“While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.”
(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, 62).
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
“While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.”
(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, 62).
“One difficulty follows another very fast – but God reigns, not chance.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 250).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 346).
(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, 45).
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 14).
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 41-42).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 358).
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).
“The Apostolic plan was not to raise ways and means, but to go and do the work.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 41).
“When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns When Jesus reigns, there is rest.”
(J. Hudson Taylor. Union and Communion: Or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 13).
(from Bill Fietje letter).
“Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.”
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 49).
“How important, therefore, to learn before leaving England to move man through God by prayer alone.”
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 15).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 356).
“Devotion to GOD is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.”
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 13).
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 363).
(J. Hudson Taylor. Fruit Bearing. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship).
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 29).
Variante: All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.
“If I am guided by God, in going out, He will open the way and provide the means.”
(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, 88).
“There is great danger of not, in happiness, finding our delight in the Lord.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 131).
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 71).
(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, 363).
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 41).
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).
“We may fail, do fail continually, but He never fails.”
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 175).
“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies.”
(Leslie T. Lyall. A Passion for the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began. London: OMF Books, 1965, 37).
“Those who do not make God Lord of all, do not make Him Lord at all”
(1898) Source: Separation and Service, Part II http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Separation_and_Service.