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 83<br />
was at that period passing through the refiner's fire, and<br />
being purged as gold and silver. One such momentous<br />
experience was the severance of his connection with the<br />
Society which had sent him out to China. For <strong>man</strong>y<br />
months he had been deeply pained and exercised <strong>by</strong> the<br />
fact that the Chinese Evangelization Society was frequently<br />
in debt, and that the bills which he and others<br />
were instructed to draw were met with borrowed money.<br />
<strong>God</strong>'s word, "Owe no <strong>man</strong> anything", was to him unmistakably<br />
definite, and to borrow money was therefore<br />
tantamount to a confession that <strong>man</strong> was determined to<br />
obtain what <strong>God</strong> had withheld.<br />
"Could that which was wrong for one Christian to do",<br />
he wrote, "be right for an association of Christians? I could<br />
not think that <strong>God</strong> was poor, that He was short of resources,<br />
or unwilling to supply any want of whatever work was really<br />
His."<br />
<strong>The</strong> logic of this seemed unanswerable, and since he<br />
was unable, after a long correspondence, to bring the<br />
Society to his way of thinking, he felt compelled, to<br />
satisfy his conscience, to sever his connection with them,<br />
though without any breach of love and goodwill. He continued<br />
to send home his journal for the Society to publish<br />
as before.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was naturally much that was trying in such a<br />
step. He had no desire to become a free-lance, but as he<br />
was unordained, and had not completed his medical<br />
course, he was not sanguine as to any other Society<br />
accepting him. But of one thing he was certain, and that<br />
was that <strong>God</strong> would never leave him, nor forsake him.<br />
But he was none the less deeply exercised.<br />
"I was not at all sure what <strong>God</strong> wo.uld have me do," he<br />
subsequently wrote, "or whether He would so meet my need<br />
as to enable me to continue working as before. I had no
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