Oswald Chambers

Some years ago a friend gave me a copy of "My Utmost for His Highest." I was thankful and I began to read it, but it didn't do much for me and I put it aside. A few years later, after a few crises in my parish and life, I picked it up and continued to use it regularly for several years. So many devotions available today are so much fluff-nice inspirational messages, but do they feed you? This was for me meat and potatoes. The following bio is directly from the RBC website. The address is at the end. I recommend you visit it. -EJS

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) was born July 24, 1874, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Converted in his teen years under the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, he studied art and archaeology at the University of Edinburgh before answering a call from God to the Christian ministry. He then studied theology at Dunoon College. From 1906-1910 he conducted an itinerant Bible-teaching ministry in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

In 1910, Chambers married Gertrude Hobbs. They had one daughter, Kathleen.

In 1911 he founded and became principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham, London, where he lectured until the school was closed in 1915 because of World War I. In October 1915 he sailed for Zeitoun, Egypt (near Cairo), where he ministered to Australian and New Zealand troops as a YMCA chaplain. He died there November 15, 1917, following surgery for a ruptured appendix.

Although Oswald Chambers wrote only one book, Baffled to Fight Better , more than thirty titles bear his name. With this one exception, published works were compiled by Mrs. Chambers, a court stenographer, from her verbatim shorthand notes of his messages taken during their seven years of marriage. For half a century following her husband's death she labored to give his words to the world.

My Utmost For His Highest , his best-known book, has been continuously in print in the United States since 1935 and in this, the last decade of the century, remains in the top ten titles of the religious book bestseller list with millions of copies in print. It has become a Christian classic.

Visit his site http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/utmost/
and check it out, We recommend it highly.

For more biographical information about Oswald Chambers, check out these resources:
Oswald Chambers, Abandoned To God
The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost For His Highest
David McCasland
Discovery House Publishers
To order: Call 1-800-653-8333

Oswald Chambers, His Life and Work
Gertrude (Biddy) Chambers
Simpkin Marshall Ltd. 1933, 1938, 1959

Oswald Chambers, An Unbribed Soul
David W. Lambert
Christian Literature Crusade, 1968