J. Hudson Taylor’s Threefold Prediction

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 21, 1910

J. Hudson Taylor’s Threefold Prediction

IN the Missionary Review of the World for April, 1906, was printed a prediction made by the late J. Hudson Taylor, at that time superintendent of the China Inland Mission. This same journal for July, 1910, refers to this prophecy as follows:—

The forecast was threefold: First, of a war in which Russia was to be prominent, but lack the sympathy of Western nations; second, of a great and pervasive revival of religion; and, third, of the Lord's second appearing, not long after. We are not wont to attach much importance to such modern forecasts. But this man was no fanatic or dreamer, but one who lived and walked with God, and to whom it was not strange if he permitted some insight into the future. This prophecy was published in full in these pages four years ago (April, 1906, pages 241, 297), and may be worth while to reread in the light of later events. Subsequent developments make this deliverance intensely interesting. The Russo-Japanese War fulfilled the first part of this threefold prediction in every respect. The great revival in Wales, and in many other quarters, most conspicuously Korea, where the work still goes on, and is the wonder of the world, fulfilled the second. There is only one part of the prophecy yet unfulfilled; and there are many who believe that the Lord's second appearing is near at hand.