The Rescued Hymn | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1879

The Rescued Hymn.

Miss Havergal was a very fine musician and singer, but she will be known and remembered longer by her hymns than by her singing or her prose. Mr. Ira Sankey writes: "She was greatly delighted when I told her how much her hymn, 'I gave my Life for thee,' had been used and blessed in America, and said, 'How little we know what the Lord may take into his own hand and use! I was but a young girl when I wrote that hymn, and after I had written it, I was so little impressed with it that I threw it on the fire, thinking that it was not worth preserving; but a friend, sitting by, rescued it just in time to save it; and after it had lain away in my friend's portfolio for a year or two, it was brought out and given to the world.'"