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When the Taiping Rebellion established its headquarters in Nanjing on March 19, 1853, Christians in Europe and America thought that it was a great opportunity to evangelize China. Caught up on the crest of such a tide, Hudson Taylor was ready to discontinue his medical studies and sail for China

This February 1st is the 247th wedding anniversary of James and Bettie Taylor, the great-grandparents of Hudson Taylor.  It was on this day, February 1, 1776, that James Taylor gave his life to Jesus Christ.  This born-again experience ended up making him two hours late for his own wedding!  It was

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.