This is a lost and forgotten book, available for the first time in our generation. Unearthed from the dark corners of a library, students of this great missionary have a new resource. This is published in the hope that it would strengthening and encouragement both those who are familiar with Him and those who are newly discovering him.
Generations of Missionaries have looked to James Hudson Taylor as a spiritual leader and missionary innovator. For all who long for the inward joy and power that Taylor had will enjoy the insights this collection holds. Considered the most influential missionary in the modern missionary movement. He radically changed the way missionaries lived incarnational and worked with people. Pioneering an example that continues to inspire. Much of the the explosive growth in the modern church of China can be traced back to the trail he blazed.
James Hudson Taylor (21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905), spent 51 years preaching and teaching in China. While other missionaries brought a gospel inextricable from Western culture, James adopted Chinese culture, wearing local clothing hairstyles and loving the food, becoming fluent in several Chinese dialects. Believing God wanted to get the gospel to all eighteen provinces of China he started the China Inland Mission in 1865. Under his leadership more than 800 missionaries left for China starting 300 missions stations in all eighteen provinces and beginning 125 schools and resulting in over 18,000 Chinese conversions.
It is our hope in recovering this gem, that you will fall in love again or anew with this man of boldness and vision.
Hudson Taylor (1832 - 1905)
Was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International). 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.Taylor returned to England in 1883 to recruit more missionaries speaking of China's needs, and returned to China, working now with a total of 225 missionaries and 59 churches. In 1887 their numbers increased by another 102 with The Hundred missionaries, and in 1888, Taylor brought 14 missionaries from the United States. In the US he travelled and spoke at many places, including the Niagara Bible Conference where he befriended Cyrus Scofield and later Taylor filled the pulpit of Dwight Lyman Moody as a guest in Chicago. Moody and Scofield thereafter actively supported the work of the China Inland Mission of North America.
James Hudson Taylor was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International). 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.
Taylor was known for his sensitivity to Chinese culture and zeal for evangelism. He adopted wearing native Chinese clothing even though this was rare among missionaries of that time. Under his leadership, the CIM was singularly non-denominational in practice and accepted members from all Protestant groups, including individuals from the working class and single women as well as multinational recruits. Primarily because of the CIM's campaign against the Opium trade, Taylor has been referred to as one of the most significant Europeans to visit China in the 19th Century.
Taylor was raised in the Methodist tradition but in the course of his life he was a member of the Baptist Westbourne Grove Church pastored by William Garrett Lewis, and he also kept strong ties to the "Open Brethren" such as George Muller. In summary his theology and his practice was non-sectarian.
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