Her prose works were very popular, and "Stepping Heavenward" had found its way into thousands of hearts.

But one day she--in a few hours--won her immortality by writing a hymn, beginning with the lines, "More love to Thee, O Christ, More love to Thee" It was printed on a fly-sheet, for a few friends, then found its way into a hymn-book, edited by my well-beloved friend, Dr.Edwin F.
Hatfield, and then it took wing and flew over the world into many foreign languages.

I often met Mrs.Prentiss at the home of her husband, Dr.George L.Prentiss, an eminent professor in the Union Theological Seminary.

She was a very bright-eyed little woman, with a keen sense of humor, who cared more to shine in her own happy household than in a wide circle of society.

Her absolutely perfect hymn--for such it truly is--was born of her own deep longings for a fuller inflow of that love that casteth out all fear.