| › Publishers' Note and Preface - THE LIFE OF J. HUDSON TAYLOR
By Geraldine (Taylor) Guinness
The Life Of The Founder
Of The China Inland Mission
Being mainly an abridgment of ...read |
| › Chapter 1 - The Power of Prayer - Mr. James Taylor, of Yorkshire, England, was for many years an earnest and successful evangelist. Through reading an account of travels in China he be ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - The Call to Service - "The first joys of conversion passed away after a time, and were succeeded by a period of very painful deadness of soul, with much conflict. But this ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - Life in London - "By-and-by the time drew near when it was j thought desirable that I should leave Hull to attend the medical course of the London Hospital. A little w ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - Voyage to China - Soon after this the time so long looked forward to arrived, when Mr. Hudson Taylor was to leave England for China. Five years of waiting and preparati ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - Early Missionary Experiences - "Landing in Shanghai on March 1st, 1854, I found myself surrounded with difficulties that were wholly unexpected. A band of rebels, known as the 'Red ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - Man Proposes, God Disposes - Having to leave the neighborhood of Black Town thus unexpectedly was a real disappointment both to Mr. Burns and Mr. Taylor, as they had hoped to spen ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - Settlement in Ningpo - Autumn was well advanced before Mr. Hudson Taylor reached Ningpo -- the City of the Peaceful Wave; but New Year's Day, 1857, saw him quite a familiar ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - Timely Supplies -- Return to England - For three years after leaving the Chinese Evangelization Society, Mr. Hudson Taylor remained in Ningpo, working in association with his loved colleagu ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - The New Mission - From that time the matter began to take form. The papers on China that were in course of preparation were soon completed, and it was decided to publis ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - Launching Forth - Thus Christmas again drew near, bringing the close of 1865. Six months had now elapsed since that summer Sunday on the sands at Brighton, When, alone ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - Christmas in China - Strangers in a strange land, most of the Lammermuir party now found themselves face to face for the first time with the practical problems of a missio ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - Safe in the Arms of Jesus - During the early part of the first summer, Mr. Taylor, with a number of helpers, made a journey up the river, preaching the Gospel in many towns, and ...read |
| › Chapter 13 - New Developments - "The new year, 1868, was commenced, as previous ones had been, with fasting and prayer; and large desires were felt by all that, during this year, som ...read |
| › Chapter 14 - The Yang-Chau Riot - Yang-Chau Fu, the city in which the travelers now found themselves, is one of the most ancient, populous, and wealthy commercial centers in China. Sit ...read |
| › Chapter 15 - Thick Darkness Where God was - During the year 1869 a station was opened in the hitherto unoccupied province of Gan-hwuy, in the city of Gan-king, by Mr. and Mrs. Meadows. During th ...read |
| › Chapter 16 - Ask and Ye shall Receive - The disturbed state of affairs in China continued to cause apprehension and uneasiness until quite the end of the year 1870, and combined with the gen ...read |
| › Chapter 17 - Ye Did It unto Me - The trials and difficulties of the year 1870 had passed gradually away, giving place, it will be remembered, to brighter times; but the leader of the ...read |
| › Chapter 18 - Founding the Western Branch of China Inland Mission - In the closing days of 1872 the members of the Inland Mission were cheered by the return of Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Taylor to the field. In several of the ...read |
| › Chapter 19 - The Lowest Ebb, and the Turn of the Tide - Pecuniary difficulties, however, were by no the most severe part of the discipline means through which at this time the Lord was preparing the Inland ...read |
| › Chapter 20 - Closing Events - It was now become evident that Mr. Taylor would be obliged to have help in superintending a work so large. Accordingly after long and prayerful consid ...read |
