Transcribed from the 1851 Hunt & Son edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Pamphlet cover] THE CROSS. * * * * * * * * * * A TRACT FOR THE TIMES. * * * * * * * * * * BY THE REV. J. C. RYLE, B.A., CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, RECTOR OF HELMINGHAM, SUFFOLK. Author of “LIVING OR DEAD?” “ASSURANCE,” &c. * * * * * “_By thy cross and passion_, _good Lord deliver us_.” Liturgy of the Church of England. * * * * * IPSWICH: HUNT & SON, 12, TAVERN STREET. LONDON: WERTHEIM & MACINTOSH, 24, PATERNOSTER ROW; NISBET & Co., 21, BERNERS STREET. * * * * * Price Two Shillings per Dozen. * * * * * M.DCCC.LI. * * * * * “Christ crucified and Christ glorified is all that we are to study; the one we are to study as long as we are on earth, and the other we shall be admitted to study when we get well to heaven. * * “That faith which is not built on a dying Christ is but a perilous dream: God awaken all from it that are in it!”—ROBERT TRAILL. 1690. THE CROSS. “_God forbid that I should glory_, _save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ_.”—_Galat._ vi. 14. READER, What do you think and feel about the cross of Christ? You live in a Christian land. You probably attend the worship of a Christian Church. You have perhaps been baptized in the name of Christ. You profess and call yourself a Christian. All this is well. It is more than can be said of millions in the world, But all this is no answer to my question, “_What do you think and feel about the cross of Christ_?” I want to tell you what the greatest Christian that ever lived thought of the cross of Christ. He has written down his opinion. He has given his judgment in words that cannot be mistaken. The man I mean is the Apostle Paul. The place where you will find his opinion, is in the letter which the Holy Ghost inspired him to write to the Galatians. And the words in which his judgment is set down, are these, “God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.”