Oswald chambers daily devotionals

Scottish baptist and evangelist

Oswald Chambers (24 July 1874 – 15 November 1917) was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher who was aligned with the Holiness Movement.^[1] He is best known for the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest.

Youth and education

Born to devout parents in Aberdeen, Scotland, Chambers moved with his family in 1876 to Stoke-on-Trent when his father, Clarence Chambers, became Home Missions evangelist for the North Staffordshire Baptist Association, then to Perth, Scotland when his father returned to the pastorate, and finally to London in 1889, when Clarence was appointed Traveling Secretary of the Baptist Total Abstinence Association.^[2] At 16, Oswald Chambers was baptized and became a member of Rye Lane Baptist Chapel.^[3] Even as a teenager, Chambers was noted for his deep spirituality, and he participated in the evangelization of poor occupants of loca