A Diet of Bonars and “I Lay My Sins on Jesus” (#163)

No, not a diet of bones, but of Bonars, Horatius Bonars, that is.  Horatius Bonar’s hymns are some of the most beloved songs that we find in our hymnals and in our repertoire of evangelical singing.  A congregation will be well fed on a diet of the great truths he has so wonderfully expressed in his hymn texts.  In the British Isles and in America, it would not be difficult to identify nearly 100 of his hymns that continue in use today.  These would include “O Love of God, How Strong and True;” “Blessing and Honor and Glory and Power;” “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say;” “Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face;” “Not What My Hands Have Done;” “I Was a Wandering Sheep;” “No, Not Despairingly Come I to Thee;” “Thy Works, Not Mine, O Christ;” “A Few More Years Shall Roll;” “Go, Labor On;” “Fill Thou My Life, O Lord My God;” “When the Weary Seeking Rest;” and “Thy Way, Not Mine, O Lord.”

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