Tuesday, 2nd April 1867.
MY
DEAR ISABELLA,—. . . This is a week of many interruptions of
course, people calling about the Communion, etc. . . . No news here. The stream
of life glides on, and we are on its banks. It will take many turns and
windings, and then, some day, what a view bursts upon us! Eternity! Dr.
Livingstone's death seems to us strange—so like a mere accident—to
die in such a way! But this is often God's way of ordering and bringing about
great events, while He Himself is there, so that not a hair of the head falls
to the ground without Him. I hope little N. is better. Poor Miss M. and her
sister must be suffering much anxiety. Few things are so trying as anxiety from
day to day, and that is the reason why Christ the Sin-bearer is also the
Burden-bearer. He is thus a full Saviour.
I finished this afternoon my
Ladies Class for the season. Our subject was 'Peace,' and all said about it,
and about the way God gives it. . . . Good-bye.
—Your affectionate
father,
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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Jane Newble
July 2001