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Be Thou Near Me, Lord

Author: H. B. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When my way seems bright and fair Used With Tune: [When my way seems bright and fair]
Be Thou Near Me, Lord

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[When my way seems bright and fair]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Herbert Buffum Incipit: 51213 55653 12442 Used With Text: Be Thou Near Me, Lord
[When my way seems bright and fair]

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Be Thou Near Me, Lord

Author: H. B. Hymnal: Devotion and Praise #25 (1937) First Line: When my way seems bright and fair Languages: English Tune Title: [When my way seems bright and fair]
Be Thou Near Me, Lord

Be Thou Near Me, Lord

Author: H. B. Hymnal: Special Voices No. 2 #21 (1958) First Line: When my way seems bright and fair Languages: English Tune Title: [When my way seems bright and fair]
Be Thou Near Me, Lord

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Herbert Buffum

1879 - 1939 Person Name: H. B. Author of "Be Thou Near Me, Lord" in Devotion and Praise 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)
Herbert Buffum
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