The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12
FANNY CROSBY, FAMOUS HY MN
 WRITER, DEAD
Aged Blind w oman, Whose Name Is Known the World Over, Gently Falls Into Sleep.
Her Last Evening Spent In Composing Hymn Rated Among Her Most Beauti fal Works Was 94.

full w orks-W Was 9A.
 Safe in the arms of Jesus.
 Safe on His gentle breast,
 There by His love Q, ,ersEadoNeos
 Swee4ly my soul shall rest
 T5ark stfs the voice Of angels
 Borne In a song to me
 Over the fields of glorys
 Over the Jasper sea- Fanny Crosby 6AGrs Alexander Van .A1styne1. known wherever n1 an g Volce is radsad in songs of worship for the r.Yristlan cod. as the writer of thou sands Of beaut1ful hymns died this Y,7oruing as quietly as little child goes to sleep In it's mothers arms.
 A few hours before she had finished dictating the words of a new hyI4nn mn which her niece, Mrs. Henry D. Bootns af 27s wells street, is keeping as a trust. to fulfil the last fragment or q contract the blind poetess had. to give to her publishers all of this work she might dps
 It was at 4:s0 this morning. in the nome Of NErs Booth. where she had lived for many happy years that the aged poefess passed from siJ1InDer to ifs hereafter as gently as the petal of a. flower falls from it's stem
 She was in the 95th eyatr Of her aSe. She retained her mental faeultaes uIl- tI1 the end and, aside from her b1ind- r,eses -vvas physically able to care for herseH. sle displayed little of the feeblenesa to De expected in a. person of her advanced yeara< Although the world In which she lived yvs1s shut out from her sight. she did not live n sax4d If eternal night. She saw in her y,53J,sf,a eve bea11tifuI valleys, land- sca1,es and mighty rivers. At 3nter- wssas a1ae had bsautafu1 visions which ells took delight in descrIbing to the rneuubezw of the household in which she lapsd and koss her friends. A Sic retired Iate last niE1at after dlc- fafiSsst the hymn to Mrs Booth, who Eaasa been her devoted conpaaion Be- cause Of rule of never to make pub i4r. without the consent of her publish CTS any writing she was under con tract to produces Mrs. Booth will not announce the title, or the text, of this hymn.
 ura. Booth said today: Tt is one Of xEaa most beautiful things she has ever composed 7
 Mrs. Booth slept in 8 room next thai occupied by Mrs. Crosby At mid l1fgsnfs she spoke to the bn1d composer 9e.r1d again st 2 o'clock this morning she held a short conversa ton with her At o,1ock Mrs. Booth was again aroused bv 6 noise in Fanny Crosby s room She went to her and found her sitting up and about to get out of bed. Mrs Booth induced. her to lie down again and the aged hymn writer set tied back on her pillows and dropped off to sleep. Mrs. Booth remained with her and soon afterWard noticed that she was not breathing we'll She aroused the member of the family and the end came at the hour stated. Mrs. Fanny crosby came to make her home in this city in 1900. For a. time she made her home in State street with a sister who is now deeeased. For eight years she lived with her niece Mrs Booth, who has been a devoted companion as well as her private sec re1ary.S
 Besides Mrs. Booth these relatives all of Bridgeport, survive her- A sis ter, Mrs Julia. M. Arlington, 413 Fair field avenue. a nephew. Albert E. Nor , Mrs William F. Tait and Florence E Payne; two granddaughter Ralph IF Booth and Shelton Morris, and two grand -nieces, Margery Morris and Natalie Crosby Tait-
 The funeral service for Mrs. Crosby will be held Monday afternoon at 9 3t from the First Methodist church and Rev George M. Brown, pastor of the church, will have charge The music will include her best liked hymns but conplete arrangements have not yet been made It is expected a large number of cIergyTnen will attend. The burial will be in Mountain Grove cem- etery
 Eight thousand hymns of Christian worship sung in Protestant churches throughout the world, are the worA Of Fanny Crosby. No one since the days of Charles Wesley, or Isaac Watts has made anywhere near a. large a contribution to the gospe song book as did the blind writer whose death occurred today
 Fanny Crosby's name was signed so regularly as author of one hymr after another that the hymn boo1 makers Of a quarter of a century age were forced to give her some 200 diff. ferenk pen names to make it appear that someone besides the famous writer had contributed. Thousands- perhaps hundreds of tI1ousandsE who sang her songs, which were translated into every language, die not know that it was a blind wonau,s inspiration which they employed ts express thefr Christian faith and hope in song.
 sssaved by Grace, ssBlessed Assur. ance, 2 Rescue the Perisl1ings' an6 sssafe in the Arms of Jesuss' are typ. ica1 of Fanny Crosby's most popular religious verses.
 Twice before the Civil war, sl1< appeared before Congress in behali of the blind. and is believed to bt the only woman ever permitted tc address both houses.
 In 1914 Fanny Crosby day wa& eel. ebrafed tFrougf1out the world, in the churches where her hymns are sung
 Her home in Bridgeport has beer Mecca to which many Christian fest have made pilgrimage
 But Fanny Crosby did not begir hy4ax4xVrfff ting untfl she wa over 4t years Of age. Fifty years ago shs
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