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The Seeker From Punjab Who Burned the Book

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Sundar Singh was fifteen years old in 1904 when he tore a Bible apart and burned it page by page in his village courtyard in...

This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 2:1-12.

Sundar Singh was fifteen years old in 1904 when he tore a Bible apart and burned it page by page in his village courtyard in Punjab, India. The son of a wealthy Sikh family, he despised the Christian missionaries and everything they represented. Yet beneath his rage burned a spiritual hunger that neither the gurdwara nor the Hindu teachers could quiet.…

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