Two years after, it reappeared in The Bible Hymn Book, compiled by her husband, Horatius Bonar,[1] and was reprinted in the United States with other names appended.
[2] Jane Catharine (or Catherine) Lundie (or Lundee)[3] was born at Kelso, 1 December 1821,[4][5] in the old manse by the River Tweed, located by the Abbey.
Mrs. Gray, the sister of John Grey and aunt of Josephine Butler, was an intellectual who, besides being the author of several volumes, assisted her husband in matters pertaining to his parishioners.
In April, 1832, Bonar's father died, and in the autumn, with her widowed mother, her elder sister, Mary Lundie Duncan, and brother, she removed to Edinburgh.
She also spent time with her sister at the manse in Cleish, until 1840, when Mary, a poet and memoirist,[6] died.
[1] An elder brother, George Archibald Lundie, went with a missionary band to Samoa, hoping that the climate might restore his failing health, but died in less than three years.
There were two other brothers, Cornelius, engineer and railway manager of a branch in South Wales, and Robert, minister of the Presbyterian Church, Fairfield, Liverpool.
108, in 4 st. of 8 1., including the refrain, “Jesus is mine!” The original text was given in Dr. Edwin Francis Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872, No.