Fanny Crosby loved sharing the Gospel with anyone who would listen. In 1869 she penned the words to “Rescue the Perishing.”
When asked about the song, she explained, “It was written
following a personal experience at the New York City Bowery Mission.” She went
on to explain that she would go one night a week to talk to “her boys.”
One night while speaking to them, she kept having the
thought that there was a boy present who had wandered away from his mother &
must be rescued that night, or he would be eternally lost. She made a plea to
each boy that was there that night.
At the end of the service, one of the young men came forward
& said, “Did you mean me, Miss Crosby? I promised my mother to meet her in
Heaven, but as I am now living that will be impossible.”
She prayed with him & led him to Christ. As they
finished, he said, “Now I am ready to meet my mother in Heaven, for I have
found God.”
- ‘Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily
Devotions,’ Kenneth Osbeck (ministry127.com)
1 Cor 14:24-25 (ICB): But suppose everyone
is prophesying and someone comes in who does not believe or is without
understanding. If everyone is prophesying, his sin will be shown to him, and he
will be judged by all that he hears. The secret things in his
heart will be made known. So he will bow down and worship God. He will say,
“Truly, God is with you.”
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