Figures of the True

By Amy Carmichael

Do you feel broken and cold? Does life feel like a struggle? Don’t let your present reality dictate your trust and joy. Look around you and see that there’s hope! Based on spiritual truths taken from black-and-white nature photographs, Figures of the True is designed to encourage those going through a difficult season. Well-loved teacher and missionary Amy Carmichael uses short prose pieces to present messages from the Creator to you. The pictorial examples she uses “are not only lovely pictures of fragments of a lovely creation…they are Figures of the True.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: CLC Publications
• Release date: Oct 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781619581364

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Figures of the True: Devotional Thoughts Inspired by Nature

CLC PUBLICATIONS

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First published © The Dohnavur Fellowship 1938

First American edition 1976

This edition 2013

by permission of the

Dohnavur Fellowship

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Harrow, Middlesex HA2 7BS

England

ISBN-13: 978-1-936143-82-5

ISBN-13 (e-book edition): 978-1-61958-136-4

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, King James Version, 1611.

Scripture quotations marked BCP are from The Book of Common Prayer, Church of England, 1662.

Italicized words in Scripture quotes are the emphasis of the author.

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Editor’s Foreword

A my Carmichael’s call to missions—first in Ireland among the mill workers, then briefly in Japan, and finally in India where she rescued children from forced temple service and prostitution—allowed this humble servant to see beauty in brokenness and to see hope in the darkest of situations.

Birthed out of Amy’s desire to share the lessons she gleaned from photographs sent to her by her friend Dr. Hans aus der Fünte, Figures of the True: Devotional Thoughts Inspired by Nature is a blend of text and imagery—a multimedia presentation that existed before the terminology to explain it.

After unearthing the original negatives in an old filing cabinet in our editorial department, we