Background
Taylor was born May 2, 1821 in Rockbridge County, Virginia. His father, Stuart Taylor, came of Revolutionary stock, and his mother, Martha (Hickman), of an old Delaware family.
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The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa In the pages of this volume I have endeavored to set before the reader the dark land of Africa in the past, with a gradual transition to the present. I have introduced the struggles of the early travelers, not only on account of the intense interest of the record of unparalleled personal adventure, but to draw a contrast between their methods of exploration and those of recent explorers which have practically redeemed the lost continent. Men in the past centuries fought awful duels with death in the swamps and jungles of Africa to win riches or fame in their native land. The real redemption of the heathen was the last thing they considered. Exceptions there are, truly, but the efforts even in these cases were puerile, and proved by their lack of fruit to be without divine guidance. Who can fail, after reviewing the work of all the explorers down to Livingstone and Stanley, to acknowledge that these were God-chosen men? To me it is just one of the Almighty's wondrous ways of working. Before Livingstone His time had not yet come, but the death of the doctor marked the deciding point. Then came Stanley – the one man in the world who had the pluck, the power, and the knowledge to be the pioneer of Africa's redemption. He had already been tested, and his enthusiasm had become an inspiration. The power and the means came with the will. There was a divine order in everything. True, blood has flowed, but are there not many examples in past history where heroic measures were absolutely necessary for the cause of a nation's salvation? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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Ten Years of Self-Supporting Missions in India (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Ten Years of Self-Supporting Missions in India I have in this writing given a brief illustra tive exhibit of the principles and progress of the general missionary movement under the auspices of one hundred and sixty-six mission ary societies; and have proceeded more at length With a statement and vindication of the peculiar, but nevertheless scriptural, principles and methods underlying my Self-supporting Missions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Taylor
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He entered the Methodist ministry, being admitted on trial to the Baltimore Conference on March 15, 1843, ordained deacon in 1846, and elder in 1847.
Career
For fifty-three years he traveled and toiled as no other man of his denomination, becoming a missionary evangelist to all lands.
His evangelistic work began in the market house of Georgetown, D. C. In 1848 he was appointed to California under the missionary society of his church and arrived in San Francisco, via Cape Horn, in September 1849, when it was still a city of tents. To the "forty-niners" he preached for seven years. Standing on a pork or whiskey barrel in the Plaza he could be heard by 20, 000 people at a time. His work of saving souls carried him into brothels and saloons.
He built his own home and his own chapel. From 1856 to 1861 the cities of the United States and Canada, East and West, were his field. In the latter year he sailed for Australia by way of England. After preaching seven months in England and Ireland he visited Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Ceylon. For three years he labored in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, where he added thousands to the membership of the Wesleyan Methodist churches. During all this time he derived support for himself and family from books which he published.
From Australia in 1863 he sent seeds of the eucalyptus tree to a California horticulturist, and from these seeds came the eucalyptus trees on the Pacific Coast. In 1866 he was in South Africa working with colonists and Kaffirs; the following year, in England and Scotland. In 1869 he was back in Australia.
In 1870 he went to India, where he spent seven years preaching to Anglo-Indians and expanding and organizing the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church among them. Here he developed the "Pauline System" of support for missionaries. They were to depend upon contributions from their converts and the communities in which they worked, and if such contributions proved insufficient, they, like Paul, were to labor with their own hands. One of the results of his activities was the organization of the South India Conference.
In 1877 and 1878 he was in Peru and Chile, where he organized a system of self-supporting schools, conducted by missionaries; Coquimbo, Chile, became the center of this remarkable school system. In 1884, having retired from the "itinerant ministry" that he might pursue his evangelistic work independent of ecclesiastical oversight, he went from South America as a lay delegate of the South India Conference to the General Conference in Philadelphia, and was there elected, at the age of sixty-three, missionary bishop for Africa. For twelve years he poured missionaries into this Continent--men and women willing to trust God and the people they served for daily bread, and to receive their salary in full after their arrival in the heavenly Jerusalem. Africa, however, proved unusually difficult for his self-supporting missionaries, and his great strength began to break under the burdens he carried. In 1896, at the age of seventy-five he was relieved of his responsibilities by the General Conference.
His last years were spent quietly in Southern California with his family, from whom he had been separated again and again for years at a time.
In many ways Taylor was the outstanding man in his denomination. His imagination has been compared with that of Cecil Rhodes, and his energies matched his imagination. His firm belief that "God had taken William Taylor into a peculiar partnership" filled him with "the intrepidity and assurance of an apostle". He was saved from the fevers of fanaticism by a rugged common sense and an abundant humor.
He died in Palo Alto, Cal.
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His writings include Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco (1857); California Life, Illustrated (1858); Model Preacher (1859); Infancy and Manhood of Christian Life (1867); Christian Adventures in South Africa (1868); Reconciliation; or, How to be Saved (1875); Four Years' Campaign in India (1875); Our South American Cousins (1878); Pauline Methods of Missionary Work (copyrighted 1879); Election of Grace (1880); Letters to a Quaker Friend on Baptism (1880); Ten Years of Self-Supporting Missions in India (1882); Story of My Life (1895); Africa Illustrated (1895); Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa (1898). Taylor University, a Christian college in Indiana, carries his name.
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Ten Years of Self-Supporting Missions in India (Classic Reprint)
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The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa (Classic Reprint)
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Seven Years' Street Preaching In San Francisco, California: Embracing Incidents, Triumphant Death Scenes, Etc
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Our South American Cousins. 1878
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Ten Years of Self-Supporting Missions in India (Classic Reprint)
Personality
He was endowed with a physical frame and vitality that were equal to every demand: "I am six feet high, weigh 207 pounds, " he wrote on a photograph, March 14, 1881, "and lifted at one raise 760 lbs. in my fifty-ninth year. " In addition to bodily strength, he also had a voice of unusual melody, range, and power, and a commanding personality.
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He had been married, October 21, 1846, to Isabelle Anne Kimberlin, and three of their sons grew to maturity.
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