Lean On the Lord

Lean on the Lord when days are dark and drear

Author: Alfred Barratt
Tune: [Lean on the Lord when days are dark and drear]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Alfred Barratt

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,… Go to person page >

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First Line: Lean on the Lord when days are dark and drear
Title: Lean On the Lord
Author: Alfred Barratt
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Lean on the blessed Lord
Publication Date: 1948
Copyright: Copyright, 1948, in "Sweetest Melodies" Owned by J. M. Henson

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Sweetest Melodies #34

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