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
joy may knows
Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.
real men joy
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.
real dwelling joy
It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.
aspect attention fix god helpful mean realise work
It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.
argument given hear reason thinks weight
We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.
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The good works of the unsaved may indeed benefit their fellow-creatures; but until life in Christ has been received, they cannot please God.
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China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women... The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, souls first and foremost in everything and at every time - even life itself must be secondary.
highest nor salvation
While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.
prayer answers might
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not.
christian prayer men
All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.
mean
God means just what He says and He will do all that He has promised.
monday war home
The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be. . . is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year, is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and is in war; in abundance, and in penury.
jesus missionary spirit
The missionary spirit is the spirit of Jesus, the spirit of the incarnation and the cross.
real soul hunger
Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.