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James Hudson Taylor's legacy upon early British Pentecostal missionary activity in the form of Cecil Polhill's Pentecostal Missionary Union (PMU) and Willie Burton's Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) was substantial. Taylor believed that missionary work should be done in total reliance upon God. 'If our hearts are right, we may count upon the Holy Spirit's working through us to bring others into deeper fellowship with God--the way the work began at Pentecost. We do not need to say much about the C.I.M.' Taylor believed that it was sufficient to have Spirit filled missionaries and God would meet the financial needs of those missionaries He had empowered. He exemplified a successful model of faith mission in China both at a personal and organisational level that influenced early Pentecostal missionary praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]