Singing in the Fire: Christians in Adversity (Cook)

Author:

Cook, Faith

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9780851516844

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Paperback

Pages:

195

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Faith Cook’s subject is familiar to Christian literature but these pages have several factors which make them arresting and captivating. Instead of meeting with well-known names, here is a portrait gallery which includes a number who lived far from public notice. Perhaps John Bradford, Richard Cameron and Edward Payson are still remembered, but who knows of such things as John Oxtoby’s fellowship with God, Wang Ming-Dao’s resolution, Susannah Spurgeon’s ministry of love and Catherine Boston’s lonely sufferings? These pages are full of moving records from the old and the modern.

Contents

John Bradford - Not Accepting Deliverance
Richard and Allan Cameron - Invincible Faith
Wang Ming-Dao - Baffled to Fight Better
Susannah Spurgeon - A Ministry of Love
Thomas Hog - Covenanter and Preacher
Monica - The Conversion of Augustine
Margaret Baxter - A Puritan Romance
John Oxtoby - Praying Johnny
Edward Payson - This One Thing I Do
Catherine Boston - 'Gainst Storm and Wind and Tide
William Bramwell - Man of Prayer and Power
Allen Gardiner - Dying and Behold We Live
The Saphir Family - Finding the Messiah
Janet - A Better Marriage Feast

Author

Faith Cook, daughter of Stanley and Norah Rowe, missionaries of the China Inland Mission (now OMF), was born in north-west China. After missionaries were evicted from the country in 1951, she returned to the UK and attended Clarendon School in North Wales before proceeding to teacher training college in Bromley, Kent. She married Paul Cook in 1961, and they served several evangelical churches in the Midlands and Yorkshire before his retirement. They have a daughter, four sons and ten grandchildren, and now live in Breaston, Derbyshire.