Can there be a purpose in a crippling ailment? Eliza Hewitt may have wondered that. For Traditional Tuesday, I give you When We All Get To Heaven by Eliza Hewitt. Eliza was born on June 28, 1851 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Educated in the local school system, she graduated as valedictorian of the Girls Normal School that she attended. She became a teacher in the public schools of her city. But then came misery. Her career screeched to a halt when she was forced to bed with a painful spinal problem. (One of her descendants has said her debilitating condition was caused by a reckless student striking her with a piece of slate.) Lying in bed, she could have been bitter. Instead, she studied English literature and began to sing and write: Sing the wondrous love of Jesus; sing his mercy and his grace. In the mansions bright and blessed hell prepare for us a place. Some of her lines came into the hands of Professor John R. Sweney. He wrote her asking for more, and set a few of her songs to music, including one of the better known: Will there be any Stars in My Crown? He and William J. Kirkpatrick published her first hymns.
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