Fanny Crosby's Church

From Wholesome Words:

Her funeral filled the church with friends. The choir sang her favorite song …”Faith of Our Fathers”…then, her own…”Safe in the Arms of Jesus”…and, “Saved By Grace.” Her minister, George M. Brown, of the Methodist church said it well:

There must have been a royal welcome when this queen of sacred song burst the bonds of death and passed into the glories of heaven.

At her funeral were read words from Eliza Edmunds Hewitt, the last verse of a poem freshly written which said:

Good-bye, dearest Fanny, goodbye for a while,
You walk in the shadows no more,
Around you, the sunbeams of glory will smile,
The Lamb is the light of that Shore!

From historicbuildingsct.com:

The First Methodist Society in Bridgeport was organized in 1817 and the first church building was opened in 1823. After this wood structure burned down in 1849 it was replaced by a brick one in 1850. After it was deemed unfit for continuing occupancy in the 1920s, a new edifice was built on Golden Hill, overlooking downtown Bridgeport. The new First Methodist Church and Parish House (333-47 Golden Hill Street/210 Elm Street) was constructed as a single structure in 1928-1929 (the church in the Gothic Revival style and the parish house in the Tudor Revival style) to plans by the architectural consortium of Southey, Allen, and Collens. In 1970, several other Methodist Churches merged with First Methodist Church and the church’s name was changed to Golden Hill United Methodist Church.

Hymns by Fanny Crosby in Great Hymns of the Faith:

#106 – Tell Me the Story of Jesus
#148 – Will Jesus Find Us Watching?
#157 – What a Gathering!
#235 – Pass Me Not
#247 – Jesus Is Calling
#255 – Blessed Assurance
#258 – He Hideth My Soul
#296 – All the Way My Savior Leads Me
#304 – Savior, More Than Life to Me
#314 – I Am Thine, O Lord
#328 – Close to Thee
#345 – ‘Tis the Blessed Hour of Prayer
#351 – Near the Cross
#385 – Take the World, but Give Me Jesus
#411 – Victory Through Grace
#428 – To the Work!
#432 – Rescue the Perishing
#442 – Praise Him! Praise Him!
#449 – To God Be the Glory
#475 – Redeemed
#495 – Unsearchable Riches
#502 – My Savior First of All
#512 – Saved By Grace

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Image Source/Credit (in order):

• Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
• Photo by Randy Melchert