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Frances Ridley Havergal The ministry of song

 

What has a woman living in Victorian England in the 19th century to offer to people in the 21st century? The answer has to be ‘a great deal’.

 

Frances Ridley Havergal was one of the significant figures of the Victorian age. She took little part in public affairs, yet through the simple directness of her spirituality, expressed in her writings and personal contacts, she exercised a profound influence on her contemporaries.1 This could also be said of today, for we have much to learn from her life and writings.

     Frances, the youngest of six children, was born on 14 December 1836 in Astley, Worcestershire, where her father

Our article this month — ‘Frances Ridley Havergal; the ministry of song’ is from page 14 of the current (July) issue of ET and celebrates the life of one who was a significant figures of the Victorian era on both sides of the Atlantic. Although she died at the early age of 42, the spiritual legacy of hymns and other writings she left was immense. C. H. Spurgeon called her ‘the last and loveliest of our modern poets’.

July’s ETfeatures the new Youth Supplement written (mainly) by teenagers for teenagers. Articles include: School CUs — why bother?; University Christian Unions; Smart dating; Spooks; Marathon man; Really forgiven?; No lightning flash!; The point of it all; and Why pray? Required reading for young people!

 

Also in July’s ET — are two important articles on preaching. ‘The Spirit and the Word in preaching’ by Guy Davies, reminds us that the Word preached is ineffective without the accompanying blessing of God’s Holy Spirit, while ‘The power to save’ by Miles McKee

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