Fanny Crosby - New York Institution for the Blind

Hello…
My name is Fanny Crosby. I entered the New York Institution for the Blind as a student in 1835 at the age of 15. I later taught grammar, rhetoric, and history as a faculty member of the school. I published two autobiographies, four books of poetry, and over 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, some of which are still sung today.

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The New York Institute for the Blind (NYIB) was founded in 1831 as the first school in the United States dedicated to teaching the blind.
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The New York Point, invented by William Bell Wait, “marked a great advance in progress for the use and education of the blind.”
– from quarterly journal Outlook for the Blind, autumn, 1916

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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