Samuel Rutherford's Palace in Exile
In 1636, Scottish pastor Samuel Rutherford was ripped from his beloved congregation in Anwoth and banished to Aberdeen by church authorities who despised his preaching....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 27:1, 4-9.
In 1636, Scottish pastor Samuel Rutherford was ripped from his beloved congregation in Anwoth and banished to Aberdeen by church authorities who despised his preaching. He lost his pulpit, his people, and his freedom to minister. By every outward measure, the exile should have broken him. It did the opposite. From that cold northern city, Rutherford poured out over two hundred letters that would become some of the most luminous devotional writing in Christian history.…
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