Fanny Crosby's Hymn Written in the Dark

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a quack doctor's poultice destroyed her sight forever. She would never see her mother's face, never watch a sunset over the Connecticut hills, never read a single word of Scripture with her own eyes. Yet at the age of eight, she composed a short poem that would define her life: "Oh, what a happy soul I am, although I cannot see.…