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During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us." After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. Acts 16:9-10

I have long sought for the truth", he said earnestly, "as my fathers did before me; but I have never found it. I have traveled far and hear, but without obtaining it. I have found no rest in Confucianism, Buddhism, or Taoism; but I do find rest in what I have learned here tonight. Hence forth I am a believer in Jesus."

A few nights after his conversion he asked how long this Gospel had been known in England. He was told we had known it for some hundreds of years.

"What!" said he, amazed. "Is it possible that for hundreds of years you have had knowledge of these glad tidings in your posession, and yet have only now come to preach it to us? My father sought after the truth for more than twenty years, and died without finding it. Oh, why did you not come sooner?"

Hudson Taylor missionary to China writing in his autobiography about the first profession of faith under his mission in 1857.