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Be Thou Near Me, Lord

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Author: Herbert Buffum

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) Go to person page >

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First Line: When my way seems bright and fair
Title: Be Thou Near Me, Lord
Author: Herbert Buffum (1937)
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Be Thou near me, Lord
Publication Date: 1937
Copyright: © 1937 by Haldor Lillenas. Assigned to Nazarene Publishing House
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Devotion and Praise #25

Devotion and Praise #25

Special Voices No. 2 #21

Special Voices No. 2 #21
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