Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylorwas a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission. Taylor spent 51 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who began 125 schools and directly resulted in 18,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 500 local helpers in all eighteen provinces...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth21 May 1832
faithful reason found
Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.
faith people missionary
God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him
faithful strive
But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.
should-have too-much pounds
If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?
prayer men praying
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
christian religious may
Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.
home sight special
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go?
running waiting risk
If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior,
spiritual prayer blessing
As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.
inspiration greatness complaining
It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.
christian prayer mean
In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.
faithful trials littles
If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.
blessing soul my-soul
The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.
father shy littles
I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.