1. The Blind Poetess

2. (Left to Right) Mercy, Julia, and Caroline Morris and Fanny Crosby

8. “…we are going, we are going To a home beyond the skies Where the fields are robed in beauty And the sunlight never dies.”

9. Stats and Method Contract for 3 new song per week at $2 each
Often composed per week
Over 200 pen names
5,500 songs published by 1906
Wrote from memory
Wrote lyrics to “Blessed Assurance”
Evangelistic work in NYC
Died Feb. 11, at 95-years-old
19 Fanny J. Crosby songs in our songbook

10. Fanny J. Crosby Song List
4 – To God Be the Glory 300 – Praise Him! Praise Him! 320 – Nearer the Cross 383 – Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross 387 – Tell Me the Story of Jesus 473 – Safe in the Arms of Jesus 480 – Blessed Assurance 485 – Take the World, But Give Me Jesus 501 – Though Your Sins be as Scarlet 508 – A Wonderful Savior
514 – Redeemed
584 – Thou, My Everlasting Portion
592 – Some Day the Silver Cord Will Break
639 – Rescue the Perishing
666 – I Am Thine, O Lord
841 – Hide Me, O My Savior
849 – Tis the Blessed Hour of Prayer
862 – Savior, More Than Life to Me
947 – Jesus is Tenderly Calling

11. Life Lessons from Fanny J. Crosby
Life can be beautiful no matter what

12. Content with what she had
Why She Saw Beauty:
Content with what she had

13. She focused on what was beautiful
Why She Saw Beauty:
Content with what she had
She focused on what was beautiful

14. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
- Philippians 4:8

15. Life Lessons from Fanny J. Crosby
Life can be beautiful no matter what
You can serve God from where you stand

16. Fanny J. Crosby started her career as a composer of sacred hymns at the age of 44!

17. Life Lessons from Fanny J. Crosby
Life can be beautiful no matter what
You can serve God from where you stand
You can grow old without growing bitter

18. “..when I look down the avenue of these ninety years, I find that I have been interested in everything advanced for the welfare of mankind. I have made up my mind never to become a disagreeable old woman, and always to take cheer and sunshine with me. Thus, life becomes one grand choral song, sweetest at its close.”
- Fanny J. Crosby

19. Our golden age should be golden indeed…

20. If we are bitter and angry and loveless in old age, what does that say for a lifetime of Christian living?

21. They will still yield fruit in old age;
They shall be full of sap and very green,
To declare that the Lord is upright;
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
- Psalms 92:14-15

22. so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
- Hebrews 6:12

23. Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good
Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.
- III John 11

24. I hope we’ve been inspired to:
See and focus on the beauty
Offer to God what we have
Persevere to the end in faith