Safe in the Arms of Jesus: The Story of Fanny Crosby

by Chester G. Hearn

Book Overview

Blessed Assurance and To God Be the Glory are just two of the 12,000 poems and hymns written by Fanny Crosby, America's favorite hymnist. A fascinating biography of a blind woman who was mightily used... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875086659
• ISBN13: 9780875086651
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Paganiniana Publications
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Methodist Saint

Although Protestant, she is known as the "Methodist Saint" who was famous in her day as a great hymmal poet ("Pass me not, O gentle Savior", "Safe in the Arms of Jesus", "The Blood Washed Thong") and as a great Christian. Blind since childhood, she longed for "the crystal streams of literature" and later expressed her faith and personal relationship with Jesus ("floodtide of celestial light") through her "song-theology." "That some of my hymms have been dictated by the blessed Holy Spirit, I have no doubt," she said. Though blind she wrote such line as: "The winds a carol murmur, soft and low, While silver stars, that gem the arch of night" Active and vital to her ninties--"when I look down the avenue of these ninety years..."--she donated most of her royalties from her books to the needy and the blind. Her songs are well-known staples of churches and devotionals today.