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- Entered from articles in <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="external" href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1911-05-03/ed-1/seq-4/" target="_blank">The Sun ("Fanny Crosby Speaks At 92", column 3)</a> and the New York Times article; stated time is approximate. According to the Times article, "Five thousand persons [sic] attended the opening rally of the Evangelistic Committee's seventh annual tent, open air, and shop campaign at Carnegie Hall last night. Massed on raised seats in the rear of the stage a choir of 200 voices made the big auditorium resound with hymns. The feature fot eh exercises was the presence of Fanny Crosby, the venerable evangelist and hymn writer, who is now in her ninety-second year... Almost all the hymns sung at last night's meeting were written by her. The audience had joined the choir in singing for about half an hour beofre the addresses began."
Humanities, National Endowment for the. The Sun. [Volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, May 03, 1911, Image 4. no. 1911/05/03, 3 May 1911, p. 4.
"5,000 SING WITH BLIND HYMN WRITER." New York Times (1857-1922), May 03 1911, p. 12. ProQuest. Web. 19 Feb. 2022.
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