Cardoness

Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness) not quite so wise as Solomon.

Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness) 1909

Rutherford had seen that from the first day he arrived in Anwoth, and Cardoness and its difficulties lay heavy upon his heart in his prison in Aberdeen.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

But Rutherford could not roll the care of young Cardoness over upon any other minister's shoulders; and thus it is that we have the long practical and powerful letter from which the text is taken: 'Put off a sin or a piece of a sin every day.'

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

There were pages in his past life that it was the very pains of hell to old Cardoness to read; but he performed the hard task, and thus was brought much nearer salvation than even his old pastor knew.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

The shrinking income of the small estate could ill afford to support two idle and expensive families, but when young Cardoness broke it to his mother that he wished to marry, she and her husband were only too glad to hear it.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

The marriage - day, from which so much was expected, came and passed away; but what it did for young Cardoness may be judged from such expressions in Rutherford's Aberdeen letters as these: 'Be not rough with your wife.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

And among the thousands of children that sang around the throne he told young Cardoness that he saw and heard little Barbara Gordon, whose death had broken every heart in Cardoness Castle.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

It distresses and shocks us to read about 'midnight drinking' in Cardoness Castle, and in the houses round about, after all they had come through, but there it is, and we must not eviscerate Rutherford's outspoken letters.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

After reading the Cardoness correspondence, we do not wonder to find the stout old chieftain heading the hard-fought battles which the people of Anwoth made both against Edinburgh and St. Andrews, when those cities and colleges attempted to take away their minister.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

Rough old Cardoness had a warm place in his heart for Samuel Rutherford.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894