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James Hudson Taylor
1832–1905
Remembered as a pioneering missionary to China, he founded the China Inland Mission and became known for traveling beyond the treaty ports into China’s interior. His life story is closely tied to faith, endurance, and a lasting influence on Protestant missions.
5 Audiobooks
Unfailing Springs
by James Hudson Taylor
A Retrospect
by James Hudson Taylor
A Ribband of Blue, and Other Bible Studies
by James Hudson Taylor
Separation and Service; or, Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII.
by James Hudson Taylor
Union and Communion; or, Thoughts on the Song of Solomon
by James Hudson Taylor
About the author
Born in Barnsley, England, in 1832, Hudson Taylor became one of the best-known Christian missionaries of the 19th century. After preparing through medical study and practical training, he traveled to China in the 1850s and devoted much of his life to work there.
He is especially known for founding the China Inland Mission in 1865, an organization created to support missionary work in parts of China that had seen little Protestant outreach from the West. Biographical sources also note his unusual willingness, for his time, to adopt Chinese dress and customs as a way to live more closely with the people he served.
Taylor died in 1905 in Changsha, China. His legacy continued through the mission he founded, later known as OMF International, and through the many biographies, letters, and memoirs that have kept his story in print for generations.