In this work, Rutherford’s friends are called in to gives us a fresh look at the man who has long been held in such high affection by Christian people around the world. Faith Cook first traces how, in the troubled and controversial days in which Rutherford lived, he learned that ‘God has many flowers, but the fairest of them all is heaven, and the flower of all flowers is Christ’. The remaining thirteen chapters provide fascinating stories of some twenty of his correspondents, many notable in their own right. These were days when ‘a man must either sin or suffer’ and most of Rutherford’s friends chose the latter course. Two were martyred, two exiled and all paid a high price for allegiance to the truth.
