1840–1930

Introduction

Born: 1840, Swan­ning­ton, Lei­ces­ter­shire, Eng­land.

Biography

After Bur­ton’s par­ents emi­grat­ed to Am­eri­ca, he stu­died at Bel­oit Col­lege, Wis­con­sin, gra­du­at­ing with hon­ors.

He served as a Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal min­is­ter for a time, then re­turned to Eng­land and en­tered the Wes­ley­an min­is­try in 1865, work­ing chief­ly in Lan­ca­shire and Lon­don.

As of 1911, Burton was liv­ing in Charn­wood, West Kir­by, Birk­en­head, Che­shire, Eng­land.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Break, Day of God, Oh Break
  2. Break, Day of Kos­mon, Break
  3. Cling, Bro­thers, Cling
  4. Come, for the Feast Is Spread
  5. Complete! O Sweet and Hea­ven­ly Word
  6. Day Is Past, the Sha­dows Round Are Fall­ing, The
  7. Did You Hear the An­gry Word?
  8. Gather Them in at the Mas­ter’s Call
  9. I Hear the Bells Across the Sea
  10. In the Sec­ret of His Pre­sence
  11. I’m Walk­ing in the Sha­dows
  12. Light up­on the Shore, A
  13. Look Away to Je­sus, Sol­dier in the Fight
  14. Look Away to Je­sus
  15. Look High, O Soul
  16. Love Is Kind
  17. Music in the Soul
  18. O King of Kings, O Lord of Hosts
  19. O Mak­er of the Sea and Sky
  20. There Is a Stream That We All Must Cross
  21. There Is an Arm That Nev­er Tires
  22. There’s a Light up­on the Mount­ains
  23. We Come Thy Praise to Sing
  24. We Jour­ney to a Ci­ty Which Eye Hath Nev­er Seen
  25. We Shall Have the Flow’rs Again
  26. What Shall I Sing for Thee?

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