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udson Taylor, missionary to China, recollection, and thus encourage me by
founded the ‘China Inland Mission’ answering my prayer.
Hin 1866. He never asked people for At one time when the day for the payment
money, but depended entirely on God. And of a quarter's salary arrived, my kind friend
God always supplied his needs. made no allusion to the matter. As usual, I
Taylor learned to have great faith as a was much in prayer about it.
young medical student in England in the As the days passed on, I continued pray-
1850s. The following incident shows what ing. But he did not remember. Then one
he had to go through to learn to depend Saturday night, while settling my weekly
upon his Lord. You can read this story, accounts, I found myself possessed of
plus others from the life of Hudson Taylor, only a single coin - one half crown piece.
in his autobiography, “To China with Still I had hitherto had no lack, and I
Love”. continued in prayer.
While studying medicine in Hull, England, That Sunday was a very happy one. As
my kind employer, who was always busily usual my heart was full and brimming over
occupied, wished me to remind him with blessing. After attending divine
whenever my salary became due. This I service in the morning, my afternoon and
determined not to do directly, but instead, evening were filled with Gospel work in
asked God to bring the fact to his various lodging houses in the lowest part
of town.
After concluding my last service at one of
these houses, a poor man asked me to go
and pray with his wife, saying that she was
dying. I readily agreed.
On the way to his house, I asked him why
he had not sent for the priest, as his accent
told me he was an Irishman. He had done
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