A Wife’s Respect. Horatius Bonar offers an encouraging look at the creation narratives of Genesis and draws parallels with New Testament authors regarding husband and wife, Christ and church. In a single page, Thomas Vincent enumerates the general responsibilities of a wife, according to the Scripture and the Westminster Shorter Catechism. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones examines a woman’s reverence for her husband and suggests that we should understand it as a “respectful deference.” Then in a detailed discussion, Ezekiel Hopkins gives a very helpful overview of a wife’s role as he describes what a respectful life should look like. Taking this theme even further, John Brown considers a woman’s submission, her pure conduct, and her inward ornaments. This article will take a little work and thought on the reader’s part, but it will richly pay back the investment. George Swinnock discusses a wife’s holiness and her husband’s praise for her, as well as what her submission includes. What happens when a woman’s husband does not obey the Word of truth? John Brown addresses this problem with hope in and help from Christ. Finally, J. R. Miller discusses a wife’s beautiful role in home-making and the reality that a godly husband will always find such a woman lovely in his sight.
The son of James Bonar, Solicitor of Excise for Scotland, he was born and educated in Edinburgh. He comes from a long line of ministers who have served a total of 364 years in the Church of Scotland. One of eleven children, his brothers John James and Andrew Alexander were also ministers of the Free Church of Scotland. He had married Jane Catherine Lundie in 1843 and five of their young children died in succession. Towards the end of their lives, one of their surviving daughters was left a widow with five small children and she returned to live with her parents. Bonar's wife, Jane, died in 1876. He is buried in the Canongate Kirkyard.
In 1853 Bonar earned the Doctor of Divinity degree at the University of Aberdeen.
He entered the Ministry of the Church of Scotland. At first he was put in charge of mission work at St. John's parish in Leith and settled at Kelso. He joined the Free Church at the time of the Disruption of 1843, and in 1867 was moved to Edinburgh to take over the Chalmers Memorial Church (named after his teacher at college, Dr. Thomas Chalmers). In 1883, he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.... Show more