Arranged in alphabetical order

Blatchley, Emily – After the Lammermuir party survived two typhoons: “The feeling of our hearts when the storm subsided was that we had been brought back from the verge of the grave that we might devote ourselves afresh to God. . . . May we live as those who are alive from the dead.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 212.)

Borden, William: about him – William Borden, member of the wealthy milk family, gave up a life of ease to serve Muslims in China. At age 26, however, he died in Egypt while preparing for that great work. Professor Charles Erdman of Princeton Seminary remarked, “Apart from Christ, there is no explanation of such a life.” (Mrs. Howard Taylor. Borden of Yale ’09: “The Life that Counts.” Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, 1926, 275.)

Borden, William – William Borden went on a round-the-world trip after high school. The idol worshippers he saw in Asia burdened him. He decided to join the China Inland Mission. One friend expressed surprise that he was “throwing himself away as a missionary.” Borden replied, “You have not seen heathenism.” (Mrs. Howard Taylor. Borden of Yale ’09: “The Life that Counts.” Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, 1926, 211.)

Broumton, James – “Most travellers in Yunnan carry arms, we had none; but we had the arm of God.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 253.)

Chinese Christian schoolgirl – At her death: “You must not weep. I have seen the Lord! I have seen heaven. It is very, very good. . . . I wish you come – there is nothing to fear.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 295.)

Christ Is All (the book that helped John McCarthy and Hudson Taylor spiritually) – “The Saviour welcomed, is all Holiness begun. The Saviour cherished is all Holiness advancing. The Saviour never absent, is Holiness complete.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 212.)

Dorward, Adam – “There is nothing I would like so much as a heart wholly occupied with God – a pure, holy, consecrated heart.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 279.)

Elliston, W. L. – “No one knows what it is to face a heathen city, with no friends near, until they try it. One lesson that comes to me to-day is the absolute importance of utter consecration of all to Jesus, if we would have His power upon us. Can you and I leave all with Him – life, death, health, comfort, dear ones? May God help us! Missionary life, according to God’s idea, is wonderfully happy. Compromise means weakness and clouds.” (China’s Millions, 1888 edition. Edited by J. Hudson Taylor. London: Morgan and Scott, 1888, 58.)

Frost, Henry – One conclusion from Bible studies on the filling of the Holy Spirit, as led by Henry Frost: “That the result of a filling is not that we should have more of God but that He should have more of us.” (Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor. By Faith. Singapore: Overseas Missionary Fellowship (IHQ) Ltd., 1988, 207.)

Gregg, Jessie – Jessie Gregg served as a single woman from 1895 to 1937. Before becoming an effective evangelist among Chinese women, she found that “a great burden for souls was laid upon my heart, and I cried, ‘Give me children or I die.’” (Phyllis Thompson. Each To Her Post: Six Women of the China Inland Mission. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 97.)

Hamer, Lilian – Lilian Hamer served among the Chinese and then the Lisu in Thailand from 1944 to 1959. One of her last letters reported her discovery, “God has been speaking to me recently about the love needed to do His work. Love for Him and others must by the supreme motive. . . . Climbing a mountain is for love of Him, lack of privacy, lack of comforts, lack of fellowship, loneliness and all that is involved in working among a mountain tribe when done for love of Him becomes a precious opportunity to show how much we love Him.” (Phyllis Thompson. Each To Her Post: Six Women of the China Inland Mission. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 132.)

Hogben, Rowland – “Prayer is the interruption of human ambition.” (Carolyn Armitage. Reaching for the Goal: The Life Story of David Adeney. Wheaton, IL: OMF IHQ, Ltd., 1993, 42.)

Hunter, George: about him – George Hunter pioneered work in far northwest China. In 1914, a Chinese man reported about him, “Seven or eight years ago, a foreigner passed through our village . . . and gave me a book, saying, ‘Old gentleman, I want to give you this book. Take it home and read it. It contains the true doctrine!’ . . . I took the book home, and as I read its pages, I destroyed my idols, I tore my household gods off the door and burned them, and I severed my connections with the three secret societies to which I belonged. Since then, I have worshipped the God of that book.” (Mildred Cable and Francesca French. George Hunter: Apostle of Turkestan. London: China Inland Mission, 1948, 87.)

Lammermuir Party: John Stevenson remarked, “I felt that the mission must succeed with such an amount of real waiting upon God.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 266.)

Mathews, Arthur – “The one who will stay with his assignment through thick and thin is the one who . . . is more concerned to guard his daily dying than his living rights.” (R. Arthur Mathews. Born for Battle. Robesonia, PA: OMF Books, 1978, 112.)

McCarthy, John – In August 1869, John McCarthy wrote Hudson Taylor, “How then to have our faith increased? Only by thinking of all that Jesus is – all He is for us. . . . Not a striving to have faith or to increase our faith. But a looking at the faithful One, seems all we need, a resting in the loved One.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 213.)

McDonald, Dr. Jessie – In 1941, Dr. Jessie McDonald was travelling to southwest China via Myanmar. An experience in Rangoon caused her to write, “I went to the [Scottish Church] this evening, in a beautiful, wealthy, comfortable church with a splendid choir, just like a lovely home church. We came back past the big pagoda, twinkling in the moonlight – and past hundreds of yellow-robed Buddhist priests, and my heart felt heavy. It must be very discouraging for the Lord. He must think that we might have done better.” (Phyllis Thompson. Each To Her Post: Six Women of the China Inland Mission. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship. 1982, 102.)

McDonald, Dr. Jessie – Dr. Jessie McDonald began serving in China in 1913. The Japanese military forced her from her first assignment. Though World War II failed to force her from her second assignment, the Communists eventually succeeded, in 1951. She had learned the lesson, “It does not do to run away from duty – the only safe place is where God would put us.” (Phyllis Thompson. Each To Her Post: Six Women of the China Inland Mission. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 126.)

Meadows, James – During a time of rebel occupation and expulsion: “I have just got up from my knees. I have been weeping at the feet of Jesus because I cannot learn the dialect quick enough. Tens of thousands of souls are perishing all around me, and I cannot tell them about the Saviour.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Three: If I Had a Thousand Lives. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 297.)

Murray, Jessie – On the death of a Christian girl who died in her school: “It is not death to die. How glorious!” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 295.)

Parker, F.S. – Regarding the departure of his daughter Susie, an only child, among the first CIM North American party, Mr. Parker stated, “I have nothing too precious for my Lord Jesus.” (Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor. By Faith. Singapore: Overseas Missionary Fellowship (IHQ) Ltd., 1988, 125.)

Parker, F.S. – After learning that his daughter Susie, an only child, had died of malignant fever, Mr. Parker stated, “I can still say, ‘I have nothing too precious for my Lord Jesus.’” (Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor. By Faith. Singapore: Overseas Missionary Fellowship (IHQ) Ltd., 1988, 125.)

Radstock, Lord – “I believe that our great failure in England arises from what I should call a comfortable religion . . . that there are more Christians that are injured by comfort than by anything else. Comfort seems to paralyse work on all sides.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Six: Assault on the Nine. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1988, 304.)

Rudland, William – “I could put up with anything, could I but tell (the Chinese) of a Saviour’s love.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 222.)

Schofield, Dr. Harold – “What we owe to Him we shall never fully realize in this world; but, personally, I have found that by living in the midst of this vast heathen land [China], one gradually realizes it more and more.” (China’s Millions, 1883 edition. Edited by J. Hudson Taylor. London: Morgan and Scott, 1883, 131.)
Searell, Edith – In one of her last letters before dying in the Boxer Rebellion, she responded, “You speak in your letter of the possibility of one place being safer than another; I think, dear Eva, from the human standpoint all are equally unsafe, from the point of view of those whose lives are hid with Christ in God all are equally safe! . . . ‘A mighty fortress is our God,’ and in Him we are safe for time and eternity. Shall we murmur if we have less of time than we expected?” (Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission with a Record of the Perils and Sufferings of Some Who Escaped. Edited by Marshall Broomhall. Toronto: China Inland Mission, 1901.)
Smith, Stanley – Around 1880, Stanley Smith, later to be one of the Cambridge Seven, wrote in his diary, “O Lord, save souls and lay upon me the burden of souls, at least twenty-five thousand.” (John Pollock. The Cambridge Seven, 2nd ed. Great Britain: Marshalls, 1985, 21.)
Smith, Stanley – In 1883, Stanley Smith, later to be one of the Cambridge Seven, resolved that “God helping me, I will never miss another opportunity of speaking definitely to a man about his soul when he is alone with me.” (John Pollock. The Cambridge Seven, 2nd ed. Great Britain: Marshalls, 1985, 61.)
Solomon, Dr. Robert – “The more we understand our destiny, the less we worry about our baggage.” (from message given at Orientation Course at IHQ in January 1989.)
Stam, Betty – Having discovered the exchanged life as a college student in 1924, Betty Stam (still Betty Scott then) explained, “When we consecrate ourselves to God, we think we are making a great sacrifice, and doing lots for Him, when really we are only letting go some little, bitsie trinkets we have been grabbing, and when our hands are empty, He fills them full of His treasures." (Mrs. Howard Taylor. The Triumph of John and Betty Stam. Philadelphia: China Inland Missions, 1935, 35.)
Stam, John – Giving the class address at his graduation from Moody Bible Institute in 1932, John Stam challenged the audience, “We have been guilty of acting more like the beleagured garrison of a doomed fortress than like soldiers of our ever-conquering Christ.” (Mrs. Howard Taylor. The Triumph of John and Betty Stam. Philadelphia: China Inland Missions, 1935, 35.)
Stevenson, John: about him – Ning, a scholarly Chinese gentleman, remarked, “Here is a foreigner, a perfect stranger to me, yet so concerned about my welfare that he will pray for me though I do not so much as pray for myself.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 344.)
Stott, George – One of his legs was amputated. While recovering, he came to faith. A teacher, he read about China. “I do not see those with two legs going, so I must.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 63.)

Taylor, James (Hudson’s father) – “He cannot deny Himself, He would not be God if He could.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book One: Barbarians at the Gates. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1981, 287.)

Taylor, Maria – “As to the harsh judgings of the world, or the more painful misunderstandings of Christian brethren, I generally feel that the best plan is to go on with our work and leave God to vindicate our cause.” (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 177.)