Deeper Life #1

AS THE EDITOR OF God’s Revivalist from 1976 to 1985, I had the privilege of reviewing and researching past issues of that historic periodical, the official publication of God’s Bible School and College in Cincinnati, Ohio. I became particularly interested in the writings of certain authors—among who was Oswald Chambers. From 1907 to 1916, 181 articles by Chambers appeared in God’s Revivalist.

While en route from England to Japan in 1906, Chambers stopped in Cincinnati and visited the campus of God’s Bible School. He was invited by the administration to remain on campus and teach some Bible courses. He did so for six months before he continued on his missionary journey to Japan. God’s Revivalist published many of the notes from his classroom lectures and the Bible studies that he led at the Salvation Park Holiness Camp, sponsored by God’s Bible School during the early years of its history. In subsequent years, Chambers contributed other articles to God’s Revivalist.

The writings of Oswald Chambers contained in this volume were excerpted from these articles in God’s Revivalist. Particular care was taken to use material heretofore unfamiliar to today’s reader of Oswald Chambers. His writings in God’s Revivalist have, for the most part, lay unresearched in the archives of the Revivalist office. Oswald Chambers is respected as an effective expositor of the Word of God, a prolific writer, and a practical Christian teacher whose disciplined mind explored the rich, redemptive truths of our Lord Jesus Christ. The writings of Oswald Chambers are cogent, challenging, and convincing. His pen etches the blessed truths of God, as revealed in the Holy Bible, with penetrating and passionate conviction. I commend this volume as a spiritual aid to all who seek to be more like Christ in Spirit-filled living for Him.

—GLENN D. BLACK, EDITOR