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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Meanwhile, Mrs. Broomhall, who was away from home at
the time, had heard of the proposed step, and was deeply
moved. With the care of the Mission-house and candidates,
as well as her own family of four boys and six girls, it would
have been easy and true to think that her hands were full.
But hers was the love that never faileth, and in a busy,
practical life she knew the secret of so waiting upon God as
to have her strength daily renewed.
" If Jenny is called to go to China," she said without
hesitation, " I am called to care for her children."
Nothing could have given Mrs. Taylor greater comfort;
for with such loving supervision close at hand, even the little
ones could remain with their father, and the home-life be
carried on as usual. But there was yet more that the Lord
had it in His heart to provide. The very day before Mrs.
Taylor left England, accompanied by several new workers,¹
a letter came to hand from an old friend expressing warm

¹The party, which included Adam Dorward, J. H. Riley, and S. R.
Clarke, men of notable usefulness in later years, sailed on the 2nd of May 1878.
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MRS. HUDSON TAYLOR (née J. E. FAULDING).
To face page 312.

" FOR JESUS' SAKE" 313
sympathy with the object she had in view. It contained a
gift toward the Orphanage she hoped to found ; and to her
surprise on looking at the cheque, it proved to be for a
thousand pounds.
" Please enter it anonymously," he wrote. " It does not
represent any superabundance of wealth, as my business affairs
will miss it. But if you, for Christ's sake, can separate, I cannot
give less than this."¹

It was a great step forward when, the heat of summer
over, Mrs. Hudson Taylor set out from Shanghai to go to the
inland province of Shan-si. Two younger ladies accompanied
her—Miss Home and Miss Crickmay—and they travelled
under the experienced escort of Mr. Bailer. Never before
had foreign women attempted to go so far inland, and with
their work in the famine-stricken region, a little light began
to shine for the women and children of that vast waiting
world—the hundred and eighty millions of the far interior.

When the news reached Mr. Taylor by cablegram -

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