Viscount Kenmure' also still echo through the deserted rooms of Rusco,
and after he had gone up from it we find still another Gordon there with
his wife and children and farm-tenants, all warm Covenanters, and all
continuing the Rusco tradition of godliness and virtue. At the same time
Samuel Rutherford was not the man to take it for granted that John Gordon
and his household were all saved and home in heaven because they lived
within such sacred walls and were all church members and warm
Covenanters. He was only the more anxious about the Gordon family
because they had such an ancestry and were all bidding so fair to leave
behind them such a posterity. And thus it is that, from his isle of
Patmos, Samuel Rutherford, like the apostle John to his seven churches,
sends to John Gordon seven things that are specially to be remembered and
laid to heart by the laird of Rusco.

1. Remember, in the first place, my dear brother, those most solemn and
too much forgotten words of our Lord, that there are but few that be
saved. Is that really so? said a liberal-minded listener to our Lord one
day. Is that really so, that there are but few that be saved? Mind your
own business, was our Lord's answer. For there are many lost by making
their own and other men's salvation a matter of dialectic and debate in
the study and in the workshop rather than of silence, and godly fear, and
a holy life. Yes, there are few that be saved, said Samuel Rutherford,
writing again the same year to Farmer Henderson, who occupied the home-
steading of Rusco. Men go to heaven in ones and twos. And that you may
go there, even if it has to be alone, love your enemies and stand to the
truth I taught you. Fear no man, fear God only. Seek Christ every day.
You will find Him alone in the fields of Rusco. Seek a broken heart for
sin, for, otherwise, you may seek Him all your days, but you will never
find Him. And it is not in our New Testament only, and in such books as
Rutherford's _Letters_ only, that we are reminded of the loneliness of