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Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?

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