02-25-2026, 08:23 AM
“Hide Thou Me” was written by Fanny Crosby, a blind white abolitionist hymn writer so prolific and influential she was posthumously enshrined in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
The song borrows lines and imagery from “There is a Balm in Gilead,” an iconic African American spiritual (as well as from “Rock of Ages,” by Augustus Toplady — an English animal welfare advocate who’s not even close to cracking the Top 3 Silliest Names in Hymn Writing).
The song borrows lines and imagery from “There is a Balm in Gilead,” an iconic African American spiritual (as well as from “Rock of Ages,” by Augustus Toplady — an English animal welfare advocate who’s not even close to cracking the Top 3 Silliest Names in Hymn Writing).
