Fanny Crosby lived to be almost 95 and wrote the staggering total of over 8000 sacred songs and hyman.
What is more remarkable is the fact that this work was accomplished with the aid of eyesight.
At aged 44 she gave up writing secular songs to devote her full energies to sacred compositions.
And from her pen flowed such popular and all time favourites such as "Safe in the Arms of Jesus", Pass me not gentle Saviour" and " Blessed Assurance."