James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(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).
“The saddest thing that befalls a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.”
Scene 12.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)
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