Introduction
Introduction
Born: January 21, 1855, Freedom, Maine.
Died: April 15, 1928, Saco, Maine.
Buried: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Saco, Maine.
Born: January 21, 1855, Freedom, Maine.
Died: April 15, 1928, Saco, Maine.
Buried: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Saco, Maine.
Burton was the son of Allen Pillsbury Winslow and Loantha Adeline Hockey, brother of Allen Winslow, and husband of Annie Porter Perry (married February 15, 1881).
He graduated from the Lewiston, Maine, high school in 1871. He edited religious papers (1878–79), and began publishing Sunday School Concert Exercises in 1887.
Winslow worked as a draftsman in an architect’s shop, and as paymaster at cotton mills of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, Biddeford, Maine.
He was secretary of the Mendelssohn Club of Lewiston, 1877–78.
He also served as a Baptist deacon for 24 years; Sunday school superintendent for 14 years; and was a member of Baptist churches in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and Lewiston and Saco, Maine.
Yon purple haze, from ancient hilltops breaking,
But faintly gleams with dim prophetic light,
As o’er the centuries, dim hope awaking
Shines feebly through the night.
With sullen fear, or passion’s fiery beating
O’er hopeless graves, love seeks for light in vain—
Hark! hear the accents tenderly repeating:
Your dead shall live again!
He comes! He comes! The Lord of life and glory!
He comes to bring dark earth the glorious dawn.
Take heart, and soul! For thee this blessed story!
Hope thou! ’Tis Eastern morn!
’Tis Eastern morn! The purple haze of ages
Glows with the light
From heaven’s transcendent throne.
The distant dawn, proclaimed by sacred sages,
To glorious day is grown!
Mid angel forms, the wondrous truth revealing,
Love sees her own in glittering heavenly sheen;
Love hears triumphant heavenly echoes pealing,
With but a veil between.
Burton H. Winslow
The Watchman, March 31, 1904