By Request: ‘Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior’

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Ah, a hymn request! From Elder Mike: Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior, sing by the kids at Fountainview Academy. This is one of some 8,000 hymns written by Fanny Crosby over a hundred years ago; and a lot of them are still sung all over the world.

2 comments on “By Request: ‘Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior’”

  1. Thank you, brother Lee.

    Beautiful location, but how did they get the piano there, and place it on top of the rocks in the stream?

    Fanny Crosby wrote this hymn in 1868. In the spring of that year, she visited a detention center in Manhattan, and little did she know that such a visit would make another turning point in her life as a songwriter. William J. Reynolds, a hymnodist, revealed what he discovered about the song’s inspiration. According to him, during Crosby’s visit to the prison, she had an encounter with one of the inmates. After sharing some words and singing some of her songs to the inmates, she heard one of them cry out, “Good Lord, do not pass me by.” That same evening, the prominent gospel composer William Doane suggested Crosby to write a song about that. She did and that song became what most of us know today as “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior.” Later on, Doane put music to the song.

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    1. I, too, have wondered about FVA’s logistics.
      Thanks for the background, Mike. Fanny Crosby is one of my heroes.

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