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Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor (May 21, 1832 – June 3, 1905) was an English Christian missionary to China and the founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, 1865; later renamed Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International).
Works on this site: 1894 to 1911.
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In their own words
When, all too late, the bride did arise, she seems to have been more concerned to anoint herself with the liquid myrrh than to speedily welcome her waiting Lord.
Hudson Taylor· Union and Communion; or, Thoughts on the Song of Solomon, 1893English evangelical
Song of Solomon 5:3 I have taken off my robe—must I put it back on? I have washed my feet—must I soil them again?
About this voice
James Hudson Taylor (May 21, 1832 – June 3, 1905) was an English Christian missionary to China and the founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, 1865; later renamed Overseas Missionary Fellowship, OMF International). Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, the son of an evangelical Methodist preacher / pharmacist, he was converted in 1849 (age 17). He first sailed to China in 1853 (age 21) under the auspices of the Chinese Evangelization Society. Distressed by the limitations of the conventional missionary approach (concentrated in coastal treaty ports, dressed in Western clothing, dependent on home-country financial-and-administrative support), he returned to England (1860), recovered from broken health, married Maria Dyer, and in 1865 founded the China Inland Mission with revolutionary-for-its-era principles: missionaries would live among Chinese people, dress in Chinese clothing, eat Chinese food, learn Chinese language deeply, and trust God for support without solicited fundraising ("faith mission"). By Taylor's death in 1905, the CIM had 800+ missionaries in China — substantially exceeding all other Protestant missions combined. He pioneered the principle that mission must produce indigenous-leadership-and-self-supporting-churches rather than Western-dependent congregations.
3 works
What this site reads them for
| The work | Year | Quoted here |
|---|---|---|
| A RetrospectHudson Taylor's own autobiography articulating the China Inland Mission framework and his spiritual development. | 1894 | Not quoted here yet |
| Hudson Taylor in Early Years: The Growth of a SoulThe standard biographical sources on Taylor's life and CIM development; written by family members with primary-source access. | 1911 | Not quoted here yet |
| Union and CommunionTaylor's devotional articulation of Christ-and-the-believer mystical-union framework. | 1 quotation |
Where to find them
1 quotation across 1 book