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- Subject: All The Way My Saviour Leads Me
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- All The Way My Saviour Leads Me
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- All the way my Saviour leads me
- What have I to ask beside?
- Can I doubt His tender mercy,
- Who thru life has been my Guide?
- Heav'nly peace, divinest comfort,
- Here by faith in Him to dwell!
- For I know, whate'er befall me,
- Jesus doeth all things well.
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- This beloved gospel hymn was the expression of gratitude to
- God after a direct answer to prayer. It is reported that one day
- Fanny Crosby desperately needed five dollars and did not know where
- she could obtain this amount. As was her custom, she began to pray
- about this matter. Within a few minutes a stranger appeared at her
- door with just the right amount. "I have no way of accounting for
- this," she wrote, "except to believe that God, in answer to my
- prayer, put it into the heart of this good man to bring the money.
- My first thought was, it is so wonderful the way the Lord leads me.
- I immediately wrote the poem and Dr. Lowry set it to music."
- Fanny Jane Crosby was born of humble parents at Southeast, New
- York, on March 24, 1823. She was blinded at the age of six weeks
- by improper medical treatment. Throughout her lifetime she was a
- faithful member of the St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church in New
- York City. She was educated at the New York School for the Blind.
- From 1847 to 1858 she served as a teacher at this school. In 1858
- she married a blind muscian, Alexander Van Alstyne, a highly
- respected teacher of music at the blind instituition. Her early
- verse writing was primarily of a secular nature. One of her
- popular songs, "Rosalie, the Prairie Flower," brought her almost
- three thousand dollars in ryalties, a considerable amount for that
- day. Through the influence of a well-known church musician, W.B.
- Bradbury, she began, in her early forties, to write gospel song
- lyrics in earnest and became the "happiest creature in all the
- land." It is said that Fanny Crosby never wrote a hymn text
- without first kneeling in earnest prayer and asking for divine
- guidance. She was also characterized by the little American flag
- that she always carried along with her Bible. Throughout her
- career she was associated in her writing with such leading gospel
- muscians of her time as Ira D. Sankey, Wm. H. Doane, John Sweney,
- Goearge Stebbins, George Root, William Kirkpatrick, and others.
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