The Day of Judgment: A novel every Christian should read.

Joseph Hocking (1860-1937), who also wrote as Rupert Hamstead was a British author, a Cornish novelist and Methodist minister. He was born at St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, to James Hocking, part owner of a tin mine, and his wife Elizabeth. In 1884, he was ordained as a minister. Working in different parts of England over the next few years, he wrote his first novel, Harry Penhale - The Trial of his Faith, while in London in 1887. He regarded fiction as a highly effective medium for conveying his Christian message to the public, and combined his writing with his church duties, until ill health forced him to resign from the ministry in 1909. His works include: The Weapons of Mystery (1890), Ishmael Pengelly: An Outcast (1894), Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Romantic Story (1898), Greater Love: A Cornish Romance (1902), A Flame of Fire (1903), The Coming of the King (1904), Roger Trewinion (1905), The Chariots of the Lord (1905), The Sword of the Lord: A Romance of the Time of Martin Luther (1909), The Game and the Candle (1923) and The Squire of Zabuloe (1935).