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d. 1905 England
James Hudson Taylor (May 21, 1832 – June 3, 1905), Christian missionary to China in the Methodist tradition, and founder of the China Inland Mission (renamed as Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International in 1964). He served there for 51 years, bringing over 800 missionaries to the country resulting in 18,000 Chinese converts to Christianity.
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An easy-going non-self-denying life will never be one of power.
Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.
How important, therefore, to learn before leaving England to move man through God by prayer alone.
Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.
I have never passed a more anxious or trying month in my life, but I never felt God so present with me.
If I am guided by God, in going out, He will open the way and provide the means.
While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.
There is great danger of not, in happiness, finding our delight in the Lord.
One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.
China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women.
If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.
What I have to watch against is impatience at waiting His time.
You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
We may fail, do fail continually, but He never fails.
Work is the outcome of effort; fruit, of life.
The sin of neglected communion may be forgiven, and yet the effect remains permanently.
If there was more true abiding in Christ, there would be less selfish abiding at home.
A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.
The Apostolic plan was not to raise ways and means, but to go and do the work.
God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.
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