Hudson Taylor
One of the best missionary biographies ever written. This two-volume set [The Growth of a Soul & The Growth of a Work of God] chronicles the life, ministry, and severe trials of one of the most famous missionaries in Christian history. And yet, near the end of his life—after all that he had gone through—Taylor stated, “I never made a sacrifice.” He said this while “looking back over a life in which to an unusual extent this element predominated. But what he said was true. For…the compensations that followed were so real and lasting that he came to see that giving up is inevitably receiving when one is dealing heart to heart with God.” [Vol. 1, p.126]
“These two books are classics in the realm of devotional and missionary literature. I have met more people whose lives have been significantly influenced by reading them than people influenced by other comparable volumes. My successor as Principal of the Bible College of New Zealand read them once a year and never failed to be challenged and enriched in the process.
J. Oswald Sanders
Former Consulting Director of OMF
“When I was a college student my father lent me the two-volume life of Hudson Taylor. Another college student, Jim Elliot, read it too and this was one of the great things he and I had in common—a huge hunger for that sort of godliness, for a true missionary heart.”
Elizabeth Elliot Gren
Author, Missionary Spokeswoman
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