The Cup of Wrath!

The Cup of Wrath! – Bonar, Andrew The Cup of Wrath! Andrew Bonar (1810–1892) “In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of red wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs!” Psalm 75:8 It will help greatly to […]

Meeting as a congregation.

Meeting as a congregation. – Bonar, Andrew “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matt. 18. 20). I believe you will find the origin of public worship in the book of Genesis, that book of beginnings (4. 26). Enos, the son of Seth, […]

Mrs. Mudie

Mrs. Mudie – Bonar, Andrew 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. […]

The Jewish People

The Jewish People – Bonar, Andrew  “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” Romans 1:16       Andrew Bonar had an early interest in the Jews. Being the people of God […]

Rev. Dr. MacDonald, North Leith

Rev. Dr. MacDonald, North Leith – Bonar, Andrew GLASGOW, 9th December 1878. MY DEAR ROBERT, –From Day to Day is a book of most pleasant and profitable reading. It is 365 meditations–as many as Samuel Rutherford’s Letters–as many as Enoch’s years of earthly pilgrimage and walking with God. There is a clearness and pointedness in […]

The Hope of the Lord’s Return.

The Hope of the Lord’s Return.- Bonar, Andrew The Importance of the Doctrine of the Second Advent as a Motive and Help to Holiness.NOTES OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE EDINBURGH CONFERENCE, 1888.It would be very pleasant and instructive to hear brethren relate incidents connected with this blessed hope, and its effect upon the souls […]

Rev. Dr. John J. Bonar his brother, Greenock

Rev. Dr. John J. Bonar his brother, Greenock – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Mrs. Milne on the death of her father

Mrs. Milne on the death of her father – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

The Holy Spirit convincing.

The Holy Spirit convincing.- Bonar, Andrew ‘And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:’ John 16:8NOTES OF AN ADDRESS GIVEN AT THE PERTH CONVENTION, 1883. Shall we not honour and bless and adore the Holy Spirit? Surely it might well be expected that our love, […]

Kept by the power of God.

Kept by the power of God.- Bonar, Andrew 1 Peter 1: 5ARE 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 […]

Rev. Dr. Bannerman, Perth

Rev. Dr. Bannerman, Perth – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Mrs. Manson

Mrs. Manson – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Mrs. James Bonar, his daughter-in-law

Mrs. James Bonar, his daughter-in-law – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Words From Heaven

Words From Heaven-Bonar, Andrew WORDS FROM HEAVEN TO THOSE BURDENED WITH ANXIOUS FOREBODINGS AND CARES       (From The Visitor’s Book of Texts. Chapter 4 from Part 3 ” The Word brought nigh to the sorrowful”) (In a few cases the wording of the Bible text will be found to differ from the Authorised Version. This is […]

The Fear Nots of the Old and New Testament.

The Fear Nots of the Old and New Testament.-Bonar, Andrew [God’s promises are all “Yea and Amen” in Christ Jesus. But let us see that we take them all from the hand of Jesus. Let the Owner of the Vineyard give us the grapes; let us not pick them as they hang over the wall. […]

Jethro.

Jethro.- Bonar, Andrew Exodus 18I. 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. […]

Rev. Andrew Inglis, Dundee

Rev. Andrew Inglis, Dundee – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Winning Christ.

Winning Christ. – Bonar, Andrew ‘..and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.’ Philipp. 3:8For a man to have ‘won Christ,’ in the […]

Mrs. Horatius Bonar, his sister-in-law

Mrs. Horatius Bonar, his sister-in-law – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Isabella, his daughter

Isabella, his daughter – Bonar, Andrew 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, […]

Indwelling sin.

Indwelling sin. – Bonar, Andrew And I John saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellowservant, and of […]

How Faith Receives Christ and Rests on Him

How Faith Receives Christ and Rests on Him – Bonar, Andrew NOTES OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE PERTH CONFERENCE, 1885       It is often best for us not to attempt to define Faith and its actings, but to show how the soul that has been awakened and is seeking a resting-place, may be gently led […]

His son James

His son James – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

His niece in school at Kelso

His niece in school at Kelso – Bonar, Andrew 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. […]

EPAPHRAS

EPAPHRAS – Bonar, Andrew Always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God’ Col. 4:12.Epaphras was a citizen of Colosse. Hence his deep interest in the Colossians. The Lord does not ask His people to give up their patriotism when they turn to Him. […]

Coming to Christ.

Coming to Christ.- Bonar, Andrew The natural man is exceedingly perverse, and Satan knows how to wield this perversity of the heart. We, in our day, are ready to excuse ourselves for slowness to believe in the Lord Jesus by saying, ‘How much easier it would have been, had we seen Him in the flesh, […]

Closing address on Communion Sabbath, January 27, 1889.

Closing address on Communion Sabbath, January 27, 1889.- Bonar, Andrew ‘When He is come, He will tell us all things’ John 4:25You must have noticed some great and memorable sayings in the New Testament which were spoken unwittingly. ‘This man receiveth sinners’ (Luke 15:2); ‘It is expedient that one man should die for the people’ […]

Christ’s Silence, Part 3

Christ’s Silence, Part 3 – Bonar, Andrew  Matthew 11:1-11       JOHN the Baptist lay in prison unnoticed, and we may say uncared for, for nearly a year. How mysterious! No wonder he sent to ask the Master if there was any explanation of this. Art Thou He that should come? Is this like the Messiah?’ Christ’s […]

Christ’s Silence, Part 2

Christ’s Silence, Part 2 – Bonar, Andrew Have I not held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? Isaiah 57:11       IT is, as we would say, an old custom of God’s to keep silence when we would have expected Him to speak. Of old God’s silence was meant to lead men to […]

Christ’s Silence, Part 1

Christ’s Silence, Part 1 – Bonar, Andrew A time to keep silence and a time to speak’ Eccles. 3:7       We can draw a great deal of instruction from Christ’s silence.       ‘Let Christ’s word and silence too       Dwell in thy heart,’       a Moravian hymn says. Silence as to things we would like to know about Christ […]

ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS

ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS – Bonar, Andrew Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.Ephesians 1:3 There are many wonderful things in this epistle. Sometimes we are told to look up to the ‘heavenly places;’ sometimes to look back, past […]

A servant in his congregation

A servant in his congregation – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

A sermon to children.

A sermon to children.- Bonar, Andrew ‘There were also with Him other little ships’ Mark 4: 36 Some of the little things we do in our meetings with you are imitations of Christ’s ways. When you are going away from a meeting we sometimes give you a tract ; so Jesus in sending the people […]

A schoolboy in London

A schoolboy in London – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

A friend in the country

A friend in the country – Bonar, Andrew 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? […]

A friend in Blairgowrie

A friend in Blairgowrie – Bonar, Andrew 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, […]

‘The Value of a Thought’

‘The Value of a Thought’ – Bonar, Andrew The value of a ‘thought’ may be very great. Everybody knows this. It may be the seed of a great harvest. But it is not the thought merely in itself, but the thought carried out and used.It is like what in the mechanical department has been found […]

Winning Christ.

Winning Christ. – Bonar, Andrew ..and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.’ Philipp. 3:8For a man to have ‘won Christ,’ in the […]

What gives assurance.

What gives assurance. – Bonar, Andrew [This was originally a sermon preached at Ferryden, during the awakening in the end of 1859. It was thought to be useful in disentangling the perplexities of some anxious souls; and this gave rise to the request for its publication. (This address was published by Messrs. Chas. Glass and […]

Time With God

Time With God – Bonar, Andrew “The fruit of the Spirit is. . .joy. . .” (Gal. 5:22). Preached with little freedom. Weariness of body is against me; but still more want of much prayer through the previous week. God will not let me preach with power when I am not much with Him. More […]

The Word brought nigh to the sorrowful

The Word brought nigh to the sorrowful – Bonar, Andrew (From The Visitor’s Book of Texts. Chapter 4 from Part 3 ” The Word brought nigh to the sorrowful”)(In a few cases the wording of the Bible text will be found to differ from the Authorised Version. This is how it was printed originally, and […]

The Trial of Faith.

The Trial of Faith. – Bonar, Andrew Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and […]

The Three Ananiases.

The Three Ananiases. – Bonar, Andrew The Acts of the Apostles, Chapters 23 ; 5 ; 9.It is sometimes useful to put in juxtaposition separate facts and characters. The three Crosses—how instructive! the three Marys, the three Centurions. Here we have the three Ananiases. Their name means ‘Jehovah is gracious.’ Their parents thought it a […]

The Scapegoat.

The Scapegoat. – Bonar, Andrew Published in The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading 3 March 1866 (No.618) ” And Aaron shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot […]

The resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Sarepta.

The resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Sarepta. – Bonar, Andrew 1 Kings 17‘To this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.’ (Rom. 14: 9) There never was a resurrection in the world or in the Church of Christ […]

The Pins of the Tabernacle.

The Pins of the Tabernacle. – Bonar, Andrew Exodus 27:19; 38:31; 39:40. These verses teach us a great deal. I. God’s notice of little things.—He takes time to speak about them, and bids Moses write about them. He says as much about the ‘pins’ in these passages as He does about the work of creation. […]

The napkin about Christ’s Head.

The napkin about Christ’s Head. – Bonar, Andrew ‘And the napkin, that was about His head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself ‘ John 20:7Why ‘wrapped together in a place by itself ‘? Because Jesus wished to show that He arose calmly: no haste, no hurry, not […]

The Mercy Seat

The Mercy Seat – Bonar, Andrew “It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul” (Lev. 17: 11).“There I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat” (Exod. 25: 22). READER! Have you ever felt your need of salvation! Have you ever sought it, as one who […]

The Man who lent Christ the Upper Room.

The Man who lent Christ the Upper Room. – Bonar, Andrew Matth. 26: 17-19THE disciples did not go to look for a room till they had consulted with their Lord. Never do anything without asking counsel of your Master. But why did they need to do this? It was Christ’s way to wait till He […]

The Love of the Father.

The Love of the Father. – Bonar, Andrew ‘For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up […]

The Leper drawing forth the Saviour’s Grace.

The Leper drawing forth the Saviour’s Grace. – Bonar, Andrew “And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand and touched him, and saith unto him,I will, be thou […]

The Hope of the Lord’s Return.

The Hope of the Lord’s Return. – Bonar, Andrew The Importance of the Doctrine of the Second Advent as a Motive and Help to Holiness.NOTES OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE EDINBURGH CONFERENCE, 1888.It would be very pleasant and instructive to hear brethren relate incidents connected with this blessed hope, and its effect upon the […]

The Holy Spirit convincing.

The Holy Spirit convincing. – Bonar, Andrew ‘And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:’ John 16:8NOTES OF AN ADDRESS GIVEN AT THE PERTH CONVENTION, 1883. Shall we not honour and bless and adore the Holy Spirit? Surely it might well be expected that our […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Preface

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Preface – Bonar, Andrew IN this new Edition no change of any importance has been made beyond the correction of errata, and extending the texts quoted. The object of the book is to draw more attention to the great subject of connecting at all times the […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 6

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 6 – Bonar, Andrew HOW THIS LOOKING TO THE PERSON AFFECTS OUR VIEWS OF DEATH AND OUR HOPE OF THE LORD’S SECOND COMING.IN proportion as the soul advances in grace, its state coincides with that of the apostle, ‘I am in a strait betwixt two, […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 5

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 5 – Bonar, Andrew HOW LOOKING TO THE PERSON TENDS TO ADVANCE HOLINESS IN THE SOUL.“SANCTIFY them by the truth” was our Lord’s prayer; but it is truth in connection with Himself. For, separate from Him, doctrines “have no living power, but are as waters […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 4

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 4 – Bonar, Andrew HOW LOOKING TO THE PERSON OF CHRIST TENDS TO PROMOTE THE PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING.No one could be supposed to have seen the Alps, if he tells you that all he saw was some rocky ridges of hills which his eye […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 3

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 3 – Bonar, Andrew THE HELP AFFORDED BY CHRIST’S PERSON TO A SOUL SEEKING TO KNOW SIN AND THE APPLICATION OF SALVATION.Many of the early fathers use the word “theology,” in the sense of “A discoursing upon the Divinity of Christ,” and they called the […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 2

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 2 – Bonar, Andrew THE GOSPEL, FROM THE FALL TO THE DAY OF THE APOSTLES, WAS FOUND IN THE PERSON OF THE SAVIOUR. In the New Testament, the name of “Mystery” is often attached to the truths that form the Gospel. The chief part of […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 1

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 1 – Bonar, Andrew STATEMENT OF THE FACT THAT THE PERSON OF CHRISTIS THE ESSENCE OF THE GLAD TIDINGS.From the beginning, the Gospel has come to the awakened sinner with the same consciousness of important news to tell, as that messenger who ran to David, […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Appendix

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Appendix – Bonar, Andrew EXTRACTS FROM OLD AUTHORS.“God would have us pitch our faith upon The Person of His Son, and not barely upon the Promise. And therefore, He has so ordered things in His divine wisdom that the Promises should all hold on Christ, and […]

The Fear Nots of the Old and New Testament.

The Fear Nots of the Old and New Testament.- Bonar, Andrew [God’s promises are all “Yea and Amen” in Christ Jesus. But let us see that we take them all from the hand of Jesus. Let the Owner of the Vineyard give us the grapes; let us not pick them as they hang over the […]

The Dialectic of Life and its Origin

The Dialectic of Life and its Origin – Bonar, Andrew TO some minds, origins are of little interest; facts are facts and let them be faced as such. To others an attempt: at the explanation of the origin of things can alone satisfy the heart and mind. They must not only know what thing does, […]

The City of Refuge.

The City of Refuge. – Bonar, Andrew Appoint for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses; and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood’ Joshua 20:2,3There were six cities of refuge in the land of Israel. These were so situated that any manslayer, when pursued, […]

The Christian’s Secret to a Happy Life – The life defined G

The Christian’s Secret to a Happy Life – The life defined G – Bonar, Andrew In the first chapter I have tried to settle the question regarding the scriptural basis of the experience sometimes called the higher Christian life. It is the only true Christian life which is best described in the words, the “life […]

THE BRETHREN OF OUR LORD

THE BRETHREN OF OUR LORD – Bonar, Andrew ‘For neither did his brethren believe in him.’ John 7:5WE know the names of four of our Lord’s brethren, James, Simon, Joses, Juda (Mark 6:3). There seems to have been a large family. The idea is held by some that these were only relatives, not brethren in […]

The Atoning Blood

The Atoning Blood – Bonar, Andrew “Christ needed the storm on the Lake of Galilee that He might show how His single word could quiet it. He needed a troubled conscience that He might show how His atoning blood could calm and quiet it. And He needed a great and guilty sinner in order to […]

THE ALTAR OF ABRAHAM

THE ALTAR OF ABRAHAM – Bonar, Andrew And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God’ Gen. 21:33In that spot, half desert, but near a cluster of wells full of clear, clean water, Abraham planted a group of trees – a grove of trees. Now […]

Singing before suffering.

Singing before suffering. – Bonar, Andrew ‘When they had sung an hymn’ Matt. 26:30 ‘NEVER man spake like this man,’ and possibly the same might be true of Christ’s singing, ‘never man sang like this man.’ Did angels listen then as did the prisoners to the singing of Paul and Silas at Philippi? What fragrant […]

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – The Latter Days of His Ministry 160

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – The Latter Days of His Ministry 160 – Bonar, Andrew CHAPTER 6In The Latter Days of f His Ministry My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish his work. John 4:34 During the summer of 1842, he was exposed to several attacks of illness, […]

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Youth, and Preparation for the Ministry 1

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Youth, and Preparation for the Ministry 1 – Bonar, Andrew Chapter 1His Youth and Preparation for the Ministry Many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord. Luke 1:14,15 In the midst of the restless activity of such a day as ours, […]

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Mission to Palestine and the Jews 93

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Mission to Palestine and the Jews 93 – Bonar, Andrew CHAPTER 4His Mission to Palestine and the Jews Here am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8 Though engaged night and day with his flock in St. Peter’s, Mr. McCheyne ever cherished a missionary spirit. “This place hardens me for a foreign […]

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Labors in the Vineyard Before Ordination 35

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Labors in the Vineyard Before Ordination 35 – Bonar, Andrew CHAPTER 2His Labors in the Vineyard Before Ordination He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.(Psalm 126:6) While he was still undergoing a student’s usual examinations before the […]

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – First Years of Labor in Dundee 59

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – First Years of Labor in Dundee 59 – Bonar, Andrew CHAPTER 3 First Years of Labor in Dundee Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many […]

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – Days of Revival 129

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – Days of Revival 129 – Bonar, Andrew CHAPTER 5Days of Revival They shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. Isaiah 44:4 His people, who had never ceased to pray for him, welcomed his arrival among them with the greatest joy. He reached Dundee on a […]

Redeeming Time

Redeeming Time – Bonar, Andrew “Pray without ceasing”(1 Thess. 5:17). God has this week been impressing much upon me the way of redeeming time for prayer by learning to pray while walking or going from place to place. Also He has been showing me how to make more direct use of Scripture to my own […]

Ready to Go

Ready to Go – Bonar, Andrew “I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me” (2 Kings 2:9). 0 that his mantle would fall upon me! Evil days are begun. He was so reverent toward God, so full also in desire toward Him, whether in family prayer or at common ordinary […]

Psalm 77

Psalm 77 – Bonar, Andrew PSALM LXXVII (77)To the chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice,Even unto God with my voice ; and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord:My sore ran in the night, and ceased not : […]

Psalm 13

Psalm 13 – Bonar, Andrew PSALM XIII (13)To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever?How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?How long shall I take counsel in my soul, – having sorrow in my heart daily?How long shall mine enemy be exalted over […]

Praise

Praise – Bonar, Andrew Praise ye the LORD : for it is good to sing praises unto our God ; for it is pleasant ; and praise is comely. Psalm 147:1 There are many things that might be said about praise ; but you remember the Psalms have given us three statements that may guide […]

Pentecost.

Pentecost. – Bonar, Andrew The subject is the outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, the fiftieth day after the Passover. It might be interesting and profitable at another time to take up the question, ‘In what did the work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament saints differ from His work […]

Paul’s fifteen days’ visit to Peter.

Paul’s fifteen days’ visit to Peter. – Bonar, Andrew ‘Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.’Galatians 1:18For three years after his conversion Paul was out of sight in Arabia. The Lord sent him there, as He sent Moses to Midian, to be trained for […]

Palestine for the Young – The Tribe of Levi

Palestine for the Young – The Tribe of Levi – Bonar, Andrew The prophecy of Jacob regarding Levi was remarkably fulfilled : “I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel” (Gen. 49. 7). You have to search for their dwellings in every corner of the land. They were scattered and divided over […]

Onesiphorus: The New Testament Ebedmelech.

Onesiphorus: The New Testament Ebedmelech. – Bonar, Andrew Paul had a heart that felt everything keenly. It is from his pen that ‘Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep’ comes. It is he who wrote in Phil.4: 8: ‘the bowels of Christ Jesus.’ Many times he speaks in this way, […]

On Holy Ground

On Holy Ground – Bonar, Andrew “You can remember when you thought you were to get into heaven in spite of God’s holiness. Now you know that it is because of His Holiness that you get there, for none but the all-holy God would have sent His Son to die for us, or would have […]

Nicodemus.

Nicodemus. – Bonar, Andrew We have three scenes given us in the life of Nicodemus. The first is his interview with Christ. How he was awakened we do not know. It is of no consequence when and how it is done, if it is the beginning of the great change. You say, ‘I cannot go […]

Mr. James Mudie, Montrose (3)

Mr. James Mudie, Montrose (3) – Bonar, Andrew COLLACE, May 31st, 1844. MY DEAR BROTHER,—. . . I did not observe that there were five Sabbaths in June. I suppose therefore I that our Communion will be the last day of June. Now this would leave me the interval of one Sabbath to come to […]

Meeting as a congregation.

Meeting as a congregation. – Bonar, Andrew “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matt. 18. 20). I believe you will find the origin of public worship in the book of Genesis, that book of beginnings (4. 26). Enos, the son of Seth, […]

Let’s Not Trouble Ourselves With “What Ifs?”

Let’s Not Trouble Ourselves With “What Ifs?” – Bonar, Andrew “Their past experience was not of great use to the Israelites in their journeyings. They needed always to consult God. If you think you will get through anything because you got through before, you will certainly fail. You must ask fresh counsel of God and […]

Letters: Written for one in spiritual despair (1)

Letters: Written for one in spiritual despair (1) – Bonar, Andrew GLASGOW, 9th Oct. 1872.MY DEAR MISS M.,—. . . I read with great interest your own letter about your friend who seems so near despair, and this morning your sister has given me more particulars from your friend’s letter to you. It is a […]

Letters: The Misses Leiper, Crossford (1)

Letters: The Misses Leiper, Crossford (1) – Bonar, Andrew GLASGOW, 17th Feb.1886.DEAR SISTERS ‘in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ’ !Do you not hear the Master saying, as He points downwards to our earth and to your dwelling, ‘Our friend Lazarus sleepeth! but I am going to awaken him out of […]

Letters: The Misses Church, Glasgow (1)

Letters: The Misses Church, Glasgow (1) -Bonar, Andrew GLASGOW, 16th Jan. 1884. MY DEAR SISTERS,—An old minister, whom you have had some knowledge of, wrote to his friend a salutation that I offer to you— ‘Grace, mercy, and peace shall be with you.’ He did not say, ‘May grace, mercy, and peace be with you,’ […]

Letters: Rev. William Armstrong, Rutherglen (2)

Letters: Rev. William Armstrong, Rutherglen (2) – Bonar, Andrew 20 INDIA STREET, 1st Decr.1885. MY DEAR MR. ARMSTRONG,— It was very kind in Mrs. Armstrong to write to me, letting me know that you are making some progress. I wonder what your meditations have been. Did you ever see the little book I enclose (Thoughts […]

Letters: Rev. Malcolm White, Blairgowrie (1)

Letters: Rev. Malcolm White, Blairgowrie (1) – Bonar, Andrew STRACHUR, 28th August 1879.MY DEAR MR. WHITE,—One word to assure Mrs. White and yourself that you are not forgotten in your sorrow. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.’ When the Lord Jesus returns, He will bring with Him the little ones who fell asleep […]

Letters: Rev. John Purves, Jedburgh (1)

Letters: Rev. John Purves, Jedburgh (1) – Bonar, Andrew DURING THE VISIT OF THE DEPUTATION TO THE HOLY LAND JERUSALEM, June 17th, 1839. MY DEAR JOHN,—I scarcely know how to write when sending you a letter from Jerusalem and Mount Zion. Our present residence is actually on the hill of Zion, and our windows look […]

Letters: Rev. James Manson (4)

Letters: Rev. James Manson (4) – Bonar, Andrew COLLACE, August 30, 1844. MY DEAR FRIEND,—I am longing to hear of you. Are you better? and where are you? It is a sore trial to be laid aside, but it must be very sanctifying. It seems to be peculiarly a minister’s furnace. Remember the Baptist. He […]

Letters: Rev. J.H.Wilson Edinburgh (3)

Letters: Rev. J.H.Wilson Edinburgh (3) – Bonar, Andrew GLASGOW, 14th Jan. 1863.MY DEAR MR. WILSON,—I have been hearing tidings of your state of health that are not very pleasant.Will you, if convenient, drop me a few lines letting me know? For you know Paul, had he been in our day, would have sent Tychicus ‘to […]

Letters: Rev. J.H.Thomson, Hightae (1)

Letters: Rev. J.H.Thomson, Hightae (1) – Bonar, Andrew CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, Augst. 16th, 1884.MAN OF ZEBULON, who ‘handlest the pen of the writer,’ and follower of Ezra and his band, who not only read in the law of God distinctly, but who also ‘gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading,’ peace […]

Letters: Rev. Horatius Bonar his brother (2)

Letters: Rev. Horatius Bonar his brother (2) – Bonar, Andrew DURNESS, SUTHERLANDSHIRE, 11th August 1869.MY DEAR HORACE,—I am often thinking on you and Jane, and the past ways of our God. Even so, Father.’ May we not apply Christ’s words— ‘Thou takest away the gift which we would have kept, and givest other gifts. Even […]

Letters: Rev. Duncan Stewart, Hawick (1)

Letters: Rev. Duncan Stewart, Hawick (1) – Bonar, Andrew GLASGOW, I3th Feb. 1886.MY DEAR MR. STEWART,—Your ‘Lectures’ (On the Covenanters, which Mr. Stewart had been delivering in Hawick.) have reached me this week and last—both of them very fresh and most interesting. It has been to you a labour of love, and of ‘brotherly love;’ […]

Letters: Rev. Dr. MacDonald, North Leith (3)

Letters: Rev. Dr. MacDonald, North Leith (3) – Bonar, Andrew GLASGOW, 9th December 1878.MY DEAR ROBERT,—From Day to Day is a book of most pleasant and profitable reading. It is 365 meditations—as many as Samuel Rutherford’s Letters—as many as Enoch’s years of earthly pilgrimage and walking with God. There is a clearness and pointedness in […]

Letters: Rev. Dr. John J. Bonar his brother, Greenock (1) –

Letters: Rev. Dr. John J. Bonar his brother, Greenock (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Rev. Dr. Bannerman, Perth (1)

Letters: Rev. Dr. Bannerman, Perth (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Rev. Dr. Andrew, Glasgow (1)

Letters: Rev. Dr. Andrew, Glasgow (1) – Bonar, Andrew 20 INDIA STREET, GLASGOW, 23rd January 1892MY 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 […]

Letters: Rev. D.M.M’Intyre, College Park, on his acceptance of the call to Finnieston (1)

Letters: Rev. D.M.M’Intyre, College Park, on his acceptance of the call to Finnieston (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Rev. Andrew Inglis, Dundee (2)

Letters: Rev. Andrew Inglis, Dundee (2) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Rev. A.N.Somerville Glasgow (8)

Letters: Rev. A.N.Somerville Glasgow (8) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. William Bonar his sister-in-law (2)

Letters: Mrs. William Bonar his sister-in-law (2) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. Thom, Aberfeldy (2)

Letters: Mrs. Thom, Aberfeldy (2) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. R. M. Ballantyne, his niece, Harrow-on-the-Hill (1)

Letters: Mrs. R. M. Ballantyne, his niece, Harrow-on-the-Hill (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. Mudie (1)

Letters: Mrs. Mudie (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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. […]

Letters: Mrs. Milne on the death of her father (1)

Letters: Mrs. Milne on the death of her father (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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, […]

Letters: Mrs. Manson (1)

Letters: Mrs. Manson (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. James Bonar, his daughter-in-law (1)

Letters: Mrs. James Bonar, his daughter-in-law (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. Horatius Bonar his sister-in-law (2)

Letters: Mrs. Horatius Bonar his sister-in-law (2) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. Grant his sister-in-law, on the death of her husband, the Rev. Wm. Grant of Cavers (1)

Letters: Mrs. Grant his sister-in-law, on the death of her husband, the Rev. Wm. Grant of Cavers (1) -Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mr. William Dickson Edinburgh (5)

Letters: Mr. William Dickson Edinburgh (5) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mr. William Bonar his brother (1)

Letters: Mr. William Bonar his brother (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mr. Wikinson at the Mildmay Mission to the Jews (1)

Letters: Mr. Wikinson at the Mildmay Mission to the Jews (1) – Bonar, Andrew GLASGOW, November 8th 1881MY 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 […]

Letters: Mr. Robert Young Edinburgh (1)

Letters: Mr. Robert Young Edinburgh (1) – Bonar, Andrew AFTER MRS. BONAR’S DEATHGLASGOW, 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 […]

Letters: Mr. Robert Noble, Clapham (1)

Letters: Mr. Robert Noble, Clapham (1) – Bonar, Andrew GLASGOW, 14th Dec. 1891.MY DEAR MR. NOBLE,—You sympathise with us, I know, though far off; and so I write to tell you of another stroke on our congregation. Last week George Jackson, (an elder in Finniston Church for many years) who to the last was always […]

Letters: Mr. Lewis Grant, his nephew, Kirkcaldy (1)

Letters: Mr. Lewis Grant, his nephew, Kirkcaldy (1)- Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Mr. David Dickson, his brother-in-law (1)

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 […]

Letters: Mr. D. Maclagan (Gives some interesting details about his time as a missionary with R.S. Candlish)(1)

Letters: Mr. D. Maclagan (Gives some interesting details about his time as a missionary with R.S. Candlish)(1) – Bonar, Andrew 5th March, 1874“It was November 1836 that I came from Jedburgh (where I had been for eighteen months partly as a friend and partly as a missionary with Mr. Purves) to be missionary in St. […]

Letters: Mr. and Mrs. James Bonar, Hampstead (1)

Letters: Mr. and Mrs. James Bonar, Hampstead (1) – Bonar, Andrew » 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 […]

Letters: Miss Macphun, Zenana Mission, Benares, India (1)

Letters: Miss Macphun, Zenana Mission, Benares, India (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Miss Clarke, Edinburgh (1)

Letters: Miss Clarke, Edinburgh (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Miss Anne Whittit (2)

Letters: Miss Anne Whittit (2) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: Isabella, his daughter (1)

Letters: Isabella, his daughter (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: His son James (2)

Letters: His son James (2) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: His niece in school at Kelso (1)

Letters: His niece in school at Kelso (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: A servant in his congregation (1)

Letters: A servant in his congregation (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: A schoolboy in London (1)

Letters: A schoolboy in London (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: A friend in the country (1)

Letters: A friend in the country (1) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letters: A friend in Blairgowrie (2)

Letters: A friend in Blairgowrie (2) – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Letter: CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, 18th August 1882.

Letter: CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, 18th August 1882. – Bonar, Andrew 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 […]

Leaning on the Beloved.

Leaning on the Beloved. – Bonar, Andrew ‘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 […]

Kept by the power of God.

Kept by the power of God. – Bonar, Andrew 1 Peter 1: 5ARE 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 […]

Jonathan and his Armour-bearer.

Jonathan and his Armour-bearer. – Bonar, Andrew 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, […]

Jethro.

Jethro. – Bonar, Andrew Exodus 18I. 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 […]

Indwelling sin.

Indwelling sin. – Bonar, Andrew And I John saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellowservant, and of […]

How faith receives Christ.

How faith receives Christ. – Bonar, Andrew It is often best for us not to attempt to define Faith and its actings, but to show how the soul that has been awakened and is seeking a resting-place, may be gently led by the Spirit to meet Christ, in whom it finds all it desires, without […]

First-fruits of the Resurrection.

First-fruits of the Resurrection. – Bonar, Andrew ‘The graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose.’ Matt. 27: 50-53This is a passage about which very little has been written. Commentators seem to pass it by as something very mysterious. But if the Holy Spirit be with us we will find that […]

EPAPHRAS

EPAPHRAS – Bonar, Andrew ‘Always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God’ Col. 4:12.Epaphras was a citizen of Colosse. Hence his deep interest in the Colossians. The Lord does not ask His people to give up their patriotism when they turn to Him. […]

Development of Antichrist – Preface

Development of Antichrist – Preface – Bonar, Andrew The principle of interpreting the prophetic portions of Holy Scripture as literally as the historical is recognized throughout the following pages, and it is upon this ground alone that the writer builds his hope of escaping a charge of presumption in submitting them for consideration, as he […]

Development of Antichrist – Conclusion

Development of Antichrist – Conclusion – Bonar, Andrew There would be no conclusion to draw from all this were it true, as is so frequently insinuated, that prophecy is of no private interpretation as far as our own individual interests are concerned. There may undoubtedly be a risk not alone of neglecting, but also on […]

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 4. His Destruction and Its Consequences

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 4. His Destruction and Its Consequences – Bonar, Andrew In saying so much of Antichrist, it was impossible not to anticipate to a certain extent, what ought in proper order to have fallen under this division of the subject. It was necessary to allude to some of its circumstances in […]

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 3. His Characteristics and Duration

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 3. His Characteristics and Duration – Bonar, Andrew The very name of Antichrist implies a denial of Christ having come in the flesh as well as an assumption of His place and dignity; and so exactly does this description apply, that to deny Christ in any measure or shape is […]

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 2. The Time of His Appearing

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 2. The Time of His Appearing -Bonar, Andrew Reference has been made to the declaration in 2 Thessalonians 2 that the day of Christ should not come until “the apostasy” as well as “the man of sin” had been seen. Also to Matthew 24, where the great tribulation, “such as […]

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 1. The Personality of Antichrist –

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 1. The Personality of Antichrist – Bonar, Andrew Christians are called to tread nowhere with greater circumspection than when dealing with unfulfilled prophecy, and it is owing to want of due caution here that so many a humble inquirer has been left, amidst the confusion that is within and ridicule […]

Coming to Christ.

Coming to Christ. – Bonar, Andrew The natural man is exceedingly perverse, and Satan knows how to wield this perversity of the heart. We, in our day, are ready to excuse ourselves for slowness to believe in the Lord Jesus by saying, ‘How much easier it would have been, had we seen Him in the […]

Closing address on Communion Sabbath, January 27, 1889.

Closing address on Communion Sabbath, January 27, 1889.- Bonar, Andrew ‘When He is come, He will tell us all things’ John 4:25You must have noticed some great and memorable sayings in the New Testament which were spoken unwittingly. ‘This man receiveth sinners’ (Luke 15:2); ‘It is expedient that one man should die for the people’ […]

Christ’s Silence (3).

Christ’s Silence (3).- Bonar, Andrew Matthew 11:1-11 JOHN the Baptist lay in prison unnoticed, and we may say uncared for, for nearly a year. How mysterious! No wonder he sent to ask the Master if there was any explanation of this. Art Thou He that should come? Is this like the Messiah?’ Christ’s answer to […]

Christ’s Silence (2).

Christ’s Silence (2). – Bonar, Andrew ‘Have I not held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? Isaiah 57:11 IT is, as we would say, an old custom of God’s to keep silence when we would have expected Him to speak. Of old God’s silence was meant to lead men to fear. […]

Christ’s Silence (1).

Christ’s Silence (1). – Bonar, Andrew A time to keep silence and a time to speak’ Eccles. 3:7We can draw a great deal of instruction from Christ’s silence. ‘Let Christ’s word and silence too Dwell in thy heart, a Moravian hymn says. Silence as to things we would like to know about Christ is a […]

Bless the Lord, O my soul!

Bless the Lord, O my soul! – Bonar, Andrew Psalm 103: 1-5 IN this psalm we find the Psalmist standing at the golden altar with his harp in his hand, recounting all his mercies. This psalm teaches us adoration. Adoration is not thanksgiving; it is silent wonder. I once saw a striking instance of this […]

Are you living within the veil?

Are you living within the veil? – Bonar, Andrew “When present affliction strips us of all earthly comforts, so that we can adopt Habbakuk’s words; if it makes us look with in the veil and hear Christ saying, ‘Am I not better than all My gifts?’ then affliction is a blessing.How far will the blessing […]

Angel Workers

Angel Workers – Bonar, Andrew What I write is not a vision, nor a dream; it is an allegory of its kind. You will follow me into another region, to a spot where angels are gathered together in quiet, happy converse. They are all ‘ ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall […]

Andrew Bonar quotes

Andrew Bonar quotes – Bonar, Andrew There is a practical error very common among God’s people. All of them profess to believe that the Holy Spirit may convert souls at any age, and that conversion cannot take place too soon; while yet they do not look for the conversion of children with the same lively […]

ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS

ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS – Bonar, Andrew Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.Ephesians 1:3 There are many wonderful things in this epistle. Sometimes we are told to look up to the ‘heavenly places;’ sometimes to look back, past […]

A sermon to children.

A sermon to children. – Bonar, Andrew ‘There were also with Him other little ships’ Mark 4: 36 Some of the little things we do in our meetings with you are imitations of Christ’s ways. When you are going away from a meeting we sometimes give you a tract ; so Jesus in sending the […]

‘The Value of a Thought’-Andrew Bonar 

The Value of a Thought ’- Andrew Bonar The value of a ‘thought’ may be very great. Everybody knows this. It may be the seed of a great harvest. But it is not the thought merely in itself, but the thought carried out and used.It is like what in the mechanical department has been found […]

 Winning Christ-Andrew Bonar 

Winning Christ-Andrew Bonar .and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.’ Philipp. 3:8For a man to have ‘won Christ,‘ in the scriptural sense […]

What gives assurance-Andrew Bonar 

What gives assurance – Andrew Bonar [This was originally a sermon preached at Ferryden, during the awakening in the end of 1859. It was thought to be useful in disentangling the perplexities of some anxious souls; and this gave rise to the request for its publication. (This address was published by Messrs. Chas. Glass and […]

 Time With God-Andrew Bonar 

Time With God-Andrew Bonar “The fruit of the Spirit is. . .joy. . .” (Gal. 5:22). Preached with little freedom. Weariness of body is against me; but still more want of much prayer through the previous week. God will not let me preach with power when I am not much with Him. More than ever […]

The Word brought nigh to the sorrowful-Andrew Bonar 

 The Word brought nigh to the sorrowful – Andrew Bonar (From The Visitor’s Book of Texts. Chapter 4 from Part 3 ” The Word brought nigh to the sorrowful”)(In a few cases the wording of the Bible text will be found to differ from the Authorised Version. This is how it was printed originally, […]

The Trial of Faith-Andrew Bonar 

The Trial of Faith-Andrew Bonar Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at […]

 The Three Ananiases-Andrew Bonar 

The Three Ananiases- A ndrew Bonar The Acts of the Apostles, Chapters 23 ; 5 ; 9.It is sometimes useful to put in juxtaposition separate facts and characters. The three Crosses—how instructive! the three Marys, the three Centurions. Here we have the three Ananiases. Their name means ‘Jehovah is gracious.’ Their parents thought it a […]

The Scapegoat-Andrew Bonar 

The Scapegoat-Andrew Bonar Published in The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading 3 March 1866 (No.618) ” And Aaron shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the […]

The resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Sarepta-Andrew Bonar 

The resurrection of the Son of the Widow of Sarepta-Andrew Bonar 1 Kings 17‘To this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.’ (Rom. 14: 9) There never was a resurrection in the world or in the Church of Christ before this […]

The Pins of the Tabernacle-Andrew Bonar 

The Pins of the Tabernacle-Andrew Bonar Exodus 27:19; 38:31; 39:40. These verses teach us a great deal. I. God’s notice of little things.—He takes time to speak about them, and bids Moses write about them. He says as much about the ‘pins’ in these passages as He does about the work of creation. II. God’s […]

 The napkin about Christ’s Head-Andrew Bonar 

The napkin about Christ’s Head-Andrew Bonar ‘And the napkin, that was about His head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself ‘ John 20:7Why ‘wrapped together in a place by itself ‘? Because Jesus wished to show that He arose calmly: no haste, no hurry, not as if […]

The Mercy Seat-Andrew Bonar 

The Mercy Seat- Andrew Bonar “It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul” (Lev. 17: 11).“There I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat” (Exod. 25: 22). READER! Have you ever felt your need of salvation! Have you ever sought it, as one who must […]

 The Man who lent Christ the Upper Room-Andrew Bonar 

The Man who lent Christ the Upper Room – Andrew Bonar Matth. 26: 17-19,  The disciples did not go to look for a room till they had consulted with their Lord. Never do anything without asking counsel of your Master. But why did they need to do this? It was Christ’s way to wait till […]

 The Love of the Father-Andrew Bonar 

The Love of the Father – Andrew Bonar ‘For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up […]

 The Leper drawing forth the Saviour’s Grace-Andrew Bonar 

The Leper drawing forth the Saviour’s Grace – Andrew Bonar “And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand and touched him, and saith unto him,I will, be thou […]

The Hope of the Lord’s Return-Andrew Bonar 

The Hope of the Lord’s Return – Andrew Bonar The Importance of the Doctrine of the Second Advent as a Motive and Help to Holiness.NOTES OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE EDINBURGH CONFERENCE, 1888.It would be very pleasant and instructive to hear brethren relate incidents connected with this blessed hope, and its effect upon the […]

 The Holy Spirit convincing-Andrew Bonar 

The Holy Spirit convincing – Andrew Bonar And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:’ John 16:8NOTES OF AN ADDRESS GIVEN AT THE PERTH CONVENTION, 1883. Shall we not honour and bless and adore the Holy Spirit? Surely it might well be expected that our […]

 The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Preface – Andrew Bonar 

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Preface – Andrew Bonar IN this new Edition no change of any importance has been made beyond the correction of errata, and extending the texts quoted. The object of the book is to draw more attention to the great subject of connecting at all times the […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 6-Andrew Bonar 

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 6 – Andrew Bonar HOW THIS LOOKING TO THE PERSON AFFECTS OUR VIEWS OF DEATH AND OUR HOPE OF THE LORD’S SECOND COMING.IN proportion as the soul advances in grace, its state coincides with that of the apostle, ‘I am in a strait betwixt two, […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 5-Andrew Bonar 

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 5 – Andrew Bonar HOW LOOKING TO THE PERSON TENDS TO ADVANCE HOLINESS IN THE SOUL.“SANCTIFY them by the truth” was our Lord’s prayer; but it is truth in connection with Himself. For, separate from Him, doctrines “have no living power, but are as waters […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 4-Andrew Bonar 

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 4 – Andrew Bonar HOW LOOKING TO THE PERSON OF CHRIST TENDS TO PROMOTE THE PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING.No one could be supposed to have seen the Alps, if he tells you that all he saw was some rocky ridges of hills which his eye […]

 The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 3-Andrew Bonar 

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 3 – Andrew Bonar THE HELP AFFORDED BY CHRIST’S PERSON TO A SOUL SEEKING TO KNOW SIN AND THE APPLICATION OF SALVATION.Many of the early fathers use the word “theology,” in the sense of “A discoursing upon the Divinity of Christ,” and they called the […]

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 2-Andrew Bonar 

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 2 – Andrew Bonar THE GOSPEL, FROM THE FALL TO THE DAY OF THE APOSTLES, WAS FOUND IN THE PERSON OF THE SAVIOUR. In the New Testament, the name of “Mystery” is often attached to the truths that form the Gospel. The chief part of […]

 The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 1-Andrew Bonar 

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Chapter 1 – Andrew Bonar STATEMENT OF THE FACT THAT THE PERSON OF CHRISTIS THE ESSENCE OF THE GLAD TIDINGS.From the beginning, the Gospel has come to the awakened sinner with the same consciousness of important news to tell, as that messenger who ran to David, […]

 The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Appendix-Andrew Bonar 

The Gospel pointing to the Person of Christ – Appendix-Andrew Bonar EXTRACTS FROM OLD AUTHORS.“God would have us pitch our faith upon The Person of His Son, and not barely upon the Promise. And therefore, He has so ordered things in His divine wisdom that the Promises should all hold on Christ, and be Yea […]

The Fear Nots of the Old and New Testament-Andrew Bonar 

The Fear Nots of the Old and New Testament – Andrew Bonar [God’s promises are all “Yea and Amen” in Christ Jesus. But let us see that we take them all from the hand of Jesus. Let the Owner of the Vineyard give us the grapes; let us not pick them as they hang over […]

The Dialectic of Life and its Origin -Andrew Bonar 

The Dialectic of Life and its Origin -Andrew Bonar TO some minds, origins are of little interest; facts are facts and let them be faced as such. To others an attempt: at the explanation of the origin of things can alone satisfy the heart and mind. They must not only know what thing does, but […]

The City of Refuge-Andrew Bonar

The City of Refuge – Andrew Bonar ‘Appoint for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses; and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood’ Joshua 20:2,3There were six cities of refuge in the land of Israel. These were so situated that any manslayer, when pursued, […]

 The City of Refuge-Andrew Bonar 

The Christian’s Secret to a Happy Life – The life defined G-Andrew Bonar 

The Christian’s Secret to a Happy Life – The life defined G – Andrew Bonar In the first chapter I have tried to settle the question regarding the scriptural basis of the experience sometimes called the higher Christian life. It is the only true Christian life which is best described in the words, the “life […]

 THE BRETHREN OF OUR LORD-Andrew Bonar 

THE BRETHREN OF OUR LORD-Andrew Bonar ‘For neither did his brethren believe in him.’ John 7:5WE know the names of four of our Lord’s brethren, James, Simon, Joses, Juda (Mark 6:3). There seems to have been a large family. The idea is held by some that these were only relatives, not brethren in the strict […]

the Atoning Blood-Andrew Bonar 

the Atoning Blood – Andrew Bonar Christ needed the storm on the Lake of Galilee that He might show how His single word could quiet it. He needed a troubled conscience that He might show how His atoning blood could calm and quiet it. And He needed a great and guilty sinner in order to […]

THE ALTAR OF ABRAHAM-Andrew Bonar 

THE ALTAR OF ABRAHAM – Andrew Bonar ‘And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God’ Gen. 21:33In that spot, half desert, but near a cluster of wells full of clear, clean water, Abraham planted a group of trees – a grove of trees. Now […]

 Singing before suffering-Andrew Bonar 

Singing before suffering-Andrew Bonar ‘When they had sung an hymn’ Matt. 26:30 NEVER man spake like this man,’ and possibly the same might be true of Christ’s singing, ‘never man sang like this man.’ Did angels listen then as did the prisoners to the singing of Paul and Silas at Philippi? What fragrant associations has […]

 Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – The Latter Days of His Ministry 160-Andrew Bonar 

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – The Latter Days of His Ministry 160-Andrew Bonar CHAPTER 6In The Latter Days of f His Ministry My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish his work. John 4:34 During the summer of 1842, he was exposed to several attacks of illness, experienced some […]

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Youth, and Preparation for the Ministry 1-Andrew Bonar 

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Youth, and Preparation for the Ministry 1 – Andrew Bonar Chapter 1His Youth and Preparation for the Ministry Many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord. Luke 1:14,15In the midst of the restless activity of such a day as ours, we […]

 Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Mission to Palestine and the Jews 93-Andrew Bonar 

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Mission to Palestine and the Jews 93 – Andrew Bonar CHAPTER 4His Mission to Palestine and the JewsHere am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8 Though engaged night and day with his flock in St. Peter’s, Mr. McCheyne ever cherished a missionary spirit. “This place hardens me for a foreign land,” […]

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Labors in the Vineyard Before Ordination 35-Andrew Bonar 

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – His Labors in the Vineyard Before Ordination 35-Andrew Bonar CHAPTER 2His Labors in the Vineyard Before Ordination He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.(Psalm 126:6) While he was still undergoing a student’s usual examinations before the Presbytery, in […]

 Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – First Years of Labor in Dundee 59-Andrew Bonar 

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – First Years of Labor in Dundee 59 – Andrew Bonar CHAPTER 3 First Years of Labor in Dundee Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many […]

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – Days of Revival 129-Andrew Bonar 

Robert Murray Mc’Cheyne – Days of Revival 129-Andrew Bonar CHAPTER 5Days of Revival They shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. Isaiah 44:4 His people, who had never ceased to pray for him, welcomed his arrival among them with the greatest joy. He reached Dundee on a Thursday afternoon; […]

 Redeeming Time-Andrew Bonar 

Redeeming Time – Andrew Bonar “Pray without ceasing”(1 Thess. 5:17). God has this week been impressing much upon me the way of redeeming time for prayer by learning to pray while walking or going from place to place. Also He has been showing me how to make more direct use of Scripture to my own […]

 Ready to Go-Andrew Bonar 

Ready to Go – Andrew Bonar “I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me” (2 Kings 2:9). 0 that his mantle would fall upon me! Evil days are begun. He was so reverent toward God, so full also in desire toward Him, whether in family prayer or at common ordinary […]

Psalm 77-Andrew Bonar 

Psalm 77 – Andrew Bonar PSALM LXXVII (77)To the chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice,Even unto God with my voice ; and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord:My sore ran in the night, and ceased not : […]

 Psalm 13-Andrew Bonar 

Psalm 13-Andrew Bonar PSALM XIII (13)To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever?How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?How long shall I take counsel in my soul, – having sorrow in my heart daily?How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?Consider and […]

 Praise-Andrew Bonar 

Praise – Andrew Bonar Praise ye the LORD : for it is good to sing praises unto our God ; for it is pleasant ; and praise is comely. Psalm 147:1 There are many things that might be said about praise ; but you remember the Psalms have given us three statements that may guide […]

 Pentecost-Andrew Bonar 

Pentecost-Andrew Bonar The subject is the outpouring of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, the fiftieth day after the Passover. It might be interesting and profitable at another time to take up the question, ‘In what did the work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament saints differ from His work in the […]

 Paul’s fifteen days’ visit to Peter-Andrew Bonar 

Paul’s fifteen days’ visit to Peter – Andrew Bonar ‘Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.’Galatians 1:18For three years after his conversion Paul was out of sight in Arabia. The Lord sent him there, as He sent Moses to Midian, to be trained for […]

 Palestine for the Young – The Tribe of Levi-Andrew Bonar 

Palestine for the Young – The Tribe of Levi-Andrew Bonar The prophecy of Jacob regarding Levi was remarkably fulfilled : “I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel” (Gen. 49. 7). You have to search for their dwellings in every corner of the land. They were scattered and divided over all Israel; […]

Onesiphorus: The New Testament Ebedmelech-Andrew Bonar 

Onesiphorus: The New Testament Ebedmelech-Andrew Bonar 2 Timothy 1: 16-18 and 4: 19 Paul had a heart that felt everything keenly. It is from his pen that ‘Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep’ comes. It is he who wrote in Phil.4: 8: ‘the bowels of Christ Jesus.’ Many times […]

On Holy Ground-Andrew Bonar 

On Holy Ground – Andrew Bonar You can remember when you thought you were to get into heaven in spite of God’s holiness. Now you know that it is because of His Holiness that you get there, for none but the all-holy God would have sent His Son to die for us, or would have […]

Nicodemus.-Andrew Bonar 

Nicodemus .- Andrew Bonar John 3:1-21 ; 7:50 ; 19:39We have three scenes given us in the life of Nicodemus. The first is his interview with Christ. How he was awakened we do not know. It is of no consequence when and how it is done, if it is the beginning of the great change. […]

 Mr. James Mudie, Montrose (3)-Andrew Bonar

Mr. James Mudie, Montrose (3) – Andrew Bonar COLLACE, May 31st, 1844. MY DEAR BROTHER,—. . . I did not observe that there were five Sabbaths in June. I suppose therefore I that our Communion will be the last day of June. Now this would leave me the interval of one Sabbath to come to […]

Meeting as a congregation.-Andrew Bonar 

Meeting as a congregation.-Andrew Bonar “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matt. 18. 20). I believe you will find the origin of public worship in the book of Genesis, that book of beginnings (4. 26). Enos, the son of Seth, was the […]

 Let’s Not Trouble Ourselves With “What Ifs?” -Andrew Bonar 

Let’s Not Trouble Ourselves With “What Ifs?” -Andrew Bonar Their past experience was not of great use to the Israelites in their journeyings. They needed always to consult God. If you think you will get through anything because you got through before, you will certainly fail. You must ask fresh counsel of God and consult […]

 Letters: Written for one in spiritual despair (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Written for one in spiritual despair (1) – Andrew Bonar GLASGOW, 9th Oct. 1872.MY DEAR MISS M.,—. . . I read with great interest your own letter about your friend who seems so near despair, and this morning your sister has given me more particulars from your friend’s letter to you. It is a […]

 Letters: The Misses Leiper, Crossford (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: The Misses Leiper, Crossford (1) – Andrew Bonar GLASGOW, 17th Feb.1886.DEAR SISTERS ‘in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ’ !Do you not hear the Master saying, as He points downwards to our earth and to your dwelling, ‘Our friend Lazarus sleepeth! but I am going to awaken him out of […]

 Letters: The Misses Church, Glasgow (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: The Misses Church, Glasgow (1) – Andrew Bonar GLASGOW, 16th Jan. 1884. MY DEAR SISTERS, —? You know that the Word is called ‘the Oracles of God,’ and this is just the description of the utterances of God from the Holy of Holies. Read your Bibles, then, with the same reverence as filled the […]

 Letters: Rev. William Armstrong, Rutherglen (2)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. William Armstrong, Rutherglen (2) – Andrew Bonar 20 INDIA STREET, 1st Decr.1885.MY DEAR MR. ARMSTRONG,— It was very kind in Mrs. Armstrong to write to me, letting me know that you are making some progress. I wonder what your meditations have been. Did you ever see the little book I enclose (Thoughts in […]

 Letters: Rev. Malcolm White, Blairgowrie (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. Malcolm White, Blairgowrie (1) – Andrew Bonar STRACHUR, 28th August 1879.MY DEAR MR. WHITE,—One word to assure Mrs. White and yourself that you are not forgotten in your sorrow. ‘The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.’ When the Lord Jesus returns, He will bring with Him the little ones who fell asleep […]

Letters: Rev. John Purves, Jedburgh (1)-Andrew Bonar

Letters: Rev. John Purves, Jedburgh (1)-Andrew Bonar DURING THE VISIT OF THE DEPUTATION TO THE HOLY LAND JERUSALEM, June 17th, 1839. MY DEAR JOHN,—I scarcely know how to write when sending you a letter from Jerusalem and Mount Zion. Our present residence is actually on the hill of Zion, and our windows look directly on […]

 Letters: Rev. John Milne, Perth (13)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. John Milne, Perth (13) – Andrew Bonar KELSO, April 28th, 1846.MY DEAR BROTHER,—Do not forget Monday next. (Day of prayer and fasting) In spite of Satan and the flesh keep it from morning to evening. In spite of the temptation, ‘O this must be done, or ‘that sick person must be seen,’ or […]

 Letters: Rev. James Manson (4)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. James Manson (4) – Andrew Bonar COLLACE, August 30, 1844. MY DEAR FRIEND,—I am longing to hear of you. Are you better? and where are you? It is a sore trial to be laid aside, but it must be very sanctifying. It seems to be peculiarly a minister’s furnace. Remember the Baptist. He […]

 Letters: Rev. J.H.Wilson Edinburgh (3)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. J.H.Wilson Edinburgh (3) – Andrew Bonar GLASGOW, 14th Jan. 1863. MY DEAR MR. WILSON,—? For you know Paul, had he been in our day, would have sent Tychicus ‘to let us know’ his affairs and how he was ‘doing.’ I have often been led to muse on the number of sick labourers mentioned […]

Letters: Rev. J.H.Thomson, Hightae (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. J.H.Thomson, Hightae (1) – Andrew Bonar CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, Augst. 16th, 1884.MAN OF ZEBULON, who ‘handlest the pen of the writer,’ and follower of Ezra and his band, who not only read in the law of God distinctly, but who also ‘gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading,’ peace […]

 Letters: Rev. Horatius Bonar his brother (2)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. Horatius Bonar his brother (2) – Andrew Bonar DURNESS, SUTHERLANDSHIRE, 11th August 1869.MY DEAR HORACE,—I am often thinking on you and Jane, and the past ways of our God. Even so, Father.’ May we not apply Christ’s words— ‘Thou takest away the gift which we would have kept, and givest other gifts. Even […]

 Letters: Rev. Duncan Stewart, Hawick (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. Duncan Stewart, Hawick (1) -Andrew Bonar GLASGOW, I3th Feb. 1886.MY DEAR MR. STEWART,—;’ for these true witnesses for Christ’s Crown and Covenant, though sleeping in the dust for a time, still live, and are ready to meet us who love their Lord on the Day of His appearing. They will be among those […]

 Letters: Rev. Dr. MacDonald, North Leith (3)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. Dr. MacDonald, North Leith (3) -Andrew Bonar GLASGOW, 9th December 1878. MY DEAR ROBERT,—From Day to Day is a book of most pleasant and profitable reading. It is 365 meditations—as many as Samuel Rutherford’s Letters—as many as Enoch’s years of earthly pilgrimage and walking with God. There is a clearness and pointedness in […]

Andrew Bonar : Letters: Rev. Dr. John J. Bonar his brother, Greenock (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Andrew Bonar : Letters: Rev. Dr. John J. Bonar his brother, Greenock (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Rev. Dr. Bannerman, Perth (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. Dr. Bannerman, Perth (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Rev. Dr. Andrew, Glasgow (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. Dr. Andrew, Glasgow (1) – Andrew Bonar 20 INDIA STREET, GLASGOW, 23rd January 1892MY 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 […]

 Letters: Rev. Dr. Andrew, Glasgow (1)-Andrew Bonar 

 Letters: Rev. D.M.M’Intyre, College Park, on his acceptance of the call to Finnieston (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. D.M.M’Intyre, College Park, on his acceptance of the call to Finnieston (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Rev. Andrew Inglis, Dundee (2)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. Andrew Inglis, Dundee (2 ) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Rev. A.N.Somerville Glasgow (8)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Rev. A.N.Somerville Glasgow (8) – Andrew Bonar Monday, Dec. 11th, 1837.MY DEAR ALIC,—? 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 first time to go […]

 Letters: Mrs. William Bonar his sister-in-law (2)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mrs. William Bonar his sister-in-law (2) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. Thom, Aberfeldy (2)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mrs. Thom, Aberfeldy (2) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. Thom, Aberfeldy (2)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mrs. Thom, Aberfeldy (2) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. R. M. Ballantyne, his niece, Harrow-on-the-Hill (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mrs. R. M. Ballantyne, his niece, Harrow-on-the-Hill (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Mrs. Mudie (1)-Andrew Bonar

Letters: Mrs. Mudie (1) – Andrew Bonar 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. […]

 Letters: Mrs. Milne on the death of her father (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mrs. Milne on the death of her father (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Mrs. Manson (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mrs. Manson (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

Letters: Mrs. James Bonar, his daughter-in-law (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mrs. James Bonar, his daughter-in-law (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Mrs. Horatius Bonar his sister-in-law (2)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mrs. Horatius Bonar his sister-in-law (2) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Mrs. Grant his sister-in-law, on the death of her husband, the Rev. Wm. Grant of Cavers (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mrs. Grant his sister-in-law, on the death of her husband, the Rev. Wm. Grant of Cavers (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

Letters: Mr. William Dickson Edinburgh (5)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mr. William Dickson Edinburgh (5)-Andrew Bonar COLLACE, Oct. 6th, 1846.MY DEAR FRIEND, —: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 left, for she says, ‘I am afflicted, left destitute, by One […]

 Letters: Mr. William Bonar his brother (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mr. William Bonar his brother (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

Letters: Mr. Wikinson at the Mildmay Mission to the Jews (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mr. Wikinson at the Mildmay Mission to the Jews (1)-Andrew Bonar GLASGOW, November 8th 1881MY 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 […]

 Letters: Mr. Robert Young Edinburgh (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mr. Robert Young Edinburgh (1) – Andrew Bonar 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. . . […]

Letters: Mr. Robert Noble, Clapham (1)-Andrew Bonar

Letters: Mr. Robert Noble, Clapham (1) – Andrew Bonar GLASGOW, 14th Dec. 1891.MY DEAR MR. NOBLE, —(an elder in Finniston Church for many years) who to the last was always with us in spirit, if not in presence, was laid in the grave; but we did not think that another bereavement was near. William Ralston […]

Letters: Mr. Lewis Grant, his nephew, Kirkcaldy (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mr. Lewis Grant, his nephew, Kirkcaldy (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Mr. David Dickson, his brother-in-law (1)-Andrew Bonar

Letters: Mr. David Dickson, his brother-in-law (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

Letters: Mr. D. Maclagan (Gives some interesting details about his time as a missionary with R.S. Candlish)(1)- Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mr. D. Maclagan (Gives some interesting details about his time as a missionary with R.S. Candlish)(1) – Andrew Bonar 5th March, 1874“It was November 1836 that I came from Jedburgh (where I had been for eighteen months partly as a friend and partly as a missionary with Mr. Purves) to be missionary in St. […]

Letters: Mr. and Mrs. James Bonar, Hampstead (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Mr. and Mrs. James Bonar, Hampstead (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Miss Macphun, Zenana Mission, Benares, India (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Miss Macphun, Zenana Mission, Benares, India (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Miss Clarke, Edinburgh (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Miss Clarke, Edinburgh (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Miss Anne Whittit (2)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Miss Anne Whittit (2) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: Isabella, his daughter (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: Isabella, his daughter (1)-Andrew Bonar 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 […]

Letters: His son James (2)-Andrew Bonar

Letters: His son James (2) – Andrew Bonar GLASGOW, 14th Feby. 1873.MY DEAR JAMES,—(which is not always free from obscurity), I found these lines that seemed to me to describe well the first indistinct discovery of Christ’s grace to a soul:   ‘Call to remembrance, reader, if thou e’erHast on a mountain-top been ta’en by […]

 Letters: His niece in school at Kelso (1)-Andrew Bonar

Letters: His niece in school at Kelso (1) – Andrew Bonar 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. […]

Letters: A servant in his congregation (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: A servant in his congregation (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: A schoolboy in London (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: A schoolboy in London (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Letters: A friend in the country (1)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: A friend in the country (1) – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

Letters: A friend in Blairgowrie (2)-Andrew Bonar 

Letters: A friend in Blairgowrie (2) – Andrew Bonar 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, […]

 Letter: CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, 18th August 1882-Andrew Bonar 

Letter: CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, 18th August 1882 – Andrew Bonar 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 […]

 Leaning on the Beloved-Andrew Bonar 

Leaning on the Beloved – Andrew Bonar ‘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 […]

Kept by the power of God-Andrew Bonar

Kept by the power of God – Andrew Bonar 1 Peter 1: 5ARE 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 […]

Jonathan and his Armour-bearer-Andrew Bonar 

Jonathan and his Armour-bearer – Andrew Bonar 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, […]

Jethro-Andrew Bonar 

Jethro – Andrew Bonar Exodus 18I. 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 […]

 Indwelling sin-Andrew Bonar

Indwelling sin – Andrew Bonar And I John saw these things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not : for I am thy fellowservant, and of […]

 How faith receives Christ-Andrew Bonar 

How faith receives Christ – Andrew Bonar It is often best for us not to attempt to define Faith and its actings, but to show how the soul that has been awakened and is seeking a resting-place, may be gently led by the Spirit to meet Christ, in whom it finds all it desires, without […]

First-fruits of the Resurrection-Andrew Bonar 

First-fruits of the Resurrection – Andrew Bonar ‘The graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose.’Matt. 27: 50-53This is a passage about which very little has been written. Commentators seem to pass it by as something very mysterious. But if the Holy Spirit be with us we will find that there […]

 EPAPHRAS-Andrew Bonar 

EPAPHRAS – Andrew Bonar ‘Always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God’ Col. 4:12.Epaphras was a citizen of Colosse. Hence his deep interest in the Colossians. The Lord does not ask His people to give up their patriotism when they turn to Him. […]

 Development of Antichrist – Preface-Andrew Bonar

Development of Antichrist – Preface – Andrew Bonar The principle of interpreting the prophetic portions of Holy Scripture as literally as the historical is recognized throughout the following pages, and it is upon this ground alone that the writer builds his hope of escaping a charge of presumption in submitting them for consideration, as he […]

Development of Antichrist – Conclusion-Andrew Bonar 

Development of Antichrist – Conclusion-Andrew Bonar There would be no conclusion to draw from all this were it true, as is so frequently insinuated, that prophecy is of no private interpretation as far as our own individual interests are concerned. There may undoubtedly be a risk not alone of neglecting, but also on the other […]

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 4. His Destruction and Its Consequences-Andrew Bonar 

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 4. His Destruction and Its Consequences – Andrew Bonar In saying so much of Antichrist, it was impossible not to anticipate to a certain extent, what ought in proper order to have fallen under this division of the subject. It was necessary to allude to some of its circumstances in […]

Andrew Bonar : Development of Antichrist – Chapter 3. His Characteristics and Duration-Andrew Bonar 

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 3. His Characteristics and Duration-Andrew Bonar The very name of Antichrist implies a denial of Christ having come in the flesh as well as an assumption of His place and dignity; and so exactly does this description apply, that to deny Christ in any measure or shape is held to […]

 Development of Antichrist – Chapter 2. The Time of His Appearing-Andrew Bonar 

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 2. The Time of His Appearing-Andrew Bonar A changed attitude Reference has been made to the declaration in 2 Thessalonians 2 that the day of Christ should not come until “the apostasy” as well as “the man of sin” had been seen. Also to Matthew 24, where the great tribulation, […]

 Development of Antichrist – Chapter 1. The Personality of Antichrist-Andrew Bonar 

Development of Antichrist – Chapter 1. The Personality of Antichrist-Andrew Bonar  Christians are called to tread nowhere with greater circumspection than when dealing with unfulfilled prophecy, and it is owing to want of due caution here that so many a humble inquirer has been left, amidst the confusion that is within and ridicule without […]

 Coming to Christ -Andrew Bonar

Coming to Christ -Andrew Bonar The natural man is exceedingly perverse, and Satan knows how to wield this perversity of the heart. We, in our day, are ready to excuse ourselves for slowness to believe in the Lord Jesus by saying, ‘How much easier it would have been, had we seen Him in the flesh, […]

 Closing address on Communion Sabbath, January 27, 1889-Andrew Bonar 

Closing address on Communion Sabbath, January 27, 1889-Andrew Bonar ‘When He is come, He will tell us all things’John 4:25You must have noticed some great and memorable sayings in the New Testament which were spoken unwittingly.This man receiveth sinners‘ (Luke 15:2); ‘It is expedient that one man should die for the people’ (John 11:50); ‘He […]

Christ’s Silence (3)-Andrew Bonar

Christ’s Silence (3 ) – Andrew Bonar Matthew 11:1-11 , JOHN the Baptist lay in prison unnoticed, and we may say uncared for, for nearly a year. How mysterious! No wonder he sent to ask the Master if there was any explanation of this. Art Thou He that should come? Is this like the Messiah?’ […]

Christ’s Silence (2)-Andrew Bonar

Christ’s Silence (2) – Andrew Bonar ‘Have I not held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? Isaiah 57:11 IT is, as we would say, an old custom of God’s to keep silence when we would have expected Him to speak. Of old God’s silence was meant to lead men to fear. […]

Christ’s Silence (1)-Andrew Bonar :

Christ’s Silence (1) – Andrew Bonar : ‘A time to keep silence and a time to speak’ Eccles. 3:7We can draw a great deal of instruction from Christ’s silence. Let Christ’s word and silence too Dwell in thy heart, A Moravian hymn says. Silence as to things we would like to know about Christ is […]

 Bless the Lord, O my soul! -Andrew Bonar 

Bless the Lord, O my soul! -Andrew Bonar Psalm 103: 1-5. In this psalm we find the Psalmist standing at the golden altar with his harp in his hand, recounting all his mercies. This psalm teaches us adoration. Adoration is not thanksgiving; it is silent wonder. I once saw a striking instance of this in […]

 Are you living within the veil? -Andrew Bonar 

Are you living within the veil? -Andrew Bonar When present affliction strips us of all earthly comforts, so that we can adopt Habbakuk’s words; if it makes us look with in the veil and hear Christ saying, ‘Am I not better than all My gifts?’ then affliction is a blessing.How far will the blessing go?It […]

 Angel Workers-Andrew Bonar : 

Angel Workers-Andrew Bonar : What I write is not a vision, nor a dream; it is an allegory of its kind. You will follow me into another region, to a spot where angels are gathered together in quiet, happy converse. They are all ‘ ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be […]

Andrew Bonar quotes-Andrew Bonar 

Andrew Bonar quotes-Andrew Bonar There is a practical error very common among God’s people. All of them profess to believe that the Holy Spirit may convert souls at any age, and that conversion cannot take place too soon; while yet they do not look for the conversion of children with the same lively faith that […]

ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS-Andrew Bonar

ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS – Andrew Bonar Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.Ephesians 1:3There are many wonderful things in this epistle. Sometimes we are told to look up to the ‘heavenly places;’ sometimes to look back, past eternity; and […]

A sermon to children-Andrew Bonar

A sermon to children-Andrew Bonar A changed attitude ‘There were also with Him other little ships’ Mark 4: 36 Some of the little things we do in our meetings with you are imitations of Christ’s ways. When you are going away from a meeting we sometimes give you a tract ; so Jesus in sending […]