Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer

When the clouds are hanging low, When the raging tempests blow

Author: Bertha Mae Lillenas
Tune: [When the clouds are hanging low] (Lillenas)
Published in 6 hymnals

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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. Since she was a contralto, she wrote most numbers in a low key. The text of "Jesus Took My Burden" (Johnson Oatman) was sent to Haldor Lillenas to be set to music, but the musical setting he wrote visited virtually all p… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: When the clouds are hanging low, When the raging tempests blow
Title: Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer
Author: Bertha Mae Lillenas
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Leave your burden at the place of prayer

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 6 of 6)

Assembly Songs #224

Christian Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #364

Devotion and Praise #256

Songs of Praise #112

Audio

Songs of the Sanctuary #224

The Broadman Hymnal #334

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