With a woman at look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone's Shree with the

point.

In November of 1850, a 30-year-old woman who'd been blind since six weeks after her birth,

attended a revival service.

Fanny Crosby was raised by her grandmother who encouraged the young girl to pray and

memorize whole books of Scripture.

Her mother worked full time to support the family financially, that enabled Crosby to attend

the New York Institute for the Blind.

Eventually, she became a teacher at the school and became known as the Blind Poetus, and

visited by government figures.

When Crosby attended this revival in 1850, she was recovering from nursing others through

cholera.

God used that service to deepen her devotion to Christ, and in 1864, she began to write hymns,

such as blessed assurance, safe in the arms of Jesus, hymns that remain beloved today.

She once said that a benefit of being blind was, quote, when I get to heaven, the first

face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone's Shree with the Point.

Thank you.