Meditations on Various Aspects of the Spiritual Life
Sadhu Sundar Singh · Twelve Meditations on the Spiritual Life
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Meditations on Various Aspects of the Spiritual Life
Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889 – disappeared 1929)
First published in 1926 by Macmillan and Co., Limited of London, this short book gathers twelve meditations in which the Indian evangelist Sadhu Sundar Singh reflects on prayer and solitude, the soul’s hunger for God, whether God can be known, pain and suffering, opposition and criticism, the nature of evil, life in Christ, the return of all men to God, morality and beauty, the Kingdom of God, and service and sacrifice — illustrated throughout with parables and images drawn from his years of travel across India, Tibet, and the Himalayas. Sundar Singh translated the book himself from his original Urdu, with help from the Rev. T. E. Riddle.
This Web Book presents the complete public-domain 1926 first edition: the Foreword, the author’s Preface, and all twelve chapters.
- 12 chapters
- 1926 first edition
- ≈ 65 min read
- Public domain · English
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Contents
The Foreword and the author’s Preface, followed by the twelve chapters of the 1926 first edition, and a note on this web edition’s sources.
Opening
The Twelve Meditations
Chapter I · ≈ 3 min 2Man’s Craving for God
Chapter II · ≈ 4 min 3Is God Knowable?
Chapter III · ≈ 10 min 4Pain and Suffering
Chapter IV · ≈ 9 min 5Opposition and Criticism
Chapter V · ≈ 5 min 6What is Evil?
Chapter VI · ≈ 3 min 7The Effect of Evil Thoughts and Lives
Chapter VII · ≈ 4 min 8Life in Christ
Chapter VIII · ≈ 5 min 9Finally All Men Will Return to God
Chapter IX · ≈ 5 min 10Morality and Beauty
Chapter X · ≈ 5 min 11The Kingdom of God
Chapter XI · ≈ 5 min 12Service and Sacrifice
Chapter XII · ≈ 6 min
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- Title: Meditations on Various Aspects of the Spiritual Life
- Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh
- First published: 1926, Macmillan and Co., Limited (London)
- Language: English (translated by the author from Urdu)
- Pages: 104 (scanned edition)
- Source record: Internet Archive — bwb_C0-ACA-167
- Status: Public domain (published before 1929) · UECF.NET Web Book, full text
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- 2026 — Published as a complete UECF.NET Web Book: Foreword, Preface, and all twelve chapters, with Scripture references linked to the UECF.NET NKJV Bible.
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