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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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James Hudson Taylor
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Are you in a hurry, flurried, distressed? Look up! See the Man in the Glory! Let the face of Jesus shine upon you—the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is He worried, troubled, distressed? There is no wrinkle on His brow, no least shade of anxiety. Yet the affairs are His as much as yours.
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When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
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