About the Author

Mrs. Howard Taylor (1865-1949) was the daughter of Henry Grattan Guinness and daughter-in-law of J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission. At 22 years of age, Geraldine traveled to China as a missionary with the CIM. Several years later she married Howard Taylor, son of Hudson Taylor, who was also a missionary in China and a very skilled medical doctor. Mrs. Taylor's talent for writing was discovered early in her career. One of her first books was a history of the China Inland Mission. Later she was commissioned to write the two-volume biography of Hudson Taylor. It took 13 years of research to produce these amazing volumes, which have been such a blessing to so many. She wrote many more missionary biographies and other books, including Behind the Ranges, the story of James O. Fraser; Pastor Hsi, the biography of a converted Confucian scholar and opium addict; and The Triumph of John and Betty Stam, the story of a brave young missionary couple who were martyred in China in 1934. Mrs. Taylor's life motto was: "Live for the glory of God and for the good of many." She wrote over twenty books, all of which are well worth reading.