Alfred Barratt wrote the him “Take Time to Pray.” Sometimes it goes by the first line “O weary heart take time to pray.”
Barratt was born in Lancashire, England on October 25, 1879. He immigrated to the United States as a young man and ordained in late 1913. In 1937, Bob Jones College awarded him a Doctor of Literature degree.
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.”
He died in December 1968.
