Sundar Singh: Footprints Over the Mountains by Janet Benge & Geoff Benge

Author:Janet Benge & Geoff Benge [Benge, Janet & Benge, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Religious
ISBN: 9781576583180
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Amazon: 157658318X
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Publisher: YWAM Pub.
Published: 2005-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Into Nepal

After assuring his friends around Simla and across northern India that he was alive and well, in May 1913 Sundar set out once again for Tibet. As he made his way toward a village located along the trail that led up to the Himalayas, Sundar noticed two men ahead of him in the distance. As he walked on, he noticed that one of the men suddenly fell down. By the time Sundar caught up to them, the man had been covered with a robe.

“What has happened to your friend?” Sundar asked.

“He stumbled and fell, and now he is dead,” the man said. “What should I do? I have no money to pay for a burial, and I do not wish to leave him here for the jackals to eat.”

Sundar was touched by the man’s predicament and decided to hand over his blanket and the two small coins someone had given him before he set out for Tibet. “Here, take these. I know it will not pay for much, but it will help. May God comfort you,” he said as he handed his belongings to the man.

The man was very thankful, and Sundar went on his way. He had nearly reached the village, when the man came sprinting up behind him. “He is dead, my friend is really dead!” he yelled, as he grasped Sundar’s arm.

Sundar looked at the man strangely. “Of course he is dead. I saw him fall. What are you talking about?”

The man wailed. “You see, Sadhu, my companion and I have been together for many years. We each take turns pretending to be dead in order to get money from unsuspecting travelers. After we had tricked you, I uncovered my friend, but he did not get up. I shook him, and he would not wake, for he really was dead this time.” The man’s face was ashen by now. “Forgive me, Sadhu. Forgive me for tricking you. I have obviously incurred the displeasure of the gods.”

Sundar reached out and laid a hand on the distraught man’s shoulder. “My friend, what you did was wrong, and I am sorry that your companion has died, but let me tell you about One who is the Lord of life and death.”

Sundar went on to share the gospel with the man. The man listened attentively, asking questions as Sundar spoke, and eventually asked if he, too, could become a Christian. Sundar led the man in a prayer. Following the man’s conversion, Sundar sent him on his way to the town of Garhwal, where there was a mission station and missionaries who would instruct him further in his new faith.

Sundar continued on his way over the mountain pass that led to Tibet. As usual, his summer in Tibet was a mixture of being taunted and abused in some villages and listened to and questioned in others. He also had some unique opportunities to preach.

On one occasion, as Sundar was climbing over a mountain, he came upon a man praying in a cave.

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