All The Way My Savior Leads Me

Thursday, August 29, 2019



Fanny Crosby was one of, if not the, most prolific hymn writers of all time. She authored over 8,000 hymns, and used almost 200 different pseudonyms because publishers were hesitant to include so many songs by the same person in their hymnals.

Fanny CrosbyCrosby went blind while she was still an infant and never regained her sight. Of her blindness she wrote, “It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank Him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God if I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things around me.”

One of her most popular hymns is “All The Way My Savior Leads Me.” She wrote it after God had answered another of her many prayers. The story goes that she was struggling financially at the time, so she did what she always did when she had a need, she prayed. Within minutes a man approached and handed her $5, the exact amount she needed. She said of the incident, “I have no way of accounting for this except to believe that God put it into the heart of this good man to bring the money.”

In 1843 she was among a group of students from the New York Institution for the Blind that went to Washington, DC to speak to the U.S. Senate about supporting education for the blind. She became the first woman to speak in Congress.

In her 60s she became active in missions to the poor of New York City. She worked at a number of inner city missions in the Bowery and Hell’s Kitchens areas of the city.

Here’s Rich Mullins performing “All The Way My Savior Leads Me” live in Holland in 1994. Mullins included the song on his 1992 album “The World As Best As I Remember It, Vol 2.”


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