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

— James Hudson Taylor

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

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Missionary in China 1832–1905

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