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Under the shadow of a great affliction we assemble in the house of God this day. The trusted colleague, who is now sole pastor, the attached elders, deacons, and members of the flock are bereaved of one whom they loved, and whose lips fed many. You meet where once you used to greet his presence and drink in his thoughts, sorrowing most of all that you shall see his face no more. The voice, which in measured accents dealt forth its solid teaching, which, trumpet-like, rang through this church in earnest warning, and which, in tones of tenderness, wooed to the ways of peace and pleasantness the old and the young who hung upon his lips, is silent.
Yet I am not to-day to dwell on parting and death. His work was done, his warfare was accomplished; we will not mourn that he has laid his weapons down. The weariness of long pilgrimage weighed heavily upon him; we will not mourn that God has given him rest.
Turn we rather to the life which he lived, and the work which by God’s grace he accomplished.
About the Author:
Born 19th December 1808.
Ordained Minister of the North Parish (Church of Scotland), Kelso, 30th November 1837.
Joined the Free Church of Scotland, 18th May 1843, and continued Minister of that Church at Kelso.
Admitted Minister of the Chalmers Memorial Church, Grange, Edinburgh, 7th June 1866.
Chosen Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, 1883.
Died 31st July 1889.
The son of James Bonar, Solicitor of Excise for Scotland, he was born and educated in Edinburgh. He comes from a long line of ministers who have served a total of 364 years in the Church of Scotland. One of eleven children, his brothers John James and Andrew Alexander were also ministers of the Free Church of Scotland. He had married Jane Catherine Lundie in 1843 and five of their young children died in succession. Towards the end of their lives, one of their surviving daughters was left a widow with five small children and she returned to live with her parents. Bonar's wife, Jane, died in 1876. He is buried in the Canongate Kirkyard.
In 1853 Bonar earned the Doctor of Divinity degree at the University of Aberdeen.
He entered the Ministry of the Church of Scotland. At first he was put in charge of mission work at St. John's parish in Leith and settled at Kelso. He joined the Free Church at the time of the Disruption of 1843, and in 1867 was moved to Edinburgh to take over the Chalmers Memorial Church (named after his teacher at college, Dr. Thomas Chalmers). In 1883, he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.... Show more