The Mother Who Knew Before He Told Her

In June 1849, seventeen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library in Barnsley, Yorkshire, looking for something to pass the time. He picked up a gospel tract, intending only to read the story and skip the moral. But a single phrase arrested him — "the finished work of Christ." At that moment, something broke open in the young man's heart, and he fell to his knees.…