Page "Fanny Crosby" Paragraph 166

In response to Crosby's letter and threats, Carleton wrote in a letter to The New York Times that he was motivated to write his " labor of love " for Crosby in order to raise money that she might have a home of her own for the first time in her life ; that he had interviewed Crosby and transcribed the details of her life ; had paid her for her time and materials ; had secured her permission to publish the material in his magazine Every Where, and in a book ; had paid all the expenses for publishing and printing out of his own pocket ; had promoted the book in his own time and at his own expense ; and had remitted to her $ 235. 20 for the royalties owing for the previous eight months at the agreed rate, and had sent additional contributions given by admirers at his lectures to her.

Sankey, who paid the rent on the Bridgeport house where Crosby lived with her half-sister Carrie, implied in an article in The Christian that " the Carleton business had been of Satanic origin and commented, echoing the wheat and tares passage in scripture, ' An enemy hath done this '".