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Hudson Taylor staked everything on the plain words of Jesus:
"Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do." He believed, as
Jesus taught, that the Heavenly Father is not embarrassed by any shortage of
supplies, and that if we ask, in childlike trust, our every need will be
supplied. "Depend on it," he stoutly contended, "God's work
done in God's way will never lack God's supplies." Was a confidence so
artless justified? Jesus said: "Your Father knoweth that you have need ... Ask and ye shall receive." Was it as
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Over the mantlepiece in Hudson Taylor's humble home in Ningpo were two
scrolls, in Chinese characters -- Ebenezer, "Hitherto hath the
Lord helped us," and Jehovah Jireb, "The Lord will
provide." The faith expressed in these mottoes was subjected to many
severe testings. Quite suddenly the angel of death took the wife of his missionary
associate, Dr. Parker, leaving him with four motherless children. On their
account and because his own health was shattered, Dr. Parker was compelled to
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As the weeks passed, supplies decreased. One day the cook said that
the last bag of rice had been opened. This was his answer: "Then the
Lord's time for helping us must be close at hand." And so it was. Before
the rice was completely gone, fifty pounds ($250) arrived from |
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From:
Heroes of Faith on Pioneer Trails by E. Myers Harrison. Published by Moody
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