Frases de Hudson Taylor
Hudson Taylor
Fecha de nacimiento: 21. Mayo 1832
Fecha de muerte: 3. Junio 1905
James Hudson Taylor fue un misionero protestante inglés en China y fundador de la Misión al Interior de China, MIC conocido ahora como OMF Internacional.[1]
Taylor trabajo 51 años en China. La entidad que fundó ha llevado a más de 800 misioneros a trabajar en China, que a su vez fundaron más de 125 escuelas,[2] dando como resultado la conversión de 18.000 personas al cristianismo. También, han establecido 300 bases en las dieciocho provincias chinas con más de 500 trabajadores locales.[3]
Taylor era conocido por su respeto de la cultura china y su celo para la evangelización. Tomó la costumbre de usar la forma de vestir de los chinos aunque esto no era normal entre los misioneros de la época. Bajo su dirección, la Misión al Interior de China no era denominacional, es decir que aceptaba miembros de todos los diferentes grupos protestantes. Mujeres solteras, gente de clase obrera y creyentes de diferentes nacionalidades eran también candidatos a ser miembros de la Misión. Principalmente a causa de las campañas de la MIC contra el comercio del opio, Taylor fue reputado como uno de los Europeos más importante del siglo XIX en haber visitado la China.[4] La historiadora Ruth Tucker escribió sobre él que «ningún otro misionero desde el apóstol Pablo ha tenido tan gran visión y un plan tan bien estructurado para evangelizar una amplia región geográfica que Hudson Taylor.»
Taylor fue capaz de predicar en muchas de las variedades del idioma chino incluyendo el mandarino, el chaoshanhua y el wu, estos dos últimos siendo dialectos hablados a Shangái y Ningbó. Como buen conocedor del dialecto de Ningbó, tradujo el Nuevo Testamento a ese lenguaje.[5]
Frases Hudson Taylor
„Christ is either Lord of all, or is not Lord at all.“
(Roger Steer. Hudson Taylor: Lessons in Discipleship. OMF International, 1995, 34).
Variante: Those who do not make God Lord of all, do not make Him Lord at all
„If we are faithful to GOD in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.“
— James Hudson Taylor, A Retrospect
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 20).
„With GOD all things are possible, and no conviction ever takes place save by the almighty power of the HOLY GHOST. The great need, therefore, of every Christian worker is to know GOD.“
— James Hudson Taylor, A Retrospect
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 35).
„Some are jealous of being successors of the Apostles. I would rather be a successor of the Samaritan woman, who, while the Apostles went for meat and forgot souls, forgot her water pot in her zeal to spread the good tidings.“
(Hudson Taylor’s Choice Sayings: A Compilation from His Writings and Addresses. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 69).
„Work is the outcome of effort; fruit, of life.“
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 45).
„Real trust in God cannot be confounded.“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 346).
„There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says. Oh, the joy of trusting Him!“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 322).
„We believe that the time has come for doing more fully what He has commanded us; and by His grace we intend to do it. Not to try, for we see no Scriptural authority for trying. Try is a word constantly in the mouth of unbelievers,... far too often taken up by believers. In our experience, ‘to try’ has usually meant ‘to fail’. (The Lord’s) command is not ‘Do your best,’ but ‘DO IT’.“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 47).
„For our Master’s sake, may He make us willing to do or suffer all His will.“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 78).
„It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.“
(1865) Source: Hudson Taylor; China's Spiritual Need and Claims http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/China's_Spiritual_Need_and_Claims
„Argument almost always leaves behind a sore feeling in the heart of the one who has been worsted. By loving teaching, by Christ-like living, we are to win this people for our Lord. They do not understand what disinterested love and unselfishness mean: you are to go and live it amont them.“
(J. Hudson Taylor. God's Fellow Workers. Philadelphia: Overseas Missionary Fellowship.).
„I besought Him to give me some work for Him, as an outlet for love and gratitude; some self-denying service, no matter what it might be, however trying or however trivial“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book One: Barbarians at the Gates. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1981, 354).
„“Pray for those you send, shield them by prayer.“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 294).
„The work of a true missionary is work indeed, often very monotonous, apparently not very successful, and carried on through great and varied but unceasing difficulties.“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 350).
„I wish sometimes that I had twenty bodies, that at twenty places at once I might publish the saving name of Jesus.“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 362).
„China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women.“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 57).
„After proving God’s faithfulness for many years, I can testify that times of want have ever been times of spiritual blessing, or have led to them.“
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 406).
