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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88 THE MAN WHO BELIEVED GOD<br />
our unpreparedness for the guests <strong>who</strong> were coming that<br />
evening, was specially remembered before Him."<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was no mail due, and no source whence supplies<br />
could be expected. In their extremity Hudson Taylor<br />
and Mr. Jones contemplated selling some of their possessions.<br />
A Chinese merchant, when approached, expressed<br />
his willingness to buy a clock. But, alas! he<br />
de<strong>man</strong>ded a week's trial of the timepiece ere he parted<br />
with his money. Quite natural, but . . . <strong>The</strong>ir next<br />
expedient was to try to sell an old American stove to<br />
the foundry across the river. But again, alas! the bridge<br />
of boats had been carried away in the night <strong>by</strong> a flood,<br />
and their solitary cash would not pay the ferry. So the<br />
old stove had to be carried home again! <strong>The</strong>y were indeed<br />
brought into the net. But shut up unto <strong>God</strong>, He granted<br />
them a rich relief, compared with which the selling of<br />
the stove would have been a poor salvation.<br />
"We went into the study and gave ourselves to waiting<br />
upon <strong>God</strong>", said Hudson Taylor. "We cried indeed unto<br />
the Lord in our trouble, and He heard and delivered us out<br />
of all our distresses. For while we were still upon our knees<br />
a letter arrived from England containing a remittance."<br />
<strong>The</strong> letter conveyed a generous gift from Mr. Berger.<br />
Such a deliverance could not be suppressed. <strong>The</strong> <strong>who</strong>le<br />
story came out at the happy tea-party that evening! But<br />
while Hudson Taylor's heart was overflowing with joy<br />
at <strong>God</strong>'s great goodness, he also recognized the serious<br />
aspect of such a situation, and told Maria Dyer that she<br />
must still regard herself as free if this should make her<br />
shrink from linking her lot with him.<br />
"Have you forgotten", she quietly replied, "that I was<br />
left an orphan in a far-off land? <strong>God</strong> has been my Father all<br />
these years; and do you think that I shall be afraid to trust<br />
Him now?"
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