duty, but it was done with firmness, and yet with much<br />
humility, as the following extracts from his correspondence<br />
show:<br />
Concerning what was published in <strong>The</strong> Gleaner he<br />
wrote:<br />
"From the December Gleaner (I think it was) I see you<br />
have no one to revise the sheets, or that monstrous mass of<br />
absurdities printed as my communication could never have<br />
been passed. Better have no Gleaner at all, than send out<br />
such a tissue of nonsense, to make the Society and its agents<br />
a laughing stock to all <strong>who</strong> see it .... You should not<br />
voluntarily irritate those <strong>who</strong> are more thoughtful for the<br />
shelter and support of your missionaries than the Society<br />
which sends them out seems to be."<br />
In another letter he writes quite frankly telling the<br />
Committee at home of his painful dismay at finding no<br />
reference to finance in mail after mail, acquainting them<br />
with the inadequate preparations he had made for the<br />
welcome of the Parkers, their lack of funds, and the criticisms<br />
he had suffered in consequence, of how his mouth<br />
was closed against explanations, and also of the kindnesses<br />
he had received from friends in Shanghai. He then<br />
proceeds:
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