Rutström was a pri­vate teach­er in Stock­holm un­til 1745, when he was or­dained and start­ed as a cur­ate in Stork­y­kan, in Stock­holm. Soon he be­came active in the Mo­rav­ian cir­cle. In 1756 he re­ceived a Doc­tor of The­ol­o­gy from the the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Greifs­wald, and two years lat­er he be­came a rec­tor in the Hed­vig Ele­o­no­ra Con­gre­ga­tion in Stock­holm. He was ban­ished from Swe­den dur­ing the po­li­tic­al con­flicts of the time, and lived for a while in Ham­burg, Ger­ma­ny, but in 1770 was al­lowed to re­turn to Swe­den. Then he be­came an in­spector or om­buds­man for the the na­tion­al bank’s mint in Tum­ba. In Au­gust 1772 he was ar­rest­ed and put in pri­son, where he died. His hymns were ga­thered in Si­ons Nya Sång­er (Co­pen­ha­gen, 1778) of­ten called “Rut­ströms Sång­bok.”

Sources

Hymns

1. I Lammets död och smärta
2. Lammets folk och Sions fränder
   • Chosen Seed and Zion’s Children
3. Jag hvilar nu förnöjd, i ro
4. Så haf nu, själ, et muntert sinne

Music

1. Lammets Folk
2. Min Blodige Konung