When I See My Savior

Why should I be lonely when the dark clouds roll?

Author: Alfred Barratt
Tune: [Why should I be lonely when the dark clouds roll?]
Published in 1 hymnal

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:	Why should I be lonely when the dark clouds roll?
Title:	When I See My Savior
Author:	Alfred Barratt
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	When I reach that City with its streets of gold
Publication Date:	1946
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1946.