Henry Burton

Short Name: Henry Burton
Full Name: Burton, Henry, 1840-1930
Birth Year: 1840
Death Year: 1930

Born: 1840, Swan­ning­ton, Lei­ces­ter­shire, Eng­land.
After Burton’s par­ents em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca, he stu­died at Bel­oit Coll­ege, Wis­con­sin, grad­u­at­ing with hon­ors. He served as a Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal min­is­ter for a time, then re­turned to Eng­land and en­tered the Wes­ley­an min­is­try in 1865, work­ing chief­ly in Lan­ca­shire and Lon­don. His works in­clude:
Gleanings in the Gos­pels
Wayside Songs, 1886
St. Luke in the Ex­pos­i­tor’s Bi­ble

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Burton, H. In I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878, the hymns, "Come, for the feast is spread," (The Gospel Invitation), and "Look away to Jesus" (Looking unto Jesus) are attributed to the "Rev. H. Burton”

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Texts by Henry Burton (33)sort iconAsInstances
Break, day of God, O break, The night has lingered longHenry Burton (Author)7
Break, day of God, O break, sweet light of heavenlyHenry Burton (Author)5
Break, day of Kosmon, breakHenry Burton (Author)2
Broellopet tillredt starHenry Burton (Author)2
Cling, brothers, clingRev. Henry Burton (Author)1
Come, for the feast is spreadHenry Burton (Author)10
Complete! O sweet and heavenly wordHenry Burton (Author)5
Did you hear the angry word?Rev. Henry Burton, M. A. (Author)2
Did you hear the loving word? Pass it onHenry Burton (Author)2
Gather them in at the Master's callRev. Henry Burton, M.A. (Author)4
Have you had a kindness shownHenry Burton (Author)41
I hear the bells across the seaHenry Burton (Author)2
I'm walking in the shadowsHenry Burton (Author)2
In the secret of his presence I am kept from strife of tonguesRev. Henry Burton, M.A. (Author)26
Kom, tilredt Fest er herHenry Burton (Author)2
Look away to JesusRev. Henry Burton (Author)3
Look away to Jesus soldier in the fightHenry Burton (Author)5
Look away to Jesus soul by woe oppressedHenry Burton (Author)10
Look high o soul for what is earth but dustHenry Burton (Author)2
O Maker of the sea and skyHenry Burton (Author)21
O King of kings, O Lord of hostsHenry Burton (Author)11
Sku dog op til JesusHenry Burton (Author)2
The day is past, the shadows round are fallingHenry Burton (Author)5
The world is full of singingRev. Henry Burton (Author)15
There is a stream that we all must crossHenry Burton (Author)2
There is an arm that never tiresHenry Burton (Author)5
There's a light upon the mountainsHenry Burton, 1840-1930 (Author)38
There's light upon the mountainHenry Burton (Author)2
We come thy praise to singHenry Burton (Author)2
We journey to a city Which eye hath neverRev. Henry Burton (Author)1
We shall have the flow'rs againHenry Burton (Author)1
We've journeyed many a dayHenry Burton (Author)2
What shall I sing for theeRev. H. Burton (Author)5