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Listen to the beginner piano arrangement of Like A River Glorious
Frances Ridley Havergal, daughter of the Rev. W. H. Havergal, was born at Astley, Worcestershire, December 14, 1836. While a teenager she, “committed my soul to the Saviour, and earth and heaven seemed brighter from that moment.” She lived as a single woman her whole life in Great Britain. She died June 3, 1879.
“Miss Havergal’s scholastic acquirements were extensive, embracing several modern languages, together with Greek and Hebrew. She does not occupy, and did not claim for herself, a prominent place as a poet, but by her distinct individuality she carved out a niche. Simply and sweetly she sang the love of God, and His way of salvation … Her poems are permeated with the fragrance of her passionate love of Jesus … The burden of her writings is a free and full salvation, through the Redeemer’s merits, for every sinner who will receive it, and her life was devoted to the proclamation of this truth by personal labours, literary efforts, and earnest interest in Foreign Missions.”
Some of her more well-known hymns include “Golden harps are sounding,” “I gave my life for thee,” “Jesus, Master, Whose I am,” “Lord, speak to me,” “O Master, at Thy feet,” “Take my life and let it be,” “Tell it out among the heathen.”
From Hymnary.org
