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: Flem­ing 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

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

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. Pardoned
16. Soon Will Our Sav­ior from Hea­ven Ap­pear
17. This Is Grace
18. What Will It Be When We See Him?
19. Will the Circle Be Un­brok­en?