CHINA INLAND MISSION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 179, 14 July 1927, Page 4

CHINA INLAND MISSION.

WONDERFUL RESULTS ACHIEVED.

DR. AND MRS. TAYLOR IN HASTINGS.

A large congregation assembled in the Hastings Methodist Church last evening to listen to Dr. and Mrs Howard Taylor, of the China Inland Mission. The Rev. F. A. Bennett presided. In a quiet and yet effective manner Dr. Howard Taylor related how the mission was started by his father, Mr Hudson Taylor, who took as his watchword, “Have Faith, in God.” The work had always been run on Faith lines, and since its inauguration 60 years ago, funds had flowed in freely and yorkers had been forthcoming. To-day there were over two thousand on the mission staff. The results achieved were a witness of what God had wrought, and the great opportunity for further service was a challenge to their faith. Mrs Taylor, in a telling address, spoke of the condition of China’s teeming millions. New Zealand was a Paradise, she said, compared to some ot the great districts in which she had laboured in China, where there were no nurses, hospitals, nor asylums, and only medical attention as practised by ignorant doctors, whose methods inflicted terrible injuries. China was a land of darkness, but the light was coming. In the first ten years of their work 6,000 converts were recorded, but in the last ten years there had been over 60,000 To give some idea of the population of China, numbering over 400,000,000, the speaker said it would be necessary to read every letter of every word represented in one hundred and twenty three Bibles. Mrs Taylor concluded with some touching incidents of remarkable conversions as the result of the mission. The pronouncing of the Benediction terminated a memorable meeting.