"After Pastor Ren wrote his autobiography in classical Chinese, Herbert Hudson Taylor undertook the laborious task of translating it into English as material for rewriting. The manuscript was saved when a fire destroyed the mission premises at Hangzhou, and preserved again when, in March 1927, he had to evacuate Zhenjiang at the consul's orders and lost nearly everything else. When Marshall Broomhall revised and condensed it for publication in 1930, he wrote in the foreword that the heavier share of the joint task had fallen to Herbert Taylor, and that without his painstaking labours the book would probably never have seen an English version."
— Marshall Broomhall
Source: Marshall Broomhall, "Editorial Foreword," in A Tamarisk Garden Blessed with Rain, or The Autobiography of Pastor Ren, trans. and ed. Herbert Hudson Taylor and Marshall Broomhall (London: China Inland Mission, 1930), pp. xiii–xvi
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