title: My King.: Daily Thoughts for The King's Children. (The Five Royal Books) (Volume 1)
author: Frances Ridley Havergal
description: Frances Ridley Havergals formal education ended when she was seventeen, with one term at a young womens school in Dusseldorf, Germany, yet she was a true scholar all her life. Fluent in German and French and nearly so in Italian, she read and loved the Reformers in Latin, German, and French. Knowledge was never an end in itself, only a means to know better her Lord and Saviour and to help to bring others to know Him. The Bible was her only Book, and she studied deeply the Hebrew and Greek texts of Scripture, memorized nearly all the New Testament and large portions of the Old Testament, and loved the Author with all her being. Frances was brought to a saving knowledge of Christ when she was fourteen, and the rest of her life was consecrated to her Savior, the Lord Jesus. Keenly aware of her own sinfulness and inability, her sole desire was to please and glorify Him alone. Very finely gifted, she was truly diligent with her gifts: her poetry is among the finest Christian verse in the English language, after George Herbert; her prose works are deeply beneficial; a musician to the core, she left behind important compositions. Like her works, her life richly touched the ones near her and countless many who met or heard her. The Lord Jesus Christ was her alone, only beauty, and she glowed Him and His truth. These books are taken from the newly prepared edition of The Complete Works of Frances Ridley Havergal. Never wanting attention to herself, Frances desire of her heart was for herself and for others to know her King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Her works are a gold-mine of help and enrichment. As her sister Maria, wrote, 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 ! David L. Chalkley and Glen T. Wegge, editors
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  _Fall of Kings_ is dedicated to the memory of Olive and Bill Woodford, and to
  Don and Edith Graham, without whom the book would have been neither started
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  Acknowledgments
  
  
  
  
  
  With grateful thanks to James Barclay, Sally and Lawrence Berman, Tony Evans,
  Oswald Holtz de Bar, Steve Hutt, Horward Morhaim, and Selina Walker.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  An Appreciation by Con Iggulden
  
  
  
  
  
  In my pantheon of literary greats, David Gemmell stands alone. I read his
  first book, _Legend_ , when I was fourteen and knew even then that I had found
  the kind of writer I wanted to be. Like Julius Caesar himself, Gemmell wrote
  with a spare elegance, racing along with characters and events until I found
  it was dawn and I had to get ready for work. Gemmell is the only writer who
  ever stole my nights in such a way.
  
  
  
  
  
  I read _Ghost King_ when I was in university. I was studying Arthurian
  literature at the time and somehow missed the references to Gian Avur and