4
Introduction
Source
If You Will Ask is from lectures given at the Bible Training College[1] in London (1911–1915), at League of Prayer[2] gatherings in Britain, and to British Commonwealth troops in Egypt[3] during World War I.
Where known, date and place appear on the first page of each sermon.
Publication History
As articles: Many of these chapters appeared first as articles in Tongues of Fire/Spiritual Life magazines or in the Bible Training College (BTC) Monthly Journal.[4]
As a book: The material was first published as If Ye Shall Ask in 1937. Drawing on her store of notes from Britain and Egypt, Mrs. Chambers compiled this collection expressing the heart of Oswald’s teaching on prayer and his practice of it. She selected the short prayers at the beginnings of chapters 2 through 12 from Oswald Chambers’ personal prayer journal and from meetings at the Bible Training College.
[From the Introduction composed by David C. McCasland for If Ye Shall Ask, included in The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers, copyright © 2000 by Oswald Chambers Publications Association, Limited. The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers is available from Discovery House Publishers, Grand Rapids, Michigan.]