Biddy & Kathleen
Biddy & Kathleen Biddy Biddy and Kathleen lived in Muswell Hill, London, and after Biddy died Kathleen continued to live in the same house until her death in 1997. The house was constantly filled with visitors. Kathleen Kathleen chose nine months of quotations for Run Today’s Race, a book Biddy had started shortly before her…
My Utmost
My Utmost 1927 During the months before Oswald’s death, Biddy had transcribed his nightly talks from the book of Job. After Oswald’s proofreading, she sent it to the Nile Mission Press. The resulting book, “Baffled To Fight Better,” appeared in late 1917 and was quickly in demand among soldiers and friends in England alike. Each…
Egypt
EGYPT 1915 When World War I broke out, Oswald began to feel God was calling him to move on. He wondered how he should serve his country at that time. His prayer was “Lord, I praise You for this place I am in, but the wonder has begun to stir in me – is this…
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There will come one day a personal and direct touch from God when every tear and perplexity, every oppression and distress, every suffering and pain, and wrong and injustice will have a complete and ample and overwhelming explanation. – OSWALD CHAMBERS
Bible Training College
BIBLE TRAINING COLLEGE 1911 The B.T.C. was a haven for anyone in need. One student observed, ‘The college kept open house for the broken, the bruised, the unfortunate, for the old, the forlorn, and the weary.’ Student fees paid only a portion of the college costs and the difference was met from private donors through…
Dunoon
Dunoon 1897 Oswald Chambers spent nine years (1897-1906) at the Dunoon Theological College, first as a student then as a tutor. It began with great joy in learning and service, but soon became his dark night of the soul, a period he later described as “four years of hell on earth.” A poem written in…
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It takes me a long while to realize that God has no respect for anything I bring Him. All He wants from me is unconditional surrender. – OSWALD CHAMBERS
Oswald’s Artwork
OSWALD’S ARTWORK The portrait of Beethoven, the sketch of his teenage friend, George Oxer, and the turbulent seascape reveal Oswald’s passages in discovering God’s calling. His desire to serve God through art, music and literature was redirected into becoming a Christian minister – something he vowed never to do. He told George Oxer, “I shall…
The Early Years
THE EARLY YEARS 1874 Oswald Chambers was born in Scotland in 1874 and was educated at London’s Royal College of Art and the University of Edinburgh. Although gifted in the arts, he felt at the age of 22, that God was calling him to become a minister. After studying and later teaching in a small…
