Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), born James Hudson Taylor, was an English Protestant missionary to China and the founder of the China Inland Mission. Raised in a devout Methodist home in Barnsley, Yorkshire, he committed his life to Christ at seventeen and soon felt called to China, studying medicine in preparation. He arrived in Shanghai in 1854 and chose to wear Chinese dress in order to live among the people as one of them. Back in England, after years of prayer for China's inland provinces, he resolved on Brighton beach in 1865 to found a mission that would send workers there. The China Inland Mission grew to hundreds of missionaries, and Taylor spent most of his remaining life in China, where he died in Changsha in 1905. His work continues today through OMF International.
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Great Christian Missionaries
St. Paul carried the Christian message across the Roman world on his missionary journeys. Centuries later, David Livingstone combined mission work with exploration in southern and central Africa, and Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. Albert Schweitzer established a hospital at Lambaréné in present-day Gabon, and Mother Teresa devoted her life to the poor of Calcutta.
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