Hudson Taylor: In Early Years- The Growth of a Soul (Volume 1)

The classic two-volume story (hardback) of Hudson Taylor and the founding of the CIM (now OMF). This longer, more detailed account includes many of Taylor's personal writings that express his vision, faith and frustrations. It also provides a careful account of the many miracles that took the young mission agency into the inalnd and barbaric provinces of China. The first volume covers Tyalor's life, and the second, more about the mission itself.Volume 1 - 1776-1860This two volume biography of James Hudson Taylor traces the life of the man who was used by God to found the China Inland Mission.With no help but a copy of Luke's Gospel in Mandarin, Taylor, as a boy of 17, began to study the Chinese language preparing to go to China. Further lessons were learned when every penny was gone -- lessons in dependence on God alone. Then came the day he arrived alone in Shanghai to find the country at war and the foreign community in serious danger. Armed with the names of the only three people he knew who might help him in this strange country, he found the first two unavailable...Was he mistaken about his call? If this was God's will how would things go so wrong?But there was also Maria, the beautiful, independent, young school teacher who became his wife. And Nyi, Fang and Tsui, who not only trusted Christ but became co-workers with Hudson and Maria in winning others.Unknown by the world, forgotten by Christians at home, even criticized by other missionaries, Taylor was learning that faith can only be cultivated by relying on the Faithful One. Volume 1 takes us through the successes and failures of those early China years to show God shaping the man, Hudson Taylor, for the greater ministry that was yet to come.