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When I Kneel to Pray

Author: Herbert Buffum Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: Heav'n comes down my soul to greet Used With Tune: [Heav'n comes down my soul to greet]

[Heav'n comes down my soul to greet]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: G. T. Speer Incipit: 56533 21112 23565 Used With Text: When I Kneel to Pray

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When I Kneel to Pray

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Radiant Joy #33 (1944) First Line: Heav'n comes down my soul to greet Languages: English Tune Title: [Heav'n comes down my soul to greet]

When I Kneel to Pray

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Select Radio Songs #37 (1946) First Line: Heav'n comes down my soul to greet Languages: English Tune Title: [Heav'n comes down my soul to greet]

When I Kneel to Pray

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Singing Star #57 (1941) First Line: Heav'n comes down my soul to greet Languages: English Tune Title: [Heav'n comes down my soul to greet]

1879 - 1939 Author of "When I Kneel to Pray" in Singing Star 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)