1. Oswald Chambers was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher who was aligned with the Holiness Movement.
16 Facts About Oswald Chambers
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Oswald Chambers is best known for the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
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At 16, Oswald Chambers was baptized and became a member of Rye Lane Baptist Chapel.
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From 1893 to 1895, Oswald Chambers studied at the National Art Training School, now the Royal College of Art and was offered a scholarship for further study, which he declined.
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Oswald Chambers was teaching classes at the school and took over much of the administration when MacGregor was injured in 1898.
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In 1906, Nakada and Oswald Chambers sailed for Japan via the United States.
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In 1907, Oswald Chambers spent a semester teaching at God's Bible School, a Holiness institution in Cincinnati, then spent a few months in Japan working with Charles Cowman, a co-founder of the Oriental Missionary Society.
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Oswald Chambers did not oppose glossolalia but criticized those who made it a test of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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In 1911 Oswald Chambers founded and was principal of the Bible Training College in Clapham Common, Greater London, in an "embarrassingly elegant" property that had been purchased by the Pentecostal League of Prayer.
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In 1915, a year after the outbreak of World War I, Oswald Chambers suspended the operation of the school and was accepted as a YMCA chaplain.
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Oswald Chambers was assigned to Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt, where he ministered to Australian and New Zealand troops, who later participated in the Battle of Gallipoli.
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Oswald Chambers raised the spiritual tone of a center intended by both the military and the YMCA to be simply an institution of social service providing wholesome alternatives to the brothels of Cairo.
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Oswald Chambers installed a contribution box but refused to ask soldiers to pay for tea and cakes.
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Oswald Chambers was stricken with appendicitis on 17 October 1917, but 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.
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On 29 October, a surgeon performed an emergency appendectomy; however, Oswald Chambers died 15 November 1917 from a pulmonary hemorrhage.
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Oswald Chambers was buried in Cairo with full military honors.