Elliott be­came an in­val­id around age 30, and re­mained so for the rest of her life. About her phys­i­cal con­di­tion, El­li­ott wrote:

My Heavenly Father knows, and He alone, what it is, day af­ter day, and hour af­ter hour, to fight against bodily feelings of almost over­pow­er­ing weak­ness and lang­uor and ex­haust­ion, to re­solve, as He en­a­bles me to do, not to yield to the sloth­ful­ness, the de­press­ion, the ir­ri­ta­bil­i­ty, such as a bo­dy caus­es me to long to in­dulge, but to rise ev­ery morn­ing de­term­ined on tak­ing this for my mot­to, “If any man will come af­ter me, let him de­ny him­self, take up his cross dai­ly, and fol­low me.”

Elliott lived in Bright­on, En­gland, and for some 40 years, had an on­go­ing “spiritual” cor­res­pond­ence with Hen­ri Ma­lan. She wrote about 150 hymns, and her works in­clude:

• The In­va­lid’s Hymn Book, 1834
• Psalms and Hymns for Pub­lic, Pri­vate, and So­cial Wor­ship, 1835-48; ed­it­ed by her bro­ther Hen­ry
• Hours of Sor­row, 1836
• Hymns for a Week, 1839
• Thoughts in Verse on Sac­red Sub­jects, 1869

Sources

Hymns

1. As the New Moons of Old Were Given
2. Christ­ian! Seek Not Yet Repose
3. Clouds and Darkness Round About Thee
4. Dawn Approaches, Golden Streaks, The
5. Father, When Thy Child Is Dying
6. Glorious Was That Primal Light
7. Guard Well Thy Lips
8. Hail, Ho­ly Day, Most Blest, Most Dear
9. I Need No Other Plea
10. I Need No Pray­ers to Saints
11. I Want That Adorning Divine
12. Jesus, My Savior, Look on Me
13. Just as I Am
14. Leaning on Thee, My Guide, My Friend
15. My God, Is Any Hour So Sweet
16. My God and Father, While I Stray
17. My Only Savior, When I Feel
18. Not Willingly Dost Thou Afflict
19. Now Let Our Heavenly Plants and Flowers
20. O Faint and Feeble Hearted
21. O God, May I Look Up to Thee
22. O Ho­ly Savior, Friend Unseen
23. O How I Long to Reach My Home
24. O Thou, the Contrite Sinner’s Friend
25. Sabbath Day Has Reached Its Close, The
26. There Is a Ho­ly Sacrifice
27. There Is a Spot of Consecrated Ground
28. This Is Enough; Although ’Twere Sweet
29. This Is the Day to Tune with Care
30. This Is the Mount Where Christ’s Disciples See
31. With Tearful Eyes I Look Around