PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
A Retrospect
Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905 · 40,656 words · 73 reading sections
Part 61
After a little season of thanksgiving with my dear wife, I called my native helpers into our little chapel, and translated to them the letter. I need not say how rejoiced they were, and that we together praised GOD. They returned to their work in the hospital with overflowing hearts, and told out to the patients what a…
859 wordsSECTION 62Part 62
The way in which it pleased the LORD to answer these earnest and believing prayers, and the "exceeding abundantly" with which He crowned them, we shall now sketch in brief outline. [Illustration]…
32 wordsSECTION 63A NEW AGENCY NEEDED
"My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."[3] How true are these words! When the LORD is bringing in great blessing in the best possible way, how oftentimes ou…
892 wordsSECTION 64Part 64
How inconsistent unbelief always is! I had no doubt that, if I prayed for workers, "_in_ the Name" of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, they would be given me. I had no doubt that, in answer to such prayer, the means for our going forth would be provided, and that doors would be opened before us in unreached parts of the Empire. …
635 wordsSECTION 65FOOTNOTES:
[3] Isaiah lv. 8, 9.…
5 wordsSECTION 66THE FORMATION OF THE C. I. M.
IT was thus that in the year 1865 the CHINA INLAND MISSION was organised; and the workers already in the field were incorporated into it. W. T. Berger, Esq., then residing at Saint Hill, near East Grinstead, without whose help and encouragement I could not have gone forward, undertook the direction of the home departme…
828 wordsSECTION 67Part 67
Preparations for sailing to China were at once proceeded with. About this time I was asked to give a lecture on China in a village not very far from London, and agreed to do so on condition that there should be no collection, and that this should be announced on the bills. The gentleman who invited me, and who kindly p…
786 wordsSECTION 68THE MISSION IN 1894
THE events sketched in the last two chapters have been more fully delineated by Miss Guinness in her interesting _Story of the China Inland Mission_, which continues its history to the present date. It is indeed a record of the goodness of GOD, every remembrance of which calls for gratitude and praise. We can only here…
591 wordsSECTION 69THE MISSION IN 1902
The year 1894, in which the first edition of _A Retrospect_ appeared, was marked by the erection of large and commodious premises for the work of the Mission, and early in the following year the houses in Pyrland Road, which had so long formed the home of the Mission in England, were vacated, and NEWINGTON GREEN, LONDO…
718 wordsSECTION 70STATIONS OF THE CHINA INLAND MISSION
1900…
1 wordsSECTION 71(BEFORE THE BOXER OUTBREAK)
The best guide to the stations of the Mission is the new _China Inland Mission Map_ (size 44 × 38 in., mounted on linen, coloured, varnished, and hung on rollers), price 8s. _net_, carriage and packing extra. Mounted to fold, 8s. _net_, post free. Provinces.[4] Stations.[5] WORK BEGUN.…
49 wordsSECTION 72Part 72
=Kan-suh=, 1876 LIANG-CHAU 1888 SI-NING 1885 LAN-CHAU 1885 TS'IN-CHAU 1878 _Area,[6] 125,450 square miles._ FU K'IANG 1899 _Population, 9,285,377._ P'ING-LIANG 1895 KING-CHAU …
583 wordsSECTION 73FOOTNOTES:
[4] Arranged in three lines from west to east, for easy reference to Map. The dates in this column in many cases are of itinerations begun. [5] Capitals of Provinces in capital letters; of Prefectures in small capitals; and of Counties in romans; Market Towns in italics. [6] Areas and populations are from _The States…
119 wordsSource & rights
Public domain in the USA; original historical text digitized by Project Gutenberg.
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.