Biglow and Main Publishing Company collected over 5,500 of Fanny’s lyrics in their files, well before the finish of her career. Hubert Main collaborated with her, providing music to accompany her lyrics for some of them…
She estimated at least another 1,500 hymns were published by other firms. Pictured here is one of their hymns written together, Fanny utilizing another of her 200 pseudonyms.
This hymn focuses on her great love of the Bible, much if not most of which she had memorized.
Were it not for her knowledge of the Bible, memorizing the Bible, meditating on the Bible, the possibility of a blind girl having the destiny of a Fanny Crosby is questionable.
The power of the Word of God to stimulate creativity, productivity, direction… is amazing. As you ponder the Bible, you will discover, over time, changes in your attitudes, your preferences, your appetites.
Meditate on God’s personal message to you through this Book. Discover what Fanny Crosby and millions more throughout history have experienced: God’s love and purpose for each and every one of us.
Fanny was productive to the end of her life. On her last day, two weeks short of her 95th birthday, and just hours before she died of a sudden massive cerebral hemorrhage, she wrote:
In the morn of Zion’s glory, When the clouds have rolled away,
And my hope has dropped its anchor In the vale of perfect day,
When with all the pure and holy I shall strike my harp anew,
With a power no arm can sever, Love will hold me fast and true.
~ Fanny Crosby Friday, Feb. 12, 1915
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