Sermons & Devotionals by Andrew Bonar
Andrew Bonar
Rev. Dr. John J. Bonar his brother, Greenock
GLASGOW, 28th Oct. 1864. MY DEAR JOHN, --I cannot tell how helpful you have been to me during this season. No one could have given more sympathy, no one could have done more to cheer than you have done. I look upon it all as an intimation sent from the Elder Brother, through you, of the sympathy of ... Read More
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The Hope of the Lord's Return
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 of God's ... Read More
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Rev. Dr. MacDonald, North Leith
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 your style of w... Read More
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The Jewish People
"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 who generally had failed to see Jesus as the Messiah, th... Read More
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Mrs. Mudie
GLASGOW, 5th June 1891. MY DEAR MRS. MUDIE, --I was altogether taken by surprise when the news came, 'Mr. Mudie is gone!' --gone to the 'mountain of myrrh and hill of frankincense till the Daybreak.' You do not know how many of Christ's friends here and elsewhere will miss him. All of us felt, when ... Read More
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Meeting as a Congregation
"For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matt. 18. 20). NOTES OF A SERMON DELIVERED IN FINNIESTON FREE CHURCH, GLASGOW, ON SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1889. I believe you will find the origin of public worship in the book of Genesis, that book of b... Read More
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Miss Anne Whittit
GLASGOW, 19th March 1873. DEAR MISS ANNE, --Many thanks for your narrative of the Lord's doings. I was so interested that I just told all over at my prayer-meeting, with a few remarks as I went along. You see the Master has not cast you aside. You are not treated as even Jonathan (holy, humble Jonat... Read More
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Rev. Duncan Stewart, Hawick
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;' for these true witnes... Read More
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The Leper Drawing Forth the Saviour's Grace.
"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 clean. And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy... Read More
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Mrs. R. M. Ballantyne, his niece, Harrow-on-the-Hill
GLASGOW, 18th April 1890. MY DEAR JANE, --I shall try to do as you request. I have a list of names--sons of godly parents--who are still 'far off,' for whom I pray from time to time that they may be 'brought nigh by the blood of Christ,' led by the Holy Spirit. I shall put --'s name into the number.... Read More
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Miss Clarke, Edinburgh
CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, 18th August 1882. DEAR MISS C., --It was very kind in you to let me know of your sister's illness. She is safe in any case in 'the everlasting arms'. During all her time of trial and pain, the same Holy Spirit who upheld and comforted Christ our Head, even on the Cross and i... Read More
Andrew Bonar
The Love of the Father
'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 again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one ... Read More
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Rev. Horatius Bonar, his brother
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 so, Father, for so it seemed good in... Read More
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Rev. J.H. Wilson Edinburgh
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 let us know' his affairs and how he was... Read More
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The Man Who Lent Christ the Upper Room.
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 He was asked, and you know it is His way still. 'I will for this be inquir... Read More
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Miss Macphun, Zenana Mission, Benares, India
GLASGOW, Sept 1st, 1888. MY DEAR MISS MACPHUN,--We are to 'rejoice with those that do rejoice,' as well as to sympathise with those that weep, and so I wish to-day to join with you in praises and thanks. You have been getting much to gladden you, even in that one case you so kindly send me the detai... Read More
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Mrs. Thom, Aberfeldy
GLASGOW, March 1st, 1879. DEAR MRS. THOM, --I was glad to hear from you. You seem to thrive on Highland air and Highland services. . . . Pray for us here, seek power from on high to minister and people. I read the other day that two American professors have lately shown how the power that is in the ... Read More
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Mr. and Mrs. James Bonar, Hampstead
GLASGOW, 29th May 1889. Very many thanks to my son and daughter for their congratulations to me on my birthday! And let me say specially to Mary that the sweet fragrance of both words and flowers is filling my study to-day, and from time to time sending my thoughts away to Hampstead. My prayers also... Read More
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Mrs. William Bonar, his sister-in-law
GIRVAN, 16th Aug. 1862. MY DEAR JESSIE, ... It is so still to-day, the sea like glass, and somehow everything seems to fall in suitably with our present feelings. We have bidden dear Christian our last farewell. It is so strange to try to realise that we shall no longer see her among us, or get one ... Read More
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Rev. J.H.Thomson, Hightae
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 be with you. I suppose you are illustra... Read More
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Andrew Bonar (1810 - 1892)
He was a well-known pastor in Scotland with the Free Church. His brother Horatius was another well-known minister who was contemporary with Robert Murray Mchyene and others in those days. They saw a move of revival in their churches where the Spirit brought many immediate conversations in a short period of time.He is best known for his work on compiling the life of the prophet of Dundee: Robert Murray Mchyene: "Memoir and Remains of Robert Murray McCheyne." One cannot read this volume and feel the sobriety of eternity and the fear of the Lord. He also wrote a wonderful volume on Leviticus.
Andrew Alexander Bonar was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, and the youngest brother of Horatius Bonar.
He studied at Edinburgh; was minister at Collace, Perthshire, 1838 - 1856 (both in the Church of Scotland and the Free Church); and of Finnieston Free Church, Glasgow, 1856 till his death.
He was identified with evangelical and revival movements and adhered to the doctrine of premillennialism. With Robert Murray McCheyne he visited Palestine in 1839 to inquire into the condition of the Jews there. During the visit of Dwight L. Moody to Britain in 1874 and 1875, Moody was warmly welcomed by Bonar, despite the latter receiving considerable criticism from other Calvinist ministers in the Free Church.
Andrew Bonar preached from the whole Bible, the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation. When one of his friends remarked on his originality in finding subjects for preaching, and wondered where he got all his texts, he just lifted up his Bible. He did not ignore any part of it, but explained it all. He did not shy away from any passages that might be seen as unpopular or unpleasant. Even the first chapters of Chronicles became 'God calling the roll of mankind.' He made it come alive as a history of men and women, living in their time, as we live in ours, accountable to God.
Christ and Him crucified was at the centre of all his preaching, in all parts of the Bible. He declared 'the whole counsel of God', and was deeply aware of his responsibility as a man of God. He spent hours every day in prayer and meditation of the Scriptures, and asking for the Holy Spirit to show the truth to him, so that he might pass it on to his flock. He wrote in a letter: "Persevering prayerfulness is harder for the flesh than preaching."
Above all, he was aware that his personal holiness would be of crucial importance to his preaching, as his remark shows: "Sins of teachers are teachers of sins."