Pioneer missionary. James Hudson Taylor was born in Barnsley, England. He was the son of a Methodist minister. After studying medicine and theology, he went to China in 1854 as a missionary under the auspices of the China Evangelization Society. In 1858, after working in a hospital for four years, he married the daughter of another missionary. He returned to England in 1860 and spent five years translating the New Te tament into the Ningpo dialect. He returned to China in 1866 with 16 other missionaries and founded the China Inland Mis- sion. In 1870 his wife and two of their children died of cholera. He remained in China and before his death established 205 mission stations with 849 missionaries from Eng- land, and 125,000 witnessing Chinese Christians. He died in Changcha, China, in 1905.

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