When in 1860 what may have been hepatitis forced Taylor to return to England, it looked like they might never see China again. But Hudson Taylor could not forget China. He hung a large map of China on the wall of his study and placed pins in the seventy locations where he knew Protestant missionaries were working. As he lay recuperating he kept returning to the map to pray and to think. One day he realized what should have been obvious—most of the pins were on the coast, very few in the interior. The map became his “accusing map.”
