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قراءة كتاب Kept for the Master's Use
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Kept for
the Master’s
Use
By
Frances Ridley
Havergal
Philadelphia
Henry Altemus Company
Copyrighted 1895, by Henry Altemus.
HENRY ALTEMUS, MANUFACTURER,
PHILADELPHIA.
CONTENTS.
- I. Our Lives kept for Jesus, 9
- II. Our Moments kept for Jesus, 26
- III. Our Hands kept for Jesus, 34
- IV. Our Feet kept for Jesus, 46
- V. Our Voices kept for Jesus, 51
- VI. Our Lips kept for Jesus, 66
- VII. Our Silver and Gold kept for Jesus, 79
- VIII. Our Intellects kept for Jesus, 91
- IX. Our Wills kept for Jesus, 96
- X. Our Hearts kept for Jesus, 104
- XI. Our Love kept for Jesus, 109
- XII. Our Selves kept for Jesus, 115
- XIII. Christ for us, 122
PREFATORY NOTE.
My beloved sister Frances finished revising the proofs of this book shortly before her death on Whit Tuesday, June 3, 1879, but its publication was to be deferred till the Autumn.
In appreciation of the deep and general sympathy flowing in to her relatives, they wish that its publication should not be withheld. Knowing her intense desire that Christ should be magnified, whether by her life or in her death, may it be to His glory that in these pages she, being dead,
‘Yet speaketh!’
MARIA V. G. HAVERGAL.
Oakhampton, Worchestershire.
KEPT
FOR
The Master’s Use.
Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments and my days;
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet, and let them be
Swift and ‘beautiful’ for Thee.
Take my voice, and let me sing
Always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.
Take my silver and my gold;
Not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect, and use
Every power as Thou shalt choose.
Take my will and make it Thine;
It shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart; it is Thine own;
It shall be Thy royal throne.
Take my love; my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure-store.
Take myself, and I will be
Ever, only, ALL for Thee.
CHAPTER I.
Our Lives kept for Jesus.
‘Keep my life, that it may be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.’
Many a heart has echoed the little song:
‘Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee!’
And yet those echoes have not been, in every case and at all times, so clear, and full, and firm, so continuously glad as we would wish, and perhaps expected. Some of us have said:
‘I launch me forth upon a sea
Of boundless love and tenderness;’
and after a little we have found, or fancied, that there is a hidden leak in our barque, and though we are doubtless still afloat, yet we are not sailing with the same free, exultant confidence as at first. What is it that has dulled and weakened the echo of our consecration song? what is the little leak that hinders the swift and buoyant course of our consecrated life? Holy Father, let Thy loving spirit guide the hand that writes, and strengthen the heart of every one who reads what shall be written, for Jesus’ sake.
While many a sorrowfully varied answer to these questions may, and probably will, arise from touched and sensitive consciences, each being shown by God’s faithful Spirit the special sin, the special yielding to temptation which has hindered and spoiled the blessed life which they sought to enter and enjoy, it seems to me that one or other of two things has lain at the outset of the failure and disappointment.
First, it may have arisen from want of the simplest belief in the simplest fact, as well as want of trust in one of the simplest and plainest words our gracious Master ever uttered! The unbelieved fact being simply that He hears us; the untrusted word being one of those plain, broad foundation-stones on which we rested our whole weight, it may be many years