Biography
Early years
Sundar Singh was born into aConversion to Christ
Sundar felt that his religious pursuits and the questioning of Christian priests left him without ultimate meaning. Sundar resolved to kill himself by throwing himself upon a railroad track. He asked that whosoever is the 'True God' would appear before him, or else he would kill himself; that very night he had a vision of Jesus. Sundar announced to his father, Sher Singh, that thenceforth he would get converted into the missionary work of Jesus Christ. His father officially rejected him, and his brother Rajender Singh attempted to poison him. He was poisoned not just once but a number of times. People of that area threw snakes into his house, but he was rescued from mistreatment with the help of a nearby British Christian. On his sixteenth birthday, he was publiclyLife of conversions
In October 1906, he set out on his journey as a new Christian, wearing a saffron turban and the saffron robe of aFormal Christian training
In December 1909, Singh began training for Christian ministry at theConverting others
Stories from those years are astonishing and sometimes incredible and full of miracles which helped in conversion. Indeed, there were those who insisted that they were mystical rather than real happenings. That first year, 1912, he returned with an extraordinary account of finding a three-hundred-year-oldTravels abroad
During his twenties, Sundar Singh's gospel work widened greatly, and long before he was thirty, his name and picture were familiar all over the Christian world. He described a struggle withFinal trip
In 1923, Singh made the last of his regular summer visits to Tibet and came back exhausted. His preaching days were apparently over and, in the following years, in his own home or those of his friends in the Simla hills, he gave himself to meditation, fellowship and writing some of the things he had lived to preach. In 1929, against all his friends' advice, Singh wished to make one last journey to Tibet. He was last seen on 18 April 1929 setting off on this journey. In April he reachedPostmortem prophecies
Singh's apocalyptic prophecies about the fate ofRecognition by other Christians
Singh is respected in theIn popular culture
Ken Anderson made ''Journey to the Sky'', a 1967 Christian drama film which starred Indian actor Manhar Desai (Malcolm Alfredo Desai) in the lead role of Sadhu Sundar Singh.Timeline
* 1889 – Born at Rampur Kataania, Ludhiana, Punjab * 1903 – Conversion * 1904 – Cast out from home * 1905 – Baptised in Simla; begins life as aWorks by Sundar Singh
Sundar Singh wrote eight books between 1922 and 1929. His manuscripts were written inReferences
Further reading
* Gaebler, PaulExternal links