The Hymn Writer Who Thanked God for Blindness

Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor in Southeast, New York, applied a hot mustard poultice to her infected eyes. The treatment destroyed her sight permanently. For ninety-five years, she never saw a sunrise, a human face, or the words on a printed page. When people expressed pity, she refused it. When asked about the doctor whose error blinded her, she said something remarkable: "If I could meet him now, I would say thank you, thank you — because it was through his mistake that I have lived in the light of God's love."…