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Updated: May 15, 2025
I find it continual help in corresponding with or meeting those who have joined, and any to whom God has let me be spiritually helpful are invariably delighted at the idea of reading with me. It is training many young Christians into regular reading." On May 26, 1878, F. R. Havergal's stepmother passed away.
"Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more." There is a passage in Miss Havergal's life which narrates how, after having been angry with a servant, the word of comfort came to her through a friend: "Perhaps this may be the last time that you will ever be so overcome." And then our victories are to leave us stronger than before.
Such a prayer for the fulness of God is best expressed in Miss Havergal's words "Lord, we ask it, scarcely knowing What this wondrous gift may be; But fulfil to overflowing, Thy great meaning let us see."
That we might dwell for ever Where never falls a tear: So 'a Merrie Christmas' to you, And a Happy, Happy Year!" The beautiful and aptly chosen titles alone in many cases are most suggestive and refreshing. Yes, Frances R. Havergal's power of giving expression to holy aspiration and Christian loyalty and heartfelt praise will live as long as English Hymnology lives.
Yet she was always, as the phrase went, `bearing up, or, as another phrase went, `leaning hard. Frances Ridley Havergal was her favourite author, and Frances Ridley Havergal's little book Lean Hard, was kept on her dressing-table. Nevertheless she never complained, and she was seldom depressed.
And this spirit of unselfishness enabled her in her prose writings and her hymns to inspire something of her simple trust into those who read them with receptive minds. To see under the surface of Frances Ridley Havergal's character, look into her works, and you find the humble servant of Jesus Christ revealed.
In one of her poems she speaks of his "Valiant cry, a witness strong and clear, A trumpet with no dull uncertain sound." Soon after his death she prepared for the press Havergal's Psalmody, which was afterwards largely used in the compiling of the Rev C. B. Snepp's hymn-book, called Songs of Grace and Glory, for which, she herself wrote several hymns.
By weakness and sickness and by unwearying trust and unwearied labour was she being prepared for that better rest above. We may turn aside for a short time before we consider the last eventful weeks of Frances Ridley Havergal's sojourn upon earth, to deal with a subject that has been but lightly touched upon, namely, her ministry of song.
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