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Alfred Barratt
1879 - 1968 Author of "Jesus Is Holding My Hand" Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College.
On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines."
--William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives
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Mrs. R. H. Cornelius
Composer of "[Sometimes the journey is lonely and long]" in Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 3 Macon Temperance Burleson Cornelius, born in Texas in 1878, wife of Rufus H. Cornelius, died in Fort Worth, Texas in 1934
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