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Jabez Burns

1805 - 1876 Person Name: J. Burns Hymnal Number: 44 Author of "Lord of heaven and earth assist us" in Temperance Hymn Book and Minstrel Burns, Jabez, D.D., the well known Baptist Minister, was born at Oldham, Lancashire, Dec. 18, 1805, and was one of the first Ministers of Religion in London who vigorously advocated Total Abstinence. He edited several Temperance publications, and employed a versatile and forcible pen in the cause of Temperance, both in prose and verse. He d. Jan. 31, 1876. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)