Summary: Hudson Taylor was a missionary who moved his family from England to the Asian town of Yangzhou. They established a church there to tell the residents of the town about Jesus. The Taylors were seeing great fruit in their ministry. But, the scholars of the town felt threatened, and so they decided to turn the town against these outsiders and their message of Jesus Christ. About that time, some infants in the village died. The scholars saw their opportunity. They blamed the Taylors for the tragedy and caused a riot. The mob burned the Taylors' home and, though the family escaped, they were injured. Now, if this happened to you, wouldn't you feel angry? Wouldn't you blame the town and wish that the bad things that happened to you would also happen to them? That would be my temptation, for sure. But, the Taylors didn't respond that way. They took the Bible's command to "forgive one another" to heart. Mrs. Taylor wrote, "I believe God will bring glory out of this experience and I hope it will tend to the furtherance of the gospel." Their eyes were on the Good News of Jesus, and they believed any trial that would help them spread the Gospel was worth it. What an example!
