A Remarkable Circle of Friends

Contents

ix

Introduction

PART I

1. Thomas Chalmers 2. Robert Murray M‘Cheyne 3. William Chalmers Burns 4. Andrew A. Bonar 5. Alexander Moody Stuart

3

27 39 45 57 67 81 93

6. Horatius Bonar 7. Robert Macdonald 8. James Hamilton

9. John Milne

105 117

10. Alexander N. Somerville

PART II

1. William Hamilton Burns 2. John James Bonar

131 137 149 161 171

3. James Grierson 4. David Sandeman

5. Margaret Stewart Sandeman

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