“Hudson Taylor knew the testing that tempers the steel of the soul. He was an invalid, home at the age of twenty-nine. After six years of intensive service in China, he settled with his little family in the east side of London. Outside interests lessened; friends began to forget him; and five long, hidden years were spent in the dreary streets of a poor part of London, where the Taylors were ‘shut up to prayer and patience.’ As the years of obscurity progressed, and when the discipline was complete, there emerged the China Inland Mission, at first only a tiny root, but destined of God to fill
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