Born: 1840, Swan­ning­ton, Lei­ces­ter­shire, Eng­land.

After Burton’s par­ents em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca, he stu­died at Bel­oit Coll­ege, 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:

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Hymns

  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. There’s a Light upon the Mountains

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