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Herbert Buffum
Herbert Buffum (1879-1939)
Short Name: Herbert Buffum
Full Name: Buffum, Herbert, 1879-1939
Birth Year: 1879
Death Year: 1939

Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen.

Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Tunes by Herbert Buffum (29)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[For ages the skeptics against God's Word have battered]Rev. Herbert Buffum (Composer)2
[Have you ever wandered away from your home]Herbert Buffum (Composer)2
[Here so many are taking vacation]Herbert Buffum (Composer)234564 56453 32123
[I have a Friend who is always the same]Herbert Buffum (Composer)3
[I have lost my reputation]Herbert Buffum (Composer)2
[I have often heard tell of a popular way]Herbert Buffum (Composer)255171 21656 71111
[I one time lived in sin and did not know my Lord]Herbert Buffum (Composer)253323 11211 65535
[I was drifting alone, with no pilot to guide]Herbert Buffum (Composer)2
[In looking over God's calendar of days]Herbert Buffum (Composer)2
[It may not seem welcome now]Herbert Buffum (Composer)355332 31312 11761
[I've been traveling for Jesus so much of my life]Herbert Buffum (Composer (melody))1235111 15561 11765
[Jesus I'm fearful—for dark is the night]Herbert Buffum (Composer)2
[Long my feet had wandered on in paths of folly]Herbert Buffum (Composer)232111 12176 65345
[Lord, I have started to walk in the light]Herbert Buffum (Composer)2733211 11166 51113
[My heart was always restless I sought peace everywhere]Herbert Buffum (Composer)335332 13121 16556
[My sheep know My voice, and the path that I take]Herbert Buffum (Composer)1055345 55646 55543
[Often I've watched the clouds up in the sky]Herbert Buffum (Composer)2
[O how well I remember in the old fashioned days]Herbert Buffum (Composer)955333 21135 53555
[Praise the Lord for the blood, for the blood of the Lamb]Herbert Buffum (Composer)312321 53561 65556
[Some want silver]Herbert Buffum (Composer)653215 55615 32325
[Speak a little word for Jesus] (Buffum)Herbert Buffum (Composer)335614 43127 65143
[The fight is on and soldiers brave are needed on the field]Herbert Buffum (Composer)251234 51765 33233
[There's naught can alarm me nor fill me with dread]Herbert Buffum (Composer)2
['Tis the old-time Gospel that the Savior taught]Herbert Buffum (Composer)212322 13456 53516
[We should never have discord or trouble or strife]Rev. Herbert Buffum (Composer)2
[When my way seems bright and fair]Herbert Buffum (Composer)351213 55653 12442
[Far away the noise of strife upon my ear is falling]Herbert Buffum (Composer)112165 65356 54356
[When your sins are all forgiven, and you're walking in the light]Herbert Buffum (Composer)312333 23512 35165
[Let's talk about Jesus]Herbert Buffum (Composer)133231 31232 16221

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