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Meter: 8.8.8 with refrain Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Lee Higgins, 1898-1953 Tune Sources: "Silver Tones" Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 32313 54421 25432 Used With Text: Keep My Heart Pure, O God

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Keep My Heart Right

Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Keep my heart pure O God I pray Refrain First Line: Keep my heart pure and white as snow Used With Tune: [Keep my heart pure O God I pray]

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Keep My Heart Pure, O God

Author: Alfred Barrot, b. 1879 Hymnal: The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 #268 (1972) Meter: 8.8.8 with refrain First Line: Keep my heart pure, O God, I pray Refrain First Line: Keep my heart pure and white as snow Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; Christian Life Purity Scripture: 2 Corinthians 6:4 Languages: English Tune Title: KEEP MY HEART PURE

Keep My Heart Right

Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt Hymnal: Fossett's Inspirational Melodies #37 (1952) First Line: Keep my heart pure O God I pray Refrain First Line: Keep my heart pure and white as snow Languages: English Tune Title: [Keep my heart pure O God I pray]

Keep My Heart Right

Author: Rev. Alfred Barratt Hymnal: Heaven's Banner #49 (1955) First Line: Keep my heart pure O God I pray Refrain First Line: Keep my heart pure and white as snow Languages: English Tune Title: [Keep my heart pure O God I pray]

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Alfred Barratt

1879 - 1968 Person Name: Alfred Barrot, b. 1879 Author of "Keep My Heart Pure, O God" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Barratt, Alfred. (New Springs, Wigan, Lancashire, England, October 25, 1879--December, 1968). Coming to the United States as a young man, he studied at Gordon College, Massachusetts, and Newton Theological Seminary, Mass. He was ordained in December, 1913, by the Baptists in Connecticut, then by the Wheeling WV Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the USA, in 1924. He was pastor of Dallas, West Virginia, then of a series of churches in the Presbytery of Clarion, Pennsylvania. In 1937 he was awarded the Doctor of Literature degree by Bob Jones College. On November 26, 1962, he wrote the undersigned: "For 39 long years I have labored hard and steady writing sermons, children's story sermons, and hymns. Up to the present day I have written 4,477 hymns. 80 percent of my sermons are published in books and magazines." --William J. Reynolds, DNAH Archives

W. Lee Higgins

1898 - 1953 Person Name: William Lee Higgins, 1898-1953 Composer of "KEEP MY HEART PURE" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Full name William Lee Higgins