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

• Julian, pp. 1555, 1618
• Nutter, pp. 396-7

1. Break, Day of God, Oh Break
2. Come, for the Feast Is Spread
3. Have You Had a Kind­ness Shown?
4. In the Sec­ret of His Pre­sence
5. Look Away to Je­sus
6. O King of Kings, O Lord of Hosts
7. O Mak­er of the Sea and Sky
8. Have You Had a Kind­ness Shown?
9. Light up­on the Shore, A
10. There’s a Light up­on the Mount­ains