Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) is known as the “Father of Modern Missions.”
“One afternoon, a young Hudson Taylor found a gospel tract on a bookshelf in his home. While reading through the tract he was struck by the phrase ‘the finished work of Christ.’ ‘What does that mean?’ he questioned. In a moment he remembered something from his religious training: ‘And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.’ (I John 2:2) Then he said, ‘If the whole work was finished and the whole debt paid, what is there left for me to do?’ Years later he penned these words about that moment of truth: ‘With this dawned the joyful conviction. . .that there was nothing in the world to be done but [to]… accept this Savior and His salvation.’”