Mrs. Oswald Chambers
Subtitle: the woman behind the world's bestselling devotional
By: Michelle Ule
Publisher: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780801075148
Subjects: Family; Evangelists' spouses; Biography
Description: Among Christian devotional works, My Utmost for His Highest stands head and shoulders above the rest, with more than 13 million copies sold. But most readers have no idea that Oswald Chambers's most famous work was not published until ten years after his death. The remarkable person behind its compilation and publication was his wife, Biddy. And her story of living her utmost for God's highest is one without parallel. Bestselling novelist Michelle Ule brings Biddy's story to life as she traces her upbringing in Victorian England to her experiences in a WWI YMCA camp in Egypt. Readers will marvel at this young woman's strength as she returns to post-war Britain a destitute widow with a toddler in tow. Refusing personal payment, Biddy proceeds to publish not just My Utmost for His Highest, but also 29 other books with her husband's name on the covers. All the while she raises a child alone, provides hospitality to a never-ending stream of visitors and missionaries, and nearly loses everything in the London Blitz during WWII. The inspiring story of a devoted woman ahead of her times will quickly become a favorite of those who love true stories of overcoming incredible odds, making a life out of nothing, and serving God's kingdom.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : Faith and Experience (November 13, 1908); title: Discovering Divine Designs : 1883-1907; title: The Spontaneity of Love : 1907-8; title: The Secret of the Lord : 1908-10; title: Building for Eternity : 1911-12 - Vision : 1913; title: The Baffling Call of God : 1914-15; title: The Undetected Sacredness of Circumstances : 1915; title: The Determination to Serve : 1916; title: The Destitution of Service : 1916; title: The Teaching of Adversity : 1917; title: What Is That to Thee? November 1917; title: The Fires of Sorrow : 1918; title: Sublime Intimacy : 1919-20; title: Isn't There Some Misunderstanding? 1921-29; title: The Worker's Ruling Passion : 1929-39; title: The Teaching of Adversity : 1939-46; title: Yes-But ...! 1946-60; title: Undaunted Radiance : 1961-66.