On March 1, 1854, a wide-eyed twenty-one-year-old man set foot in Shanghai, China, after a perilous five-month sea voyage from London. Living in a house that shook with cannon fire, he faced poverty, cold, and death threats as he began the ministry to the Chinese people that had been birthed in his heart years ago.

Soon Hudson Taylor would be navigating the network of waterways in this foreign land and seeing the hearts of women and men soften to the Christian gospel. He spoke of divine love to a hurting people, embraced the children of the country he had come to call his own, and developed a method of sharing Christianity that would revolutionize mission forever.

In his five decades in China, Taylor led the largest Christian evangelistic movement since the apostle Paul brought the words of Christ to Europe in the first century. Yet the most remarkable part of Taylor's life was not the thousands he baptized but the hours he spent alone in his room, in prayer with the God who called him by name.

Hudson Taylor's secret of relying on God no matter what the circumstances is as powerful and true today as it was over a century ago. Written by his own son and daughter-in-law, this classic biography will inspire you to bask in the light of an ever-present God - and know more deeply, more fully, more joyfully the secret that can never stay hidden.