Introduction

1.  See Where To Find L'Abri, page 159.

2.  Edith Schaeffer, L'Abri.  Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, 1969. 124, 125.

3.  See Francis A. Schaeffer,  He Is There And He Is Not Silent  in  The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview, "A Christian View of Philosophy and Culture" (Westchester: Crossway Books, 1982), Volume One, 273-352.

4.  A. W. Tozer, Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray (Camp Hill: Christian Publications, 1990), 1.

5.  It would have been impossible for me to try and capture Edith's style of writing in this book, and I have not tried.  Each writer's style, just as each Christian's prayer life, will be intensely personal.  I do encourage you to read Edith's books for yourself, and I hope this book will inspire you to do so.

6.  He often said that True Spirituality was the most important book he ever wrote and the only one he ever reread to keep in touch with the reality of what he was doing.  Francis A. Schaeffer, True Spirituality in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview, "A Christian View of Spirituality" (Westchester: Crossway Books, 1982), Volume Three, 195-378.  See also the important books, The Church Before The Watching World and The Mark Of The Christian in The Complete Works, "A Christian View of the Church", Volume Four, 113-205.

7.  Dr. Schaeffer died of cancer in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1984.  Mrs. Schaeffer continued to work there until moving back to Switzerland, now making her home near Debby and Udo.

Chapter 1.  In Search of Answers

1.  Edith Schaeffer, The Tapestry, (Waco: Word Books, 1981), p. 52.  See also the award-winning special memorial edition in the 1984 paperback.

2.  Francis Schaeffer, The New Super-Spirituality in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer (Westchester: Crossway Books, 1982), Volume Three, Book Three, p. 391.

Chapter 2.  Do Opposites Attract?

1.  The Tapestry, p.60.

2.  ibid., p. 62.

Chapter 3.  Serving God Together

1.  Edith Schaeffer, L'Abri Family Letters, July 17, 1984, p. 8.

2.  The God Who Is There in The Complete Works, Volume One, Book One, pp. 112-113.

3.  To clarify his views, however, he did add a special appendix on the ways he presented Christian truth in the first volume of his Complete Works, pp. 175-187.

4.  Edith Schaeffer, Affliction, Old Tappen: Revell, 1978.

Chapter 4.  With Eyes Toward Europe

1.  Edith Schaeffer, Christianity Is Jewish, Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1975.

2.  The Tapestry, p. 256.

3.  ibid., p. 258.

4.  ibid., p. 261.

5.  Because of their commitment to these Christian ideals, many young people raised in liberal denominations came to them at L'Abri and found faith.

6.  See especially Fran's sermon "No Little People, No Little Places" in his book of sermons, No Little People in The Complete Works, Volume Three, Book One, p. 5-14.

7.  Two Contents, Two Realities in The Complete Works, Volume Three, Book Four, p. 411.

Chapter 5.  Making Difficult Decisions

1.  During the 1980's, Dr. Koop became the United States Surgeon General. 

2.  You can learn how to buy Prophecy Editions of the New Testament by writing to Million Testaments Campaigns, 1211 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107, USA.

3.  With Love, Edith, 273.

4.  Francis Schaeffer.  Basic Bible Studies. Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, 1972.  Some people have become Christians in my churches as the direct result of group studies of this book.

5.   True Spirituality in The Complete Works, Volume Three, Book Two, p. 223.

Chapter 6.  Troubles Bring New Opportunities

1.  The Tapestry, p. 315.

2.  True Spirituality, in The Complete Works, Volume Three, Book Two, p. 346.

3.  True Spirituality became the one book of his that Fran read over again to remind himself of the reality of the Christian faith and of the importance of balance in the Christian life.

4.  The Tapestry, p. 356.

5.  ibid., p. 388.

6.  ibid., p. 394.

Chapter 7.  Living By Faith Alone

1.  The Tapestry, p. 420.

2.  In The Tapestry, Edith called this answering prayer "backwards," 421.

3.  With Love, Edith, 319.

4.  The Tapestry, p. 432.

5.  Edith Schaeffer. L'Abri. Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1969, pp. 15-16.  L'Abri gives Edith's full and exciting account of the founding of L'Abri and God's many wonderful answers to prayer.

6.  Personal conversation with the author.

Chapter 8.  God Gives Them Growth

1.  See Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor, J. Hudson Taylor: God's Man in China, Chicago: Moody Press, 1965.  See George Müller, The Autobiography of George Müller, edited by H. Lincoln Wayland, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981 (reprinted from the 1861 edition).

2.  To write them or any other L'Abri branch, see "Where to Find L'Abri" on page 160.

Chapter 9.  Fighting the Good Fight

1.  The Tapestry, p. 575.  His talk at the Congress was published as Two Contents, Two Realities.  Dr. Schaeffer was prophetic.  Ten years before he wrote The Great Evangelical Disaster he warned: "Almost certainly if we have a latitudinarianism in religious cooperation, the next generation will have a latitudinarianism in doctrine, and especially a weakness toward the Bible.  Two Contents, Two Realities in The Complete Works, Volume Three, Book Four, p. 411.

2.  In this book I have drawn a distinction between Bible-believing Christians and liberal theologians or "liberal Christians."  I am reminded of what a former missionary to Korea, Dick Lash, said to me once after I said, "I am a Bible-believing Christian."  He replied, "Can there be any other kind?"

3.  This was my experience.  For elaboration, see "The Quiet Assurance of Truth" in Francis A. Schaeffer: Portraits of the Man and His Work, edited by Lane T. Dennis, (Westchester: Crossway Books, 1986).

4.  The Tapestry, p. 591, 592.

5.  L'Abri Family Letter, December 29, 1973, by Edith Schaeffer.

Chapter 10.  From Strength to Strength

1.  The Rochester Post-Bulletin, October 27, 1983, p. 13.

2.  Daily Light on the Daily Path, from the New International Version, The Zondervan Corporation, 1981.

3.  L'Abri Family Letters, July 17, 1984, by Edith Schaeffer, p. 9.

Chapter 11.  An Unfolding Rose

1.  See especially, Edith Schaeffer, Forever Music, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1992, and Edith Schaeffer, The Art of Life, compiled and edited by L. G. Parkhurst, Jr., Eastbourne: Kingsway Publications, 1988, and Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1987.

2.  See Edith Schaeffer, The Life of Prayer, Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1992.

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