![]() Listen to Eclipse 6 sing His Eye is on the Sparrow - based on Jesus’ comforting words from Luke 12:6-7. Doolittle’s reply was simple: ‘If His eye is on the sparrow, then I know He watches me.’ The beauty of this expression of simple faith gripped my heart and that same evening I wrote the words for the song.” “One day while we were visiting with the Doolittles, my husband commented on their bright hopefulness and asked them the secret of their joy in the midst of pain. Despite their afflictions, 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 wheel chair. Doolittle had been bedridden for over twenty years. We contracted a deep friendship with a couple by the name of Mr. “In the spring of 1905, my husband and I were sojourning in Elmira, New York. ![]() This is her explanation of how the song came to be. ![]() Martin, wife of a Harvard trained Baptist minister, wrote the words to the famous hymn His Eye is on the Sparrow over 100 years ago.
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