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There Is Honey in the Rock
Author: Alfred Barratt Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Have you heard the blessed proclamation
There Is Honey in the Rock
[Have you heard the blessed proclamation]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: V. O. Fossett Used With Text: There is Honey in the Rock
[Have you heard the blessed proclamation]
There is Honey in the Rock
Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt Hymnal: Fossett's Inspirational Melodies #25 (1952) First Line: Have you heard the blessed proclamation Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you heard the blessed proclamation]
There is Honey in the Rock
There is Honey in the Rock
Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt Hymnal: Heaven's Lamp #34 (1943) First Line: Have you heard the blessed proclamation Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you heard the blessed proclamation]
There is Honey in the Rock
There is honey in the Rock
Author: Alfred Barratt Hymnal: Amazing Grace for Singing Schools and Conventions #d21 (1949) First Line: Have you heard the blessed proclamation Languages: English
There is honey in the Rock
Alfred Barratt
1879 - 1968 Author of "There Is Honey in the Rock" Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College.
On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines."
--William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives
Alfred Barratt
V. O. Fossett
1904 - 1964 Composer of "[Have you heard the blessed proclamation]" in Fossett's Inspirational Melodies Died: December 20, 1964.
Buried: Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, Texas.
A native of DeKalb County, Alabama, Fossett attended his first Gospel Music School at age 12. At age 16, he attended Thomas Mosley’s Normal School. By age 19, he began singing and playing in a quartet. By 1937, he was teaching in High Point, North Carolina, where he married Katherine Strother. Three years later, he joined the Chattanooga, Tennessee, office of the Stamps-Baxter music publishers. Fossett’s works include:
Fossett’s Inspirational Melodies (Dallas, Texas: Stamps-Baxter Music & Printing Company, 1952)
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
V. O. Fossett
