The Cross and the Christian Weiser By Eleanor Farjeon | Illustrated

By Eleanor Farjeon | Illustrated by Helen Sewell

the sub-editor of that homely paper

“We do not know what we desire: we do not love those whom we think we love

and why he is

The Cross and the Christian Weiser By Eleanor Farjeon | IllustratedBy Pie Raymond Rgamey, O. P. Suffering is an inescapable fact of life. Far from offering an escape from this fact, the Christian life embraces it: for Christ himself embraced it, scorning its shame and accepting death, even death on a cross, out of love. The task of the Christian is to follow suit. In the words of the Imitation of Christ, the Christian will always find he has some suffering to bear, whether he likes it or not; he will always find the