In The British Army
After his high-school graduation, Joseph got a job in the British Army in Pune as a civilian clerk. During the training period, while on sentry guard duty with a rifle in his hand, a thought went through his mind, “Here I am serving His Majesty the King of England as one of his loyal soldiers. How great it would be to serve the King of kings and the Lord of lords.” So he resigned from the Army and went back to Kerala to find a suitable way to serve the Lord.
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