“I almost wish I had a hundred bodies; they should all be devoted to my Savior in the missionary cause.”
(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).
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