Parables of the Cross

By I. Lilias Trotter

Isabella Lilias Trotter was an artist and a Christian missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria. After serving God in England for a time with the YWCA, she went with her own funding to Algeria to serve God there. In 1888 she founded the Algiers Mission Band. In 1964 the Algiers Mission Band became incorporated into Arab World Ministries. This eBook contains Trotter's beautiful original illustrations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781515445685

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Parables of the Cross

by I. Lilias Trotter

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Table of Contents

Death is the Gate of Life

Death to Sin's Penalty is the Way Out into a Life of Justification.

Death to Sin is the Way Out into a Life of Holiness.

Death to Lawful Things is the Way Out into a Life of Surrender.

Death to Self is the Way Out into a Life of Sacrifice.

Footnotes

Death is the Gate of Life

There was deep insight in those old words. For man's natural thought of death is that of a dreary ending in decay and dissolution. And from his standpoint he is right: death as the punishment of sin is an ending.

But far other is God's thought in the redemption of the world. He takes the very thing that came in with the curse, and makes it the path of glory. Death becomes a beginning instead of an ending, for it becomes the means of liberating a fresh life.

And so the hope that lies in these parable lessons of death and life is meant for those only who are turning to Him for redemption. To those who have not turned, death stands in all its old awful doom, inevitable, irrevocable. There is no gleam of light through it for them.

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The death of the Cross--death's triumph hour--that was the point where God's gate opened; and to that gate we come again and again, as our lives unfold, and through it pass even on earth to our joyful resurrection, to a life each time more abundant, for each time the dying is a deeper dying. The