![]() ![]() ![]() Click To Tweet Words: Fanny Crosby Music: William H. Daily she went there to “rescue the perishing”, so fulfilling the challenge of her hymn. Little-known is the fact that at age sixty, Fanny Crosby chose to live in poverty near New York City’s “Bowery” – the haunt of alcoholics. I sought and found peace, and have tried to live a consistent Christian life ever since.” Fanny Crosby describes the incident as one of the most gratifying of her life. A man approached her afterwards and said, with quivering voice, “I was that boy. Home Top 500 Index Titles A-G Titles H-K Titles L-R Titles S-Z Main Menu Singing &Playing Search. More than thirty-five years later, in Lynn, Massachusetts, Fanny told the story behind the hymn. Rescue The Perishing A Collection of the Top 500 Most Popular Christian Hymns and Spiritual Songs in the UK and USA, 500+ lyrics with chords for guitar, banjo, ukulele etc. Returning to her room, she wrote the complete hymn, and Howard Doane wrote the music the next day. Near the close of a speaking engagement, she felt a sense that “some mother’s boy must be rescued that night or not at all.” To the crowd she said, “If there is a dear boy here tonight who has perchance wandered away from his mother’s home and teaching, would he please come to me at the close of the service?”įollowing the meeting, a boy of about eighteen approached Miss Crosby and asked, “Did you mean me? I promised my mother to meet her in Heaven, but the way I have been living, I don’t think that will be possible now.” Of course Fanny Crosby had the joy of leading him to Christ. ![]() Though they are slighting Him, Still He is waiting, Waiting the penitent child to receive Plead with them earnestly, Plead with them gently He will forgive if they only believe. Whether we help a nearby neighbour or a family member, or become a “Good Samaritan” tending to the needs of a stranger, we follow Jesus’ teaching.įanny Crosby wrote these words after an interesting encounter with a teenager in Cincinnati, Ohio. B7 E 5 Weep D EFm ) ) ) ) )) ) )) ) ) )) ) ) ) Bm/DE7 9 (C)Rescuethe ))) ))) ) Tell) ) ) ) )) ) )mer))ishing,forthedying susisci 2. These selected verses remind us of the value of our Christlike kindness to people who are in any sort of need: physical, emotional or spiritual. Touched by a loving hand, wakened by kindness,Ĭhords that were broken will vibrate once more. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying ĭown in the human heart, crushed by the tempter,įeelings lie buried that grace can restore. Weep o’er the erring one, lift up the fallen, Snatch them in pity from sin and the grave Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, ![]()
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