Herbert Hudson Taylor

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Herbert Hudson Taylor (3 April 1861 – 6 June 1950),

Maria Jane Dyer.[1] He served there for over 50 years – the last three as one of the prisoners of the Japanese at the Weifang internment camp during World War II along with Eric Liddell
and 1500 others.

Herbert Taylor was four when his father founded the China Inland Mission. He had been born in

typhoons
.

On arrival in China, the family adopted Chinese clothing and food and set off to find a place to establish a mission center in

Grand Canal of China during their travels. Another scare happened shortly afterward when he was bitten by a dog on the face. His sister, Grace Dyer Taylor died of meningitis near Hangzhou within the first year.[2] When he was six the family was nearly killed by a rioting mob during the Yangzhou riot in 1868. Finally in 1870 he was sent home with his surviving siblings with Emily Blatchley to live in London, separated from his parents. His mother died in China soon after they arrived home.[3]

Like his father, he enrolled in the Royal London Hospital medical college. After two years he decided to return to China to become one of the charter teachers at the newly founded China Inland Mission Chefoo School at (Yantai). After marrying a fellow missionary, Jeanie Gray, they endured tumultuous years in China, including the Boxer Rebellion, the fall of the Qing dynasty, the Warlord era, and the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937).

In 1930 the China Inland Mission published "Ren Ch'eng-Yüan, A Tamarisk Garden Blessed with Rain. Or the Autobiography of Pastor Ren. Translated and edited by Herbert Hudson Taylor & Marshall Broomhall."

At the age of 80 he was interned by the Japanese at the Weihsien or

paratroopers
.

Descendants of Herbert Hudson Taylor continued his full-time ministry today in the communities in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Grandson, the late Rev. James Hudson Taylor III (1929–2009) and his son Rev. James Hudson Taylor IV in Taiwan. Another of Herbert Taylor’s grandchildren is Mary Previte who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 6th legislative district from 1998 to 2006.

See also

References

  • Broomhall, Alfred (1989). Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: It Is Not Death To Die. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
  • Broomhall, Marshall (1915). The Jubilee Story of the China Inland Mission. London: Morgan and Scott.
  • Guinness, Mary Geraldine
    (1893). The Story of the China Inland Mission vol II. London: Morgan and Scott.
  • Pollock, John (1964). Hudson Taylor and Maria Pioneers in China.
  • Steer, Roger (1990). Hudson Taylor: A Man In Christ. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
  • Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. Howard (1918). Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission; The Growth of a Work of God. London: Morgan and Scott.

Notes

  1. ^ What Will A Man Give In Exchange For His Soul?. by George D. Johnson, page 101
  2. ^ Healthcare Christian Fellowship India website, Hudson Taylor and China: A Dramatic Biography, by David Malcolm Bennett (2018)
  3. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity website, Maria Dyer Taylor

Further reading

  • Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission

External links

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