Sadhu Sundar Singh on 1920s England




In England everyone seemed silently engrossed with his own affairs, and usually in a hurry.

...the war had left its sombre legacy of bereaved families, still conscious of the loss of the million men who had died in the battlefields.

There was... something... lacking too,... In India there was an awareness of spiritual things, a groping for that which would bring peace to the soul. In England he sensed a preoccupation with what would bring material satisfaction, a satisfaction that ignored the deeper needs of the human spirit.

...too little was made of religion. ...more time should be given to being quiet and just meditating on the word of God. Without prayer and reflection spiritual things could not be understood. (emphasis mine)


Quoted from "Sadhu Sundar Singh," by Phyllis Thompson, Armour Publishing Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 2005. pp.167-8



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