"He took the children in His arms, put His hands on them, and blessed them." Mark 10:16
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Words: Frances Jane (Fanny) Crosby, 1868.
Music: William Howard Doane, 1868
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Courtesy of Denison University |
On April 30, 1868, Dr. W. H. Doane came into my house and said, "I have exactly forty minutes before my train leaves for Cincinnati. Here is a melody. Can you write words for it?" I replied that I would see what I could do. Then followed a space of twenty minutes during which I was wholly unconscious of all else except the work I was doing. At the end of that time I recited the words to "Safe in the Arms of Jesus." Mr. Doane copied them, and had time to catch his train.
Fanny Crosby, Memories of Eighty Years, 1906