In the secret of his presence I am kept from strife of tongues

Author: Henry Burton

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 --www.hymntime.com… Go to person page >