author

Mary Cole

1853–1940

A Church of God writer remembered for the 1914 devotional memoir Trials and Triumphs of Faith, she left a personal account of hardship, endurance, and religious conviction. Her work has survived mainly through library and archive collections, giving modern listeners a glimpse of early 20th-century holiness writing.

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Trials and Triumphs of Faith

Trials and Triumphs of Faith

by Mary Cole

About the author

Mary Cole was born in 1853 and died in 1940. She is best known as the author of Trials and Triumphs of Faith, published in Anderson, Indiana, in 1914 by the Gospel Trumpet Company.

The book’s title suggests the kind of writing she is now associated with: personal, devotional, and grounded in Christian experience. Surviving catalog records show that her work has been preserved by major libraries and digitized in public archives, which is why readers can still find her today even though biographical details about her life appear to be limited.

Because reliable published information about her personal background is scarce, it is safest to remember her through the book she left behind. For audiobook listeners, that means meeting a writer from the late 19th and early 20th centuries whose voice seems to come through most clearly in her testimony of faith.