Four days after Maria’s 21st birthday, on January 20, 1858, Hudson Taylor, wearing a Chinese dress and with a queue down his back, and Maria in her western gray silk dress and bridal veil were married at the British Consulate in Ningbo. The civil ceremony was witnessed by twenty-four friends

On Christmas day, 1856, the missionary compound had a party where a friendship between Hudson Taylor and Maria Dyer developed.  For a time Hudson Taylor forgot his troubles of loneliness and prospect in China that was under long shadows of war.  He wrote to his sister Amelia, “We had a

When Hudson Taylor first arrived in Shanghai in late 1854, it was during the Taiping rebellion (1850-64).  He was almost hit by a cannon ball from the missile fired by the Imperial Army.  Hudson Taylor sent the cannon ball that almost hit him to his family as a Christmas present.

Hudson Taylor was buried alongside Maria, his first wife, in Zhenjiang in 1905. The search for Hudson and Maria Taylor’s tombs began in 1983. As both had passed away so long ago, the Public Security Bureau directed the 11 members of the Taylor’s family to the local museum. Through leaving

 “And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.” – Matthew 6:28-29 When young, Hudson Taylor began an early love of

I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I’ve become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message.

I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. (1 Corinthians 9:22-23, NIV) Hudson Taylor realized that if he wanted to evangelize beyond the