How can Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, the hymn Pass Me Not O Gentle Saviour, and the Park Street Church in Boston all be included in the same story with Fanny Crosby? It isn't easy, but the podcast today will help tie in the connections. Of greater significance than these peripheral actions, however, is the incredible body of hymns and poems written by Fanny Crosby. To say she was prolific does not do justice to the thousands of hymns and poems she wrote. Further, it is hard to imagine she didn't write her first hymn until she was forty-four. Her love for Jesus caused her to overflow in song and poetry. This hymn, Saved by Grace, was one that came to her after she heard about the unexpected death of a minister she had heard earlier in the week. Fanny realized that in heaven she would be healed of her blindness and she would see her Saviour face to face. How great was the opening of her eyes, and may we desire to grasp what she anticipated.

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Article taken from Living Stories of Famous Hymns by Ernest K. Emurian. Copyright © 1955 by Baker Book House Company. Used by permission of Baker Book House Company.