![]() Tell the poor wand’rer a Savior has died. Strength for thy labor the Lord will provide īack to the narrow way patiently win them Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness,Ĭhords that were broken will vibrate once more. (Refrain)ĭown in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Plead with them earnestly, plead with them gently Though they are slighting Him, still He is waiting, 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, Read this hymn, and – today – commit to becoming part of God’s rescue team! He was just one of the millions who have been grateful for the ministry of Fanny Crosby. If we never meet again on earth, we will meet up yonder.” As he said this, he raised her hand to his lips and walked away, never to be seen by her again. The evening that you spoke at the mission I sought and found peace, and I have tried to live a consistent Christian life ever since. He said, “Miss Crosby, I was the boy, who told you more than 30 years ago that I had wandered from my mother’s God. After the meeting, a large number of men shook hands with her, and among them was a man who seemed to be deeply moved. spiritual death and sin’s struggles, Eph. She told them the incident that led her to write this hymn. need for mature Christians to help the weak, the struggling and those overtaken by sin, Gal. ![]() In November, 1903 (34 years later), Fanny went to Lynn, Massachusetts, to speak before the Young Men’s Christian Association. The next day her words were written and forwarded to Doane, who wrote the beautiful and touching music as it now stands. ![]() After returning home from the mission that night, she wrote this hymn. That evening, Fanny could think of nothing else but that line: “Rescue the perishing, care for the dying”. One young man, 18-years-old, came to me and said, ‘Did you mean me?’Īfter Fanny Crosby prayed with that young man, he rose from his knees and said enthusiastically, “Now I am ready to meet my mother in Heaven, for I have found God.”Ī few days before that salvation encounter, William Doane had suggested to Fanny Crosby that she write a hymn based on the theme “Rescue the Perishing”, taken from Luke 14:23, where the master in one of Jesus’ parables tells his servant to go out into the highways and the byways and bring people in. Of that night, she said, “I made a pressing plea that, if there was a boy present who had wandered from his mother’s home and teaching, he should come to me at the end of the service. One hot summer night, she was talking to a group of men at a mission. Though Fanny was blind, she loved to visit rescue missions in New York City. Fanny Crosby may be second only to the shepherd, David, when it came to writing hymns she wrote about 8,500 hymns! ![]()
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