"Hudson Taylor pushed for interior missions to the least reached peoples. Most got off ships at the coast and began to work. But inland, where it was isolated, hard to travel and get supplies, was seriously neglected.
Taylor poured over maps and statistics and charts and realized that missionaries needed to go inland to the masses millions of unsaved people to the interior of China.
A young man, ……….still under thirty, in the teeth of surrounding counter advice established the first of a whole new breed of missions emphasizing the inland territories.
"When he suggested that the inland peoples of China needed to be reached, he was told you could not get there, and he was asked if he wished to carry on his shoulders the blood of the young people he would thus send to their deaths. This accusing question stunned and staggered him. Groping for light, wandering on the beach, it seemed as if God finally spoke to resolve the ghastly thought: "You are not sending young people in the interior of China. I am." The load lifted."""
Perspectives 3rd edition: "Four Men, Three Eras, Two Transitions", Ralph D.Winter, pg 257, 1999, William Carey Library)
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