Sadhu Sundar Singh: Called of God

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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)
• 46,779 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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