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

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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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