My Saviour, all my life Thy praise I’ll sing,
Nor cease my song throughout eternity.
She also wrote a hymn on Confirmation, “In full and glad surrender.” This hymn her sister declared was “the epitome of her life and the focus of its sunshine.”
Four years later, while pursuing studies in Düsseldorf, Germany, Miss Havergal chanced to see Sternberg’s celebrated painting, Ecce Homo, with the inscription beneath it:
This have I done for thee;
What hast thou done for me?
This was the same painting that once made such a profound impression on the youthful mind of Count Zinzendorf. Miss Havergal was likewise deeply moved, and immediately she seized a piece of scrap paper and a pencil and wrote the famous hymn:
I gave My life for thee,
My precious blood I shed,
That thou might’st ransomed be,