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Study Section 10: The Gospel goes to China

10.1 Connect
In church history, it seems like every time there is an advance in getting the Gospel to others,
there is also an attack and the masses are swayed by a false prophet who opposes God’s
work. God desires that every person hear the Gospel and believe. Satan does not want
people to hear the Gospel and be saved. He does everything he can to thwart any
movement toward God.

I’m sure you have observed this truth in your ministry. Just when you see God moving in amazing ways,
something happens to challenge the movement. That’s the activity of Satan. He will use whatever
method and whomever he can to stop people from hearing the Gospel. Today, we will see how the
Gospel goes to China, but Satan will counterattack using communism to resist the spreading of the
Gospel there. Tens of millions of Chinese now identify as Christians, and the number has grown rapidly,
posing challenges for a government that is officially atheist and wary of threats to its power. Estimates
say that there are over 18 million Christian believers in China, and the number is increasing daily. Satan
may oppose God, but God is the victor! Let’s learn about this today…..

10.2 Objectives
1. The student must be able to present a biographical sketch of the life of Hudson Taylor, and
how God used him to bring the Gospel to China.

2. The student should be able to describe how Charles Darwin was used by Satan to steal man’s
hearts from God and confuse their minds about the creation.

10.3 Hudson Taylor 1832-1905 –
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Hudson Taylor was an English missionary to China and founder of China
Inland Mission. He spent five years translating the New Testament into the
Ningpo dialect. At his death in 1905, there were 205 stations with 849
missionaries, and 125,000 Chinese Christians in the China Inland Mission.

"He must move men through God — by prayer," that was the philosophy of J. Hudson
Taylor, first missionary to the interior of China and the founder of the China Inland
Mission. And from that December day when as a teenager he heard from Heaven, "Go for Me to China,
"this young Englishman set out to prove his philosophy. That he did so successfully and miraculously
makes for some of the most exciting reading in the records of evangelism.

After his call Taylor first moved from the comforts of his home with his parents and two sisters in
beautiful Barnsley of Yorkshire to Drainside, Hull, a poverty-stricken, depressing area named after and
notarized by its foul ditch. Taylor had gone there purposely to work for a doctor and accumulate a little
medical knowledge, and also to accustom himself to something of the loneliness and dangers of living in
a strange land where his only companion would be God.

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