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BOOKS

This issue gives a small taste of the teachings of Oswald Chambers. His works include Biblical Psychology (1912); Shade of His Hand (1924); My Utmost for His Highest (1927); The Place of Help (1935); Christian Disciplines (1995); and Our Ultimate Refuge (formerly known as Baffled to Fight Better, 2020). Find these titles and more in The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers (2000). 

For books on the life of Oswald Chambers, see Gertrude (Biddy) Chambers, ed., Oswald Chambers: His Life and Work (1933); D. W. Lambert, Oswald Chambers: An Unbribed Soul (1968); David McCasland, Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God (1998); and Paul Kent, Oswald Chambers: A Life in Pictures (2017).

Discover the life of Biddy Chambers with Michelle Ule, Mrs. Oswald Chambers: The Woman Behind the World’s Bestselling Devotional (2017). For more on women and work at the turn of the century, try Ivy Pinchbeck, Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution (1930); Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class (1987); and Katrina Honeyman, Women, Gender, and Industrialization in England (2000). 

This issue discussed a number of figures who influenced Oswald Chambers. While extensive resources do not exist for some of them or are only available online, you can read about Alexander Whyte in G. F. Barbour, The Life of Alexander Whyte (1923); George MacDonald in Greville MacDonald, George MacDonald and His Wife (1924); Richard Reader Harris in Mary Hooker, Adventures of an Agnostic: Life and Letters of Reader Harris (1959); G. K. Chesterton in Kevin Belmonte, Defiant Joy: The Remarkable Life and Impact of G. K. Chesterton (2011); and C. H. Spurgeon in Michael Reeves, Spurgeon on the Christian Life (2018). 

For more on Robert Browning, try G. K. Chesterton, Robert Browning (1903), or Richard Kennedy and Donald Hair, The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning (2007).

Read about Juji Nakada in Isamu Yoneda, Biography of Juji Nakada (1959). Learn more about the Oriental Missionary Society he cofounded in Esther and Edward Erny, No Guarantee but God: The Story of the Founders of the Oriental Missionary Society (1969); and Robert Wood, In These Mortal Hands (1983). 

Learn more about the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that influenced Chambers in Martin Wells Knapp, Lightning Bolts from Pentecostal Skies (1898); Charles Stalker, Twice Around the World with the Holy Ghost (1906); William Kostlevy, Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America (2010); and David Bundy, Geordan Hammond, and David Sang-Ehil Han, eds., Holiness and Pentecostal Movements: Intertwined Pasts, Presents, and Futures (2023). 

For more about Chambers’s Bible Training College, read Katherine Ashe, The Book of the College (1915). For God’s Bible School, start with Raymond Lloyd Day, A History of God’s Bible School in Cincinnati, 1900–1949 (1949); and Wallace Thornton Jr., When the Fire Fell: Martin Wells Knapp’s Vision of Pentecost and the Beginnings of God’s Bible School (2014). 

You may find helpful context on the Middle Eastern theater of World War I with C. E. W. Bean, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 (1929); Edward Erickson, Gallipoli and the Middle East 1914–1918 (2014); Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, The First World War in the Middle East (2014); and Rob Johnson, The Great War and the Middle East (2016). You can also dig deeper on the YMCA during the war with James Barrett, The War Work of the Y.M.C.A. in Egypt (1919); Frederick Harris, Service with Fighting Men: An Account of the Work of the American Y.M.C.A.s in the World War (1922), and Clyde Binfield, George Williams and the Y.M.C.A. (1988). For missionaries in North Africa contemporary to Chambers, read Christy Wilson, Flaming Prophet: The Story of Samuel Zwemer (1970) and Miriam Rockness, A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter (1999).

Finally, several of this issue’s authors have also contributed to Utmost Ongoing (2017), a book of essays reflecting on My Utmost for His Highest. 

PAST CH ISSUES

These past issues of Christian History relate to some of this issue’s content. Read online or purchase available hard copies:

25: Dwight L. Moody

26: William and Catherine Booth

29: Charles Spurgeon

75: G. K. Chesterton

82: Phoebe Palmer and the Holiness Movement

86: George MacDonald

113: Seven Literary Sages

121: Faith in the Foxholes

VIDEOS FROM VISION VIDEO

Relevant videos include C. H. Spurgeon: The People’s Preacher; Many Beautiful Things: The Life and Vision of Lilias Trotter; Outpouring of the Holy Spirit; The Fantasy Makers: Tolkien, Lewis, and MacDonald; and World War I Military Chaplains. Some of these titles are only available via digital download; you may access more content by streaming on Redeem TV. 

WEBSITES

Websites dedicated to the life and ministry of Oswald Chambers include My Utmost for His Highest where you can find many resources on Chambers as well as his individual and collected works. Michelle Ule writes often about Biddy and Oswald at her website, MichelleUle.com.

As always many public-domain primary source documents referenced in this issue can be found at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and at Gutenberg.org (you will also find older secondary sources at Gutenberg). The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History can tell you more about what was happening in the art world during Chambers’s lifetime. Have a look at the Internet Modern Sourcebook, especially the sections on nineteenth-century Britain and World War I, as well as The Victorian Web.

Some of the groups dedicated to continuing the movements and legacies of people in this issue include The Browning Society, One Mission Society (the Oriental Missionary Society in Chambers’s day), the YMCA, and Dunoon Bible College. CH 

By the editors and authors

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