Jane Fox was born in Cornwall, England. In 1836 she married Thomas D. Crewdson, a Manchester manufacturer. Always delicate, she became a confirmed invalid, but her sufferings served to deepen her spiritual life. She was a woman of fine intellectual power and poetic gifts and through her writings testified gloriously to the all-sufficiency of her Savior’s love. Her attitude toward her suffering is well expressed in the beautiful third verse of the hymn:
There is no secret sigh we breathe
But meets Thine ear divine:
And every cross grows light beneath
The shadow, Lord, of thine.
This was the favorite hymn of Dr. John Henry Jowett, at one time minister of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City.
MUSIC. COOLING first appeared in The American Choir, 1858. No information has been obtained concerning the composer, Alonzo Judson Abbey, 1825-87.
ETERNAL LIFE
260. Hark, hark, my soul! angelic songs are swelling
Frederick W. Faber, 1814-63