Streamlets of Song: For the Young - Softcover

Havergal, Frances Ridley; Crane, J. Miriam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937236218 ISBN 13: 9781937236212

Verlag: Havergal Trust, The, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Frances Ridley Havergal’s eldest sister Miriam was 19 when Frances was born, and Miriam first tutored her when she was two and a half; among other things, Miriam taught her young sister poetry. Many years later, Frances became the home teacher to Miriam’s own four children. Miriam asked Frances to compile a book of her poems for her nieces and nephews, which Frances readily wanted to do, but so many other things to do and then her very unexpected early death left this book unwritten. Miriam posthumously selected these poems and published this book. After Miriam’s 1887 compilation, a number of other poems for children written by F.R.H., by her father William Henry Havergal, and by a few others, are given at the end of this edition. These are so little known today, yet so encouraging and edifying.

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Frances Ridley Havergal’s formal education ended when she was seventeen, with one term at a young women’s school in Dusseldorf, Germany, yet she was a true scholar all her life. Fluent in German and French and nearly so in Italian, she read and loved the Reformers in Latin, German, and French. Knowledge was never an end in itself, only a means to know better her Lord and Saviour and to help to bring others to know Him. The Bible was her only Book, and she studied deeply the Hebrew and Greek texts of Scripture, memorized nearly all the New Testament and large portions of the Old Testament, and loved the Author with all her being. Frances was brought to a saving knowledge of Christ when she was fourteen, and the rest of her life was consecrated to her Savior, the Lord Jesus. Keenly aware of her own sinfulness and inability, her sole desire was to please and glorify Him alone. Very finely gifted, she was truly diligent with her gifts: her poetry is among the finest Christian verse in the English language, after George Herbert; her prose works are deeply beneficial; a musician to the core, she left behind important compositions. Like her works, her life richly touched the ones near her and countless many who met or heard her. The Lord Jesus Christ was her alone, only beauty, and she glowed Him and His truth. These books are taken from the newly prepared edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal. Never wanting attention to herself, Frances’ desire of her heart was for herself and for others to know her King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Her works are a gold-mine of help and enrichment. As her sister Maria, wrote, Knowing her intense desire that Christ should be magnified, whether by her life or in her death, may it be to His glory that in these pages she, being dead, “Yet speaketh !” David L. Chalkley and Glen T. Wegge, editors

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Havergal Trust, The
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1937236218
• ISBN 13: 9781937236212
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
• Herausgeber: Chalkley David L., Wegge Glen T.
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