China . ( Psalm 31 v 15 )

 Hudson Taylor was a man of God ,who served God in China,   Billy Graham said,''Few men have been used to touch China for God as Hudson Taylor was''. At that time there were missionaries already in China, but they ministered mainly in coastal areas,but  Hudson's vision was for all of China. That meant    leaving  the coastal areas and going inland,it was another missionary William Carey who said,''attempt great things for God,and expect great things from God'',Hudson most certainly lived that out in his life. Let me say this ,never romanticize missionary work for often it can be costly,and dangerous,whither it was in the 19th century or the 21st century,it was that great missionary the Apostle Paul who wrote,'a great door  for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me'' ( 1 Cor 16 v 9 ). Hudson was  a  doctor,in his training to be a doctor in England during an operation of dissecting a corpse he must have scratched himself,which led to him developing a fever.When he told the surgeon,,he was told,''Get home as fast as you can, and arrange your affairs,you're a dead man''But he did not die,though it took awhile recovering,for he was God's man,who would be preserved,until it was Gods's time to take him home, none will of us will die, until God says so.