Hudson Taylor citations

James Hudson Taylor 戴德生 missionnaire chrétien évangélique baptiste anglais en Chine et fondateur de la Mission à l'Intérieur de la Chine, MIC, China Inland Mission, renommée Overseas Missionary Fellowship , affilié aux Assemblées de Frères . Taylor a travaillé 51 ans en Chine. La société qu'il a commencée a amené plus de 800 missionnaires à travailler en Chine qui ont fondé à leur tour plus de 125 écoles résultant à la conversion de 18 000 personnes au christianisme. Aussi, ils ont établi 300 stations dans les dix-huit provinces de la Chine avec plus de 500 travailleurs locaux, au total, y travaillant.

Taylor fut connu pour son respect de la culture chinoise et son zèle pour l’évangélisation. Il a adopté le port de l’habit chinois même si c’était rare à cette époque parmi les missionnaires. Sous sa direction, la Mission à l'Intérieur de la Chine était non-dénominationelle c’est-à-dire acceptant des membres de tous les différents groupes protestants. Les femmes célibataires, les gens de la classe ouvrière et de différentes nationalités étaient éligibles eux aussi à être membres de la Mission. Principalement à cause des campagnes de la MIC contre le commerce de l’opium, Taylor était connu comme un des Européens les plus importants du XIXe siècle à avoir visité la Chine. L’historienne Ruth Tucker a écrit à son sujet:

« Aucun autre missionnaire depuis l’apôtre Paul n’a eu une aussi grande vision et un plan aussi structuré pour évangéliser une aussi vaste région géographique que Hudson Taylor. »Taylor était capable de prêcher en plusieurs variétés de langues chinoises incluant le Mandarin, le Teochew et le Wu, ces deux derniers étant des dialectes parlés à Shanghai et Ningbo. Connaissant bien le dialecte de Ningbo, il traduit le Nouveau Testament dans celui-ci. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. mai 1832 – 3. juin 1905
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Hudson Taylor: Citations en anglais

“I wish sometimes that I had twenty bodies, that at twenty places at once I might publish the saving name of Jesus.”

(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, 362).

“Christ is either Lord of all, or is not Lord at all.”

(Roger Steer. Hudson Taylor: Lessons in Discipleship. OMF International, 1995, 34).
Variante: Those who do not make God Lord of all, do not make Him Lord at all

“Real trust in God cannot be confounded.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 346).

James Hudson Taylor citation: “Work is the outcome of effort; fruit, of life.”

“Work is the outcome of effort; fruit, of life.”

(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 45).

“What I have to watch against is impatience at waiting His time.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 408).

“Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 285).

“But God makes no mistakes; according to their service He divides the help, and those who are called to the holiest service are those who can have least assistance.”

(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 105).

“There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says. Oh, the joy of trusting Him!”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 322).

“If there was more true abiding in Christ, there would be less selfish abiding at home.”

(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 7).

“You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.”

(Roger Steer. Hudson Taylor: Lessons in Discipleship. OMF International, 1995, 51).

“The missionaries should be men of apostolic zeal, patience, endurance, willing to be all things to all men. May the Lord raise up suitable instruments, and fit me for this work.”

(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, 23).

“Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.”

James Hudson Taylor A Retrospect

(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 95).

“If you want blessing, make room for it.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 309).

“If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?”

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, 6).

“My work is a very peculiar [unique] one; in many respects it has, and can have no precedent. It may be called an experiment; to a certain extent it is so. And by God’s help it shall be, as it is being, faithfully made.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 297).

“You are not sent to preach death and sin and judgment, but life and holiness and salvation – not to be a witness against the people, but to be a witness for God – to preach the good news – Christ Himself.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 258).

“To know and to do His will – this is our safety; this is our rest.”

(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 122).

“Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 230).

“If God try our faith it is to show His faithfulness, and we shall lose the blessing by appeals etc.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 407).

“An easy-going non-self-denying life will never be one of power.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 310).

“It is not lost time to wait upon God!”

(Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 68).

“Many there are who fail to see that there can be but one lord, and that those who do not make GOD Lord of all do not make Him Lord at all.”

(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 47).

“For our Master’s sake, may He make us willing to do or suffer all His will.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 78).

“If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.”

(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 189).

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