Ada was the young­est daugh­ter of Dr. Samuel Osborne Ha­ber­shon. She was brought up in a Christ­ian home by be­liev­ing, pray­ing par­ents, and her whole life was de­vot­ed to God’s ser­vice. In 1901, she be­gan writ­ing po­e­try while ill and wrote “Apart with Him.” She met Dwight Moo­dy and Ira Sank­ey when they vis­it­ed Lon­don in 1884, and vis­it­ed Amer­i­ca at their in­vi­ta­tion to de­liv­er lec­tures on the Old Test­a­ment, which were lat­er pub­lished. Dur­ing the 1905 Tor­rey-Al­ex­an­der Mis­sion, Charles Al­ex­an­der asked her to write some Gos­pel songs; with­in a year, she sup­plied him with 200. Her works in­clude:

• Types in the Old Testament, 1898
• Vorbilder: Christus im alten Testament, 1899
• The Study of the Types (London: Morgan & Scott, 1898)
• The Study of the Parables (London: Nisbet, 1904)
• The Bible and the British Museum (London: Morgan & Scott, 1904)
• The Priests and Levites, a Type of the Church; a Bible Study, 1908
• A Sevenfold Method of Studying the Epistles to the Seven Churches, 1914
• Hidden Pictures: Or, How the New Testament is Concealed in the Old Testament (London: Flemming H. Revell Company, 1916)
• The Day of Atonement in Its Prophetic Aspect, 1916
• A Gatherer of Fresh Spoil; an Autobiography and Memoir, 1918
• I Am a Prayer and Other Poems, 1918
• Israel’s Exodus: Past and Future, 1918
• Outline Study of the Tabernacle
• The Victorian Handbook of Types
• Study of the Miracles

Sources

• . Note: This source gives Ha­ber­shon’s birth place as Ro­ther­ham, York­shire. This is ev­i­dent­ly an err­or, as it con­flicts with Eng­lish cen­sus en­tries.

Hymns

1. Are You Ready for the Coming?
2. At Your Door
3. Bearing His Cross
4. Go Home and Tell
5. He Will Hold Me Fast
6. I Need to Be Filled
7. I’m a Poor Sinner
8. Is He Yours?
9. Let Him Mold Thee
10. Meet Me in the Homeland
11. My Sins Are Forgiven
12. No Burdens Yonder
13. No Other Story
14. Now
15. Oh, What a Change!
16. Pardoned
17. Soon Will Our Savior from Heaven Appear
18. This is Grace
19. What Will It Be When We See Him?
20. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?