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The Love That Was Stronger: Lilias Trotter of Algiers
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Published January 1, 1958
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February 8, 2025
“Many beautiful things:” these were Lilias Trotter’s last words and the title of the documentary created in her memory. “Lilias Trotter was the most beautiful character some of us have known. She should not be forgotten…Lilias Trotter had one passion, and that was–Christ.” She had “the heart-longing of the evangelist to reach those yet unreached with the light and love of God.”
“She was a born traveller, ready to ‘greet’ the unknown ‘with a cheer’…a map was to her a manual of intercession as well as a challenge…Traffic with Heaven was the mainspring of life. Over her bed hung a large map of Algeria and Tunisia bearing the words in her own delicate writing ‘Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it’...It was this living fellowship–this store of beauty and well-spring of joy that she found in the written word, and in the Living Word–which fed the ‘unquenchable, mystical, fighting love of Lilias Trotter.’”
She turned her back “on fame, marriage, and pleasure, to follow the steps of the Master…to live without European comforts among the people, to share their lives, and to reach the places where Christ had not been named.” She counted her losses “‘but dung’ in the light of His glory and grace…There lies before us a beautiful possible life, one that shall have a passion for giving, that shall be poured forth for God, and spent out for man; that shall be consecrated for 'the hardest work and the darkest sinners.’” Through the power of "the love that was stronger" that beautiful possible life had surely been hers. “‘To be content to persevere in Gospel witness for more than a generation, when visible results are so small, is a heroism of the highest order, a heroism not of this world:’” what a beautiful summary of Lilias Trotter's life in North Africa.
The Love That Was Stronger is a collection of Miss Trotter’s diaries and journals, books and booklets, drawings and sketches– “a treasure-mine of spiritual teachings from her reading of the Word…as she thought God’s thoughts after Him.”
“She was a born traveller, ready to ‘greet’ the unknown ‘with a cheer’…a map was to her a manual of intercession as well as a challenge…Traffic with Heaven was the mainspring of life. Over her bed hung a large map of Algeria and Tunisia bearing the words in her own delicate writing ‘Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it’...It was this living fellowship–this store of beauty and well-spring of joy that she found in the written word, and in the Living Word–which fed the ‘unquenchable, mystical, fighting love of Lilias Trotter.’”
She turned her back “on fame, marriage, and pleasure, to follow the steps of the Master…to live without European comforts among the people, to share their lives, and to reach the places where Christ had not been named.” She counted her losses “‘but dung’ in the light of His glory and grace…There lies before us a beautiful possible life, one that shall have a passion for giving, that shall be poured forth for God, and spent out for man; that shall be consecrated for 'the hardest work and the darkest sinners.’” Through the power of "the love that was stronger" that beautiful possible life had surely been hers. “‘To be content to persevere in Gospel witness for more than a generation, when visible results are so small, is a heroism of the highest order, a heroism not of this world:’” what a beautiful summary of Lilias Trotter's life in North Africa.
The Love That Was Stronger is a collection of Miss Trotter’s diaries and journals, books and booklets, drawings and sketches– “a treasure-mine of spiritual teachings from her reading of the Word…as she thought God’s thoughts after Him.”
June 23, 2019
A good, brief overview of Lilias’ life. Stewart captures the essence of her ministry and gives some helpful insights of her work in Algeria.
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