Hudson Taylor

1832

THE CALL

[Jesus said:] “It is finished.”John 19: 30

“What was finished?”

“Will you go for Me to

China?”

THE CHALLENGE

“How do you propose to get

there?”

“Foreign devils not welcome”

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THE PROMISE

“I will do whatever you ask in

my name, so that the Son may

bring glory to the Father.”-Jesus’ promise in JN 14:13

“Dare you mock God? Dare you

kneel down and call him Father

with that half-crown in your

pocket?”

THE PROMISE

“I will do whatever you ask in

my name, so that the Son may

bring glory to the Father.”-Jesus’ promise in JN 14:13

“Depend on it: God’s work,

done in God’s way, will never

lack God’s supply.”-Hudson Taylor

GOD’S WORK DONE

GOD’S WAY, 1

“Must you go to China? How much

nicer it would be to stay here and

serve the Lord at home!”

-Miss V., Hudson Taylor’s new ex-girlfriend,

1853

1854

GOD’S WORK DONE

GOD’S WAY, 2

“Why did you not come

sooner?”-Chinese man to Hudson Taylor, 1854

GOD’S WORK DONE

GOD’S WAY, 3“Why do you have buttons on

the back of your coat?”

-Chinese man to Hudson Taylor, 1855

Chinese dress, 1855

1860

“Depend on it: God’s work,

done in God’s way, will never

lack God’s supply.”-Hudson Taylor

China Inland Mission

“The Cambridge Seven”

THE CRISIS

1868

THE GREAT EXCHANGE

Jesus said in a loud voice, “If anyone is

thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

Whoever believes in me, as the

Scripture has said, streams of living

water will flow from within him.” By

this he meant the Spirit…

JN 7: 37-39

1869

“If God places me in places of great

pressure and trial, must he not

give me much strength? His

resources are mine, for he is

mine, and is with me and dwells

in me.”

-Hudson Taylor, 1869

THE VERDICT

“…uneducated, unordained,

unconnected, and uncouth.”-description of Taylor by Rev.

W.A. Russell, 1855

“His organization was the most

cooperative servant organization yet

to appear—it eventually served 6,000

missionaries in China. He was just

one more of the weak things that God

uses to confound the wise…Hudson

Taylor had a divine wind behind him.”

-Ralph Winter, 1985

“We have 87¢ and all the

promises of God.”-A description of his

ministry in 1874 by Hudson Taylor

“Depend on it: God’s work,

done in God’s way, will never

lack God’s supply.”-Hudson Taylor