The Night of Weeping

by Horatius Bonar

Publisher:

Robert Carter & Brothers

, 1852

Overview

One of Bonar’s most cherished writings, The Night of Weeping engages the biblical view of suffering and explains how it is an essential aspect of belonging to God.

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Key Features

• Discusses the sorrows of the family of God
• Examines family discipline
• Explores the eternal results

Contents

Top Highlights

“In thus arousing us from our slumber, chastisement not merely makes us more energetic, more laborious, but it makes us far more prayerful. Perhaps, it is here, that the waking up is most sensibly felt. Nothing so quickens prayer as trial. It sends us, at once, to our knees, and shuts the door of our closet behind us.” (Pages 125–126)

“Sickness teaches that activity of service is not the only way in which God is glorified. ‘They also serve who only stand and wait.’ Active duty is that which man judges most acceptable; but God shews us, that in bearing and suffering he is also glorified.” (Page 69)

“ was something to us before, but now it is all. Man’s arm fails, and there is none but God to lean upon.” (Page 126)

“We should learn not merely to praise God in affliction, but to praise him for it.” (Page 78)

Praise for the Print Edition

We know not whether it is possible, without being deeply tried, sorely afflicted, laid under a heavy and a steady rod, to enter into the depths of the consolation contained in this most precious and blessed little book. The author seems to have a special mission to speak to the heart of the rebuked and chastened one; and how sweetly, how solemnly, how tenderly, how scripturally he has executed his task let them bear witness who receive the message. . . . We cannot express what we feel concerning it; but this testimony may go further than a common-place eulogium.

—The Christian Lady’s Magazine

Product Details

• Title: The Night of Weeping
• Author: Horatius Bonar
• Publisher: Robert Carter & Brothers
• Publication Date: 1852
• Pages: 180

About Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a family with a long history of ministry in the Church of Scotland. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1838 (where he studied under Dr. Thomas Chalmers), Bonar was ordained and became pastor of the North Parish, Kelso, where he remained for 28 years. He joined the Free Church of Scotland after “the Great Disruption” of 1843, and in 1853 he earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Aberdeen. In 1867 he took over ministry duties at Chalmers Memorial Church in Edinburgh, and in 1883 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. A prolific author, he wrote and edited numerous books, biographies, articles, poems, tracts, and over 600 hymns.