NASHVILLE (BP) — Fanny Crosby’s hymns have impacted lives for Christ worldwide for generations, but until recently 2,700 of them were overlooked in an archive, unsung and unpublished.

Now on the album “Blessed Assurance: The New Hymns of Fanny Crosby,” some of those forgotten lyrics have come to life through today’s worship writers and singers, introducing a new generation to one of the most substantive hymn writers of all time.

Fanny Crosby (1820-1915), undaunted by lifelong blindness, was “a songwriter for the people,” Adrian Thompson, vice president of song and artist development at Integrity Music, told Baptist Press. “She wrote songs that the common man really grasped.”

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