In this biography the life of Samuel Rutherford is taken and walked through to show his trust and dependence on the Lord through the trials of imprisonment, the death of multiple children, and concern for Scotland's church.
Rev Dr Andrew Thomson DD FRSE (1814–1901) was a 19th-century Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland and (from 1847) of the United Presbyterian Church. He was a noted biographer and lecturer, well known for his books on the lives of pre-eminent ministers, and for his book on his travels in the Holy Land and noted for his preface to the Scottish poet, Robert Pollok's "Tales of the Covenanters".