Samuel Rutherford's Letters from Exile

In 1636, Scottish minister Samuel Rutherford was stripped of his pastorate and banished to the remote town of Aberdeen. The authorities intended exile as punishment, a way to silence the troublesome preacher. Instead, Rutherford picked up his pen. From that cold, lonely outpost, he wrote over two hundred letters that burned with gratitude and adoration for Christ. "I am a prisoner of Christ," he told a friend, "and He has the key to my prison door."…