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- Hudson is not in the Bible. It is an English patronymic — “son of Hudde,” a medieval familiar form of Hugh, and in some regions of Richard.
- Hudson Taylor sailed for China in 1853 at twenty-one and adopted Chinese dress, which colleagues criticised as undignified and a concession to heathenism. He kept doing it.
- The China Inland Mission, founded 1865, sent workers into the interior, took no debt, solicited no funds, accepted members regardless of denomination or education, and sent single women inland.
- The principle is Paul’s in 1 Corinthians 9:20-22 — giving up preferences that are ours rather than the gospel’s.
- The cost was real: his first wife and several children died in China, and the mission lost dozens in the Boxer Uprising, after which Taylor refused compensation.
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Sources: standard onomastic references for Hudson as “son of Hudde”; Henry Hudson was set adrift by his crew in 1611. Standard biographies of James Hudson Taylor for the 1853 voyage, the adoption of Chinese dress and the criticism it drew, the founding principles of the China Inland Mission in 1865, the losses in the Boxer Uprising of 1900 and the refusal of compensation. Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (1 Corinthians 9:20-22; Isaiah 6:8; John 12:24).
