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The Attraction of the Cross; Designed to Illustrate the Leading Truths, Obligations and Hopes of Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Nothing will interest you like the cross. Nothing can do for you what the cross has done.” In The Attraction of the Cross, Gardiner Spring shows that the cross of Christ is the hope of the world: not as a ritual emblem, not as a wonder-working enchantment, but as an expression of the truth of God—and of a religion that is internal, spiritual, practical, intelligible, and personal. Covering a...

of Christ was the testimony of the Prince of martyrs. Nowhere else does truth utter her voice with such distinctness, such fullness and emphasis. She spoke with power in the death of Prophets under the law; in the death of Stephen, and in the triumphs of Paul, under the axe of Nero; but as she never spake before, she speaks from Calvary. Were an angel to descend from heaven to become the teacher of men, his instructions might well be listened to with eagerness. But the Cross is the teacher of angels.
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