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Alfred B. Smith

Short Name: Alfred B. Smith
Full Name: Smith, Alfred B. (Alfred Barnerd), 1916-2001
Birth Year: 1916
Death Year: 2001

Used pseudonym B. C. Laurelton

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In 1930, he began playing on radio broadcasts in Jersey City, New Jersey, on "The Old Fashioned Gospel Hour." After meeting Wendell P. Loveless, Alfred enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and became a member of the WMBI staff.

During service as Minister of Music at The Church of the Open Door in Philadelphia, he taught at The Philadelphia School of the Bible in the fall of 1938. During that year, he wrote "For God So Loved the World" after visiting the ninety-four year-old hymn writer George C. Stebbins.

Smith met Billy Graham when they were both students at Wheaton College. During their long collaboration, they founded Singspiration in 1941.

After graduating from Wheaton, Smith, Graham, and George Beverly Shea started "Youth for Christ" in Chicago.

--Daniel Mahraun (from livinghymns.org)


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Texts by Alfred B. Smith (47)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A pilgrim was I, and a-wand'ring,Alfred B. Smith (Author)English37
Be thou exalted forever and everAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
Beyond life's sunset hillsAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
Bid the dear children of God todayA. B. S. (Author)English2
Brave Gideon had three hundred menA. B. S. (Author)English1
He bore it all for meAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
He holds my hand, this wonderful SaviorAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
He's no longer a strangerA. B. S. (Author)English1
He's preparing a place for meAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
His name above all other namesAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
I am hiding in the cleft of the RockA. B. S. (Author)English1
I do not know what lies aheadAlfred B Smith (Author)English2
I fell in love with Jesus, At the cross of CalvaryA. B. S. (Author)English2
I find my all in JesusA. B. S. (Author)English1
I know who holds the future, And I know He holds my hand (Smith)A. B. S. (Author)English2
I was a sinner lost, bowed down with sinAlfred B. Smith (Author)1
I am my Beloved's and He is MineAlfred B. Smith (Author)English2
Jesus can keep little children, Good all the day, good all the dayAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
Jesus saves and keeps and satisfies every dayA. B. S. (Author)English1
Joy is dwelling in my heartAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
Many a time I have felt Him nearA. B. S. (Author)English1
Men's hearts today are failingAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
Muy triste vagaba en el mundoAlfred B. Smith (Author)Spanish1
Neither do I condemn thee, O hear the voice of the SaviorAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
O Jesus is the Rock of my salvationAlfred B. Smith (Author)English0
O Jesus, King most wonderfulAlfred B. Smith (Translator)English1
Oft there comes a gentle whisper over me stealingRev. A. B. Smith (Author)English2
Once by the sin of the world I was boundAlfred B. Smith (Translator)English3
Once so aimlessly I wandered 'round the tangled paths of sinAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
Peace, peace is flooding my soulAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
Praise the Lord! I know He's ableA. B. S. (Author)English1
Savior, I come to Thee, Cleanse me, and set me freeAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
Show me Thy way, O Lord, And make it plainAlfred B. Smith (Alterer)English1
Somewhere beyond the blue there's a mansion for meA. B. S. (Author)English3
Study God's Word and hide it in your heartAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow meAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
The gift of everlasting life is mine todayAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
The Lord has done great things for us whereof we are gladAlfred B. Smith (Author)English0
The Lord is good. Tell it wherever you goA. B. S. (Author)English3
There is a name from Heaven givenAlfred B. Smith (Author (st. 4))1
There's a beautiful Rose ever bloomingAlfred B. Smith (Author)2
There's a deep, settled peace in my soulA. B. S. (Author)English2
There's no one ever loved me like JesusAlfred B. Smith (Author)English1
We may sound the depths of all the might oceansAlfred B. Smith (Author)1
When you feel weakest, dangers surroundA. B. S. (Editor)English1
With eternity's values in view, LordA. B. S. (Author)English7
Yo fui peregrino errabundoAlfred Smith (Author)Spanish2

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