Sufficient Courage

Memorial to Covenanter James RenwickIn “Fair Sunshine”, an account of the lives of Covenanter martyrs, we are told that, when James Guthrie was on his way to sign the document that defined the Scottish church in the 1600s, he met the hangman. “This moved him somewhat, and, feeling that it was prophetic, it made him walk up and down a little before he went forward.” The document in question was the 1638 National Covenant which re-established the Presbyterian Church in Scotland and asserted its...