Horatius Bonar
Horatius Bonar (19 December 180831 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. Licensed as a preacher, he did mission work in
Leith for a time, and in November 1837 he settled at
Kelso as minister of the new North Church founded in connection with
Thomas Chalmers's scheme of church extension. He became exceedingly popular as a preacher, and was soon well known throughout Scotland.
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