Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...lovely Alpine flowers, which people never see who go "in the season," a month or two later. How entirely we were rid of that imp, Hurry, who wears out our lives in England " No Hurry " It took us a long while to realize that delightful fact. a. "The Lord our Righteousness."--We cannot do without this most wonderful name. It can never be an old story to us. It is always a "new name" in freshness and beauty and power. It is our daily need and our daily joy. For strength it is indeed "a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it, and is safe." For sweetness it is "as ointment poured forth." In it we see at once the highest height and the deepest depth, Jehovah, God of God, Light of Light, and our need of a righteousness which is not our own at all, because we have none. We stand as upon an Alpine slope, face to face with the highest, grandest, purest summit above, and the darkest, deepest valley below, seeing more of the height because of the depth, and more of the depth because of the height. d. If any work is really God's giving, and He puts it into our hearts either to "devise" (Ex. xxxv. 32), or into the power of our hands to "do" (v. 35), no fear but He will also provide " stuff" sufficient, whether metal or mental / We talk of killing two birds with one stone, and think it clever to manage it. Think of the incomprehensible wisdom which fits all things into your single life so that all shall work together for good, and then that these "all things " are also and at the same time fitted all round into the lives of all His children with which they come in contact. k. "O Lord, open Thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise." And when op...