The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

Author:George Lewis Prentiss [Prentiss, George Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2022-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

I can more truly thank Him for His chastisements than for His worldly indulgences; the latter urge from, the former drive to Him. I am saying a great thing in a feeble way, and you may multiply it by ten thousand, and it will still be weak.

The hymn, "More Love to Thee, O Christ," belongs, probably, as far back as the year 1856. Like most of her hymns, it is simply a prayer put into the form of verse. She wrote it so hastily that the last stanza was left incomplete, one line having been added in pencil when it was printed. She did not show it, not even to her husband, until many years after it was written; and she wondered not a little that, when published, it met with so much favor.

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