Sadhu Sundar Singh: Called of God
Mrs. Arthur Parker · The Sikh Convert Who Became a Christian Sadhu

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Sadhu Sundar Singh: Called of God by Mrs. Arthur Parker
Mrs. Arthur Parker’s 1920 biography follows Sundar Singh (b. 1889, Rampur, Punjab), raised in a devout Sikh family, through his conversion to Christ in 1905 after burning the Christian Bible given to him, his taking the vows of a Christian sadhu, and the itinerant preaching journeys that followed — across the Punjab and North India, repeated closed-land journeys into Tibet, and, in 1918–1919, a sustained mission tour through South India, Ceylon, Burma, the Federated Malay States, China and Japan. Drawn largely from the author’s own conversations with the Sadhu at Trivandrum in 1918, the book closes with his reflections on Christ, the cross, and the Sanyasi Mission, followed by appendices on his father, on travelling in Tibet, on the Sikhs, and on his illustrations, with material added to the fourth American edition covering his 1920 visit to the West. This UECF.NET web edition follows the Internet Archive scan of the book and preserves its chapter order, headings, quotations and wording, including the historical spellings and transliterations used throughout (e.g. “sadhu,” “sanyasi”).
- 30 Chapters
- 1 Foreword & Introduction
- 6 Appendix sections
- 208 scanned pages (source)
- 32,766 words
- ≈ 234 min read
- English
Source: Internet Archive, item sadhusundarsingh0000mrsa_z4k9 (208 scanned page images). First published 1920 by Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, Chicago, London and Edinburgh. Given its 1920 United States publication date, this edition is in the public domain in the United States; readers outside the United States should independently confirm the copyright status in their own country before redistributing it. This web edition follows the Internet Archive OCR text; a small number of scanner artifacts and OCR misreadings of recurring words (for example “Sadhu,” “sanyasi”) have been corrected against the surrounding context, and line-wrap hyphenation has been rejoined, but no wording, quotation or theological statement has been altered, modernized or paraphrased.
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Table of Contents
≈ 7 min2Sundar Singh as Sadhu
≈ 6 min3Sundar the Man
≈ 10 min4Nationality and Birth
≈ 5 min5Called to Seek
≈ 7 min6Called of God
≈ 5 min7Called to Suffer—I
≈ 14 min8Called to Suffer—II
≈ 8 min9Called to Serve
≈ 6 min10Called to Preach
≈ 6 min11What Wisdom is This?
≈ 5 min12Early Experiences as a Sadhu
≈ 8 min13Obedience by Suffering
≈ 8 min14The Fast
≈ 7 min15Further Journeys and Persecutions
≈ 11 min16Tibet
≈ 4 min17Sundar in Tibet—I
≈ 6 min18Sundar in Tibet—II
≈ 5 min19Further Experiences in Tibet
≈ 10 min20Martyrs of the Faith
≈ 14 min21Sundar's Mysticism
≈ 10 min22The Sadhu's Love for the Cross
≈ 7 min23Sadhu Sundar Singh and the Sanyasi Mission
≈ 10 min24Sadhu Sundar Singh and the Maharishi of Kailash
≈ 9 min25Sadhu Sundar Singh in South India
≈ 7 min26Sadhu Sundar Singh at a Great Christian Convention
≈ 8 min27Ceylon
≈ 12 min28“Unto the Uttermost Parts of the Earth”
≈ 12 min29“Called, Chosen, Faithful”
≈ 12 min30“Christ Sent Me to Preach the Gospel”
≈ 11 min
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