hymn jesus keep me near the cross lyrics

SONG BOOK, 2015 EDITION, #178 1987 EDITION, #115 REFERENCE: MORGAN, ROBERT J. Fanny Crosby wrote over 8000 hymns in her lifetime! Click To Tweet WORDS: FANNY CROSBY MUSIC: WILLIAM DOANE S.A. Fanny Crosby wrote over 8000 hymns in her lifetime! Fanny Crosby had written many poems while attending a school for the blind in New York City Click To TweetĪs we approach Easter, may we truly stay “near the cross” as we contemplate its significance to the world – in history, in the present, and in the future. Would Miss Crosby have written so many hymns that touch our hearts, had it not been for her loss of sight? Certainly, we know God works good out of tragic circumstances. Her blindness from infancy was a sad result of malpractice by a doctor. She sometimes recited these for visiting dignitaries. Previously, Fanny Crosby had written many poems while attending a school for the blind in New York City. The congregation had been singing Isaac Watts’ hymn: At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light.

She also wrote several other songs with the theme of the cross, after claiming Christ as her own Saviour in a church meeting in 1850, when she was thirty years old. Near the cross, a trembling soul, love and mercy found me there the bright and morning star sheds its beams. Refrain: In the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever, till my raptured soul shall find rest beyond the river. She said the tune made her think of the opening line. Jesus, keep me near the cross there a precious fountain, free to all, a healing stream, flows from Calvary’s mountain.

Composer William Doane wrote the melody of this very familiar, very beloved hymn before Fanny Crosby penned the words.

Hymn jesus keep me near the cross lyrics