Fan­ny Cros­by, in the Roy­al Di­a­dem, 1873.

W. How­ard Doane (MIDI, NWC, PDF).

The ed­it­or of a re­li­gious per­i­od­i­cal in the South sends me the fol­low­ing in­ci­dent, which oc­curred while he was hold­ing meet­ings in a small town: One night a prom­i­nent man of the count­ry, not a Chris­tian, was in town. Hav­ing heard of the fine sing­ing, he went to the meet­ing for a few min­utes to lis­ten to a song or two. He heard on­ly one song and then went away; but that song went with him. It was ‘On­ly a step to Je­sus! Then why not take it now?’ The words stayed with him, and were re­peat­ed over and over. They came back to him the next day, and awak­ened in­qui­ry re­gard­ing him­self which at last led him in­to re­pent­ance and a hap­py con­ver­sion. Ma­ny peo­ple wept as he re­lat­ed his ex­per­i­ence be­fore the church.

Sankey, p. 212