Sadhu Sundar Singh's Conversion
Story★★★★Some years ago it was my privilege to meet that Indian Christian Sadhu Sundar Singh. He was a member of a high caste family. He went to a Christian school in India, and his father said to him one day: “You will turn a Christian.”
“No,” he said, and to prove it, he burned his Bible. But he did become a Christian.
He told his father and mother and they said: “You have broken caste. You cannot live here any longer; your life is not worth anything; you will have to go.” And he did go. I heard him say that it was during the wet season, and the rain was coming down as he left the house elad in his flimsy Indian robes; and he sat all night under a tree, soaked to the skin; but he was so radiantly happy that he forgot his physical discomfort.
I le came to be spoken of as the apostle of India. He moved up and down the country telling the Gospel story. He went into Tibet; he was arrested; he was put into a pit; he was branded with hot irons and bore the scars all his life. When he was here in England he said: “I am going back to do what I have done.
I am quite aware of the cost.” A few years ago he disappeared; and he has never been heard of since. Undoubtedly he suffered a martyr’s death.
The point
The story of Sadhu Sundar Singh, an Indian Christian who was rejected by his high-caste family, arrested and tortured in Tibet for his faith, yet remained committed to spreading the gospel despite knowing the cost, ultimately disappearing on a final mission, likely martyred.