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Some Day You'll Know It Is Best

Does it seem so unjust and so cruel today?

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [Does it seem so unjust and so cruel today?]
Published in 1 hymnal

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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 >

Text Information

First Line: Does it seem so unjust and so cruel today?
Title: Some Day You'll Know It Is Best
Author: Herbert Buffum
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Some day you'll know it was best
Publication Date: 1929
Copyright: Public Domain

Instances

Instances (1 - 1 of 1)

Cornelius' Gospel Songs No. 3 #64

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