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Stanley
Life and Other Trivial Pursuits
The Vital Years
Grave Reflections
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St Peters Books

St Peters Church, Cooks River has published and has for sale the following books:

Stanley

Stanley
A Young Man's Colonial Experience
Rev. Stanley Howard writing to his family in England, 1872-1878

Written by Rev. Stanley Howard, Edited by Laurel Horton

Stanley looks at the life of Stanley Howard, a curate at St Peters Church. In 1872, for the good of his health, he sails for Australia. From that moment he records his everyday existence in letters to his family in England. MORE

Life and Other Trivial PursuitsLife and Other Trivial Pursuits
The Book of Ecclesiastes, A Series of Sermons and a Paraphrase

Written by Rev Tom Halls

Life and Other Trivial Pursuits is a collection of sermons preached at St Peters Church, Cooks River on the Book of Ecclesiastes as well as a paraphrase of the passages. Topics include wisdom, fellowship, law and order, eternity, novelty, justice and frustration. MORE

The Vital YearsThe Vital Years, Seventeen to Forty-Nine
The Life of Joseph, Genesis 37-50

Written by Rev Tom J Halls

Twenty five percent of the Book of Genesis is given over to the life of Jacob, son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham. The Vital Years investigates to the life of Joseph from ages 17 to 49. MORE

Grave ReflectionsGrave Reflections

Written by Laurel Horton

Grave Reflections was published in 1996 to celebrate the centenary of the closing of St Peters Church, Cooks River's Victorian Graveyard. It contains the story of the graveyard, a statistical analysis of the ages of the people buried there, biographical details on over 250 families and a complete burial list. MORE

St Peters Anglican Church Cooks River 1838 - 1988St Peters Anglican Church, Cooks River 1838 - 1988

Written by Laurel Horton | OUT OF PRINT

The book details the history of the church and its congregation from during this period. It quotes 150 years of parish records to tell their stories. In one hundred and fifty years of parish records we have encountered the sacred and the secular; the humour and the heartache that are the normal experience of sinful man, waiting in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed Romans 8:19. MORE

 

Order Your Copies

Ordering a book - just download and print a copy of our Books Order Form. Once you have filled in the form please post it with your payment (cheque or money order) to St Peters Church, 187 Princes Highway, St Peters NSW 2044.