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Doolittle’s reply was simple: “His eye is on the sparrow, and I know he watches me.” The beauty of this simple and yet all-satisfying expression of boundless faith gripped the hearts and fired the imagination of Dr. One day while we were visiting with the Doolittles, my husband commented on their bright hopefulness and asked them for the secret of it. Despite their afflictions, though, they lived happy, Christian lives, bringing inspiration and comfort to all who knew them. Her husband was an incurable cripple who had to propel himself to and from his business in a wheelchair. Doolittle had been bedridden for nigh twenty years. While living quietly in Elmira waiting for the Lord’s guidance to other fields of activity, we became acquainted with and contracted a deep friendship for a couple by the name of Mr. Later in life, she offered a similar account:Įarly in the spring of 1905, my husband and I were sojourning in Elmira, New York, after a winter’s evangelistic campaign in Canada. From there it has gone all over the world. Alexander, in England, where the song was first sung in Albert Hall, during the great Torrey-Alexander revival. Gabriel, who wrote the music and sent it to Mr. She answered, “How can I be discouraged, when my Father watches the sparrows, and I know He loves and cares for me?” Procuring paper and pencil, in a few moments I wrote the now-famous hymn. I was reading and singing to her, and during our conversation I asked her if she did not sometimes get discouraged. It was written at the bedside of a bedridden saint in the city of Elmira, N.Y.
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Martin (1866–1948), provided this account of the song in 1916:
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