Andrew Bonar

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41.) Letters: Mr. Robert Young Edinburgh (1)
      AFTER MRS. BONAR'S DEATH GLASGOW, 17th Oct. 1864. MY DEAR MR. YOUNG, -This has been an awfully sudden and solemn stroke. All went well till the afternoon of Friday-nothing indeed to startle us till about six o'clock, and in three hours all was over. . . . During the three hours she was at last only half-conscious-no pain at all-but rapid breat ...read more

42.) Letters: Mr. Wikinson at the Mildmay Mission to the Jews (1)
      GLASGOW, November 8th 1881 MY DEAR MR. WILKINSON, Last night I was present with Mr. Baron at a most interesting meeting of Jews, fifteen in number, and could at once see that the stagnant waters had been stirred by Mr. Baron's visit. I am very thankful that you have been able to make an impression and a good beginning. Yours be the blessing, fro ...read more

43.) Letters: Mr. William Bonar his brother (1)
      COLLACE, Tuesday Morning. (probably written about 1845) MY DEAR WILLIAM, -Here is a neat plan of Jerusalem and the country round, to which I have added a few names. By means of it you may 'walk about Zion and tell the towers thereof,' just as you do at Morningside to the towers of Edinburgh Castle. As you come up from Bethlehem and go in at the ' ...read more

44.) Letters: Mr. William Dickson Edinburgh (5)
      COLLACE, Oct. 6th, 1846. MY DEAR FRIEND, -I have this moment got a refreshing word which being a piece of the Bread of Life I may share with you. It is Ruth 1:21: 'The Almighty hath afflicted me.' The word 'Almighty' is John Bunyan's word 'Shaddai,' the 'All-sufficient One.' Now, see, Naomi feels smitten down by His right hand and upheld by His ...read more

45.) Letters: Mrs. Grant his sister-in-law, on the death of her husband, the Rev. Wm. Grant of Cavers (1)
      ON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, THE REV. WM. GRANT OF CAVERS. COLLACE, Oct. 18th, 1853. MY DEAR JEANIE, - 'The heart knoweth its own bitterness.' You have felt this and have experienced how powerless are words, however well-meant and kind, to relieve such affliction as yours. It is only the Lord that can so speak to the heart as to comfort. Do yo ...read more

46.) Letters: Mrs. Horatius Bonar his sister-in-law (2)
      GLASGOW, 28th Oct. 1864. MY DEAR JANE, -Perhaps you and Horace will excuse me for not writing sooner. It requires something to raise me before I can at present take up the pen. The bewilderment is passing away-all appears too real now, but the loneliness, when will that pass away? I know 'He doth not willingly afflict,' -I have felt that-for, th ...read more

47.) Letters: Mrs. James Bonar, his daughter-in-law (1)
      GLASGOW, 29th Decr. 1884. MY DEAR MARY,- 'Along the river of time we glide, The swiftly flowing resistless tide !' Only think! the year is nearly done, and I have lived seventy-four years in this world, and must be getting near the edge of the wilderness. But the prospect on before is very bright-the sadness is all in looking back. The m ...read more

48.) Letters: Mrs. Manson (1)
      GLASGOW, 17th March 1858. MY DEAR MRS. MANSON,-Thanks for writing me, for in truth I was meditating to write you (i.e. your husband and you=one), but could not make out whereabouts you were at this time. I am glad you are to be near Crieff ; we may see you now and then. But I will be afraid to say much to Mr. Manson about ministerial work, lest t ...read more

49.) Letters: Mrs. Milne on the death of her father (1)
      ON THE DEATH OF HER FATHER. COLLACE, F. C. Manse, Dec. 13th, 1855. MY DEAR MRS. MILNE, -I write because it might be some variety to you in your sojourn at Hastings, something like a visit. We felt for you in your bereavement, for a father is altogether peculiar, so peculiar that you know the Lord represents our nearest access to Himself by say ...read more

50.) Letters: Mrs. Mudie (1)
      GLASGOW, 5th June 1891. MY DEAR MRS. MUDIE, -I was altogether taken by surprise when the news came, 'Mr. Mudie is gone!' -gone to the 'mountain of myrrh and hill of frankincense till the Daybreak.' You do not know how many of Christ's friends here and elsewhere will miss him. All of us felt, when we were privileged to have his visits, that we ha ...read more

51.) Letters: Mrs. R. M. Ballantyne, his niece, Harrow-on-the-Hill (1)
      GLASGOW, 18th April 1890. MY DEAR JANE, -I shall try to do as you request. I have a list of names-sons of godly parents-who are still 'far off,' for whom I pray from time to time that they may be 'brought nigh by the blood of Christ,' led by the Holy Spirit. I shall put -'s name into the number. Pray for me and mine. Tell our great High Pries ...read more

52.) Letters: Mrs. Thom, Aberfeldy (2)
      GLASGOW, March 1st, 1879. DEAR MRS. THOM, -I was glad to hear from you. You seem to thrive on Highland air and Highland services. . . . Pray for us here, seek power from on high to minister and people. I read the other day that two American professors have lately shown how the power that is in the Niagara Fall may be transmitted along a copper c ...read more

53.) Letters: Mrs. William Bonar his sister-in-law (2)
      GIRVAN, 16th Aug. 1862. MY DEAR JESSIE, ... It is so still to-day, the sea like glass, and somehow everything seems to fall in suitably with our present feelings. We have bidden dear Christian our last farewell. It is so strange to try to realise that we shall no longer see her among us, or get one of her letters telling whatever she thought wou ...read more

54.) Letters: Rev. A.N.Somerville Glasgow (8)
      Monday, Dec. 11th, 1837. MY DEAR ALIC, -you now know the beginning of a full ministry in the Gospel of Christ. Has it, then, solemnised you deeply? Have you felt as the young priest- some young son of Aaron-would feel on the day when first the anointing oil that ordained him to his office was poured on his head, and himself permitted for the firs ...read more

55.) Letters: Rev. Andrew Inglis, Dundee (2)
      GLASGOW, 9th July 1891. MY DEAR MR. INGLIS,-I have just been at Greenock, hearing the particulars of my brother John's last hours. He died really like one falling asleep 'in a good old age.' But you, dear brother, are mourning over a beloved daughter called away in her prime, and in the midst of her usefulness. 'His ways are in the sea, and His p ...read more

56.) Letters: Rev. D.M.M'Intyre, College Park, on his acceptance of the call to Finnieston (1)
      GLASGOW, 24th June 1891. MY DEAR MR. M'INTYRE, -I am very very thankful for your decision, and not I only, but very many here. If you knew all, I think you would recognise the Lord's answer to continued prayer in the whole matter. I have passed through the pain of bidding farewell to an attached and prayerful flock, but it may be a step higher i ...read more

57.) Letters: Rev. Dr. Andrew, Glasgow (1)
      20 INDIA STREET, GLASGOW, 23rd January 1892 MY DEAR FELLOW-PILGRIM, -Very many thanks for your Visit to Palestine. It is a capital book for the young, and reading your narrative is just like taking a walk with you and hearing you all the time calling our attention to sights and scenes... . We must have a talk about all these things. I am not at ...read more

58.) Letters: Rev. Dr. Bannerman, Perth (1)
      GLASGOW, 6th Dec. 1892. MY DEAR DR. BANNERMAN,-I return the old letter.(An old letter, which Dr. Bannernman has sent him to read, describing the Deputation appointed to visit the Holy Land in 1839.) It has, you may believe, a peculiar interest to me, and the writer's estimate of the 'wisdom' of the Deputies to the Holy Land is not far from the tr ...read more

59.) Letters: Rev. Dr. John J. Bonar his brother, Greenock (1)
      GLASGOW, 28th Oct. 1864. MY DEAR JOHN, -I cannot tell how helpful you have been to me during this season. No one could have given more sympathy, no one could have done more to cheer than you have done. I look upon it all as an intimation sent from the Elder Brother, through you, of the sympathy of His heart, for He must have put it into yours. Y ...read more