Kept for the Master's Use by Francis Ridley Havergal and published by Classic.
Frances Ridley Havergal is known throughout the Christian world as a writer of hymns and books that have been sung and read by millions. A popular English journal recently asked its readers to name the best woman of the century. Frances Ridley Havergal and Queen Victoria were named among the seven who received the highest number of votes.
She was the daughter of a well-known Episcopal clergyman, and was born at Astley, England, December 14, 1836. As a child she gave evidence of her poetic and literary gifts. The present volume, Kept for the Master’s Use, is her last book, and was published after her decease. It consists of separate chapters on each couplet of her well-known consecration hymn. Regarding the origin of this hymn she once wrote in a letter to a friend:
“I went for a little visit of five days. There were ten persons in the house, some unconverted and long prayed for, some converted but not rejoicing Christians. He gave me the prayer: Lord, give me all in this house. And He just did! Before I left the house everyone had got a blessing The last night of my visit I was too happy to sleep, and passed most of the night in renewal of my consecration, and these little couplets formed themselves and chimed in my heart one after another, until they finished with: “Take myself, and I will be, Ever, only, all for Thee.”
