This is a Companion Volume to the edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal. Here is a valuable presentation of F.R.H.'s scores, most or nearly all of them very little if any at all seen, or even known of, for nearly a century. What a valuable body of music has been unknown for so long and is now made available to many. Dr. Wegge completed his Ph.D. in Music Theory at Indiana University at Bloomington, and his diligence and thoroughness in this volume are obvious. First an analysis of F.R.H.'s compositions is given, an essay that both addresses the most advanced musicians and also reaches those who are untrained in music; then all the extant scores that have been found are newly typeset, with complete texts for each score and extensive indices at the end of the book. Her extant scores are given in three sections: first, her hymntunes, then her art songs, and finally the posthumously published Loyal Responses with music. This volume presents F.R.H.'s music in newly typeset scores diligently prepared by Dr. Wegge, and Volume V of the Havergal edition presents the scores in facsimile, the original 19th century scores. (The essay-a dissertation-analysing her scores is given the same both in this Companion Volume and in Volume V of the Havergal edition.) Dr. Wegge has also prepared all of these scores for publication in performance folio editions.

The Music of Frances Ridley Havergal

Arts & Photography

Wegge, Dr. Glen T.

Music

Havergal Trust, The

“One Hour with Jesus” was a pamphlet essay, a beautiful, compassionate, truthful entreaty to believers to spend one hour each morning alone with the Lord, reading His word, praying to Him, praising and worshipping Him. Throughout her life and so pervasive in her writings, F.R.H. wanted and encouraged others to read and search the Bible themselves, not only to hear others speak about the Bible, but everyone personally himself or herself to read, probe, memorize, and know the Scriptures. She was herself a glowing example of this, one who loved the Author and thus loved His word and treasured it up in her heart. We know from her sister Maria that she memorized all of the New Testament except the Book of Acts, all of the Minor Prophets, Isaiah, and all of the Psalms. After “One Hour with Jesus,” the rest of this book gives helpful aids and encouraging examples of diligent study of the Bible. Our Lord said, in John 5:39, “Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me.” “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself.” Luke 24:27 “Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth.” John 17:17

One Hour with Jesus and Encouragements to Bible Study

Religion & Spirituality

Havergal, Frances Ridley

Menzies, Mrs. Stephen

M'Chenye, Robert Murray

Christian Books & Bibles

This book is a 31-day devotional, taken from the five-volume, 8,014-page edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal, an edition prepared over several years by a team of people in the U.S., England, and Canada. This book also includes three additional poems and two hymn tunes by Frances Ridley Havergal. My King is the first of five “Royal” books by F.R.H., which she regarded as a set. Royal Commandments is the second, Royal Bounty is the third, The Royal Invitation is the fourth, and Loyal Responses is the “answering and completing chord” of the “Royal” books. My King. “The source of the Kingship of Christ is God Himself in the eternal counsels of His love. . . . Having provided, He appointed and anointed His King.” The sections of this book are taken from Old Testament texts. “Why has God made Jesus King? Because the Lord loved His people. He knows our need of a King.”

Royal Commandments (The Five Royal Books)

This book is a 31-day devotional, taken from the five-volume, 8,014-page edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal, an edition prepared over several years by a team of people in the U.S., England, and Canada. This book also includes five poems for Sunday reading and several other poems by Havergal. My King is the first of five “Royal” books by F.R.H., which she regarded as a set. Royal Commandments is the second, Royal Bounty is the third, The Royal Invitation is the fourth, and Loyal Responses is the “answering and completing chord” of the “Royal” books. My King. “The source of the Kingship of Christ is God Himself in the eternal counsels of His love. . . . Having provided, He appointed and anointed His King.” The sections of this book are taken from Old Testament texts. “Why has God made Jesus King? Because the Lord loved His people. He knows our need of a King.”

Royal Bounty (The Five Royal Books)

This book is a 31-day devotional, taken from the five-volume, 8,014-page edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal, an edition prepared over several years by a team of people in the U.S., England, and Canada. This book also includes three additional poems by Frances Ridley Havergal, and one poem each by Charlotte Elliot and Mary Jane (Deck) Walker. My King is the first of five “Royal” books by F.R.H., which she regarded as a set. Royal Commandments is the second, Royal Bounty is the third, The Royal Invitation is the fourth, and Loyal Responses is the “answering and completing chord” of the “Royal” books. My King. “The source of the Kingship of Christ is God Himself in the eternal counsels of His love. . . . Having provided, He appointed and anointed His King.” The sections of this book are taken from Old Testament texts. “Why has God made Jesus King? Because the Lord loved His people. He knows our need of a King.”

The Royal Invitation (The Five Royal Books)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Loyal Responses: Daily Melodies for the King's Minstrels (The Five Royal Books)

Frances Ridley Havergal taught a Sunday school class in her early teens, and for most of the rest of her life she was in several ways extensively involved with children, though she never married or had children of her own. She loved the little ones and wanted them to know and love the Lord Jesus. Among her other writings for children in poetry, prose, and music, she completed these three 31-day books, having a brief piece for each day of a month. These are so good. Though deeply beneficial for adults of any age, these were specifically meant for and addressed to children. So clearly, effectively, sweetly, compassionately written, you can almost hear F.R.H. sitting on the side of the bed and saying these to one of her nieces or nephews just before sleep or before breakfast. God is love. These books are full of His love, wanting young ones to know and follow Him. This book is taken from the five-volume, 8,014-page edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal, an edition prepared over several years by a team of people in the U.S., England, and Canada.

Little Pillows, Morning Bells, and Morning Stars (The Children's Books of Frances Ridley Havergal)

Bruey was a real girl, whom Frances Ridley Havergal knew, a girl with a beautiful heart from the Lord, and this account shines with the beauty of Jesus Christ. Frances was only 11 when her mother died. The Four Happy Days is an autobiographical work about Frances herself. Annie was really F.R.H. This is an example of the Lord's indescribable love to His own. This book is taken from the five-volume, 8,014-page edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal, an edition prepared over several years by a team of people in the U.S., England, and Canada.

Bruey and the Four Happy Days (The Children's Books of Frances Ridley Havergal)

Ben Brightboots was a real cat that lived in F.R.H.’s parents’ home, quite an aristocratic cat, and very lively. As fast as he was, the events were faster and overtook Ben. Reading this story, you want to pick him up and stroke his neck, but while we cannot hold Ben, there is truth here of the greatest value, that we can hold and keep in our hearts. F.R.H. finished this story of Ben, but only after she died was it published by her sister Maria, who also added at the end several more little stories, poems, and hymns by Frances. This book is taken from the five-volume, 8,014-page edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal, an edition prepared over several years by a team of people in the U.S., England, and Canada.

Ben Brightboots: and other True Stories, Hymns, and Music (The Children's Books of Frances Ridley Havergal)

Never Say Die is a clear, compassionate presentation to lost sinners, showing them their great need and the provision of God in Christ. Samuel Gillespie Prout (1822-1911) was a pastor in Newport, Wales, and he wrote this for old friends whom he had known years earlier. His friend, Frances Ridley Havergal, read and greatly valued one of the early copies printed for private circulation, and she very much wanted this published for many to have and read. After Prout was apparently too occupied to prepare it for publication, she edited it for him, and found a publisher to bring it out into the world. F.R.H. wrote this in a letter to Prout: “Believe me, there is real spiritual power in what you have written; as I glanced over your specimen page I felt inclined to envy you,—it throbs with life and warm reality. Oh, may you have the joy of bringing the living water to thousands by it!” In a published advertisement about Never Say Die, this was quoted from her: “A splendid little book for evangelistic use. It says just the very things one wants to say or get said to all the dark and weary outsiders.There is a curious freshness and force throughout, and the ‘free salvation’ and the ‘marvellous love’ are told out with enviable power. I wish it could be put into the hands of every man and lad in the kingdom, and read at all the mothers’ meetings too. I am sure Christian workers only need to know it, to adopt it as one of their best tools.”—Frances Ridley Havergal

Never Say Die: A Talk with Old Friends

Prout, Samuel Gillespie

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