Notes
Notes
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Residential school near Clapham Common in SW London, sponsored by the League of Prayer. Oswald Chambers was Principal and main teacher; Biddy Chambers was Lady Superintendent. Known as the BTC, it closed in July 1915 because of World War I.
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Zeitoun (zay TOON). An area 6 miles NE of Cairo. Site of YMCA camp, Egypt General Mission compound and a large base area for British, Australian and New Zealand troops. Site of the Imperial School of Instruction (1916–19).
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The Bible Training Course Journal was published from 1932 to 1952 by Mrs. Chambers, with help from David Lambert.
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Bible Training College, London, 1911–1915.
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G. Campbell Morgan (1863–1945), British preacher, writer, internationally known Bible teacher. Pastor of Westminster Chapel from 1904 to 1917, and from 1933 to 1943.
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Bible Training College, London, 1911–1915.
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James Stalker (1848–1927), Scottish theologian, scholar, pastor, writer.
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Residential school near Clapham Common in SW London, sponsored by the League of Prayer. Oswald Chambers was Principal and main teacher; Biddy Chambers was Lady Superintendent. Known as the BTC, it closed in July 1915 because of World War I.
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David Lambert (1871–1961): Methodist minister and friend of Oswald Chambers. Assisted Mrs. Chambers with OC publications from 1917–1961.
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moonshine: insignificant or meaningless
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positive: independent; unrelated to anything else.
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Higher Christian Life movements refers to various groups and organizations that emphasized sanctification and personal holiness.
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positive: independent, not related to anything else.
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down to the scruple: to the smallest item.
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ban of finality: the limitation or “curse” of having one’s mind made up, unwilling to consider new information
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Henry Drummond (1851–1897), Scottish writer and evangelist. His book, Natural Law in the Spiritual World, was published in 1883.
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The exclusion of the spiritually inorganic from the Kingdom of the spiritually organic is not arbitrary. Nor is the natural man refused admission on unexplained grounds. His admission is a scientific impossibility. Except a mineral be born “from above”—from the Kingdom just above it—it cannot enter the Kingdom just above it. And except a man be born “from above,” by the same law, he cannot enter the Kingdom just above him.… The breath of God, blowing where it listeth, touches with its mystery of Life the dead souls of men, bears them across the bridgeless gulf between the natural and the spiritual, between the spiritually inorganic and the spiritually organic, endows them with its own high qualities, and develops within them these new and secret faculties, by which those who are born again are said to see the kingdom of God (pp. 72–3).
The first law of biology is this; That which is Mineral is Mineral; that which is Flesh is Flesh; that which is Spirit is Spirit. The mineral remains in the inorganic world until it is seized upon by a something called Life outside the inorganic world: the natural man remains the natural man, until a Spiritual Life from without the natural life seizes upon him, regenerates him, changes him into a spiritual man (pp. 380–1). [This footnote was in the original text]
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Zeitoun (zay TOON). An area 6 miles NE of Cairo. Site of YMCA camp, Egypt General Mission compound and a large base area for British, Australian and New Zealand troops. Site of the Imperial School of Instruction (1916–19).
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this war: World War I (1914–1918)
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to further orders: ad infinitum; endlessly; the phrase, military origin, continuing present action until one receives different orders
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Zeitoun (zay TOON). An area 6 miles NE of Cairo. Site of YMCA camp, Egypt General Mission compound and a large base area for British, Australian and New Zealand troops. Site of the Imperial School of Instruction (1916–19).
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Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848–1921), British Congregationalist minister and theologian. Chambers read many of Forsyth’s books and valued his insights.
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to further orders: ad infinitum; endlessly; the phrase, military origin, continuing present action until one receives different orders
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Zeitoun (zay TOON). An area 6 miles NE of Cairo. Site of YMCA camp, Egypt General Mission compound and a large base area for British, Australian and New Zealand troops. Site of the Imperial School of Instruction (1916–19).
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Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848–1921), British Congregationalist minister and theologian. Chambers read many of Forsyth’s books and valued his insights.
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to further orders: ad infinitum; endlessly; the phrase, military origin, continuing present action until one receives different orders
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mean: ordinary, common, low, or ignoble, rather than cruel or spiteful
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The Higher Christian Life emphasized sanctification and personal holiness.
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Higher Spiritual Life or Higher Christian Life teaching that emphasized sanctification and personal holiness.
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inmates: people living under one roof as members of a family or group. Not used to mean those who are institutionalised or imprisoned.
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Samuel Dickey Gordon (1859–1936), American writer and lecturer; his Quiet Talks book series sold more than 1.5 million copies.