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God Is Your Refuge and Strength

Have you a burden too heavy to bear, God is your refuge and strength

Author: W. Howard Keesler
Tune: [Have you a burden too heavy to bear?] (Gabriel)
Published in 1 hymnal


Author: W. Howard Keesler

Early 20th Century We have little data on this author. Newspaper clippings suggest she was living in Greenville, Pennsylvania, in 1910. --www.hymntime.com/tch/ Go to person page >

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First Line: Have you a burden too heavy to bear, God is your refuge and strength
Title: God Is Your Refuge and Strength
Author: W. Howard Keesler
Language: English
Refrain First Line: God is your Refuge and Strength
Copyright: Public Domain
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