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When the darksome clouds hang o'er your way

When the darksome clouds hang o'er your way

Author: Alfred Barratt
Tune: [When the darksome clouds hang o'er your way]
Published in 4 hymnals

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 >

Text Information

First Line: When the darksome clouds hang o'er your way
Author: Alfred Barratt
Refrain First Line: Go and tell it all to Jesus
Copyright: © 1928 by R. H. Cornelius

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Cornelius' Gospel Songs #188

Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 2 #d255

Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 3 #188

Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 4 #d234

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