The name of Dixon E. Hoste is not well-known today. But there are three reasons why he deserves to be better remembered.
The first is that he was the second General Director of the China Inland Mission, the chosen successor of Hudson Taylor.
Yet any man who can follow and advance the work begun by such a pioneer and legendary figure must himself be an individual of outstanding stature. Dixon Hoste was such a man. Coming as he did from a regimented and highly-disciplined military life, he brought the natural talents and spiritual graces which the Mission needed at such a strategic time.
