CRAIGNURE, ISLE OF MULL, 6th August 1884.
DEAR MARGARET,
— I was greatly surprised
on receiving your letter. But I suppose you were yourself taken altogether
unawares. This comfort, however, you have, sure and full, viz., that E. has
only gone to 'the mountain of myrrh and hill of frankincense' for a season, and
then shall come back with Christ in immortal health, soul and body. You can
think of her every day as 'with Christ' in the Paradise above, enjoying
blessedness to which we here are strangers, and you may be sure that the Lord
intends for you some peculiar blessing by this sore bereavement. What a word
that is in Heb. 12:10: affliction sent not only that we may get some profit by
it, but 'that we may be partakers of His holiness.'
I shall try to remember
your afflicted parents as well as yourself When you return to town will you let
me know, that I may call ?
—Believe me, your affectionate pastor,
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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