Fanny Crosby's Eight Thousand Hymns

When Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's mistake, no one imagined she would become the most prolific hymn writer in Christian history. Yet by the time she died in 1915 at age ninety-four, she had composed over eight thousand hymns, including "Blessed Assurance" and "To God Be the Glory." What sustained her across nearly a century of blindness, poverty, and loss?…