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CHALMERS

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Sweetser Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 13455 55777 45517

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The burden of my guilt

Author: C. Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: CHALMERS

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The burden of my guilt

Author: C. Hymnal: Christian Melodies #141 (1851) Languages: English Tune Title: CHALMERS
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The burden of my guilt

Author: C. Hymnal: Christian Melodies #141 (1852) Languages: English Tune Title: CHALMERS

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J. E. Sweetser

1817 - 1873 Person Name: Joseph Sweetser Composer of "CHALMERS"

George Barrell Cheever

1807 - 1890 Person Name: C. Author of "The burden of my guilt" in Christian Melodies Cheever, George Barrell, D.D., eminent in reform, philanthropy, and literature, born at Hallowell, Maine, April 17, 1807, and graduated at Bowdoin College, 1825. Dr. Cheever was a Congregational Pastor at Salem, Mass., 1833; New York, 1839; and the Church of the Puritans, N. Y., 1846-67. He has published several works, and one, Deacon Giles Distillery, procured him a month's imprisonment, in 1835. In 1831 he edited the American Common Place Book of Poetry, and in 1851 Christian Melodies. The latter contains 19 hymns by him. One of these, "Thy loving-kindness, Lord, I sing," is still in common use. It is adopted in an abbreviated form of 4 stanzas by Dr. Hitchcock, in Hymns & Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874, where it is dated 1845. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M. A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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