Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that was just good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12.

This is resistance and reformation on the Fight Laugh Feast network.

The years leading up to the Scottish disruption and those immediately afterward produced

some of the most remarkable servants of God in the history of the church.

Andrew Alexander Bonar was a member of that galaxy of brilliant

reformed Scots preachers, writers, and missionaries, which included his brothers, John, James, and Horatius, as well as

Robert Murray McShane, William Chalmers Burns, John Milney, Alexander Moody Stewart, John Urquhart, Robert Nesbitt, Alexander Somerville,

Rabbi John Duncan, David Ewert, Alexander Duff and Williams and Claire McKay, they were bound together by a common

cause in a common time with a common vision by a common love.

Together these men, all students and disciples of the great Thomas Chalmers,

came to be known variously as the evangelical prodigies, the Chalmers

Bejans and the School of the Saints. Indeed, they would be responsible for an astonishing burst of gospel energy, productivity, and profundity,

hardly ever matched before or since.

Bonar was the scion of a prominent and pious Presbyterian family.

His parents were people of strong religious conviction, Calvinist in their theology, and keen

that their children should grow up to view Christianity from that worldview perspective. But like most of the other

members of that esteemed disruption circle, Bonar was most profoundly

influenced by the life, work, and ministry of Thomas Chalmers.

He grew up under the shadow of Chalmers, who was indisputably the greatest preacher, theologian, and reformer of the day and according to Alistaira, the virtual refounder of Scott's Presbyterianism.

He then studied under Chalmers at the University of Edinburgh,

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