Singing in the Fire

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.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

                Illustrations        ix
                Foreword            xi
1              John Bradford: Not Accepting Deliverance           1
2              Richard and Allan Cameron: Invincible Faith         9
3              Wang Ming-Dao: Baffled to Fight Better                19
4              Susannah Spurgeon: A Ministry of Love 33
5              Thomas Hog: Covenanter and Preacher 49
6              Monica: The Conversion of Augustine    63
7              Margaret Baxter: A Puritan Romance      75
8              John Oxtoby: Praying Johnny     91
9              Edward Payson: This One Thing I Do        105
10           Catherine Boston: ’Gainst Storm and Wind and Tide        121
11           William Bramwell: Man of Prayer and Power       133
12           Allen Gardiner: Dying and Behold We Live            149
13           The Saphir Family: Finding the Messiah  163
14           Janet: A Better Marriage Feast  179
                Bibliography       191