The Name of Names

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Who is the One who can give sweet peace

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [Who is the One who can give sweet peace]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Who is the One who can give sweet peace,
Bid all our sorrows and sighing cease,
Bring to the sin-burdened soul release?
Jesus, Jesus!

Refrain:
He is the Lamb for all sinners slain;
He who once died, but now lives again;
Coming once more to the earth to reign,
Jesus, Jesus!

2 Who is the One who knows all our grief,
Brings to the doubt-troubled heart relief?
Who spake sweet words to the dying thief?
Jesus, Jesus! [Refrain]

3 Who understands all our secret woe?
Nothing is hidden He does not know;
Whose blood can wash our heart white as snow?
Jesus, Jesus! [Refrain]

4 Who will stand by us unto the end?
Always on Him can our souls depend;
Who is the sinner’s best, only Friend?
Jesus, Jesus! [Refrain]

Source: Williston Hymns #77

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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:	Who is the One who can give sweet peace
Title:	The Name of Names
Author:	Herbert Buffum
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Jesus, Jesus, he is the Lamb for all sinners slain
Copyright:	Public Domain