474. Pass me not, O gentle Savior
Fanny J. Crosby, 1820-1915
One of Fanny Crosby’s best and most popular songs. Ira D. Sankey says of it: “No hymn in our collection was more popular than this at our meetings in London in 1874.” Miss Crosby wrote it in 1868 at the request of Dr. W. H. Doane, who gave her the first line as a theme. Doane published the hymn in his Songs of Devotion, 1870.
For comments on Fanny Crosby see [Hymn 313].
MUSIC. PASS ME NOT was written for this hymn. For comments on the composer, W. H. Doane, see [Hymn 313].