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Author: Herbert Buffum Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I never loved Jesus as I love Him now Refrain First Line: O His love is more precious than silver or gold Topics: Love Used With Tune: [I never loved Jesus as I love Him now]

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[I never loved Jesus as I love Him now]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Incipit: 12333 43213 55561 Used With Text: I Never Loved Jesus as Now

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I Never Loved Jesus as Now

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Songs for Service #160 (1918) First Line: I never loved Jesus as I love Him now Refrain First Line: O His love is more precious than silver or gold Topics: Love Languages: English Tune Title: [I never loved Jesus as I love Him now]

I Never Loved Jesus as Now

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Joyful Praise #80 (1920) First Line: I never loved Jesus as I love Him now Refrain First Line: O His love is more precious than silver or gold Languages: English Tune Title: [I never loved Jesus as I love Him now]

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Herbert Buffum

1879 - 1939 Author of "I Never Loved Jesus as Now" 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)

William J. Kirkpatrick

1838 - 1921 Person Name: Wm. J. Kirkpatrick Composer of "[I never loved Jesus as I love Him now]" in Songs for Service William J. Kirkpatrick (b. Duncannon, PA, 1838; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1921) received his musical training from his father and several other private teachers. A carpenter by trade, he engaged in the furniture business from 1862 to 1878. He left that profession to dedicate his life to music, serving as music director at Grace Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Kirkpatrick compiled some one hundred gospel song collections; his first, Devotional Melodies (1859), was published when he was only twenty-one years old. Many of these collections were first published by the John Hood Company and later by Kirkpatrick's own Praise Publishing Company, both in Philadelphia. Bert Polman