Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross acapella with lyrics
Fanny Crosby, byname of Frances Jane Crosby, married name Fanny Van Alstyne, (born March 24, 1820, Southeast, New York, U.S.—died February 12, 1915, Bridgeport, Connecticut), American writer of hymns, the best known of which was “Safe in the Arms of Jesus.”
Fanny was the only child of widower John Crosby and his second wife, Mercy Crosby, and had a half sister from her father’s first marriage. According to her autobiography, she lost her sight to an eye infection and medical ignorance at the age of six weeks, though some modern scholars have suggested that she may have been born blind. Her father died when she was only six months old, and she was raised by her devout mother and maternal grandmother. Despite these early tragedies, she grew to be an active and happy child. From 1835 to 1843 she attended the New York Institution for the Blind in New York City. At that time Braille was just being developed, and it would not become widespread until many decades later; Crosby never used the system. Her inclination to versify was encouraged by a visiting Scottish phrenologist, who examined her and proclaimed her a poet. Thereafter she was the school’s chief ornament. https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
Acapella version by Larry Mayfield
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