Book: Sadhu Sunder Singh : A Biography of the Remarkable Indian Disciple
Author: Phyllis Thompson
The book of Acts in the bible is about a promise that Christ made before
Ascension to Heaven on Holy Spirit. The book of acts professes about a great
prosecutor who wanted to wipe out the believers and his conversion into
Paul and his story of healing etc. However, on the road to Damascus, he reported being blinded by a
vision of Jesus Christ. He heard the voice of Jesus
Christ, asking Saul, “why persecutes thou me?” Saul replied, “Who art thou,
Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutes. After his vision and healing, he
proclaimed the divinity of Jesus Christ and dedicated his life to spreading the
Christian message. Paul explained that he was a servant of Jesus Christ and his
unexpected conversion to ardent Christian was due to the Grace of God and not
reason or intellect. We come across many stories on how he was released from
the jail, how he healed many people, even when believers touched the
clothes they got healed. At the end of the book, we read about a snake bit and
people waited for him to die, but obviously then they started to believe in
God.
The story of Sadhu Sunder Singh does resemble the
path of Saul who became Paul. A young boy with hatred, being rebellion on the
teaching Bible in the class to becoming a great Saint who did evangelisation
and healing of the sick across India, Tibet, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He
experienced the vision, and after the personal tragedy, as he tried to commit suicide
in the tracks of the railways. The story of poisoning him and the treatment
given to him. His miracles are just amazing to read and get inspired.
He was known as the India’s Saffron Saint & the
apostle with the bleeding feet for he walked far and long.
An inspiring and interesting biography from post-independence i.es
1929.
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