My Savior's Hand on Mine

Once my path was drear, fraught with grief and care

Author: Alfred Barratt
Tune: [Once my path was drear, fraught with grief and care]
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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: Once my path was drear, fraught with grief and care
Title: My Savior's Hand on Mine
Author: Alfred Barratt
Refrain First Line: With my loving Savior's hand on mine
Copyright: © 1950 Stamps Baxter Music Co.

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