The Blind Woman Who Sang Her Way Through the Gates

When Fanny Crosby was only six weeks old, a doctor's mistake left her permanently blind. She never once saw a sunrise, a flower, or the face of someone she loved. Yet by the time she died in 1915 at ninety-four years old, she had written more than eight thousand hymns — among them "Blessed Assurance," "To God Be the Glory," and "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior."…