Excerpt from Royal Bounty
Then, we certainly did not ask Him to call us by His grace 8 for before that call, we could not have wished, much less asked, for it.9 Then, who taught us to pray,10 and put into our entirely corrupt and sinful hearts 11 any thought of asking Him for any thing at all ?1' Was not all this royal bounty?
Frances Ridley Havergal, the daughter of a Church of England minister, is well known for her great hymns of consecration including the famous Take My Life and Let It Be. She also wrote hymn melodies, religious tracts, and works for children.
In 1852/3 she studied in the Louisenschule, Dusseldorf, and at Oberkassel. Otherwise she led a quiet life, not enjoying consistent good health; she travelled, in particular to Switzerland. She supported the Church Missionary Society.
She died of peritonitis at Caswell Bay on the Gower Peninsula in Wales. Her sisters saw much of her work published posthumously. Havergal College, a private girls' school in Toronto, is named after her. The composer Havergal Brian adopted the name as a tribute to the Havergal family.
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