Andrew Bonar

{{Short description|Minister of the Free Church of Scotland}} {{Distinguish|Andrew Bonar Law}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = | honorific_prefix = | name = Andrew Bonar | honorific_suffix = | title = | image = Andrew Bonar from Disruption Worthies.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = Andrew Bonar from Disruption Worthies{{sfn|Wylie|1881}} | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | elected =  | term =  | quashed =  | predecessor = | successor = | opposed = | other_post =  | ordination = | ordained_by = | consecration = | consecrated_by = | cardinal = | created_cardinal_by = | rank = | laicized =  | birth_date = {{birth date|1810|5|29|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1892|12|30|1810|5|29|df=y}} | death_place = | baptised =  | buried =  | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | religion = | residence = | parents = | spouse =  | children = | occupation = | profession =  | education = | alma_mater = | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt =  | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date =  | module = | module2 = | other = }} [[File:AndrewBonar.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Dr. Andrew A. Bonar also printed in "The Sea of Galilee Mission of the Free Church of Scotland". Bonar and M'Cheyne travelled with two older ministers, [[Alexander Black (theologian)|Dr. Alexander Black]]{{sfn|Walker|1895}} and Dr. [[Alexander Keith, D.D.|Alexander Keith]]]] '''Andrew Alexander Bonar''' (29 May 1810 in [[Edinburgh]] – 30 December 1892 in [[Glasgow]]) was a minister of the [[Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900)|Free Church of Scotland]], a contemporary and acquaintance of [[Robert Murray M'Cheyne]] and youngest brother of [[Horatius Bonar]].

==Life== [[File:Paterson's Yard, Broughton, Edinburgh c. 1850.jpg|thumb|350px|Paterson's Court, Broughton, Edinburgh c. 1850]] [[File:Andrew Bonar from autobiography.png|thumb|Andrew Bonar from autobiography]] He was born at Paterson's Court in the Broughton district<ref>Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1810</ref> of [[Edinburgh]], the son of [[James Bonar (lawyer)|James Bonar]] (1758–1821), a solicitor with the Excise, and his wife Marjory Pyott Maitland (1753–1834).{{sfn|Keddie|2010}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?grave=163026&scrwidth=|title=James Bonar grave monument details at Canongate Kirk Church burial ground, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland|website=www.gravestonephotos.com}}</ref> He was younger brother to [[James Bonar (philanthropist)|James Bonar]] and [[Horatius Bonar]].

Andrew Bonar studied divinity at the [[University of Edinburgh]] from 1831 and was ordained in 1835. His first position was as minister at [[Collace]] in Perthshire, from 1838 to 1856 (both in the Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland). With [[Robert Murray McCheyne]] he visited Palestine in 1839 to inquire into the condition of the Jews there.{{sfn|Bonar|M'Cheyne|1849}} Bonar joined the Free Church of Scotland in 1843. He served as minister of Finnieston Free Church, [[Glasgow]], from 1856 till his death. In 1874, the University of Edinburgh conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.{{sfn|Bonar|1895}} He was the [[Moderator of the General Assembly|Moderator of the Free Church's General Assembly]] for 1878/79.

Bonar was identified with evangelical and revival movements and adhered to the doctrine of [[premillennialism]]. During the visit of [[Dwight L. Moody]] to [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|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.

He died at his home, 20 India Street in Glasgow, on 30 December 1892.<ref>Glasgow Post Office Directory 1892</ref> He is buried in [[Sighthill Cemetery]] in north Glasgow.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127526191/andrew-alexander-bonar|title=Dr Andrew Alexander Bonar (1810-1892) - Find A...|website=www.findagrave.com}}</ref>

Paterson Court was demolished in 1938. His Glasgow house was demolished in the 1960s.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

==Family==

He married on 4 April 1848, Isabella (died 14 October 1864), youngest daughter of James Dickson, stationer, Edinburgh, and had issue — *Isabella Renwick, born 19 October 1850 (married 26 September 1883, William M. Oatts, Secretary, Y.M.C.A., Glasgow) *James, born 27 September 1852 *Marjory, born 23 December 1854, died 16 January 1918 *Andrew Alexander, born 23 March 1858, died 1 April 1860 *Jane Christian, born 18 June 1861 (married 2 August 1893, David Martin Maclntyre, minister of Finnieston United Free Church) *Mary Elizabeth, born 24 September 1864, died 20 March 1897.{{sfn|Scott|1923}}

==Works== * ''A Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839'' (Edinburgh, 1842) {{ISBN|1-85792-258-1}} * ''Memoir and Remains of Robert Murray McCheyne'' (1845) {{ISBN|0-85151-084-1}} * ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15251 "The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne"] '' * ''Commentary on Leviticus'' (1846) {{ISBN|0-85151-086-8}} * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=9D9VAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Redemption Drawing Nigh, a defence of the premillennial advent]'' (1847) * ''The Gospel Pointing to the Person of Christ'' (1852) * ''The Development of the Antichrist'' (1853) online at [https://web.archive.org/web/20060614195316/http://www.pbministries.org/Eschatology/a_bonar/doa.htm The Development of Antichrist] * ''The Life and Labours of [[Asahel Nettleton]]'', with Bennet Tyler (1854) {{ISBN|0-85151-701-3}} * ''The Visitor's Book of Texts or The Word Brought Near the Sick'' (Edinburgh, 1856) {{ISBN|978-1-84871-071-9}} * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=2qT6woJ7jWkC Christ and his Church in the Book of Psalms]'' (1859) {{ISBN|1-899003-65-7}} *Bonar also edited [[Samuel Rutherford]]'s [http://www.portagepub.com/products/caa/sr-letters.html ''Letters''] (1863); ''Letters of Samuel Rutherford'', Religious Tract Society, London 1891 and wrote many tracts, pamphlets, and minor biographies. *His daughter Marjory edited his ''Diary and Letters'', his ''Reminiscences'', ''Heavenly Springs'' ({{ISBN|0-85151-479-0}}) (Portions selected from his diary, letters, and sermons), and ''Wayside Wells'' (Thoughts for Sabbath evenings, selected from his writings and sermons). *in-print publications include containing the ''Diary and Letters'' and the ''Reminiscences'' is: * {{cite book | author=Bonar, Andrew A | editor=Bonar, Marjory | title=Andrew A Bonar: Diary and Life | location=Edinburgh | publisher=[[Banner of Truth Trust]] | year=1984 | isbn=0-85151-432-4}} while the ''Reminiscences'' are available separately as: * {{cite book | author=Bonar, Marjory | title=Andrew A Bonar: The Good Pastor | location=Belfast | publisher=Ambassador Productions | year=1999 | isbn=1-84030-045-0}}

==References== ===Citations=== {{Reflist}}

===Sources=== *{{cite DNBSupp|last=Bayne|first=Thomas Wilson|author-link=Thomas Wilson Bayne|no-icon=1|wstitle=Bonar, Horatius|page=232}}{{PD-notice}} *{{cite book |last1=Blaikie |first1=William Garden |title=Letter to the Rev. Andrew A. Bonar, D.D. : on a manifesto issued by him on the Dods and Bruce cases |date=1890 |publisher=Macniven and Wallace |location=Edinburgh |url=https://archive.org/details/lettertorevandre00blai|author1-link=William Garden Blaikie}} *{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/narrativeofmissi00bona_0/page/n7/mode/2up |title= Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839 |last1=Bonar |first1=Andrew Alexander |last2=M'Cheyne |first2=Robert Murray|publisher=Whyte |year=1849|location=Edinburgh|author-link2=Robert Murray M'Cheyne}} *{{cite book |last1=Bonar |first1=Andrew A. |editor1-link=Andrew Bonar |title=A commentary on the book of Leviticus : expository and practical : with critical notes |date=1851 |publisher=R. Carter |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/commentaryonbook00bona/page/n5/mode/2up}} *{{cite book |last1=Bonar |first1=Andrew A. |author1-link=Andrew Bonar |title=Presbyterian liturgies : with specimens of forms of prayer for worshipo as used in the continental reformed, & American churches, with the directory for the public worship of God agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and forms of prayer ... |date=1858 |publisher=M. Macphail |location=Edinburgh |url=https://archive.org/details/presbyterianlitu0000bona/page/n5/mode/2up}} *{{cite book |last1=Bonar |first1=Andrew A. |title=Christ and His Church in the Book of Psalms |date=1859 |publisher=J. Nisbet |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/christhischurchi00bona/page/n5/mode/2up|author1-link=Andrew Bonar}} *{{cite book |last1=Bonar |first1=Andrew A. |title=Victory over sin, and What gives assurance |date=1860 |publisher=C. Glass |location=Glasgow |url=https://archive.org/details/victoryoversina00bonauoft/page/n29/mode/2up|author1-link=Andrew Bonar}} *{{cite book |last1=Bonar |first1=Andrew A. |title=Memoir of the life and brief ministry of the Rev. David Sandeman, missionary to China |date=1861 |publisher=J. Nisbet & co. |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/memoiroflifebrie00bona/page/n7/mode/2up}} *{{cite book |last1=Bonar |first1=Andrew A. |title=Memoir and remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne |date=1892 |publisher=Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier |location=Edinburgh; London |edition=New |url=https://archive.org/details/memoirremainsofr1892mche/page/n9/mode/2up}} *{{cite book |last= Bonar |first= Andrew A. |editor-last= Bonar |editor-first= Marjory |title= Reminiscences of Andrew A. Bonar, D.D. |year= 1895 |publisher= [[Hodder and Stoughton]] |location= London |page= xv |url= https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofa00bona |quote= The University of Edinburgh conferred on him, in 1874, the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.}} *{{cite book |last1=Bonar |first1=Andrew A. |author1-link=Andrew Bonar |editor1-last=Bonar |editor1-first=Marjorie |title=Heavenly springs : portions for the Sabbaths of a year |date=1904 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/heavenlyspringsp0000bona/page/n5/mode/2up}} *{{cite book |last1=Howie |first1=Robert |title=Reply to letter of Professor Blaikie, D.D., LL.D., to Rev. Andrew A. Bonar, D.D., on statement issued on the Dods and Bruce cases |date=1890 |publisher=David Bryce |location=Glasgow |url=https://archive.org/details/replytoletterofp00howi}} *{{Cite web|last=Keddie|first=John W.|url=https://www.evangelical-times.org/articles/historical/andrew-bonar-1810-1892/|title=Andrew Bonar (1810-1892)|date=May 1, 2010|website=Evangelical Times}} *{{cite book |last1=Rutherford |first1=Samuel |author1-link=Samuel Rutherford |editor1-last=Bonar |editor1-first=Andrew A. |editor1-link=Andrew Bonar |title=Fourteen Communion Sermons |date=1876 |publisher=Charles Glass & Co. |location=Glasgow |url=https://archive.org/details/fourtcomm00ruth}} *{{cite book |last1=Rutherford |first1=Samuel |author1-link=Samuel Rutherford |editor1-last=Bonar |editor1-first=Andrew |editor1-link=Andrew Bonar |title=Quaint sermons of Samuel Rutherford : hitherto unpublished |date=1885 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/quaintsermonsofs00ruth}} *{{cite book |last1=Rutherford |first1=Samuel |author1-link=Samuel Rutherford |editor1-last=Bonar |editor1-first=Andrew A. |editor1-link=Andrew Bonar |title=Letters of Samuel Rutherford : with a sketch of his life and biographical notices of his correspondents |date=1891 |publisher=Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier |location=Edinburgh |url=https://archive.org/details/lettersofsamuelr00ruth/page/n5/mode/2up}} *{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Hew |title=Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation |date=1923 |publisher=Oliver and Boyd |location=Edinburgh |pages=[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc04scot/page/200/mode/2up 200]-201 |volume=4 |url=https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc04scot |author-link=Hew Scott}}{{PD-notice}} *{{cite book|last1=Walker|first1=Norman L.|title=Chapters from the History of the Free Church of Scotland|date=1895|publisher=Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier|location=Edinburgh|url=https://archive.org/stream/chaptersfromhis00walkgoog#page/n179/mode/2up/search/black}} *{{cite book |editor-last=Wylie |editor-first=James Aitken |editor-link=James Aitken Wylie|title=Disruption worthies : a memorial of 1843, with an historical sketch of the free church of Scotland from 1843 down to the present time |date=1881 |publisher=T. C. Jack |location=Edinburgh |pages=[https://archive.org/details/disruptionworthi00wyli/page/n167/mode/2up 31]–38 |url=https://archive.org/stream/disruptionworthi00wyli}}

==Further reading== * {{cite book | author=Ferguson, Fergus | title=The Life of the Rev Dr Andrew A Bonar | location=Glasgow | publisher=John J Rae | year=c. 1893 }} {{Portal|Christianity}}

==External links== {{Wikiquote}} * {{Gutenberg author | id=5948}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Andrew Alexander Bonar}} * This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [[public domain]]: the article on "[https://web.archive.org/web/20180622005101/http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc02.html?term=Bonar,%20Andrew%20Alexander Bonar, Andrew Alexander]" in [[Samuel Macauley Jackson|Jackson, Samuel Macauley]], ed. (1914). ''[[Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge|New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge]]'' (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls. The editors of the online edition at [[Christian Classics Ethereal Library|ccel.org]] have given permission for material from articles to be used in Wikipedia.

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