"There is Healing at the Fountain"

The famous hymnist, Fanny Crosby (1820-1915), wrote the words to “There is Healing at the Fountain.” Crosby, blinded from the age of six months, never allowed her blindness to interfere with her love for God or delivering his message of hope to the world. Her grandmother, a devout Christian, reared her because her widowed mother had to work. She told others that she was glad she was blind and that she would be so excited to get to heaven where the first face she would see would be her Lord.

William Kirkpatrick (1838-1921) developed the melody for “There is Healing at the Fountain.” Kirkpatrick was reared around music, having parents who were musicians and teachers. However, he learned how to be a carpenter and pursued that career for three years before turning to his love of music. First, he studied to become a violinist. When he became a member of a Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, he became devoted to mostly sacred music. He also wrote several hymn tunes and anthems, many with the help of John Sweney, another famous hymnist from around the American Civil War era. The famous hymnist Crosby’s words blend sweetly with his words.

“There is Healing at the Fountain”

There is healing at the fountain,

Come and find it, weary soul,

There your sins may all be covered;

Jesus waits to make you whole.

Refrain

Oh the fountain! blessèd healing fountain!

I am glad ’tis flowing free;

Oh the fountain! precious, cleansing fountain!

Praise the Lord, it cleanseth me.

There is healing at the fountain,

Look to Jesus now and live,

At the cross lay down thy burden;

All thy wanderings He’ll forgive.

Refrain

There is healing at the fountain,

Precious fountain filled with blood;

Come, oh come, the Savior calls you,

Come and plunge beneath its flood.

Refrain

“There is Healing at the Fountain” speaks of a biblical reference found in Zechariah 13: 1, where the prophet spoke of a fountain that would be opened to the Israelites to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness. Of course, that prophecy was fulfilled when Jesus’ blood was poured out upon the cross which is referenced in 1 John 1:17 when John speaks of the “Blood of Jesus….cleanses us all from sin.”

“There is Healing at the Fountain”

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