Words to Winners of Souls

by Horatius Bonar

Publisher:

American Tract Society

, 1870

Overview

A treatise on the life of a minister, Bonar provides practical advice for those leading congregations. Words to Winners of Souls is a succinct and powerful volume of wisdom from a man that knows how to stoke the embers of faith into great flames.

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Key Features

• Provides a treatise on the life of a minister
• Offers practical advice for leading

Contents

Top Highlights

“If souls are not won, if saints are not matured, our ministry itself is vain” (Page 11)

“Nearness to him, intimacy with him, assimilation to his character—these are the elements of a ministry of power. When we can tell our people, ‘We beheld his glory, and therefore we speak of it; it is not from report we speak, but we have seen the King in his beauty’—how lofty the position we occupy! Our power in drawing men to Christ springs chiefly from the fullness of our personal joy in him, and the nearness of our personal communion with him. The countenance that reflects most of Christ, and shines most with his love and grace, is most fitted to attract the gaze of a careless, giddy world, and win their restless souls from the fascinations of creature-love and creature-beauty. A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.” (Pages 27–28)

“The one true goal or resting-place, where doubt and weariness, and the stings of a pricking conscience, and the longings of an unsatisfied soul would all be quieted, is Christ himself.” (Page 14)

“Let us seek the Lord early. ‘If my heart be early seasoned with his presence, it will savor of him all day after.’” (Page 21)

“No, truly; if the heart is really set on such an end, it must gain that end or break in losing it.’” (Page 42)

Praise for the Print Edition

This is an excellent little work. No Christian minister should fail to read it.

—The Evangelical Repository and United Presbyterian Review

Product Details

• Title: Words to Winners of Souls
• Author: Horatius Bonar
• Publisher: The American Tract Society
• Publication Date: 1870
• Pages: 102

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.