All Alone

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Have you ever tried to bear your burdens

Author: C. Austin Miles
Tune: [Have you ever tried to bear your burdens]
Published in 15 hymnals

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1 Have you ever tried to bear your burdens
All alone? All alone?
Don’t you know there’s One Who waits to help you,
Who will make all your burdens His own?

Refrain:
When I have burdens to bear which no one can share,
I take them to Jesus, the Man of Calvary;
When I have crosses to bear, my Savior is there,
And always takes the heavy end, and gives the light to me.

2 Don’t you know He trod the wine-press for you?
All alone? All alone?
And the burden that He bore in meekness,
Such a burden no other has known. [Refrain]

3 Don’t you know that He has bought your pardon
All alone? All alone?
And your gratitude for such a mercy
Unto Jesus you never have shown. [Refrain]

Source: Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services #37

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Author: C. Austin Miles

Charles Austin Miles USA 1868-1946. Born at Lakehurst, NJ, he attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of PA. He became a pharmacist. He married Bertha H Haagen, and they had two sons: Charles and Russell. In 1892 he abandoned his pharmacy career and began writing gospel songs. At first he furnished compositions to the Hall-Mack Publishing Company, but soon became editor and manager, where he worked for 37 years. He felt he was serving God better in the gospel song writing business, than as a pharmacist. He published the following song books: “New songs of the gospel” (1900), “The service of praise” (1900), “The voice of praise” (1904), “The tribute of song” (1904), “New songs of the gospel… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Have you ever tried to bear your burdens
Title:	All Alone
Author:	C. Austin Miles
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	When I have burdens to bear which no one can share
Publication Date:	1916
Copyright:	Public Domain