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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84 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
friends whatever from <strong>who</strong>m I expected supplies. I did not<br />
know what means the Lord might use, but I was willing to<br />
give up all my time to the service of evangelization among<br />
the heathen, if <strong>by</strong> any means He would supply the smallest<br />
amount on which I could live; and if He were not pleased to<br />
do this, I was prepared to undertake whatever work might<br />
be necessary to supply myself, giving all the time that could<br />
be spared from such a calling to more distinctly missionary<br />
efforts."<br />
It was a severe ordeal, another launching out into the<br />
great unknown, another occasion for stepping out on the<br />
promises of <strong>God</strong>.<br />
"How glad one is now," he wrote, "not only to know,<br />
with dear Miss Havergal, that<br />
<strong>The</strong>y <strong>who</strong> trust Him <strong>who</strong>lly<br />
Find Him <strong>who</strong>lly true,<br />
but also, that when we fail to trust Him fully He still re~<br />
mains unchangingly faithful. He is <strong>who</strong>lly true whether we<br />
trust or not. 'If we believe not, He abideth faithful; He cannot<br />
deny Himself.' "<br />
It did not make it less trying that this step of faith<br />
had to be taken just when he was seeking to win the love<br />
of Maria Dyer in face of determined opposition. But he<br />
would not win her affection under any misapprehension,<br />
and she was destined to see the worst, and the best, to<br />
see him "as poor, yet making <strong>man</strong>y rich; as having nothing,<br />
and yet possessing all things".<br />
<strong>The</strong> workings of Hudson Taylor's mind are revealed<br />
<strong>by</strong> those portions of <strong>God</strong>'s Word which at this time became<br />
the rock on which he built. We all seize upon that<br />
which supplies a felt and present need. It is one day this,<br />
and another day that. And it was at this juncture that<br />
we find two scrolls, in Chinese character, hanging over<br />
his <strong>man</strong>telpiece-Ebenezer, "Hitherto hath the Lord
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