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Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

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Hudson Taylor
Age: 73 †
Born: 1832
Born: May 21
Died: 1905
Died: June 3
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J. Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor
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