Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — BLIND WRITER OF HYMNS AND HER HOME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BLIND WRITER OF HYMNS AND HER HOME

MRS. FANNY CROSBY, the blind hymn writer, celebrated her 92nd birthday the other day at her home In IYI Bridgeport, Conn. Up to the present time she has written more than seven thousand hymns. Among the most famous of them are “Safe in the Arms of Jesus,’’ “Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross” and “Jesus the Water oi Life Will Give.” Mrs. Crosby was bom at Southeast, N. Y., on March 24,1820, and has been blind since she was six weeks old. She Is still enjoying good health, and spends most of her time knitting when not dictating hymns.