Fan­ny Cros­by, 1886.

W. How­ard Doane (MIDI, NWC, PDF).

One morn­ing…at North­field [Mass­a­chusetts], the au­di­ence sang Hide Me, O My Savior, Hide Me. But I did not rec­og­nize this hymn as my own pro­duct­ion…Turn­ing to Mr. Sank­ey, I asked, Where did you get that piece? He paid no at­ten­tion to my ques­tion, for he sup­posed I was mere­ly jok­ing…But it was used again at the af­ter­noon ser­vice, and I was de­ter­mined to know who wrote it. Mr. Sank­ey, I said, Now you must tell me who is the au­thor of Hide Me, O My Sav­ior. Real­ly, he re­plied, don’t you re­call who wrote that hymn? You ought to re­mem­ber, for you are the guil­ty one.

Crosby, pp. 624-6