Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Stories Behind Classic Christian Hymns: "Take my life, and let it be" - Frances Ridley Havergal, 1836-1879


Four years later she wrote : "The Lord has shown me another little step, and of course I have taken it with extreme delight. Take my silver and my gold now means shipping off all my ornaments (including a jewel cabinet, which is really fit for a countess) to the Church Missionary House, where they will be accepted and disposed of for me. I retain only a brooch or two for daily wear, which are memorials of my dear parents; also a locket with the only portrait I have of my niece, who passed away. But these I redeem so that the whole value goes to the Church Missionary Society."
http://christianmusicandhymns.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/take-my-life-and-let-it-be-frances.html

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