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<br />
By January 6, 1858, once again the last dollar had<br />
been spent, and this time he and Mr. Jones and family<br />
had only one cash between them, i.e. the twentieth of a<br />
penny.<br />
Meanwhile the fateful letter from Mr. Tarn had<br />
arrived, and had brought his cordial consent to the engagement.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was only one request, and that was<br />
that Maria Dyer should not marry before she was twentyone.<br />
But this was only a matter of days! Such liberty<br />
opened the gates of paradise to both hearts. <strong>The</strong> pain<br />
and the anxiety of the long-sustained suspense gave place<br />
to joy and gladness.<br />
"I can scarcely realise, dear Mother," he wrote home,<br />
"what has happened; that after all the agony and suspense<br />
we have suffered we are not only at liberty to meet and be<br />
much with each other, but that within a few days, D.V., we<br />
are to be married! <strong>God</strong> has been good to. us."<br />
And it spoke much not only for her love for Hudson<br />
Taylor, but also for her faith in <strong>God</strong>, that, knowing what<br />
she did, she did not hold back on financial grounds.<br />
January 20, four days after her twenty-first birthday,<br />
had been fixed for the wedding, and here, just a fortnight<br />
before, Hudson Taylor and his friend Mr. Jones were<br />
reduced to their last cash! And what was more, Maria<br />
Dyer was coming to tea, in company with Mrs. Bausum!<br />
This was surely the last day on which he would have<br />
desired such an emergency to happen. Was he really to<br />
be thus put to shame?<br />
"Enough remained in the house to supply a modest breakfast,"<br />
he wrote, "after which, having neither food for the<br />
rest of the day nor money to obtain any, we could only betake<br />
ourselves to Him <strong>who</strong> is a real Father, and cannot forget<br />
His children's needs. And you may be sure", he added, "that<br />
what was to me the most painful element in the situation,
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