Seeing as how I just returned from Korea, where I was speaking on Samuel Rutherford, I thought it would be appropriate to share the epitaph that is found on his tombstone in the church yard by the Tower of St. Regulus in St. Andrews.
What tongue, what pen, or skill of men
Can famous Rutherford commend?
His learning justly raised his fame,
True godliness adorned his name,
He did converse with things above,
Acquainted with Emmanuel's love.
Most orthodox he was, and sound,
And many errors did confound.
For Zion's King and Zion's cause,
And Scotland's Covenanted laws,
Most constantly he did contend,
Until his time was at an end.
At last he won to the full fruition
Of that which he had seen in vision.
Such was the life of Samuel Rutherford. Would that something similar could be said of us when he are no longer here.
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