FANNY CROSBY-Biography – Composer of over 8,000 hymns

Fanny Crosby

Biography – Composer of over 8,000 hymns

 

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 Fanny Crosby, 1820-1915

Fanny Cros­by was prob­ab­ly the most pro­lif­ic hymn­ist in his­to­ry. Though blind­ed by an in­com­pe­tent doc­tor at six weeks of age, she wrote over 8,000 hymns. About her blind­ness, she said:
It seemed in­tend­ed by the bless­ed prov­i­dence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dis­pen­sa­tion. If per­fect earth­ly sight were of­fered me to­mor­row I would not ac­cept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been dis­tract­ed by the beau­ti­ful and in­ter­est­ing things about me.
In her life­time, Fan­ny Cros­by was one of the best known wo­men in the Unit­ed States. To this day, the vast ma­jor­i­ty of Amer­i­can hymn­als con­tain her work.
Read more and listen to over 400 of her hymns here http://cyberhymnal.org/bio/c/r/o/crosby_fj.htm
Fanny’s most famous hymn (music composed by her friend Phoebe Knapp Blessèd assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

Refrain

This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior, all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior, all the day long.

Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Refrain

Perfect submission, all is at rest
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

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  Fanny Crosby and Alexander Van Alstyne (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
  
  
  

  Birthplace of Fanny Crosby (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
  
  
  

  “A Hymn of Thanksgiving”, composed and written by Fanny J. Crosby and Ira D. Sankey, sheet music cover. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
  
  
  

  English: A picture of Fanny Crosby. Rationale: The subject died in 1915, prior to 1923, making this image public domain in the USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
  
  
  

  (l to r) Mercy, Julia, and Caroline Morris and Fanny Crosby (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
  
  
  

  A young Fanny Crosby (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Fanny Crosby’s Life-Story (1903) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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  Fanny Crosby (Photo credit: Wikipedia)