[O heart bowed down with sorrow!]

[O heart bowed down with sorrow!]

Composer: F. E. Belden
Published in 11 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: F. E. Belden

Belden was born in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1858. He began writing music in his late teenage years after moving to California with his family. For health reasons he later moved to Colorado. He returned to Battle Creek with his wife in the early 1880s, and there he became involved in Adventist Church publishing. F. E. Belden wrote many hymn tunes, gospel songs, and related texts in the early years of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Belden was able to rapidly write both music and poetry together which enabled him to write a song to fit a sermon while it was still being delivered. He also wrote songs for evang­el­ist Bil­ly Sun­day. Though Belden’s later years were marred by misunderstandings with the church leadership over his royal… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [O heart bowed down with sorrow!]
Composer: F. E. Belden
Incipit: 55365 54442 54365
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)

Church Gospel Songs and Hymns #160

Great Songs of the Church (Revised) #337

Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #107

Sacred Selections for the Church #580

Include 7 pre-1979 instances
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