Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

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James Hudson Taylor was a 19th-century protestant missionary in china. James Hudson Taylor is regarded as one of the most "important and influential missionaries of all time." He was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission. Taylor visited or lived in China over a period of 51 years. Read more on Wikipedia →

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