“Mother, if I had any choice, I will still choose to remain blind… for when I die; the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed saviour.” In the face of adversities, Fanny Crosby conquered many obstacles. She encountered being blind, but stood a publisher of hymns and poems; where as she was an instructor at school. At the age of six weeks old, Fanny lost her eyesight completely because of a non-qualified man for the treatment. She had a slight cold in her eyes; therefore he prescribed her with mustard poultices. She was blind. Behind all of that, she still did positive things. She published her first poetry at the age of eleven. Fanny’s grandmother introduced the Bible to her, and she began to consume the scriptures. All of that equipped themes, inspiration, and diction for her imperishable hymns. With that being said, she also published her first book at the age of twenty-four called “The Blind Girl”. …show more content…
She joined two other great blind poets, Milton and Homer. At the age of fifteen, God answered one of hers prayers. She was going to the Institution for the Blind. As to say, she spent twelve years there as a student, and eleven years as a teacher. That combines to be twenty years of her life there. When she was twenty-seven, she became an instructor. Between ages twenty-four and twenty-seven, she composed many popular songs and assisted in writing that was the very first cantata published in America. In her early twenties, she fell in love with another blind student named Alexander VanAlstyne. He loved her music and poems. He sometimes even sang to her. They were married for fourty-four years. VanAlstyne became a teacher just like