refused to ask soldiers to pay for tea and cakes. Death and influence Chambers was stricken with appendicitis on 17 October 1917, but resisted going to a hospital on the grounds that the beds would be needed by men wounded in the long-expected Third Battle of Gaza. On 29 October, a surgeon performed an emergency appendectomy; however, Chambers died 15 November 1917 from a pulmonary hemorrhage. He was buried in Cairo with full military honors. Before he died, Chambers had proofread the manuscript of his first book, Baffled to Fight Better, a title he had taken from a favorite line by Robert Browning. For the remainder of her life—and at first under very straitened circumstances—Chambers' widow transcribed and published books and articles edited from the notes she had taken in shorthand during the Bible College years and at Zeitoun. Most successful of the thirty books was My Utmost for His Highest (1924), a daily devotional composed of 365 selections of Chamber's talks, each of about 500 words. The work has never been out of print and has been translated into 39 languages. Honours Chambers House in YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College, which was founded by YMCA of Hong Kong, was named in commemoration of Chambers. References Sources Biography External links Oswald Chambers Publication Association My Utmost for His Highest Online Devotional Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections 19th-century Scottish Baptist ministers British military chaplains British evangelicals Scottish Baptist missionaries Scottish evangelicals Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 1874 births 1917 deaths People from Aberdeen Deaths from appendicitis Deaths from pulmonary hemorrhage Baptist missionaries in Japan British expatriates in Japan British expatriates in the United States YMCA leaders Modern Christian devotional writers 20th-century Scottish Baptist ministers