Burning the Bible
Sundar Singh hated Christians. As a teenage Sikh in India, he burned a Bible page by page. When Christian missionaries came to his village, he threw stones at them.
But after his mother died, despair overwhelmed him. He decided to kill himself by lying on the railroad tracks at dawn. First, though, he prayed a desperate prayer: "If there is a God, reveal yourself to me."
A Vision at Sunrise
Just before sunrise, a light filled his room. In the light, he saw a figure and heard a voice: "How long will you persecute me? I died for you. I am the Way."
It was not Krishna or any Hindu deity. The face belonged to Jesus Christ.
The Christian Sadhu
Sundar immediately transformed. He put on the robe of a sadhu (Hindu holy man) and spent the next 30 years walking through India, Nepal, and Tibet sharing the gospel. He dressed like a Hindu but preached Christ.
"The Incarnation is the most stupendous event in the history of the universe," he wrote. "That the infinite God should become a finite man and suffer death for us!"
Into the Himalayas
He disappeared in 1929, presumably dying in the Himalayas he loved to traverse. But his story spread worldwide - the hostile Sikh who met Jesus at sunrise.
