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ÒYour daddy has gone to heaven,Ó Biddy Chambers tells her daughter at the opening of this biography of the twentieth-century Scots Protestant minister and teacher. Starting with Oswald ChambersÕs death from appendicitis at age 43, the book chronicles his early life, his commitment to God, and his missionary work. Simon Vance narrates with an ear for drama, treating the biography as if it were a novel. In quotations Vance gives Chambers a light Scots burr. Thus, the biography serves as a good introduction to both ChambersÕs writings and a life influenced by both art and faith. Further, it offers insight into why ChambersÕs religious talks, preserved in print by his wife, are still read well after his death. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine--
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Oswald Chambers was born in Scotland and spent much of his boyhood there. His ministry of teaching and preaching took him for a time to the United States and Japan. The last six years of his life were spent as principal of the Bible Training College in London, and as chaplain to British Commonwealth troops in Egypt during World War I. After his death, at age 43, the books that bear his name were compiled by his wife from her own verbatim shorthand notes of his talks.
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