Andrew Bonar

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21.) Jethro.
      Exodus 18 I. Jethro's name. - His personal name was Reuel or Raguel, 'God's Shepherd.' His father must have been a good man, not an idolater. Jethro is his official title, meaning his highness, or 'his excellency.' So this man was at once a priest of God and a man of high standing. He was a godly Gentile in the heart of a very wicked people, the M ...read more

22.) Jonathan and his Armour-bearer.
      1 Samuel 14 I would like to have known the name of the Armour-bearer, but we are not told his name. There are a great many cases of useful persons whose names are hid. Sometimes God puts honour upon them before the church; sometimes He says, 'never mind, you are remembered before the Lord.' We shall hear the Armour-bearer's name read out at the G ...read more

23.) Kept by the power of God.
      1 Peter 1: 5 ARE there any believers here who are afraid that they will some day bring disgrace on their profession ? Let them study these words. 'Kept' is the whole history of a believer's life. It tells us we are very weak, for we need to be kept; but, at the same time, it is a most comforting word, for it tells us we are worth keeping. God coun ...read more

24.) Leaning on the Beloved.
      'Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved ?' Song 8: 5 Leaning on the Beloved is faith - faith which looks out to Christ, as distinguished from feeling, which looks in to self. Faith has regard to what the Lord has done and spoken, both in respect of justification and sanctification. I. There are many cases in ...read more

25.) Letter: CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, 18th August 1882.
      GLASGOW, 9th April 1883. MY DEAR MISS MARY, - Amidst our Communion services yesterday, we did not fail to remember 'a former member of the congregation now lingering in the valley of the shadow of death.' Nor did we forget yourself, watching by the sick while we were in the Sanctuary and at the Table. When reading at the beginning of the service ...read more

26.) Letters: A friend in Blairgowrie (2)
      GLASGOW, 2nd Sept. 1859. DEAR FOLLOWER OF THE LAMB, - He that believeth shall not make haste. Go on quietly resting in the grace of Jesus, for His grace is like a full well which you may draw from and yet no way exhaust. Sit beside this well, and when your soul is sad because of sin in you, drink of this free love again. Sit beside this well, an ...read more

27.) Letters: A friend in the country (1)
      MY DEAR SIR, -I have been too long in replying to your welcome letter. Do you think letters ever passed between the families of Moses and Jethro? Would not Moses or his son Gershom write occasionally to their friends in Midian, and tell of the wilderness journey? Suppose the following letter from Gershom to his grandfather Jethro : 'Peace be to ...read more

28.) Letters: A schoolboy in London (1)
      GLASGOW, 20 INDIA STREET, 21st October 1873. MY DEAR WALTER, -I wonder how your soul prospers? You know we can go on busily with work, and all the more busily, when enjoying the sunshine round us-it makes all so cheerful. It is even thus with us in our souls when realising the presence of God in Christ, when we know that He is 'beholding us with ...read more

29.) Letters: A servant in his congregation (1)
      CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, 6th August 1884. DEAR MARGARET, - I was greatly surprised on receiving your letter. But I suppose you were yourself taken altogether unawares. This comfort, however, you have, sure and full, viz., that E. has only gone to 'the mountain of myrrh and hill of frankincense' for a season, and then shall come back with Christ ...read more

30.) Letters: His niece in school at Kelso (1)
      GLASGOW, 14th December 1874. MY DEAR NIECE EMILY, -It was very good in you to write me so nice a letter. It was well written every way, and makes me think you are already greatly the better of being away from home, breathing your native air. Your great-grandfather never saw Kelso, but I am sure he would have rejoiced to see his descendant, who i ...read more

31.) Letters: His son James (2)
      GLASGOW, 14th Feby. 1873. MY DEAR JAMES, -I have this week been lighting upon some passages in the poets that seemed to me to illustrate, or, rather, to put in a good setting, some truths that are usually stated in Bible language. Reading a little of Carey's 'Dante' (which is not always free from obscurity), I found these lines that seemed to me ...read more

32.) Letters: Isabella, his daughter (1)
      Tuesday, 2nd April 1867. MY DEAR ISABELLA,-. . . This is a week of many interruptions of course, people calling about the Communion, etc. . . . No news here. The stream of life glides on, and we are on its banks. It will take many turns and windings, and then, some day, what a view bursts upon us! Eternity! Dr. Livingstone's death seems to us str ...read more

33.) Letters: Miss Anne Whittit (2)
      GLASGOW, 19th March 1873. DEAR MISS ANNE, -Many thanks for your narrative of the Lord's doings. I was so interested that I just told all over at my prayer-meeting, with a few remarks as I went along. You see the Master has not cast you aside. You are not treated as even Jonathan (holy, humble Jonathan) was treated; for after he had been used to ...read more

34.) Letters: Miss Clarke, Edinburgh (1)
      CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, 18th August 1882. DEAR MISS C., -It was very kind in you to let me know of your sister's illness. She is safe in any case in 'the everlasting arms'. During all her time of trial and pain, the same Holy Spirit who upheld and comforted Christ our Head, even on the Cross and its agonies, will assuredly uphold and comfort on ...read more

35.) Letters: Miss Macphun, Zenana Mission, Benares, India (1)
      GLASGOW, Sept 1st, 1888. MY DEAR MISS MACPHUN,-We are to 'rejoice with those that do rejoice,' as well as to sympathise with those that weep, and so I wish to-day to join with you in praises and thanks. You have been getting much to gladden you, even in that one case you so kindly send me the details of. Yours is the joy of Luke 15:7, something p ...read more

36.) Letters: Mr. and Mrs. James Bonar, Hampstead (1)
      GLASGOW, 29th May 1889. Very many thanks to my son and daughter for their congratulations to me on my birthday! And let me say specially to Mary that the sweet fragrance of both words and flowers is filling my study to-day, and from time to time sending my thoughts away to Hampstead. My prayers also go up for both of you from time to time, perhap ...read more

37.) Letters: Mr. D. Maclagan (Gives some interesting details about his time as a missionary with R.S. Candlish)(1)
      This letter was written to Mr. Maclagan, who was compiling the 'History of St.George's,' in 1874, and is included in this. These excerpts have been taken from 'Memorials of Robert Smith Candlish,' D.D., by William Wilson, D.D. (1880) 5th March, 1874 "It was November 1836 that I came from Jedburgh (where I had been for eighteen months partly ...read more

38.) Letters: Mr. David Dickson, his brother-in-law (1)
      ABERNYTE, Saturday, 3rd August 1867. MY DEAR DAVID,-Your note was another cloud in our sky. I thought you had got better accounts of your dear boy. But if the Lord is indeed threatening to let him continue with you only for a short time, be assured that all the while 'He doth not willingly afflict.' There must be some real and special blessing on ...read more

39.) Letters: Mr. Lewis Grant, his nephew, Kirkcaldy (1)
      GLASGOW, 16th January 1880. MY DEAR LEWIS, -Your note has just come with its burden of heavy tidings. I had written an hour ago to Uncle William, whose letter expressed anxious alarm, but we were not prepared for your announcement, for Willie's note of yesterday was rather encouraging and hopeful. You know, and we all know, that as to your belo ...read more