Identifier: hudsontaylorchin00tayl (find matches)
Title: Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission : the growth of a work of God
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Taylor, Howard, 1862-1946 Taylor, Howard, Mrs
Subjects: Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905 China Inland Mission Missions
Publisher: London : Morgan & Scott Philadelphia : China Inland Mission
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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It was a wonderful change, and as we glided swiftly over the iron

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¹ Dr. Martin, who reached China in 1850, was seventy-eight years of
age ; Mr. Hudson Taylor, who arrived in 1854, was seventy-three ; and
Dr. Griffith John, who arrived in 1855, was a year older. They were photo-
graphed together at Hankow on the 29th of April 1905.
² With reference to the Business Department, Mr. W. E. Geil, author
of A Yankee on the Yangtze, wrote to Mr. Stevenson after his journey
across China : " I am emphatically endorsing (in my book) the manage
ment of the missionary merchandise by the C.I.M. Never have I seen
the peoples money made to go so far as under your wise administration.
As to my own accounts, without exception they were promptly, politely,
properly attended to. In an age of commerce and high-pressure com-
mercial enterprises worked by vast combinations, it is good to find equally
wise methods applied to the gifts of the Church in this economical and
wise distribution. ... I have been impressed too when among the C.I.M.
workers by a spiritual atmosphere saturated with two good things, kind-
ness and common sense. . . . Your missionaries receive very small pay,
but never once have I heard complaint, and never has salary been men-
tioned but the ready reply has come, ' It is sufficient.' God bless the
self-sacrificing missionaries in Inland China."
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THREE CHINA VETERANS.
W. A. P. Martin, D.D. Griffith John, D.D. J. Hudson Taylor, M.R.C.S.

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HIS WAY IS PERFECT 609

road we felt as if there must be a rude awakening. But no, it
went on and on, fresh surprises meeting us at every point, until
only six hours after leaving Hankow we steamed through the
long tunnel under the mountains between Hu-peh and Ho-nan,
and found ourselves once again in that familiar province.

A delightful visit at Yen-cheng, a station to which the
railway brought them, gave Mr. Taylor the opportunity
of seeing something of the work of Australian members of
the Mission. In Mr. and Mrs. Lack he found missionaries
after his own heart, and so also in Mr. and Mrs. Joyce in
the neighbouring station to which he ventured on, though
it involved an overland journey. A night, indeed, had to
be spent in an inn, which was an outstanding experience
for its strangeness and yet familiarity—just an ordinary
wayside inn hke so many hundreds Mr. Taylor had known
in earlier days.

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