CHILDREN’S DEVOTIONS
By Frances Ridley Havergal
Christian Focus. 198 pages. £6.99
ISBN 1 85792 973 X
Christian Focus have reprinted Frances Ridley Havergal’s book of devotions for children.
These are warm and direct exhortations written for children of a bygone era to encourage them in their faith. The language and verbal illustrations sound, at times, archaic and don't seem to belong in the age of computers, ipods and mobile phones. The hymns quoted sound quaint and pietistic.
Perhaps this book will confirm some children in the notion that Christianity is outdated and irrelevant! What is challenging is the assumption that the author makes of the amount of Bible knowledge of her readers! I won't be putting this book in my Sunday School library.
