There's Rest, Blessed Rest

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When the weary at heart and laden with sin

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth
Published in 4 hymnals

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth

Bickersteth, Edward Henry, D.D., son of Edward Bickersteth, Sr. born at Islington, Jan. 1825, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. with honours, 1847; M.A., 1850). On taking Holy Orders in 1848, he became curate of Banningham, Norfolk, and then of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. His preferment to the Rectory of Hinton-Martell, in 1852, was followed by that of the Vicarage of Christ Church, Hampstead, 1855. In 1885 he became Dean of Gloucester, and the same year Bishop of Exeter. Bishop Bickersteth's works, chiefly poetical, are:— (l) Poems, 1849; (2) Water from the Well-spring, 1852; (3) The Rock of Ages, 1858 ; (4) Commentary on the New Testament, 1864; (5) Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever, 1867; (6) The Spirit of Life, 1868;… Go to person page >

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First Line:	When the weary at heart and laden with sin
Title:	There's Rest, Blessed Rest
Author:	Edward Henry Bickersteth
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	There's rest, blessed rest
Publication Date:	1886
Copyright:	Public Domain

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[When the weary at heart and laden with sin] (McCauley)

[When the weary at heart, and the laden with sin] (Smith)

[When the weary at heart and laden with sin] (Kurzenknabe)

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