This article is about the missionary to China. For other uses, see Hudson Taylor (disambiguation).
James Hudson Taylor
Taylor in 1893 with a handwritten note and signature
Personal
Born
(1832-05-21)21 May 1832
Barnsley, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Died
3 June 1905(1905-06-03) (aged 73)
Changsha, Hunan, China
Religion
Christianity
Spouse
Maria Jane Taylor (née Dyer); Jennie Taylor (née Faulding)
Parent(s)
James Taylor Amelia Hudson
Alma mater
London Hospital Medical College
Organization
Church
Baptist
James Hudson Taylor (Chinese: 戴德生; pinyin: dài dé shēng; 21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Baptist Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 54 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who started 125 schools[1] and directly resulted in 20,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 499 local helpers in all 18 provinces.[2]
Taylor was known for his admiration for Chinese culture and zeal for evangelism. He adopted wearing native Chinese clothing even though this was very rare among missionaries of that time. Under his leadership, the CIM was singularly non-denominational in practice and accepted members from all Protestant groups, including individuals from the working class, and single women as well as multinational recruits. Primarily because the CIM campaigned against the opium trade, Taylor has been referred to as one of the most significant Europeans to visit China in the 19th century.[3][page needed] Historian Ruth Tucker summarizes the theme of his life:
No other missionary in the nineteen centuries since the Apostle Paul has had a wider vision and has carried out a more systematized plan of evangelizing a broad geographical area than Hudson Taylor.[4]
Taylor was able to preach in several varieties of Chinese, including Mandarin, Chaozhou, and the Wu dialects of Shanghai and Ningbo. The last of these he knew well enough to help prepare a colloquial edition of the New Testament written in it.[5]
^Gee 1905, p. 43.
^Christian Literature Society for China (1911). The China Mission Year Book(PDF). Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China. pp. 281–82.
^Broomhall 1982.
^Tucker 1983, p. 73.
^Covell, Ralph R.; Doyle, G. Wright. "J. Hudson Taylor (1832–1905)". Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity. Retrieved 11 June 2018..
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