“Self-denial surely means somethings far greater than some slight and insignificant lessening of our self-indulgences!”

— James Hudson Taylor

(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).

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Missionary in China 1832–1905

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