AND SO I BEGAN TO READ:
Books That Have Influenced Me
By Faith Cook
EP Books. 120 pages. £5.99
ISBN 978 1 783 971 459
This is a book by one of our favourite people about her life and her favourite books. From being a missionary child in China to becoming a pastor’s wife in Britain, from the dangers of the one to the challenges of the other, Faith gives us an account of her spiritual experience through demanding and sometimes exhausting years.
As her five children were growing up, she discovered immeasurable help in the lives and books of such spiritual giants as C.H. Spurgeon, Richard Baxter and Thomas Boston and peppers her pages with memorable extracts from preachers and poets. This is just the sort of book her husband Paul would have loved and honoured had dementia not overtaken his late years.
The likes of John Bunyan, Thomas Brooks, William Gurnall and, above all, The Letters of Samuel Rutherford, have been her counsellors and companions. Their books have not only been read, but absorbed in just the way they were intended to be by the authors themselves. A rare opportunity to understand what nourishes the inner life of one woman of God.
Faith’s own books record and continue the long line of Reformed spirituality as she chronicles the lives of leaders and martyrs who, being dead, yet speak – to us all.
Just the book for the church bookstall or a Christmas gift.
