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1885 Horatius Bonar (preacher, author, missionary) handwritten letter

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  • Profession: Preacher
  • Signed by: Horatius Bonar
  • Autograph Authentication: Horatius Bonar
  • Signed: Yes

    Description

    1885 Horatius Bonar handwritten letter signed
    preacher, author, and missionary:
    Rev Dr
    Horatius Bonar
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    (19 December 1808 – 31 July 1889), a contemporary and acquaintance of
    Robert Murray M'cheyne
    was a
    Scottish
    churchman and poet. He is principally remembered as a prodigious
    hymnodist
    . Friends knew him as
    Horace Bonar
    .
    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
    He was a voluminous and highly popular author. He also served as the editor for "The Quarterly journal of Prophecy" from 1848 to 1873 and for the "Christian Treasury" from 1859 to 1879. In addition to many books and tracts was a prolific
    hymnodist
    ; many of his
    hymns
    , e.g., "I heard the voice of Jesus say" and "Blessing and Honour and Glory and Power," became known all over the English-speaking world. A selection of these was published as
    Hymns of Faith and Hope
    (3 series). His last volume of poetry was
    My Old Letters
    . Bonar was also author of several biographies of ministers he had known, including "The Life of the Rev.
    John Milne
    of Perth" in 1869, and in 1884 "The Life and Works of the Rev. G. T. Dodds", who was married to Bonar's daughter and who died in 1882 while serving as a missionary in France.
    His hymns number over 140
    Letter in good condition with no apparent wear or issue
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