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.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Kept for the Master's Use by Havergal
- 2: That it may be Consecrated
- 3: For conversion and consecration ought to be simultaneous
- 4: Cleanse us and heal us thoroughly
- 5: Whatever you did really trust Him to keep
- 6: And now entrust your trust to Him
- 7: And I cannot tell you the blessedness of it
- 8: Christ demands a hearty consecration in will
- 9: Even to morrow exceeds our tiny grasp
- 10: Or think the un Christ like thought
- 11: That Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him
- 12: Involving perpetual vexation of spirit
- 13: And Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar
- 14: 'who is consecrated for evermore
- 15: And be a safeguard from certain temptations
- 16: She arose and ministered unto them
- 17: For it is not our love to Christ
- 18: 'Then there is literal errand going
- 19: And worn The feet that humbly
- 20: And so the banner is kept furled
- 21: Do you get such rewards as this
- 22: And that they cannot really return void
- 23: There is just one 'sacred' song in the whole long list
- 24: As they stood and sang their neutral songs
- 25: Singing for Jesus for ever above
- 26: Either we have committed our lips to our Lord
- 27: Trusting does not supersede watching
- 28: A sanction to thoughtless juniors
- 29: And you reap your harvest of laughter or applause
- 30: ' A master entrusts a workman with a delicate machine
- 31: And profess that every day is a Sabbath
- 32: Should we talk about self denial then
- 33: Expensive tastes should be denied
- 34: There is no bondage in consecration
- 35: Can I yet withhold From that living
- 36: To spend their Lord's time in polishing up their intellects
- 37: As of every other faithless conclusion
- 38: Are we able to discern the splendour of God's will
- 39: To ceaselessly unclasp in Thine
- 40: ' so He will not withhold this good thing
- 41: To rule the wayward one with His peace
- 42: We have no business to parley with an usurper
- 43: We have a sealed treasure of love
- 44: 'When does love become idolatry
- 45: There was a prelude to its 'endless song
- 46: Are part of the Lord's portion Deut
- 47: So large a proportion of it is entirely involuntary
- 48: And He has tenderly pardoned the unloving
- 49: Literally uplifted in parting blessing
- 50: But the sanctified intellect will be
- 51: And this mighty and tender heart is 'for thee
- 52: But a sunshine that comes and enfolds us
- 53: The happy service of a yielded heart
- 54: Till it read In ever brightening letters
- 55: Thou hast trodden once for all The Via Dolorosa
- 56: Filled with Thy glory and shining for Thee
- 57: Thoroughly teaching what He would teach
- 58: 'Tis no unmingled portion Thou dost provide
- 59: Everlasting joy And everlasting rest
- 60: Church Missionary Jubilee Hymn