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March 4, 1915
PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
By MARGATET BEVERLY UPSHAW
Beautiful Lesson From the Wonderful
Life Story of Fanny J. Crosby
The Christian world has been smil
ing through its tears ever since Fanny
Crosby, the blind hymn writer, went
“up higher.’’ Having sung around the
world her heaven-born songs for more
than a generation everybody whom
her consecrated genius has so wonder
fully blessed has been thinking with
joy and triumph of how it looked to
her when Fanny Crosby, not seeing on
earth for more than ninety years, first
opened her blind eyes in heaven. The
editor of The Golden Age had the
priceless privilege of talking with this
wonderful hand-maiden of God in her
home in Brooklyn fifteen years ago,
and that experience enables him to
enjoy all the more the following beau
tiful story from The Florida Baptist
Witness:
Fannie Crosby, well known hymn
writer, died February 12 at her home
in Bridgeport, Conn., in her ninety
fifth year.
Miss Crosby’s death was not unex
pected as her health had been failing
for some time. At her bedside were
her niece, Mrs. Henry D. Booth, and
other members of the family with
whom she had long made her home.
In spite of feeble health Miss Cros
by continued writing hymns up to a
short time before her death.
Eight thousand hymns of Christian
worship sung in Protestant churches
throughout the world are the work of
Fanny Crosby. No one since the days
of Charles Wesley or Isaac Watts has
made anywhere near as large a con
tribution to the Gospel song book as
did the blind writer whose death oc
curred on the 12th of February.
Given 200 Pen Names.
Fanny Crosby’s name was signed so
regularly as author of one hymn after
another that the hymn book makers of
a quarter of a century ago, were forc
ed to give her some 200 different pen
names to make it appear that someone
besides the famous writer had con
tributed. Thousands —perhaps hun
dreds of thousands —who sang her
songs, which were translated into
Studies in the Book of Romans
Outline of Studies in the Book of
Romans, by B. Lacy Hoge, pastor of
Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church,
Norfolk, Va., to be given by him Wed
nesday night of each week at that
church. A large congregation was
present last Wednesday night to hear
the Bible Studies.
Title —No Hope in Human Merit. —
Romans 3-1 to 20.
All are under sin.—Rom. 3-9. Paul
had proved that both Jew end Gentle
were under sin and guilty before God.
Therefore, the question:
What advantage then hath the Jew?
—Rom. 3-1. Paul had declared that
circumcision without spiritual reality
will not save. Then the question is
asked, “What is the good of circum
cision?” What is the advantage of
every language, did not know that it
was a blind woman’s inspiration which
they employed to express their Chris
tian faith and hope in song.
“Saved by Grace/’ “Blessed Assur
ance,” “Rescue the Perishing,’ and
“Safe in the Arms of Jesus,’’ are typi
cal of Fanny Crosbys most popular
religious verses. Os the latter the
writer has related an incident showing
the remarkable rapidity with which
she employed her inspiration and her
talents of verification.
W. H. Doane, who wrote the music
for many of her verses, had called one
morning at Miss Crosby’s home in
New York.
“I must take a train for Cincinnati
in forty minutes,” he said, “and I hav e
some music for which I want you to
write a hymn.”
He sat down at the piano and play
ed his music.
T think I can write it, Mr. Doane/'
I said.
I hurried upstairs and sat down to
write. For some time I was entirely
oblivious of surroundings. When I
came back to my full senses the hymn
was written and was on paper before
me. I learned that I had only taken
fifteen minutes. Triumphantly, I car
ried it down to Mr. Doane. The music
he played then and the words I had
hurriedly written are the same as used
today in singing “Safe in the Arms
of Jesus.”
“It was my most successful hymn,
and I believe it was dictated by the
spirit of the Lord, 'and that it was born
for a mission.
, More Popular Melodies.
But Fanny Crosby did not begin
hymn writing until she was over forty
years of age. Fifty years ago she was
best known for her popular melodies,
which were whistled all over the coun
try, such as “Proud World Good-by, I’m
Going Home,” “Hazel Dell,” “The Hon
eysuckle Glen,” and “Never Forget
the Dear Ones.”
Born in Putnam county, New York
state, March 24, 1820, christened Fran-
being a Jew? Paul says, “Much every
way.” The adoption, and the glory,
and the covenants, and the law-giving,
and the worship, and the promises, and
the Fathers, and the Christ.” Rom.
9-4 and 5. But “chiefly” (Rom. 3-2
the oracles of God were entrusted to
them —God’s message to man —His
book of revealed truth, the book by
which man is to live and die —the book
that tells him more about God and
more about himself than he can learn
from all other sources.
What advantage hath the church?
Baptist wihtout spiritual reality is of
no profit. But the two joined toge
ther insures salvation. Also God has
entrusted to his church his book of
revealed truth —His message to the
world and commands us to give this
THE GOLDEN AGE
ces Jean Crosby, and married to Alex
ander Van Alstyne, a blind music
teacher, who died many years ago, the
blind writer lived to be ninety-five
years old. Her mother had lived to be
102 and her grandmother to be 106.
She retained to the last all of her fac
ulties—excepting eyesight. She lost
this during a fever in infancy, when a
hot poultice was applied to her eyes,
destroying the optic nerves.
At eight years the little girl dis
played her first talent in versification
by this philosophy of contentment:
Oh, what a happy soul am I!
Although I cannot see;
1 am resolved that in this world
Contented I will be.
How many blessings I enjoy
That other people don’t;
To weep and sigh because I’m bldm
I cannot and I won’t.
For twelve years she studied at the
New York Institution for the Blind.
She never learned to read by the rais
ed letters. Playing the guitar while
a child, she so calloused her fingers
that they were not sensitive enough
to read the raised characters. All she
learned she memorized from hearing.
During her connection with the insti
tution, which included an additional
twelve years as a teacher, she travel
ed all over the country, reclaiming her
own verses. Before both houses of
congress she once recited these spe
cial lines:
O, ye-, who here from every state con
vene,
Illustrious band! may we not hope the
scene
You now behold will prove for every
mind
Instruction hath away to cheer the
blind.
NO PROHIBITION FOR MICHIGAN.
It has recently been decided at a
meeting between the representatives
of the legislature that the state-wide
prohibition bill will not be introduced
in Michigan legislature this year. It
has been announced that the “dry”
leaders thought such a movement “un
wise” at this time.
Can it ever be “unwise” to take a
vigorous stand for Prohibition?
message to all men.
What if some did not believe? —
Rom. 3-3 and 4. Why the promises
will stand good, for God is faithful.
He will be true if all men be liars.
He will make good his words. He is
always right. Ps. 51-4.
That the end does not justify the
means. —Rom. 3-5 to 8. God is just
and condemns all sin. The man that
sins that good may come, will be just
ly damned.
Are we better than they? “No, in
no wise,” says Paul, “both Jews and
Gentiles are all under sin.” —V. 9. “\s
it is written, There is none righteous,
no.not one.” They have all left the
right way and gone in the wrong way.
Rom. 3-10 to 18.
The Law Speaks. —Rom. 3-19 to 20.
This law condemns all and also gives
knowledge of sin and shows that non j
can be justified by the law. That
man needs a Sav’our.
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