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HUDSON TAYLOR (1832-1905) spent over 50 years in China and founded the China Inland Mission (CIM) which through faith and prayer saw hundreds of missionaries sent to Asia and countless lives changed.
This fantastic collection includes the full text of his known works:
• A RETROSPECT (1894) – a autobiographical reflection on his life and work in China [20 chapters]
• UNION AND COMMUNION (1893) – his famous commentary on the Song of Solomon
• SEPARATION AND SERVICE (1898) – his thoughts, based on Numbers 6 and 7 on service to the Lord.
• A RIBBAND OF BLUE (1899) – a series of 8 Bible Studies on ministry and spiritual growth.
• HUDSON TAYLOR IN EARLY YEARS: The Growth of a Soul (1911) – an in-depth biography of Hudson Taylor’s early years, chronicling up to age 27 (1859). [42 chapters]
• HUDSON TAYLOR AND THE CHINA INLAND MISSION: The Growth of a Work of God (1918) – continues the biography of his life, from age 27 until his death. [42 chapters]
• THE CHOICE SAYINGS OF HUDSON TAYLOR – a wonderful collection of Taylor’s poignant thoughts on life and ministry, organized around 19 subjects such as Prayer, Suffering, Fruitfulness, etc.
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. Historian Ruth Tucker summarises the theme of his life:
No other missionary in the nineteen centuries since the Apostle Paul has had a wider vision and has carried out a more systematised plan of evangelising a broad geographical area than Hudson Taylor.
Taylor was able to preach in several varieties of Chinese, including Mandarin, Chaozhou, and the Wu dialects of Shanghai and Ningbo. The last of these he knew well enough to help prepare a colloquial edition of the New Testament written in it
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