The Hymns In Francis Jane Crosby's Life

Jane’s childhood struggle of losing her mother prepared her for her future struggles. She constantly had a church family to rely on growing up to strengthen her faith. Jane worked hard and had a good education; it was all preparing her for her later work. God strengthened her love and faith while she worked as a girls’ matron, and she displayed this love in her sacrificial death. God used Jane Haining’s life for His glory, and He prepared her for it through each stage of her life.

She wrote this poem at the age of thirteen which was also her first poem published .

Charlotte Turner Smith was a poet and novelist during the time of English Romanticism. She began the revival of the English sonnet and wrote political novels of deep feeling. Smith was a successful writer, publishing ten novels, three books of poetry, four children 's books, and other assorted works, over the course of her career. She always felt poetry was her calling although she excelled in her poems. Poetry was considered the most glorious form of literature at the time. Charlotte Smith 's poetry was admired by many romantic poets. After 1798, Smith 's fame faded and by 1803 she was poor and ill. In 1806, Charlotte Smith died. Eventually forgotten by the middle of the nineteenth century, her works have now been republished and she is recognized as an important Romantic writer. Many of her works today have been further interpreted to contain more messages and meanings behind them. Some of her significant works consist of the poems, “Written at the Close of Spring,” “To Sleep,” “Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex” and many more. In the list of these works, Charlotte Smith portrays message based on the life she lived and the time period in which she was from.

She had given her life to Christ, and she wanted Louis to go with her to the next service. She knew that he needed Jesus in his life. He finally agreed to go. ?Louis said, ?Billy Graham talked about one person only, the person of Jesus Christ, for 30 minutes. He read the scriptures. ?For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God.? ?The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.? Well, I knew I was a sinner but I didn't like the idea of someone else reminding me. If anyone had ever asked me if I believed that Christ was the son of God, I could have said yes. My whole life I believed it, but in the heart I didn't. I knew somehow if I?d believed it in my heart, my life would have been different. So I knew I didn?t possess the savior but I still didn't want to do it. I think the best description to that is the Bible says that men prefer darkness rather than light. Here I was preferring my rotten life to the light, Then I started having a flashback to the life raft and prison camp, all those thousands and thousand of prayers- ?God spare my life through the war, and I?ll seek You and serve You.? I kept thinking If I came back from the war alive and I never even thought about those prayers. I never tried to keep one prayer.?(Gospel Light) That very night Louis gave his life to Christ. He said, ?I got on my knees and somehow I knew I was through

Instead she decided that she would use that time to serve the Lord. She has written many hymns that we enjoy today! Never content with just doing nothing was the motivation that kept her going. (The Life) Although Fanny did experience set-backs in her life she never dwelled on them instead she talked to the Lord about it and moved on. Unfortunately Fanny died in February 12, 1915 after 6 months of illness, she died at age 94 of arteriosclerosis and cerebral hermorrhage. Over a century later her legacy still lives on. As Fanny said “Oh, what a happy soul I am, although I cannot see! I am resolved that in this world contended I will be.”(Prolific) Her legacy of gratefulness, contentness, and willingness lives on in the hearts of many

Humans experience loss throughout their lives. In Bishop’s personal poem, it lays the foundation of how it feels to experience losing love. Years ago, Bishop’s lover committed suicide which led her to express her emotions in this poem. Through her ironic tone and diction the shift from denial to hurt to acceptance is shown in all its truth in this poem. “One Art” shows it’s audience the importance of mastering this inevitable human experience.

Fanny’s father discouraged her from writing music and tried to convince her that she needed to focus on her wifely duties instead of writing music, but despite this, Fanny wrote about 500 compositions a duet with piano accompaniment and five lieders

This caused him to spend the rest of his life preaching at Methodist chapels in Bristol and London. Throughout his lifetime, Charles produced 56 volumes of hymns in 53 years. John called his lyrics a “distinct and full account of scriptural Christianity. After Charles’s death, his Church- Methodist viewpoint did not die with him. Many preachers and lay people, even though a struggle, carried it on after the 1790s.

Although historians have preserved her work, Julian of Norwich adopted her name from the church in which she lived as an anchoress. The fact that a name beyond her individual self marks her legacy seems fitting for the anchoress whose devotion to God and to Holy Church marked her entire life. Even when her beliefs struck discord with the doctrines of the church; Julian professed that contradictions were nothing of substance but simply a symptom of the lack of humankind’s comprehension. Her nurturing theology professed a God of profound love in a time of great heartache. Despite her life in an anchorhold, It seems that the walls of Julian’s cell did not separate her from the outside world; her appearance in The Book of Margery Kempe proves that

Her singleness gave her the time to devote herself to poetry and hymn writing, a gift with which the Lord had richly blessed her. About ten years before her death, sixty-two of her hymns were published in the Baptist hymnal known as the “Bristol Collection.” This hymnal gave her hymns a wide circulation throughout Baptist circles, and in time her hymns became as well known in Baptist circles as those of Isaac Watts.

“Hunter first earned public attention as a songwriter when an early piece, ‘Adieu ye streams that softly glide,’ was published in two songbooks, The Lark (1765) and The Charmer (1765)” (www.poetryfoundation.org). Anne Hunter and Joseph Haydn collaborated on several projects. He set some of her lyrics to music for his Six Original Canzonettas (1794), some of the lyrics for his Second Set of Canzonettas (1795), and for two of his songs, “The Spirit’s Song” and “O Tuneful Voice” (www.poetryfoundation.org).

When she had read all of her books she would listen in on her father’s debates with puritan intellectuals thus giving her the proper communication skills needed to talk about the ideals of the bible the way she does in her poems. The fact that she did all of this while diagnosed with “Rheumatic fever” is

Helen was designed to show the struggles of the many people who lived in such conditions that their greatest wish was to be in heaven. They had abandoned hope of improving their social class and rather sought to remain as faithful as possible. Helen’s quiet, almost angelic, piety was a symbol to those people of strength and sacrifice. Her death especially proved her strength as well as solidifying her connection to Maria. Helen, through the mix of these two things, became a combination of tragedy as well as victory, a memory of her sister and inspiration to all those like

As a teen, Agnes became interested in more church activities. She would interpret the Gospels in Albanian at mass. Age and herself joined the girls church choir as sopranos. Agnes became part of the Sodality; studying the saints and the missionary work around the world. Fundraisers for the missionaries were organized by the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As missionaries from India came to speak to Agnes’ class, she acquired a calling from God to be a missionary in Calcutta, India.

Church was a place of many great memories for Imogene. She accepted Christ early enough in her