. The story of the China Inland Mission . ssful evangelist at home. Hewas deeply interested in the progress of the Kingdomin other lands, and as early as the year 1830 —through reading several books, including an accountof the travels of Captain Basil Hall—was muchimpressed with the awful spiritual destitution of theChinese Empire. Circumstances at that time madeit impossible for him to consider the question of per-sonal service in the mission field ; but he was led topray that if GOD should give him a son he might becalled and privileged to devote his life to the evan-gelisation of Chinas mil
. The story of the China Inland Mission . ssful evangelist at home. Hewas deeply interested in the progress of the Kingdomin other lands, and as early as the year 1830 —through reading several books, including an accountof the travels of Captain Basil Hall—was muchimpressed with the awful spiritual destitution of theChinese Empire. Circumstances at that time madeit impossible for him to consider the question of per-sonal service in the mission field ; but he was led topray that if GOD should give him a son he might becalled and privileged to devote his life to the evan-gelisation of Chinas millions. About two years later, on May 21st, 1832,James Hudson Taylor was born, the first and onlysurviving son of that godly father. But althoughhe seemed to have been given directly for China,in answer to his fathers prayers, all hope of hisultimately becoming a missionary was by degrees 4 50 J. HUDSON TAYLOR. abandoned, on account of an extreme delicacy ofhealth which lasted many years. Surrounded though he was from childhood by all. MR. JAMES TAYLOR. the influences of a truly Christian home, it was notuntil he had reached his sixteenth year that the greatchange took place which permanently altered thewhole of life for young Hudson Taylor. Of the THE POWER OE PRAYER. 51 experiences preceding his conversion we read fromhis own pen :— I had many opportunities in early years oflearning the value of prayer and of the Word ofGod ; for it was the delight of my dear parents topoint out that if there were any such being as GOD,to trust and to obey Him and to be fully given upto His service must of necessity be the best andwisest course both for myself and others. But inspite of these helpful examples and precepts myheart was unchanged. Often I had tried to makemyself a Christian ; and failing of course in suchefforts, I began at last to think that for some reasonor other salvation could not be for me, and that thebest I could do was to take my fill of this world, asthere was no
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