Fanny Crosby's Joyful Noise
When Frances Jane Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's botched treatment, no one expected her life would become a...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 100.
When Frances Jane Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's botched treatment, no one expected her life would become a sustained hymn of thanksgiving. Yet Fanny Crosby, born in 1820 in Southeast, New York, refused to let blindness silence her praise. At age eight she wrote her first poem: "O what a happy soul I am, although I cannot see.…
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