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Display Title: Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer First Line: When the clouds are hanging low Tune Title: [When the clouds are hanging low] Author: B. M. L. Date: 1948
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Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer
When the clouds are hanging low, when the raging tempests
Author: Bertha Mae LillenasTune: [When the clouds are hanging low] (Lillenas)
Published in 6 hymnals
Author: Bertha Mae Lillenas
Lillenas, Bertha Mae (nee Wilson). (?--1945). First wife of Haldor Lillenas, mother of their two children. Ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. Evangelist, singer, and composer, as well as artist at the piano. Deets Pacific Bible College, Los Angeles (later Pasadena College). With her husband, pastored churches at Lompoc and Pomona, California; Auburn, Illinois; Peniel, Texas; Redlands, Calif.; and Indianapolis, Indiana. She often preached.
She had a gift for writing songs easy to sing on powerful gospel themes. Sing she was a contralto, she wrote most numbers in a low key. The words to one of her best-known songs, "Jesus Took My Burden," were sent to Haldor Lillenas to be set to music, but the musical setting he wrote visited v… Go to person page >Instances
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Christian Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #364
Display Title: Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer First Line: When the clouds are hanging low Tune Title: [When the clouds are hanging low] Author: Bertha Mae Lillenas, 1891-1945 Date: 1959
Christian Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #364
Devotion and Praise #256
Display Title: Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer First Line: When the clouds are hanging low Tune Title: [When the clouds are hanging low] Author: B. M. L. Date: 1937
Devotion and Praise #256
Songs of Praise #112
Display Title: Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer First Line: When the clouds are hanging low Tune Title: [When the clouds are hanging low] Author: B. M. L. Date: 1935
Songs of Praise #112
Songs of the Sanctuary #224
Display Title: Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer First Line: When the clouds are hanging low Tune Title: [When the clouds are hanging low] Author: B. M. L. Date: 1945
Songs of the Sanctuary #224
The Broadman Hymnal #334
Display Title: Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer First Line: When the clouds are hanging low Tune Title: [When the clouds are hanging low] Author: B. M. L. Date: 1940
The Broadman Hymnal #334
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