Legacy
The beginning of "Faith missions" (the sending of missionaries with no promises of temporal support, but instead a reliance "through prayer to move Men by God") has had a wide impact among evangelical churches to this day. After his death, China Inland Mission gained the notable distinction of being the largest Protestant mission agency in the world. The biographies of Hudson Taylor inspired generations of Christians to follow his example of service and sacrifice. Notable examples are: missionary to India Amy Carmichael, Olympic Gold Medalist Eric Liddell, twentieth-century missionary and martyr Jim Elliot, founder of Bible Study Fellowship Audrey Wetherell Johnson, as well as international evangelists Billy Graham and Luis Palau.
Descendants of James Hudson Taylor continued his full-time ministry into the 21st century in Chinese communities in East Asia. James Hudson Taylor III (1929–2009) in Hong Kong, and his son, James H. Taylor IV, who married Yeh Min Ke, (the first Chinese member of the Taylor family), who is involved in full-time Chinese ministries.
| “ | "Hudson Taylor was, ...one of the greatest missionaries of all time, and ... one of the four or five most influential foreigners who came to China in the nineteenth century for any purpose..." -Kenneth Scott Latourette | ” |
| “ | "More than any other human being, James Hudson Taylor, ….made the greatest contribution to the cause of world mission in the 19th century." Ralph D. Winter | ” |
| “ | "He was ambitious without being proud ... He was biblical without being bigoted... He was a follower of Jesus, without being superficial ... He was charismatic without being selfish." -Arthur F. Glasser | ” |
Chinese tourists have started visiting his home town of Barnsley to see where their hero grew up and the town is planning a trail to guide visitors to landmarks around the town.
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