This book is a 31-day devotional, taken from the five-volume, 8,014-page edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal, an edition prepared over several years by a team of people in the U.S., England, and Canada. This book also includes three additional poems by Frances Ridley Havergal, and one poem each by Charlotte Elliot and Mary Jane (Deck) Walker. My King is the first of five "Royal" books by F.R.H., which she regarded as a set. Royal Commandments is the second, Royal Bounty is the third, The Royal Invitation is the fourth, and Loyal Responses is the "answering and completing...

Frances Ridley Havergal taught a Sunday school class in her early teens, and for most of the rest of her life she was in several ways extensively involved with children, though she never married or had children of her own. She loved the little ones and wanted them to know and love the Lord Jesus. Among her other writings for children in poetry, prose, and music, she completed these three 31-day books, having a brief piece for each day of a month. These are so good. Though deeply beneficial for adults of any age, these were specifically meant for and addressed to children. So clearly,...

Bruey was a real girl, whom Frances Ridley Havergal knew, a girl with a beautiful heart from the Lord, and this account shines with the beauty of Jesus Christ. Frances was only 11 when her mother died. The Four Happy Days is an autobiographical work about Frances herself. Annie was really F.R.H. This is an example of the Lord's indescribable love to His own. This book is taken from the five-volume, 8,014-page edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal, an edition prepared over several years by a team of people in the U.S., England, and Canada.

Ben Brightboots was a real cat that lived in F.R.H.'s parents' home, quite an aristocratic cat, and very lively. As fast as he was, the events were faster and overtook Ben. Reading this story, you want to pick him up and stroke his neck, but while we cannot hold Ben, there is truth here of the greatest value, that we can hold and keep in our hearts. F.R.H. finished this story of Ben, but only after she died was it published by her sister Maria, who also added at the end several more little stories, poems, and hymns by Frances. This book is taken from the five-volume, 8,014-page edition of The...