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So 99.99% of India's population loves travelling, okay maybe 100%. Travelling is wonderful, you get this amazing break from your daily surroundings and boring routines. From the beaches to the hills, peace to parties, we all crave for such outings. However considering our busy schedules and short weekends, all we can afford for now are short yet fun, road trips. Am I right or am I right?
So for all the busy travellers, we've done the deed for y'all. Here's a list of top 10 beautiful destinations near Delhi where you and your squad can spend the weekend!
1. Sohna
Sohna is a City situated 54km from Delhi and also known as Greater Gurugram or South Gurugram. It is Situated in the foothills of the Aravalis, this is the most sacred and highest visited places in the Gurgaon district of Haryana. Popularly known for an ancient Shiva Temple and hot-springs, it is one of the most wonderful weekend getaways near Delhi. Best time to visit there is February to April and August to November.
2. Kuchesar Mud Fort
Kuchesar is a village in Bulandshahr district, state of U.P , at a distance of 80 km from Delhi, roughly 2 and half hour drive from the NH 24. Kuchesar is a heritage village and a perfect location for one day trip from Delhi. Kuchesar is famous for the mud fort built by the Jat rulers in the 18th century. The fort is surrounded by 200 acres of greenery, and was built to protect the jats from British attacks. All this makes Kuchesar the best one day trip from Delhi.
3. Garhmukhteshwar
Garhmukteshwar is a wonderful destination for Hindu devotees as it is situated on the banks of the holy river Ganges. It is located in the Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh .This quaint town is occupied by thousands of devotees during the full moon day. The centre of attractions over there are Ganga Temple, Meerabai ki Reti and Mukteshwar Mahadev Temple .It is sometimes referred to as the mini Banaras of India due to its religious importance. Its distance from Delhi is 94km and the best time to visit is between October to March.
4. Vrindavan
Vrindavan is a town in the district Mathura of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the site where Lord Krishna spent his childhood days. Located at 142 kms from Delhi and you can visit this destination via 2 hr long drive or even by trains. This place is full of temples dedicated to Lord Krishna, and other mythological structures including Iskon temple, Gokulnanda temple, Mirabai temple, Radha Raman temple, Vrindavan Dham etc. The best time to take this one of the best day trips from Delhi is in Winters.
5. Mathura
Mathura is a city in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The quaint city of Mathura takes pride in being credited as the birthplace of Lord Krishna. It is 160 kms from Delhi and 11 kms from Vrindavan. The city is banked beside the Yamuna River and is also called 'Brajbhoomi'. Attractions of the spot are Krishna Temple, Vishram Ghat, Yamuna River and Isckon Temple. It is one of the cultural as well as religious weekend getaways near Delhi. Best time to visit is between October to April.
6. Neemrana Fort
Neemrana is an ancient historical town in Alwar district of Rajasthan, India. It is situated at 122 km from Delhi and 150 km from Jaipur on the Delhi-Jaipur highway in. This palace has 7 wings built over 12 layers tiered into a hill, and thus it is one of the most unique one day trip from Delhi. Here you'll find hanging gardens, two swimming pools, ayurvedic spa and also India's first zip line.
7. Damdama Lake
It is one of the biggest lakes in Haryana and with an area of 3,000 acres. Just an hour long ride away from Delhi, this natural reservoir becomes a temporary home for the nature lovers during the weekends. With Aravalli hills forming a beautiful backdrop, the Damdama lake in Gurgaon is truly a spectacular location to spend a day at. Damdama is known for its splendid adventure sports facilities such as para sailing, kayaking, cycling, angling and rock climbing. One can indulge in some boating, bird watching or nature walks.
8. Agra
The abode of the Taj Mahal, Agra is one of the most visited tourist destinations in India. Just a 3 hr and 15 mins drive from Delhi makes Agra the most fascinating one day trip from Delhi. Its distance from Delhi is just 209km. It is home to one of the wonder of the world, Taj Mahal and many other magnificent structures including Agra Fort plus other Mughal structures. The best time to visit Agra is during winter or spring time.There are plenty of attractions over there such as Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Agra Fort, Itimad-Ud-Daulah, Jama Masjid and Mehtab Bagh.
9. Noor Mahal
A luxury 5 star hotel situated in Karnal, the Noor Mahal is for those people who want to enjoy a luxurious one day trip from Delhi. This hotel is very luxurious as it is full of Rajputana and Moghul art . It contains an outdoor swimming pool , tennis court and sunken bar. With its imposing architecture which is a blend of Rajasthani and Mughal styles, it's definitely a place worth going for a day trip.
10. Bharatpur Wildlife Sanctury
Also known as the Keoladeo Ghana National Park, it is one of the most popular and visited bird sanctuaries in India. Over 230 species of birds are known to be resident. Located about 182 kms from Delhi, it is an ideal place to visit for a one day trip from Delhi. With a large amount of rich vegetation and also swampy, wet terrain, this place acts as a perfect host to all the birds who visit it.


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My wife and son have been visiting family out of state for the past week, and life has been much… simpler.
It was weird. That first day coming home after being out of the house all day. It was exactly the way I left it.
No toys out. No dishes to do. No clothes to put away. Nothing to clean because... It had been empty all day.
I had forgotten how simple life was by yourself. I immediately reverted back to my college days when I would have one plate, one bowl, one fork, one spoon, one knife, and one glass.
In many ways it was not only simpler, but easier.
Have you ever disobeyed God? Gone against His Word and simply messed up your life? We've all been in a place when we've strayed away from Him and His perfect will. Where we've found ourselves far from Him and we know we need to turn back to Him.
However, the lie that is so prevalent throughout generations is that you need to clean up your act before you go to God.
But God says to simply turn to Him wherever you are.
I think we've all been there. Feeling empty, dry, and spiritually in need. We seek God, but He seems so far away.
So what are we to do?
What do we value as a culture? By looking around its easy to see, we tend to glorify a life of beauty, talent, humor, creativity, etc. These things are all good, and even given by God to be enjoyed.
But what does God value?
Solomon gets a lot of credit for being the wisest man who has ever lived - and rightfully so. The Bible clearly teaches that he was.
His wisdom came from an interaction with God where God offered to give Solomon anything he would ask, and Solomon asked for wisdom (2 Chronicles 1:7-13, 1 Kings 3:1-15). It was by the grace and mercy of God that Solomon would be so wise and successful, But what led Solomon to ask God for wisdom?
His parents.

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I grew up in a musical house. One of the bedrooms is still known as the "piano room," where my mother's upright piano has sat since the day my parents moved in, before I was born. I started piano lessons when I was eight, and I learned how to read music a little bit, which helped with my abortive career as a middle-school saxophone player. One of my brothers played guitar, eventually took up the trombone, and played in the band all through high school. But there was more music in my house than that. Mom and Dad bought records, sang in the church choir (despite Dad's inability to carry a tune), and Mom frequently played the piano for fun.
This time of year, Mom would play Christmas songs, often from The Christmas Carolers' Book in Song and Story. Mom and Dad bought Christmas records, too, and we liked to put a big stack of them on the console stereo, filling the house with music while we put up the tree, or decorated Christmas cookies, or just for atmosphere. When I moved out on my own, I started buying Christmas records. The Temptations Christmas Card was first, in 1982. I collected a few vinyl albums during the 80s, most notably the soundtrack from A Charlie Brown Christmas and Phil Spector's Christmas Album. Once the CD era began, I started buying more; in the download era, my Christmas library has exploded.
Although I am as irreligious as anybody you know, I like Christmas music, even religious Christmas music. I find no inconsistency in this, because I believe that even without Christianity, we would have something like the Christmas season anyhow—a time for expressing our love and appreciation to the people closest to us through acts of generosity and kindness. It would still be a season fired with magic, in which we're showered with good things for the simple reason that we're part of a human community. Because happiness has always moved human beings to song, we'd still have music that expresses those emotions. The symbols found in the songs might be different, but the joy would be the same.
What I believe when it comes to Christmas is this: the best "things" with which we are showered in this season are not material objects. Sometimes, the greatest gifts of the holiday season are not presents, but presence. That idea inspires a song that we have posted to kick off the holiday season at this blog since 2008: "Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday." There is no mightier version of it than the one by Ross Bon and the Mighty Blue Kings. Here's a live performance from 2009.


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(Reuters) - Canadian Grand Prix organizers say they are discussing a 10-year contract extension as Formula One seeks long-term deals with key races ahead of a possible flotation of the series.
Francois Dumontier, promoter of the race in Montreal, told the espn.co.uk website that an extension to 2024 was on the table.
He said that was the longest agreement ever proposed to Canadian organizers, with previous deals being for five years with options.
"All new agreements now being signed are for 10 years," he added, saying that there were several reasons for that.
"I believe they want to consolidate the good grands prix. Montreal is such a race, undoubtedly. We saw as much (this year) with the full grandstands and the comments made by the drivers and teams.
"F1 has a project to enter the stock market. Ten-year contracts have a certain value when entering the stock market," he added.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said in April that the company behind the sport could be floated in Singapore at the end of this year if markets remained benign.
Plans to raise up to $3 billion by listing the business were pulled last year amid market turmoil following the flotation of social network Facebook, whose shares plunged after their debut.
Several grands prix are nearing the end of their current contracts, with Australia's ending in 2015 along with Barcelona, while Bahrain's runs out in 2016. Singapore signed a five-year extension in 2012.
The newest race on the Formula One calendar in Austin, Texas, has a 10-year contract. Silverstone, which hosts this month's British Grand Prix, agreed a 17-year deal in 2009.
Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Mark Meadows


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My Carolina Wrens
One of a pair of California Wrens nesting somewhere near my yard (but not in it!)
I love these guys. I still vividly remember the first time I ever saw one, almost 20 years ago.
I like the light on this one.
I love the facial expression on this guy.
I just love everything about Carolina Wrens!
More Flowers for Karen
More spring flowers! These are in the exact same location as the crocuses were a few weeks ago!
I think the white one looks pretty decorated with raindrops.
The previous owner is responsible for the almost magical transformation from one type of flower to another.
Windy Spring Day
Windy Spring afternoon Downy
Windy Spring afternoon Downy 2
Windy Spring afternoon finch
Windy Spring afternoon finch 2
Windy Spring afternoon Starling
The Last Snowstorm of 2011
Female Cardinal April Framingham Snowstorm
Female Cardinal April Framingham Snowstorm II
Female Sparrow April Framingham Snowstorm
Great Blue Herons are back!
Great Blues are back! These photos aren't great, but it was WAY too windy to manage a big lens.
The males are flying back and forth to get nesting materials to repair the used nests from last year.
I predict there will be far fewer Great Blues this year than last (and last year there were less than the year before) Does anybody remember why I have such a gloomy outlook about this?
The birds are constantly flying back and forth over route 9 near the Jefferson Apartments. Check it out!
More Ring-necked Ducks in Framingham!
A handsome male Ring-necked Duck on the Sudbury River in Framingham. Can you see the ring on his neck?
A slightly smaller Ring-necked Duck. This one didn't get the girl in the end. I noticed that he was more brown than light gray on his sides.
Here is the female Ring-necked Duck. She is very popular and very attractive in her own right. She has a ringed bill and a ringed neck if you really look hard.
The bigger Ring-necked male was swimming so strongly that he made a wake!
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I'm here to meet girls 18 to 50 years old for dating, friendship, romance, serious relationship, networking and more.
Just relaxed no drama, let it grow and develop.
Hi I am Stephen. I recently moved from China to Vietnam. When I don't work I would like all to be relaxed, no stress.
It would be nice to meet an uncomplicated open minded person


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Political Post (run while you can)—I'm not posting this to stir the pot or start a heated argument (yeah, good luck with that, B), and I'm not going to tolerate any comments ranting about "OBAMA!" or whatever boogeyman you perceive that hijacks what this post is actually about…but I've been meaning to comment on the whole health care thing for a while now. And in light of the apparent crash and burn of the Republicans health care plan this week, and the fact I seem to have more than five minutes of time on my hands to spare at this moment, here goes:
Everybody needs health care. Rich or poor, young or old, we are all susceptible and at risk of needing lots of health care at various points of our lives. You can eat right, you can exercise daily…but you can randomly develop a long term illness through absolutely no fault of your own. Or, you can always drive carefully, look both ways at an intersection before moving on a green light, don't text while driving, and never drink and drive…but you can randomly be the victim of another such driver who is careless or some other freak scenario that is simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Either way, the medical bills that come from the kind of care needed to help you recover can bankrupt nearly anyone who is not in the so-called One Percent. We all need health care, and based on what I've just said, everybody should be willing to help pay for a system that enables everyone to have access to it. It's "just" figuring out the best way to do that that's the trick.
I know there are problems with ObamaCare, and I know people who are paying tens of thousands of dollars a year to cover their families. If you make too much to qualify for subsidies, you're basically f****d. But I hardly think the legislation the Republicans were offering was going to make a single thing any better, and I say good riddance to their bill collapsing (well, for now, anyway). But what can be done to make things better?
I don't think there's a perfect system that works flawlessly, and I think what may work in another country may not be feasible here in America, for various reasons. But I do think a step in the right direction would be to start with giving everyone universal catastrophic coverage: If your medical bills in a given year exceed a set portion of your annual income, the government covers it, whether it be through some kind of expanded Medicare or Medicaid or whatever. Whether that portion is ten percent of your income, or 15 or 20 is a matter of taste. That would help relieve most people's fears of debilitating medical expenses ruining them financially. Taxes would have to be adjusted accordingly to finance such a system, but I've read articles stating it would actually save money versus Obamacare. In addition, people would still be able to buy supplemental private insurance to cover routine medical expenses, and those plans would ostensibly be cheaper, since insurers would no longer have to allow for covering major illnesses or injuries since that would be spotted by the government.
I also think everybody should be able to write off their premiums (as of now, only self-employed people can do that), as well as all of their medical expenses (as of now, you can only do that if you itemize your tax deductions, and even then only the amount above ten percent of your income).
I don't know that this would fix everything, or even be affordable without raising taxes beyond what people would tolerate. But I tend to think that simplest is best, and that universal catastrophic coverage is a good conversation for us to start having.
BONUS: Before people on the Right who think I'm a liberal just because I don't like Trump start blasting my idea as some kind of "socialist" hand out simply because I, an alleged liberal, am advocating it…Universal Catastrophic Coverage has been championed by various conservative think tanks for years. This is a conservative proposal, and I can link to several conservative articles (even f-ing BREITBART; no shit, one came up during my Google search on the topic) that go into greater detail on it. As a moderate, I don't look at an idea and say, "Oh, the Republicans came up with this, it must be BAAAAAAAAAD!! BOOOO!!! HISSSSSS!!!", and I don't look at a Democratic proposal and assume it must wonderful and good. I just look at an idea and ask, "Will it fucking work?". (And for the record, I didn't think what the Republicans were offering in their health care alternative would work at all, so I was against it.) The Republicans would do well consider Universal Catastrophic Coverage when they revisit health care.


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Corebird is a Twitter client for GNOME
Corebird is an excellent Twitter client which has a lot of nice features.
Here is how to compile it on Debian (Jessie):
Version Francaise: http://blog.zedroot.org/corebird-un-client-twitter-pour-gnome/
Clone the sources
First of all clone the Git repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/baedert/corebird.git
$ cd corebird/
Select the version
Corebird has different available versions that you can find in the Github repository Releases page.
Here I'm going to compile the version 1.0:
$ git checkout 1.0
Install the dependencies
In order to compile Corebird you will need some dependencies like the following:
$ sudo apt-get install autoconf intltool libtool libsqlite3-dev librest-dev libgee-0.8-dev libjson-glib-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev valac libgtk-3-dev
Now let's start the compilation:
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install
Start Corebird
Now you can find a menu entry "corebird" or your can start it from a console:
$ corebird
And you will have the following:


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The Shawna Forde trial: The lunatic-fringe supporters make their presence felt
The capital murder trial of Shawna Forde came to an abrupt halt this morning when a witness in the case - one of Shawna Forde's biggest supporters - came into the courtroom in disguise, violating a court order that all witnesses remain outside the courtroom.
Laine Lawless, wearing a black wig, short trenchcoat and sunglasses, was immediately spotted by reporters and detectives. One of the detectives alerted prosecutor Rick Unklesbay, who immediately asked to approach the bench of Judge John Leonardo.
The jurors were quickly ushered out of the room and Leonardo asked Lawless if she did not understand him when he told her on Tuesday that she and all other witnesses are not allowed in the courtroom until after the attorneys release them from their subpoenas.
Lawless told the judge she understood his order, but objected to it as she is a "citizen reporter" who has a right to be in the courtroom. She insisted she was told she was not going to be called as a witness, something the attorneys for both sides denied telling her.
In fact, prosecutor Kellie Johnson told Judge Leonardo she has exchanged e-mails with Lawless since Tuesday reiterating she is still under subpoena and can't be in the courtroom. Johnson said she told Lawless if she objected to the court order to take it up with the judge.
Lawless said she doesn't remember what the dates on the subpoena are and believes those are relevant.
At prosecutor Rick Unklesbay's suggestion, Judge Leonardo told Lawless that she is not only banned from the courtroom unless or until she's called to testify, but she's banned from the courthouse. In answer to her question, the judge said she can get someone else to file any motions she has objecting to his ruling.
Defense attorney Eric Larsen told the judge Lawless, sans disguise, brought him clothes for Forde earlier this morning. He told the judge Lawless has continued to violate another court order prohibiting her from discussing the case on the Internet, radio talk shows and with people in general.
Lawless told the judge she has not discussed her testimony with anyone and the judge said his order pertained to the case in general.
He also banned Lawless from talking to Forde, who remains in jail, and when Lawless asked why, he replied, in part, "Because that's the court order."
Lawless said she wanted to make sure she understood the judge and asked if he was imposing a gag order on her. The judge told her to call it what she likes.
He told her if she violates his order again she's going to jail.
Detectives and deputies then escorted Lawless out of the courtroom and the courthouse.
Lawless is the founder of numerous pro-Forde websites, including justiceforshawnaforde.com
Lawless and someone claiming to be Shawna Forde (complete with picture) have been posting comments on the trial on Facebook. Forde clearly doesn't have access to computers in the Pima County jail but her Facebook persona posted this on Tuesday: "Today was only the first day of my trial, and already the Prosecution's case is falling apart. The jury doesn't believe the witnesses. I haven't slept well at all during this time, so I'm happy to see things look like they are going my way."
Lawless interrupted the testimony of Forde's sister, Melanie Aranda, who will resume her testimony after lunch.
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A powerful gas tank truck explosion destroyed a maternity and children's hospital in Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 60. Rescue workers are digging through rubble, searching for victims following the explosion.
Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera told MVS radio that the body of a woman was found inside the hospital and many people were injured by flying glass. He earlier told the Televisa network that at least 54 people were injured, 22 of them children. Most of the injuries were relatively minor, he said.
CCTV America's Franc Contreras reported this story from Mexico City.
Mexico City gas blast at maternity hospital, injures more than 60A powerful gas tank truck explosion destroyed a maternity and children's hospital in Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 60. Rescue workers are digging through rubble, searching for victims following the explosion. CCTV America's Franc Contreras reported this story from Mexico City.
"The rescue crews are working to locate or dismiss that there are more survivors in the rubble. Approximately, 1,000 rescuers are working manually in the rubble," Mexico City Mayor Mancera said.
The accident began when a Gas Express Nieto tanker was on a routine delivery to the hospital. As the gas company workers connected a gas hose to the hospital's kitchen, suddenly it began leaking uncontrollably. After more than 15 minutes, the workers shouted warnings for everyone to evacuate.
This is the gas truck that exploded at a Mexico City children's hospital. The death toll is rising. pic.twitter.com/C7zvZGrBxf
— Franc Contreras (@FrancMex) January 29, 2015
Fausto Lugo, the city's civil defense director, said in a television interview that the death toll had risen to two. He said 37 people were transported to other hospitals and he said other people were likely still buried in the rubble.
The explosion sent a column of smoke billowing over the area on the western edge of Mexico's capital and television images showed much of the hospital collapsed, with firefighters trying to extinguish fires. Mancera said the heaviest damage was near the hospital's loading dock.
"Yes, I was in front, right in front. We had to go back running inside the house because pieces of concrete were falling everywhere. We went back into the house to avoid being hit, and then the ashes started to fall," eyewitness Maria Ofelia said.
The blast was so powerful, it broke windows half a kilometer or more than 30 miles away.
"It was like an earthquake, everything was shaking with the explosion. The houses' windows broke," a witness who did not give his name said.
Borough chief Adrian Rubalcava said the injured were being taken to a nearby hospital, but the area had insufficient ambulances.
"The most worrisome is the collapse of a large part of the hospital," Rubalcava said.
A Mexican newspaper has reported the company has a record of poorly maintained equipment.
Last year, it was involved in another gas truck explosion that killed three. Among the survivors – new born babies and their frightened mothers.
This story is compiled with information from CCTV America and Associated Press reports.


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James Hudson Taylor is widely regarded as one of the important and influential missionaries of all time, and certainly one of the most significant missionaries to China in the 19th century.
His reputation rests largely upon the founding of the China Inland Mission, whose members were known for their penetration into parts of China where few, if any, Protestant Westerners had gone and hardly any had dared to live; for their dressing, eating, and living like the Chinese among whom they dwelt; by the very high standard of proficiency in the Chinese language which was required of them; their extensive evangelistic, medical, and educational work; and their refusal to seek protection from consular authorities when threatened with danger or even when attacked by local Chinese mobs.
Behind this organization, however, lay the character and conduct of its founder, surely a remarkable Christian leader by any standard of measurement, though not without weaknesses and failings.
Physical limitations
Small in stature, he struggled with the illnesses that often felled Westerners in China, including dysentery, which was frequently fatal. Headaches, kidney stones, and a variety of other ailments sapped his strength. Disease and injuries (such as two to his spine) had him aside on occasion, sometimes for months and even years at a time. His friends and family believed that overwork frequently contributed to his ill health.
Spiritual life
Taylor maintained a disciplined devotional life, reading the Bible through annually for forty consecutive years until his death. Traveling companions would remark upon his habit of rising in the middle of the night to study the Scriptures while others slept, before returning to bed until day broke.
Lifelong education
Hudson Taylor was a diligent student. His daily Bible reading was done in Hebrew, Greek, and English. To gain entrance to medical school, he had to pass examinations in Latin, Greek, German, and French, as well as geography, mathematics, mechanics, chemistry, zoology and botany. After qualifying as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and then receiving his Licentiate in Midwifery, he continued his study of medicine, both Western and Chinese, but also read widely in mathematics, astronomy, magnetism and chemistry, Chinese history and culture, and theology. He was an avid naturalist, observing and classifying the varied flora and fauna of China which so fascinated him. For his reports on such subjects and on the topography and cities of China, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.
He eventually learned not only Mandarin, but also Shanghainese, the Tiechiu dialect of Swatow, and the Ningbo dialect, the last well enough to revise a vernacular version of the New Testament which had been made for speakers of that tongue.
Early missionary training
Hudson Taylor was mentored by some of the finest missionaries when he first arrived in Shanghai. From these men, Taylor learned how to acquire the Chinese language, move freely among the people, dress like the Chinese, and engage in itinerant evangelism.
Evangelistic drive
Hudson Taylor was tormented by the thought that millions of Chinese were dying annually without a saving knowledge of God through faith in Jesus Christ. Proverbs 24:11-12 imposed upon him a duty to spread the Christian message as widely as possible and to mobilize others to do the same. From another direction, his own gratitude to God for forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation moved him to want others to share the same blessings.
Like some other missionaries, but not most, Taylor believed that the Great Commission gave Christians not only the right, but the obligation, to disobey rulers who forbade the preaching of the gospel. For that reason, he transgressed the treaty stipulations that limited foreigners to five ports and their immediate environs. The debate over the propriety of Christians engaging in illegal evangelistic activity in China continues today.
His illegal itinerations were met with mostly warm welcomes by the crowds who came to hear him preach and to receive medical treatment, but angry protests by Chinese mandarins to the British consular authorities. He was willing to accept fines and even suffering for breaking the law, but not to endanger his Chinese co-workers and new converts, so he reluctantly abided by the orders of the British consul.
Evangelistic Strategy
Hudson Taylor's missionary strategy changed over time. Although at first he relied upon itinerant preaching and the sale of Christian literature, he quickly came to believe that settled work, cooperation with Chinese Christian evangelists, and preaching to explain the printed message were necessary. His mature plan was to send out a Western missionary with an experienced Chinese worker to train him and demonstrate truly Chinese methods of preaching. Working sys thematically, they would circle a major city for some time, moving gradually closer as the people began to lose their fear and suspicion of the messengers of a new religion, and finally settle in the town.
Taylor's own experience treating sick Chinese convinced him of the value of medical work, and the CIM laid great stress on caring for bodies as well as souls. Typically, a chapel and a medical clinic combined in holistic ministry.
Always, he aimed to plant Chinese churches presided over by Chinese leaders, with the missionary assisting until he was no longer needed and could move on to open another field.
Wherever possible, he and his colleagues sought to make friends with the literati to share the Gospel with these influential members of the community, often by first engaging them as language teachers.
Women Missionaries
Almost from the beginning, Hudson Taylor acutely sensed the need for Western Christian women to reach Chinese women with the gospel. Chinese etiquette forbade men from talking with women except within the home, so they were essentially unreachable to him and his male colleagues. Both his first wife Maria Dyer and Jennie Faulding, whom he married after Maria died, were exceptionally effective in communicating truth and love to women and girls.
What became a major element of his evangelistic strategy began slowly, with the recruitment of a few single women to accompany other missionaries to China. Their usefulness was soon proved, so Taylor took an even more radical step: In addition to serving on teams with married couples and single men, women were sent out two-by-two, as pioneer missionaries to open up new fields.
This policy evoked harsh criticism at first, because it was feared that unprotected Western women would fall prey to unscrupulous and even violent men, but hardly any such incidents took place, while dozens of women labored successfully in remote regions.
In recent years, with the huge gender imbalance in the Chinese church, Taylor's policy of using women without men to open new mission stations has come under closer scrutiny. Some have suggested that single women missionaries planted churches in which women and girls predominated, and that Christianity, like popular Chinese religion, thus came to be considered a thing for women and not men.
Famine relief
Like other missions, the China Inland Mission devoted huge amounts of resources, including personnel, to help combat the horrible famines in China at the end of the 19th century. Hudson Taylor could not leave England at the time, so he and his second wife Jennie decided that she must go to help out.
Education for Chinese
From his earliest days as a missionary in Shanghai, Taylor demonstrated the high value of education by opening a school for Chinese children himself and then making primary and secondary education a major CIM strategy both of evangelism and of building up the nascent Chinese church. He did not think that higher education, especially that which aimed to spread Western civilization as a means of "Christianizing" China, as a useful means of spreading the Gospel, so he focused on training young men to be Christian leaders and preachers, and girls to be wives for them.
Attitude towards Chinese culture
On the one hand, Hudson Taylor evinced unusual respect for many features of traditional Chinese culture, as we see from his adoption of local customs of dress, eating, dwelling, and etiquette, not to mention learning the oral and written language. On the other hand, like other missionaries, he believed that Chinese religion would not lead either to eternal salvation or to ethical transformation, and he considered the lofty principles of Confucianism to be ineffective in changing lives.
Taylor did not think that the Confucian rites of ancestor reverence were merely expressive of respect. For most Chinese, they involved also a belief in the continued existence of departed loved ones and a profound fear of "angry ghosts." He thus opposed Martin's motion to the Missionary Convention of 1890, and was supported in this by the overwhelming majority of delegates.
Hudson Taylor combined extraordinary vision with unusual administrative ability. He knew how to train others and then to delegate authority and responsibility to them. A great deal of Hudson Taylor's impact on others flowed from excellent communication. As a speaker, he wielded unusual sway over large audiences; in person, despite a humble quiet demeanor, he quickly won trust and allegiance; and as a writer, he reached many thousands of avid readers, especially through his many articles in the CIM's magazine, China's millions.
Though adamant on principles of action, he was patient with those who opposed him. All who became members of the CIM knew that they were placing themselves under his authority as Director. In that sense, his leadership was "authoritarian," but in no way did he act like a despot or tyrant. He led, rather, by example; prayer; clearly-enunciated principles; constant communication; and great forbearance towards recalcitrant members, including those who spread malicious slander and fomented open rebellion against him.
Love for people
Hudson Taylor possessed an amazing capacity to love. His letters to his first wife Maria Dyer and then, after her death, to his second wife Jenny Faulding, reveal a man with a tender heart and a rare passion that lasted well beyond the honeymoon. This love extended to those around him; to other missionaries in need; to the Chinese for whose salvation he ardently longed and labored; and even to his enemies.
Family life
In keeping with contemporary British Christian values, Hudson Taylor considered his calling as a missionary to take precedence over family life, though he deeply cared for his wives and children. When duty called, the family had to endure long separations, which were keenly painful to him.
Travels, endurance
Even his severest modern critics have acknowledged that he possessed extraordinary perseverance. His capacity to endure hardship, weariness, pain, and labor was almost phenomenal.
Faith in God
At the root of Hudson Taylor's labors and influence lay his strong faith in God. This trust in a loving heavenly Father supplied constantly-renewed resources of patience, inner peace, and persuasive influence over other people.
One visible manifestation of Taylor's confidence in God struck others forcefully: When they were worried, he was calm. Under great stress, he could be cheerful. Even at the last, when his weakness and illness rendered him almost immobile, he evinced a quiet joy that would not be quenched.
When he died, J. Hudson Taylor not only left behind the largest foreign missionary organization in China, but several other missionary societies had been brought into being largely as a result of Taylor's itinerant work of promoting the cause of China in Europe, North America, and Australia. His son, grandson, great-grandson, and great-great grandson all followed him into lifelong ministry among the Chinese, who highly revere the memory of one who loved them enough to become one of them.
- A standard work on Hudson Taylor is the two volume work by his son and daughter-in-law, Howard and Mary Geraldine Taylor: Hudson Taylor in Early Years (1912) andHudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: The Growth of a Work of God (1919).
- A one-volume work is Marshall Broomhall, Hudson Taylor: The Man Who Believed God(1929);
- John Pollock, Hudson Taylor and Maria (1962), focuses on the early phase of Taylor's work in China.
- The most definitive work is James Broomhall, Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, 7 vols, (1981-1989).
In addition to the sources cited above, the following may also be consulted:
- Alvyn Austin, China's Millions: The China Inland Mission and Late Qing Society, 1832-1905, though fundamentally inaccurate on Taylor and the CIM, contains some useful information. A review may be found at www.globalchinacenter.org.
- A.J. Broomhall's 7-volume biography has been re-published in two volumes with the title The Shaping of Modern China: Hudson Taylor's Life and Legacy.
- Irene Chang and others, editors, Christ Alone: A Pictorial Presentation of Hudson Taylor's Life and Legacy.
- China Group, "Taylor, James Hudson," in Scott W. Sunquist, editor, A Dictionary of Asian Christianity, is an excellent summary of his life.
- Jim Cromarty, The Pigtail and Chopsticks man: The story of J. Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission is a good book for children.
- J. Herbert Kane, "J. Hudson Taylor," in Gerald Anderson and others, editors, Mission Legacies: Biographical Studies of Leaders of the Modern Missionary Movement.
- Samuel Hugh Moffett, A History of Christianity in Asia, Volume II.
- Lauren F. Pfister, "Rethinking Mission in China: James Hudson Taylor and Timothy Richard," in Andrew Porter, editor, The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880-1914.
- Roger Steer, Hudson Taylor: A Man in Christ is perhaps the best short biography.
- J. Hudson Taylor, Looking Back: An Autobiography (originally published as Retrospect).


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