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 xi1 John Bradford: Not Accepting Deliverance 12 Richard and Allan Cameron: Invincible Faith 93 Wang Ming-Dao: Baffled to Fight Better 194 Susannah Spurgeon: A Ministry of Love 335 Thomas Hog: Covenanter and Preacher 496 Monica: The Conversion of Augustine 637 Margaret Baxter: A Puritan Romance 758 John Oxtoby: Praying Johnny 919 Edward Payson: This One Thing I Do 10510 Catherine Boston: ’Gainst Storm and Wind and Tide 12111 William Bramwell: Man of Prayer and Power 13312 Allen Gardiner: Dying and Behold We Live 14913 The Saphir Family: Finding the Messiah 16314 Janet: A Better Marriage Feast 179 Bibliography 191
