From the dust jacket:
VOLUME II-1860-1905
In this second volume, we see the birth of the China Inland Mission in 1865 as Taylor walked the sands of Brighton Beach, praying for "24 willing skillful workers" to reach China's interior provinces. The story continues with the development of the mission to nearly 1,000 and its spread to Europe, Australia and North America.
Throughout this period, God was working in Taylor's life to equip him for the new responsibility and give him that humble power that was to characterize him until his death in 1905. What makes such a man of God? Was Taylor unique?
In 1888 Hudson Taylor visited North America at the request of D.L. Moody. Within a few weeks, fourteen young people responded to God's call and were prepared to go to China. They were the first of a kind. With no promise of financial support from church or denomination, they went depending on God alone. This event marked the beginning of the faith mission movement in North America.
The mission founded by James Hudson Taylor, now called OMF International, offers this account of his life and work. It is more than the story of man and mission. It is the story of a faithful God who takes one obedient man and uses him in His way for His glory.
One hundred years ago the term "faith" missions was unknown in North America. The number of missionaries who had sailed from these shores was meager indeed. For most North Americans, the unreached frontier was no farther away than the land west of the Mississippi River.
Then in September 1888, Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission in England, visited America and Canada. He spoke at a conference sponsored by D.L. Moody and also at the Niagara Bible Conference. Gifts and volunteers followed.
By October, fourteen new workers were accepted and left Toronto for China, the first North American members of a "faith" mission. It was a new day for the church.
Quickly other interdenominational missions sprang up in the wake of that event. The China Inland Mission had led the way.
That was over one hundred years ago.
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