#TAMIL BIBLE COLLEGES IN CHENNAI WINDOWS#

This was a privilege similar to that of Timothy (2 Tim 1:5). My grandmother taught me the twenty third Psalm. But I am awaiting the resurrection morn to greet and bless her for filling the reservoir of my heart with the Scriptures. Those days I wondered why the other mothers in our street had not been so strict. On Sundays we must memorize one Psalm and a collect from the Common Book of Prayer. She would not give us breakfast unless we had memorized at least one Bible verse each day. Both his children have inherited his minuteness. But he was a good correspondent and we always enjoyed reading his newsy and affectionate letters. He would visit us just for two or three weeks every year. Jesus's dad was not a District Collector or a building contractor, but a countryside carpenter!Д«ecause daddy was in the Territorial Army, he had left us with mummy in our hometown. Don't be ashamed of the humble background of your family. A branded shoe or a VIP suitcase is not a must. Today I have perhaps travelled more widely than all my classmates! I appeal to young people not to bother their parents to spend beyond their means. How I wish today's parents learn this and hesitate not to say no to children! Parents' loving-strictness is more powerful than peer-pressure. Mummy taught us to be satisfied with whatever she cooked at home and never gave us money for junk food.Д®ven though I was the class pupil leader several times, I couldn't every time join the annual school excursions for economic reasons. We had no slippers or shoes to wear to school. Christopher and I shared a single hurricane lamp till we finished schooling. Our parents had almost nothing to spare after spending on us.

#TAMIL BIBLE COLLEGES IN CHENNAI WINDOWS#

When there was wind and rain, mummy would drape the windows with gunny bags. Our house couldn't afford a proper flooring. Christopher is two years younger to me.Д®conomically we belonged to the poorer section of the society.

Daddy was a junior commissioned officer in the Indian Army. My enthusiastic parents admitted me in school when I was just four but tall, giving a false age! Today I have two birthdays, one official and the other real!! Mummy became too weak to work following a severe bout of jaundice. In fact, she was my class teacher for class one. He knows the end from the beginning (Isa 46:9,10). I believe there is nothing accidental in our lives. Her prayerful desires have been fulfilled in that I am a soldier in God's army with the sword of His Word in my hand. Vedhabothagam was my God-mother and she named me as Stanley after a British soldier and the famous preacher Dr. My maternal grandmother, Jebathai (meaning, mother of prayer), was a ward-helper to Dr. I was born in the third street known as the Queen Street where we owned a small house. Rajamani came from the second street and mummy Mrs. There are five main streets in this small town. From time immemorial two morning and one evening services have been conducted daily in this Church, one of them being a communion service. The Anglican Church with its bottle-shaped steeple is central to the life of the community. We also have a Bethlehem and a Jerusalem close by. Situated near the southern tip of the country, it was named as Nazareth by the early missionaries when the villagers turned to Christian masse.

My birthplace is too small to be marked on the map of India. Personally, I have not come across a better illustration for this eternal truth than myself. 'God chose the lowly things of this world so that no one may boast before Him!' (1 Cor 1:28,29).

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