On June 25th 1865, Hudson Taylor walked alone on Brighton beach in internal turmoil. In 1859, health reasons necessitated his return home to London from China. As ‘an invalid in London’, Taylor, together with his wife, compiled materials that eventually came together as the book China: Its Spiritual Need and
A little over three years after Hudson Taylor’s arrival in China as the first missionary sent by the Chinese Evangelisation Society, Taylor resigned from the Society. He had known for some time that the Society was running a debt of more than £1000 pounds (the equivalent of USD$215,000 today). Remittances
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
