GLASGOW, 9th July 1891.
MY DEAR MR.
INGLIS,—I have just been at Greenock, hearing the particulars of my
brother John's last hours. He died really like one falling asleep 'in a good
old age.' But you, dear brother, are mourning over a beloved daughter called
away in her prime, and in the midst of her usefulness. 'His ways are in the
sea, and His paths in the great waters.' We have tried to remember you and Mrs.
Inglis, and I am sure the Lord Jesus has as much sympathy for you both as He
had for Martha and Mary, and is saying to you as truly as to them, 'If you will
believe (that is, "if you will only trust My word for it ") you shall see the
glory of God in this sore trial.' Resurrection is coming soon, and He who is
the Resurrection is coming, and 'will tell us all things.'
With true
sympathy with all your house and bereaved ones.—Yours in tribulation, as
well as in the faith of the Gospel,
ANDREW A.
BONAR.
GLASGOW, 16th Dec. 1891
MY DEAR MR. INGLIS,
— 'He doth not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men '—how much more unwilling He must be to
afflict His own children. He must be purposing some special blessing to you by
this stroke. Meanwhile, look within the veil (Rev. 7) and 'rejoice with them
that do rejoice,' while at the same time you look forward and sing:
'The time draws near when from the clouds
Christ
shall with shouts descend.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
'A few short years of evil past,
We reach the happy shore
Where
death-divided friends at last
Shall meet, to part no more.'
You will find that you are prayed for by very many at this time, and all
these prayers cannot fail to bring you and yours what otherwise you could not
have gained.—
Yours, my dear brother, in true sympathy, for I 'know
the heart of a stranger, seeing I have been a stranger in the land of Egypt,'
ANDREW A. BONAR.
Transcribed from Reminiscences of Andrew A.Bonar D.D.
first published
LONDON, HODDER AND STOUGHTON,
27 Paternoster
Row
1895
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