Hudson Taylor
written at Monday, November 16, 2009
Discovered 2 books on the biography of James Hudson Taylor on the bookshelf, really old books. Hudson Taylor was a missionary to China in the 1800's and was the founder of the China Inland Mission. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who began 125 schools and directly resulted in 18,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 500 local helpers in all eighteen provinces.
Was very tempted to grab the books and start reading, also knowing that I have a bounty of unfinished reads sitting on my bed. I have a terrible habit of just picking a book, going to the half-point and continuing on to others. He writes the following memorable quotes in his biography.
"I cannot tell how I am buffeted sometimes by temptation. I never knew how bad a heart I have. Yet I do know that I love God and love His work, and desire to serve him only and in all things. And I value above all else that precious Saviour in whom alone I can be accepted."
"Envied by some, despised by many, hated by others, often blamed for things I never heard of or had nothing to do with... often sick in body as well as perplexed in mind and embarrassed by circumstances-had not the Lord been specially gracious to me, had not my mind been sustained by the conviction that the work is His and that He is with me in what it is no empty figure to call "The think of the conflict," I must have fainted or broken down. But the battles is the Lord's, and He will conquer. We may fail-do fail continually-but He never fails. Still, I need your prayers more than ever."
Hudson Taylor
written at Monday, November 16, 2009
Discovered 2 books on the biography of James Hudson Taylor on the bookshelf, really old books. Hudson Taylor was a missionary to China in the 1800's and was the founder of the China Inland Mission. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who began 125 schools and directly resulted in 18,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 500 local helpers in all eighteen provinces.
Was very tempted to grab the books and start reading, also knowing that I have a bounty of unfinished reads sitting on my bed. I have a terrible habit of just picking a book, going to the half-point and continuing on to others. He writes the following memorable quotes in his biography.
"I cannot tell how I am buffeted sometimes by temptation. I never knew how bad a heart I have. Yet I do know that I love God and love His work, and desire to serve him only and in all things. And I value above all else that precious Saviour in whom alone I can be accepted."
"Envied by some, despised by many, hated by others, often blamed for things I never heard of or had nothing to do with... often sick in body as well as perplexed in mind and embarrassed by circumstances-had not the Lord been specially gracious to me, had not my mind been sustained by the conviction that the work is His and that He is with me in what it is no empty figure to call "The think of the conflict," I must have fainted or broken down. But the battles is the Lord's, and He will conquer. We may fail-do fail continually-but He never fails. Still, I need your prayers more than ever."
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What matters supremely, therefore, is not
in the last analysis, the fact that I know God,
but the larger fact which underlies it --
the fact that He knows me.
J. I. Packer
