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LIFE OF FANNY CROSBY
Extracts From an Article Read by Miss Ezra Morrison
at the Baptist Church Several Sundays Ago.
On March, 24, 1820, at the
home of John Crosby and Mercy,
his wife, in Putnam county, New
York, there was great rejoicing,
because God had sent a babe
there. The fond parents called
the child Fanny, and began to
dream of her future.
But in a few weeks sorrow dis
placed the joyful anticipations.
The babe's beautiful eyes be
came inflamed. The physician
was called in, and the unfortu
nate man made a mistake in
treating the disease, the
thought of which haunted him
till the day of his death. Asa
result little Fanny became hope
lessly blind. At once the parents
ceased to dream of a bright fu
ture for this child. What could
the future hold for one who
could never look on the beauty of
the earth or read the pages of
God’s Word?
It quickens one’s faith to study
the life of Fanny Crosby in order
to see how the blind girl learned
to make the most of herself.
Asa child she was accustomed
to romp and play with her com
panions, and she forgot that
there was any difference between
them and herself until some
thoughtless person would say,
“Oh, you cannot do this—because
you are blind, you know; you
can never go there, because it
would not be worth while: you
could not see anything if you did,
you know.”
Fanny Crosby has always been
an optimist—she delighted in
speaking of the good fortune
that was continually coming into
her life. Among her greatest
blessings she has always counted
instruction in the Bible. A friend
read much of the Book to her
and guided her in memorizing
hundreds of texts. When she
was ten years old she was able
to recite the first five books of
the Old Testament and the first
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four of the New Testament.
Poetry also she learned, until she
felt that she must herself write
poetry or die.
She was fifteen when her faith
that God would enable her to se
cure an education was justified.
She was told that she was to at
tend the New York school for
the blind, the first of the kind in
the country, then in its infancy.
How eagerly she prepared for
the trip and began her work!
Progress was difficult, but in ten
years she had become so profic
ient that she was made one of
the regular instructors.
From time to time wide pub
licity was given to some of the
productions of the blind teacher,
but it was not until 1844 that
she became known through her
work to men all over the country.
When she was twenty-four
she timidly gathered up a few of
her early poems and had them
published under the title, “The
Blind Girl, and Other Poems.”
Soon after, William Cullen Bry
ant, who was then at the height
of his fame, visited the institu
tion and spoke encouragingly to
the young teacher. “He never
knew,” she later testified grate
fully, “how much good he did by
those few words to the young
girl who had hardly hoped to
even have the opportunity of
meeting him.”
About the same time Horace
Greely noticed her work and ask
ed her to furnish verses for the
New York Tribune. Encouraged
by this recognition, she sent out
in 1851 her second volume,
“Montery. and Other Poems.”
In 1858 a third collection, “A
Wreath of Columbia’s Flowers,”
were published, and in 1897 her
last volume, “Bells at Evening,
and Other Verses,” appeared.
Her first hymn was published in
“The Blind Girl, and Other
Poems.”
,In 1864 she began the great
life-work for which she had been
unconsciously preparing—the
writing of hymns. William B.
Bradbury, a famous hymn-writer,
asked her to write for him. Her
first attempt was:
“We are going, we are going,
To a home beyond the skies,
Where the roses never wither,
And the sunlight never dies.”
Others followed in quick suc
cession. ‘‘There’s a cry from
Macedonia” was one of the most
popular. ‘‘All the way my Sav
ior leads me, ’ ’ reached the hearts
of many. This is not surprising
when it is remembered that the
words were the outgrowth of a
deep experience of her own.
Among her best known hymns
are “Only a step to Jesus,”
‘‘Pass me not, O gentle Saviour.”
‘‘Jesus, keep me near the cross,”
‘‘To the work,” “Blessed Assur
ance,” “I am thine, O Lord,”
“Only a beam of sunshine,”
“Rescue the. perishing,” “We
shall know each other there,”
“Just a word for Jesus,” “Saved
by grace.”
Should this remarkable blind
woman have lived until March 24,
1915, she would have been 95
| years old. She was the author
of over 8000 hymns and had over
200 pen names, which compilers
of song books gave her.
TELLS ABOUT MEDICAL
EXAMINATION IN SCHOOLS
The movement of the Parent-
Teacher Association to provide a
free medical and dental exami
nation for school children has
been approved by the school
board and hereafter the Jackson
public schools will have compul
sory medical examination.
As the children themselves
play an active part in the spread
ing of infection by thumbing
books, swapping pencils, etc.,
and infections are usually spread
by actual contact with the mouth,
nose or blood, the only policy to
pursue is that of prevention. It
is highly important to prevent as
completely as possible the spread
of malignant diseases and it is
also advantageous to guard the
child against minor infections.
While in some cases the child is
apparently none the worse for
the experience of having the so
called childrens diseases, never
theless these infections often
work permanent damage in some
part of the system. The best
and surest way to prevent conta
gion is by good quarantine work
in the school and it is the task of
education to teach that, which
instruction ought to guard us
against.
Parents are in almost every
case devoted to the best interests
of their children, but they are
often short-sighted and lacking
in knowledge of conditions which
prevent their child’s fullest de
velopment, the teacher often be
ing blamed for poor progress,
when defective eyes or poor hear
ing is the real cause. Nervous
ness, anemia and mal-nutrition
often cause a child to be branded
as sullen, stubborn or stupid.
A thorough medical and dental
examination in which the doctors
and dentists of Jackson will give
their best efforts will help local
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and in a large way prevent fur
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Drs. Chesnutt, Hopkins and
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dental examination; Drs. Woods,
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and Heard will have charge of
diseases of the ear, eye, nose,
throat, lungs, heart, stomach,
kidneys, skin, blood, nerves, phys
ical development, contagious dis
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The task set before these doc
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efforts deserve the highest order
of praise and thanks, being as it
is a free offering of their skill for
the betterment of the human race
through the most priceless of all
our possessions—our children.
Parent-Teacher.
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IS ADVI6E OF PLOW HANOLES
We are still in the grip of win
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ax and the only thing that breaks
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a common free negro, and the
only way out of it under the sun
is to quit so much cotton and
plant something to live on. And
what is this something? It is
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know with cotton at 12 cents
there is some profit in the moder
ate use of fertilizers, but with
the present uncertainty of the
price of cotton next fall we doubt
the wisdom of using any at all,
except in our garden and potato
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Suppose we all dispense with
the use of guano this time entire
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fall we will make some profit. If
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fall we can’t pay our guano bill.
Suppose we all try this one time,
for I don’t think we can worse
our condition by doing so.
Plow Handles.
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