Women's Missions in China, Part 3

"First to go to the women of the Northwest, three months' journey up the Han River, Emily King was the first also to be called Home in May 1881. But before her brief course ended, she had the joy of seeing no fewer than eighteen women baptized in confession of their faith in Christ. Dying of typhoid fever in the city of Hanchung, this it was that raised her above the grief of leaving her husband desolate and their little one motherless. The Man of Sorrows was seeing of "the travail of his soul" among those for whom He had waited long--and she, too, was satisfied. No one understood better than Mr. Taylor the cost at which such work was done; no one followed it with more unfailing prayer.

"I cannot tell you how glad my heart is [he wrote to his mother in the midst of much trial] to see the work extending and consolidating in the remote parts of China. It is worth living for and worth dying for."

*Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, page 216