1840-1930

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:

  1. Break, Day of God, Oh Break
  2. Break, Day of Kos­mon, Break
  3. Cling, Bro­thers, Cling
  4. Come, for the Feast Is Spread
  5. Complete! O Sweet and Hea­ven­ly Word
  6. Day Is Past, the Sha­dows Round Are Fall­ing, The
  7. Did You Hear the An­gry Word?
  8. Gather Them in at the Mas­ter’s Call
  9. Have You Had a Kind­ness Shown?
  10. I Hear the Bells Across the Sea
  11. In the Sec­ret of His Pre­sence
  12. I’m Walk­ing in the Sha­dows
  13. Light up­on the Shore, A
  14. Look Away to Je­sus, Sol­dier in the Fight
  15. Look Away to Je­sus
  16. Look High, O Soul
  17. O King of Kings, O Lord of Hosts
  18. O Mak­er of the Sea and Sky
  19. There Is a Stream That We All Must Cross
  20. There Is an Arm That Ne­ver Tires
  21. There’s a Light up­on the Moun­tains
  22. We Come Thy Praise to Sing
  23. We Jour­ney to a Ci­ty Which Eye Hath Ne­ver Seen
  24. We Shall Have the Flow’rs Again
  25. What Shall I Sing for Thee?
  26. World Is Full of Sing­ing, The