Fanny Crosby and the Light She Never Lost

Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old, after a careless doctor applied a mustard poultice to her infected eyes. She would never see a sunrise, never watch light play across water, never glimpse the face of someone she loved. Yet this woman from Southeast, New York, went on to write more than eight thousand hymns — and an astonishing number of them were about light.…