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J. Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor is widely regarded as one of the important and influential missionaries of all time, and certainly one of the most significant missionaries to China in the 19th century. “He was a spiritual giant who built an enduring enterprise by faith and prayer” (Kane 197).
His reputation rests largely upon the founding of the China Inland Mission, which became the largest missionary organization in China by the time of his death in 1905. Behind this organization, however, lay the character and conduct of its founder, surely a remarkable Christian leader by any standard of measurement, though not without weaknesses and failings.
Biography
Early life
Hudson Taylor was born in Barnsley, England. His father was a pharmacist and Methodist lay preacher. Even before his birth, his parents had dedicated Hudson Taylor to the Lord.
His conversion took place at the age of seventeen. A few months later, he sensed God’s call upon him to serve as a missionary in China. To prepare himself, he commenced medical studies at the London Hospital, being convinced that medicine would open doors in a land that was hostile to Christianity and the West.
Knowing that he would need faith to serve God, he trained himself in small ways to trust God. While in
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The Shaping of Modern China: Hudson Taylor’s Life and Legacy
The invitation to write a review of the new two-volume edition of this magisterial work came as I was about one-third of the way through Volume Six of the previous version. Having gone through the whole set two times now, I am even more convinced that this is a marvelous book about a great man and the movement which he led.
That James Hudson Taylor, FRCS, deserves the epithet ‘great’ is undisputed. At his death, those who had known him long and well during his many temptations bore eloquent testimony to his character, conduct, and contribution to the spread of the Gospel among China’s millions. Let us savor a few extracts:
W.A.P. Martin, with whom Taylor disagreed on several important points, called him “the Loyola of Protestant missions in China’ and “added that like Martin Luther he needed no honorific title.”
His successor spoke of Taylor’s “complete consecration to the fulfillment of his divinely-appointed trust and calling… We can witness to his beautiful character… the sources of his influence lay… in his humility, love and sympathy.”
The pioneer missionary and eminent sinologist Griffith John said, “It was impossible to come into close contact with Mr Taylor without feeling that he was not an ordinary ma
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EXCHANGED LIFE
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