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.
James Hudson Taylor was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International) who served there for 51 years, bringing over 800 missionaries to the country and directly resulting in 18,000 Chinese converts to Christianity by the time he died at age 73.
Taylor was born into a Christian home in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, the son of "chemist" (pharmacist) and Methodist lay preacher James Taylor and his wife, Amelia (Hudson), but as a young man he moved away from the beliefs of his parents. At 17, upon reading an evangelistic tract pamphlet, he became a Christian, and in December of 1849, he committed himself to going to China as a missionary
In 1858, after working in a hospital for four years, he married the daughter of another missionary. He returned to England in 1860 and spent five years translating the New Testament into the Ningpo dialect. He returned to China in 1866 with sixteen other missionaries.
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