Emphasis Preaching Journal

Before the missionary Hudson Taylor made his famous first trip to China, he was a struggling medical student and evangelist living on very little, stretched further by his faithful tithing. After an evening prayer service Hudson led, a poor man asked him to come back to his house and pray for his dying wife; though they were Catholic, they could not afford a priest to give last rites. Praying there, Hudson suddenly felt convicted of the poverty he saw and the coin in his own pocket.