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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LOVE TRIUMPHANT 79<br />
these misfortunes mean? Why all these fruitless journeyings?<br />
What lay behind <strong>God</strong>'s mysterious dealings? But<br />
there were good reasons why he should not go south, and<br />
better reasons why he should remain north.<br />
"Be not amazed at life; 'tis still<br />
<strong>The</strong> mode of <strong>God</strong> with His elect,<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir hopes exactly to fulfil,<br />
In times and ways they least expect."<br />
This truth Hudson Taylor was to prove, but only <strong>by</strong><br />
passing through fire and water. When news came later<br />
that the British had bombarded Canton, and then that<br />
war had been declared, he recognised the wisdom and<br />
the kindness which had blocked his path. And when in<br />
Ningpo he met the wo<strong>man</strong> <strong>who</strong>se love seemed countless<br />
gain, he saw the loving Hand which had detained him in<br />
the north. But his Eden was fenced in with apparently<br />
insurmountable barriers. He could only acknowledge<br />
<strong>God</strong> in all His ways, and trust Him to direct his paths.<br />
And this he literally did, come rough, come smooth.<br />
When he had been robbed and deserted on the road "<br />
to Ningpo, he still sought first to preach Christ. He<br />
speaks of feeling condemned for being anxious about his<br />
lost belongings, and not more concerned for the lost state<br />
of those around. Though so exhausted <strong>by</strong> lack of food,<br />
<strong>by</strong> want of sleep, and <strong>by</strong> sheer physical fatigue as to<br />
faint <strong>by</strong> the roadside, he only regained consciousness to<br />
continue his witness for Christ. Literally he sought first<br />
the things of <strong>God</strong>, and believing that <strong>God</strong> would not<br />
fail to deliver him, he bade some interested Chinese observe<br />
how <strong>God</strong> would come to his aid. So real was the<br />
sense of <strong>God</strong>'s presence that at times; though utterly<br />
weary, he said "the road was almost forgotten", and<br />
"sweet tears of mingled joy and sorrow flowed freely".<br />
As the sceptic David Hume said of Dr. John Brown:
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