Travel with Frances Ridley Havergal

DayOne has produced an extremely well presented book, a combination of the biography of Havergal & travel guide...over 150 colour photos, detailed maps, & guides of the areas where she lived & places of interest..thoroughly researched. The photos gives a sense of intimacy into the lives of the Havergal family & some of Frances' personal items, her Bible & a cross stitch bookmark has a poignancy about them. Miss Havergal was born 14/12/1836, the youngest of six children...she loved to write poetry & inherited a musical talent from her father...she had a great aptitude for languages & could speak French, German & Welsh; she studied Hebrew & Greek with her father & felt it added more meaning to the written Word as she read it. Frances had a retentive memory & learnt many passages of the Bible. She possessed a great love for the Lord & worked tirelessly & diligently witnessing the Gospel...the Havergals, as a family, were often busy evangelising the areas where the Lord put them. She penned a number of books. The Havergals were a close family & Frances was particularly fond of her father. It is mentioned "Wherever William worked, he left the church and worship in a more spiritual condition than he had found it." He was greatly mourned when he died in 1870, she wrote, "A home to me it cannot be, without my father's face." I highly recommend this book: "I did so want to glorify Him every step of the way." British Church Newspaper 07/05/2010 - J Barker