軼事:對動植物的熱愛

 “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

戴德生自小便展現出對花、鳥、蝴蝶的熱愛,而這份熱愛也伴隨了他一生。他一度最喜歡的消遣活動,就是和妹妹戴賀美一起,到家附近的樹林裡去,親身研究大自然,並把各種標本帶回家。在他艱苦的職業生涯中,這種對美好之物的熱愛化為了一種持續的精神慰籍。他所寫的家信中時有提及中國的動植物。當被緊迫的職責所累時,他也常常借著照料幾種特定的花卉綠植來疏解壓力。

(資料來源:Marshall Broomhall, HUDSON TAYLOR – The Man Who Believed God, p.21)

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