Three centuries ago, in Scotland...
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Three centuries ago, in Scotland, Samuel Rutherford was a preacher of great renown. He loved his people in the Solway parish. He lived in difficult times when they threw preachers into prison for speaking against the establishment.
Languishing in his cell, the good man pictured the dear friends in his old congregation and prayed:
O Anwoth by the Solway, to me thou still art dear!
E'en at the gate of heaven, I'll shed for thee a tear.
And if one soul from Anwoth meet me at God's right hand,
My heaven will be two heaven's in Immanuel's land!
So it was for the Apostle Paul! So it is for every faithful Christian!
Languishing in his cell, the good man pictured the dear friends in his old congregation and prayed:
O Anwoth by the Solway, to me thou still art dear!
E'en at the gate of heaven, I'll shed for thee a tear.
And if one soul from Anwoth meet me at God's right hand,
My heaven will be two heaven's in Immanuel's land!
So it was for the Apostle Paul! So it is for every faithful Christian!
