While reviewing some Fanny Crosby hymns that are not well known, I encountered one in an 1868 hymnal (Sabbath Carols, p. 36) that says “written expressly for ”Howard Mission". Title: “More Like Jesus”, composer William H. Doane.
Google search has links to an institution in New York City known as “The Howard Mission in New York: Home for Little Wanderers”.
Is there any way to confirm or deny that the hymnal reference and dedication are to the “….Home for little wanderers”? I read somewhere that Fanny Crosby was keenly interested in the Temperance movement and that suggests (to me) that she might also have been interested in what appears to be a facility to house minors who were orphaned/abandoned. A similar organization with the same name seems to exist in New Jersey.
TIA if anyone can add to the above.
Dave
San Antonio, TX