in any of the books.
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Foreword to the FIrst edItIon (1917)
This book is comprised of talks given nightly by Reverend Oswald Chambers to the men at the Imperial School of Instruction,3 Zeitoun, Egypt, during the Spring of 1917.
CentraL haLL, WestMInster, London, s.W.
It is with sincere pleasure that I write a few prefatory words to this last message from Reverend Oswald Chambers.
The one who spoke the words is now in the presence of the King, "serving Him day and night in His temple," and our prayer is that this book may serve to quicken in us all "a personal passionate devotion to Jesus Christ." Our Lord Himself was the one Lodestar in the life of my husband, and every recalling of him is an incentive to "follow his ways in Christ."
The Church of Christ has sustained a great loss in the Passing of our dear gifted Friend.
Reverend Oswald Chambers was a scholar, a burning Evangelist, a teacher of the Word of God, who taught in faith and verity.
He was full of the Holy Ghost, and turned many to the Lord. There is pathetic interest in these musings on the great drama of sorrow, which was also a true history.
For himself So shadowed forth in every look and act Our Lord, without Whose name he seldom spoke, One could not live beside him and forget.
Many will read them with tearful eyes as they recall their departed Author.
All, I am sure, will read with profit: may our Friend's lessons be messages of God to us all.
B.C.4 Egypt, 1917
May we live in full consecration as he did, and whether we "fall asleep in Jesus," or remain till the Lord's return, may we be absolutely faithful!
Dinsdale T. Young5
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Foreword to the thIrd edItIon (1924)
These talks were given in the Y.M.C.A. Huts, Zeitoun, Egypt, to the men in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the early part of 1917. They were not given with the thought of publication, and the book is compiled from my own verbatim notes.
sages had ever done. This book was the first one to be published and was widely circulated amongst the men in Egypt and Palestine, many of whom had heard the talks given, an edition being also published in England at the same time.
In November, 1917, God's call came to my husband for other service in His presence, and the idea came to me that to publish the talks he had been giving to the men in Egypt (and previously at the Bible Training College, London), would serve some purpose of God's, and the work was started with the prayer that the written messages might bring a knowledge of His truth to many as the spoken mes-
I have a practically inexhaustible supply of notes, and other books will be published from time to time. By his faith, he is speaking to us still. (Hebrews 11:4, Moffatt).
B.C. 200 Woodstock Road, Oxford October 1923
3. The Imperial School of Instruction was established at Zeitoun in September 1916 by the British Command to train troops primarily in infantry weapons and tactics.
4. Biddy Chambers: although Mrs. Chambers was editor, compiler, and often publisher, she never identified herself by name in any of the books.
5. Dinsdale T. Young (1861–1938), noted Methodist minister who influenced Chambers, especially during Oswald's years at Dunoon Theological College in Dunoon, Scotland, 1897–1906.