The Moorlands of Sin

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On the bleak, lonely moorlands of sin

Author: John R. Clements
Tune: [On the bleak, lonely moorlands of sin]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: John R. Clements

John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	On the bleak, lonely moorlands of sin
Title:	The Moorlands of Sin
Author:	John R. Clements
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Turn away from the moorlands
Copyright:	Public Domain