326 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
till they finished with Ever, ONLY, ALL for Thee ! Miss Havergal always sang the hymn to her father s tune, Patmos. It was put as the Consecration Hymn at the beginning of Loyal Responses, 1878.
About six months before she died she wrote, I had a great time early this morning, renewing the never-regretted consecra tion. I seemed led to run over the " Take my life," and could bless Him verse by verse for having led me on to much more definite consecration than even when I wrote it voice, gold, intellect, &c. But the eleventh couplet
Take my love ; my Lord, I pour At Thy feet its treasure-store
that has been unconsciously not filled up. Somehow, I feel mystified and out of my depth here ; it was a simple and definite thing to be done, to settle the voice, or silver and gold ; but "love"? I have to love others, and I do, and I ve not a small treasure of it ; and even loving in Him does not quite meet the inner difficulty. I shall just go forward and expect Him to fill it up, and let my life from this day answer really to that couplet. The worst part of me is that I don t in practice prove my love to Him, by delight in much and long communion with Him; hands and head seem so full of "other things" (which yet are His given work), that " heart " seems not " free to serve in fresh and vivid love.
Hymn 567. Fill Thou my life, O Lord my God.
DR. H. BONAR (70).
From Hymns of Faith and Hope, 3rd Series, 1867, headed Life s Praise.
��Hymn 568. O the bitter shame and sorrow. THEODORE MONOD.
Theodore Monod, son of the Rev. F. Monod and brother of Rev. Adolph Monod, was born in Paris, November 6, 1836 ; educated for the ministry at Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, and became a minister of the French Reformed Church in 1860.
This hymn was written in English during a series of
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