![]() SPAG Magazine, it’s staff and volunteers do not profit from promoting Christian organisations which form a part of our regular articles and promotions.Īny promotions, articles and information shared through SPAG Magazine, may not necessarily reflect exactly the individual beliefs and convictions of our staff members and volunteers, nor of our readers. ![]() ![]() Even though Fanny Crosby is best remembered for her hymn-writing, she preferred to be remembered for her missionary work. In her 1906 autobiography she said that she wrote her hymns ‘in a sanctified manner,’ and never for financial or commercial considerations, and that she had donated her royalties to ‘worthy causes.’ One of Crosby’s goals was to win a million people to Christ through her hymns, and whenever she wrote her lyrics, she literally prayed it would bring women and men to Christ. Crosby was paid only a fee of one or two dollars per song or poem and never anything more. The financial stress was due to copyright rules at the time, which exploited poets and song-writers, especially women, and gave the rights to hymns and other music to the composer of the music, rather than the lyricist. Though Crosby had written the lyrics to thousands of hymns, many under different names, she often struggled financially. Missionary Work Fanny was extremely passionate about supporting and helping the poor, even going so far as to live in their slums where she worked with them, for the last couple of decades of her life. The only comment that Fanny ever made about their marriage came after her husband died when she said: “He had his faults – and so have I mine, but notwithstanding these, we loved each other to the last.” God gave us a tender babe but the angels came down and took our infant up to God and to His throne.” It is understood that the marriage became unhappy after their daughter’s death, and though they remained married, Fanny and her husband didn’t live together for a couple of decades. Crosby never spoke publicly about being a mother, only mentioning it in a few interviews toward the end of her life, when she said: “I became a mother and knew a mother’s love. In 1859 they had a daughter Frances who died in infancy, possibly from SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) which at the time wasn’t understood. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.” On MaCrosby married Alexander Van Alstyne Jr, a man who she’d met while teaching. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. “It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank Him for the dispensation. Oftentimes she would have several hymns floating about in her mind at the same time, and could compose several in a day. She wrote quite a number of political items as well.īlindness Due to her disability, Fanny struggled to write legibly, so her friends and family wrote her words down on paper for her. Fanny was a strong supporter for the abolition of slavery and wrote in support of Abraham Lincoln and his fight to end slavery. While writing in those early years, Ms Cosby continued to teach at a blind school in North Reading. Fanny Crosby also co-wrote the very first American opera called “The Flower Queen” which was a cantata. Before she began writing hymns, Fanny co-wrote more than sixty secular songs, some of which were huge hits in their day. ![]() Other Work In addition to the nearly 9,000 lyrics for hymns, Ms Cosby also had four books of poetry published and wrote more than 1,000 secular poems. ![]()
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