“While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 62).
James Hudson Taylor 戴德生 foi um missionário Cristão Protestante Inglês na China, e fundador do China Inland Mission . Taylor viveu na China por 51 anos. A sociedade que ele iniciou foi responsável pelo envio de mais de 800 missionários ao país que começaram 125 escolas e diretamente resultou na conversão Cristã de 18,000 pessoas, também como no estabelecimento de mais de 300 estações de trabalho com mais de 500 colaboradores locais em todas as dezoito províncias.Taylor era conhecido por sua sensibilidade à cultura chinesa e zelo pelo evangelismo. Ele adotou a prática de usar roupas nativas da China mesmo quando isso era raro entre os missionários da época. Sob a sua liderança, a CIM era singularmente não-denominacional na prática e aceitava membros de todos os grupos Protestantes, incluindo indivíduos da classe de trabalho, mulheres solteiras e recrutas multinacionais, também. Primeiramente por causa da campanha do CIM contra o comércio do Ópio, Taylor foi citado como um dos Europeus mais significantes a visitar a China no Século XIX. O Historiador Ruth Tucker sumariza o tema de sua vida:
Taylor teve a oportunidade de pregar em várias variedades de Chinês, incluindo o Mandarim, Teochew dialeto Chaozhou, e os dialetos Wu do Xangai e Ningbo. O último destes ele conhecia o bastante para ajudar a preparar uma edição coloquial do Novo Testamento escrito nessa língua.
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“While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 62).
“One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 250).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 346).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 45).
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 14).
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 41-42).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 358).
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).
“The Apostolic plan was not to raise ways and means, but to go and do the work.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 41).
“When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns When Jesus reigns, there is rest.”
(J. Hudson Taylor. Union and Communion: Or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 13).
(from Bill Fietje letter).
“Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.”
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).
“How important, therefore, to learn before leaving England to move man through God by prayer alone.”
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 15).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 356).
“Devotion to GOD is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.”
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 13).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 363).
(J. Hudson Taylor. Fruit Bearing. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 29).
Variante: All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.
“If I am guided by God, in going out, He will open the way and provide the means.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 88).
“There is great danger of not, in happiness, finding our delight in the Lord.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 131).
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 71).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 363).
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 41).
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).
“We may fail, do fail continually, but He never fails.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 175).
“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.”
(Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 37).
“Those who do not make God Lord of all, do not make Him Lord at all”
(1898) Source: Separation and Service, Part II http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Separation_and_Service.