Rutherford's Letters from Aberdeen

In 1636, Scottish pastor Samuel Rutherford was torn from his congregation in Anwoth and banished to Aberdeen by church authorities who despised his preaching. For nearly two years, he could not stand before his people, could not break bread with them, could not watch their children grow in faith. The separation was a wound that never stopped aching. So Rutherford wrote letters — hundreds of them.…