This Is My Story This Is My Song

Fanny Crosby lived to be almost ninety-five years old and penned a total of over eight thousand sacred songs and hymns. More remarkable than that is the fact that this life's work was accomplished without the aid of eyesight. She began writing poetry at the age of eight, but was forty-four years old when she gave up secular songs to devote her full energies to sacred compositions. From her prolific pen flowed such popular favorites as "Near the Cross," "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Rescue the Perishing," and "Blessed Assurance."