A Beautiful Mansion

There's a beautiful mansion on yonder bright shore

Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt
Tune: [There's a beautiful mansion on yonder bright shore]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Rev. 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 >

Text Information

First Line: There's a beautiful mansion on yonder bright shore
Title: A Beautiful Mansion
Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I shall live in a beautiful mansion up there
Publication Date: 1951
Copyright: © 1951 from "Celestial Voices" owned by J. M. Henson

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Celestial Voices #58

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