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Title: The bishop of Africa; the life of William Taylor. With an account of the Congo country and mission
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Davies, E. (Edward), b. 1830
Subjects: Taylor, William, 1821-1902 Missions
Publisher: Reading, Mass., Holiness Book Concern
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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I. He preached the law^ as proclaimedfrom the burning Mount of Sinai, the lawthat is holy, just and good, the law that isour schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Hesought to kill before he made alive, to con-vict before he sought to point out Christ. H. He preached the gospel in all its won-derful and glorious provisions oi justification,regeneration, adoption and the witness of theSpirit, and that no professor of religionshould live without this grace. HI. He preached entire sanctification toall true believers. He preached it out of theBible and out of his own glorious experience.Indeed, he is an honest, simple-hearted, old-fashioned Methodist minister, saved from thefear of man, of death, or of devils; whodared to proclaim the whole truth, whethermen would hear or forbear. Therefore, Godwas pleased to honor him. rV. His long experience in street preach-ing to all nationalities in California, and innearly all the earth, gave him a great powerover men to persuade them to come toChrist.
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FUI^FILLmG HIS mssiON. 53 CHAPTER m. WILLIAM TAYLOR FULFILLINO HIS MISSION. In 1867 Wm. Taylor and his family sailedfor London. He labored eleven months inEngland and Scotland. Then his way openedto preach on the island of Barbadoes, andthen in British Guiana in South America.His family had returned to California, excepthis oldest son, who was studying at Lausanne.This sons sickness called his father back toEurope. In 1868, Mr. Taylor pursued hislabors in the West Indies, with great suc-cess . He spent fourteen months in re-visitingAustralia, where the ministers had reporteda net increase of members in seven yearsof over twenty-one thousand. August 6, 1870, he reached Galle, Ceylon,where God gave him one thousand converts,one-tenth of whom were fresh from Budd-hism, and many from the ranks of nominalChristians, 54 THE BISHOP OF AFRICA. November 20, 1870, he reached the har-bor of Bombay, India. After spending afew days in the city-j he started for the North-west provinces, where the A

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