Lilias Trotter

Isabella Lilias Trotter (14 July 1853 – 27 August 1928) was an artist, writer, and evangelist. She was born into a wealthy family in London in the mid-nineteenth century. As a young woman, she pursued the art of painting, but despite critical success in this endeavor, she forsook it for the sake of spreading the Gospel. At age 34 she and two women friends made a trip to Algeria to organize a mission. For the rest of her life she worked to evangelize the poor of Algeria. Her book The Way Of The Sevenfold Secret was published first in Arabic, then in English, Persian, and French. “In The Desert and the Sea, her sketches and watercolors capture her almost forty-year love affair with Algeria.”^[1]

Selected works[edit]

Parables of the Cross

Parables of the Christ-life

Between the Desert and the Sea

The Way Of The Sevenfold Secret (1926)

"This book, originally published in Arabic, was the expression of a lifelong desire on the part of the writer to reach Moslem mystics. She made a careful study of their doctrines and practices and was thus fitted to write in a way that would appeal to them. It must be remembered in reading this volume that many of the thoughts presented and the expressions used are such as would evoke a definite response in the hearts and minds of these Moslem seekers after God."^[2]

The Master of the Impossible: sayings, for the most part in parable (ed. Constance Padwick)

External Links[edit]

The Way Of The Sevenfold Secret (1926)

Parables of the Cross

1. ↑ Foster, Richard J. and Griffin, Emilie, Spiritual Classics, HarperSanFrancisco (2000), p. 86.
2. ↑ From The Way of the Seven-Fold Secret