The Blind Hymn Writer Who Lacked Nothing
When Frances Jane Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's tragic error, no one in her small New York village...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Corinthians 1:1-9.
When Frances Jane Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's tragic error, no one in her small New York village imagined what God had already set in motion. Born in 1820 in Southeast, Putnam County, Fanny Crosby might have seemed, by every earthly measure, profoundly lacking. Yet the Almighty had called her — and He would prove faithful.…
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