As a result of reading MUFHH, I was introduced to the life and times of Oswald Chambers and his amazing ministry and his amazing and selfless stenographer wife, Biddy. It is an acquired taste and requires a bit of effort to appreciate, but the diligent reader is more than compensated for the effort. I am not sure I would give this book to teen agers. As a result I started reading it and was glad when my son said he did not want it back.
It was only a few months ago when I was going down to visit him and his lovely wife and the uber grandson that I ran across MUHH again and decided to see if he wanted it back. Oswald Chamber's classic sat on our shelf for many years, unread, unappreciated and gathering dust beside an equally neglected copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare.
He left home, went to college, got married and now has a son of his own. The copy of My Utmost for His Highest that I have was originally given to my son as a graduation present by the youth pastor of our Church. Most successful of the thirty books was, "My Utmost for His Highest", which has never been out of print and has been translated into 39 languages. Gertrude, for the remainder of her life published books and articles for him edited from the notes she had taken in shorthand from his sermons. He was buried in Cairo with full military honors. On October 29th, a surgeon performed an emergency appendectomy, but Chambers died Novemfrom a hemorrhage of the lungs. Confronted by a soldier who said, "I can't stand religious people," Chambers replied, "Neither can I." Chambers was stricken with appendicitis on Octobut resisted going to a hospital on the grounds that the beds would be needed by men wounded in the long-expected Third Battle of Gaza. Soon his wooden-framed "hut" was packed with hundreds of soldiers listening attentively to his messages. He was assigned to Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt, where he ministered to Australian and New Zealand troops, who later participated in the Battle of Gallipoli. In 1915, a year after the outbreak of World War I, Chambers was accepted as a YMCA chaplain. Oswald married Gertrude in May 1910, and on May 24, 1913, Gertrude gave birth to their only child, Kathleen.
Even as a teenager, Chambers was noted for his deep spirituality, and he participated in the evangelization of poor occupants of local lodging houses. At age 16, Oswald Chambers was baptized and became a member of Rye Lane Baptist Chapel. Oswald Chambers was born to devout parents in Aberdeen, Scotland.
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