Thy life was given for me
Thy life was given for me. Frances Ridley Havergal* (1836-1879).
Written in 1858, with a dramatic first line, ‘I gave My life for thee’ (Christ is speaking). It was published in leaflet form in 1859 and in Good Words (February 1860). In The Ministry of Song (1869) it had the title ‘I did this for thee! What hast thou done for Me?’, followed by a parenthesis: ‘(Motto placed under a picture of our Saviour in the study of a German divine)’. JJ (p.555) quotes from a manuscript by Maria Havergal:
On Jan. 10, 1858, she had come in weary, and sitting down she read the motto, and the lines of her hymn flashed upon her. She wrote them in pencil on a scrap of paper. Reading them over, she thought...
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