We see musical gifts passed down from generation to generation."Take My Life and Let It Be" demonstrates this.  Francis Ridley Havergal wrote the words, and her father wrote one of the tunes used for it. He was a clerygman in England in the 1800's.

Frances has written how this song came to be:

"I went for a little visit of five days.  There were ten persons in the house:some were unconverted and long prayed for, some converted by not rejoicing Christians.  God gave me the prayer, "Lord, give me all in this house."  And He just did.  Before I left the house, everyone had got a blessing.  The last night of my visit I was too happy to sleep and passed most of the night in renewal of my consecration, and those little couplets formed themselves and chimed in my heart one after another till they finished with "ever only, ALL FOR THEE!"

The tune her Father wrote for the song is called "Patmos."  The video on the right is a beautiful arrangement of this tune.