十架人若背起，岂只受苦而已！十架人若不离，终必被置死地！因为十架用意，就是使人绝气；所以十架经历，总是结束自己。
If we take up the cross, will we but suffer pain?
Nay, if we bear the cross, be sure that we will die!
The meaning of the cross is that we may be slain;
The cross experienced the self will crucify.

这是神的救法，将人十架治杀；像是残酷刑罚，实是荣耀救拔；非让十架剪除，不能经历基督；十架将我结束，基督才能活出。
Divine deliverance e'er slays man by the cross;
Though cruel it may seem, it is a grand release.
Christ ne'er will be our life if we escape the cross;
Christ ne'er will be expressed but by our sure decease.

十架最终目的，乃是成功神意；神意最大仇敌，乃是人的自己；治死魂的生命，自己才能除净；除去己的性情，神意才得通行。
The cross's final goal, that God's will be fulfilled;
His will's arch enemy is but the self of man.
If self be done away and all the soul-life killed,
God's will shall then prevail and prospered be His plan.