Lord, speak to me, that I may speak

Lord, speak to me, that I may speak. Frances Ridley Havergal* (1836-1879). Written 28 April 1872, and published in leaflet form. A six-stanza text was included in a magazine, Woman’s Work in the Great Harvest Field, in August 1872, entitled ‘“A Worker’s Prayer”. “None of us liveth to himself (Rom. xiv.7”’. It was then included in Havergal’s Under the Surface (1874), with an additional stanza and the title, but no scriptural reference. In 1874 the hymn had seven stanzas, with a characteristic use of italics to give emphasis in the final one (‘when, and where’). The text in The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal (1884) was as follows: Lord, speak to me, that I may speak  In living...